The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-02-18
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA


1867, coming as a young man from AL
bion, Wis.
Arrangements are being made
whereby Eureka will be provided with
an electric light system, something the
town has wanted for years.
The directors Of the cooperative
company which conducts a creamery
in Clark, are perfecting plans to re-
organize and form a new company
with a capital of SIS, 900.
1t has been established by residents
Of Howard that Harry Dean, an al.
legged bandit under arrest for the rob-
berry of the st. Paul postoffce, was
not formerly a resident of Howard, as
had been reported in some quarters.
The government has announced a
civil service examination to be held
in Aberdeen on February "a from the
results of which applicants will be
taken to fill positions as stenographers
and typewriters for the government.
In the term of municipal court just
closed at Mitchell, DR.. r. F. Dundas
of Mitchell was twice on trial before
a jury on charges of illegally writing
prescriptions for liquor. In both
cases the jurors, after remaining out
all night, failed to agree.
The people of Armour and the towns
west of there were deprived Of their
mail facilities one day, owing to a
wreck on the c., M. & st. P. railroad
about half way between Armour and
belmont. An eastbound freight left
the track owing to spreading rails
and not until the next day was the
wreckage cleared to allow the trains
to pass. Fortunately, no one was in.
jured by the accident.
An Alexandria thief is ahead a per-
fectly good set of false teeth. DR..
Stuart, an Alexandria dentist, finished
the set for an out-of-town patron too
late to get them in the postoffice be-
fore it closed for the night. So he
wrapped them up in a neat package
and, with a note addressed to the post
office clerk, placed them in the open.
ing of the letter box, where the clerk
would be ure to see them. But m
n else saw them before the clerk
did, and the mex morning they were
missing.
Fred Krell, proprietor of a White
Lake meat market, had an interesting
experience with a burglar. After a
dance Krell decided to go to his place
of business for a lunch. While sitting
in his place of business he heard
someine enter the back door. Soon a
strange man appeared in that part OF
the building where Krell was sitting.
Discovering Krell, the burglar seized a
huge steak knife from a block, and
waving it in a threatening manner
backed out of the place and made his
escape, threatening to cut Krell to
pieces If he attempted to capture him.
The jury in the case of the state VS..
Wesley Keith, a school teacher whose
district is near Madison, after being
out less thar an hour returned a YER
dict in favor OF the defendant, hold
Ing that he was not guilty of the
charge Of having struck one of his boy
pupils a number of times in the face
with his fist. Mr.. Keith admitted
striking the pupil once with his first,
but said the blow was not delivered
until after the boy had struck him in
the face. The case attracted wide at
tention in that vicinity, being the first
in years in which a school teacher was
charged with assault and battery on
a pupil.
Miss Ruth Browning, daughter of
Mr. ond Mrc I VIZ - xrp ~ ~ &c Iyro.i~
ings, had a narrow escape from be-
ing burned to death by fire resulting
from friction setting fire to gasoline.
She was cleaning a muff with gasoline,
and in some ann friction caused
the fumes of the gasoline in the room
to ignite. In an instant the room was
a mass Of flames. Her screams brought
her mother and brother to her assist
ance, and after a hard fight the fire
was extinguished. Miss Browning
owes her life to the fact that she was
wearing a heavy wooden coat, which
gave her some protection from the
flames. Her hair vas badly burned
and she sustained several severe
burns on the arms and face.
Gov. Byrne's seed corn proclama-
ton, asking the week beginning Feb.
ruary 81, to be known as seed corn
week, to remind farmers that they
must this year give careful attention
to the seed corn planted for the COM
ing summer, has been received very
heartily here. by legislative members.
Because last year so much of the corn
crop did not mature and consequently
the seed offered this spring may be
often faulty, every effort is urged this
year to fully test all seed planted. It
seems that central South Dakota pro-
duced the best seed corn found any
where for a radius all about South Da-
kota. and immigration Commissioner
McCanree sent out a circular some
time ago asking for reports from farm.
ers who had good seed corn to sell to
their less fortunate citizens of South
Dakota, and his responses were indi.
cative OF a good supply for our needs