The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-04-12
SOUTH DKKUTANEWS NOTES

and yards Of the Milwaukee railway
company.
A baseball team Is being organized
by John Rhode at Blom. The team
will be managed by him and will be
known as Rhodes Colts.
AS the result Of q scratch with q
pin, an injury which at first was re-
garded as trivial, Mrs. B. c. StoIten-
burg Of Witten, developed a serious
case of blood poisoning.
A movement has been inaugurated
at belmont to organize a commercial
club, and 1t Is expected a meeting
soon Will be held for the purpose of
perfecting such an organization.
The town board of Ethan has pur.
chased the old creamery building.
which will be the central plant Of a
waterworks system which Is to be
installed there.
Mayor Davis of Platte has appoint
ed various committees to have charge
of the observance of Decoration day.
One of the features will be a dinner
to be rendered the old soldiers and
wives.
During the absence from home OF
the w. c. Horton family at Groton
fire destroyed the house and all its
contents, entailing a loss of several
hundred dollars, only partly covered
by insurance.
At a meeting of baseball men Of Ia
Dor a team was organized for the sea-
son, with the following officers: Man.
ager, A. J. Novak; captain, John Kos
tel; official umpire, Frank Frana;
coach, AL Jezewski.
One of the bonanza wheat farmers
Of South Dakota this season will be
G.. E. Barrickman of Faulkton, living
near here. He will SOW 200 acres to
wheat and men in his employ already
are at work drilling IN wheat or fall
blowing.
What is known as the old Nidaros
church building, which since pioneer
days occupied a site three miles from
Baltic, has been moved to Baltic and
in future will be used for church pur-
poses there. 1t is believed the edifice
is the Oldest of its kind in Minnehaha
county.
Marion is enjoying a building boom.
A new grain elevator, several bust
ness houses and a number Of dwell
ings are in course Of construction.
The Orient Commercial club has
secured permanent quarters in a
building in a central location and they
are being handsomely decorated and
furnished.
The residents of Canton evidently
are satisfied with the mo license"
policy which has been in effect during
the past few years, for in the entire
town it was impossible to secure the
signatures of % freeholders to a petit.
ing licenses for saloons be submitted
to the voters at the election on April
16.
A suit has been commenced in cir.
cult court at Huron by Haley C Lang,
wholesale fruit dealers, against the
city of Huron. The complaint sets
forth that the Haley e Lang Co. sus.
tanned damages to stock and fixtures
in the sum of 1900 by reason of over.
flow of water from city sewers into
the basement of their wholesale house
there.
At a special election to be held
at washington Springs April 16, in
conjunction with the regular munich
pal election, the proposition Of issu-
ing bonds in the sum of $4,000 for
the %refunding Of the floating indebted
ness of the town will be submitted to
the voters. If the bonds are voted
there will be a material saving in in.
terest charges each year.
Thomas Wall, a we'll known pioneer
resident of Estelline, died as the re
suit of an apparently trivial accident.
He stumbled and fell from his porch,
and Notwithstanding that it is only
about two feet above the ground he re,
ceived the injuries which caused his
death. He was 62 years of age and
is survived by a widow. Himself and
wife took up their residence in South
Dakota in 1886.
Report has reached Forest City that
the general merchandise store Of
Fred La Plant at the Cheyenne River
Indian agency has been closed by the
commissioner of Indian affairs on the
ground that liquor was found in pos.
session Of the proprietor on tho reser.
vation. Friends of La Plant say the
liquor came into his possession
through no fault Of his. The matter
may be appealed to the South Dakota
delegation in congress.
Mrs. Fred c. %Jorgenson and her lit.
tie son are in the hospital at Dell Rap.
dis to receive treatment for the
wounds made by the explosion of four
dynamite caps which the boy had car.
ried around in his pocket. The boys
leg was torn and terribly lacerated,
and the flesh was torn from the thumb
Of the left hand. A piece Of the shell
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