The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-04-02
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Citizens have taken preliminary
| steps to have washington i%ncorporat-
ed as a city of tn, third class.
Sioux Falls business men have ar
ranged for a booster trip to various
parts of the state mex June.
WATERFOWL is at work reOrganiZing
it's commercial club. A new cOnsti-
tuition and other improvements are
planned.
Corsica baseball enthusiasts have
started a movement to have an as
| ISOLATION organized AMI a team placed
in the field.
At a meeting Of Forest City business
men, steps were taken for the for
nation OF a commercial organization
for the town.
Miss Margaret Merriman, for the
past six months society editor CT the
Aberdeen American, has resigned her
! position and has re urned to her home
at Moline, ILL.,, illness of her mother
being the cause.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the West Miner Telephone
company, at Carthage, with a capital
of $1,000. The incorporators are jay
Cook, Alfred Magnuson. Edison Olden,
John Hokenson, Caleb Morrell, all of
Carthage.
At a mass meeting held at Mt. Vern-
on an athletic association was or
| ganized with the following officers:
President, Prof. Smith; secretary,
Eern Rich: fioor manager, Tom Oar
mer. Fine quarters will be secured
and fitted up.
1t is now assured that a new opera
house will be erected at Hartford. Ma
terial now is being assembled, and
active work commenced. It is *
pected the new structure will be com
pleted and opened to the public not
later than June /.
The merchants in Aberdeen are do.
ing their duty this spring in educat,
ing the people of Aberdeen and vicin-
ity to the fact that there is positively
no object in making purchases away
from home. They are using neWspa.
per space literally in announcing the
arrival of and describing their new
goods for spring and unmer.
Five years ago John Haag. a farm.
er living near De Smet, purchased a
heifer IS months old for ST.. He re-
Gently sold the COW at auction, to-
gether with several Of her calves. Al
the conclusion of the sale he found
he had received a total of $23S.25 for
the COW and her offspring. In add.
ton he had the milk profits during
that time.
The George Zeire farm, near Dim.
mock, sold at auction the other day
for sf15.75 an acre. The farm lies
sixteen miles south Of Mitchell and a
mile and a half from Dimock.
Sheriff Jerry Carleton Of Mime
haha county and a number Of his
deputies made a tour Of Sioux Falls
the other evening, rounding up boot
leggers.
IN the annual industrial and agri
cultural exhibit Of Davidson county
rural schools, Elmer Tiedje, of Mitch.
ell, for the second successive year.
won the silver loving cup offered ~
a local seed company for the best ten
ears Of corn displayed. The trophy
becomes tho permanent possession of
the exhibitor winning three consec.
utive times.
Arrangements are being made for
f1n 80 ,.,a (. ~c ~ "
from Bison to Twin Buttes, and even.
tnally to Cash, where it would be con.
nected with the lire to Hettinger. The
line will pass through a region which
is vel settled with homesteaders aud
ranchers, who thus would be brought
into direct communication with their
market points.
One Of the most unique entertain
ments which has been given in Mis-.
land was the st. Patrick's entertain.
ment given by the Nisland Athletic
club at the Rossmall hall. A high
cass miscellaneous program consist.
ing of readings, voca and instrument
tai solos. preceded a short play, THE
Editor-in-Chief,' which was put on by
the boys Of the club.
A railroad man entered the Aber-
deem National bank, and deposited on
the counter in front of the teller's win.
dow, a salt sack well filled with coin.
Upon counting the contents of the
sack 1t was found to contain zoos
dimes-$2O0.50 The man had been
saving up his dimes for the past two
years for the purpose OF attending the
exposition at San Francisco.
After partaking of a hearty dinner.
Mrs. G. J. Kelly, aged SO, wife OF an
employe of the Olwin-Angell store at
Aberdeen, went up stairs to take a
nap. Later, when her husband went
to awaken her. he found her dead.
Physicians say her death was caused
from dilation Of the heart, due to ex-
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