The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-04-28
NE rs OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Newspaper Union News Service

Robbers broke into James Fitzger
AIDS drug store at Miller and tool a
number Of valuable articles.
Reuben Snyder, aged IS, a man Of
family of Miller, ended his life by
shooting himself in the head.
Claire City Will have a new school
house this season. Preliminary ar
~rangements, including the voting OF
bonds, have been made.
The town Of Java has voted bonds
for the erection of a municipal fight
ing plant. and will boost for early com
mencement of work on same.
Mr. w, w. Westbrook, better
known as Mother Handy, who claimed
to be 100 years old. but is believed to
week.
As the result of a meeting held in
Parker it was arranged that the town
Should be represented in the baseball
field This season by a semi.profession.
al team.
Tie Gray Construction company of
WatertoWn has beer awarded the con
tract for the construction OF the new
CLARK high school building, the con.
tract price being s25, 999.
The financial statement, issued by
the poStOftice at Huron for the iiscai
year ending March 81, shows an in.
crease Of $2,421. so. o + s per cent Of the
total of last years business.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the Southern Corn Belt Trac
tor company, at Sioux Falls. Capital
Sl0e coo. lncorporators, George II
Hazen, Ralph Johnson. J.. p. Hoffman
Lester Harbert. a resident OF Han
son county, has been held for trial in
the state circuit court on the charge
of cattle stealing. There is a rumor
that others We're implicated.
Farmers Of Brule county in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Chamberlain es
pecially, are feeding a good supply OF
cattle, according To John H. Peterson
Feeding conditions in that vicinity are
favorable and there is quite a lot Of
STOCK being made ready for market.
a representative Of tie insurance
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thoroughly inspecting the business
BUILDINGS Of Summit, Tile water supply
ana the towns Giro fighting apparatus
announced THAT Ae would Recommend
tO fle bureau L lower tate of insurance
On summit fire risks
Two more bad prairie fires burned
in eastern Suliy county last week
both being driven by high winds, anC
while no buildings are reported to
have burned, a large amount Of grass
Was burned over Fires ave beer
more prevalent on the east side of the
river this spring than for many years
Former House Speaker J.. N. Law
son of Aberdeen spoke 10 a large audi
ence at the auditorium in Pierre in ia
vor of statewide prohibition. His ad
dress was preceded by a parade ir
which the children of the various
Sunday schools carrying flags. and the
w. G. T. I and church and temper
ance workers of the city participated
j. r. Dodge Of Washington. %. c..
has arrived III Perkins county to as
sist in carrying out the county systems
Of highways ~inaugurated by the COUNTY,
commissioners. Dodge Is a road en-
gineer who Is sent out by the good
roads bureau OF the department o.
agriculture. and his presence assuref
the construction of a county system
OF highways on a scientific basis.
The Ease of T.. A. Syverson, former
president of the bank Of Bancroft. who
was convicted of Irregularities in con
nection with the failure of the bank
has been appealed to the state su
preme court by the defendant. While
other cases are pending against him
none of them will be tried until the
supreme our renders a decision il
the case which has just been appealed
The case of T.. A. Syverson, former
president of the bank of Bancroft. who
was convicted Of Irregularities in con
nection with the failure of tie bank
has been appealed to the state su
preem court by the defendant. While
other cases are pending against him
none of them will be tried until the
supreme court renders a decision ir
the case which has iusf been appealed.
Matthias Shoup Of Highmore. While
hitching up a team was kicked by one
Of the horses and killed. lie was il
his I'D year. He was a pioneer ir
Hyde county and settled there in April
1882. There is only one person Whc
has been there longer than Mr.. Shoup
His brother came from Memo. Mo, and
took the body back to the old home fol
burial. Mr.. Shoup was never married.
He was respected by all who knew him.
He had made his home With w. L.
Thompson. county treasurer, for eigh
teen years.
Fred Bronson, a workman With the
Haviland we'll drilling crew, was as,
phyXiated by gas While at The BORON
OF a we'll the company was drilling
near Garden City. Bronson. after be
ing lowered down the we'll by fellow
workmen, called out there was gas in
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