Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-07-18
BIG IMPROVEMENTS
SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS HAS
BEEN SPENT ON GROUNDS
AT HURON.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Various
State Institutions and From
Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine State.

Huron.-Over 100000 worth Of inn
provements are being made on the
state fair grounds on new buildings,
fences, additions and repairs. The
new machinery hall is a fireproof
structure with 200-foot frontage and
1856 feet deep.
The new dairy building is construct
ed of brick and contains nearly 400
feet of floor space. A huge all glass
refrigerator and other appliances will
be installed to adequately handle all
kinds of dairy products on exhibition.
Other important additions include
a press building for the newspaper
men of South Dakota, t~reasurer's Of
Zee, concession building, s~ecretary's
office, administration building for the
members of the state board of agri-
culture, and additional rest rooms and
porches On the woman's building.
There are now nearly fifty good
buildings on the state fair grounds.
The live stock barns, swine and sheep
pens, woman's building, dairy building
and machinery hall are said to be I'M
surpassed by any western fair. The
1918 dates are September 8 OF IL.
State Bureau Of Information.
Huron.-South Dakota is the first
state in the Union to take the initia-
tive in enacting a law, as a transition
measure, for temporary relief, in in
terest of labor until better opportu-
mites be accomplished through state
government. This law went into effect
July first and is called the State Bu-
eau of Information act. Anyone, I'M
der this law, can write or telephone
the register of deeds at any county
eat of his or her want pertaining to
employment, as employer OF employee
in any line, or their desire to purchase
or sell any kind of live stock or ce-
reals and seeds. ALI this information
is sent daily from each county to the
state commissioner, who brings to-
gether the man and the job, and the
buyer and the seller, by notifying
each by postal card. This is done
free of charge to either party of the
transaction.
If n want a teacher, stenogra-
pher, hired girl, carpenter or hired
nan or someone to come and bid
on live stock, corn or seed grain in
South Dakota. needs only to com
municate his wants to the register
of deeds in any county.
In short, the law provides the op-
p%ortunity c. free, general, statewide
Information, SO that labor can find
employment; employers may find la
borers; sellers nay find buyers, and
buyers may find sellers.
Job to Continue All Summer.
Sioux Falls.-Attorney R. F. Lyons
of this city, who is a member of the
special committee which is Investigate
ing the different state offices and who
had been home for a few days, has
returned to- Pierre. Mr.. Lyons expects
hat practically the entire summer
will be taken up in the work. The
hearing will be resumed at Pierre and
in the near future sessions of the
committee will be held at Sioux Falls,
Yankton, D%eadwood, and other points.
In fact, the committee proposes to
make a thorough investigation and
will summon every person in the state
who they think can give any informa-
ton. The time of the committee so
far has been devoted to an investiga-
ton of affairs in the office of the Sec
rotary of state, and last week Supreme
Court Judge Policy, who was the oc-
cupant of that office two terms, was
before the committee.