Proceedings of Beadle County Board 1903 session
County commissioners met in regular session with new members sworn in. John H. Miller named chairman pro tem and elected chairman for 1903. Bonds for county officials approved and filed. Numerous salaries, fines, and expenses audited including jail supplies, poor farm, and court house repairs. Committees named and insurrectionary actions approved for the year.
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Board of County Commissioners
Thos. Tyrrell
John H. Miller
A. B. Barnes
F. B. Gray
C. H. Ray
Geo. Kerr
Fliss
Volga Tribune
C. F. Koepp
J.S. Harding
Henry Schaller
R. Ramsell
Plankinton Reform School
Geo
W. Brown
Iee
Wm. Tolmie
Court House
Educator School — Co
M. H. Hill
Geo. E. Mahaffy
P. H. Dunning Drug Co
Mrs. Cook
Quarentine
Holland Wheeler
Brown & Saenger
State Publishing Co
Shaw & Madsen
H.D. Warren
Frank Brows
L. A. Melum
T. Reatley
H. J. Ward
J. N. Machen
Prbsedteeks S Cts
Car
Miller and
E. N. Fulton
Earnest Ried
Huron
S. D
Poor Farm
Huronite
Wessington Times
Hitchcock News
Yeas
Miller
County Justice Court
Tekan Casal Cas of
Clemmmndiomens
Insani
Board of Health
Ant— Beadle
Chroat
Hino
Justice Court
Forwa
Otal i
Mons
Saas
Audiac
Beadle County Receipts and Disbursements Quarter Ending 1902
Auditor and treasurer detailed exhibits show funds in the treasury for Beadle County as of December 31 1902 and indicate where deposits were held. The report lists receipts and disbursements with amounts attributed to various funds and accounts.
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Come
Dakota
Beadle County
F. A. Munson
H. J. Warp
County of
Beadle
Eee County Institute
Huron
General
Illages
Cavour
Standard Vings Bank
Eee
Bae Eee
Bank of Wessington
State
Laura Dakota
Haffy
Mae
Mahaffy
H. J
Lakews
County Board Proceedings Approve Reports and Salaries
The county board moves to approve the justice report for the quarter ending December 31, 1902 and allows listed fees including publishing proceedings for Blake and Wisener. It authorizes forgone visits to Beadie county schools, fixes Dr. Wood as county physician at $200 for 1903, sets salaries for county officers, approves cyclone insurance on the courthouse, and adjourns sine die.
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Justice
R. B. Brockway
C.A. Blake
Haron Board of Health
J. H. Wisener
M. L. Tobin
F. M. Brown
Sontag
Coal Court House
E. W. Howard
Chas. Longstaff
Asher F. Pay
Geo. E. Mahaffy
Salary County Treas
J. L. Foxton
Geo. Brown
Sie
Dean
D.C. Heath & Ge
Huron Board Approves Treasurer’s Accounts and Fees
The Huron board completed the examination of treasurer accounts for the six months ending December 31, 1902, approved the statement, and ordered it filed. Also approved are detailed fees for H A Van Dalsem, Geo Kerr, Frank Bloodgood, L E Bloodgood, John Dobson, Henry Henson, A J Hamilton, B Coomer, T W Thompson, A S Hard, M S Hard and others totaling multiple entries.
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H. A. van Dalsem
Geo. Kerr
Frank Bloodgood
L. E. Bloodgood
Rod John Dobson
Henry Henson
A. J. Hamilton
B. Coomer
Thompson
A.S. Hard
M.S. Hard
Mayor Rose Secures Ten Thousand Tons Coal for Milwaukee
Chicago reports Milwaukee's Mayor Rose returned from Toronto claiming 10 000 tons of Welsh anthracite coal secured for Milwaukee. The first cargo left Cardiff and should reach St Johns in a week, with delivery to Milwaukee by February 10 at nine dollars per ton.
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Chicago
Rose
Toronto
Milwaukee
the Tribune
Cardiff
St. Johns
Thomas Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Road
Preferred Death to Jail John Lee Falls From Cliff
John Lee a 52 year old Jew escaped custody during transport for burglary in Spokane Washington and leapt from a Monroe Street Falls cliff into the river rather than face imprisonment. His body was not recovered.
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Spokane
Wash
John Lee
Monroe Street
Lee
Northern Pacific
Marshall
Thames Frozen Over As England Suffers Intense Cold
London readers report the Thames frozen for the first time in years with Marlow ice near an inch thick and solid drift ice at Windsor and Richmond. The deep cold increases unemployment as outdoor work stops across the country.
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London
Thames
Marlow
Windsor
Richmond
Powers and Howard Get New Trials After Rehearing Rejected
Frankfort Kentucky January 21 The court of appeals overruled the commonwealth motion for a rehearing in the murder conspiracy cases of Caleb Powers and James Howard holding no jurisdiction to reopen a closed term Both defendants will now receive new trials.
