The Wagner leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-1912, 1912-02-02

.. ~. Overgaaru had an accident
Tu 'sday that came near terminating
seriously. He and his daughter, Cora.
We're driving home from town arc
when they got a mile north of tow
one of The bolts that attaches the
tongue to the buggy dropped out
which scared the team and they start
ed to run away. Mr.. Ov.rgaa-d was
thrown from the buggy and on his
fore head stunning him so bad that he
was unconscious for some tim e.
Miss oVergaard escapeu with only min
or injuries. The team was stopped at
the Donahne place by Elmer urk
WHO caught them and seemed to have
such a firm hold that they circled
around three times before being
brought under control. MIR. Overgaard
was taken to the StorjoLa an home and
cared for until he was able to go to his
home.
A. j. Swartz uuloaded as. eek a
carload of oiimeai, shorts and other
mill feeds which he is now offering to
his trade at reasonable prices. By
reasonable prices we do not mean low
prices, but cheap prices when compar-
ed with the, prices of other feed. Corn
is quite expensive at present and some
think, and may BE- justly so that it
does moi pay to feed it at present
prices of hogs and live weight under
the hest of conditions it would Just
about be a s~tandoff, that is with the
bes. and soundest corn and corn in
prime condition the corr Consumed is
a trlfe less than the value of the pork
produced. You cannot make your corn
aliy batter thar it is. but you can very
cas- iiy in pr,ve tie condition of your
hogs If thy are not doing the best
and that IS by feeling a little mill
feed in a the slop. Such feeds always
pa, best to feed when corn in high in
price. ''s
Senator era VT I'd Diseased the pro-
posed primary law of Dick Richards in
tn United States Sen tie not long ago
and is nov sending mis- speech to his
constituents in South Dakota through
the U. S. rail. IL seems to most of
US that a discussion of that proposed
measure was a little oft of place in
That August body and that 1t will not
be worth what it costs in the printing
and franking tn. III merons copies of
his speech. We ha.e read enoIgh of
our cop to find out that the senator is
against 1t. To the first person Who
will give US the gist of his talk and
the details of this proposed Law we will
buy a IL center. We want to lind out
/. if lnere are airy who have read all of
this speech.
Frank Patton has all the preliminary
work done, which is the blowing. to
put in from ten to twenty acres of go
tatoes next spring. For a number of
years it has been necessary to ship in
from 10 IT, Is ears every fall to meet
the loo Il requiem a1ts an Mr.. Patton
is going to knock that business seven
ty miles hey ond the sun. He is going
to demonstrate that all the spuds need
ed here can be grown at home which
will save TIE community this large
first cost of the potatoes besides the
transportation charges of manifold it
m which equals the first item men.
toned. There is no reason why
Charles Mix county shall not produce
all the trbers needed for hume con-
sumption at least and then if any are
to be shipped let it be out and the mon
ey in, instead of the potatoes in and
the money out. If it is any one arti-
C e of which We are a little shy these
days it is the long green and all be-
cause we have been spending more
than we made. This is not saying
that we made too little but spent too
much. Now, Mr.. Patton wants a lit
tie assistance, that is be does not want
to do all this potato digging for the
entire community, and this shipping
in spuds during the autumn will soon
be a thing YOU will only hear the dear
~rapdma talking ahout-