Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26

G. G. Knowlton of Willamina, Ore.
gOn. is a renewal subscriber this week.
A gang of men are cleaning up the
remains of the Palace Livery barn.
Turn out and help celebrate the
opening of the knowlton Gas Engine
works next Saturday at 80.
MesdameS A. A. Arnold, Arthur
Arnold and Theodore Thompson were
Sioux Falls visitors Monday.
The LADIES' aid of the Baptist church
will give an oyster supper on Friday
evening February ,. All come.
Endre Johnson of Mound City, this
State, kindly remembers the LEADER
with a renewal subscription this
week.
Mrs. Buritf concluded her visit with
Canton friends Monday and left for
her home in Madison and was accom-
panied as far as Sioux Falls by Mrs.
Turner.
P]uckett's long looked for Big White
Sale starts Saturday, January - and
all people looking for the best bar
gains that a large store handles should
call at Pucketts during this sale.
Last Thursday afternoon a few
neighbors of Mrs. Lars Bidlar went
over to help her at an old fashioned
rag-bee, and a very delicious lunch
was served by the hostess, about 4
o'clock.
The man who gets steamed up on
booze and goes on the war path
generally gets what is coming to him
on both sides. If a man want to go
on the var path real bad he ought TO
leave his canteen at home.
The first division of the Ladies Aid
Society of the Congregational church
will give a Is cent social at the
church parlors Wednesday, to which
the public is cordially invited.
Mrs. NJ. Bennett, Secretary.
The Wiley Bros. Land Co of Lem
mon. S. D. till Saturday night at
Jacobsons grocery will sell tons of
fresh groceries. Get your 81 ID. sugar
for 81. before Saturday night. Such
cut prices and big premiums is your
gain
Mr. and Mrs. Rampley who have
been living on the Carl Wiggin farm
in Dayton township, left for their
former home in West Point, Illinois,
to make their home with Mrs. Ram
pley'si father, Samuel Neal. Mr..
Rampley left Monday with his house
hold goods and Mrs. Rampley re-
manned for a few days before leaving
for Illinois.
The entertainment given in the
Opera House Tuesday evening by the
"GirlS Glee Club of the High School
under the direction of Miss Elsie
Baldwin. assisted by Mrs. G.. II.
G~ulbrandsen, with Miss Mary Berg
Strom and Miss Lille Sogn as accom-
panists, was a decidedly pleasant
musical event. A large audience was
present to enjoy the singing and the
chorus was especially fine.
The Chraft & Hansen double store
looks as if it had been in the hands of
decorators for a month. The cashiers
Office and desk that was prominent in
the dry goods department has been
moved to the grocery department
thereby improving the appearance of
the big dry goods store, and with
other improvements and broader
shelving the change is as a pleasing
one to the artistic eye, and we pre-
sumo Joe Chraft is the artist, for Joe
has no superior when it comes to
window or store characterization. The
grocery department has been re-
modelled and everything indicates a
decided ncirease in business.
Last Sunday, for the first time in
twenty-one days, the thermometer
showed two degrees above the freez-
ing point and the people seemed to
feel that old boreas had departed for
good. Everybody wore a smile and
ear muffS were out of sight. The
snow began to settle and water drip
ped from house roofs. The weather
continued mild on Monday and snow
melted on the sidewalks. Tuesday it
was warm enough to melt nov rapid
lv and everybody felt like rejoicing.
From December 81 to January u the
thermometer was below Zero every
night, ranging from 16 to 40. and
several times during that period the
mercury showed from IA to Is below
during the day. 1t was the longest
and coolest period ever know in the
state, and all are hoping that the cold
weather for this winter is past.