The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-03-06
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

The Lincoln County Rural Farmers
n session at Canton. elected officers
ior the coming year.
The Biegler school near Richmond,
II the Russian settlement has been de-
stroyed by FIRE at a loss OF about $500.
The young people gave Furnasi
Lambert and Lillian Leonard, both OF
Faulkt0n, a lively reception when they
ceturned home from Aberdeen, where
hey had been married.
George Rice, a prominent politician
II South Dakota, mas undergone A Sc
cious operation at Rochester, Mimi,
and it is thought that he viii be re
.t0red TO his former health.
The Huron Review is a new weekly
newspaper established at Huron.
crank II. Hilyer is the publisher and
re will esp5Use the Democratic cause.
The two Republican factions are rep
'esented there BY daily papers.
The $4,000 fire ii tie general store
Of II. l.. Clifford. at Hitchcock, is oe-
.ayed to be the result o. a ilre5ug.
Earlier in the evening q pile of burn.
ng cobs saturated with oil were dis
, covered at the rear OF the opera house,
which was destroyed AZ the same time
as the store.
Johnnie Cole, a boy OF Midland, had
l marrow escape from death When his
life was accidentally discharged and
he bullet entered his body. he vas
out hunting when the accident &C.
cured. The bullet entered his left
side, missing the heart by only a trac-
ion of an inch. The wound is a Sc
'ious one, but it is expected he Will re
over.
b. a. T"ilfare's store and the Potter
store building al Butler burned to the
ground at l O'Clock in the morning,
lothing being saved from either build
ng. A family living in the back
rooms of Tilfare's store barely es-
,aped in their night clothes. The But
err Mercantile CO.'S big store caught
ire and was saved after considerable
damage was done to the goods by
water and smoke.
Although efforts have been made to
compromise the matter. the telephone
disturbance between the rural patrons
and the local company at Washington
Springs yet remains unsettled. The
farmers refuse to pay more than ST.
per year for service, and consider the
price asked by the company for the
49, e ~ H.. 10. 1;-I IN,n,hAr nf
forts are being made to bring peace be-
tween the company and its farmer pa
IRONS.
The snowfall of the storm the last
Of last week, while bringing cold
weather to the central and western
parts of the state, also brought a well
come blanket of snow from 8 to 10
inches over a large part of the Mis-
souri, valley counties and those west.
This snow blanket assures the early
starting Of grass on the prairie, as it
lies in a close blanket, which means
that the prairie will be we'll soaked
when it melts.
AS there has been some dispute in
regard to filling the position OF Re
publican national committeeman in
this state by nomination at the March
primaries, A. o. Ringsrud. chairman
of the majority Republican committee
meeting, has filed with the secretary
OF state a certificate Of appointment
Of Thomas Thorson as such commit
teeman from South Dakota to fill a
vacancy. The contention has been
that no vacancy existed.
Many of the leading business men
of Day county are working for the for
nation OF a Day County Live Stock
association in order to %our the
increased raising Of live stock in Day
county. The banks stand willing to
aid financially farmers who desire to
get a start in live stock and it IS
probable a permanent organization
Will be formed for the purpose OF
making live stock raising and d~airying
the chief industries of Day county.
The enterprising school patrons of
Patten township in the northwest
corner Of Aurora county are about to
erect a large six room school house.
The people of this township have
come to realize the necessity for con-
solidation in the country school in
order to maintain a standard Of rurai
education equal to that Of the towns.
The Patten township building is to be
strictly modern in cOnveniences and
scientific arrangements. Work on the
construction will begin in the early
spring.
Several years ago complaints of in
competency on the part of special
agents Of the land office in their work
among the homesteaders became so
strong that it resulted in an investiga-
ton, and the complaints ceased. Now
the same complaints are coming from
the sections of the state where "des-
ert" entries are made. One case is re.
ported where an entryman had made
his HON on the tract for year and
had gone far beyond the requirements
Of the government for such entries,
only to be notified thai his entry had
been cancelled, and he was ~reauired
to go to a very heavy expense to show
that there were no grounds for any
such report. 1t is claimed that the
ONLY justification advanced woc that