Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-03-08


sick at St. Paul, is reported to be In
better state Of health.
Carl Moe was up from Hudson last
Thursday &c attend a Leap Year.
dance at the Yeomen Hall.
Captain n. }. House returned Sum
day from Morris, Mimi, where he
vas visiting with his brother John.
Mrs. Lawrence Crowell was up from
Chats worth last week for a short
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. ID. Cloud of this city. She returned
home Sunday.
A note from Bert Dixon from Red
lands, California, states that his
mother is on her way to Guthrie.
Okla, and expects to reach canton
about May first.
A notefrom M. E. Morrissey, form
erly a Canton printer, who made type
fly when VIII Ingham was giving
Canton a live paper, writes that he
is now at M%asonville, Iowa.
The b. B. C'S met with Bessie Wood
and a dainty luncheon was served.
The evening was spent in Sc ewing and
singing. The following officers were
elected; President, Ethelynn Murner;
Vice President, Mia Thayer: SeCre-
tary. Lois Albaugh; Treasurer, Bessie
Wood; Reporter, Amelia Bacon. The
young ladies report a very pleasant
time.
Homer DeNewer, general Manager
of the Bergstrom Plow Co., left Mon
day for Gregory county, to arrange
for the delivery OF a large number or
the famous BergStrom plowS, &C
knowledged to be the best pillow
manufactured. The present Berg
strom pillow is a new patent and is far
better than any of the plows turned
out heretofore.
A note from O. NJ. Gudmunsen,
formerly in the lumb Der business in
Canton, now in business at Busted,
Montana, under date of FEB. 26 says:
"We have enjoyed and are still enjoy
ing the most ideal and delightful
winter climate here that it has been
my good fortune to enjoy any time
during the forty winters that have
come and zone since | was large
enough to enjoy a thermometer. Mr..
Gudmunsen wished to be remembered
to all his old friends.
Martin II. loft of Sioux County,
Iowa, who lives a mile east Of HUDSON
was in Canton Tuesday on business
and favored the LEADER with a visit
and a renewal subscription. Martin
was one of the popular clerks in
Chraft g. Hansen'S store, until two
years ago when he decided to become
a farmer, and he has been very
successful. He reports everything in
fine condition for spring work and
predicts a big crop year.
The high school boys and girls went
to Flandreau Friday and played bas-
ket ball with the boys and girls OF
that city. Both teams came home
undefeated md we'll pleased with the
treatment given them. The boys
won their game by a score OF 80 to 10
anC the girls won theirs by a score OF
s to 5, both games we're we'll played
and the two teams are we'll pleased
over the outcome.
A letter from Captain Dunlap, at
St. Cloud, Florida, dated Feb. %, in
closing his annual dues for the LEAD
Err, says: Winter very pleasant here.
We have new potatoes, Irish, fall
planting, and plenty ofsweet potatoes.
Strawberries are ripe, and oranges,
grapefruit, lemons, and all kinds Of
garden truck are brought to our door.
Ham, bacon, saltpork and fish are
brought around twice a week. Car
penters have been at work all winter,
no freezing here nor sunstroke in the
summer. Alligators were caught
wondering around the streets last
summer. They often lose their way
going from n lake to another.
Men are here from almost every
) regiment in the service during the
civil war. Some came to stay others
to spend the winter.
August Johnson, n of The Norway
township pioneers and m of the
solid men of that township, was in
town last Saturday and left an ad for
the LEADER asking for bids for the
erection of a cement school house in
District p, Norway township, to
replace the structure built IS years ago
on land given the district by the late
Fl. X. Rise. The new building will
be of cement blocks, 30x40 with a II
foot ceiling. finished in oak, with
:, maple floor, full basement finished and
heated by furnace. This will be the
finest rural school building in the
+ county when finished and no mar will
be prouder of this modern building
than August Johnson, treasurer OF
the district, who could build half a
dozen cement school houses himself
and not impare his bank account.
Mr.. johnson wants to see the scholars
of district %, taught in a building
that will make the boys and girls
pro,l IF thoir cphopI homo Tho old