The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-08-31
SOUTH DAKOTA BRIEFS.

Inc society circus given at huron
was largely attended and is described
as the hit Of the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Davis Of Brook
ings have already sold 700 White Leg.
horn chickens this season, and have
1000 left.
James G. Lommen has been elected
coach at Dakota Wesleyan university
at Mitchell. He is a graduate Of the
University. Of Indiana.
Miss Elizabeth Foelker Of Keokuk.
Ia, has been elected secretary OF The
Brookings and State College Y. w.
c. A., to succeeded Miss Kidd. re.
signed.
Alan Bogue, Jr., prominent attorney
of Centerville, has removed his family
to Sioux Falls, but will continue to
practice law in Centerville until next
spring at least.
Roy Tapp, the ~10-year-old Aberdeen
boy who recently ran away from home,
was located at Mclaughlin, about 200
miles west of Aberdeen, where he had
IOuHu d JoD on d AdIm.
Since the completion, on July 81, of
the $500 900 endowment fund for HUI
ron college it is found that but twelve
colleges in the United States, west
of the Mississippi river, have a larger
endowment fund than the Huron in.
stitution.
Jesse Weese, a 10-year-old Huron
boy, died as the result Of a gunshot
wound. The boy was driving a hay
rake, and carried a loaded shotgun on
the rake with him. The weapon was
accidentally discharged, infiicting the
fatal wound.
Conductor Tilton of the Milwaukee
road, reported to have been killed at
Mitchell, arrived at Yankton to deny
the rumor. AT the time he was alleged
to have been killed in a railroad acct.
dent, he was fishing in the Jim, twelve
miles from Mitchell.
The farmers of Turner county are
holding meetings and pushing the prop.
osition of appointing a county man.
ager, a new officer provided by the
last session of the legislature for those
counties desiring to take advantage OF
the Smith-Lever act.
Kicked from a rapidly moving train
by men whom he believes to be I. w.
WIS, William Lehyn arrived in Madi.
son with three broken ribs and suffer
ing from otter injuries. Lehyn said
he lay beside the railroad track, un-
conscious, nearly throughout the night.
The Highmore Christian and Congre-
gational congregations have united to
form a union church. But one pastor
will be employed by the united con-
gregation, and he is expected to preach
sermons free from denominationalism.
Each church society will maintain its
separate organization so far as aid
societies, benevolences, ETC., are con-
cerned. The minister who will be en-
ployed by the united organization will
hold services in the Christian church
for the first year, under its new plan.
The Methodists were invited to join
the union, but declined on the ground
that their conference rules prohibited
such an amalgamation. 2
When two travellers, claiming to sell
a wonderful cleansing powder, arrived
in Salem by automobile they did a
thriving business-so thriving that
they ran out OF the compound, accord
ing to the Salem papers. Then they
went to a lumber yard and bought a
sack Of cement, which they divided
into pint measures, and continued to
sell the wonderful cleanser at so cents
a pint.
Good progress is being made at
Brookings in the formation OF the new
militia company for the new Fifth
South Dakota regiment.