The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-15
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

v itS liS oSilODl
declamatory contests Horace Aver won
first, Robert Lyons, second, and Cliff
ford Keister, third. In the declama-
tory contest, first place was awarded
Miss Kathleen Simonson; second, Alon-
20 Cotton, n third, Miss Esther John
son. Horace Aver and Miss Simonson
will represent Vermillion in the dis
1rlct contest to be held at 4ankton.
The state finals will be in this city dur
Ing the state high school track and
Held meet mex week.
BANCROFT-A new town is to spring
into existence on the Great Northern
railway at a point midway between
Bancroft and Willow Lakes, the state
board of railroad commissioners hay-
ing demanded hat the railway com
pany construct a sidetrack at that
point. An ~elevator will be built and
when the sidetrack is completed no
time will be lost in demanding a de-
pot, when a full fiedged new town will
be on the map.
RAPID CITY,. N. Costley. super
~intendent of the Black Hills division of
the Northwestern railroad has submit
ted plans to business men of the new
$751; 600 depot work, the erection Of
which will m at once. The new
station will occupy the site of the pres
ent one and face the roadbed las and
~ ~ iSSt III u1Pths i VII CONTAIN q
spacious waiting room, baggage room
and restaurant.
DEADWOOD-The inmates of the
Lawrence county jail here, or those
who are inclined to be superstitious,
are somewhat agitated because at the
present time there are 13 prisoners.
The superstitious fear his will bring
them heavier sentences when their
cases are disposed of than would other
wiGa hn tho q co 81 Ny1yn ltra nP fhnt,n =. NO.
federal prisoners.
PIERRE.Dell Rapids is to have a
public hospital, which has been Moor
porated and the following directors
chosen: Karl Eulberg, John Schmidt,
Henry Solem, J.. D. Herren, C. A.
Grant, A. Huntemer, V. r. Reynolds,
G.. A. Uline, o. E. Johnson, Ole Thomp-
son, Jacob Olson, and Henry Roberts,
all Dell Rapids people. The capital
stock is $40, 900.
KENNEBEC-A heavy sheep skin
coat saved the life of P. c. Moran, liv-
lng some miles from here, when his
horses became frightened and ran way
While he was engaged in discing one of
his fields. The horses dashed through
a fence, throwing Moran in front of
the machine, The heavy coat protected
his body but his lower limbs We're bad
ly gashed.
HIGHMORE-The Highmore Com
mercial club elected the following Off
GERS: President, M. Harry O'Brien;
secretary, j. B. Perkins, treasurer, G.
H. Gray: vice president, L.. B. Hous-
ton; second vice president, L. A. Sher-
er; directors, DIR. Langsdale and D.. It.
Jekyll. Arrangements We're made to
have a good roads meeting in the near
future.
ABERDEEN-While making garden,
A. c. R~essegien struck a vein of lead
ore on his premises in this city. The
ore was analysed and pronounced prac-
tically pure lead in the form of ga
lena, or lead sulphite. The vein is but
q short a under the ground and
apparently runs the entire length of the
lot.
REvILLo farmers telephone
company has been organized and lines
will be constructed over a wide scope
of country. The officers of the new
company are: President, Henry Brei-
tung; vice president, f. c. B~reisacher;
secretary, Rev, Hugh Hay; treasurer,
Charles Miller.
EDGEMONT-At a meeting of the
baseball association the following Off
GERS were elected: President, John
Sanders; secretary, Darrell Applegat:
manager, James Stewart. The business
men have agreed to finance the team
which will be kept in the field during
the season
BOWDLE-Samuel Haring has re-
tired as town marshal, and George
Sautner has been appointed temper
arily. The residents of Bowdle are so
law-abiding that steps have been ta-
ken to abandon the office.
SIOUX FALLS-The State Home
opathic and the State Eclectic societies
Will hold their annual convention joint
~ In this city next Monday and Tues
day. The meetings will all be held at
the Carpenter hotel. The gathering
will open with a banquet which will
be held at the Carpenter hotel at 8
O'Clock Monday evening.
REVILLO-This place is becoming
an important egg shipping point. In!
shipped by n f1rm-breaking all rec
ords for egg shipments from Revillo.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., the two
year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
P1erSol, died yesterday morning of in
fantile paralysis, after only a few hours
Illness.
RELANCE-While John Donahue
driving across the prairie after his
cattle he found the unconscious form
of John Peterman. an eccentric farmer
living in he vicinity, lying ON the
VI MSuiGdl dlu WAS summoned.
the old mar never recovered o n
seriousness and died about five DAYS
later. Death was due to hernorrhage
of the brain. The authorities have been
unable to locate any of his relatives.
PIERRE-Attorney General Johnson
holds that under the present state laws
a saloon man can legally sell LIQUOR
after the hour of closing the polls on
day.
M1TCHELL-The insurgent Modern
Woodmen of South Dakota met here.
and resolved to send delegates to the
national convention, which is to be held
at Springfield, ILL.,. on Friday and SAT-
urday of next week. There were nearly
20 camps of the order represented at
the convention. The delegates selected
are N@..shbors Rfx, of Milbank, knight
of Wakonda, Palmer, of Madison, and
Mccarthy, of Sioux Falls. The alter
mates are Neighbors %Stringharn. of
Sioux Falls. Slattery. Of Wakonda,
Finch. of Hartford, and Blesser, 81 Mil
bank.
PEEfeRE-Ben Nj. wood is being
urged by many democrats as theft
choice for the democratic member OF
the new state highway commission to
be appointed under the law which goes
into effect the first of July. While