Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-02-08
Test your seed corn.

afternoon.
Joe Millett of Hudson is getting hi.
corn in shape for the big corn contest
next week.
Frank Virgins, Emery Darling anc
Frank Budde are doing their duty as
jurors this week.
Good seed corn Is valuable--pool
corn should not be planted--it repre-.
sents loss of time and money.
Miss Laura Wilson departed Friday
for Sioux Falls, where she is to enter
a wholesale millinery house.
Henry F. Gerber Of Worthing is
one of the jurors who are helping to
dispose of legal troubles in court.
Mrs. Montgomery departed Monday
evening for st. Paul, where she will
purchase a spring stock of millinery.
Seed corn that will grow is the
kind to plant. Don't take any
chances. Test your corn and be sure.
Ex-Sheriff Robert Buchanan was
doing jury work this week and he
seemed pleased to meet SO many old
friends.
Judge and Mrs. Clifford left Tuesday
for a southern trip and will continue
southwark until they reach the City
of Mexico.
All corn for the contest should be
delivered in Canton Saturday after
noon if possible, SO as to be ready for
scoring on Monday.
Nels Larson was up from Norway
Wednesday circulating among the old
timers. Nels was looking fine and
feeling like a boy.
Representative Brynjulson left for
Pierre Tuesday, having recovered
sufficiently to make the journey with
out serious risk.
helm are making necessary prepare
tiOn to accommodate the corn con
testants next Monday and Tuesday.
DR.. Veo O'Neil may be home Sat
urday from Sioux Falls His progress
has been rapid since the operation.
His friends will be glad to see him.
0. T. Odegaard, Claus Keynes, and
H. E. Thormodsgaard are among the
''good men and true" who are help
ing the court dispose of legal dis
putes.
Tillman Mausbach, the genial and
happy Lynn township boomer, is
lending his influence to help settle
lawsuits to the satisfaction of plain
tiffs and defendants.
Senator Laxson said that if the
rheumatism would let him alone he
will be able to do six weeks work in
the next 80 days. He and Represent
alive Brynjulson left for Pierre Tues
day.
All those who are arrearage in dues
for the M. B. A. Lodge are requested
to pay the same before February Is.
Call at the Leader office.
Sarah Arnold, Secretary.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. o. O. Tunt-
land, jr., on Wednesday, January %,
a fine bouncing boy, and is named
after the Crown Prince of Norway
and his grandfather in Lincoln town
ship Olaf Ellert Tuntland.
Marius T. Gubrud, clerk Of Norway
township, was a caller Tuesday and
also a renewal subscriber. He says
that there is hardly enough snow
down his way to make good sleighing.
Mr.. Gubbrud makes an efficient clerk
and looks after the business of the
township carefully.
Joe Warner, the genial old veteran
and Eden township pioneer, was in
Canton Wednesday visiting among
the boys and telling his usual string
of good stories. He seemed to enjoy
telling Bro. Slade how glad he was
when w. B. came to Canton. Joe is
opposed tx monopolies.
Congregational services will be held
in the Presbyterian Church as usual
next Sunday. Morning worship at a
quarter to eleven. Sunday school at
IL o'clock. Young Peoples Society
at I e.. m. Leader-Miss Etfie Rooms.
Evening sermon at 7:3O. You are
cordially invited to any or all Of these
meetings. Geo. S. Evans, Pastor.
Olaf Lorenson came owe from
Gregory county last Saturday for a
brief visit with Canton friends and
left for Sioux City Wednesday to in
vestigate the cattle market. He is
located at Lucas and has large cattle
interests over there. Mr.. Lorenson is
a careful business mar and before
leaving subscribed for the LEADER.
About thirty friends assembled at
the home of Nelson Ralston Tuesday
evening, the occasion being his sew
entieth birthday. They presented
him with a handsome rocking chair
and several other tokens Of their re-
spect. Delicious refreshments were
served at a seasonable hour. The
guests then departed wishing him
many returns Of the day.