The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-02-23
SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.

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Is to be enlarged and rcmodclod oIopy
modern lines
Judge James u. Elliott of Sioux
rails was the guest of honor AZ a biz
banquet given by the Nliunehohn
County Bar association.
!. {. Murphy, prominent business
man of Watertown, fell down an elc-
Vator shaft in his furniture store ana
sustained severe injuries.
Fire at Capa DESTROYED pooI hnII
hardware store and drug store
with heavy loss. The Midland fire
department sent assistance by hand
car.
fIahs have been completed for the
organization of Young Womcn's
christian association at Aberdeen. A
secretary has been engaged and a
membership campaign launched.
The 4-year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Paluck of Watertown
VINO was severely burned in a fire
"hlch destroyed their home. is dead
as result of its injuries. The fire
was caused by the spilling of a gaso-
line can.
sam Todoroff OF Aberdeen has inst
returned from an unpleasant visit to
ms native country, Bulgaria. He went
Dack TO visit his friends but was
thrown into prison for leaving the
country without having performed his
mllltary service. He was held several
months and heavily fined.
quarter section Tripp county; 4
miles good town; rolling land: l2O
acres tillable; all fenced: 20 acres
broken; small house: mortgage S7OO.
. years at per cent viii sell ON
easy terms or might trade or clear
eastern Nebraska land. Address Lock
Box l55, Witten, S. ID.
Ihe government will erect a num-
ber of substantial dwelling houses on
the Rosebud Indian reservation next
summer These will enable the red
men to live in white man fashion"
Alexander Mitchell of Hecla caught
his hand in corn shredder and be.
fore he could release it his arm was
torn off
| The election for the organization of
Bennett county will take place on
April 9. La Creek is the only town in
the county, so there will be no county
seat war.
| The newspapers west of the river
have taken an active interest in the
effort to establish cross state road
from east to west
| President Doolittle, of the Marshall
! Vinegar company OF Marshalltown,
Ia, is endeavoring to arrange for the
construction of branch factory at
| FIT. Pierre.
| The immigration department has
listed about 6 600 names of those who
inquired about South Dakota at the,
Minneapolis and Chicago land shows.
| The case of Slim Butte, demanding
a station, against the Milwaukee Rail
road company before the state rail
way commission, is being bitterly
fought.
The government will soon distribute
! live stock or cash to the amount of
! $500 each to the Indians on the Pine
Ridge reservation.
Members of the Order of Owls at
Belle Fourche have been arrested on
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lation of the state law.
Sioux Falls is suffering from con-
gestion in her public school build
, ings. The high school is filled to it's
capacity, and the ward schools are
Overlooking.
John Rush, Joe Norman and James
Asbaugh, all of Buffalo Gap, have been
bound over to the grand jury on a
charge of stealing cattle.
Mrs Chauncey Wood of Rapid City
was defeated in the litigation between
herself and her sons over the disposi-
tion of the Wood estate.
John Frake and Miss Lena Oster
of Eureka eloped and drove fifty niles
overland to Aberdeen to be married
Miss Osters parents objected to the
match.
The Commercial clubs of Mitchell
and Chamberlain have called a meet
ing to be held at Mitchell on March z
TO boost the cross-state highway to
the Black Hills.
Commissioner Cook of the state
pure food department has issued re-
port on the past years work. 1t shows
that l,l00 examinations We're made by
the department.
The suit over the insurance policy
of Charles Rose of Lead, who commit
ted suicide last summer, has been set
tied out of court by his widow She
gets 5000 on a $4,000 policy.
The supreme court has decided
against Mayor c. A. Ray of Bridge
water, who was elected by one vote,
and against whom Jacob Schetter
sued, alleging several votes for him
were irregular.
The volunteer fire departments in
the Black Hills district are holding
protest meetings against the move to
create state fire marshals' fund.
This would do away with certain funds
which now go to the volunteer com
panies.
A meeting of all the farmers of
Beadle county will be held at Huron,
Feb. "a, to consider securing seed
corn.
Il Mr. and Mrs Adolph Fishel OF Dead
wood celebrated their twenty-ffth
wedding anniversary by being remar'