Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1918-1920, 1920-01-01
NAVE RICKS S
Happenings in County and State
Some items are rehashed
some given credit where cred
it is due, and some are swipod
bodily.

bodily.
/ A new fireproof, strictly mo.
dern seven story hotel is in
prospect for Rapid City in the
neear future, according to the
Guide, of that city. The project
has the backing of a number OF
/ the capitalists of that city.
! The Rapid City commissioners
have let a contract for paving q
number of blocks in the business
district of the city to a Sioux
City firm. The work, it is plan
ned, will take about three mon
tbs to complete and will cost in
the neighborhood of 5000, 900.
A. r.. Delezie, who has been a
homesteader and resident of the
i / Manila aa a Mia country for the past
eight or nine years, came in to
Fort Pierre Monday enroute to
his old home in Belgium to look
| up his folks there, expecting to
return next spring. Fort Pie
RE Times.
JOS. Rocks, one of the old time
cattle men in this section, pass
ed away at his home south of
Kadoka Tuesday morning, par
alysis being the immediate cause
of his death. Mr.. Rocks was a.
bout IA years of age and vet
eran of the civil war, having en-
listed when 15 years of age. He
was the father of 18 children, all
of whom are still living, 65
grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren. .-Belvidere Times
A cement plant, the largest
in the middle west, is in course
|of construction at Rapid City.
When completed it will give
steady employment to about FIVE
hundred men and will have q
capacity of from 1900 to 1900
barrels of cement daily. The cost
of construction will be about ST.
100000, and the machinery re-
|quired would fill train of sixty
cars. All the necessary ma
terials for producing cement are
lat hand in unlimited quantities
on the property owned by the
company.
Sometime Tuesday night the
largest elk in the buffalo pas
ture, in attempting to jump the
seven foot fence, became entan-
|gled in the wires and when found
the following day was dead, hav-
ing struggled and fought him
self to death. This animal was
one of the finest specimen of his
kind, being fourteen years old,
with immense antlers and had
grown to enormous size. He
headed the herd of fifteen which
ran with the buffalo, being" boss"
OF the pasture, the largest of the
buffalo bulls acknowledging him
as their master. Ralph Wander
cook purchased the head and
hide and will have the head
mounted and the hide made into
a rug-Fort PierreTimes.
Two men working under a
special grant from Pierre. are
digging and boring along the
river in the capital city park for
|a hidden treasure. of gold sup
posed to be buried there three
years ago by a party of men re-
turning from the placer mines
in the Northwest. They may
not find the gold but if they grub
around in the right place they
may run across several tons Of
LaFOllette literature in pham-
plet form, that was dumped
there = few years ago when, in
the course Of q night the erst-.
while and tickle followers of the
wisconsin presidential aspirantl
changed their allegiance to 81
more promising candidate and
sought to bury the evidence of
their former affiliation-and
any kind OF paper is worth lot of
money nowadays. Lots of publ.
lshers are digging for it.-Ex.