Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-01
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

ming LOT u good meeting III Indl
town soon.
Continued wet weather has dam
aged the hay crop in some of the
Black Hills counties.
The people of Mitchell are rejoicing
over the fact that the city paving bill
has been entirely paid.
More grain is being marketed In
Vienna this fall than during any pre-
vious fall in the history Of the town.
Corn pickers are busy in the fields
at Bridgewater and n of the largest
corn crops ever raised in that region
now is being gathered.
Sioux Falls real estate dealers held
a meeting and decided to form an or
ganization for their mutual benefit and
for the good of South Dakota.
Aberdeen will have a creditable
looking city hall, jail and fire hall by
this time next year, says Elmer d.
Rasmussen, City commissioner.
The semi-annual convention Of the
United Norwegian Lutheran church
of the Bookings district was held at
Bryant last week, with a good attend
ance.
F. w. Brown of Lead. who has
served five years on the state board
Of pharmacy, has beer reappointed,
and the board has elected him presi-
dent.
The Elks of Lead have made ar
rangements with the Western Union
Telegraph company for a wire to run
direct to their lodge room on election
night.
A district convention of the Degree
Of Honor has just been held at Brook
ings and was very successful, both
in attendance and in interest dis
played.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Knight have
arrived at Hudson after driving a dis.
lance Of 500 miles overland, the jour.
ney having been made in 81 days OF
actual driving.
Fred Ray, a prominent farmer liv-
ing northwest of Kimball, broke his
arm by cranking an automobile, hav-
Ing the spark too far advanced, kick
ing back at him.
The graduate nurses of Aberdeen
held a meeting and formed a tempo
rary organization. Later a perma-
nent organization will be formed.
There are about so nurses in Aber-
deem.
The people of Barnard, in Brown
county, are asking the state railway
commission to issue an order to COM
pei the c., M. & st. P. Railway com.
ro~u 70 prout1o thnn with a station
and al agent.
Fred Griswold, cashier Of the Kim
ball State bank, was making a bust
ness trip into the country and by some
unaccountable mean his little Ford
automobile turned turtle with him, but
he was not hurt, fortunately.
The residents of Ravina have just
celebrated the third anniversary Of the
founding of the town. During the
three years the town has grown in a
very gratifying tanner and now is n
of the thriving small towns Of the
state.
At a meeting held at Dallas by the
physicians Of Trip, Melletteand Greg
ory counties what will be known as
the Rosebud Medical association, was
organized. The next meeting of the
association will be held at Winner in
December.
H. B. Holt of Rutland was badly
hurt in a runaway. The horses were
attached to a hay-rake n Holt fell
under it and was dragged a consider
able distance. The fortunate dropping
OF the pole at the critical juncture
saved him from being killed.
John Matuska, living seven miles
from Tyndall, was a heavy loser
when a neighbor attempted to burn
some weeds during a high wind. The
flames got beyond his control and
swept to Matuska's farm, destroying
six large stacks of wheat and a guam
tity of hay.
Threshing operations are nearing
completion in the vicinity of Gayville.
The champion wheat yield of that part
of the state is reported from the farm
of Freeman Lynch. He had min
acres Of wheat, measured ground, that
threshed out an average of 51k BUSH
els per acre.
The dwelling house occupied by the
family of Harry Besecker on a farm
IL miles southwest of washington, was
destroyed by fire. Sparks from the
burning building set fire to the prai-
rie and it took scores of men many
hours to extinguish the flames. A
great deal Of hay and grain was con-
sumed.
E. T. Taubman of Aberdeen, sover-
eign grand inspector general A.. A. s.
r. for the state of South Dakota, and
the active thirty-third degree Mason
OF the state. has returned from Wash
ington, d. c., where he attended the
special meeting of the supreme coun-
Gil of the southern jurisdiction of the
United States, and also the interna-
tional conference of the supreme u
ellis Of the world which met during the
above dates.
The old opera house at Mitchell has
been declared a nuisance and will be
torn down.
A bad prairie fire was started in
Pleasant Grove township, lee KIM
ball, caused by some men who were
cutting hay. They were warming up