The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-06-16
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

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David Dykstra of Running Water
left last week for Page Page, Samoa
islands.
A son OF William Kochine of Elk
Point was drowned while swimming.
His body was recovered two hours
later.
Joseph Watt, a Lead man. was ar
rested on the charge of neglecting to
compel his ~12-year-old son to attend
school.
AT a meeting held by the rural mail
carriers OF Grant county, what will be
known as the Grant County Rural Let
Ter Carriers association was organized.
Following a third stroke of paraly.
Sis, death came to Mrs. John A. Still
well, wife Of l.. w. Stilwell, and for
nearly 40 years a resident Of Dead
wood.
AT a meeting of the railroad com
m~issioners and officials of the Milwau-
kee held at Keldron it was decided to
erect a depot, the present one being
in the shape OF a box car.
Miss Clarice Ada Henderson and
William FL. Wertenweiler, and Miss
Pauline Edna Gibbs and Harvey l..
Henderson We're the principals in a
double wedding at Groton.
| At the Ark Of Refuge in Sioux Falls
occurred the death Of Laura Bird, a
young girl, from the effects Of swal-
lowing some days before three tablets
OF bichloride of mercury with suicidal
intent.
The two cream buyers Of Pollock
paid out $3,196.50 for cream during
the month of May, or an average of
1923 a day. The cream industry is be-
coming an important one in Campbell
county.
Miss Nellie Rowe, a former Water
tow girl and a recent graduate Of the
State college at Brookings, has been
engaged by the Purdue, Indiana, uni
versity as instructor in foods and
cookery.
Mrs. Emaline Axtell, mother of O.,
B. AXtell of the Mellette Tribune. died
recently at Pepin, Wis, at the age Of
80 years. She was the mother of six
ons and six daughters, all of whom
survive her.
The fifth annual convention of group
IL of the South Dakota Bankers asso-
citation was held at Fairfax. After
the usual business and social sessions,
it was decided to hold the next con
vention at Carter.
The South Dakota Choral union and
Young Peoples association held a very
successful three day convention at
Cotton last week when they gave their
annual concert in which $50 trained
singers from all over the state partici-
pated.
In a fit of dependency Angie Nc
Cormick. at Newell, saturated her
clothes with two gallons of gasoline
and applied a match. She was SO hor-
ribly burned that death ensued in a
few hours. She was fifty years old
and unmarried.
The Great Western Marble and
Granite corporation, a new South Da-
kota corporation, has purchased the
marble and s%erpentine quarries located
about six miles northeast of Custer
The company also owns large holdings
Of granite qlarries near Memo. ano
does a wholesale business in monu
ment and building stone. with branch
establishments in several large cities
Robert, the small son Of Mr.. an6
Mrs. Victor Van Hottie Of Luverne, re
ceived several severe cuts about the
head when he was playing around 9
manure spreader and his head was
caught in the cylinder. 1t was not I'm
til the lads head became SO tight,
wedged in the revolving cylinder Sc
that the rear wheels Of the vehicle
were locked that his predicament was
discovered by the driver.
Passengers on that branch of the
Milwaukee railway line which passes
through Harrisburg have witnessed
he unusual spectacle of threshing OPP
erations being carried on in the cen
| ter of growing crops. The threshins
was done on the homestead of Count!
Commissioner Rowe Of Lincoln county
The wet season last year and the fire
quent rains during the fall months
prevented him having his threshins
lone at that time.
Mrs. r. r. Williams of Langford
while enroute home from a trip to Min
neapolis, died as the train neareC
Bristol. Mrs. Williams had beer
: in a hospital at Minneapolis, but be
lieved she had sufficiently recovered
to t home, and wired her husband
to meet her at Andover. The hus
band drove to Andover to meet thu
train, but vas shocked when the trair
arrived to find that his wife had dice
suddenly at Bristol, a few miles east
After continuing in general mer
chandise business for 80 years, N. w
Egleston has sold his business to Ber
G. Watson. In May, 1881, Mr.. Egle
ston came to Chamberlain from North
wood, La. When he reached Mitchell
he accidentally met a young man wht
was bound for Chamberlain and tn