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Newspaper
Lemmon The State Line Herald
Location
Lemmon, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
2
A garbled year end note describes visits, family news, and community happenings. Mentions Howe, Ber, and Lane family gatherings, a trip to Cottnweed C. Minn LC, and a visit by Lockhammer. References to a holiday season and local attractions, with weathered phrases about charm and magnet like scenes.
White Butte residents Axel Swanson and W. M. Hilsleth open a butcher shop and begin erecting an ice house where Swanson, Hilsleth, and Dell Gettman will seasonally store and process meat. The town also notes a Dakota Montana Telephone Co. line installation bringing a new phone service.
Threshing and plowing outfit offered at a bargain. Includes 25 hp WL Cage engine and 8x81 Case thresher plus a six 14-inch Ivy Flying Dutchman outfit. Details appear incomplete but indicate a sale of farming machinery by the owner as part of departing affairs in the region.
Ten killed and about fifty injured as Southern Railway train No 11 derailed from Reedy Fork trestle near Greensboro. Four rear cars plunged into a creek after the wreck, panic among sleeping passengers as rescue teams and prominent figures like George J. Gould and Jay Gould reached the scene with the wounded.
James J. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern, and Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, met with Inland Empire president James P. Graves to finalize Great Northern control of the Inland Empire system. The move would extend electric lines from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene Colfax and Moscow Idaho and include several miles of street railways.
One boy died and six were injured when a bobsled carrying seven boys collided with a Wabash passenger train near the railroad track in Lafayette Indiana on December 1. The sled was believed to be headed toward the crossing when the collision occurred. A prank or centoom was found in the engine pilot’s pilot area, and the sled operator was injured.
Dox Moiner Dec 16 Chicago reports a passenger train wreck at Tenley near Pantheas No 7 after derailing down a twenty foot embankment. Several persons injured, sleeper and chair car overturned. The fireman Bocoor is missing and believed buried under his engine. Train was traveling about sixty miles per hour.
In Lisbon on December 16, during the seminary revolt anniversary, a bomb was thrown at the bishop of Braganza. The prelate escaped unharmed and no significant motive was attached to the attack.
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