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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
4
A collage of town chatter covers rats in Sisseton, a wedding of Postmaster Kennedy, a geography quarrel, Circus day mishaps, a new baby, and jokes about Missouri. The piece blends light gossip with community notes and humorous asides from the STANDARD office.
Sisseton area notes report Lindquist brothers drilling at Diamond near Lake Traverse struck water at 135 feet. A flow developed after casing failure, creating a pool sized creek estimated at 35 000 gallons daily. Local visits and town happenings fill the rest of the column with social chatter and light news.
White Rock residents returned from a fishing trip at Ortonville with several trophies as signs of skill. Three blocks of cement walks are finished and another block on Highland avenue is underway. Private walks multiply as cement workers finish Main Street, carpenters prepare creamery windows and frames, and a well reaches 126 feet with expected water within five feet. Inundation work will start soon and the creamery rushed toward completion.
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