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

A very successful revival has just
closed at Wagner.
Sioux Falls is planning to erect q
Y. n. c. A. temple.
Colman reports a farmer already in
the field with a drag, in that vicinity,
The Faith boosters are trying to Sc.
cure a number Of rural mail routes
from that town.
Clyde Green of Letcher got his hand
caught in a bean huller and he mem
Der was badly lacerated.
The Belle Fourche Commercial club
has taken steps to reorganize the
Butte County Fair association.
The Good Government league at
Sioux Falls is boosting energetically
for a municipal court at that place.
Frankfort is all torn up over a row
between residents of the town be-
cause the town marshal shot a dog
belonging to a prominent citizen"
VIM. Healey has resigned the office
of city clerk of Midland and will take
up his residence in the new county Of
Be1ueIC- WHERE NE Will SSIdUllSu d
weekly newspaper.
A large amount Of fire-fghting ap-
paratus has been purchased by the
city council Of Edgemont, and steps
o have been taken to organize an
efficient volunteer fire department.
An Iowa man is negotiating with
Yankton people for the location there
of a new process brick factory which
is said to make bricks and artificial
stone that is practically indestructa-
BILE.
Representative Burke has introduce
ed a bill in the house Of representa-
tives increasing the pension of l.. S.
Hyde Of Gettysburg, a veteran Of the
civil war, to $50 a month. Mr.. Hyde
is blind and helpless.
Two young men living in the vicin'
ity of Selma discovered that it comes
high" to disturb a public meeting
They interfered with a public meeting
held in a country school house, and
were arrested and fined, one SIS and
the other $13.
The program has been completed
for the annual meeting Of the school
officers and teachers Of Mcpherson
county, to be held in Leola on We'd
nesday, March 20. State Superintend-
ent Lawrence will be present and
make an address.
It is stated on apparently good au-
thority tina the Golden Reward Min
ing company, which owns valuable
o,,1 81 TN~r1- will in tho
near future resume active operations.
The resumption will add greatly to the
prosperity of Terry.
A big raccoon weighing 80 pounds
was shot at the HOmesteak syphon
neal Lead by l.. G. Gilbert, a guard.
This is one of the biggest coons found
in years in the Hills. A few mnoths
ago a mountain lion weighing 60
hounds was killed on Bald mountain.
Mrs. Halvor Christensen, wife Of a
homesteader near DanitsOn, committed
suicide by shooting herself through
the breast with a revolver, during the
temporary absence from the house or
her husband. No u is known, eX-
cept that the young woman had been
respondent for some time. She was
26 years Of age, and had been mar
ried a year and a half.
Mont Vickere, who is a candidate
for sheriff in Harding county, in the
extreme northwestern part of the
state, is referred to by his friends az
.the largest specimen Of physical man
hood in captivity" This is because
of his enormous size. He stands six
feet and seven inches in his stocking
feet, and weighs $50 pounds. At one
time he was the training partner OF
Youssef, the famous Turkish wrestler,
who later was drowned while on his
return to Europe. Vickere keeps IN
perfect physical condition and is I'M
usually powerful, even for one OF his
great size. If elected sheriff his deal
ings will be largely with horse and
cattle rustlers.
Oscar Tumbleson, a Crow Lake
business man, is arranging to add a
second story to his business house. to
be Used as the permanent lodge rooms
of the local Woodmen lodge.
The arrangements are well under
way for a joint institute, June lO-15.
of the teachers Of the counties II
Brown, Mcpherson, Edmunds, Wal
worth Campbell, Corson, Day, Maj.
shall and Dewey. The institute will
be in charge of DR.. George w. Nash,
president of the Northern Normal and
Industrial school, assisted by a strong
faculty.
The Indians near Forest City are
raising funds for the purpose OF build.
ing a new and larger council mouse
at the Agency near there, for thelr
own exclusive use.
President Geo. w. Nash. % the
South Dakota State Educational asso-
station, who is also president OF the
Northern Normal school at Aberdeen,
has called a meeting of the executive
committee of h association for
March I6 TO arrange a program for
-.,, ,,1otI,S nf hn state 2SSO.