Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-17
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

A movement to organize a better
farming association among the farm
ers of Kingsbury county has been
made. A meeting will soon be held to
perfect the scheme.
The Mothers club of Aberdeen at
the regular monthly meeting adopted
a resolution indorsing the plan of the
county superintendent of the state
for state aid for rural schools.
Alex Bagstad. retiring county treas
urer of Yankton county, handed his
successor in office, C, l.. Lawrence,
cash to the amount of $33,6SS.17, left
over after the years business.
Kicked in the face by a horse, Will
liam Zehnpfenning. a farmer living
near Dimock, managed to crawl into
the house, where his wife foun him
stretched across a bed unconscious
A light taken too near the gasoline
tank of a corn Smelling machine on
the farm of John Schmoll, near Tyn-
dayy, caused an explosion and W.
of the Schmoll boys were seriously
burned.
The merchants of WoonSocket have
agreed to close evenings at $50
O'Clock, and the barber shops, which
have been closing at $50 will here
after close at 8, and will not open at
all on Sundays.
The Northwestern is running a spe.
cial sleeper into Pierre which is cut
Off here and is returned east on the
morning train. This enables visitors
who rr;,r, ~ ,;~Lf t~ ,nSf 11r1iS-
turbed until morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Herrick of Ips-
witch recently celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of their marriage by
holding a reception at their home.
Over 200 persons called during the af-
ternoon and evening.
The postoffce receipts at Milbank
for the last half of 1912 show a sub
stantial gain owe the same period in
1911. From July to December, inclu-
sive, 1911, the receipts were $3,964.36;
from July to December, 1912, they
were ~S4,117.94.
Ed Weber, state building inspec-
tor, visited Doland last week and or
dered the proprietor of the opera
house to install a fire escape on the
building. He pronounced the struc-
ture in it's present condition to be a
veritable fire trap.
John Rauenhorst was located in
Minnesota and brought back to How
ard to answer to a charge of selling
m~ortgaged property. At a special
session of the circuit court, Rauen-
l~-,+ ~J~,I1I ,ri1{r apl uyac CON
fenced to II months.
The Brown County Holiness asso.
citation is working on plans for the es-
Establishment of a mission in Aberdeen
where homeless men may find lOdg.
ing with free baths, a reading room
and other accommodations. Local
business men are lending their aid
to the movement.
Alex Terio, a hired man in the en-
ploy of Homer Harris, near Hum
boldt, fell from a lumber wagon heav-
lily loaded with coal and was seriously
hurt. The wagon passed over him,
nearly tearing his scalp from his
head. Eight or nine inches of the
scalp was ripped loose.
The training school at the Northern
Normal and Industrial school at Alb
erdeen has been moved into the new
wing of the central building, which
is just completed. The new quarters
were especially built for the purpose,
and provide one of the finest training
schools in the northwest.
Some one entered the store of D.
w. Wilmarth of DeSmet during the
night and stole money aggregating
$3.50. The funds were in three sepa-
rate places, part OF it belonging to
Mr.. Wilmarth personally, part to the
Rebekah lodge, and part to the Mod
ern Woodmen. but the visitor found
1t all.
Newell far exceeded any other town
in Butte county in improvements
made during the year 1912. Many
good residences were erected. The
Northwestern State bank is nearing
completion at a COS of 1 10000. A
S. 5000 Methodist church, we'll under
way, will be pushed to completion by
early spring.
A. R. Kortson, county auditor for
Corson county, has resigned his posi-
ton and Ralph e. Smith, the auditor
elect, was appointed to fill the vacan-
cy. Mr.. Korston resigned in order
to take his seat as county commits
sioner, to which he was elected last
November. The auditors term be
gins March l.
Contractor Bartlett is now busy on
the Elks building at Lead, raising the
root and putting on a new story. The
upper part will be used for lodge and
club rooms and the second floor rent
ed for private use. The lower main
part will be made into a theater, on
which Bartolero brothers have a three
years contract. The lodge has a
membership of 400.
Vast quantities of wheat are being
marketed at Memo. In one day one
elevator purchased wheat to the
oro,pt of SO E00