Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-11-13
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

light system.
While enjoying q ride, the ~6-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lutte Cor
such, living near Fairburn, fell from a
horse and was so seriously injured
that she died a few hours later.
A representative Of the Country
Gentleman recently visited Brookings
and went over the State college.
which will be given a writeup in the
Philadelphia farm publication in the
near future.
South Dakota's varsity's versatile
quarterback, John Parliman, received
high commentator in a recent issue
OF the Fargo Forum and Republican
for his football generalship in the
game there against North Dakota.
A number of Bookings people have
experimental with the raising Of pea
nuts this season with excellent sue
cess. There are perhaps a half dozen
people lear the town that have raised
considerable quantities of peanuts.
Farmers throughout Bon Homme
county lave quite generally complet-
ed their corn husking. While the corn
crop of the co.nty was not VI. to the
average this year, the farmers believe
they have no reason for complaint and
are planning an increased acreage
next season.
A shipment of 26O head of saddle
horses were shipped from Pierre to
Winnipeg for use in the English cav
airy. The horses have been purchased
in that section by a Winnipeg firm
buying for the government, and all
are saddle broken animals, coming up
to the cavalry standards.
Postal savings accounts at the Aber-
deem postoffice show a pronounced
gain since the outbreak of the Euro
pean war, twenty-eight new accounts
having been opened in that time.
There are now ITS postal savings de.
positors there, with a total amount
deposited of more than $500.
A safety first meeting of the en-.
ployees of the Dakota division Of the
c. & N. w. was held in>the. large as
sembly room of the Northwestern of4
ICS Uu!luluS dl oo4IS q
large turnout for the meeting. The
meeting was held in the form of a
smoker n the many men present
spent, not only an evening of instruc.
ton, but also one of enjoyment,
Mrs. Katherine Borcherding, one Of
the old settlers in the community of
Hartford, while visiting relatives in
the city of Sioux Falls, was taken very
i'll and died before she could be re-
moved to her home. She has suffered
for a good many years with cancer.
Mrs. Borcherding was 70 years of age
and leaves a large family Of children
who mourn the loss of their mother.
An interesting event at Alexandria
was the celebration of the golden we'd
ding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
B. Anderson pioneer residents of that
section. Relatives and friends to the
number of nearly 100 gathered to aid
them in suitably observing the ami
versary. One of the features Of the
celebration was the remarriage Of the
couple, after SO years Of married life.
The women of Lead were victimized
by an old woman, who made a house
to house canvass, ostensibly for the
purpose of begging old clothes. At
several places she was detected in the
act of searching in rooms for valu-
ables, but because of her advanced
age none of the women whose homes
were ransacked would consent to
swearing out a warrant for her ar.
rest.
In the last issue of Domestic Engi-
neering, plumbing journal of national
circulation an article written by c. F.
Smith, plumbing inspector Of Sioux
Falls is given a prominent place. 1t
is one of SO selected from a bunch of
300 submitted at the meeting of the
American Society of Sanitary Engi-
neering. The title of Mr.. Smiths pa
per is "Sewer Gas as a Carrier of"Dis-
case"
Through the efforts of members Of
the washington Springs commercial
club and other residents arrangements
have been made for the purchase of a
tract of land which will be transform
ed into a beautiful city park. The
land will cost $4,000, and much of this
sum already has been subscribed. A
dam will be constructed on the land
and this will form a small lake, which
will be stocked with game fish.
While burning grass around a
Kingsbury lumber yard a fire started
under a pile of lumber and gained
great Roadway in a short time. The
town has no water supply and for q
time it appeared that the entire town
was doomed for destruction. Calls for
assistance were sent to Tyndall and
Springfield and the fire departments of
those towns responded and with their
chemical engines and other freight
ing apparatus confined the fire to the
lumber yard, which vas only par
TALLY burned.
The fall term of state circuit court
for Pennington county has been post
poned until November II. Quite a
number Of important cases are to be
tried and it is expected the term will
last at least ten days or two weeks.
A number of farmers lear Olivet
have lost q considerable amount OF