Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

Carl Is WORKING IN tne >. ".
RI. &Implement Co. and may take an
interest in the business with Mr..
Bennett.
Total rainfall for the month OF
June, by the government instrument,
and reported by Observer Holsey, was
8. 40 inches.
Mrs. Prof. Dale returned to Canton
Monday from Norway township where
she had been visiting her mother,
Mrs. O%verseth, and her brothers.
Work on II. j.. Knowltcn's new
residence has been delayed by rain,
but the workmen keep pegging away
when it is dry overhead.
Miss Mamie Isakson went to Chicago
last week to visit her sister Blanch,
who is taking advanced instruction
in painting from a leading artist in
that city.
Paul Rankson was in town Tuesday
and reports slight damage to the new
bridge across the Sioux near his place.
The bridge itself is all right but n
Of the iron piers Is damaged.
George Mason and wife, his brother
Joe and sister Miss Annie of West
field, Iowa, were Canton visitors last
week, and guests Of their brother
William. The Iowa gentlemen are
prominent farmers near Westfield.
Paul Thompt Of Eden was in the
city recently accompanied by his wife.
Paul expects to retire from the activl'
ties of farm life 0 and relinquish
the strenuous work to his sons. We
hope he may conclude to make Can
ton his home.
James Overseth came up to Canton
from his Norway township home on
Monday and went to Sioux City on
business. He carried a suit case that
was big enough and fine enough to
conceal an elegant wedding suit-peT-
haps it did.
John Evenson Of Dayton was a Wis
itor and a renewal subscriber last
Saturday. John told of his splendid
trip abroad and of the conditions in
old Norway, especially among the
farmers, who are prospecting under a
system that is ancient in comparison
with the modern rush in this country.
The Morristown World is a new pa
per just started in a new town on the
line of the Milwaukee railroad about
IS miles west of the Missouri river.
The town is north of the Standing
Rock reservation and will be an i'm
portant point in the rush for reserva.
ton land. A former LEADER printer,
Guy Schmalle, is cashier of a bank
there, and the World gives evidence
that Morristown is a winner.
w. Fl. Fritz, of Bechtold & Fritz.
Sioux Falls, the eye man, who visits
Canton, will be in your town Friday
July 10th at the Hotel, to fit glasses
We grind our own lenses thereby
enabling us to give you the lowest
price that goods will allow.
If there is any eye trouble in your
family consult with him. C%onsulta.
tion Free" Nv l.
Benjamin Boyce of Chicago, in COM
pany with his brother r.. M. OF this
city favored the LEADER with a call
Monday. The last time the Chicago
gentleman was here was In 1881, and
he marvels at the wonderful change
in town and country since then. He
thinks Canton one of the handsomeSt
and cleanest business towns he has
seen anywhere, and spoke highly of
the splendid appearance of the bust
ness and resident part of the city.
The coming Carnival Show is a
moral, clean, amusement aggregation.
II any one believes that the people of
Canton would stand for anything else
they do Il people great injustice.
The hurdy gurdy, gambling, unclean
do not travel any more. They
be found on the edge of the city
The coming street carnival
will furnish a clean amusement pro-
gram, and one fit for the most fasti-
diOus. Let no one for an instant be-
lieve that Canton would tolerate a
gurdy. No stree, we amt built
that way.
Hudsonite: Mr.. and Mrs. George
Millett returned from their western
trip, coming home by Rapid City and
and they report all the folks
as being we'll and prosperous, and
that the country wherever they trav-
eled from Hudson to Sidney, Neb.,
and through Northern Colorado and
through Kimball county, Neb., where
they visited their son Albert and
as being a veritable garden,
with everything in the way Of crops.
fine and prosperous. The
western part of South Dakota also
like a rose, and Mr.. Millett is
very optimistic over the crop outlook
Of the great and glorious Northwest.