The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-12-20
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

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Hurley Even shaking dice for cigars
has been barred.
The reappointment as postmaster Of
Marion H. Moore OF Belle Fourche has
been recommended by Representatives
Martin and Burke.
Extensive improvements have been
made to the Eureka municipal water
works system and great quantity
Of new mains have been laid.
Belle Fourche has fallen heir to
$4,000 for a public park for the city.
The money was beQueathed by the
will of the late Joseph Hermann.
The Miller Commercial club has Civ
en- it's annual banquet and entertain
lies. One hundred and eight-five tick
cts were sold for supper.
Mrs. E. H. Hartman has contrib
uted $4,000 to the Deadwood audito.
rum fund A subscription list is be-
ing circulated to raise $4,000 for an
auditorium at Deadwood.
At Seneca the two children OF NJ.
f. Stevens and wife ate pills that they
found in bureau and their lives were
despaired of for some time until a
stomach pump was used to save them.
The states attorney of Yankton
county sprang a surprise on a gam
bling den by raidirg it unexpectedly
and four alleged gamblers are held to
LOT III
court.
Arrangements have finally been
made for an electric light system at
Houmboldt, furnished by light and
power company at Hartford The
work of extending the system to Hum
bolGt will be commenced at once.
Ben Johnson, of Spirit Mound town
ship, Clay county, was taken to the
city hospital in Nermillion with a
badly mangled hand. The injury had
been done while working with a corn
shelter. Amputation may be neces.
sary.
John S. Helwig, for 21 years a
member of the Chicago police force,
appointed chief of police at Webster,
succeeding Chief Garrick who was
elected sheriff of Day county in No
vember.
1t is the proud claim Of the residents
that Wagner ships and receives more
goods than any other town on the
Platte line of the Milwaukee Rail-
way company. During November the
business of the company here aggre-
gated 21,42663.
The clerk of courts of the circuit
court Ninth judicial circuit, at HUI
ron, has just drawn the list Of jurors
for the regular January term of the
court, which opens there at o'clock
a. m. January s, 1913. A good num-
Der of cases are to be brought up at
that time. the calendar for the term
being fairly large one.
DR. ]. G. Towles, proprietor Of the
Grand View hospital in Ssseton, was
severely injured in an accidental fall
into the basement of his residence in
that city, and is in a serious condition
as result of the fall, in which his
arm, collar bone and three ribs were
fractured. He is slowly recovering.
Mitchell people turned out in large
numbers at a big banquet given in
honor of Dr. William Grant Seaman,
the new president of the Dakota Wes-
leyan university. Mitchell's choicest
orators and finest cooks were all in
evidence, and the banquet, from both
an oratorical and gastronomic point
Of view, was a tremendous success.
Roy Bunnell, young farm hand en-
ployed by Dairyman Bert Cummings,
near Aberdeen, who stole a horse
from his employer, was arrested near
Frederick and lodged in the Brown
county Jail Bunnell acknowledges
stealing the horse, but says he cannot
explain his behavior, which was upon
sudden impulse.
United States District Attorney, Of
Mitchell, denies that it is his intention
to resign to enable President Taft to
appoint his successor 81 can not see
where the correspondent who sent out
the story got any foundation for it,"
says Mr. Wagner 81 am not ling to
resign before my term is out, nor have
| had any such idea in mind at any
time"
On January / law partnership of
more than 20 years standing will ter
inmate at Aberdeen, when T.. T. Taub
man takes his seat as county Judge of
Brown county and retres from the
firm of Taubman. Williamson & viii
hanson. More than 20 years ago Mr.
Taubman and George N. Williamson
formed a partnership and have been
together ever since. A few years ago
r. F.. Williamson, a nephew TO the
junior member of the firm, was admit
ted.
The Milwaukee is again able to send
trains across the Missouri river at
Mitchell after being tied up for 10
days, when the bridge was again op-
ened to traffic An immense quantity
of ice came down stream and when the
bridge was opened to let II through,
1t clogged and prevented closing the
bridge The railroad company trans
hn and