The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-18
NEWS Of SOUTH AKOT
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

for Sl30,050 worth of new buildings
in August.
y 5-year-old son of Fred Moody o
near Miller was run over and killed
by a wagon.
The proposed Labor day celebration
at Sioux Falls was a failure, partly be
cause of the weather.
The threshing machines operating il
Day county are giving a good &C
count OF the crops IL the county THU
year.
y Mitchell man named Bowers. who
was arrested at Marion. made a hol,
through the roof of the Jail and es
capped.
\ new Catholic church has JUS
been dedicated in the White Horse
district, twenty-five miles southwes
OF Mcintosh.
Edward N. Meade of Waubay, a ru
raj mail carrier u of that place, dice
following an operation for obstruction
OF The bowels. He had been i'll but s
<eW days.
The state game and fish department
has planted 500 black bass in the jim
river just east of Mitchell. The bas:
were taken from a Day county lake
near Waubay.
The Ipswich Suffrage club has beer
making a house to house anvass fol-
members. and only two women have
been found in the town who do no
favor suffrage.
Alcester marksmen have inaugur
ated 4 movement to have a gun clut
organized. and a meeting soon will be
held for the purpose of perfecting such
All organization.
Mrs. f. l.. Huff, a graduate OF the
Iowa State Normal school at Cedar
Falls, Ia, has been engaged as princi
pal of the Dupree schools, and as
sumed her duties.
Articles of incorporation have beer
fled for the Swan Lake improvement
association at Hurley, to make a sun
mer resort of Swan Lake. The com
pany has no capital stock.
The Broohings county fair is pro
nouuced one of the best fairs held il
the county since it was organized. The
present year seems to be a good ONT
for county fairs in South Dakota.
Hos cholera has again broken on
in Day county. Thus far the disease
has appeared en- but three or -four
farms, but precautions are being TAX
en- to prevent it spreading to othel
farms.
Carl Wiedenheft won the first prize
in q contest among five boys in Cor
son county. as the champion corn rails
err CT the county, and got a free triI
to the state fair at Huron as a conse
quence.
Miss Lucille Trott has takeI
charge OF the county superintendent
office at Aberdeen by appointment o
the county commissioners, to FIJI Tao
vacancy caused by superintendent Gu
hin's retirement.
Two years more will find a huge
change in The appearance and Ltility
Of the highways throughout Minneha
ha county and IN five years at The
most the county viii have a network
OF good roads equal to any in tho
northwest, according TO n. 0. Monse
rud, the Sioux Falls member Of tho
board Of the state highways associa
ton.
Expressing the opinion that the
n y, vo;yn co.. Io11ntc II, " utO,l<
be successful at the fall election, ant
adding that it was high time for South
Dakota to get in line and keep up witt
its progressive past, Dr.. Anna How
ard Shaw, president Of the NatiOna
Association for Women Suffrage, gave
TO q weli-Gllcd house at the Aberdeen
theater.
Sioux Falls property owners viii
pay taxes on a levy of nearly six mills
more thar last year to provide funds
for the conducting of the business Of
the state, county, city and schools
during the coming year and TO make
permanent improvements which are
deemed necessary to accommodate the
demands Of the rapidly growing com.
munity. 1t is expected that the total
levy will be 24.92 mills. The levy last
year was 1929 mills.
As the result of having his right arm
CAUGHT in the pulley Of a threshing
e~ng.ne, Frank Hawkins, a we'll known
resident of Meade county, sustained
serious injuries and had a narrow es.
cape from being crushed to death. He
was rubbing soap on the big drive
belt close TO the engine when his arms
were caught in the pulley. The arm
was dislocated at the shoulder, two of
his ribs were broken ann he sustained
q deep cash over his eyes.
September "a and % are the days
set for the holding of the annual meet
ing Cf the German-American Alliance,
which will be held at Flandreau I'M
der tie auspices of the Moody County
Gormania society. Because Of The fact
that he European war is holding the
attention of the COMMUNICATIONS,