Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-10-30
NEWS OF soUTH DAKOTA
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A new Catholic parsonage is near
ing completion at Carthage. 1t is two
stories in height and will be modern
and up-to-date in every respect.
The Methodist church building at
Elk Point is being remodeled and will
be made into one Of the finest church
ediices in that section Of South Da-
kota.
picking up saddle horses in western
South Dakota for the British army
take all the stock they can get which
meets their requirements. They will
be shipped by train load from Pierre
to Winnipeg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haskell Of Bowdle ara
in charge of the hotel at Hoven, which
was recently taken over by the First
State bank of Hoven on q mortgage.
The property has been renovated and
refurnished.
The Chester Commercial club 10
working on the project to furnish
Chester with a public hall and with q
creamery. The site for the proposed
new creamery already has been So
cured.
Herman Smith, living near hake
Henry, lost a valuable horse in a pc
culiar way. The horse and another
was being driven through a corn field
when one of the animals got down in
the mud. The loundering Of its mate
caused the animals head to be pushed
into the mud and water and 1t was
drowned.
According to a dispatch from Monte
video, Mimi, dated October 20, the
annual meeting of the Twin Cities-Aber-
deen-Yellowstone Park Trail o
ton will be held in that city on Feb
ruary Is and 10, 1915. Officers will
be elected at this meeting and other
important bushes will come before
the delegates.
Prof. Frederick Wick, director Of
the Sioux Falls Symphony orchestra,
declares that he was highly pleased
with the prospects of the organiza-
ton. every member" he said, lis a
musician of.ability and it is very u
usual that so many able musicians can
be secured for such work in a city the
size of Sioux Falls.
The district convention Of the De-
gree of Honor lodges OF the Black
Hills, held at Spearfish, was well at
tended and a very successful gather
ing. Among the prominent visitors
during the convention was Mrs. Fran
ces Buell. Olson of st. Paul, Mimi, su-
perfor chief of honor. Other mem
bers Of the national organization also
were resent.
The South Dakota dairy exhibit ut
the dairy show at Waterloo. Ia. at
tracted a great deal of attention, he
exhibit showing the silo and the ma
chinery for handling the forage ntm
the time it is cut in the field untE &
is stored for feeding. Along with the
exhibit literature showing what is be-
ing done along dairy lines in this state
was distributed at the show.
Chicken thieves are operating with
unexampled holiness in the section
of Elktop. The thieves have become
SO bold that chickens are taken in
broad daylight and are sold to lunch
rooms or traded for liquor at saloons.
Chicken raisers on the farms near Elk
ton threaten to organize an Old-fash-
toned vigilance committee 10 make
life disagreeable for the thieves.
AS a result of ivy poisoning last
Spring, Miss Julia Barry, one OF tf ]
best known school teachers at Lead,
died at her home here after an X
tended Illness. Miss Barry has been
teaching in the schools there for IS
years and was principal of the grade
schools at the time of her death. She
is a sister-in-law of r. II. Driscoll, the
we'll known Lead banker.
Crushed to death beneath a corn
shelter was the fate that befell the
3-year-old daughter OF A. B. Wheeler,
of Mitchell. The little girl, with three
companions, was playing about the
corn shelter, which had been standing
all summer in a vacant lot near her
home. One of the other children mar
rowly escaped the same fate. Death
was instantaneous from the topping
over the machine.
Work along the first Is miles OF the
proposed extension of the South Da-
kota Central extension north of Water
town is progressing rapidly, according
to G.. w. Macarthur, former general
superintendent of the road, who re-
signed that position to engage in the
work of extending the road north from
| Watertown. If the weather continues
fair indications are that the company
will have the grading near enough
completion on the 16 miles to com
mence to lay the steel rails DON
The tragic event connected with the
meeting OF the Norwegian Lutheran
Synod of America at Sioux Falls was
brought to view when the body OF Ole
Aadohle Of Church's Ferry, N. D., was
found III his room at b Chicago
House. MI. Aadohle was a delegate
as a layman to the big convention
which has been held in the city for
several days. He went to the hotel
and was shown his room at which
time he was considered in the best Of
health. 1t is thought his death was
due to heart trouble.
Peter Weber of Union township,
near Brfdgewater, is the king among
corn raisers in the locality, having
| $50 acres, which is yielding SO BUSH
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