The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1913-02-07
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Next FRIDAY ~ saint ;
Day.
Get your drug wants supplied 10y
parcel post from McMurray.s Phar'
macy, at Carter. 81
Well, the Ground Hog saw his
shadow Sunday alright, 81 you might
as well prepare for elk weeks more of
winter.
+. $. Richardson returned last
Thursday from Logan, Iowa, where
he accompanied the body Of his moth
er.,last week.
If you want anything in the drug
line, send your order to McMurray'a
Pharmacy, at Carter, and get what
you want by parcel post. 81
No use making an extra'trip If you
want drugs; just send your order to
MISUNDERSTANDING, at Carter, and
get what you want by parcel post. 81
Dabney Miller, X. l.. Utz, j. b.
Scriven and Henry Nelson went down
to the southern part of Todd county
Sunday to take u look at the country
down,there.
Martin Juzek, who is travelling for
Allen Bros Grocery Co. of Omaha,
is visiting with his family on their
homestead seven miles southwest Of
Wood this week.
Dabney Miller drove his auto to
Valentine, Nebraska last Saturday
where he took A. X. Wood and fam.
ily and TIE latter boarded the train
there for Omaha.
A. b. Cornwell, an automobile driv.
err, had "A little bad luck while com
ing from Winner Sunday. He broke
a e axle and was pulled to town
where be laid up for repairs until
Monday evening.
Dabney Miller, A. X. Wood, Wat.
son & Green, The Wood Mercantile
Co., w. NJ. Becker and |. Kaufman
all put up ice the past week. There
surely hadn't ought to be any ice fam.
inc in Wood next summer.
j. Cy Collins, who has been at
Winner the past three months, return.
ed to Wood Sunday evening, He had
a nice homestead about four mile.
north of here but sold ID to Mrs. Bun
ga, and was here to attend to some
business.
Sam Mudlon went to the Agency
last Saturday, returning Monday.
Sam is making a good many trips to
the Agency here lately, and webe-
lieve he will bear watching; he acts
just like a mar that is about to he
married.
Andrew Eastman on last Saturday
took charge OF the Palace Pool Hall
on South Main street. Culbertson d
Johnson, who have been conducting
this place Of amusement, did not re,
new their lease when it.expired, and
therefore retire from business.
j. Hasche and William Armstrong,
two homesteaders living northeast OF
town, got their dates mixed last week
and wandered into town Sunday
thinking it was Saturday. They had
intended to take in the big dance Sat
urday but lost out by just one day.
We this week receivd q letter from
Theo. d. Scheid, of Button, Ohio,
ordering the PIONEER sent to him
there until the first of next month,
after which he will get his mail at
Wood. He is building on the S. w.
of 20, 40, 26, and will make that his
home after March LIST.
Several townships in the western
part OF Trip county are making ar.
rangements to sink artesian wells.
We should like to see such a well put
down in or near Wood. There is no
question but what we are in the great
artesian belt and such a we'll would
be a great boost for the town and sur.
rounding country.
G. II. Gallineaux and family de-
parted Wednesday for Valentine,
Nebraska, where they boarded the
train for their new home at Dulce,
New Mexico, where Collise will take
mp his new duties as Financial Clerk
in the Jacarilla Agency. His many
friends here wish him good luck
and prosperity in their new home.
From the present indications there
is going to be a bumper crop OF town.
sites in Mellette county this year, il
all the rumors that we hear are true.