The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-10
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

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farm west of Gettysburg. The oats aver
aged 80 bushels to the acre, and fine con-
ditton. On the NJ. c. Hinckley's farm
north of town. the oats averaged 40 bush
els to the acre. William Hoofman's oats
VIII average fully 30 bushels to the acre.
The general oats crop will be large and
profitable. Two elevators which were
closed last year are making arrangements
10 reopen at once because the crops nave
been found better than expected.
PLANKINTON-While in Plankinton
last week w. c. Bate, postoffice inspec-
tor for South Dakota, conferred with the
owners of the opera house block and an
agreement was reached whereby the post
Office will be removed from its present To-
cation TO the ground floor of the opera
house, subject to the approval of the post
office authorities at Washington. Several
sites were considered for the postoffice at
the expiration of the present lease on De-
cember l, and it was decided the opera
house proposition was the best one sub
mitted.
SlsSETON-On the Waletich & Plut
farm, four miles west of Sisseton, there
are about 100 acres of buckwheat, which
Is a new crop for this 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 believed the
acreage Of this territory will
show a very large increase next year.
BoNESTEEL-Miss Mildred Forbes and
Miss Katherine Miller, of this city, who
several weeks ago started for Berlin, Ger
many, for the purpose of studying music,
and for whose safety there had been grave
fears, are alive and we'll in London. They
are expected to return to South Dakota
this month. The ship in which they went
TO Europe was a German liner, and while
making the journey was sighted and
chased by a French warship, which, now
ever, was unable to overtake it.
SIOUX FALLS-George N. Evans, of
Seattle, Wash, has written to the au-
thorities In this city for information con-
corning Mrs. Mae Evans, who is serving a
25-year term in the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary for the murder of DR.. f. L. Moore,
the Seattle man expressing the belief that
the woman is his wife. At the time of her
trial it was stated that Mrs. Evans had
a husband somewhere in the United States
but she refused to give any information
concerning him.
SIOUX FALLS-Compared with August,
1913. the bank clearings of Sioux Falls for
August, 1914, show an increase of nearly
$1.000,00. The clearings of the city for
August of this year reached an aggregate
of $2,Sl1,S1S. The bank clearings of Sioux
Falls during the past year have shown
an increase of "a per cent over the clear
HISS OIL the previous IL months.
KADOKA-The annual Stanley county
fair commenced here Wednesday with a
good sized crowd in attendance. The ag-
ricultural exhibit is the best that the fair
association has ever been able to get to-
gether. Recent rains have helped the late
corn, and small grain and forage crops
are, on the whole, the best that this sec
ton has ever seen.
PLANKINTON-Losing his balance
while working on a haystack caused the
death of Frank Hunt, a harvest hand
employed on the farm of Edward Overly,
in Aurora county. Hunt struck the ground
on his head, the force of the fall being
sufficient to break his neck. Hunt was
As years of age and recently came from
White Owl, where he had a homestead.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the birth of a
baby a few days ago, Mrs. c. c. Holtorff,
wife of Assistant Division Superintendent
Holtorff. of the Burlington railroad, died
Friday morning at her home at Custer,
south of here, aged 3S. She is survived
by her husband and three other children.
The body will be taken to Cedar Rapids,
Ia, for burial.
NORDEN-What is known as the High
land Lutheran church, one of the finest
church edifices at an interior point in
Hamlin county, was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground. The loss is
81 3b,SSp, tlAid ~ DS ~
as no insurance was carried on the build
ing.
Observation-Disclosures by the heat,
Alfred Moran, the young son of residents
of the region near washington, ran away
and took refuge in a corn field, where he
successfully eluded pursuit and remained
throughout the night. TIL pursuit was
renewed in the morning and he finally was
captured and taken to his home.
LEAD-The annual meeting of the Pres
bytery of the Black Hills will
here in the forenoon OF September 9, and
continue over two days. 1t is expected
delegates will be in attendance from every
church organization of that denomination
in the Black Hills.
BRITTON-Charles Rub, a farmer liv-
ing near here, sowed so acres to barley
last spring for a hog pasture and let 900
hogs run in 1t all summer. 1t grew fast
er than the hogs could eat it and now
Rub has threshed 700 bushels from the
field.
LEAD-Nicola Separak, a young wom-
an who conduct a confectionery store
here, is suffering from blood poison, re-
sulting from running her arm upon a pin
which had been left on a showcase by
a customer. Her condition is serious.
PIERRE-A. p. Osgood, an old soldier
and pioneer of this state, died at his home
in this city Friday after a short illness.
He vas 81 years of age. He first located
in the state at Sioux Falls, coming here
many years ago.
PARKSTON-A fine new Emanuel
Lutheran church which recently was COM
pleted at a point three miles from Hillside.
near here, was dedicated Sunday. Vari-
Gus clergymen of that denomination from
this part of the state participated in the
exercises.
DELL RAPIDS-Saturday of this week
has been fixed as the time for the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new Dell
Rapids hospital. The cornerstone will be
a block of Dell Rapids granite, suitably
inscribed.
WHITE ~RINER-Cyrus Long, a farmer
living near here. is in a serious condition
as the result of being caught in a moving
machine after his horses had ran away.
He was moving at the time. His legs and
body We're badly cut and bruised.
D~AyIS-The franchise has been grant
ed to a Milwaukee company Tor the in
stalling and operation of an electric light
system here. The work of installing the