Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-08-26
NEWSY STATE NOTES

celeDI atlon-street fair and carnival
next month
Aberdeen is among the places lamed
as registration point for the driving
of Cheyenne and Standing Rock reser.
walton lands this fall
According TO recent census taken by
+. s. Garry the population of Lennon
is l,l6l souls this is pretty good show-
ing for town of less than two years
old.
The Manchester Biscuit Work, at
Sioux Falls put thirty additional people
at work last week, an indication of the
growth of that institution which issaid
to be one Of the largest independent
pants in the business
The state editorial fraternity loses a
splendid brother in the death of Ere.
mont Young, editor of the Faukton
Advocate. whose death occurred last
Thursday. Mr.. Young was an oldciti.
zen, an able writer and genial ,om.
panion.
A large number of South DAKOTA
fourth class postmasters were in confer.
ence at Huron August II. 1t was their
annual convention and was an enthus-
astic gathering. An address by George
III. Drake, of Minneapolis, government
postal inspector, was feature of the
meeting.
The new IS, 600 club house at Camp
Roosevelt, Lake Kampeska, recently
completed by the officers of the South
Dakota National guard, last week sus-
tanned serious damage by the high
wind. The entire north porch and part
of the east veranda were torn away the
damage being about $3.50.
The body of a young man was found
floating in the Missouri river south of
Jefferson, by VIM. Miner last Friday
Mr.. Miner notified VIM. Metz deputy
sheriff of Union county, who took the
body to Jefferson and then to Elk Point
fol-. Rburial. The man had evidently
gone in swimming, as the body was
nude There is no clue to the identity
of the corpse.
Try row of dewberries II. S.
Bogardus, of Brown county, exhibited
sample of the fruit grown on plants
set out year ago last spring. They
were big, black, luscious looking fellows
fully as large as the terminal section of
an ordinary mans thumb. Mr.. Bogardus
says the vines withstood the winter IN
fine shape and have made fully six
foot growth this season.
The Belle Fourche Valley Railway
company, branch of the Northwestern
filed in Pierre Saturday, resolution
of extension from their terminus in 90
SO to IL STA, distance of about 60
miles eastward The proposed line
takes them east near Stoneville, and
into the White Owl country, the ter.
minus being about six miles north of
the White Owl postoffice.
Perhaps the biggest celebration in
Clay county each year is the annual
labor day picnic at Alsen. This year on
September 6, the program will be very
entertaining. Dean Thomas Sterling,
of the University of South Dakota COL
lege of law. will give the address. The
ball game will be between Hurley and
Parker, and it is likely that Miss Glenn.
emit, of Hudson, will do the umpiring.
Following almost month of intense
heat, the temperature dropped to the
10 mark at Huron August Is For three
weeks it averaged from 80 to 90 in the
shade. 1t was the longest heated term
known in this city for twenty five
years. During midday outdoor work
on buildings and farms was suspended.
A number of persons were overcome
by heat, but no serious results followed.
The eastern press gives former Con-
gresham Pickler credit for being the
originator of the rural delivery idea and
the success of it makes no mean monu-'
ment to a public man. Major Picker
secured free delivery for Faulkton, as
an experiment when it was but village
of three or four hundred people and
that was the beginning of the move
ment for the general delivery of mail to
the people at their homes.
The Indians on the Cheyenne River
reservation are drawing their lease
money this week for the use of the
pastures on that reserve. They each
got $40 So and in case their land is
enclosed in fence cents an acre in
addition. This will meen that the
Indian with good sized family, all
holding their allotments, will rake in
close to 500 spending money for him.
self and family, and the reservation
traders are happy in anticipation.
At meeting Of settlers in the forest
reserve held Friday at McLaughlin's
camp, twenty miles south of Deadwood,
Clifford Pinchot, chief forester. listened