Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-31

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The Beadle memorial committee
which was appointed by the state GU
ucational association, at its meetihs ~
Lead, to take charge OF the collec'ioh
Of funds and the purchase OF d ihe
sized statue of Gen. w. Hill beauie'
to be placed in the new capltol' me-
at the rooms of the department Oh MS
tory and organized by the selection Oh
n A. Ustrud as chairman, M. NJ
Kramer. secretary, and Gov. r.. >. yes
sew. treasurer. The plan decided upon
to undertake the raising of the fuhu
of 81, 0 which is desired. is to appor-
ton the whole amount to different
counties of the state on a OASIS u
their school population; that the couh-
ty superintendents of the dllereht
counties be requested to become re-
sponsible for the sum apportloned 10
their different counties; that january
21 be designated as Beadle day. "heh
snnropriate exercises will be conduct
ed in each school in the state, ana that
on that day and the day following tags
be sold for the purpose of securing the
fund.
That the postofice department was
I'm dead earnest when it issued an or
der recurring hat country roads be
kept in good condition if the farmers
wished to enjoy the privileges of rural
mai delivery is shown by the fact
that Rural Carrier Doty. whose route
extends from Wakonda, has beer IN
structed by the department to
six miles of his route because OF a
blockade at one point in the
Two great ridges of dirt were thrown
up by a grader used by the road over
seer and left without being smoothed.
Even before the last thaw 1t was nee
essary to drive in the bitches, and now
that it has frozen up again the ridges
stand as almost unSurmountable OBJ
stacles in the highway This case
| again Illustrates the fact that if the
residents of rural districts wish to en-
JOY the advantages of free rural mail
delivery they must keep the country
roads in as good condition as possible,
The state land department has made
the December semi-annual distribution
of the income fund to the different
counties of the state for the support
of the schools. The total amount sent
out is s119,192. This was apportioned
on a school population of 161,057, an
increase of S,207 over h figure taken
for the basis last year. With the com
bined June and December apportion-
ments for this year the department
has sent out over half a million dol
lars for the support of the schools of
the state, making $3.50 for Zach pu-
pill. This is an increase of "a cents on
each pupils over the last yea appor-
tionment, regardless of the increase in
population.
d. A. Bullock, secretary of the South
Dakota Business Mems association. has
been for some time working on a
booklet with the title Corn Is King
in South Dakota" This little book sets
forth in a summarized form the re-
sources of this state, and shows the
opportunities which are open to the
man who desires to make his home in
the state. 1t will go into details along
scuh lines, backed by official figures,
and will be practically semi-official in
its nature. The state will take a num-
Der of the books for circulation. and
a number of commercial clubs over
he state will use them in their work
of %upbuilding the state.
The report of the state auditor
shows that under the law requiring
| railroad i'm announcements To ho .osc.,,nJ
separate from their mileage. the rail
o towns of the state secure material
benefits in The way. of taxable proper
ty. The towns which reap the largest
benefits from this method of valuation
are Pierre, $349,097; Sioux Falls.
$243.205; Deadwood, $25O,O71; Huron,
1921, 2S7; Aberdeen, $2O5,99S; Water
town, $194,679. Pierre gets the bene-
fits of $16S,0OO for it's share of the
valuation of the Missouri river bridge,
within the corporate limits of the city,
which places it at the head of the list
of valuations.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Lieut.. Gov. Howard
c. Shober. of South Dakota to be aud
NoA department., sue
ceeding Robert S. Person. Howard c.
Shober was born at Upton, Ia, Deem
Der "a, 1859. He vas educated at the
Carthage college, at Carthage, III. He
located at Highmore. s. D., in 1882,
and established the Hyde County Bull
letin, which he still publishes. He
was insurance commissioner under
sGov. Herreid. He was state senator
in 1904. and was elected lieutenant
governor in 1906.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress to increase the limit Of cost of
the public building at Huron to $780,
600. This increase is deemed neces-