Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Dayton.

Dayton.
Feb. II, 1908.
Garfield Goodwin returned from
| Sioux Rapids, Iowa, Saturday, where
he has been visiting with his sister,
Mrs. John Snyder.
Mr.. Frank Painter and Mr.. Abbott
drove up to Sioux Falls and back
Tuesday.
Mr.. Remply is recovering slowly
from a cold he had on his lungs.
Frank Bankson is back on the farm
looking after the chores while his
brother Paul is attending college.
Bessie cambridge who has been
sick with a cold is much better and
will soon be well again.
Mr.. Leffert marketed hogs Monday
| and Tuesday.
The school in district No. 9 has
been very small lately owing TO SICK
ness. Miss Nelson the teacher is very
sorry to have SO many absent.
A number of our farmers attended
| the Berney Hanson sale and most all
of them brought home something.
Daytonites know good things When
they see them.
Will Kennison started for Fairvie W
with a load of corn Tuesday. We
have not heard whether he got there
yet.
Martin Peterson had corn shelters
Monday.
Joe Gillen Of Canton has been dig
ging a well for James Mitchell this
week.
Nels Knutson's family have had a
siege of sickness for over a week, five
of the children being sick at once, two
of them being seriously sick with
pneumonia. Martin, the oldest, was
so bad it was necessary to have a
trained nurse. We are glad to note
they are all improving. Martin, OF
course, Is not yet out Of danger.
Obed Olsen delivered five head Of
cattle to Butcher Stein of Canton
Friday.
West Canton.
February II, 1908.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schlosser visited at
Clarence divers Sunday.
Mrs. G. Berg has been quite serious
~ sick.
Mrs. Kaffar and son John visited
with Mrs. Moulton and Mrs. Knutson
Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. Evans drove out
from Canton Tuesday and spent the
day with Mrs. Moulton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Todd were visitors at
Roy Villages Saturday.
Mrs. Chris Thompson, who was op-
Grated on for appendicitis at a Sioux
Falls hospital recently, is recovering
and will be able to be home in a few
days.
Mrs. Ethan Kinsley and two little
daughters visited with relatives in
this neighborhood last week. Mrs.
Kinsley returned to her home in San
born county Monday. She reports a
fall of eight inches of snow accom-
panied by a high wind drifting it bad
ly and making the roads almost i'm
passible in some places.
Mrs. Knutson entertained a num-
Der of friends Thursday afternoon in
honor of Mrs. Moulton's birthday.
way and at five O'Clock Mrs. Knutson
served a fine lunch, after which the
guests departed wishing Mrs. Moul-
ton many happy returns of the day.
Miss Emma Strand who has been
visiting with relatives in MINI. for
several weeks returned home last
week.
Last week II. M. Beck received a
letter from Harry Week, written Nov.
rs. 1907, while on board the 'sPenin-
sula'' crossing the Arabian sea bound
for Bombay, India, where Mr.. Week
goes as a Missionary. MI. Week will
be remembered by many readers
as q young man, who, by perseverance
and hard work, made his own way
through college and is now devoting
his life and talents to the heathens in
far off India. Mr.. Week is a person
al friend of Frank Beck Jr. and has
often visited at the Beck home.
In q recent issue of the Leader,
mention was made OF the surround
ingS of the school house in Dist. II.
If the ''lady who is interested in
Dist. II" will notice, she will see that
the school house has S flag staff and if
she will look again, she will see a flag
floating above II. We also have a
good woven wire fence and a fine lot
of trees started that are taken care Of
each year. Last fall the school house
was painted on the inside and it is
the Intention of the school board to
have it painted on the outside in the
spring. VIZ have an organ, a fine Ii
brary of about $50 books, good black
boards and an all around good school
and one of the best teachers in the
county. AS for a bell, we hope in a
few years to have a fine central school
building on the corner where the lit
tie school house stands and then we
will have a good bell.
Riverside.
Feb. Is, 1908.