The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-07-26
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

II ZIG SlSSi4lS 1871 Iidhl a.
that place.
Four inches OF rain fell at Sulphur.
one Of the e towns west Of the Mis-
souri, river. last week.
The Homestake mine Of Lead has
paid out in dividends more than 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 s.
Frank NJ. 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 IS.
Henry Lee of Garretson was acci-
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-yearold Pollock
girl, fell from a high bridge into thu
bed of a dry creek and suffered In
juries which rendered her uncon.
sciOus.
The annual and imposing ceremony
OF a class OF Benedictine nuns taking
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
alive company and will erect and op.
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 this 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. p. 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 q 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 arnputa
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 Flremen, and Theodore
Kester of Huron. local chairman OF
that organization, have secured an ad
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 vas 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 81 500,
A Creighton, Neb., man was the sue.
cessful bidder. BY the terms of the
contract the building must be ready
for occupancy November s 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 Nels Johnson, a farmer
living in Codington county, was
hurled a considerable distance through
the air when the disc struck an oh.
struction and was violently jolted.
Fortunately the boy was not thrown
in front OF the machine or 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 O. 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 onven
fences for men. When it IS done ii
will be the finest building IN the state
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