The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-03-20
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

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have been set aside at P%lankinton for
park purposes and will be made into a
beautiful city park.
Mellette automobile owners are talk
ing of organizing an auto club and a
meeting will soon be held for the pur-
pose of perfecting such an ~organiza-
ton.
AS the result of the township cleo
ton held at Witten. that town will
DE dry after July /. Lew Langworthy,
formerly of Sioux City, has been con-
Quoting a saloon here.
At a meeting of Wllmot baseball en-
thusiasts a baseball association was
organized and steps were taken to
have a team in the field during the
coming season. II. n. JOHN vas elect
ed chairman.
Earl Price, the young man held at
Aberdeen on a charge Of counterfeit
ing scent pieces which he used in slot
machines, has been released by the
government, but held by the state on
a vagrancy charge.
A term Of state circuit court for
Hanson county Will V at Alex,
andria Monday, March %, with Judge
Frank b. Smith presiding. There gre
quite a number OF cases to be disposed
Of and the term will last a number Of
days.
A meeting Of all the automobile own.
ers of McCook county has been called,
at which important action will be TAX.
en- in connection with extensive
good roads work which will be pushed
throughout the county during the COM
ing spring and summer
Ill health has made necessary the
resignation of Postmaster W. II. OchS-
der Of Chamberlain, who has notified
the department at Washington to ap-
point his successor. 1t appears 10 be
probable that F. p. GannaWay will be
appointed to the position.
The contract has been awarded by
the town board for the construction OF
| municipal waterwOrkS system at
Utica. The total cost will be about
Yo,OVO. ltSSlut Will u lui UlSllcu Nv
m elevated tank, III feet in the air,
and with a capacity OF 10000 gallons.
Rev. Arthur Wedge of Boston. rep
~resenting the John Elliott Foundation
Fund, has been at the Indian school at
Pierre for several days giving lectures
to the pupils, illustrating them with
lantern slides, the purpose Of the work
being to stimulate industry in the In.
dian children.
On petition OF several hundred vot-
ers the city council of DeadwoCd has
called a special election for March 20.
four days before the primaries. when
the question of whether that city shall
have a municipal court will be voted
court in the hills is at Lead.
The pond or the state grounds at
Pierre is now at the maximum size of
about seven acres. Arrangements are
made to place several row boats On
the pond and the island in the center
Will be decorated with grass and
%shrubbery to increase the attractive.
ness Of that portion OF the grounds.
l.. J. WEIGH was reelected to the
position Of exalted ruler of the Mitch.
ell lodge, No. 1859, B. P. o. f. This
is the second time that the Mitchell
Elks have honored exalted ruler with
a reelection. The lodge has nearly
1000 members and one of the finest
club houses in South Dakota.
Thomas Hansen. a section hand EN-.
Dloyed at Irene. was seriously hurt
as the result of being thrown head.
long from a railway motor car when
he lost his balance upon the brakes
being set suddenly. He was thrown
in front OF the motor car. which ran
over him. A spike was forced into
n Of his arms.
The commercial travellers of North
and South Dakota who represent stove
manufacturing concerns, at q meeting
held in Sioux Falls. organized a social
fassociatiOn for the betterment Of so.
clal relations between the statesmen
Inc Following officers were elected
n will serve during the coming wear.
President, P. T. Tendrick; vice presi.
dent. VIM. r. Phillips; secretarv.treas.
urer, Edwin f. Smith.
The government weather bureau AZ
Pierre reports heavier snowfall for
February this year than for anv Feb.
ruary since the establishment of tho
bureau at that city twenty-four years
ago. The measured snowfall is said
to have been II inches. and very little
OF this piled in drifts. The preciylta.
ton RECORD for the station to March
show eighty-eighth hundreds OF an
inch o normal for the year.
VIM. Hopkins. a Sisseton Sioux In.
dian. whose home is near Wilmot. has
been released or parole from the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, where he was sery.
ing a term Of n year for grand lar
ceny. He was a model prisoner and
was released because of his good he.
havior. Jake Huska. implicated with
him and sentenced at the same time
has beer an unruly prisoner and will
be compelled to serve his full term
The big steel tank for the Eureka
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