The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-08-04
STATE HAPPENINGS.

Tuesday, August s, has been fixed as
the time for the annual picnic and Gel.
ebration of the old settlers of Gregory
county, which will be held in Dallas.
The highest price ever paid for Rose.
bud hogs on the Omaha market was
received by Ernest j Willis recently,
when that man received $9.S7R for a
shipment.
As the result of a mass meeting Of
New Ellington business men and lead
ing farmers Of hal territory. a good
roads club was organized, with a good
charter membership.
Since the new enlarged homestead
act went into effeffct many filings
have been made on Mellette county
lands recently and chances are there
will be no vacant land in the neal
future.
Minneapolis daily newspapers have
been giving considerable space to the
attack made upon Archibald e Priest
the former Sioux Falls resident who
had his skull fractured by a blackjack
in the hands of a drunken ST. Paul de.
iectiye.
From all sections of Gregory and
Trip counties come reports that the
1916 crops Of small grain will be the
best ever raised in the history of this
new country. Corn as it looks now
will be equally as good and the feeling
1n1ono fo rp-nrS ond h,1einnor MON se
unusually optimistic.
While out walking one evening
County Auditor c. w. kerlin CT Mel.
lette county was bitten by a rattle.
snake. The snake ratified and struck
At the same moment. The wound was
Immediately cut open and corded
above and with prompt medical aid
10 serious results developed.
Charles Anderson, who for the past
20 years has been connected with the
Veblen p%ostoffice, has rendered his
resignation and will retire as soon as
his successor. qualities and
the duties of the place. In point Of
service Mr. Anderson is one of the
oiuSoI .PooNlAldolSAo III SOuLI DdkOld.
John Olson, o Of o. N. Olson, who
lives north of Dallas, was severely in.
jured by a team hitched to a binder
and which became unmanageable.
Young Olson stepped in front of the
team and was thrown to the ground
and trampled upon by the frightened
animals, the binder afterwards passing
over his body. He sustained a com.
pound fracture Of the left leg and was
injured internally, narrowly escaping
death.
To deliberately and coolly wander
from their grandparents home at
Bonesteel, and to spend a might out"
vas the plan and procedure of the
three small Potter boys, aged( 8 and
10 years, respectively. They kalked
late at night to Fairfax, and spent the
night at a farm home at the edge Of
town. The e morning the local au.
thorities found them, and the grand
father came to take them home. They
were r to boy instinct, as each boy
blamed one Of the others for having
the cScapade.
Shock aid grief caused by the sud
den death of his wife, who was burned
to death when the kitchen range ex-
ploded, led Nick Schon, a farmer re-
siding a mile and a half from Ellen
dale, to attempt to take his life. The
knife was dull and he will live.
Fred Wright and e. w. Beyerle OF
Dimock, while engaged in painting a
grain elevator, we're precipitated to
the ground 80 feet below when the
platform on which they were working
broke in the middle, both sustaining
serious injuries and having a narrow
escape from death.