Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-03-07
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

to the towns water supply.
The short course given by the state
college in automobile instruction will
begin April l at Bookings.
A dentist will loacte in Isabel, which
has hitherto been without a repre-
sentative of that profession.
Extensive improvements have been
made to the interior of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Crandon.
The Bank of Rockham has ~consoli-
dated with the Farmers State bank at
Rockham, with a capital stock of
$25, ZOO.
The Milwaukee Railway company
is gathering material at Wentworth
preparatory to erecting a new depot
building.
The annual convention of the South
Dakota Retail Hardware Dealers as
ISOLATION was held at Huron March
4, 5 and g..
Guy Welch was sentenced to six
months in the penitentiary in the cir.
cult court at Parker on a charge of
assault upon Mary Jensan.
r. S. Gilkerson of Armour celebrat.
ed his 92d birthday in that city. For.
ty OF his descendants, all living in the
vicinity of Armour, were present.
Word has reached Aberdeen of the
holdup of a restaurant at Ortley, S. D.,
in which the robber is said to have
secured $40 and to have made his get
away.
]. A. McKibben and his son, Roy, of
Webster, will establish a dairy on an
extensive scale. Full blood and grade
Holsteins will be used exclusively in
the dairy.
The Bridge City Athletic associa-
ton has been formed at Mobridge with
a membership of 21. An executive
committee of five has been named for
the first month.
Women are permitted to vote il
school elections where bonds are re-
quired to build school houses, accord
ing to ar opinion written by Attorney
General Johnson.
Estimates are being made of the
probable cost of a waterworks system
which it is planned shall be construct
ed at Owanka this spring. Such a
Syolclu 10 Oduly u6Gu6Q.
The volunteer fire department of
Chester has installed a fire alarm sys-
tenn and made other improvements
which make the department an eff.
fective fire fighting force.
In a quarrel over some pasture
land, Earl Bailey, a mai carrier on
the route from Meadow. to Haskell,
wa Shnt in tho lar Ir - 1 Q
boy with a 22-caliber rife.
The first dead human body to be
sent by parcel post was mailed from
Everett, Wash, to Pennington, S. D.
The man was first cremated and the
remains shipped in an urn.
w. H. Dudley, who for several years
has conducted the Bradley Globe, has
sold the paper to c. l.. Bates. In fu-
ture the paper will be conducted by
the Bates Publishing company.
The Chicago, Black Hills, Mellow
stone Park Highway association. has
called a meeting to be held at Dead
wood March 81 and April 1. The as
ISOLATION was organized a year ago.
With the object of enforcing the
liquor laws a number of the citizens of
Salem have taken steps to organize
a law enforcement league. j.. w. Glib
son was elected president and A. E.
kaech secretary.
The farmers of Badger who recently
organized a farmers elevator COM
pany, have purchased what is known
as the McKibben elevator here, which
they will conduct in future, with P. r.
Phinney as manager.
Two small boys while playing with
matches set fire to a haystack at Chel-
sea and caused a small sized panic,
for it was with difficulty that the
flames were prevented from spreading
to adjoining buildings.
Warren Alden Lord, a wealthy
young man Of Sioux Falls, convicted
of maintaining apartments for immor-
al purposes, is now in the county Jail,
where he has begun to serve the 30
day sentence imposed upon him by
Judge Wheelock.
While seated quietly in a chair at
his home three miles south of Elrod,
James A. Myers, aged 40, a we'll known
farmer, died suddenly of Bright's dis
East duu AcdlJ dlluIS. ne was SceH
to slip forward and his head fell upon
his breast. When members of the
family reached him he was dead.
New heirs are bobbing up daily to
claim shares of the estate of Ben
Tibbetts, a squaw man of Washington
county, who died leaving an estate of
SIS, 900. Tibbetts had one legitimate
wife, but consorted with SO many
Sioux women that the legality of
many of his ch%ildren's claims is called
severely in question.
A number of the business men and
other residents are planning on plac-
ing a baseball team in the field during
the coming season, the intention being
to have the team affiliate with the new
state league which is being talked of.
Harry R. Robedee of Sioux Falls
faces two charges as the result of
the alleged suicide pact entered into
between him and Marian Erickson. az