Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-10-11
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Gated by the Northwestern Telephone
Co.
Vienna is suffering from a dwelling
house famine and many more will
have to be erected to meet the brisk
demand.
The pupils of the public schools Of
Chester, are yer proud Of a new
school building which they have just
occupied.
A number OF new business houses
are in course OF construction, and
many new dwellings are being erected
at viborg.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
societies of the Minneapolis branch,
comprising Minnesota and the Dako-
tas, are holding q four day convention
q Aberdeen.
The state insurance commissioner
has licensed to write risks in this
state, the National Hardware Dealers
Mutual Fire Insurance company of
Huntington, Penn.
John Deisch, a farmer living near
White Lake, was badly hurt when 3
load OF fax on which he was riding
overturned. He narrowly escaped hav.
ing his neck broken.
Extensive improvements are being
made to the German Presbyterian
church building at Willow Lakes. One
Of the improvements is a basement un-
der the entire building.
Irish Tommy" Conden Of Dupree,
has confessed before a deputy United
States marshal to the murder Of Joe
NarceIl a week ago. Both men were
intoxicated at the time of the killing.
Sauer brothers. cigar manufactur-
ers Of Aberdeen, last spring expert
mented with raising tobacco upon a
small tract Of ground, and succeeded
in producing a good crop of the weed,
which is also Of high quality.
Owing to the recent heavy rains and
SHOWS, which made the highways i'm
p%assable, the annual Lawrence county
fair, which was to have been held at
Spearfish, has been postponed for the
year.
The plan of sending out pamphlets
explaining the laws to be voted on
at the coming election, proved a fail
ure, as it was found that few citi-
zens took the trouble to even open
the pamphlets.
The McCaull- Webster company has
commenced work at Burbank On a
new grain elevator, which will be one
of the largest and best equipped in
the state. 1t will nave a capacity of
10000 bushels.
w. F. LANCE, for several years audi
tor of the Dakota Central Lumber
company, has resigned his position, eff
feet November /, n has been ap-
pointed city assessor and deputy aud
itor Of Aberdeen.
A much disputed tract of land two
miles wide and twenty miles long,
over which Lyman and Stanley coun-
ties have been fighting for some time,
has ben awarded to Lyman county by
the supreme court.
A football club has been organized
at Isabel and expects to hold its own
with the other teams of that part of
the state. An effort will be made to
secure the Timber Lake team for the
Thanksgiving day game.
Thus far this fall one of the Ben
Glare elevators has purchased and
shipped $4,000 bushels of grain. 1t is
expected the seasons shipments Of
grain from Ben Clare will be larger
than during any former season.
A young lad named Eugene Sta
pies, who is charged. with stealing a
horse near Crawford, Neb., was cap
tured by a rancher living near Ard
more, who will receive the S25 offered
for the apprehension of the fugitive.
The annual Fall River county fair
was held at Edgemont last week I'M
der the auspices of the Fall River
County Fair association. A good race
program was presented. A strong
feature of the fair was a farm products
fexhibit.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
for the Wakonda State bank at Wa
konda, with a capitol of 100000; incor-
porators, T. A.. Heston, John Hart,
Frank M. Thrane. Patrick Kelley, w.
G.. Wright of Wakonda; v. H. Con-
noley, Anthem, Ia.
South Dakota farmers are not de-
penang alLOSetner upon CHelr gram
and hay crops for their swelling bank
accounts. This was shown in Edmunds
county last week, when Peter Lamp Of
Mapleton, Ia. purchased 300 head of
cattle from the Edmunds and Londer-
gon ranch in that county, paying Sc
per 100 pounds for the cattle, or a to-
tai of s17.ss3.
Auto owners who tour South Dakota
will be pleased to learn that construc-
tion work has been commenced on the
Cheyenne river bridge at Wasta,
which, when completed, will give them
a certain crossing at that place. The
commissioners of Pennington county
have filed a plat of certain highway
lines they wish to lay out across the
state lands to secure the proper ap-
proach to this bridge when it is COM
pleted.
Congressman Charles H. Burke Of
South Dakota. vice president of the
last republican national congressional
committee, who has been in a Chfca-
go hospital for ten days as the result
OF a surgical operation. is reported to