The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

The tWenty-seventh annual conven-
ton OF the Minnehaha county Sunday
School association convened in Garrett
son August %, and is pronounced as
n of the best Cnventins Yer held.
Glen Gould, a threshing machine op-
orator AT Aberdeen. has threshed Owe
$4,000 bushels OF wheat so far this
season, and reports that the smallest
yield per acre was IA bushels. while
some of the grain ran 22 bushels to
the acre.
a tall sustained while going to relig-
iouS services caused the death OF Mrs.
William %Sigmund. wife of a well
known resident of Jerauld county. The
unfortunate woman was 6 years Of
age, and is survived by her husband
and six children.
On the Waletich e Plut farm, four
miles WoSt of Sissetin, there are about
100 acres of buckwheat, when Is i
new crop for that part of South Da-
kota. 1t is thought the field will yield
between 80 and 40 bushels per acre.
AS the experiment with raising this
grain has been so successful, it is be-
lieved the buckwheat acreage of that
territory will show a very large in
crease text year.
A. y. Waters of DeSmet was host
recently to a party of twelve pioneers
In honor of James Hall, now of Stew
artsville. Mimi, and George A. Math-
W of B~rOOkings, both, with Mr.. Wa
tiers, pioneers of Kingsbury county,
where Mr.. Mathews established the
first paper in the county, the DeSmet
News, and Mr.. Hall was an early day
lawyer, a member of the pioneer firm
of Hall & Watson.
The Watertown board Of education
has made a levy for school purposes
which vii bring in a total of $62, 1873,
which it is estimated will carry the
public schools through the school year
which opened this month. This is an
increase over last veal of about So
900. The increase is caused by the
addition of six new teachers. who will
be a part of the faculty of the graded
and high schools.
Mrs. MOulton, residing near Mcln-
tosh, was the victim of a strenuous eX-
perience when she started to drive
some cattle from the corn field. The
cattle, instead of leaving p|eaceably,
turned on Mrs. MOulton, and she was
forced 10 take refuge in a small tree
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The cattle surrounded the tree and she
was unable TO escape until a neighbOr,
a man, observed her predicament and
went TO the rescue.
Mike Dunn, a pioneer rancher Of the
Cheyenne river country, returned from
q horse selling trip to eastern South
Dakota and Minnesota, quite Disguised
with the horse market. He found
prices unsatisfactory wherever he
went, and returned with all his horses
to await a favorable turn to the horse
market. which he declares is at pres
ent too low to justify him in dispos-
ing of his holdings.
Ray w. Oldts, who shot and killed
his young wife in Billings, Mont, and
then killed himself, because she had
sued him for divorce, and his wife
were both from Deadwood. His wife
was Gertie M%arnette, born and raised
there, and the couple were married
there a few years ago and had been
in Billings only a little over a year.
Mrs. Oldt's father and brothers and
sisters live at DeadWOod and the body
was brought there for burial.
a serious hemOrrhage following an
operation for the removal of adenOids
resulted in the death of Ethel Jones,
a popular Parker girl, II years Of age.
in conformity with a new school sys-
ten, recommendation had been made
that a number of pupils be subjected
10 operations for the removal Of ton
sis and adenoids. A Sioux Falls sur
geon was called in to conduct the OPP
erotions. No serious results followed
the operations except in this II case.
His legs and body weare badly cut and
bruised.
DuSilltSS III oIOuh dlls 40 SOllS lOl'
ward under full steam, = postal re-
ceipts in the city. said to De n Of the
most authentic business barOmeters
watched by the captains of industry.
are an indication OF the huge proper
tomato increase over the same month
last year. Without a food Of campaign
literature to initiate the figures, the re-
ccipts for August at the local post
Office totalled l 2,395.23, a gain Of
1857 per cent over those Of the same
period in 1913. The increase is So
996.07 above last years total.
Miss Mildred Forbes and Miss Kath-
crime Miller, Of Bonesteel. who some
weeks ago started for Berlin, Ger
many, for the purpose Of studying mu-
sic, and for whose safety there had
been grave fears, according to infor-
nation which has just reached here
are alive ard we'll in London. They
are expected to return 10 the United
States and South Dakota this month.