Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-17
SOUTH DAkOTA NEWS NOTES

Miss Blanche Persella of Aberdeen
manager, W. H. Andrews, to a match
with any lady wrestler in the state.
The annual convention of the Brown
County Sunday Schol association, held
at Groton, was largely attended and
an unusually good program was given.
Reports are current in the western
part of the state that the proposed
purchase by the Burlington of the
Crouch line is part of a transconti-
mental line scheme.
DR.. George T. Page of Sioux Falls
shot a bird of unknown species on a
recent trip. Bird experts to whom it
was shown admit that they cannot
even guess what it is.
A sensation was created at Custer
when Sheriff Ainslie arrested Charles
Clyde and wife, Walter Maudlin and
Miss Lucinda Stevens, all of Custer,
on the charge of cattle rustling.
Watertown young men are working
on the organization of a new machine
gun company for the Fourth regiment
OF the South Dakota National Guards.
At a mass meeting of Freemen citi-
z it was unanimously voted that
the town must have electric lights and
preliminary steps in that direction
were taken.
1t is reported on good authority
that a large manufacturing company
will in the near future erect a large
plant in Custer for the purpose of
manufacturing mica plate, which is
found in liberal quantities in a mine
near there. 1t is expected that as a
result there will be a decided revival
Of the mica industry in this part of the
Black Hills.
Arrangements are being made for
the construction of a model highway
from Villas to Howard. The county
commissioners stand ready to appro-
pirate $500 for the purpose as soon as
an additional $500 has been contrib
uted by Villas, Howard and Howard
township. There will be no difficulty
in raising the money. A government
good roads expert will be engaged to
suDerintend the construction of the
road.
Thomas Kelly, a 14-year-old Mime
apolis boy, was arrested at Aberdeen
n held until his parents sent money
for his transportation home. Young
Kelly arrived there with another boy
about his age, who is believed to be
the son of A. E. Odegard of 1882
South Pleasant avenue, Minneapolis,
Mimi. but before the boys were To-
oo{o1 Nv, tho rD1ioa un,rp nlo-,,J
had disappeared and has not yet been
a~pprehended. The boys ran away
from home to see the world, but
Young Kelly acknowledged his desire
in that direction had been fully graft
fed, n he was glad to go back.
The school census just compiled in
the office of the state land depart
ment shows hat 174,O37 children are
in the public schools of the state and
that 5,777 are in the colleges of the
state.
James Hauri, the ~9-year-old son of
Jacob Hauri, a farmer living four
miles north of Herrick, was killed
while he and his father were out after
a load of fodder. They were both on
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the load upset, falling on the boy and
killing him instantly. The body was
shipped to Rhoades, Ia, for burial.
January 6 mex will be the first an
niversary of the completion Of a rail-
road to Faith, and arrangements al
ready are being made to suitably OBJ
serve the occasion with a public cele-
bratfon.
The sportsmen of Avon and vicinity
have recently participated in two wolf
hunts and had considerable sport. Ono
or two of the animals have been kill
ed, and other expeditions will be made
against them. They are ordinary
prairie wolves, and not the fierce gray
wolves which infest portions of west.
ern South Dakota