Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-05-05

Hyde county has awarded a contract
for a new court house to cost $51,949.
The Watertown Public Opinion is
conducting a crusade against the fast
auto drivers.
Harold voted dry by reason of a tie
vote. One a ago the town voted
So for license and 10 against.
Catholics in Faith are arranging to
have a resident priest and to con.
struct a two-story frame church, % by
%.
The contract has been let for the
construction of the new farmers ele.
be $4,000.
The Day County Democrat, publish
ed at Bristol by H. L. Sexton for the
last two years, will be moved to Web
ster June I.
The states attorney of Corson coun
rty has clapped on the lid, and card
games and such no longer go in that
part of the state.
Mrs. c.. C. Knappen, widow of the
late publisher of the Sisseton Stand
ard, has been appointed postmaster in
her husbands place.
The tenth annual convention of the
w. c. T. U. of southeastern South Da'
Ekota recently held a very successful
meeting at Sioux Falls.
Yankton Elks are rapidly increasing
the size of their building fund, and
think that this season will see a fine
start made on the e home.
The public school at Woonsocket
has taken no vacation this spring, as
trouble with the heating apparatus in
the fall caused much delay then.
Committees at Lead are making pre-
liminary arrangements for the state
fremen's tournament, which will be
held in that city during the first week
in July.
Rapid City is making a strong bid
for the new hospital to be built some
where in the Black Hills by the Black
Hills presbytery Of the Presbyterian
church.
Ole P. Hubred and Mrs. Annie Bur-
nett, brother and sister, are in the
Perkins county Jail charged with in
cest, on complaint Of the woman's
husband.
The third week in August has been
determined upon as the date for the
holding at Huron Of the annual con-
vention of the State Pharmaceutical
association.
r S,l.n hoe ;ec,,a1 from WIochipo
ton, D. c., directing that the railway
mail service be established on the
Cheyenne branch of the Milwaukee
road west of Mobridge on May 8.
Owners of 10000 acres in Rapid val
ley, in the Black Hills, met at Saputa
and arranged for the organization of
a cooperative irrigation company and
raised funds for the preliminary ex-
penses.
Throughout the state of South Da-
kota, even in many of the smallest
communities, Arbor day was observed
by the planting of trees and shrubs
In parks and public grounds, in school
yards and around the houses OF the
citizens.
Arrangements are now practically
completed for the erection of a COM
mercial club building in Miller. All
The stock has been sold, and work on
the structure will soon start. The
building, which will cost $4,000, will
be Of brick, two stories high, and 100
feet long by % feet wide.
b. 1. Salinger, Jr., of Sioux City,
claim agent for the Milwaukee, has
been in Pierre adjusting losses aris-
ing from recent prairie fires. Claims
amounting to s5S,000 have been fled
against the company.
One OF the big conventions OF the
rear to be held in Sioux Falls will be
the annual meeting of the grand lodge
of South Dakota Odd Fellows on May
16 to 10, inclusive. four branches OF
the order will meet during the same
week-the grand lodge, the grand en-
campment, Patriarchs Militant and
the Rebekah assembly