Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
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The state university at Nerm!..ion
has opened for the final tesa1 ot ihe
year With full enrollment
Lawrence Cook broke i,i.l at Miller
and made successful escape, He was.
in on a grand larceny c.iar.se
An eastern firm will l-'slisil 4
large cold storage plant. creamery
and poultry feeding staticH at Red
field this season.
Robert D. Crowley OF minneapolis,
Mimi, has been elected to The posi-
ton of principal of the vernlinion
high school for next year.
AT a special election the y. opposition
to incorporate Lake Andes IS a city
under the general laws OF the state
carried by safe majority.
A baseball team has beea organized
at Wheeler and will be kept in the
field throughout the season Geo. H.
Patrik was elected manager
The residents of Vermillion are very
hopeful that the present congress will
pass the appropriation for the erec-
tion in Vermillion of postofGce
building to cost $500.
Mobridge physician has had the
water from the Missouri river at that
point analyzed 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 Z
% years, has gone to Rapid lCty to
take charge of the government Indian
school there.
Hugh c. 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 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 outfianked 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 q
pile OF hay, set fire to the barn and
hog houses of Silver Evert, a farmer
residing southwest of Bridgewater. en-
failing total loss of $500, partially
covered by insurance.
A number of the leading business
men of White have started a move
ment to have commercial club or
ganized, and a mass meeting soon will
be held for the purpose of perfecting
such an organization.
Gate City is a new town which is
situated in the ceded portion of the
Rosebud reservation in Mellette cour-
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 S14.
So scarce has hay become in Memo
that 1t is nothing unusual for farm.
ers to receive from $40 to s25 per
load, while one fortunate farmer who
had some choice hay on hand recently
sold two tons for an aggregate of s35.
A farmer living near Biiou Hills
last fall had on hand 1900 bushels of
corn which he raised in 1910. Dur
ing the winter he sold every bushel at
the rate of $3.50 per bushel for seed,
the corn raised last season not having
matured properly to make it de;:.able
for seed this year.
A man giving the, name OF Martin
Falk is being searched for at NIinneap-
oils and st. Paul is wanted for forgery
at Aberdeen. Falk, who had been
working as a farm hand for Charles
Lloyd near Aberdeen, came to Aber-
deem and presented check for SEQ
bearing Mr. Loyds signature. to the
d. F. Mcpherson Clothing company.
The check was cashed and the man
disappeared.
There is lively scrap on in Water
town over the city printing. Water
town Public Opinion offers to publish
the city official notices and counci;
proceedings in the daily edition for so
per cent of the legal rates, or in the
weekly edition for 25 per cent of the
legal rates. Another weekly paper
submitted bid to do the work at
full legal rates. And the council adj
jonurned without taking any action.
The recent purchase by a repre-
sentative OF the Milwaukee railway
company OF tract of 100 acres ada
cent to Wheeler has given rise to the
report that this season the Milwaukee
road will be extended from Platte.
which fsr some years has been its
terminus in that part of the state, to-
Wheele :. which thus far has been