The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-08-17
STATE HAPPENINGS.

Inc new CeHlTdllZeu puDilC SCuOO
building in Thomas is nearing compile
ton, and it will be ready for occupan-
cy at the opening of the fall term OF
school. The structure is built of brick
and concrete and is a much better
building of the kind than is usually
found in a town of the size of Thorn
as. The various district schools have
been abandoned and all the pupils Of
the district will attend the centralized
school.
Someone broke into the office of A.
f. Lockhart, editor Of Chain Light.
ming, a monthly publication of a sensa-
tional nature, published at Milbank,
and stole all the files containing evil
dence of various escapades of Lock
harris fellow South Dakotans. Nothing
else was taken and Lockhart says the
theft did not harm him any, as the ev.
idence stolen was but carbon copies,
the originals being stored in a safer
place.
The famous Sioux Falls drum corps
of Joe Hooker Post, G.. A. r., is to ac-
| company the South Dakota headquar.
tiers contingent as the official drum
corps for the state department during
the entire week of the 50th national
e~ncampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Kansas City, Mo-, August
% to September 2. They will be CO.'S
tuned in their old colonial uniforms
in the spirit of re-"
Elaborate ceremonies marked the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
Swedish church building which il to
be erected in Webster. The corner.
stone is a beautiful piece of marble,
with raised polished letters, and was
donated by Robert Hunter Of orion.
vile, MINI. The new church will be
one of the finest edifices of it's kind
in that part of the state.
An unusual case before Judge My.
ers of the municipal court in Water.
town, was the trial of a 13-year-old girl
on the charge of using p~rofane Ian.
guage on a public street. She was
found guilty, and Judge Myers i'm.
posed a fine of So. The girl was
charged with using profane language
while playing with other children on
the streets.
Robberies are almost of daily occur.
renee at Yankton among the returning
harvest hands. Four |. w. WIS held
up two Independents and robbed them
Of $35 cash and a gold watch, just east
of the city, one day. where a similar
robbery tool place the night before.
An |. w. w. also robbed, was handed
back his property on his red card be.
ing found.
The body of an unidentified man
with head crushed so that the face
was not recognizable, with one arm
cut off, one leg broken and gashes
all over the body, was found on the
Milwaukee tracks in the yards at
Sioux Falls. In one shoe was found
$3.50, in the other, so cents, and in a
pocket was a dime. This was all.
Sheriff Dahlin of Union county and
his assistants raided a gambling joint
and arrested the proprietor and Chas.
Spatter, who said he had just arranged
to buy the establishment, and that in
his twenty years as a successful gam
bier that had been the only time he
had been punched"
Two hundred druggists were on hand
at Mitchell when President Herbert A.
Keith of Lake Preston called to order
the thirty-frst annual convention of
the South Dakota Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION.
State Senator Odlund of Turner
county, has just returned from Nor.
way, where he had been for several
weeks on a honeymoop trip with his
bride, to whom he was recently mar
ried.
At a meeting held at Vermillion a To-
cal chapter of the Child Conservation
League Of America was organized,
with a good charter membership. A
constitution and bylaws were adopted.
A rainbow at IL o'clock at night is
recorded at Aberdeen. 1t followed a
thunderstorm, and was caused by the
bright rays of the moon as it emerged
from behind the clouds.
During a severe electrical storm at
hthoi, pCoi sc DCCluCi, q lltI, anu
his ~16-year-old son were both struck
by lightning and killed.
Aberdeen has installed a booster
pump to improve the sewage disposal
situation, and claims are made that
the pump works fine.
With the hunting season just less
than a month away and prairie chick.
ems reported plentiful, the increase in
the price of shells Is being brought
home to hunters. An increase of over
Is per cent in the price of shells dur.
ing the last month will make hunting
an expensive sport this fall.
Because Of the present high market
price of wheat the farmers around
Memo are commencing to marke,
wheat In large quantities. The Farm.
ers' elevator at Memo In seven days
handled 312 wagonloads OF wheat and
! six loads of oats.