Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-09-10

Nearly all the teachers and en-
ployees at the Farm School attend
ed the fair.
N. seipple, farmer in charge Of
Little Eagle district, attended the
fair this week.
Tom Kelley Of Hazelton, one Of
the old timers in this country, was
in attendance at the fair Thursday. |
Frank Wagner, who lives north
of keldron, was among others who
attended the fair the first OF the
week.
Joe Huff is down from Solen to
play trombone in the band fair
week, and while here subscribed
for the Pioneer.
Jake Jordan is among others run
ming an auto livery this week during
the fair, and Jake is keeping his
Ford on the go all the time.
Mrs. Charging Thunder, a well
known Indian woman, aged so
years died Sunday, and was buried
! in the local Catholic cemetery Mon
day.
d. T. Powless, better known as
Kickapoo, returned Tuesday from
his vacation spent in the east, and
has resumed his position at the
Agency Boarding School.
O. w. Chamberlain, teacher at
the Little Oak Indian day school
in South Dakota, was here on bust
ness at the Agency yesterday and
! incidentally took in the fair.
J. E. Markson, representing
Griggs- Cooper Grocery Company,
and Frank Barnes, a hardware
salesman, were here the first of the
week from Aberdeen.
Miss Margaret Carignan was
thrown from a horse Sunday even
ing and sustained a number of bad
bruises about the face, which will
spoil her charming looks for a while.
Otherwise she was not injured.
F. b. Zahn, one Of the clerks in
the Agency Office, leaves Saturday
for Morristown, where he will spend
a two weeks vacation with his bro
thcr, who is engaged in the photo
graph business there.
The stores done a big business
fair week, and kept the sales force
busy early and late. The fair
brought several thousand dollars to
Fort Yates from the outlying dis.
tricts.
The refreshment concessions at
the fair grounds were all taken fair
week, and among others who run
stands were w. NJ. Bowden, III. NJ.
Lund, Jesse Payne, and Wallace &
Gilbertson.
DIR. and Mrs. Rice were down
from Cannonball to take in the
sights at the fair Tuesday evening
and Wednesday morning. They
we're accompanied by Capt. and
Mrs. \. i. Welch of Bismarck.
James Molash returned Saturday
from Bismarck, where he went last
week to appear as a witness in a
contest case heard before the {. s.
Land office, involving a valuable
claim near Fort Rice. The case
was settled out of court.
Mrs. Lee Hanlcy, who has been
/ with her husband at the Stiles 4
Carl gnan hay camp, was taken sud-
denly i'll with an attack Of Appendix
citis last week, and taken to her
home at Glanavon in Emmons
county. Sunday.
F. B. Stowcll, Chester Solmonson,
Mark Holmes and Harry Robbins
OF Pollock, are taking part in the
Standing Rock Indian Band this
week. All are accomplished band
men and filled their respective
places crcditable.
! The Benton-Packet Company
steamboat Scarab" came down
from Bismarck Saturday evening
with load of buggies, wagons,
plows, fruit, ETC., for Hokanson-
Turner Company, and also some
merchandise for Carignan q Stiles.
A considerable saving on freight is
made on merchandise in large guam
tity shipped by river over shipping
by rail to Cannonball and haul from
there here by teams
The town of keldron located
about five miles west of MorrsStown
on the c. NJ. & St. p. railroad is the
scene of much activity in the build
ing line and a number of new store
buildings have been built the past
month and new lines OF business
opened. and is fast becoming recog-
nizcd as one of the progressive towns
ON the Standing Rock reservation.