The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-08-18
NEWS OF H TAT

CnafleS M. Day recently rounded out
his thirtieth year as editor of the Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader.
DR.. Michael d. Donovan. a dentist at
Fairfax, is dead. He was overcome
by heat and became deranged.
Mrs. Sam A. Boyles, wife of County
Judge Boyles, and mother of the well
known South Dakota authors, Virgil
and Kate Boyles, has died at the Yank-
ton hospital. Two sons and two
daughters survive.
Two rattlers have been killed in
Chamberlain this 1t is very
seldom that these snakes are found on
the east side OF the river, and it is
thought that a nest of them must have
grown to maturity heal here.
The old settlers picnic at Dallas
was a success in every particular. The
crowd greatly exceeded in size the ex-
pectations of the most sanguine.
L. B. Betterman, Of Bridgewater,
thrashed 5000 bushels OF oats from a
105-acre field.
Information has reached Violin from
the home OF his daughter at Bickleton
Wash, that H. P. Violin, for whom Vo-
lin was named, sustained a stroke Of
paralysis while himself and wife and
two youngest children were visiting at
the home of his daughter.
Because they entered a freight car
in the Sioux Falls yards Of a railway
company and carried away a ease of
beer, two transients giving their
names as Frank Meyers and George
Conway face terms in the United
States penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Will Mckee was struck and killed
by lightning aoout four miles south
east of Kimball. He was pitching off
grain from a age to his father on
the stack. The lightning set Mckee's
cloths on fire, burning up the wagon,
grain and also the stack. He was 81
years old.
To be thrown suddenly into four
feet Of muddy water was the expert
ence of Howard Harper, Lawrence
Zeiske and James Reeve OF Aberdeen
when they mistook a shadow for a
bridge approach. The young men got
a good ducking but were unhurt. The
car stuck fast in the mud.
The body OF an unidentified man
with head crushed so that the face
was not recognizable. with one arm
cut of, n leg broken and gashes
all over the body, was found on the
Milwaukee tracks in the yards at
Sioux Falls. In one shoe was found
$3.50, in the other, so cents, and in a
pocket was a dime. This was all.
Robberies are almost Of daily occur
renee at Yankton among the returning
harvest hands. Four 1. w. WIS held
up two independents and robbed them
Of $35 cash and q gold watch. just east
of the city, n day. where a similar
robbery took place the night before.
An I. w. w. also robbed, was handed
back his property on his red card be-
ing found.
O. M. Lane, register Of the federal
land Office at Rapid City, S.. D., was
arrested on a warrant charging him
with having, as city auditor of Water
town, S. D., embezzled more than 3d.
900 Of municipal funds. Rapid City
authorities assert Lane confessed
when arrested, and at the same tinie
exonerated other city officials Of Wa
tertoWn.
An unusual case before Judge My
ers Of the municipal court in Water
town, was the trial of a ~13-year-old girl
on the charge of using p~rofane Ian
guage On a public street. She was
found guilty, and Judge Myers i'm.
posed a fine OF IS. The girl was
charged with using profane language
while playing with other children on
the streets.
Anxious to assist two young women
friends, Milton Kramer, OF Chamber
lain, undertook to run their automo-
bile into a Main street garage. It
happened to be a machine with which
he was not familiar, and instead OF
running ahead smoothly it commenced
to reverse and backed into the street,
jumped the curb and smashed through
two plates glass windows in 3 furni-
ture store. The obliging young man
escaped without a scratch.
It took four days and nights OF con-
linuous travel for the Fourth regi-
ment, South Dakota national guard. to
reach its destination near San Benito.
Tex.
Camp Tepeetonka at Sioux Falls 10
closed for the season OF 1916. The
boys camp or the banks OF the Sioux
near West Sioux Falls which during
the last four weeks has been the ten.
porary home Of some 100 real live
American boys in age ranging from six
to Is years, was brought to q success
full close with &c immense camp Are
and IN Ice rea feed.