Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-12-29
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

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The survey is being made for the
site for the new federal building at
Rapid City.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank has been incorporated at Co.
lumbia.
DR.. w. A. Horton has i~naugurated
a movement to AVE an athletic club
organized at Spencer.
Some Codington county school land
sold last week for $3.50 an acre-a rec
ord for that part of the state.
Rudolph Cole, Of Bridgewater, mar
keted a 2O-month old Chester White
hog recently that weighed ITO pounds.
The farmers wives have perfected
an organization, at Faulkton, having
for it's purpose the study OF domestic
science.
The Taft clubs throughout the state
have been invited and summoned to
attend a big meeting at Huron jan
uary S, 1912.
Twenty-Five automobile owners OF
Brookings have organized an automo-
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roads campaign in that vicinity.
Extensive improvements have been
made to the Tyndall opera house,
among these being the installing OF an
electric lighting system.
Roy Thompson and Charles Kerns
OF Clark appeared in the circuit court
and were fined 500 and 5000 reSpec-
lively for selling liquor in violation Of
law.
A creamery is to be established at
Villas by a cooperative company, which
has just been organized by 20 leading
farmers of hat vicinity. About rs
per cent of the stock already has been
subscribed.
Yankton citizens are boasting of the
fact that a student in the college
there left his wheel in the postoffice
for five days and no attempt was made
to steal it, though there were many
opportunities.
The excellent financial conditions OF
the people of Onida and vicinity is
shown by the fact that the three local
banks nave aggregate deposits OF
S157, 2SO.S1. A great deal OF this money
belongs to farmers.
Out at Ipswich the other day the
cid settlers met and held their annual
reunion. There was a lot of speech
making. mostly reminiscent in its
vein-and not one Of the speakers
there was who did not own he was
mighty glad he settled III South Dako-
ia.
Conditions west Of the river have
been greatly exaggerated, according to
later reports from that region. Some
reports we're sent out indicating that
the settlers were on the verge Of
starvation. These are now denied.
The people there are getting along
first rate, and with the extension OF
the free freight rate on fuel and pro-
visions by the railroads. they expect
to pull through the winter in good
shape.
Louis Lacomb, ar aged homesteader
of Corson county, recently wandered
away from his claim near Mcintosh
and was found in an enfeebled condi- :
ton for lack of food, could not survive
the hardships he had undergone, and
despite careful attention IN the part
of Mcintosh people, he died. Lacomb
is said to have possessed considerable
property at Grand Forks, N. D., but
undertook to hold down a claim when
his age and feeble condition Of health
forbade the exertion required Of a
pioneer life.
The Morristown commercial club
will be r~eorganized and IN effort will
be made to rave Morristown selected
as one of the registration points when
the remainder of the Standing Rock
Indian reservation is opened to white
settlement next year.
AS the result Of the preliminary
hearing of Will Toben, arrested at
Platte by q member of the city coun-
Gil as he was about to burglarize the
alderman's homo. the defendant was
held for trial in the circuit court under
bonds of $3.50, which were furnished
by friends residing at Wagner.
Jacob Meyers, game warden OF
Hutchinson county. caused the arrest
OF several parties for SEEMING in the
Jim river. A fine Of $25 was imposed
in each case. Among b defendants
were members Of the Maxwell Men
MONTE colony.
Several employees OF the Northwest
srn railroad at Aberdeen AVE been
discharged, following an Investigation
Of thefts Of coal from the yards which
convinced the officials of the road the
employees had been attempting to re-
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