The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-29
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

renee county, one. Tag number !, how
ever, viii be Issued 10 S. w. Craw-
ford, of Letcher, Sanhorn county. Mr..
era wford introduced the. new motor We
hicle bin in the legislature last session.
SISSETON-The third bank to be To-
Gated on the new Paramount and Web
len railroad within a month is the
Dakota State bank of Roberts county,
with John Gumo, of Thunder Hawk:
Henry Helvig. Andrew MarVick, and
j. w. Darlington, of Slsseton, as tncor-
p%orators. Helvig is president, Warwick
is vice president, and Gumo is cashier.
The bank is capitalized for $4,000.
MILLER-A class Of II will be grad
uated from the high school here to-
night. Exercises occur in the opera
house. The graduates are Ira s. John
son, Leone Cotton, Viola zimmerman,
Bernice Kintigh, Elizabeth Galkins,
Hugh w. Connor, Marguerite Waite,
Goldie Wilson, Joseph Lawler, Mar
guerite Weir.
PIERRE-Bank Examiner J. l..
Wingfield came in from Mitchell and is
having a meeting today with ]. Thorne
and A. H. Bloom, stockholders Of the
Capa bank, relative to the affairs OF
that institution. 1t is understood that
the bank will be reopened within q day
or so. - .~ y .
GSElD III uukS rTdLh u
has decided to remove to Colorado
Springs and there will probably enter
h newspaper field. He came TO Rapid
City at the time Of the building In OF
the Milwaukee railroad and has been
engaged in the practice Of law.
MIILER-Itis now estimated by cat.
tlemen hat the country around here
and west to the river is again filled
with stock cattle, Besides the stockers
T. - sRIy
cows have been added to the numbers.
TABOR-At a special election held
here to determine to which two or three
applicants saloon licenses should be
granted for the year commencing July
!, M, B.. Welfl and Bouska g. Kulis
received h highest number Of votes.
ABERDEEN-Mrs. A. e. Mehner,
whose husband, an engineer on the
Milwaukee railroad, was accidentally
killed in Washington last fall, was
awarded $500 by the company In set
Element Of all claims.
WHITE OWL-The new creamery at
Marcus a been completed. The ma
chinery has arrived at Faith, and II
is expected the creamery will be in OPP
GRAFTON by June /. .
MILLER-J. H. Cole has paid the
first inheritance tax to the state ever
collected in Hand county. 1t was for
the estatas of the late DR.. Viersen, OF
Pella, Ia, who owned land here. The
state got $416. GA.
GROToN-Elaborate preparations
have been made for the proper obser-
next Sunday of the goth ami
versary of the founding of the local
German Lutheran society.
PIERPONT-Work. has commenced
on drilling a new artesian we'll here. 1t
g. Ia.trnA1 a. Rs-A aa nmNVl, II,
ply for fire protection and domestic
purposes.
/ WATERTOWN-The Dakota Sc
~curities company of this city will inn
mediately begin the erection of a big
three-fioor brick department store at
h corner OF Kemp avenue and Sec
ond street IL, according to announce
ment authorized by the president OF
the company, S. X. Way. The builo-
ing will be n of the largest bust
ness blocks in the city and will cost
with fixtures, approximately $4,000.
SIOUX FALLS-The investigation
of the internal roubles among the
corps of government meat inspectors
located in this city, which was sched'
uled to start yesterday, did not ma
IterialiZe as was expected. This was
due to the non arrival of r. p. Sted-
don, of Washington, chief Of the mear
inspectors division of the bureau Of
animal industry.
ONIDA-W. H. Spencer, of western
Sully county, who owns the old aban-
doned town of Fairbank, once the me-
tropolis of his county, has complete"
the first unit of his irrigation plant,
and is ready to turn the water upon
200 acres of rich Missouri river bot
| tom in case he needs it. His plant
is sufficient to pump water for 1000
acres.
MIDLAND-One solid trainload OF
young stock, ! and ~2-year-old cattle
from the, Panhandle country, was
shipped into Midland last week.. The
cattle are being readily sold to farm
ers and stock men in this vicinity.
Pastures and range are furnishing
more feed than for several years past.
BRIDGEWATER Memorial day
will be observed here. A program OF
speaking and music has been arranged,
following which the graves OF the de-
| parted veterans will be strewn with
| flowers by the school children. Frank
| w. Mitchell, OF Salem, win be the
orator.
SPEARFISH-Her horse. brighten
ing at a rapidly passing automobile,
caused a serious runaway near town,
in which Mrs. William Morden, aged
| 70, was thrown out and it is III
fatally injured. .
ELK POINT-The call Is out for the
regular school election the second
Tuesday in June, at which the propo-
1 sition of issuing bonds for $4,000 to
build a new high school for Elk Point
will be voted.
PIERRE-The cataloguing OF the
state library unde the new state IL
brarian act, shows 42,575 volumes on
the shelves, of which 29,074 are bound
books, the rest being pamphlets.
EGAR-The Egan band, which is
conceded to be the best in this part
Of the state, contemplates giving street
concerts weekly here, commencing the
first Saturday evening in June.
LENNOX-Dick Highstreet sold ar
SO-acre tract of and to his nephew
John s. Highstreet, the land adjoining
the Iatter's farm; the consideration De-
ing $50 per acre.
PIERRE-Governor. Byrne a de-
cided to give, Winner the benent OF 3
census and has selected Charles M
Sinclair for that duty.
TACOMA, WASH.-FOur persons
three passengers and a brakeman
were killed and seven seriously injured
late Monday when a train on the Ore
Von -Washington line, bound from Port
land to Seattle, was ditched hear Lax
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