Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-10-04
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NUleS

A 204-acre farm east of Bath sold
at $S5 IN acre.
Charles Bender, an old resident Of
Hermosa, is dead.
A baby boy born at Garretson has
two well-developed teeth.
Yankton college won it's first victory
Of the a from Dakota Wesleyan
university, II to 0.
Congressman Burke has just passed
through a successful operation in Chi
cago for gall stones.
Joseph Narcelle. an 1S-year-old half
breed, is dead at Dupree as the result
of a mysterious shooting.
Aberdeen will send five delegates to
the twentieth annual irrigation con
gress at Salt Lake City, Utah.
As the result Of his bed clothing tai.
ing fire from a cigar, Joseph Anderson
of Elkton was badly burned.
The contract has been awarded to q
Minneapolis man to construct the
basement of a new Catholic church
building at Hoven. The contract
price for the basement alone was
$685..
Leon De Scheuquette, mixed blood
Sioux Indian, won first prize in the
corn exhibit. He is gaining renown
as a successful farmer, and is making
a better record than many white
farmers.
The people of Mellette have petit
toned the state railroad commission
for a connecting track between the
lines of the Minneapolis and st. Louis
railway, and the Milwaukee road at
that place.
The canning factory at Parkston Is
proving a great success and has be-
come an important factor in the pros.
perity of the farmers of this vicinity.
The seasons product of the factory
will lie about 100000 cans.
An important event at Canton was
the laying of the cornerstone of a new
Masonic temple, now in course of con.
struction. Leading Masons of the
state were present and the ceremonies
we're of an elaborate character.
The postofhce at Isabel, in Dewey
county, has added a new assortment OF
lock boxes to ats equipment, making
341 altogether, and illustrating the
growth of that 1ourishing new town in
the homestead section of the state.
H. F. Patterson, superintendent Of
the South Dakota Better Farming as
scciation, estimates the total value Of
the poultry in Brown county at $685.
600. He estimates there are $4,000
chickens, 29,350 turkeys, 22,630 ducks
and geese and 6,27O other fowls in the
county.
A committee of the Black Hills Pho
neer association has selected a point
on the new Deadwood-Spearfish high
way as the site for a monument to the
memory Of Rev. Henry Smith, the first
SKY pilot to take up his residence in
the Black Hills, who was killed by
Indians in July, 1876.
The Methodidts of Sherman, a small
town in Minnehaha county, have just
dedicated their new church building, a
small but neat edifice. The Rev. E. f.
Hunt. pastor of the Methodist church
at Canton preached the dedicatory SER
mon, and about $3.50 was pledged to
clear off the remaining Indebtedness of
the church.
After partaking freely of a cake
baked AZ a B~rookings home, several
people became violently i'll. Medical
assistance was summoned, and after
treatment the sick people were re-
lieved. Afterward it was discovered
that a large quantity of tartar emetic,
an active poison, had been placed in
the cake instead Of cream of tartar,
as the cake baker intended.
Thieves pried open a window In the
store of Florence Mercantile COM
pany's establishment at Florence and
broke open the cash register, getting
SIS in cash. They also helped them
selves to dry goods. clothing, shoes,
tobacco and other articles, and es-
capped by the back door. The rob-
bers are believed to be amateurs, but
there is no clue to their identity.
VIM. Lightfoot, a farmer living near
Newark, went to the expense Of a
Journey to Britton for the purpose of
securing farm hands. He secured two
and paid their expenses from Britton
to his farm, the party being compelled
to remain at a hotel here over night.
The two men worked half a day and
then disappeared. Other farmers re-
port somewhat similar experiences.
The citizens generally are contrib
uting literally to a fund for the cX-
tensive Improvement of the Methodist
church building at Langford.
While the Panama canal will be
opened to traffic in about a year, it
may not be completed entirely until a
year later according to Clarence Lang
ley, a civil engineer in the employ Of
the government at Panama, who is
visiting his brother in Clark. The
government allows it's employees on
the canal six weeks vacation each
year. and Mr.. Langley decided to
spend his vacation ct Clark.
j. s.. Zook, of Columbia. vas as.
saulted and robbed by w men at Alb
erdoen.