Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-06
Midla nd orchestra has reorganiZt

Many settlers are Importing Olooo-
ed stock.
Lots of grain is being marketed
at Wasta.
Cigar factory at Nowlin meeting
with success.
The county continues to be in the
good weather belt.
Rnssell's store at Midland was
Threatened by fire.
Stanley will one day be one of the
wealthiest sections of the state.
Wendte wants feed store, and a
whole lot of things in business lines.
The Northwestern railroad has
never failing artesian we'll at
Wendte.
Farmers who have seeded winter
wheat are reporting the crop coming
along fine.
The newspapers gladly bid the po-
litical ''tillers" goodbye, and will now
be devoted to discriminating the news.
The Stanley County Socialist, pub
lished at Wendte by Ralph f. Brown,
is new venture in the newspaper
field.
The 100000 disappointed ones in
the Trip county land drawing did
not include any of the railroad stock
holders.
The supporters of both sides OF the
county option question did some tall
hustling in the last days OF the
campaign.
The Kadoka Press is six months old,
and in that time the business of the
institution has gone far beyond the
foniest hopes of the publishers. The
Press is one of the live ones. May it
continue to prosper.
The cattlemen south Of White
river are up against hard PROPOSE
tion. The range is destroyed, their
hay is burned up and their cattle
unfit for market. Heretofore they
could dump them into Lyman county,
but the herd law prevents them from
doing anything of that kind now.
The crop of potatoes in the state
this year is abundant, even better
than that of last year, while the
quality is of the very best. Buyers
from neighboring states have been
securing the country and buying up
quantities of potatoes for shipment
to outside points, where the crop has
been light this season.
An exchange tells US they are rails
ing peanuts in Stanley county, fall
crops of strawberries in the eastern
part of the state near lroquois,
and one man in an eastern coun-
ty says the "banana belt" will
be reality. What state can you
find that will produce variety of
crops like South Dakota?
The Capital-J Journal of Pierre gave
statement of crops raised in Stanley
county, which shows conclusively
that what was said about that Sec
tion of the state few years ago was
all wrong. Reports Of the crops there
this year show that they average up
with crops raised hereabout and our
farmers in this vicinity are we'll
satisfied with the result.-Highmore
Herald.
According to the Kadoka Press, a
movement is on foot to have bill
presented to congress which will
open up the north part of the Rose
bud and Pine Ridge Indian reserva-
tions, to include the territory for
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Bad river. This would open nice
strip of country and would prove
advantageous to all the towns in the
territory adjacent to White river.
Joe Muckey, of Nowlin, is a man who
has made the most of his opportun-
tiles in this new country. About four
years ago he came into the country
without any capital, and now Is the
owner of three quarter sections Of
land, about 16O head Of horses and
cattle, and is out Of debt. This year,
on three acres of land, he raised
400 bushels Of potatoes, which will
sell At Is cents per, and net him .
handsome profit.