Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-08-11
Member National Committee.

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Member National Committee.
Word has been received from Wash
ing that Major C. Boyd Barrett of
Aberdeen, who is the South Dakota
member of the national democratic
congressional committee, has been
made a member of the campaign or
executive committee OF the organi-
zation. This is a high compliment TO
Major Barrett and an honor to the
state.
In Good Condition.
w. A. Nye, treasurer of the South
Dakota pharmaceutical society, has
just prepared his report for the annual
meeting which will be held at Mitchell
August 8 to ~ inclusive. The report
shows 81, 005 received from membership
and examination fees for the year just
closing with expenses at 81 500. so. He
has a balance of S5,03l. 90 against
81 iO4i.oU IL year ago.
Famed Mccormick Comes.
William Mccormick, who drew prize
No. / in the Rosebud lottery, arrived in
Bonesteel last Saturday with his agent,
Samuel Herrick. Mccormick gives his
home as Lincoln, Neb., and is now in
the employ of the treasury department..
He says he is going to pick out the best
claim near a townsite and that he will
resign he position in the partment and
farm his claim He denies having made
arrangements to relinquish.
Haul Up County officials.
The states attorney and sheriff of
Meade county, We're cited before the
circuit court last week to show cause
why a peremptory mandamus should
not be issued against them, command
ing them to remove screens from saloon
windows and to enforce the Sunday
closing law. The action was brought
by residents. A demurrer was filed by
the defendants and the court took the
matter under advisement. This is the
first case of the kind ever III South
Dakota.
Wheat Not the Whole Thing.
Last year South Dakota realized
500, 000, 900 from her wheat crop and
$107, 900, 900 from her other productions
Whes is of course a big item, but 1T is
by no means the whole thing, as it once
was. South Dakota is no longer a one
crop state, and a failure of the wheat
crop would have but little effect upon
the prosperity of the state a a whole.
But the wheat crop this year is fan
from being a failure and will turn a
good many million dollars into the
pockets of the farmers.
Chances For school Teachers.
There is a scarcity of school teachers
in this section of the state around Huron.
OF the one hundred schools in Beedle
county, nearly one-half will be without
teachers at the date for opening OF
schools in September. County Super
intendent Du Bots of Beadle county, is
using every effort possible to supply the
demand, but it is apparent that from
twenty-five to thirty schools will be
without teachers. Wages offered are
from $50 to $40 per month for first and
second grade certificates.
Sheriff Runs Down Two.
Sheriff Wiiliam Moses, of Butte
coItny, has returned from McCook
Neb.. having in charge the two horse
thieves who sold TO Deadwood and
Lead men nine draft animals that We're
stolen from a rancher north of Belle
Fourche. Their names are William
Moore.an Ed. Yearsley. The sheriff
found Moore in McCook spending
money foolishly and captured his part
ner on n ranch near that place. They
have some money left from the sale OF
the horses. Thirteen other horses were
traced TO them that have been stolen
from the ranchers.
Only Fifteen Birds.
The open season for hunting prairie
chickens in South Dakota begins Sept.
Ist. The game law now in force in this
state is stringent both as regards the
shooting of chickens before the season
opens and the shipment of chickens.
According to Attorney General Halls
Interpretation of the law only fifteen
prairie chickens a be shipped by one
person at a time; they must be shipped
in a pleinly marked package. and the
owner must accompany the chickens.
This practically prohibits the shipping
of prairie chickens out of the state,
except in lots of fifteen, accompanied
by the owner.
Pretty Good i'm Hand County.
The wheat crop north of Miller, now
being cut, stands to the chin, the berry
being plump. Yields in many fields
will be twenty five bushels per acre.
All other crops there are excellent. On