The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-26
PURE WATER DISTRICT
Showers every day

All the rillN are running.
Pete Didier is breaking more sod
this week.
Farm work is progressing and every
body is happy.
Mrs. Gerig was an all day guest Of
Mrs. SorenSen last Friday.
+. j. King and wife Of Geneva Ne
braska, visited the Gallaghers last
week.
Miss Baker who has been helping
at the Petersen home is now lending
d helping hand at the Chas Wagner
home.
Selby Gallagher and Miss Nellie
HOuseman called on Frank Iarboe,
Monday, and dinner was served at
three O'Clock.
Now that election is over We home
Steaders will stick closer 10 home for
the next few weeks and try and for
StG llldO OIlSiC CNSl iIuo DSCll al WIZ
ton.
Fritz Lyon and Selby Gallagher at
tended the dance at Wood, Monday
night and at White River, Tuesday
night. The boys seem TO be going
some of late.
The Happy Hollow church is being
painted white with the trimming in
gray. 1t has not been defnately de-
cided just wnen the dedicatory SER
vices will be held.
The Ladies Society met with Mrs
Jake Scholl last Thursday. The at
tendance wss good, the meeting very
and dainty lunch was
served at the close Of the session.
Miss Nellie and Ruth Houseman
are now very happy over the possess
ion of piano which they purchased
Of Ray Briggs, which no doubt will ad
much JOY and happiness 10 their home
A. J House nan and son Ward left
overland, for Washington
Wood and Witten. He
G-ne three months doing
contract work on county bridge and I
Dad work.
Selby Gallagher has been helping
Eritz Lyons and expects to hold down
he job for some time. Fritz found |
le had his hands full to looks after
81 head of cattle and several head |
i horses alone.
Horace Drake, an old friend of Jar
'oes. who has been making his home
or the past year or more with Andy
'earson in Butte Valley is reported
ute sick, having had another severe
lemorage RECENTLY.
A. c. Moorhouse has leased the Ray
Briggs claim which he is TO take pos
ession OF in the near future, and will
love his twenty-one head of stock
attic there. We understand he has
ought ten head more of Mr.. Briggs.
The Berkley school closes next Fri
ay. Miss Buskirk who has been
eaching there, will leave the follow
ng Monday for her old home at Ft.
Wayne, Indiana. Mrs. Gerig expects
o accompany her for short visit.
Hans Voght, wife and baby, and
lis mother Mrs. Ingraham, and uncle
I, S. Andrews arrived overland last
aturday night and are visiting at
he home II Oscar lng1aham and
red Lewis. They made the trip in
Ford from their Nebraska home.
The following have leased home
tead lands recently i'm this district:
V. j. Palmtr has the Harry Starlin
uarter, Chas Wagner has Proctors
uarter, VIII Peta the Holland quar-
er, Oscar Ingraham the Scot Merrill |
uarter, Pete Petersen has Herman
iohrs and Dean Ingrams, Arthur |
estes has SANKEY'S quarter, and Fritz
1yOn has about two sections leased.
Lige Graham went to- Valentine. |
\ ebrasEa last Friday accompanied by |
Mrs. Graham and son Doyle. better
lnown as Busy where Mrs. Gra-
lam and son boarded the train for
heir old hepe IN Kansas, for short
;isit. Matilda and Elizabeth Soren-
zen stayed with Mr.. Grahams mother
Turing his <, lseIce. and Mr.. Werner
lid the chores, milking l6 head Of
.ows.
John Glat ielter has written two or
Jhree Of his Friends that since the
Pure Water news items have started
again in the Pioneer, it islike getting.
! letter from home. He cop --'o rams
with several OF his fyis,"' ~ ~ 'n'
while he is doing
At Omaha, heoGGtput Break. Record.
again. liam says that reports from
gan copper mines show the
fire place, to be the largest In the
John, and the industry. The total re.