Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-11-12
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

corn picking mas Dee0 Starteu uedT
Yankton.
The First Baptist church Of Dell
Rapids is completing a coy $4,000
parsonage.
Thus far this fall nearly 200 car
loads of potatoes have been shipped
from White.
The Ed Reed farm near Beresford
was sold at auction to Ernest john
son for $127.75 per acre.
After spirited contest $4,000
sewer system bond issue for Winner
carried by a majority of 35.
Sioux City officials and the papers
are talking of paved highway be-
tween Sioux Falls and Sioux City.
The depot at Crooks was broken
into and half a case Of beer, some
potatoes and a few small article Of
less value we're stolen.
Mrs. Ed Brewer, of Winner, and
Mrs. Charles Pierce, of Omaha, Neb.,
sisters, have been united after being
separated since infancy.
Perkins county is to have a flour
mill at Serum this fall. The cost of
the building will be about $4,000, Of
which $4,000 has been subscribed.
Infirmities of age caused the death
at her home in Deadwood of Mrs. Al
thea Early. Mrs. Early was IS years
old and had resided there since 1877.
Campbell county has cleaned up its
last bonded debt of $4,000 and is now
on a cash basis with money in the
bank and $4,000 to be collected in
taxes.
Roger Hanrahan, a Walworth county
horse rustler, got twenty-five months
in the state penitentiary at Sioux
Falls for his enthusiasm Is q horse
fancier.
The farmers Of near Gregory have
effected the organization Of farm
ers' elevator company, and in the near
future will commence business in
Gregory.
Mrs. John Hart, of Dell Rapids, aged
90, has cared for a large garden this
summer and harvested big crop.
She did all the work unaided despite
her years.
r. w. Scott, postmaster at Whit.
ney, the oldest postmaster In the
county, has been succeeded to office
nv his wife. She is q Democrat. He
q Republican.
An organized effort is being made
by the farmers around Morristown to
plant groves of trees upon their prop.
erty. Upwards Of $4,000 worth OF
trees have arrived and have been dis
tributed.
Landlord Jorgeson, Of . Vienna
hotel, provided three roomers with
sleeping quarters for the night. The
next morning two of them were miss
ing, together with $40 of the hotel
mans money.
The Rock Island east bound freight
was wrecked a few miles west of Rock
Rapids, five cars and the caboose leav-
ing the track. High speed on poor
piece of track was assigned as the
cause of the accident.
Four Dakota Wesleyan students
started out to walk the 100 miles be.
tween Mitchell and vermillion to at
tend the Wesleyan-U University game.
but gave up the trip after completing
20 miles Of the journey.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wrigley, two
residents of Mobridge since the found
ing of the city, have just celebrated
their golden wedding. They were mar
ried in Manchester, England, in 1866
and came to America in 1883.
Fire broke out in the Hans Thomp-
son barn five miles from Sturgis, de-
stroying It and a large stack of hay.
The fire spread over the prairie, and
had it not been for prompt assistance
of neighbors it would have destroyed
one of the best and most thickly set
tied valleys in Meade county.
Elmer Feldman, of Canton, was the
victim of serious accident while
hunting. He went to the hunting
grounds on a motorcycle, and when
he decided to return home he return
ed to his motorcycle. While mount
ing the machine his gun was dis
charged, the entire charge striking his
left foot.
s. ]. Telford, of Willow Lakes, at
tempted to assist one of his horses
out of an ENHANCEMENT it got into
while rolling on the ground by sitting
on the animals head until he could
get help from the house. The animal
rolled over on top of him, nearly
crushing the life out of the man before
the horse finally freed itself.
The Sioux Falls library is richer
to the extent of history of south
eastern Dakota, published in 1881, Of
which the portion referring to Sioux
Falls and that immediate section was
written by the late w. w. Bookings.
The volume was recently discovered
by c. o. Bailey in second hand book
store in Minneapolis. It was bought
by D. 8. Gliddene, who gave it to the
public library. The particular volume
was presented by Judge Bookings to
Sam T. Glover and it later found its
way into the second hand store. The
book carries 400 pages of very inter.
esting historical matter of the early
days.
The top notch price paid for Deuel.
county land was reached at Clear Lake
when James Reddy, of Ellsworth,
Mimi, purchased the G. G. Wullbrandy
farm for 500 per acre. Mr.. Wull
brandt purchased the farm ten years
ago for $50 per acre.
Pleading guilty to burglarizing a
Flandreau store, Frank Henry, who is
believed to be crook with record
extending over good portion of the
United States, was sentenced by Judge
Jones, of the state circuit court at
Sioux Falls, to term of one year in
the Sioux Falls penitentiary.