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November 14, 1913
Weather conditions find farmers taking advantage of it to take their grain to market and haul home coal and other winter supplies. The stock is gaining the benefits of this fine weather and going into winter in fine shape.
J.H. Wiren paid a visit to the county seat Saturday night. Mrs. Wiren and children were away at Percy Nicholas’, leaving the house alone. During the evening, someone went through the house, ransacking everything. Nothing was missing but $30.
Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Paddleford and daughter arrived on Tuesday from Craig, Neb., making the trip in their new Ford auto. Earl arrived with the car of household effects about the same time. The family will again take up residence on their fine farm in Alden Township, eight miles north of Ree Heights, while the doctor establishes an office in town and takes up the practice of his profession.
November 16, 1923
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Shearer received a cablegram from Bangkok, Siam recently, announcing the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Knox. Mrs. Knox will be remembered as Lela Shearer.
Chas. Beranek met with a very painful accident last Saturday morning. He was fixing the hose on his water tank and in some way his jackknife slipped, cutting a deep gash in one of his fingers. He went to Miller and had the injured member dressed. Lloyd Haefs assisted on the dray, but Charlie is back to work now.
Miss Nina Rouse visited at Seldon Mitchell’s Thursday. Miss Rouse, a cousin of Mr. Mitchell, is making a trip on horseback from Billings, Mont. to Area, Ill., a small town 30 miles from Chicago. She has averaged 28 ½ miles a day, has rested six days, two on account of weather. She plans to make the trip in two months. She is alone and has succeeded in arriving at some town every night except for one. The distance is about 1,400 miles.
November 17, 1933
Considerable damage was done to property throughout the territory during the extremely high wind Sunday. Buildings were wrecked, chimneys blown down and the floors in houses covered with a layer of dust. The wind continued at about a 60-mile gale most of the day. Old timers say that it was the worst they have experienced in South Dakota in years.
Word has been received here that Melbert Clemens of Huron was quite seriously hurt last week while putting on storm windows on a third story. In some manner, the ladder slipped, letting him fall to the cement sidewalk. He suffered several broken bones and injured his back.
November 19, 1943
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sisk of Miller Wednesday night, Nov. 10. Mrs. Sisk is a sister to Mrs. L.M. Sanders.
Jake Gascoigne of Wakonda arrived the first of the week to take over the job as section foreman and his family will move here the latter part of the week. They have rented the Fawcett house, which was vacated last Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carr, who have moved to the Jones residence north of the depot.
Cpt. Bill Harvey left Sunday for Drew Field, Fla., after spending his extended furlough with his parents. He was able to be here for the funeral of his brother, Orrin Harvey.
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November 15, 1963
Ronald Shaw, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Shaw, broke his leg about noon Sunday. He was playing on a vacant lot with a large group of youngsters. He was running and stepped into a hole and in falling, broke his leg. He is expected to be in traction four to six weeks, and then in a cast for 11 weeks.
The Ree Heights grade school will have a girls’ basketball team. Their coach, a busy homemaker and mother of nine, Mrs. James Hancock, has volunteered her services. All girls grades five through eight may take part.
Roy Hammill, who was recently installed as Worthy Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of South Dakota, was honored at a reception Sunday, Nov. 10. Maxwell Chapter No. 133 was host for the event. Guests were present from 35 South Dakota towns, as well as Davenport, Neb. and Mundelein, Ill.
November 16, 1973
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Hill were hosts Sunday, Nov. 11 at a party honoring Mrs. Hill’s mother, Mrs. Mary Pearson, on her 95th birthday. The party was held at Prairie Nursing Home, where Mrs. Pearson is a resident.
Leonard Fawcett had the misfortune of having a horse fall with him on Thursday and will have to be in traction for six weeks. His address is Hand County Memorial Hospital.
Two granddaughters of Franklin Deuter, who are in Europe, recently got together for a visit. Diana McKay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McKay of Orient, who is a teacher in Unterweser, Germany, had a school holiday, so flew to Paris to visit her cousin, Jerri Lynn Ray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jery Ray of Chardon, Ohio. She is a student at the Catholic University of the West in Paris. The girls’ mothers, who are sisters, are daughters of Franklin Deuter and the late Mrs. Deuter. Buster and Don are also brothers of the Deuter sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hammill entertained the following at supper in their home Tuesday evening of last week: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beranek, Mrs. Ruth Gardner, Mrs. Ava Haefs and Mrs. Hazel Stockman. The evening was spent playing cards and visiting.
November 17, 1983
All 10 of Franklin Deuter’s children were able to attend his funeral Friday at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Miller. They were all guests at the Allen Hanson home following lunch. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Buster Deuter; Don Deuter; Mr. and Mrs. Dick Deuter, Rapid City; Mr. and Mrs. George McKay, Orient; Mr. and Mrs. R. Jerry Ray, Montrose, Colo.; Maxene Deuter, Brooklyn, NY; Betty Deuter, Buffalo, NY; Mr. and Mrs. John Deuter, Watertown; and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Hyde, Pierre.
Lisa Werdel, daughter of Kenny and Sandy Werdel, recently won a trip to the National 4-H Roundup in Denver, Colo. She was one of eight girls selected from the Rapid City Western Junior Home Economics Show, that joined 4-Hers from several other states and Canada. The trip was from October 5 to October 9.
Georgia Cook attended the National Democratic meeting of Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons at the Gree Briar in White Sulphur Springs, W.V. Wednesday, and returned home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. David Phinney and family attended the Purrington-Joy wedding in Miller Saturday evening.