Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Work has beer started on the new
Milwaukee depot at Webster. The
structure will cost $4,000.
d. l. Williams, a Day county farm
er, hauled a load of turkeys to Web
ster, where he sold the load for
S157.S7.
Albert Hanson, wanted in Minneap-
oils, Mimi, on a manslaughter charge,
was arrested at Webster and held in
the Day county Jail for a requisition
from the Minnesota authorities.
The Martin State bank, of Martin,
S. D., has been incorporated with
$4,000 capital, and T. c. Torrison,
M. NJ. Cummings, Charles Allen and
John j.. Boese as ~ineorporators.
The new State bank of Wakonda is
almost completed and in he course of
a few days viii be ready for business.
1t is built of brick and marble and is
one of the most attractive buildings
in town.
According to figures submitted by
Fl. b. Peterson, agent for the Milwau-
kee Railway company at ~Bridgewater,
SIS, 600 worth of business was tran
sacted at that station during the month
of December.
The Lutheran people of Elk Point
and vicinity are planning to have an
English Lutheran church building
erected there. The edifice will be n
of the finest of it's kind in southern
South Dakota.
In a bitterly contested case at
Clark, G.. J. Miller was granted a di-
vorce from his wife on the grounds
of cruel and inhuman treatment, but
was forced to pay the defendant
81, 900 alimony.
Among the new structures already
planned at Spearfish for spring is a
large building which will be utilized
for hotel purposes and the ground foor
for business houses. The structure
will cost about 100000.
o. S. Basford, state commissioner
of insurance, vas operated upon at
reported by the attending surgeons to
be doing very we'll" 1t is believed
he will speedily recover.
Preparations are under way for the
holding of a farmers institute at
Bridgewater January Is and 10, with
a woman's auxiliary in connection.
A strong corps of lecturers has been
provided for the occasion.
In Brown county in 1912, there were
200 deaths and ass births, a slight de-
crease in both births and deaths
shown over 1911. A gain in marriages
is shown, there being $40 licenses is
sued in 1911 and SAB in 1912.
The Dallas Drug company's splendid
new building at Dallas is nearing com
pletion and will soon be ready for oc-
cupancy. The front is said to be the
anest of the kind to be found any
where outside of the larger cities.
The Commercial club of Bowdle is
making arrangements for a farmers
institute January IA and Is, Hun
dreds of farmers from the surround
ing territory will be in attendance.
An interesting program is being pre-
pared.
The Farmers and Merchants Tele-
phone company, of Elk Point, has been
Incorporated, with a capital stock OF
$50, 900. and w. J. Brownell, Of Sioux
City; w. S. Funk, of Sioux Falls, and
e. Greenleaf, of Akron, Ia, as incor-
porators.
An agitation has been commenced
by some Of the voters of Stanley coun-
ty to have a woman elected a member
of the board of commissioners Should
this be done Stanley county would be
the first in the state to elect a woman
to this position.
Buzzard Basin, which is the latest
town to put in an appearance in South
Dakota, is situated in the ceded por.
ton of the Pine Ridge reservation in
Bennett county. The town has a good
location, with ample grass, wood and
running water. A new Catholic church
will be erected as soon as the weather
will permit.
Death came suddenly to Mrs. Va.
clay Hladky, a well known resident of
the territory near Tabor. She was
recovering from a. attack of pneumo-
MIA. While at dinner she was attack.
ed by heart failrue and died almost
instantly. She was II years of age,
Mrs. Hladky took up her residence in
that vicinity in 1875.
The vital statistics for Yankton
county for the year 1912 record 359
births, 169 deaths and 1916 marriages.
One of the largest families in the
state is that of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Wal
dow, living on a farm near Willow
Lakes. They have just had born to
them their fourteenth child, and now
have seven girls and seven boys.
A large number of farmers residing
in and around washington have or.
ganized an association, having for its
purpose the advancement of know1-
edge of modern scientific farming
among it's members. The following Of
ficers were elected: President, Dell
Fisher; vice president, a. B. Cross
man; secretary, Miss Minnie Rowen.
The W. newspapers Published at
Bison have been consolidated, and on
January the ownership of the papers,
the Pioneer and the Courier, will nass
to the Bison Publishing company.
There is a strong possibility that
David Fahlberg will shol.ly return to
his home near Centerville. Since
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