Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-08-18
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

has inst been completed at RaVinia.
G w. Forncrook of Grant county is
the owner of a ~fvo-legged calf when
walks on three legs, giving tn" other
two a rest.
Eagle Butte, in Dewey county,
claims the distinction of being WITH
out a single equal suffrage advocate
among its women.
The Christian Scientists will build
a church at Br0Okings. 1t will be or
the bungalow type, costing about
S $1,000 and seating 200 people.
Tibet new town and public hall
building az Running Water is com
Melted and has been dedicated and
formally opened to the public,
MANY towns over the state are re-
nortfng a shortage of ice. The intense
heat early in the season made such a
draft on the supply put up that houses
are empty.
Out of the nine grain elevators Op-
Grating at GrOton, it is said but three
will be kept open this season, the 9th
ers closing down on account OF the
short crop.
Lightning struck the o. W. Beach
house ne;y Lebanon during a storm
doing considerable damage. Mr.,
Reach's 1~1-year-old son was severely
burned by the electric fluid.
Fire recently destroyed the black
smith shop and residence Of Mr.. Hough
at Glenham. The fire broke out in the
middle of the night, and the hotel near
bv was saved with difficulty.
A dispatch from Kimball says that
locality will have one Of the biggest
corn, flax and potatoes Brule county
ever had. Heavy rains, weekly and trl-
weekly, since July s has just doomed
things.
The board of education at Peever
has awarded the contract for the cree
ton of a new school building. which
will cost about 1000. 1t will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy about
October -.
Labor won its first battle in secur-
ing the unionizing of the job of the
Elks' building at Rapid City after a
one day strike. This carries an ad-
vance of IS cents per hour to the brick
masOnS II a nine hour day.
J. n. Peel. a well known rancher liv-
ing some miles from AdgemOnt, was
attacked by a vicious dog and serious
" injured. Both arms and one leg We're
terribly lacerated. He neglected hav-
ing his injuries looked after until some
hours afterward, when the wounds
had become badly infamed and very
painful.
No other state in the Union, in pro-
portion to its size and age, will have
a fair which will at all compare in
magniture with the great South DakO-
IA state fair this fall. The mOnstrOus
now buildings, the new sewage system.
the new siy-inch artesian we'll and
17kc. the Iar~c dining halls. the new
stock paviliOns, the many expensive
attractions, and other important feat
Ures will combine to make the fair a
complete surprise to visitors.
According to advices received from
the Black Hills business of all kinds is
good in that section and the conditions
normal. Labor appears to be we'll en-
plOved, the market for that product be-
ing well up to the noraml standard.
An aged woman named Nimmick,
who lives on a homestead some miles
from Midland. while cutting wheat for
her chickens was struck by the fangs
of a rattle snake. She was taken to
Midland as fast as horses could take
| her. While she remains in a serious
condition there are hopes Of her re-
covery
Lightning struck the large barn of
Henry Thole, in Hickman township,
four and a half miles from Langford,
and started a fire which destroyed the
building with it's contents, including a
large quantity of hay which had just
been stored in the barn.
During a recent heavy rain and
electrical storm, the steeple of the
First Methodist church at Parker was
struck by lightning. No great dam
age was done, further than to rip the
| shingles off one side of the steeple and
tear down plaster. The ~janitor and
another man were slightly shocked.