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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
3
A German chemist’s method to fix nitrogen with calcium cyanamide offers a low cost route to fertilizer, potentially ending Chile’s saltpeter monopoly. Other notes cover rising road accident figures in England, university counts in Europe and the U.S., sheep shearings in New South Wales, and varied scientific tidbits on milk ozone purification and nicotine removal from tobacco.
A basement fire at a Sioux Falls hospital, a frame building, forced the evacuation of patients amid a northeast gale and snow. Firemen and citizens aided, all patients were moved to safety and none harmed. flames were stopped before major damage.
A fire damaged the new dormitory at the Northern Normal and Industrial school in Aberdeen, causing about 5000 dollars in damage to a center first floor area and basement. The origin is a deep mystery as the building was nearly finished and to be turned over next Wednesday. Nearby events include Robert Kirk traveling from Springfield to take possession next week and the marriage of Miss Dora Tills to Lieutenant Leon S. Richmond at the Christian church with a wedding tour planned east.
Aberdeen reports the twenty first annual South Dakota Educational Association meeting concluded last night in Deadwood with a close contest against Sioux Falls. The next gathering will be in Deadwood this summer. Helen M. Bennett of Deadwood was named corresponding secretary as departments merged. M. Hill of Brookings was elected president and G B Cobb of Hoy Springs secretary. Randolph of Roberts County led the county superintendent group as president and Sulvie Halvernon of Day County as secretary. In the common and graded schools, Professor Jones of Lincoln was president and Miss Gertrude Van Eijk of Aberdeen secretary. A reception for visitors closed the event at the Northern Normal and Industrial School. During the meeting educators formed the Northern South Dakota Educational Association, with President W Johnson of Aberdeen, Secretary A S Hoy of Redfield, and Treasurer Miss Alice Halverson of Webster. The association will meet in Redfield May 6 and 7 to adopt a constitution and deliver a program. This is the third sectional auxiliary to the state association.
A Watertown family reunion on January 4 marks an extraordinary five generation gathering. Muza, Walter Mapes hosted the event, bringing together a great grandmother, grandmother, mother, daughter, granddaughter, and great grandson from the Mapes and Richardton lines. Represented were Mrs. Nancy Richardton of Rochester Minnesota. Mrs. Walter Mapes and Mrs. M. F. Wait of Watertown. Mrs. Tack McCormick and Lyle McCormick of Watertown, highlighting four wives, four mothers, three grandmothers, two great granddaughters, and a great great granddaughter in attendance.
Fire at the Mandgame new Elks club building on Ninth street in Sioux Falls began in the basement about 1:00 PM and caused about 7000 in damage. Taylor Furniture on the first floor and basement suffered 6400 in losses, Elks club furniture damaged by smoke on the second and third floors about 100. Fire contained by 2:30 PM. origin unknown.
Mrs P F McClure of Pierre shipped fifty head of thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle to Beresford where the stock sold from 60 to 200 dollars each. It marks the first fifty head sale of full blood Shorthorns in the state and boosts support for full blood cattle breeding across South Dakota. Mrs McClure is noted as the leading Shorthorn breeder in the state.
Professor Rt. B. McClenon of Huron College is elected president of the South Dakota Educational Association at its twentieth annual meeting in Aberdeen. A Scot-Irish-heritage scholar aged about 52, he studied at Walton academy Williams College and Beloit College, and has held posts from Sioux Falls High School to the Huron college normal department. His acclamation marks the first time a sectarian college graduate leads the association.
Aberdeen June 5 South Dakota Educational association adopted resolutions urging centralization to improve rural schools seeking uniform high school courses and extending county superintendent terms while backing aid for officials. It favored maintaining athletic contests under strong oversight and praised State Superintendent Nash and President Strachan. About 400 teachers attended.
A notice from A W Tucker president of the State Firemen’s Association declares the annual meeting will be at the Rudolph hotel in Canton on January 29. Key business includes deciding where to locate an annual two year tournament and selecting a suitable host city based on the association’s interests. Secretary E G Rent of the State Pharmaceutical Association issues a notice for a meeting of the State Examining Board to consider applications for admission to the rank of pharmacist in the state.
Washington has released a special message detailing U S relations to the Panama revolution. It notes Congress authorized a canal across the Isthmus of Panama and asserts the United States could not go to Nicaragua after Panama’s independence, defending actions as in line with a traditional policy and Hay Pauncefote treaty guarantees.
A Lake City man contends he is the brother of a deceased California man, seeking a share of an estate valued at about 142000 dollars. The affair involves a string of kin and associates across New York and Los Angeles, with allegations of counterfeiting and a motorboat operation fading from the record as the case unfolds.
A missing infant case ends with discovery in cold conditions. Authorities report that a mother and a nurse are involved in the abandonment, with investigations ongoing into the circumstances and locations connected to the infant’s disappearance.
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