Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-08-16
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

soon, to vote on incorporating as a city
Sinai, with but one vote in oppo
sition, has voted to incorporate as a
city.
A new cluster lighting system has
bee ninstalled on the capitol grounds
at Pierre.
Warde Madole, OF Yankton, broke
his wrist recently while cranking an
automobile.
Bancroft will hold a special election
on August 10, to vote on issuing 81, oOO
In bonds for a new school house.
State Game Warden Bancroft has
forbidden the use of hoopnets for
fishing in Lake Kampeska, near Water.
town.
Robert Hensel was fined at Milbank
for shooting chickens out of season.
His taste for wild fowl cost him
$64.9O.
1t is estimated that the shipments
from Hand county this year of farm
products, such as grain and live stock
Will bring the farmers an aggregate
of $4,000, 900.
Work has commenced on a fine new
public school building at Burke, which
Will be pushed to completion as speed.
lily as possible.
CHARLES Alkire, a homesteader near
Lennon, was u down by a Milwau.
kee train. Both horses were killed
and Alkire was injured.
An unknown man was run down and
killed near Dnmock, II miles from
Mitchell, last Saturday by an extra
train, running 40 miles an hour.
Farmers in the vicinity of Keldron
have organized a cooperative company
and conduct a farmers elevator. Am.
pie stock has been subscribed for to
assure success. The elevator will be
erected at once.
Various committees have been ar
pointed to make arrangements for the
annual Moody county fair, to be held
at Flandreau September 23, "a, rs and
26. In connection with the fair there
will be a fine farm products exhibits.
To encourage oratory, Charles E.
~ AAhN VI - lCllS, HdS SiNSu LIE T1u-
ron college an endowment of $500, the
income of which is to be used for the
giving of a medal each year to be
known as the "De Land Prize Medal
of Oratory."
Work has been started on a new
school building at Isabel, in Dewey
county. The structure is to be AZ by
4S feet in dimensions, three stories
high and with a full nine-foot basement
under the whole structure. The con-
tract provides for the completion of
the building by October 25.
A majority Of the voters of Wagner,
at a special election voted in favor of
the issuance of bonds for the extern
sion Of the municipal waterworks sys-
tenn, but as the law is said to require
an affirmative vote of two-thirds, the
town authorities are in doubt about
going ahead with the bond issue.
Robbers secured $1,000 worth of
loot from Worthington merchants the
other night, entering the store of Bel
den & Helkel and securing a quantity
of dry goods and other merchandise.
B~loodhounds traced them to a railroad
watering tank, where it is assumed
they made their getaway or a train.
The harvest festival, to be celebrat.
ed at Ardmore, in September as a
testimonial of the bounteous crops Of
the present season, has been postpon-
ed from the 7th to September 81, to
permit further development of many
late crops. One of the chief exhibits
will be sugar beets, which have been
tried here this year with a large acre
age and with good success.
M. G. Shull, Of Alpena, has COM
pleted work on a walking cane that
is quite a novelty. The cane was made
from the backbone of a shark which
himself and another man captured off
the Florida coast. The can has been
finely polished, and as it has been pro-
vided with gold trimmings it is a thing
of great beauty. He will retain it as
a relic of the capture of the shark.
The farmers of K%ingsbury county
held a meeting and decided they
would pay two cents per bushel for
threshing oats and barley, four cents
per bushel for wheat; 81 a day for man
and team, SO per day for shocking and
$2.25 to $3.50 per day for pitchers.
These are the highest prices which
have prevailed in the county during
the harvesting and threshing period for
some years.
An interesting experiment in church
consolidation is being made in Letch-
err, several churches having united IN
der one pastor, Rev. Mr.. Tibbetts. At
a business meeting of the directors of
the consolidated churches, it was vot-
ed to pay the pastor $1,000 a year and
furnish him a fine parsonage. A union
Sunday school also has been formed.
The aid societies will remain separate
after a conference meeting.
which is to be held in October. Thus
far the experiment has worked sue
cessfully.
Henry Phelps, one Of the pioneer
settlers of Lincoln county, was killed
by lightning while driving a binder
near his home, on a farm in Dayton
township last week.
John H. Rhodes, aged 70, who was a
guest at the home of his brother near
Platte, was found dead in bed, heart
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