Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-01

ID. cOISLl Vi IllgildIi was dlllUlli
our renewal subscribers laSu week.
Mrs. Jasper Keith was among GU.
renewal subscribers last Friday.
Miss Inga and Miss Josie Solem O
Highland were at Sioux City las
week enjoying the attractions of The
fair.
X. Z. JarobS'u OF the Hudson Stat,
bank came up I" Canton Saturday 70
his usual Sunday visit.
@ +. BrandhaGeu Of this city, La;
just built a house uu one Of his Gran
township farms that cost 81, POO.
Peter Stadem and wife went tt
Bryant last week to attend the tuner
al Of a brother of Mr.. Stadcm.
TorNel Rikansrud Of Farrview, ha.
purchased his fathers old homestead
over at Highland Center.
Miss Gunda l.ikanSrud presented
the LEADER with a box Of very fine
plums raised by her father in his
town garden.
Will Opperud. the we'll known and
popular clothing merchant from In
wood, was a caller and a renewal sub
Scriber last Friday.
Myron Dunlap has gone to Omaha
to take a position with the wholesale
house of Paxton & Gallagher. lie
will travel for the firm.
Edward Linde and his brother
Reincrt will farm 40 acres in Norway
township next year. Reinert had
charge Of the Ole Nordiie farm near
Moe while Mr.. Nordlie was in Europe
during the summer.
United States Commissioner Gideon
Glendinning of Ludlow, Harding coun-
ty, sent the LEADER a photo of the
post Office at Ludlow. 1t is u pretty
decent sod shack and reminds one of
early days down in this part of the
COW country.
You would attend business college
if you had a tirst-claSS college near
your home. Don't you know the
Mankato Commercial College, Man
kato, Mimi, practically brings edu-
cation to your door? 1t pays your
Write and learn all about it.
John EvensOn, Of Dayton, suggests
the cutting Of all bush willows along
the highways and thus prevent Seri-
Gus snow b~lOckadCS in winter n
Johns suggestion is indeed worthy of
serious consideration. Attention of
road OverseerS is called to this mat
ter.
Frank Gerold, the popular repre-
sentative of the Berger Manufacture
ing Co., Of Minneapolis, came home
for a Sunday visit. He has sold a
metal ceiling and walls for
the corner drug store, Oehmen's bar
Der shop, and furnished the hand
some ceiling for Olsen Bros. clothing
store. Frank is a hustler.
The Lake Preston Times states
hat Miss Christine e. Ostroot went
20 Canton last Monday to take up her
work as instructor of music in Angus
ANA college at the opening Of the fan
5erm this week. This is her second
year as a member Of the faculty and
she enjoys her work and the posi- ton
very much.'
DR.. Eveleth was at Des Moines dur
ing the Taft reception last week. He
said that Senator Cummins and other
noted Hawkeye statesmen gave the
President a great welcome and the
military display was n of the finest
ever seen in the west. 5000 regular
soldiers, including infantry, cavalry,
and artillery and a balloon corps COM
posed the force, and the troops pass
ny in review was a sight worth see
ng.
Henry Thompson, n Of the pros
porous Pleasant township farmers,
vas a visitor last Friday, having come
lp to pay his taxes. He has just
a $1,000 barn on his farm.
t is full two stories and has cement
loOr and is 36X6O. We suggested al
IutO as the next step. ooh no." said
le. Il came to town in my old buggy |
md am going home in a new one.
No auto for me, l want to live many
yet" Mr.. Thomp sOn owns 400
lcres of valuable land.
In talking over old times with Mrs.
Jasper Keith the other day we dis
covered that she is one Of the pioneers
If this county, arriving in Canton
With her father, the late Werter
smith, on August "a, 1867, and lived
in a sod house on the block now OC-
by the court house during the
Of lS67-8. She was married to
Ir. Keith in 1870, and has been a res
dent of the county Eve since. Mr..
Keith has been dead many years, but
,hree splendid sons survive him who
vas an old friend Of the writer. The
Dung men are devoted to their
nOther and she is very proud of them.
Asa Hall of Norway brought the
EADER several punches of quack or
uick grass last week with roots
nough to stop a pillow with four
OrseS. This noxious weed is to be