Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-10-06
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Postmaster Johnston OF Edgemont
| has been notified that on OCTOBER 70
the Edgemont p%ostoffce will be
a postal saving bank.
| Rapid City merchants gave a boost
er banquet at the Harvey hotel at that
place, which was largely attended n
was a successful affair.
Definite action has been taken lead
ing to the merging of the Young Men
club at Aberdeen into a Y. M. Z. A.
A new building is to be erected soon,
The Milwaukee railroad company
has started work on the permanent
structure for the company's bridge
across the Missouri river at Chamber
lain.
The first Sunday school convention
ever held in Fall River county Is
closed after a good attendance. 1t was
in charge of County Organizer Lock
wood.
Prookings county won first honors
in the corn palace exhibits at Mitchell,
with $50 points as against 915 for
Sphinx county, which won second
award.
Farmers of the vicinity of Scotland
| are taking steps to organize a farmers
| cooperative elevator company with
the object of engaging in grain bust
ness here.
The people of Hoven have organized
a volunteer fire department and will
| soon be in a position to fight possible
| CONGREGATIONS with a great deal of eff
fectiveness.
| The South Dakota state anti-saloon
| league, in session at Mitchell, re-
| elected nearly all of their officers for
| the coming year. Many special COM
mittees were appointed.
Martha Skelly, wife of M. H.. Sicily,
| a retired farmer. died at her home at
| Bridgewater, following a lingering i'll
| ness. Deceased was among the early
| settlers Of McCook county.
A new electric light system has been
| installed at Estelline and rapidly is be-
| ing extended to all parts of town. The
| city council has ordered 81 lights to be
| placed on street crossings.
w. J. Lackey, the Carson county
| llOISS llllcl II "oo SlpIulCu olISl "
hard chase, was convicted in the cir
cult court at Mcintosh and sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary.
! Good progress is being made in the
work of erecting a new Catholic
| church 1t Humboldt. The basement
| has been completed and work now has
| commenced on the main structure.
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have a government good roads expert
lay out a mile Of model road in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Redfield, for the
purpose of encouraging good road
building in that section.
The elevator at Milbank owned by
the Empire Elevator company burned,
and together with about 10000 bushels
| of grain, mostly wheat, is a total loss.
| The fire started of unknown origin.
The building contents were insured.
An organization of retailers of the
| city was perfected at Hot Springs, the
chief object being to protect business
men from loss through bad accounts
and the practices of those known as
dead beats" It is called the Business
Mems association.
The Commercial club of Belle
Fourche has taken definite steps to-
ward securing a Carnegie public libra
ry building, and it is expected arrange
ments can be completed so the work
of erecting the structure can con
mence within the next few months.
Fire destroyed the barn and con
+o,+. ;ro1,J;rr civ hnaH of ua111ah1
horses, farm Implements, grain and
other property, on the farm of Frank
Baker, eight miles east of Plankinton,
Bakers financial loss reaches over
81, 800. How the fire started is a mys
terry.
Albert Oakland, a well known young
farmer Of Roberts county, died as the
result of injuries received some time
ago. when he fell under a loaded wag
on, which passed over his chest, badly
crushing him. The injury weakened
his lungs and he fell a victim of tuber
culosis.
To lose his balance, while playing
and fall headforemost a distance of IS
feet to the bottom of a we'll, and es
cape with nothing more serious than a
deep scalp wound, was the experience
of the 5-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Emil Hanson, living on a farm neal
Morristown.
Two young Indians named Pau
Changing Cloud and Charles Two
Heart, have been placed in the state
reform school at Plankinton, under
sentence from the United States court
for South Dakota, in which they were
charged with horse stealing. They
claim to be IS years of age, but look
older. Had they admitted that theil
ages were more than IS they would
have received terms in the fedora
~penitentiary at Leavenowtrh, Kan.
Howard Blackman a brother of Fore
man Blackman, of the Upper Fish
ranch, near White Owl, ran down
large gray wolf with his COW pony, las
soing and dragging it to death, recent
ly. He is out from the east spending
his vacation and feels quite proud o,
his feat, which many a cowboy has
tried and failed.
Foolish Way to Look OF Life.
The most ignorant Of all are those
who constantly dwell on the dark side