The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-17

City CounE1 Takes Action to
Have lain Street Paved
-nEore Water Mains.


Yesterday made contracts to Spent
nearly So, 900 fur improvements on
streets. sewers and water mains, all rt
be o this summer. AT a meeting vi
the city c0uncfI this afternoon sas con-
tract Cor paving Main street. covering
eight blocks. sas awarded TO G.. - AT
ktusOn. &c Bookings. for the sl1Tn OF
$4,12gs at the rate of sI.47 per square
yard The work win start shortly after
Juu I, and will be completed by Sep
tember l. Two other contracts were
awarded to f. L Dimick, OF Laurei.
Web, for laying T.54g feet OF water
mains. price ss.9s6.07. AMI for installing
4.210 feet Of sewer for he sum OF s3,-
f25.40.
DAKOTA DRuMMERs TO MEET
At WATERTOWN, May . TO 81
wafertswn. 8. ID. May L3.-This city
In to be a center OF attraction on May
-, 30 and 81 when the state
tons % the South Dakota Travelling
Mems association, the United Conn
merciai Travellers OF South Dakota and
the south Dakota Retail Dealers and
Hardware MEMS association are to be
heidL Local committees representing
thee orHnHixz1f0nn nave been ard at
work for the last three months making
tina necessary arrangements for h
conventions. and the programs for IN
three different organisations viii soon
Do ready for publication. the travelling
menss orgnnfxafiou being the only one
which has completed it's program
II H. now an assured fact that the
tpkbers and wholesalers of the Twin
cities win cone here AT the time in a
special train Special trains also have
been arranged for to start from Pierre,
Sioux Falls, Aberdeen and PfpestoEe.
and Waxertewn expects no less than
10000 Winters duxfng the three days
nHo0k1NG1 COUNTY SALOON
MEN PLAN TO TEST LAW
Bruoxfngs. 3. D.. May BE. l. Van
Dyke, county treasurer, refused TO ac-
cept license fees and issue permits.
after bonds a been approved by the
county commissioners, from two appli-
cants fer saloon cense from Elkfon.
on the gruund thai the license law is
unconstitutional In all probability
the liquor men will apply to the circuit
court for writ OF mandamus to com
This win be resisted by the prohibition
state committee. The matter will un-
doubtedIy be carried to the state su-
preme court
The prohibitions state committee. of
which Quincy Lee Morrow is secre-
tary. q been planning THIS Tor some
tfme- The committees position is
UNIQUE and only equaled BY a similar
case In Indiana some time ago. IL il
carries it's p0inr IT, will put every sa-
loon I'm Sou1ff D11rofR OUT Of business.
t4ANSOft At REUFIELn ON
ALFALFA BOOSTING TOUR
RedfeId. s. d. May I3.-Prof- ". e.
Hanson OF the State college at Brook
iuGz- one Of thu greatest experts in the
world today ON alfalfa and it's culture,
and who has recentiy returned from an
extended trip through Siberia and
Asia In the study OF this plant has
comp1&fed Exs work. OF tra~nsplantfng al
faifa to a certain plot of ground az the
Northern hosEftaI for the feeble minded,
In this city The work was begun a
week ago and the professor has beer
demonstrating his process in he in
feruai an Ipswich and either places en
the occasion OF his visit before Pro-
fesSor Hanson marked the beginning OF
an era IN tine growth OF alfalfa for he
then for the first time known made
use OF a tobacco transpianrer in plant
ing the fodder plant Am average OF
plants planted To a minute in an
s0-acre field proved the success of the
sew move