The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-01-12
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

A candy factory and bakery to cost
$4,000 is under construction at Dead
wood. 1t will be operated by H. B.
Schlicting.
At a meeting of the Fourth District
Medical society held in Highmore, DR..
Gearhart Of Iierre was elected presi-
dent for 1912.
Arrangements have been made for
the annual jack rabbit hunt at Oko-
boil. Ordinary rabbits are not to
coun. in the score this year.
In accordance with instructions
from Washington a postal savings
department will be added to the Bone
steel postofflce on January IS.
A broom factory is among the re-
cent industries to be established at
Claremont. l.. B. Jacoby, an expert
enced broom maker, is in charge.
A decision is expected soon in the
case of P. B. Mccarthy Of Rapid City,
against a bank of that city. McCar-
thy sues to usurious interest.
Experiments in the raising of pop
corn "a Sioux Falls were very sue
cessful ard that crop may become one
OF the big products of South Dakota.
= local automobile club has been
ort anized at Watertown. H. d. Nc
Cosham, who is also interested in the
meridian road project, is back of the
new organization.
4 mar by the name Of Mckinney,
living near Midland. froze one of his
feet. The condition of his toes be-
came so Lad that he amputated them
himself with his pocket knife.
Over 100 travelling statesmen out of
Aberdeen sat down to a banquet at
the Aberdeen Commercial club ten.
dered them by Aberdeen jobbers. A
fine menu, music by a good orchestra,
and a number of toasts helped make
the evening a delightful one to hosts
and guests.
Slippery rails caused the Bald
Mountain ore train on the Burling.
ton to run away down grade in Ne
yada gulch, near the Mogul workings,
in the Black Hills. The crew stuck
unit! forced to jump to safety, and
the train jumped the track, the en-
CINE remaining upright and blowing
through the snow, while the cars
piled UP and scattered ore down the
hillsides. No one was hurt.
II has been voted by the county
commissioners Of Pennington county
to have the executives accountant of
the state audit the books of all county
officials from the time of the Organi-
Zation of the county in 1882 to date.
This has no direct bearing on the con-
duct Of any county official, but is in
tho line of action taken by many
South Dakota counties. 1t is pro-
posed to have all of the books checked
In accordance with chapter 149 of the
revised statutes Of 1908.
A South Dakota man, in the person
of o. D. Olmstead, an attorney OF
Tripl county, was among those re-
Gently indicted by a federal grand
jury at Denver In connection with
charges against the United States
Postal Insurance company, which is
accused Of using the mails to defraud.
The company was organized in Dem
ver three years ago with a capital of
81 900, 900. Stock of a par value of
s1G0 is ALLEGED to have been sold at
from 500 to 5000 per share. It is
charged that stock sales brought into
the treasury of the company SS2, 900,
and that the officers and organizers
divided $4,000 and that no policies
were written. y
While husking corn, L L. Hornick, a
we'll known homesteader near Clear.
field, IN Trip county, ospied a lynx,
which he shot and killed. The animal
was % inches high and 40 inches in
length and weighed over 40 pounds,
being M Of the largest animals of
the kind ever seen In this vicinity.
The t~hirty-second annual reunion of
the Aanc;ent and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry Will be held in
Aberdeen on january 1919, inclusive
when the degrees from the fourth to
the thirty-second. inclusive, will be
conferred on a large class.