The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-03-03
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Sunday, March 5, was fixed as the
time for the dedication OF the
Methodist church building completed
at Villas.
The business men Of Estelline have
organized a stock company and will
establish a cooperative creamery in
the town.
A band has been organized at Get
tysburg and Frank Neuherz Of Aber-
deem has been engaged as instructor
for a period of n year.
The fifth annual high school bas.
ketball tournament is to be held in
Huron on March II and Is under the
auspices of Huron college.
Representative Candy has obtained
a favorable report from the house
committee on interstate m on
his Chamberlain bridge bill.
Democrats of the state met In Mitch
ell February % in mass conference in
response to a call by the state chair
man. DR.. H. j.. Rock, Of Aberdeen.
The Centerville businessmen have
organized a stock company for the
purpose of providing Centerville with
a public park and baseball grounds.
At a meeting Of the central electric
station managers of this state at Sioux
Falls the initiatory steps were taken
toward the formation of the South Da-
kota Electrical association.
The Dupree Odd Fellows lodge has
just celebrated it's second anniver-
sary with a big ball. The lodge has
shown a remarkable increase in men,
bership during the past year.
Fire destroyed the opera house, a
jewelry and hardware store and other
small buildings in the business sec
ton of Hooker. Most of the property
was owned by Charles Hartsough.
The loss is about $4,000.
Perry F. Loucks, of Watertown. has
purchased v e ten quarter sections
of Faux county land within the past
year, his latest investment being 500
acres Of the P. H. O'Neill ranch six
miles west OF Faulkton.
The annual convention of the South
AQhold lLlhS l. Uc uClu III IluIOIl VII
Wednesday and Thursday, June 7 and
8. and Huron lodge No. 444 is max
ing preparations for elaborate enter.
tainment for the visitors.
At a special election held at Alpena
the voters authorized the issuance
bonds for the erection If a new pub.
lie school building. Only eleven votes
were cast against the proposition. The
structure will be erected this spring.
A Boy Scout organization is being
formed at Corona and will start out
with a good charter membership. Rev.
J. s. Franklin, pastor of one of the
local churches, Is rendering valuable
assistance in organizing the patrol.
A short time after the schoolboy
janitor had started the fire in school
district No. 80, in Turner county, and
had returned to his home nearby,
the school house "a discovered to be
in flames, and it burned to the ground.
Friends Of Freeman college, a com.
comparatively new educational institu-
ton in Freeman, have decided to raise
an endowment fund of $50, 900 for the
institution, and the work of raising
the money will be commenced at once.
The board Of commissioners of Au.
rora county has purchased several
pieces Of rOadmaking machinery, and
during the coming season many miles
to public highway t~hronehort the
county will be placed in first class
condition.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of William FentOn, a Canova
man, who has not Deer seen for a
week. No trace Of him can be found
by relatives, who since his disappear.
ance have been conducting a search
for him.
The business men OF Stickney and
Corsica have become somewhat eycit-
ed because a new town is to come into
existence at a point on the Milwau-
kee railway between the two towns,
n may cut into the trade territory
of both towns.
When last heard of headed for the
Dakotas and thought to be near Alb.
erdeen, Walter M. Owens, aged IS,
is wanted at his home in Rome, Ga.
A letter has been received by Chief
OF Police G. w. Hurst, of Aberdeen,
from the sister of Walter Owens. who
asks information about him on be-
half Of his broken-hearted mother.
After several weeks Of wrangling
and discussion between the board OF
education and the adjusters for the
insurance companies which carried
the $12.0 900 insurance policies on the
Madison high school recently destroy
ed by fire, a settlement of $16,4 400 has
been made and accepted. This allows
$14,4O0 on the building and $4,000 on
the equipment.
Warren Hothum. of Armour. an en-
ploye Of the South Dakota Light and
Power company, while working on the
line at Parkston touched a live wire
and fell from the top Of the pole, a
distance OF about thirty feet. He was