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Newspaper
Journal World Spirit
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
2
A lively mixture features continuous vaudeville and baseball with humorous crossovers in Huron. The piece blends slapstick and sport, drawing a crowd as Sheriff Young retrieves a burglar amid a sprawling local incident sequence. Officials from lampposts to courts converge in a public melodrama.
Treasury Department announces through a local newspaper an invitation to submit proposals for sale or conveyance of a suitable corner for a federal building. The notice provides site dimensions and general requirements to allow proper proposal preparation. Offers are opened in Washington at the time stated in the advertisement.
The Blackburnian literary society presented The Queen of Fame Friday night at the college auditorium. It was a benefit for the Cascade fund of the Y W C A with door receipts boosting the proceeds. The program and cast followed.
Philomathian literary society held an open meeting at the college Monday night. The program included a viol quartet essays and readings by Gladys Rae Nellie Pyle May Pyle and Hunt and Hudson. Howard Smith and William Smith delivered a study and an extemporaneous speech respectively.
A Wausau pastor, once a standout college baseball player, announces a sermon series with topics drawn from the sport. He lists Batter up, A Base on Balls, Three Balls and Two Strikes, Struck Out, A Safe Hit, and An Earned Run as subjects, promising hot liners and no long files to draw baseball fans to worship.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference the former occupier Eaver and Lapier in the Kelley building. No further details are readable.
A 21 year old sheepman Thomas Foley died after a 100 mile trek from Deep Creek to Whitewood to reach a doctor. Foley, who hunted wolves to fund college aims, was accidentally shot during a wolf hunt. The wound proved not dire yet he perished from exhaustion and blood loss before medical help arrived.
Alderman E G Anderson of Aberdeen was acquitted by a circuit court jury of complicity in stealing a carload of coal from the Milwaukee railroad. The employee witness led to the charge. Anderson was arrested in Minneapolis and urged not guilty but bound over to the circuit court.
Samples from the Bad Lands in Western South Dakota were sent East for testing and declared perfect for cement. A company formed at Interior in Southern Stanley County plans to develop cement manufacture, potentially transforming the region once deemed worthless into a valuable area outside the gold mines.
Widespread discussion in local press shows demand for more school rooms in many towns. The central issue is raising funds to provide needed facilities, with consensus that money must be secured by some means.
Judge Jones, after advisement, grants a new trial for Henry Hendrickson of Trent in Moody County. Hendrickson, a prominent businessman, was convicted of manslaughter in the killing of Harvey A. Bradfield, a Trent drug clerk, during Halloween night. Attorneys filed the motion citing errors.
State auditor reports final proofs show about 1,250,000 acres of new land added to the tax rolls this year, boosting real estate assessments by more than $3,000,000. Land districts list Pierre 1,853 Chamberlain 2,869 Aberdeen 590 Rapid City 1,352 Mitchell 1,036.
Fred Mohr of Tama drowned in Sulphur creek five miles north of Tama while crossing with a wagon. Unable to cross the stream he left the wagon, rode a saddled horse, and was swept downstream where he drowned. The horse escaped. Mohr was thirty years old.
Rapid City board of railway commissioners agreed to reduce freight rates west of the Missouri river with a new tariff to be published soon. Shippers had long argued that western rates were about 150 percent higher than eastern ones. Hutchinson county farmers formed the Hutchinson County Agricultural Fair association and plan a 20 acre racecourse and fair grounds near Tripp.
Wool shearing progresses in western state ranches while markets lag. Buyers visit the area but prices offered fall short of recent years, and little wool has been placed on the market.
Minnehaha county Old Settlers association directors fix July 4 for the annual picnic and celebration in Sioux Falls. Estimated attendance is not less than 15,000 people.
A raft capsized in Splint Rock Creek near Six Falls leaving Leonard Anderson aged seventeen and Otto Anderson aged twelve dead. They are sons of George Anderson of Sioux Falls. The disaster occurred during a flood rescue attempt.
George Wagner a well digger working on a Tolstoy town well was overcome by gas while descending the shaft and died after being brought to the surface. He had earlier descended into the same well several times that day without incident.
John Fredericks reports an anthrax outbreak among his cattle six miles north of Sturgis. State veterinarian J. P. Foster has been notified of the situation.
Effective May 25 The Chicago and North Western and the P R C and N W add one daily train each way between Pierre and Rapid City with Pullman sleeping cars between Huron and Rapid City. Westbound train 503 from Huron departs 9 20 p m daily except Sunday. Pierre 1 10 a m daily except Monday. Rapid City arrival 7 38 a m daily except Monday. Eastbound train 502 from Rapid City departs 8 38 daily except Saturday. Huron arrival 3 00 a m. Trains 601 and 504 west of Huron keep current schedule. A Deadwood to Twin Cities Pullman service will run: Huron 8 55 p m to Saint Paul 7 30 a m Minneapolis 8 05 a m. Saint Paul 8 00 p m. Huron arrival 7 35 a m. For tickets see The North Western Line agents.
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