Reception at Parsonage Highlights a New Home
A Congregational church reception showcased the new parsonage built for Pastor and Mrs. Mair. Guests toured the house from garret to cellar while musical offerings by Hitchcock Crow Branson Powers and others delighted attendees. A later Young People reception featured music, refreshments, and a story-telling social hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mair
Garret
H.-E. Hitchcock
J. N. Crow
Genevieve Branson
Miss Butler
George A. Silsby
W. M. Mair
Congregational
Helen Powers
Myrtle Craft
Dorothy Young
J. L. Morgan
Ruth Turney
Round Table elects officers at Monday meeting
At the Round Table, the annual officer election was held with Mrs. Belle Butterfield elected president and Mrs. Alice Wood vice president. Other posts went to Mrs. Alice Milne, Mrs. Clare Davison, Mrs. Blanch C. Boyce, and Mrs. Anna Thompson as corresponding secretary, recording secretary, treasurer, historian respectively.
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Noble Grands Association
Nels Jensen
Fourth Avenue West
Edmunds Street
Rebekah
Mrs. Jensen
Round Table
Gresident
Belle Butterfield
Alice Wood
Alice Milne
Clare Davison
Blanch C. Boyce
Anna Thompson
Four Night Fires Around Kennebec
Four barns and numerous livestock losses occurred over the past month near Kennebec South Carolina in fires suspected to be incendiary. Notable blazes include C Mc Cue's farm eight miles southeast with eight horses and equipment losses, and H Kurth's farm seven miles northeast with four horses three cows and forty chickens. Farmers guard stock at night as fires strike while families sleep.
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Kennebec
S. C
C. McCue
Here
H. Kurth
Reform Element Wins in Deadwood and Across South Dakota
Deadwood voters oust longtime alderman John Treber, installing Frank De Mouth in the Fourth ward as reformers gain control of the council. In Spearfish, dry candidates win mayor and two of three aldermen, while Whitewood backs license reform shows women campaigning against alcohol. Lead adopts a commission form of government with multiple new aldermen. Kadoka votes wet, defeating saloon opposition 46 to 16, and Kennebec also votes wet with all current aldermen reelected and Henry Bradley again mayor.
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Deadwood
Treber
Spearfish
J. F. Summers
James Pike
Whitewood
S. D
John H. Rogers
John Walsh
Thomas E. Harvey
Herbert E. Dewey
Rogers
Walsh
Damon H. Clark
John R. Curnow
M. C. Campbell
George Morthland
Herman F. Scheicke
A. J. Johnson
Fred Harris
Kadoka
Gamble Objects to Parker Postmistress Nomination
Washington D C Senator R J Gamble expressed amazement at President Taft s nomination of Carrie M Hackett wife of Charles F Hackett to be Parker South Dakota postmistress The nomination follows a prior rejection of Hackett s nomination and Gamble calls Hackett personally obnoxious He plans to oppose the new nomination, with representatives Burke and Martin having supported the choice.
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Carrie M. Hackett
Parker, S. D
Hackett
Parker
Senate
Gamble
Burke
Martin
Senator Gamble
Parker Post
Webster and Day county plan Separation Day celebration
The Scandinavians of Webster South Dakota and Day County organize a June 7 event to commemorate the historical separation of two nations. Committees cover programs in English Swedish and Norwegian with music sports and speeches. The northeastern region is the target area and organizers anticipate a large turnout with further details to follow.
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Webster
S. D
Day County
South Dakota
Huron Placed Urgency on Huron and Southern Railroad
The Commercial Club of Huron received a Chamberlain business plea to back a railroad link called the Huron and Southern. A survey last summer funded mainly by Chamberlain, seeks a ten mile right of way from Huron. A committee was appointed at a Commercial Club meeting to study the proposal.
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Chamberlain
Commercial Club
Huron
Huron and Southern
Boy
Accident claim in Beadle county South Dakota as 13 year old Alexander Gunn of Rose Hill township is shot by a .22 rifle. He walked home after the wound and died at 3 30 pm. Funeral services were held at Rose Hill church yesterday.
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Huron
S. D
Alexander Gunn
Finley Gunn
Rose Hill Township
Beadle County
Rose Hill Church
Yankton Sioux to Attend Dakota Jubilee in Yankton
A deal with Eugene Bruno Thunder Horse and Can-ke-de-ska brings a large Yankton Sioux party to Yankton during June 11 week. They will camp there and display old time war apparatus as a main attraction at the Dakota jubilee.
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Yankton
S. D
Eugene Bruno
Thunder Hourse
Can-ke-de-ska
Ballinger Aide Frank Pierce Resigns in Washington
Frank Pierce first assistant to the secretary of the interior department resigned today and asked to be relieved within thirty days. He served under Ballinger and supported the charges against the former secretary in the ongoing dispute.
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Washington, D. C
Frank Pierce
Secretary of the Interior Department
Ballinger
Mitchell in League May Bring Paid Team to State
Promoters in Mitchell completed fundraising by 6 o’clock Thursday to join the bush league. Otto Faull departed for Iowa to recruit players while Walter Nolt plans grounds prep for practice ahead of a May 20 season start. At a Huron meeting managers voted unanimously against recognizing Sunday baseball in the state.
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Bush League
Redfield
Michell
Mitchell
Huron
Otto Faull
Milwaukee
Iowa
Walter Nolt
State Druggists Meet Planned for August Convention
Huron South Dakota hosts state Pharmaceutical association officers in talks with local secretary for a major August convention. Present were Kreibs of Beresford, Bent of Des Rapids, Feytman of St Paul Travelers Aux, and Keith of Lake Preston Mutual Insurance. They predict the meeting will be the biggest and best ever held in the state.
South Dakota Supreme Court Admits New Lawyers
Pierre 8 D The supreme court today admitted on their examination papers at the beginning of the present term Henry F Bartlet Archie C Talboy Roscoe Satterlee Frank B Morgan Robert F Romain William D Bucholz.
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New South Dakota
Pierre
Supreme Court
Henry F. Bartlet
Archie C. Talboy
Roscoe Satterlee
Frank B. Morgan
Robert F. Romain
William D. Bucholz
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RE. D. Leehan
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Dakota Bridge Whist Club
Thomas Morgans
Fifth Avenue West
John Sibert
BE. A. Smith
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C. W. Downey
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W. M. Herbert
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Second Ave. East
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F. A. White
C. W. Leakly
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Minneapolis
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H. D. Butterfield
Reform Element
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