Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-09
SCUM vAkuTA NEWS uUTts

Tyndall Methodists have completed
plans for the erection of fine parson.
age building.
Nearly every section of the country
west of the Missouri river reports
good rains.
Perton E. Lee has been appointed
postmaster at Badger, Kingsbury
county, vice L. M. Grove, resigned.
ut is sure going to be some great
year for South Dakota" is the predic-
ton made by the Pierre Dakotan.
B. r. Cole, late of Ardmore, has pur-
chased the plant Of the Mellette Coun-
ty Pioneer and will publish it in the
future.
Ernest Baker is wanted at High
more on charge of having set fire to
building which recently burned at
Holabird
White Lake is enjoying an extensive
building boom. A number of new bus
mess houses and many residences are
being erected
July % and the four succeeding days
has been fixed as the time for the
Dallas chautauqua, which will receive
generous support.
Work has commenced at Onida on
the erection of a new public school
building, for which the contract re-
Gently was awarded.
Farmers of Blunt are delighted with
hn fo 1,1
rains giving as much moisture as came
in six months last year.
The state engineer has granted
permit to Howard ]. Oden and Rose
Oden of Harding county to irrigate
203 acres from Oden draw.
The Milwaukee railroad is one q;
the largest employers of labor in Alb
erdeen. the road now employing 733
men in all departments in that city.
S. O. Bisson, one of the prosperous
Minnehaha county farmers, marketed
in Garretson cattle and hogs for
which he received a check for s3,-
37105.
Extensive Improvements have been
made to the Lake Preston depot build
ing of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway company and it now is in first
class condition.
A lively fight is in progress be-
tween the temperance and license ele.
ments Of DeSmet for control of the
board Of county commissioners in
Kingsbury county.
Belvidere Times, was married to Ora.
cha Gertrude, daughter of Eben R.
Foreman, of Belvidere, in the Presby-
terrain church by Rev. John Fernie.
young woman hobo, whose name
is unknown, was put off a passenger
train at Herniosa, and after being III
town "a hours succeeded in making
her way out of town by stealing ride
on freight train
Those who have visited Brant lake.
fine body of water near Chester. re-.
port that the lake is fairly dotted over
with thousands of pelicans, which
nave stopped there in their northern
flight. One man killed Is of them
with six shots.
Dick Fool Bull, an Indian, ran
amuck at Witten and tried to shoot
banker. but his aim was poor and the
man of money escaped. Fool Bull,
who has done time in the state peni-
tentiary at Sioux Falls, was intoxi-
Gated at the time
Los Angeles dispatches tell of L. F.
Hindman, formerly lieutenant govern
or of South Dakota, fainting on the
streets of that city recently He was
taken to a hospital, suffering from
painful bruises about the head, sus-
tanned as he fell in the faint.
The Morristown Commercial club
will take up the project of having a
creamery established there 1t is gem
orally believed that such an institu-
ton wound prove an important factor
in the prosperity of the farmers of
the surrounding region
A site is being selected by the Of
ficers of the Geddes Farmers Elevator
company upon which to erect a new
elevator, with a capacity of 3S,OO0
bushels. The new elevator will be
one of the largest and most modern in
tnat part of the state and will cost
about $4,000.
H. E. Brock, for the last two years
at the head of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad offices at Yankton,
has gone to Peoria, ILL.,, to accept
position with the United Mercantile
company. G. w. FELTON, of Sioux City,
division freight agent, has assumed
charge of the Yankton Office until Mr..
Brooks successor can be installed.
On Friday evening, April 26, the
college chapel at Huron was the scene
of spirited forensic battle between
Yankton and Huron, the subject of
the debate being the recall question,
the Huron speakers holding the affirm-
ative side of the question. and the
Yankton representatives the negative.
One Of the oldest men in South Da,
kota died at his home near Florence
last week. He was Ludwig Becking,