Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-14
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

women OF Farmer naNe DeeH Ter
rorized by an insane man h knocks
on doors and throws sand at windows.
A new Episcopal hospital is to be
established at Winner and will be on
Quoted under the direction Of Rev.
John Walker, rector.
Preparations are being completed
for the annual farmers institute, to be
held at Yale February II and IS. A
good attendance is looked for.
The state 'red book" containing
statistics and miscellaneous informa-
ton about the state and state institu-
tons, is about ready for the printer.
Citizens of Interior are seeking to
have that town named as one of the
registration points when the Washa-
baugh county lands are opened to set
Element. .
Accused of robbing cars at Wagner,
Zurich and Casper Staftny, of that
place, were sentenced to three years
each in the penitentiary by Judge R.
B. Trip, at Yankton.
Woonsocket is one of the BEST poul-
try markets in South Dakota. During
two weeks recently local firms bought
137,6O0 pounds of live poultry, or over
seventy tons of poultry in two weeks.
The city authorities of Mclaughlin
are planning to have a city hall erect
ed. A part of the structure will be
used as a headquarters for the fire
department and for the storing of the
apparatus.
The weather bureau report of COZ.
ditions at Pierre through January
show that it was the mindest winter
since 1908. and showed AZ above nor
NAL for h month, with the lightest
precipitation for 81 years.
Losing their way in the dark, Mrs.
Barton Tough and 7-year-old daughter,
Elsie, of Meadow, narrowly escaped
death by freezing. They attended a
literary society meeting in a school
house several miles from their home
and wandered all night owe the prai,
rie in the 10 below zero cold.
At headquarters of the Dakota Cen
trail Telephone company in Aberdeen,
announcement is made of the imme-
date construction of a new building
LII COMPANY . DuSlllc5S dl "dLeIlOWu.
The new structure will be a steel and
concrete building, two stories and
basement, and will cost approximately
500 200.
1t is stated on good authority that in
the spring the Milwaukee Railway
company will build an extension from
Lantry in a southwesterly direction,
the terminus to beat Rapid City. If
such an extension is built the line be-
tween Lantry and Faith will be con.
nected with the main coast line of the
railway at Yarmouth.
President James HALEY, of the First
National bank, and family. and Attor-
ney Charles ]. Buell., with his family,
the party consisting of Is people, all
of Rapid City, will sail on the Laconia
of the Cunard line. February 16, for
a four months cruise in the Mediter-
ranean. A Nile trip is also included,
with a visit to the holy land.
After making a trip from San Fran
cisco, Cal, to Trip county, S. D., in
response to a matrimonial advertise
ment, only to find that Christopher
Larson, the advertiser, would not mar
ry her, Miss Julia Aalberg was grant
ed only 500, the price of her trip back
home, by the jury who heard her
breach of promise suit at Wheeler.
The annual encampment OF the G.
A. R. and the w. r. G. will be held in
Aberdeen June 8, a and 5, according
to the official announcement made by
Phil Lawrence, chairman of the coun-
Gil of administration. Department
Commander Henry Ferry and Depart.
ment President Mrs. S. Nevada Here
fore hav outlined plans for the pro-
gram.
R. F. x. Hewlett, convicted in the
wolf bounty cases at Rapid City and
imprisoned in the federal penitentiary
at For ~Leavenworth, Kan, will be re-
leased On parole in two weeks, accord
ing to information received by his at
torney from the federal authorities.
The Fall brothers, convicted at the
same time, are u during the pend
ency of an appeal.
Work is progressing on the new
creamery building at Strool, and within
a short time the structure will be COM
pleted. The ice house is being filled,
a soft water well has been dug, and
the promoters of the enterprise expect
to be ready for business in time for
the spring production of milk and
cream. Homesteaders in that section
promise the creamery a liberal pat
ronage..
Clifford Walker, a 13-year-old Mil
bank boy, sustained a serious accident
which for a time it was feared would
result fatally. While leading a horse
into a barn, the boy stumbled and fell
and the horse stepped directly on his
head, the steel calks of the horseshoe
fracturing the skull n causing a
portion of the bone to press on the
brain. A delicate operation was per-
formed. and it is believed the lad will
ecove and sustain no permanent i'll
effects from the accident.
By defeating the Huron high school
basketball team by a score of 90 to 6,
the Yankton college team claims the
Etate championship.
The Aberdeen postoffce handled co.
ATS pouches of mail weighing SPLITS,
or approximately PIG tons. during the
months of October and November. as