The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-08
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

boys under Is years of age. who plow.
| plant and raise the best one-half acre Of
| corn this summer. The first prize WIN he
$9, second, $12: third, IS, and fourth, Sc.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are being
| made for a shooting tournament for anna
| tours, which will be held here on Wednes-
| day, May Z. under the auspices of the To-
| cal gun club and In accordance with the
rules of the interstate association, which
has contributed $50 toward the prizes
Marksmen from all the towns in this part
of the state will be. present to compete.
Special to The Tribune.
WASHINGTON SPRINGS-Despondent
because of ill health, Miss Marie Vibrant.
aged so, who rlade her home on a farm
in Jarauld county with her brother. Ernest
Vibrant, committed suicide by swallowing
a quantity of paris green. The dead wom-
an was born in Germany. but had lived
In the United States a number of years.
WILLOW LAKES-A baseball associa-
ton has been organized here and a team
placed In the field. The following Off
| GERS were elected: President. w. q, Syyer-
son: vice president, G. w. Turley; secre-.
tary-treasurer E. L. Glidden; manager,
| w G.. Douglas; captain, j.. w. Cluett;
official scorer, DIR. w. j. Banner.
TYNDALL-The county commissioners
! have sold the s65, 900 in bonds which were
voted at the election last fall for the
erection o. a new Bon Homme county
court house. and the work Of construc-
ton will in the near future.
The new court house will be erected close
to the old court house.
E~UREKA-Phil Schamber, postmaster
at Eureka, is anxious for the Wilson ad-
ministration to decide upon its policy re-
| garding postmasterships in South Dakota.
in order that his successor may be APP
pointed. He sent in his resignation sew
eral weeks ago.
GETTYSBURG-A lot has just been pur-
chased here for the new city hall author
lied by the voters, bonds for which, in
the sum OF 5000. were recently sold to
the state. The building will be 24x7o feet
in size, two stories high, and of brick.
IRoQUoIs-The Iroquois Chief has just
completed its 25th year here. 1t was es-
tablished 2o years ago by j. +. Halliday.
former state auditor, who still publishes
it. The paper Is one of the best known
small town weeklies in South Dakota.
CRESBARD = Howard Africa, post
master at Chelsea, and editor of a news
paper there, has been here looking over
the local field preparatory to establish
ing a new newspaper in Cresbard. The
first issue is expected to appear soon.
CASTLEWOoD-Steps have been taken
to hold a great celebration in Cast]ewood
on May II for the Norwegians Of this
part of the state, May II being their in
dependence day. Thousands of Norweg-
ians are expected to be present.
MILLER-Wheat and small grain seed
Ing is practically finished in this section
and much of the earliest sown grain Is up
and doing nicely. The planting of corn
will begin soon and a larger acreage will
be put out than formerly.
HOWARD-The city council has called
a special election for May 10, when the
voters will elect the men who will run
the two saloons which will be permitted
IN Howard after July I.
ALCESTER-The baseball team which
has just been placed in the field here
has elected the following officers: Cap
tain, A. A. Treick;s manager. Tony Drey:
treasurer, A. O. Ofstad.
ABERDEEN-The work Of removing
the present buildings from the site of the
proposed 500, coo city hall has been COM
menced and work on the new structure
will be started soon.
MlTCHELL-Friday night the debating
contest between teams of Ripon, Wis. COL
lege and Dakota Wesleyan university, of
this city, was held, the decision going to
the Ripon team.
TORONTO-At a meeting held here it
was decided to place a baseball team In
the. field for the season. C. F. Hage was
elected manager
HURON-Huron now has q real live
commercial club. 1t is composed of near
" 200 members. The officers are: J.. p.
Walsh, president; Charles p. Warren. vice
president; Thomas II. Campbell, treas
urer. A secretary will be named later by
the board of directors. which is composed
of j. p Walsh, Charles P. Warren, r. E..
Cone. D. G. Medberry. r. o. Grover, b. M.
Beach and Alex. Urquhart.
MITCHELI-The board of county com
missioners of Dawson county this morn.
ing awarded the contract for all the engi-
neering and survey work on the roads to
be built in this county this year to ithe
Dakota Engineering company for the sum
IF 1925 per mile. Last year the board
paid $65. % a mile for the same work. Davi-
son county will eXpend $4,000 on good
roads this summer and about 80 miles OF
new roads will be built.
ABERDEEN-The Brown County Jour.
nal is the name of a new paper just es-
tablished at Hecla, in this county, by S.
w. Dolan, who purchased the plant of the
Day County Democrat at Bristol for the
venture. The journal makes the second
paper for Hecla, the Standard, by +. c.
Cole, having been published for a mum
Der of years.
ABERDEEN@The James river is report
ed to be very high. and in danger Of
breaking out of its banks along the low
lands in this county.
GETTYSBURG-The city council has
purchased ground upon which to erect a
new city hall building. for which the vot.
ers authorized the issuance of bonds in
the sum of 5000. The bonds have beer
sold and the money now is on hand. The
structure will be pushed to completion as
speedily as possible. The tentative plans
are for q building 24x70 feet. two stories
high, to be constructed of brick.
HUDSON-Business men and other resi-
dents have formed a stock company with
the purpose of installing an electric light
system. something which Hudson has de-
sired for a long time. Within a short
time 5000 was subscribed and this will
be rapidly increased to the necessary
amount. The work of installing the sys-
tenn will m with as little delay
as possible.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT have been
completed for the annual convention of
the ". G. 7. u. of the First district, to