Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-10-18
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NUIeS

tuo toWh OlllClulo Sdl arrange Ilo
proposition satisfactorily.
Fifteen of the local musicians have
organized a band at\Dimock with Geo.
Faust leader and instructor.
The Lawrence County Bar associa-
ton has elected A. j. Plowman presi-
The elevator men at Wilmot have
been wrangling among themselves
over prices paid by independent buy
ers.
The postofice at Eagle Butte will
be housed in a new building soon. The
News will occupy part of the struc-
ture.
The new city hall at Mobridge is
nearing completion. 1t cost nearly
$4,000 and is very conveniently ar
ranged.
A number of new residences are be-
ing erected to accommodate those
who wish to become permanent resi-
dents of Dimock.
The material for the new s%tandpipe
being built by the city of Mobridge is
On the ground and construction work
is well under way.
Two hundred and twenty-three
head of cattle, which Ralph Wiley of
Summit sold recently to Minnesota
men. brought $10,4S3.35.
Two automobile loads Of Lennon
, people Travelled across country to
Dickinson, N. D., where they were in
itiated into the Elk lodge.
The state law against peddlers re.
sky, was found guilty of %peddling with
out a license and fined $25.
A movement has been inaugurated
to have al old peoples home erected
Inc conducted in connection with the
orphans home at Beresford.
August schlepp, a bollermaker for
the Milwaukee road at Mobridge, was
severely injured when a scaffold on
which he was working gave way.
Rains during the past few weeks
have made the fall ~pasturage in the
vicinity Of Memo the best for some
years. Cattle are growing fat on the
abundant feed.
o. A. Brictson, manufacturer Of an
automobile tire, has concluded to con
tinue his factory at Bookings, al
though he for a time considered an
offer to remove to Minneapolis.
The Rev. A. U. Baer, pastor of the
Congregational church at Webster for
the past year, has removed to Glas-
cow, Mont, where he will assume the
y>ocforofo - thu T0p opoooti0ro oil
church there.
Sheriff Koch of Hutchinson county
arrested a peddler at Memo who was
found without the necessary license
under a state law. When taken into a
local court a fine and costs amount
ing to $50 was assessed.
A term Of state circuit court for
Trip county which was to have con-
vened at Winner last week, a been
adjourned until the second Tuesday
in January, there being but few
cases to be disposed of.
The first prairie fire this fall in the
vicinity of Henry, swept over a con-
siderable e 1t started on a school
section and burned over adjoining
farms. One Of the losers was Jesse
Johnston, whose hay was burned.
State Engineer S. H. Lea Of this
state was selected as third vice presi-
lent of the National Irrigation con-
gress which has just closed it's work
at Sale Lake City. c. L. Mellette of
Fort Pierre was selected as one of the
executive committee of that o%rganiza-
ton.
Some years ago F. E. Cochrane pur-
chased a farm Of 100 acres near Clark
for $500. This year he sold his half
of the small grain crop for $S21-
more han the farm cost him in the
first place. In addition he will have
half of the corn crop raised this year
on 40 acres.
The new Catholic parochial school
at Bonesteel has been opened, with a
good enrolment. The school is in
charge of members of the Catholic
Sisterhood, who came here from
Sturgis. The people of Bonesteel do
mated many articles with which to fit
up the school.
Colonel George N. Davis of Dewitt
township, Perkins county, is endeav
oring to purchase 5000 or 1000 acres
Of land in a body for the purpose of To-
eating a colony of Illinois people On
it. The %colonists are all Of German
descent, and are DESTROYS of securing
the land in a body.
In n day recently 40 carloads Of
cattle were shipped to eastern mar
kets from Belle Fourche. While the
range is limited in that vicinity, for
merly in the heart of the great cattle
range country of western South Da-
kota, the ranchers and farmers who
have occupied the region are devoting
a great deal of their attention to cat
tie raising on a small scale.
Yankton county proposes to get into
the good roads class and is o en-
gagged in building 81 new bridges;
while the grading camps are reducing
hills and filing in the low places in a
way the county has never before ex-