Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-07-27

week.
Miss Carrie Helmey returned to
Humboldt Friday.
Ernest Holsey went down to Ha-
warden Tuesday.
Mrs. Fl. N. Cooper and Gladys re-
turned from Elk Point Friday.
Miss May Loomer went out to Alex
andria to visit friends Tuesday.
Joseph Johnson returned Friday
from Wyoming where he went to file
on land.
Frank Budde was in town Wednes-
day morning. eyes, the rain did it,"
said Frank.
Charles VanHouten and father,
Peter VanHouten, were Watertown
passengers Tuesday.
Miss Sadie Arnold went down to
Fairview Saturday to visit Mrs. Myron
Rood, returning Sunday.
Miss Neva Knutson was a guest of
Miss Alice Ringheim Tuesday before
returning to her Brookings home.
Miss Minnie Evenson of Norway
township, returned from Brown
county last week, where she has been
teaching school ear Bath.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Bradfield received
word Friday that his brother f. A.
Bradfcld was dead, they went up to
Sioux Falls to attend the funeral.
Louie Bedford, a former Canton
bow. arrived here last week for a visit
with friends. 1t is II years since he
left here and is now located at Bull
Frog, Nevada.
Misses Josephine and Austa Ram
burg and Blanche and Mamie Isack-
O left Thursday for Spirit Lake for
a weeks outing, Miss Emily Cuthbert
left Friday to join the party of young
ladies.
Col. J. M. Greene of Chamberlain,
was a caller at this Office last Friday
during the absence of the editor. We
regret not seeing the Colonel as he is
a very genial gentleman.
John Gemmill went out to Alexan-
dria Monday. He has secured work
there during the balance of his vaca-
ton, and what we admire most in
the boy is his determination to keep
at work and earn money.
Attorney A. M. Cloud was in Can
ton over Sunday visiting with his
brothers, j.. d. and W. e. Cloud. He
is prominent in the Iowa political
contest and may be the next At
torney General of the state.
Mrs. James Mahoney of Fulton re-
turned to her home Friday after two
weeks visit with her sister Mrs. Char
les VanHouten, she was accompanied
home by her niece Miss Lucy Van
Houten and father Robert Council. i
O. M. Gudmunsen writes for his
Leader from Mayville, N. d., where
he will remain until he makes a per-
manent headquarters. He is travel
ing auditor for a big lumber company
and has sixteen yards to look after.
He likes his work.
John Taylor received a genuine
Chinese paper from his brother James
E., now engaged in railroading in
Mexico. 1t was printed in Hongkong,
and is a unique specimen OF oriental
printing from a country where a gov
eminent paper has been printed con-
tinuously since ia. Mr.. Taylor is
studying the Chinese art of telling
the news.
T. Fl. Helgerson and William Ken
nison left for Northern Minnesota
Tuesday, where they hope to outfish
the biggest fisherman that ever came
down the pike. If they catch a 20
FOUNDER, they will not have their
pictures "took" alongside a whale.
No, they are truthful anglers, and
we are proud of their record in this
direction.
The Fairview fire was a serious one,
during which two elevators, three
box cars and the Milwaukee depot
we're destroyed. The elevators con-
tanned little grain at the time while
the ears were empty. The railroad
business is now conducted in a box
a near the site Of the burned depot,
and a stone foundation is nearly
completed for a new elevator just
north of where the old one stood.
No one knows seems to know how
the fire started.
Ed. Warner is occupying the old
Langmo carpenter building as a
paint shop and Ed is doing some fine
work in his line of business. He is
making a speciality of carriage paint
ing and is meeting with great success.
He is a born artist and his work
comes easy. There are about SOC
buggies and carriages in and around
Canton that would look mighty hand.
some if they had a new coat Of paint.
Ed intends to build a new shop next
spring.
Edward Wilkinson was a new sub.
scriber Tuesday. He paid Canton a
handsome compliment Is a health
resort, after this manner. He came
to the territory from Illinois in 1888.
and located near Huron. In the
whirling events Of a new country he
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