Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-07-26
SOUTH DAK0TANEWs NOTES

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The people of Miller have voted tt
purchase the electric light plant at
that place.
Four inches Of rain fell at Sulphur,
n of the new towns west of the Mis-
souri, river, last week.
The Homestake mine of Lead has
paid out in dividends more thar any
other gold mine in the world.
Martin N. Westby, for 81 years a
resident of Brown county, died at his
home near Aberdeen recently.
The annual conference of the Black
Hills mission of the Methodist church
will be held at Edgemont August 8.
Frank M. Byrne, Republican nomi-
nee for governor, is confined to his
home at Redfield with a severe attack
of articular rheumatism.
The conservation of Very Rev.
George Biller, Jr,, bishop-elect of
South Dakota, will take place at
Sioux Falls September 10.
Henry Lee of Garretson was acct
dentally shot and fatally wounded by
his brother, Gilbert Lee, recently
while the two were hunting gophers.
The Milwaukee road between the
Twin Cities and Aberdeen is being
double tracked. Next year the i'm
provement will be extended to Mo-
bridge.
Edith Boscher, a 9-year-old Pollock
girl, fell from a high bridge into the
bed of a dry creek and suffered in
juries which rendered her uncon-
scious.
The annual and imposing ceremony
their final solemn vows took place at
Yankton at Sacred Heart convent, with
Bishop O'Gorman and a large congre-
cation present.
Miss Margaret Bottum, an Aberdeen
yong woman and a graduate, class of
1912, of the University of Colorado,
has been appointed a teacher of math-
ematics at the Northern Normal and
Industrial school at Aberdeen.
Leading farmers of the vicinity of
Strandburg are organizing a cooper
ative company and will erect and OPP
crate a farmers elevator there. The
company will have a capital of $4,000.
The elevator will be erected as speed
lily as possible so the company will
receive it's share of his falls bust
ness.
At the meeting of the city council
Of Mitchell it was decided to expend
about $4,000 for the establishment of
additional water facilities by putting
down a fifth artesian well, beginning
with ~ inches and finishing with a
10-inch bore. A contract will be
made with J.. B. Shaw of Sioux City,
who will start the work at once.
Leonard Mielkie, a student brake
man, who was making his first trip,
lost an arm and sustained a badly
crushed leg in making a coupling in
the Great Northern yards at Garrett
son. The Sioux Falls hospital to
which he was taken reports him re-
covering satisfactory after amputa-
ton. Mielkie is a Sioux City boy.
Sam Boon of Boone, Ia, general
chairman of the grievance committee
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers and Firemen, and Theodore
Kester Of Huron, local chairman OF
that organization, have secured an adj
justment of the grievances of the en-
gineers and firemen on the Pierre,
Rapid City and Northwestern road.
A dinner party was spoiled for DR..
Ben Smyth at Yankton by the ceiling
giving way and precipitating a large
quantity of plaster upon a beautifully
set table, smashing the china and com
pletely breaking up the party. Sever
al of the company had narrow escapes
as the plaster was very heavy, some
pieces weighing as much as 40 pounds.
The board of education of Burke
has awarded the contract for a new
public school building to cost 1900.
A Creighton, Neb., man was the sue
cessful bidder. By the terms of the
contract the building must be ready
for occupancy November 8 next. The
structure will be two stories in
height, with eight rooms, constructed
of brick.
AS the result of the four horses at
tached to a disc running away. the
young son of NeIs Johnson, a farmer
living in Codington county, was
hurled a considerable distance through
the air when the disc struck an OBJ
struction and was violently jolted.
Fortunately the boy was not thrown
in front of the machine or>h he would
have been torn to pieces in an instant.
One of the horses was so badly in
jured that it died.
The Homestake Mining company
will erect a recreation building for
employees on a Main street lot in Lead.
The frontage will be IS feet and the
length 40 feet. The front will con
tain a theater with a seating capacity
of 1000. In the rear will be a library,
reading ROOM, billiard hall, pool room,
swimming pool and other conven-
fences for men. When it is done it
will be the finest building in the state
built by a corporation for it's employees.
A miniature tornado totally wrecked
the fine barn on the farm Of Frank
Kluthe, south of White Lake. causing
a loss of upward of $1,000, which is
covered by insurance.
The annual report of the county
accessor which has lust heen turned