Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-05-06
1ntems of Interest From the
Hudson Hudsonite.
Of COURSE HE CAUGHT THE G

Knute Jacobson Vas out in tn
country the other day with his fin
Cadillac car, when he met a youn,
fellow and his girl out buggy riding
The horse the young fellow was driv
ing became greatly frightened a
Knute's buzz wagon and the yOuns
fellow seeing he could not hold hin
by the reinS, jumped out and got thu
animal by the head, while the young
lady also jumped from the buggy anc
made her escape through a wire
fence. Fearing the horse would gel
away from the young man, with q
probability Of going through the tence
and not wishing to get mixed up ir
the scrimmage, the young lady was
going at her best in the direction of q
nearby farm house, when knute stop
ping his machine asked the young fel
low if he needed any assistance. He
said "Never mind me, | can handle
this old plug all right, but | do wish
you would 90 and catch my girl"
ARMsTRONG's MAIL WAGON BLOWN
OVER.
Talk about wind. Guess we had
some zephyr along about Friday and
Saturday. If you don't think it blew
ask Ike Armstrong about it. He was
carrying the mail in his usual placid
manner, doing his best to treat Uncle
Sans customers c~OurleOuSly and
right, when the breeze began to hit
it up, and the first thing Ike knew
things began to happen. He was
away out west near Andrew Markers
going down a hill when a severe gust
Of wind tipped the mail wagon over,
soaring the horses so badly that they
tried their best to jump through the
collars. When the wagon went over
the double trees broke and the fright
ened horses pulled Ike through the
glass front of the mail - so
quickly that he did not have time to
veil whoa or cuSS. but he was gritty
and he hung onto the lines, even
though he was cut by the glass about
the head, and was dragged a.tlying
across a dozen rods Of mighty rough
road.
He finally managed to stop the
team and tie them securely, and then
he went to Marken'S for assistance.
4he mail wagon was righted and
needed repairs made, and Ike was al
so doctored up, for he needed it,, and
he managed to get to town all right,
and"next day he pluckily struck out
again, and it was a worse day to be
out in and a harder wind than the
one that blew him owe the day be-
fore. Ike looks like a prize tighter
with his ear nicked by the sharp
glass, which also cut and slaShed his
face until it looks like a relief map OF
county Antrim, Ireland, but Ike ped
dies the mail as Of yore, and he is not
making any fuss we his hurts. Just
takes it philosophically, and as part
of the joys of the rural mail carriers
daily experiences
James Overseth was on the Sioux
City market on Monday with a car OF
cattle and one of fat hogs and he al
most topped the days market. Jim
waited for that pesky freight train
until about four O'Clock Monday
morning, and then the freight sneaked
in on him, hooked onto his stock and
slipped out of town again, with Jim
peacefully sleeping On a blanket in
the livery barn. He awoke in time
to catch the morning passenger how
ever and beat that freight train to 1T,
and was at the stock yards smiling
like a big sun1ower when his stock
showed up.
4 Adolph Gubberud of Norway town
ship is busy these days setting up his
corn land preparers and planters COM
bined. These machines are a patent
of his and are pronounced an i'm
provement over anything yet manu-
featured and it looks as though Mr..
Gubberud had a fortune in sight
when he gets to selling the machines
in earnest.
Gust Jefferson of Fairview has in
vented a new road drag that in some
ways has the edge on the King drag,
to our notion. Gust bought a corn
plow at a sale last winter, took off
the shovels, rugged a heavy, iron shod
plank in place of them, set the tongue
over, thus removing the side draft,
and now has a road leveler hard to
beat. The beauty Of the machine is
that he can sit comfortably on the
cultivator seat, and can raise or let
down the scraper as high or as low as
he pleases. We rode over a stretch
of road which he had passed over
after a rain storm recently, and we
wished right then and there that
there was a continuance of this sort
on every farm with as enterprising a
chap as Gust handling it. for the road
was nice and smooth where he had
gone, quite a contrast to the rest OF
the road we had been travelling over.
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