Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-09-27
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

A new Methodist church building
has been dedicated at Sherman.
Some redskins near Colome were
arrested and fined for cutting timber
from their allotments.
A report just issued by White Lake
banks shows the aggregate deposits
of that place to be $500 ,43767.
nesota, except on a modest scale, but
because three sets of twins were born
in the town within the past two weeks
The business men of Morristown are
raising a fund for the construction Of
a model highway from Morristown tc
Cedar river.
The city council of Mellette has
passed an ordinance prohibiting child
rem from running their toy wagons on
the sidewalks of the town.
The little town of Volga, in Brook
ings county, is thinking of changing
it's name to Twin City. Not that il
plans to rival the Twin Cities of Min
The new Hyde county court house is
completed and will be dedicated Sat
urday, September 2S. Seventy thou
sand dollars were expended in its
erection.
A fot Of snow on Bald mountain in.
terfered with chicken hunting in the
Black Hills. At Deadwood trees and
shrubbery we're broken down by the
heavy snow.
The Parker Commercial club has
rrNua1 itcolf on ooorooafjOn Of live
wires by raising $3.50 toward clearing
the Indebtedness against a new city
hall building.
Fire that is said to have started
from a gasoline stove destroyed the
general merchandise at Ola, causing a
loss of $4,000, upon which there was
$4,000 insurance.
Two hundred bushels of grain es'
capped through holes in a box car and
was scattered from belmont to Ar
mour. The loss was discovered when
the a was weighed.
The Rev. C. H. Stull, pastor of the
Baptist church at Huron, has resigned
his position and will locate in some
southern state, for the benefit of the
health of members of his family.
The county commissioners have &C
copied the new Bennett county court
house, recently completed at Martin,
and the county officers are now oc-
cupying it. The building is a very
creditable one.
w. J. Hotchkiss, a Beadle county
farmer who was taken to the state
hospital for the insane a few weeks
ago, has been discharged, the hospital
authorities having pronounced him
cured of his malady.
Brooke Howell's farm near Leola
yielded 80 bushels of wheat per acre
from a 6O-acre field. A. T. Mulligan
threshed Al bushels of barley per acre.
The farms are in the northern part of
Mcpherson county.
An invasion of army worms is re-
ported in Edmonds county. The
worms recently appeared in that sec
ton in Nswarms of thousands. wiping
out every spear of grass and other veg
citation that came in their path.
A fire which started in the haymow
NSSSl gu ~ o"AA va -
Timothy Harry, near Bancroft, togeth-
err with 800 bushels of grain. The fire
is supposed to have started from
matches c%arelessly dropped in the hay.
At an auction sale of live stock on
the farm of William Arnett, seven
miles west of Redfield, a graded Hol-
stein COW sold for 500. after spirited
bidding. The COW last March pro-
duced 70 pounds of butter in the 81
days.
Many of the ranchers around Cotton
wood have large watermelon patches
and report that coyotes, which during
the past few years, have developed a
great taste for watermelons, are caus-
ing heavy losses by their raids on the
patches.
Huron is interested in the possibil-
ity of securing the location of a can
ming factory at that place. Chicago
men visited the town the other day
and made a stock company PROPOSE
ton to the business men, which was
well received.
Reports just made by the two banks
which do business at Letcher show ag-
gregate deposits of s264,137.9O-a sub
stantial increase over a few months
ago. It is believed no other town OF
Letcher's size in the state can make a
better showing.
Carl Lutz of Lead is the owner of
a watch chain that is a great novelty
as well as valuable. 1t is made entire
ly of Black Hills gold nuggets, con
nected by gold links, and it's weight
OF seven ounces and 10 pennyweight
makes it worth, for the gold that is in
1t, in the neighborhood of $3.50.
Jimmie Sessions, aged Z, son of Mr..
and Mrs. jeff Sessions, living on a
ranch near Colome, is in a serious con-
dition as the result Of being kicked
in the head by a horse. which he had
been sent to drive from a field. One
hoof was planted on the little boys
forehead. cutting a deep cash and
fr%acturing the skull.
A construction crew of no men is
engaged in laying new rails on the
Milwaukee railway between Renner
and Egan.
Four Brown county farmers, so far,
have entered the competition for the