Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-06-28
SUuTfi Dakota NOTES

"A pOSLal savings department Will
be added to the Kadoka postofice on
July 1.
Baseball fans of Trip have organ-
lied and placed a team in the field for
the season.
An agitation has commenced for
the holding of a Miner county fair in
Howard this fall. Definite steps soon
will be taken.
Catholics at Marion laid the corner
stone of a new church building with
special ceremonies.
Work on the new city hall at Lead
is soon to be started. 1t will cost
about $4,000. The contract calls for
Sioux Falls granite.
Mrs. C. A. Bolles of Belle Fourche
vas burned to death when a can of
varnish on a stove exploded.
Crop conditions in Lyman county
are the best ever known. Copious
rains fell in that vicinity last week.
Local business men have taken
steps to have a hotel erected at Yer
don, this being something which the
town needs badly. &r
The Commercial club of Fruitdale
Is making extensive preparations for
a Fourth of July celebration. Various
sports will be provided.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank of Washington has been pur-
chased by Sioux City parties. D. Nc
Nair is the new president.
The Harrisburg creamery now is
running at it's full capacity, and a
ready market is found for the tor
of butter which it is turning out.
Rapid City has abandoned it's pro-
posed Fourth of July celebration, in
order to devote it's entire time and
attention to the annual stock meet
ing.
Sheriff Jensen OF Custer county re-
ceived a paiItG bite on one of his
hands when he assayed to take an in
sane woman at Hot Springs into Gus
tody.
Former residents of Iowa and Ohio
held their fourth annual picnic at
Scotland. DR.. /. w. Leighton of Scot
land was chosen president of the asso-
citation.
The South Shore Commercial club
has appointed committees to act with
the commercial clubs of other towns
in that region, and with farmers, in
improving the highways.
DR.. George T.. Page of Sioux Falls
shot a northern elder duck while
hunting near that town, the first speci-
men ever obtained on the mainland of
the whole North American continent.
The volunteer fire department of
Gettysburg was well represented at
the annual tournament of the South
Dakota Firemen's association, held at
Pierre last week, and captured it's
share of the prizes.
Ministers of the German Lutheian
church, Missouri synod, in annual
session at Freeman, chose Wentworth
S the place of the mex annual meet
ing and elected as president Rev. J.. D.
Ehlon of Scotland.
The members of the Britton coin.
mercial club have inaugurated a move.
ment for the erection of an opera
house and the organization of a good
roads club to improve the highways
centering in Britton.
The Rev. A. c. Shepard, district su.
perintendent for the Methodists of
the Vermillion district, has departed
for California, having been transfer
red by the general conference to a
pulpit at Oroville, Cal.
]. B. Avis of Garden City is in a
serious condition as a result of in
juries suffered when a team ran away,
throwing him out of a buggy from
which he alighted on his head. He
was picked up unconscious.
Rudolf Pensler has been lodged in
the Sioux Falls penitentiary from Wal.
worth county. He will erv year
al hard labor on his plea of guilty to
the charge of grand larceny. His
crime consisted of robbing a Mobridge
man of $50 in cash.
Warren hall, a recently completed
women's dormitory at Ward academy,
Academy, S. D., was dedicated at the
commencement exercises of that
school last week. 1t cost SIS, 900. A
class of II, the largest in the history
Of the academy, was graduated.
The state boad of regents, in spe-
cial session at Yankton, awarded con
tracts for two new buildings at the
state normal school in Springfield. The
contract for the new science hall was
let to the Garner Construction com
pany of Madison, n a central heat
ing plant to the Goetz Construction
company of Yankton.
Recently Aberdeen firemen peti-
titioned the city commissioners to
grant them an increase of pay, and
now the policemen have made a SINH
lar request. An increase of SIS a
month in the salary of the chief OF
police and of from SIS to $40 a month
in the salary Of the other members
of the force is asked for.
Several. thousand people are ex-
pected to attend the annual auto rae
meet at Belle Fourche July 8, 4 and
5. The meet Will be held in conjunc-
ton with a big Fourth of July cele-
bration.
Miss Lottie Schulz, aged %, of Wes-
sington Springs, died suddenly while
walking home from church, where she
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