The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-04-19
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

A%Oyol OlQCI VI MOOSc ud8 y00t
installed a lodge with a large member.
ship at Mobridge.
The state university at Vermillion
has opened for the final term of the
year with a full enrolment.
Lawrence Cook broke Jail at Miller
and made a successful escape. He was
in on a grand larceny charge.
An eastern firm will establish a
large cold storage plant, creamery
and poultry feeding station at Red.
field this season.
Robert d. Crowley Of Minneapolis,
Mimi, has been elected to the posi-.
ton of principal of the Vermillion
high school for next year.
At a special election the proposition
to incorporate Lake Andes as a city
under the general laws Of the state
carried by a safe majority.
A baseball team has been organized
at Wheeler and will be kept in the
field throughout the season. Geo. II.
Patrik was elected manager.
The residents of Vermillion are very
hopeful that the present congress will
pass the appropriation for the cree.
ton in Vermillion of a p~ostoffice
building to cost $500.
A Mobridge physician has had the
water from the Missouri river at that
point analysed by an expert, who re.
ported it to be excellent for drinking
purposes and free from disease
germs.
The Rev. Father Francis, who has
been doing missionary work among
the Standing Rock Indians for the past
% years, has gone to Rapid City to
take charge of the government Indian
school there.
Hugh G. Leibee, city engineer OF
Yankton, has rendered his resignation
to the city board of commissioners, and
will leave for Sioux Falls, where he
has accepted the position Of assistant
city engineer.
There was a lively contest between
Bison, Strool and Dawson, in Perkins
county, over the site for a county
bridge across the Grand river, but the
Strool people %outfanked their rivals
and won the prize.
The Groton Country club, which
corresponds to commercial clubs OF
other towns, has inaugurated a move
ment to have a hospital located there
and prospects are bright for securing
such an institution.
Children playing with matches In g
pile Of hay, set fire to the barn and
hog houses of Silver Evert, a farmer
residing southwest of Bridgewater, en-
failing a total loss Of $500, partially
covered by insurance.
A number Of the leading business
men Of White have started a move
ment to have a commercial club or
ganiZed, and a mass meeting soon will
be held for the purpose of perfectins
such an organization.
Gate City is a new town which IL
situated in the coded portion of the
Rosebud reservation in Mellette coun
ty. A number of business institutions
already have been established. A post
Office also is about to be opened.
The high Ghost Of living has no ter
rors for George Dierks Of DeSmet
who lives on a farm near there. Every
Saturday for many months he has
marketed cream and eggs which gave
him a weekly return of about $14.
So scarce has hay become in Mennc
that it is nothing unusual for farm
ers to receive from $40 to $25 pei
load, while n fortunate farmer who
had some choice hay on hand recently
sold two tons for an aggregate of $50
A farmer living near Bijou Hills
last fall had on hand 1900 bushels OF
corn which he raised in 1910. Dur.
ing the winter he sold every bushel al
the rate of $3.50 per bushel for seed,
the corn raised last season not having
matured properly to make it desirable
for seed this year.
A man giving tho name Of Martin
Falk is being searched for at Minneap
OAi anu ~. dul is NduIeu LOT forgery
at Aberdeen. Falk, who had been
working as a farm hand for Charles
Lloyd near Aberdeen, came to Aber
deem and presented a check for $50
bearing Mr.. Loyd's signature, to the
d. F. Mcpherson Clothing company.
The check was cashed and the man
disappeared.
There is a lively scrap on in Water
town over the city printing. Water
town Public Opinion offers to publish
the city official notices and council
proceedings in the daily edition for SO
per cent of the legal rates, or in the
weekly edition for % per cent of the
legal rates. Another weekly paper,
submitted a bid to do the work al
full legal rates. And the council adj
ionurned without taking any action.
The recent purchase by a repre-
sentative of the Milwaukee railway
company Of a tract of 16O acres ada
cen to Wheeler has given rise To the