Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-01-02
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

The Scotland postofice will be
moved to. a new and more central To-
cation and fine new fixtures will be in
stalled.
The new public school building at
Ravinia is nearly completed and soon
will be ready for occupancy. 1t is one
of the finest in that section.
Titus Heisinger of Parkston market
ed here a bunch of hogs for which he
received nearly $4,000. A number Of
young shoats, all less than eight
months old, averaged 100 pounds each.
The county commissioners at Wes-
sington Springs have awarded the
contract for the construction next
year of eight ste]el-concrete bridges in
different parts Of Jerauld county.
J. T. f. Burns, a prominent farmer
of Garretson, has just completed the
work Of marketing his corn crop,
which he sold to a local elevator. He
received a check for $2,61S.25 in pay.
ment for the crop.
The Royal Neighbors at Pierre have
selected their officers for the coming
year, the list being: O., Mrs. Harvey
Perkins; p. O., Mrs. j. J. Workman;
chancellor, Mrs. William Mundt: V. O..
Mrs. Gasoway; guard, Mrs. w. F.
Adrian; recorder, Mrs. Joe Sholtz; in
ner sentinel. Mrs. M. T. Devine.
Mrs. Oscar Olson is in a serious con
dition at her farm home neal Center
vile as the result of being thrown from
her buggy while driving her children
to school. When found beside the
road she was unconscious and remain
ed in this condition several hours, her
head having been seriously bruised
and cut.
In one day recently a single local
elevator paid farmers of his vicinity
an aggregate of $7,35O.45 for grain
marketed by them. More would have
beer paid out had it not been for the
fact hat there is difficulty in getting
cars for shipping. Grain shipments
this fall have been heavier than for
some years past from Garretson.
The Wagner Commercial club is
considering a proposition of some cap.
i~talists, who for a bonus of $1,000 will
establish in Wagner a Touring mill
having a capacity of twenty-five bar.
rels per day. A committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the matter fur.
Their and report at a later meeting,
when definite action will be taken.
In one day recently local buyers
shipped to eastern markets an aggre-
gate of two and One-half ons of pOul-
try, which was purchased from farm
ers of White Lake, who received a
large aggregate sum in payment for
the poultry marketed by them. This
is the third carload of poultry to leave
there this fall, and in addition large
consignments of poultry have gone
east from that station by express.
immigration Commissioner McCaf-
free writes the office from Iowa that
the exhibit car is being visited by a
large number of people at every stop
ping place, and the picture exhibits
which are put on at every town where
stops are made are drawing full
houses, and that the state is getting a
lot of publicity through the trip with
the pictures and actual crop exhibits
to show what can and is being done.
Efforts are being made to induce
capitalists to install and operate an
electric light system at Bruce, and If
they cannot be prevailed upon to do
SO, it is probable a stock company will
be formed by local business men to
install the system and operate it on a
cooperative basis. Efforts also Will
be made to have a waterworks plant
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equate fire protection.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Hits, prominent
pioneer residents of Milbank, have
just celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary. They were married at
Plato, Ill, fifty years g and two
years, later tool up their residence in
Winona county, Minnesota, and three
years later moved to Fillmore county,
Mimi, where they remained until 1882,
when they took up their residence in
Milbank, which then was nothing but
a little frontier village.
Out at the little town of Capa, about
40 miles west on the railway to Rapid
City, the company sunk an artesian
vel, and secured q flow Of water SC
hot that the residents of that little
place use the water for washing and
cleansing generally without heating 1t
to any greater degree than that at
which it flows from the well. The
company Is now utilizing this warm
water flow practically by running 1t
through coils of pipes in the railway
station and heating the structure with
out any expense of fuel.
The people along the highway from
Laurel to Forest City are asking that
the old time mail line direct from For
est City to Pierre be re-establlshed.
In the days of early settlement this
line was of enough Importance to
boast of it's Concord coaches with
driver and messenger who HANDLED
mail and express for up-river points
as far as LeBeau. But with the con-
%struction OF railway lines the route
was cut down until what is left Of 1t
is now operating with a small outfit
between Pierre and Laurel, with a
gap between that place and Forest
City which the residents are petition
ing for restoration of service.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the Townsend Construction
company at Dallas, with a capital OF
$4,000. Incorporators are l.. f. ToWn-
send, D. W. Townsend and b. A Town
send. all of Dallas.
Figures complied in reference to the