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Belle Fourche News Items From the Bee "Board Of Trade" Sold Friday of last week J. W. Couch disposed of his soft drink emporium and pool hall known as "The Board of Trade" to J. J. and J. T. Kieley of Draper, S. D., possession to be given on November 1st. All equipment and merchandise owned by Mr. Couch is included in the deal. Kelley brothers have been located for several years at Draper, where they were numbered among the enterprising young business men of that locality. Mr. Couch states that he will look after his real estate business during the winter months, but may decide to enter some other business next spring. Bank Receiver Selected Ward B. Clarke of Custer, S. D., has been selected by the State Banking department as receiver for the Belle Fourche State bank which closed its doors on October 6. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke arrived in Belle Fourche last week, returning to their home at Custer on Saturday and again came to Belle Fourche Tuesday, bringing their furniture. They have leased the A. H. Raltz bungalow in the south part of town. Mr. Clarke was for a number of years vice president of the Hill City bank, Mrs. Clark acting in the capacity of cashier of that institution. Two years ago they disposed of their interests there and went to California, then to Toledo, O., where they were in business for a year, returning to Custer last winter. Prior to coming to the Black Hills Mr. Clark was for sixteen years associated with business houses in Chicago, New York and Washington, D. C. Mrs. Clarke's father, Dennis Carrigan, one of the well-known old time cattlemen of the west, and one of the pioneer bankers of the Black Hills accompanied them to Belle Fourche and will also make his home here. School Election Contested The special school election which was held on Sept. 22, for the establishment of a Centralized high school in Buffalo, composed of eleven districts, and which election was in favor of such a school, is being contested. Frank Moore is named as the contestant and Harding county, a municipal corporation, W. R. Gardner, county auditor, and Mrs. Paul L. Ellis, county superintendent, is named the contestee. J. B. Clarkson, county commissioner from the fifth district, has endorsed the document as security for the costs in the action in the event that the case is dismissed or the contestee prevails. Numerous irregularities in the election are alleged, such as illegal voting, miscounting of ballots, election held at different places than advertised, polls being closed before time, untrue certification by auditor as to the vote for and against the election, etc. and a recount of the ballots is asked by the court. There are some very strong accusations and the contestant will have enough to keep him busy for a while putting over the charges.—Buffalo Times Herald. Tom Johnson Married Tom Johnston, editor of the White Owl Oracle at Marcus, S. D., and Miss Agnes Kelley of Sturgis, were united in marriage on October 6, at the home of the mother of the bride, Mrs. Ann Kelley, at Sturgis. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston made a short trip thru the Hills and are now at home at Marcus. Tom Johnston is well known over the western part of the state, as he has been engaged in the newspaper business at various towns in this part of the country for the past eight years. In addition to editing the paper at Marcus he is United States Commissioner, runs a farm, finds time to get to the Hills once in a while—or has managed in the past—for a little recreation from his arduous duties as editor-commissioner-farmer. He is a very pleasant gentleman to meet, about the most serious drawback to his being a regular fellow is the facts that he is a democrat, and doesn't seem to give a rap who knows it—but he may overcome that handicap in the course of time. The bride is one of the attractive young ladies of Sturgis, where for several years she has been employed as assistant in various county offices. That they may find much happiness and contentment thru life is the wish of their hundreds of friends and acquaintances thruout western South Dakota. Shooting Affair in Wyoming A shooting affair on the north fork of the Little Missouri river in Wyoming, near the Montana state line, fifty miles northwest of Belle Fourche, Friday morning of last week resulted in Ted McConahey losing the thumb of his right hand, the shot being fired by Fred Hickey. Western fiction is filled with accounts of how leading characters shot the guns from the hands of their enemies, but it remained for Hickey to prove that this same feat can be accomplished in this year of 1923, as a distance of in the neighborhood of thirty yards he not only shot the thumb from the gun hand of the man who had shot at him, but also put McConahey's gun out of commission. While it seems difficult to get an accurate report of just what transpired it seems that Hickey and McConahey, who live on adjoining ranches on the north fork of the Little Missouri have been having more or less trouble over the possession of some land in that part of the country. The feeling became so strong between the two men that Hickey had ordered McConahy to stay off his, Hickey's land. Friday morning Hickey's son was riding over their place when he saw McConahey and his employe, Painter, riding across the Hickey land. The boy immediately went to the house to inform his father, and the father and son, both riding the same horse, returned to where the boy had seen McConahey. McConahey was just riding off the Hickey place, and when within forty yards of each other both men dismounted and started walk-
