The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-06-28
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

lhe SEASON.
An agitation has commenced for
the holding Of a Miner county fair in
Howard this fall. Definite steps sooE
will be taken.
Catholics at Marion laid the corner
stone of a new church building with
special ceremonies.
Work on the new city hall at Lead
is Don to be started. 1t will cost
about $4,000. The contract calls for
Sioux Falls granite.
Mrs. c. A. Bolles of Belle Fourche
was burned to death when a can Of
varnish on a stove exploded.
Crop conditions in Lyman county
are the best eve known. CopiouS
rains fell in that vicinity last week.
Local business men have taken
steps to have a hotel erected at Yer
don, this being something which the
town needs badly.
The Commercial club of Frultdale
is making extensive preparations for
q Fourth Of July celebration. Various
sports Will be provided.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank of Washington has been pur-
chased by Sioux City parties. ID. Nc
Nair is the new president.
The Harrisburg creamery now is
running at its full capacity, and a
ready market is found for the tons
OF butter which it is turning ont.
Rapid City has abandoned it's pro.
posed Fourth Of July celebration, In
order to devote its entire time and
attention to the annual stock meet
ing.
Shcrih Jensen Of Custer county re.
ceived 4 painful bite on one OF his
hands when he assayed to take an in
m woman at Hot Springs into Gus
tody.
Former residents of Iowa and Ohio
held their fourth annual picnic at
Scotland. DR.. I. w. Leighton Of Scot.
land was chosen president of the asso-
citation.
The South Shore Commercial club
has appointed committees to act with
the commercial clubs of other towns
In that region, and with farmers, In
improving the highways.
DR.. George T. Page Of Sioux Falls
shot a northern cider duck while
hunting near that town, the first speci-
men ever obtained on the mainland Of
the whole North American continent.
The volunteer fire department OF
Gettysburg was we'll represented at
the annual tournament of the South
Dakota Firemen's association, held at
Pierre last week. and captured its
share OF the prizes.
Ministers of the German Lutheran
church, Missouri synod. in annual
session at Freeman, chose Wentworth
as the place OF the next annual meet
ing and elected as president Rev. ]. d.
Ehlon Of Scotland.
The members of the BrittOn com
mercial club have in~auguratcd a move
ment for the erection of an opera
house and the organization Of a good
roads club to improve the highways
ccntering in Britton.
The Rev. A. c. Shepard, district III.
perintendent for the MethOdists Of
the Vermillion district, has departed
for California, having been transfer.
red by the general conference TO a
pulpit at Oroville, Cal.
]. E. Avis of Garden City is in a
serious condition as a result OF in
juries suffered when q team ran away,
throwing him out of a buggy from
which nc alighted on his head. He
was picked up unconscious.
the Sioux Falls penitentiary from Wal
worth county. He will serve one year
at hard labor on his plea Of guilty TO
the charge of grand larceny. His
crime consisted of robbing a Mobridge
man of $50 in cash.
Warren hall. 4 recently completed
women's dormitOry at Ward academy,
Academy, S. D., was dedicated at the
GOlllilclltti.tUt CAClNIStS VI that
school last week. IT cost SIS, 900. A
class of II, the largest in the history
of the academy, was graduated.
The state boad Of regents. in spe.
cial session at Yankton. awarded con-
tracts for two new buildings at the
state normal school in Springfield. The
contract fer the new science hall was
let to the Garner Construction COM
rany of Madison, and q central heat.
ing plant to the Goctz Construction
company of Yanktor.
Recently Aberdeen fremen petit
titioncd the city commissioners to
grant them an increase of pay. and
now the policemen have made n SINH.
lar request. An increase OF SIS a
month in the salary Of the chief Of
po,ice and of from s. to $40 4 month
IL the salary of the other members
Of the force is asked for.
Several thousand people are ex-
pected TO attend the annual auto race
meet at Belle Fourche July 8. 4 and
5. The meet will be held in conjunc-
ton with a big Fourth Of July cele-