The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-09
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

tors OF the state food and drug depart
ment reached the high water mark last
week. Ten eases in all were started or
completed during the first five days of the
week. Eight of these are due to the sale
OF bad eggs by farmers. One case was
started against a hotel keeper for failure
TO provide necessary means of escape from
hre, and the tenth complaint was filed
against a butcher on a charge of MAIN
tanning a dirty market.
PiERRE-The people of Midland have
gone into court with their county seat
contest having asked Judge Hughes. of
the Sixth circuit, for a writ of man
oaiius TO compel the county commission
efs and county auditor of Stanley county
TO place the name of Midland upon the
oailot as a candidate for permanent coun-
" seat of Stanley county at the Novem-
Der election.
hEioFlELD-Good progress is being
hade IN the work of completing the new
depot building of the Northwestern Rail
way company in this city. The structure
VIII be one of the finest of it's kind in
thls part of the state. The old depot
puildipg Will be added to the freight ware
mousse OF the company, and thus give in
creased freight facilities here.
PiERRE-Papers over the state are dis
cusslng the purchase of the Philip buffalo
nerd by the state. There is about $50. 600
''fi ibiiN oilh II "IS utllIS
suggested that this fund be used for the
purpose, and that the remainder be raised
by popular subscriptions. Specimens from
the herd could be sold to partially reim-
purse the contributors.
kEYSTONE-Drew Palmer, an old resi-
dent, deliberately cut his throat in the
pam sight of two other men. Palmer was
% years old and unmarried. Having been
IN poor health for some time, it is thought
that constant brooding over his condition
drove him to the deed,
BELVIDERE-Two good rains. of over
ohe-falf inch each, fell here last week.
which assures a good crop of small grain.
Most of the corn is being cultivated for
the last time. A big first crop of alfalfa
was harvested. and the second is well on
the way TO maturity.
lSABEI-Robert Jewett was killed
about five miles west of here by a bolt
of lightning while he was riding a saddle
horse and driving a team loaded with sup
pies for a sheep camp. His body was
badly burned and the horse he was riding
also was killed.
CLARK-The city council of Clark has
called a special election, to be held Thurs
day, July 16, at which the proposition of
issuing bonds in the sum of $1,000 for the
erection of a combined city hall and fire
department building will be submitted to
the voters.
WHITE LAKE-Fire of unknown origin
destroyed the John Goeres building oc-
cupied by a hotel and a notion store.
Owing to the highly ~inflammable nature
of the contents of the notion store, in
which the fire broke out, the lower part
OF the building became a mass of flames
in a few minutes, the dodgers in the
rooms above being aroused barely in
time to escape.
MlTCHELI-At q pro re nata presbv-
terry meeting here this week of the Pres
byterian churches in the Sioux Falls dis
trict, it was voted to include Lyman and
Gregory counties and half of Tripp county
in the district. The Sioux Falls district
OF the church in the state has included
the counties in the southeastern corner
OF South Dakota, east of the Missouri
river.
PIERRE-The revenues for the COM
mon schools of the state next year will be
sWelled by additional leasing of more
than 100000 acres of state school lands.
The summary for the two years show that
for the year ending June 80, 1913, the total
amount of state land leased was 2,O49. 800
acres, while for the year ending June
80, 1914, the leases had gone up to 2.151.-
439 acres,
CLARK-At a meeting of breeders of
Holstein cattle of Clark county, held here.
1T was decided to organize a county as
ISOLATION. The following officers were
elected; President, G. e. Pickles; vice
president, e. King; secretary, X. H. Du-
n bach, 1t is probable that in the fall the
members of the new association will hold
a cattle show.
PIERRE-News has been received
here of the death in Minnesota of Mrs.
Louden, widow of the Rev. Clarke Lou
den. one of the pioneer ministers of this
part of Dakota. Rev. Mr.. Louden died at
this city many years ago, and the body
l of hil widow will ha hr.n,,rht - t%l;- 80.
for burial by the side of her husband.
MITCHELL-Seven men were injured.
none fatally, when two cars and a ca
boose of a Milwaukee freight train late
yesterday afternoon jumped the track lust
north OF Mitchell. Three cars vent into
the ditch. The passengers We're cut and
bruised.
HuRON-Former visitors to the South
Dakota state fair, who attend the 1914 ex-
position at Huron will be in a strange
place so far as the grounds are concerned.
State Engineer H.. NJ. Derr has had the
grounds resurveyed and rep1atted, which
means that the roads. alleys and all
streets. including Midway and Machinery
Row will all be differently located and ar
ranged. The new plan will make all parts
of the grouds readily accessible while the
artistic effect will be strengthened.
DALLAS-John Fletcher, president Of
the Drovers' National bank, of Chicago,
Will his wife, Is In Dallas visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Don f. Foster. Mr..
Fletcher has over S250,OC0 invested in the
Rosebud country and is here with a view
of increasing these Investments.
vI.RMILION-O. Il. Cushman has re-
signed his position as assistant chemist
with the pure food and drug department,
and will leave in a few weeks for Berkeley,
Cal, where he has been appointed to an
assistant professorship in chemistry in the
University of California.
PLANKINTON-At their last meeting
the directors of the Farmers Elevator
company elected George FL, Barber, Of
Minneapolis, to succeed w. f. Conway as
manager of the company's business for
the ensuing year. The new manager has
assumed charge.
DALLAS-D. A. McKinile, formerly dis
trict judge in Alaska, has been the guest
of f. o. Patterson. Mr.. Patterson and
Judge Mckenzie will make a trip to Alas
ka, and Will probably engage in business
in Alaska at an early date.
PIERRE-The government record of
rainfall at this station for June is 5.71
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