Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-03-22

Robert, Andrew and Cyrus Dixon
were subscribers last week.
The robin stories are getting thick.
No Official reports have been received
yet.
A license petition is on file with
City Auditor Glendinning. II con-
tains forty names.
r. B. Peterson was In town Satur-
day and had time to call and discuss
seed corn with the editor.
"A little furry Of sugar snow Sunday
morning frightened the robins and
meadow larks into retirement.
Mrs. Fowler is fixing up her big
store In a manner that will dis
play her millinery goods to the best
advantage.
Judge G. b. Kennedy returned from
Greeley, Iowa, last Thursday night
where he went to look after his farm
ing interests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claus Keynes and
daughter Hazel, went over to Beres-
ford Saturday to visit with friends
for a few days.
Cyrus B. Dixon and wife left for
Chicago Friday. and James Dixon, a
brother OF the late Major Dixsn, left
for Ames, Iowa, on Friday.
Music lovers are going to have the
privilege of hearing Prof. Skovgaard,
the Danish Ole Bull, at Augustana
on the evening Of April 3.
Under the new state educational
law Prof. Lawrence will be entitled
to a deputy from July first, and the
same law gives the state superintend-
ent All additional deputy.
Otto Johnson Of Highland was a
visitor and a renewal subscriber Sat
urday. Otto said that ''you may say
to DR.. Lewis that / saw a couple of
meadowiarks and two robins this
morning. He can come home now
without danger of frost or fiood.o
Misses Cora Juel and Ida Berdahl
were LEADER visitors Saturday. Both
are Augustana graduates and teach
ers of recognized ability. Miss Juel
is teaching north OF Canton and Miss
Berdahl is teaching at the orphans
home at Beloit.
Edwin J. DeNyse of the New York
Herald sent q report from Gen. Hook
er's headquarters In front Of Fred
ricksburg during the war, that the
army would move when the mud dried
up, and Ed was arrested for giving
aid and comfort to the enemy. This
reminds us that there is no danger in
stating that DR.. Wendt, Almer Hell
gerson, and w. r. Storie will do a
little fancy auto work when the mud
dries up around Canton.
Eugene Neyhart has purchased his
fathers interest in the harness-sad-
dlery business OF Neyhart s. Son, and
will conduct the business at the old
stand. Mr.. Neyhart, senior, is a vet
eran OF the civil val and begins to
feel that he has stood guard on the
commercial picket line long enough,
therefore he retires from the firm.
The new proprietor Is one Of the best
posted harness men in the state and
makes it a point to handle nothing
but the best goods In his line and
uses nothing but the best leather in
his manufactured goods. Call and
see Nj. Neyhartsi II you want harness
that you a depend on at a reason
able figure.
Grandpa Kuhns called Saturday
and remarked: II don't believe the
ground hog has anything to do with
the weather, because the pugnosed
little fellow is only q third cousin of
the badger and the badger is too lazy
to turn v e only when hungry and
the ground hog won't live In a coun-
try that grows prairie dogs, and
prairie dogs think they have bluer
blood than ground hogs, and there
you are. Here we are in the middle
OF March with robins, meadowlarks
and honey bees humming around and
the measly ground hog, prairie dog
and badger sound asleep in their lit
tie beds. No, sir, l don't 60 one
single evidence Of continental money
on the whole hog story"