The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-24

Lake Andes will celebrate the
Fourth of July.
Charles Marshall was q passenger to
Sioux City Wednesday.
W. E. Price was q passenger to
Sioux City Wednesday morning on
business.
Prof. Wright completed the school
ISL last week and finds 274 people
in Wagner of school age.
Miss Dyke, who has been teaching
north of Wagner. left Thursday morn
ing for her home in Wisconsin.
v. ]. Petrik is in Deadwood this
week serving as = grand juror in U. S.
court. Albert Bony ton AMI Louis
Engiehorn are also there. serving on
the petit jury. ]. v. Janda had been
subpoened but was excused on account
of the serious illness of his wife.
On the first page of this issue ap-
pears the statement that Taft gets 81
out of AZ Ohio delegates. That is the
report we first received by telegraph,
but We have since received q correc-
ton. Roosevelt gets the 26 delegates
and carried the state by Is, OOO.
Colonel M. Grigsby, Of Sioux Falls,
original Rooevelt leader in So nth Oak
ota, and candidate for U. s. senator
in South Dakota, will sp eak at the
Alec theatre in Wagner on Friday
afternoon. at 8 o'clock. May "a. Col.
Grigsby is an old political wheelhorse
in this state and q good talker.
q. G. Wesley, E. R. Remington and
George Ransdell. Of Lake Andes, Le-
Roy Beemer, e. F. Piroutek and H. A
Whede, of Ravinia, Messrs. Kroh,
Vaughan and VIM. Tenge. of Yankton.
were in sttendane at Masonic lodge
Tuesday, the occasion being the con-
ferring of the Masters degree upon C.
E. Hall. At IL o'clock a splendid lunch
was served by the ladies of the East
ern Star.
Hans Clausen returned Friday from
the grand lodge meeting Of the I. O.
o. F. at Aberdeen. He reports an at
tendance of over one thousand dele
gates and q fine meeting. The next
session will be held in Rapid City in
May, 1918. Rev. Bayes went on from
berdeen to Belle Fouche. where he is
attending the Congregational Confer.
nee this week. He is expected home
Friday.
Mrs. Anna Munson, who has been
making her home for the past two
years with her son, P. ]. Munson, in
Wagner, departed last Saturday to WIS.,
it in Chicago and Milwaukee before
going to Manitou. Colorado, where she
will make a ~protracted visit with her
daughter who lives there. Before she
left wagner q number of her friends
gathered at the home of MRS. j. F.
Cameron tu bid her farewell and wish
her God-speed Of her journey.
Under the supervision Of the county
commissioners, The Standard Bridge
Company is putting in five bridges and
two cement culverts in the vicinity Of
Wagner. One bridge 10 now being
built in Bryan township, north of
town, near the Bradley farm, and the
others are in Rouse. Lone Tree, High
land and Lawrence townships. Com
missioner Brazzill is taking coed care
Of his ditrict.
Attorney Bartlett, candidate for re-
publican nomination a. states attorney
was in town Thursday in the interest
of his campaign. Mr.. Bartlett has Teen
Engaged in the practice Of law in
South Dakota since 1896, having been
located formerly at Sioux Falls. He
has been practicing in this county for
three years, making his home at
Platte. He has tried several very
important cases in the county % we'll
as nearly every county east of the
Missouri River in South Dakota and
has been remark ably successful. We
know Of no man in the county more
thoroughly competent to faithfully and
successfully discharge the duties Of
the states attorneys office than 10 c.
H. Bartlett.