Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-27
s0UTK Dakota NEWS NOTES

| Spearfish has prospects OF a troll.
| ey line to Belle Fourche.
1t has been decided to hold Fourth
If July celebration at Belvidere.
A postal savings department will,
be added to the kadoka postoffice ON
July /.
Baseball fans of Tripp have organ
lied and placed team in the field for
.he season.
An agitation has commenced for
the holding of Miner county fair in
Howard this fall. Definite steps soon
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 soon to be started. 1t will cost
about $4,000. The contract calls for
Sioux Falls granite.
Mrs. G. A. Bolles of Belle Fourche
was burned to death when can of
varnish on stove exploded.
Crop conditions in Lyman county
are the best ever 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 Fruitdaye
is making extensive preparations for
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 d. 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 out.
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
Sheriff Jensen of Custer county re-
ceived painful bite on one of his
hands when he assayed to take an in
sane 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
mas 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 elder duck while
hunting near that town, the first speci-
men ever obtained On the mainland of
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 conf
mercial club have inaugurated move
ment for the erection of an opera
house and the organization of a good
roads club to improve the highways
centering in Britton.
The Rev. A. G. Shepard, district su-
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.
j. B. Avis of Garden City is in a
serious condition as result OF In
juries suffered when team ran away,
throwing him out of buggy from
which he alighted on his head. He
was picked up unconscious.
Rudolf Pensler has been lodged in
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 Mobridge
man Of $50 in cash.
Warren hail. recently completed
women's dormitory at Ward academy,
Academy, S. D., was dedicated at the
commencement exercises OF that
school last week 1t cost $4,000 A
class of IL, 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 for the new science hall was
let to the Garner Construction COM
pany of Madison, and a central heat
ing plant to the Goetz Constructions
company Of Yankton.
Recently Aberdeen firemen petit
titioned the city commissioners to-