The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-09-20
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

A physician at Buffalo, the county
seat Of Harding county. has estab,
lished a hospital at that place.
Mrs. Leslie Ackley. a bride OF only
a little more than a month, died at her
home near Bryant after an illness OF O
week.
A big fat house is being built at
Eagle Butte TO help care for the big
crop in that part Of the homestead
country.
Oscar C. Olsen of Lennon is show
ing some velvet chaff wheat that went
"a bushels to the acre and is of excel
lent quality.
The new public school building at
Okobojl is nearing completion and is
expected to be ready for occupancy
by September 20.
Rapid City has been selected as the
site of Il factory for the manufacture
of a dozen or more food products &c
be derived from alfalfa.
Prof. y. f.. Hansen, the Burbank
of South Dakota. has invented" a
new plum which is said TO be adapted
10 northwestern conditions.
January 8. 9 and 10 have been fixed
as dates for the state conservation
meeting at Pierre. Dry farming and
good roads will be considered.
r. +. Springer, a farmer living near
Watertown. has Just harvested $1,000
bushels of wheat from 600 acres Of
land. Some Of the macaroni wheat
averaged 81 bushels to the acre.
The Watertown district of the Ep.
worth eLague held a convention in
Trenton township. Brookings county,
last week that was largely attended
Jamie Gold. aged II, fell from q
third-story window Of his home at Big
Stone, and. strange to say, sustained
only a broken wrist and bruises of the
face.
Several records were smashed and
seven new marksmen developed at the
annual target practice of the Pierre
tollllahs VI tHC Oil IdhOld HdtlOIld.
guard.
Mystery surrounds the identity of a
crazy man who was found wandering
at a farm house some miles from
Letcher, and who is now in custody at
Woonsocket.
John McGhee killed S4 rattlesnakes
In less than so minutes on the Louis
Waugh farm, eight miles northeast OF
Colome. They we're found in a "prai
RE dog town"
Mitchell is making big preparations
for its fourteenth annual corn pal
ace which. from reports. far outclasses
any that have been shown there in
previous years.
John Gray Of Deadwood has brought
action to prevent Secretary of State
S. c. Policy from certifying to the
county auditors the names CT the bull
moose electors named at the Repubn
can state convention.
A bunch of short change artists, two
men and three women, struck Scot.
land. and while there victinized sew.
eral people and made their escape.
1t is believed they will visit other
towns in South Dakota.
Paul LaNelle, aged 10. Of Parker.
while shooting at a target with other
young boys, was struck by a bullet.
which entered the left side Of the
NhoGt anJ nnCrnJ thronoh an,rinn
just below the shoulder blade. He
will recover
A peculiar insect, which experts are
unable to classify, is doing a great
deal of damage to trees at Nolga by
entering the trunks and limbs and sap.
ping the vitality of the trees. The in
sects appear to be increasing at an
alarming rate.
Fire destroyed the Milwaukee rail-
road depot at Garden City. The fire is
supposed TO have been started by an
oil lamp hanging on the outside of
the building either falling or being
blown down and scattering burning
oil on the outside of the structure.
Dan Royig and family, farmers liv-
ing near Volga, had a narrow escape
from death last week. when 2 bolt OF
lightning struck the house. The walls
We're shattered and the bed m which
Mr.. and Mrs. Royig and the Youngest
child We're sleeping was torn To pieces.
Milbank and Big Stone boosters are
working on a plan to buy the aban-
doned right Of way of the Milwaukee
railroad between the two towns. as
a public highway. IL is stated the
.roadbed Of the railroad could easily
be converted into one Of the best high
ways in the state.
The old town well at Arlington,
which was filled up long ago. caved
in last week and will have to be filled
again. The well acquired some noto-
riety in its day. as it was four feet
square and $50 feet deep. The dirt
was all drawn out with windlass. and
the water was used largely for fire
protection, as it was unsuited for
drinking purposes. Later, when Ar
lington grew more prosperous. a wa
ter system was nut in. The old we'll