The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-09
STATE NEWS

DeSmet-M. 81. Heating. Of de-
Smet, finds tomatoes a valuable crop
for South Dakota. This year be set
out a quarter of an acre to tomatoes.
gathering $50 bushels of the fruit,
which he sold at an average Of 81 q
bushel.
White Lake-The school directors of
Patten township, near here, have COZ
'cluded arrangements for an experiment
in the Capitalization OF schools in the
town ship. A large new school build
ing suitable to the needs of the entire
township will be erected in a central
location. where all the pupils of the
township will receive instruction.
Aberdeen-Tbe construction work on
the Milwaukee's double track between
Aberdeen and Minneapolis is now about
concluded for the year. 154 miles out
of the 2S7 miles of double track be.
tween the two cities having been com
pleted and put into service. OF the
other 1873 miles the grading will be
competed by the time cold weather
comes, leaving only the laying of the
tack for next year.
Yankton-Curtis Haley, a 9-year-old
boy, was a over by an automobile
and received a broken leg, a two-inch
cash in the back of the head and a
tad bruise on the forehead. He was
riding just at dusk on the back of a
loaded wagon and swung of the
wagon just as the auto Turned to pass
around the load. Ii was misting
rain. and the driver of the car, Peter
Hasker, n Ysnkton county farmer, did
not see the boy in time to avoid the
accident.
Brookings-Professor Shepard and
bis assistants at the state college are
busy these days making a chemical
analysis of the sugar beets which were
raised this summer from the world
record seed owned and bred by the
college, Willis it is too early yet to
know how the beets are testing, pres
emit indications are that they will run
. to 9 per cent higher in sugar content
than the average for the United States
Last years beets tested from one fifth
to one-fourth their weight in sugar,
which was an easy worlds record.
Yankton-The State Federation of
Women's Clubs for south Dakota will
be entertained at Yankton, October IA
to IL, being invited here by the Nine
teenth Century club, a literary organi.
zation which has become affiliated with
the state federation. An elaborate
program has been prepared and in
.cludes addresses by the national presi-
dent, Mrs. Anna j. Pennypacker, and
the national secretary. Mrs. Frances d.
Keefe. The visiting women will be
the guests Of honor at a reception by
the women OF Yankton college at the
college dormitory and of the Com
mercial club for an auto trip to the
state hospital.
Twin Brooks-Running about 100
feet after being crushed under q buggy
and exclaiming. Il am hurt" Selma
Marie Persons, the s-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Persons. residing on
. farm near here, dropped dead. The
father was hitching up a colt when the
animal became frightened and plunged
viciously. colliding with and over
aurning a buggy standing nearby. The
little girl was standing near the
buggy and the vehicle fell upon her.
Releasing herself she raced to the
house and fell dead. II lie believed she
was struck over the lungs, foi during
her flight to the house blood ran
from her nose and mouth. A young
.r child was in the buggy when it
was tipped over, and was thrown
violently to the ground, but was I'M
hurt.