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Frankfort
Court of Appeals
The
Commonwealth
Caleb Powers
James Howard
No Kick Coming. Iron Gray Engineer Returns to Road
A veteran railroad engineer described by the New York Times as gray haired and stern survives a serious collision. After surgeons saved his leg, he walks on crutches for the first time and quips I can't kick while the gray eyes twinkle with a tonic spark.
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Jim
New York Times
The Loss of a Horseshoe and Henry VIII History
A horseshoe's loss altered English history after Anne Boleyn's fall. A papal reconciliation approach reached Henry VIII, but a lame horse delayed a papal envoy, and on arrival Henry had wed Jane Seymour and Anne had been beheaded. The delay altered royal policy and the nation’s course.
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Henry VIII
England
Anne Boleyn
Rome
Calais
London
Henry
Jane Seymour
Anne
Weeping Trees Drip Water Across Pacific Northwest
A description of a fir species in Oregon Washington Montana and British Columbia that continuously drips clear water from leaf and branch ends. The phenomenon, linked to leaf and bark condensation, occurs in all seasons and on sunny days. References Ferro note many weeping trees with tears peaking near the dew point.
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Oregon
Washington
Montana
British Columbia
Ferro
Strange Beauty Practices Across Cultures
The article describes infant head shaping in Penjdeh where mothers flatten the back of the head by placing the child on hard soil or in pots, press noses to lengthen them, and indent the chin, with some cases of leg straightening. It notes Chinook forehead flattening in America.
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Penjdeh
America
Mc Solomon Plans Fourth Marriage Amid Collecting Habit
In a brisk exchange the characters note Mc Solomon will wed again, his fourth marriage, while reflecting on his collecting craze for wives and items such as books stamps and playbills.
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McSolomon
Boston Transcript
Cambridge Shooting Remark by Bret Harte Quip
A Cambridge anecdote recalls Bret Harte praising the famed residents there and joking that firing a revolver from a front porch would bring down a two volume work. The quip reflects 19th century literary circles and social notoriety in Cambridge.
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Cambridge
Bret Harte
Pacific Slope
Mr. Howells
Seven in the United States tally from Baltimore American
The Baltimore American quotes a reader dialogue asking about family size. The reply notes seven family members total, dispersed across the United States.
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Ily
United States
Baltimore American
Thou Shalt Evork Before All Other Commandments
The quote questions why the command to evork precedes others, attributed to Auerbach. It riffs on priority of commandments in a philosophical or literary context.
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Auerbach
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Proceedings OF County Board
Lawrence S. DuBois
Charles A. Kelley
C. N. Melivaine
Justice of the Peace
J. B. Geddis
H. A. VanDalsem
W. M. Rogers
Coun
Salary
Chas. L. ‘Seencinn
Snets Ton Ocke
R. J. Mahafty
Olay
Treasgg Ies
L.C. Rene
J. C. Klemme
B. M. Rowley
Steinne Winks
Gladuvets
Minnie B. Aplin
F. Corley
W.C. Mather
Ealmns
T. M. Simmons
A. Vandenberg
Geo. Kons
Enlaey ‘Jaller
Chas. L. Summers
F.A. Munson
Salary County Andit- Batson Voe
Geo. E. “Mahaffy
Codinty
Pecnenes Sa Race
Peak Sea Alleen
R. J. Mahaffy
L. C. Kemp
L.C. Kemp
W.M. Rogers
F. A. Magson
Perkins Bros. Co
J. B. Cogan
W. J. Cook
F. R. Bramwell
Trulock
A. L. Cotes
Ian Mee
Cook
F.R. Bramwell
Cara
Ziaologists
E. A. Stobbs
Wolf
City of Huron
J. A
H. Newton
Wolsey
W. C. Medbery
H. J. Steele
S. C
W. A. Medbery
Petit Jury
Albert Sahn Fiennes
Wencikanick Sabi Cone
John Longstaff
J.C. Klemme
Mile Booth
J. AH. Miller
J. B. Coomer
Fees McFalis
H. J. Rice
Henry Hoffman
Ginn & Co
M. D. Keim
Care Paupers
American Book Co
L. C. Tredway
J. H. Miller
Thos.Tyrrell
Insanity
Alford
T. J. Wood
A. B. Fairbank
L. Carstensen
Marion Saunders
Josie Wilber
Sam. Moat
Littel
Butler, Sheldon & Co
Farrington & McNair
S. H. Susct
Ganeries
J. W. Schultz
E. E. Sedam & Co
Salary Board of Health
S. F. Corley
J.P. Mattingly
Sea Ee
J.T
RK. J. Fenley
Walter D. Baker
A. F. Kenyon
H. E. Harmes
Board
Smith
B. D. Stephens
Coffin Building
B.D. Stephens
Pearl Creek Bridge
County General Fund
Jmeet
L.C. Tredway
Easena
Dr. J. E. Schull
O. Johnston
Chas. H. Ray
Foster
Joan H. MiLner
Poe
Mayor Rose
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