The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-08-29
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

Mitchell is about to have an arti
fetal ice plant.
1t IS estimated the average true
value of M%innehaha county farming
land is $S1 an acre.
Postmaster l.. A. Wilson, of Isabel
has sold his newspaper, the Isabel
News, 10 Thomas j. Holt, who is now
in charge.
The assessed valuation of Aurora
county for the present year is SIS.
9O9,697. There are S,816 horses in
the county and 18,109 head of cattle.
Laura Marsh, a 1"3-year-old girl
whose parents live in Brunt, was
drowned in Medicine creek, near that
place, by falling from a raft on which
she was playing with a party of girls.
The blue books for the last legisla-
tive session have been delivered by
the printer and are being sent out to
those entitled TO receive them under
the resolution providing for their
printing.
Miss Polly Weisenbuehfer. a pretty
17-year-old girl who lives at Carson.
has received a registered letter con
tanning 81, 200, which was left her by
an uncle who died recently at Chero-
kee, la.
Gopher bounties ag~gregating S4,-
1913 were paid in Day county dur
ing a period of 80 days. The bounty
was put up by the county commission
ers IN the hope OF Kidding the county
OF the pests.
After suffering several weeks. A. ID.
Coleman, a prominent pioneer farmer
of Bruce, is dead as the result of in
juries received when his horses ran
away and threw him from a wagon.
He struck on his head.
The Vermillion Commercial club is
to have permanent clubrooms. Part
of the lower floor of the Masonic tenn
pie is being ~remodeled and fitted up
for that purpose. The oom will be
ready for occupancy in a Few days.
John A. Williams, Of Sioux Falls,
is the first man in South Dakota to
cast his ballot by mail, in accordance
with the new law. Williams was away
from home at the time of Sioux Falls
latest rC"all election, and he mailed
his ballot.
w. Armstrong and Mrs. John G.
Unruh, both residents OF Trip for
some years, upon being introduced to
each other a day or two ago discover.
ed that they were old playmates
When children they went to school to,
gether at Belle PLANE, la.
Miss Gertrude Fischoach. one of
the prominent educators Of Redfield
has been appointed county superin.
tendent of schools of Sphinx county. to
fill the vacancy caused by the recent
death of Clarence Clemenson. the reg.
ularly elected superintendent.
Some interesting experiments in the
raising of cotton and peanuts are be.
ing made by Thomas O'Brien. a farm.
er living ONE miles north of Elan.
dreau. Both crops will mature and be
quite productive. The peanuts are
getting ripe 10Y and the cotton is in
full bloom.
A real estate deal was made at
KimbaH which involves property
transfers of about $4,000 Geo. AT.
kinson, a farmer near Mitchell, traded
his 700-acre farm in the northeastern
part of Brule county for a 4S0-acre
farm owned by Anderson Bros, in Lis.
bon township, Davidson county.
George j.. Crilly, cashier of the
Bonesteel State bank. was seriously
by being thrown from a horse
he was riding while rounding up cat.
tie on the Chilly rancho near that
town. His collar bone was badly frac.
and his body and back bruised
and lacerated.
The wool industry is becoming of
Importance in Lyman county. During
a period of two weeks wool to the
value of $4,000 was shipped from
Presho. The shipments from Draper
thus far have reached about the
same value and smaller amounts have
been shipped from the other towns of
the county.
Mrs. Kirk G. Phillips, widow of
Kirk Phillips, ex-treasurer of South
Dakota, who died a few days ago, will
continue TO conduct the drug store
which her husband established in
and of which he was the
proprietor up to the time of his death.
She will be one of the few women
druggists of South Dakota.
Tramps are believed to have been
responsible for a fire which destroyed
the ten-room residence owned by
Ralph BOSNIAN and occupied by
Henry r. BOSNIAN and family on a
farm some miles from Lennox. Mr..
and Mrs. BOSNIAN at the time of the
fire were in Lennox transacting bust
ness. The loss is between $4,000 and
5000 and is only partially covered by
insurance.
The body of Mrs. William Meyer, of
Wolsey, who has been missing all this
week, was found in a reid near the
house in a badly decomposed condi-