Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-02-13
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

'Iat the question Of granting saloon IL
censes be submitted to the voters of
Sumlt at the spring election.
The Rev. c. F. Fountain, pastor OF
a church at Pierpont for some time,
mas left for California, where he has
accepted a p~astorate at Hughson.
AT a preliminary hearing at Dupree,
clarence Muth. charged with the theft
OF an automatic revolver, was held to
the circuit court under 81, 900 bonds.
f. H. Albrecht of Madison, Mimi,
mas purchased the hardware and i'm.
PIGMENT business Of A. H. Hevener at
Wllmot, and the firm will bs hnown az
the F. N. Albrecht Implement com.
pany.
James Westmoreland, the Aberdeen
weather prophet, who is a close rival
OF III K. Hicks as a prognosticator,
states that the country may expect
some extremely cold weather a little
later on.
The voters 70 Platte are literally
signing a petition to the city council
WhlE1 VIII be asked to submit to the
votes the proposition of changing the
municipal government of Platte to the
commission plan.
&. d. Haskell, cashier of the First
National bank at Gregory, and w. A.
+. ZutZ, assistant cashier of the Greg.
DRY National bank, have purchased a
controlling interest in the German
American bank of Burke.
The cDpiiticn Of J,Iro Topr,5 IJo1
lenbeck of Fremont has shown some
improvement. He is able for the first
time in several weeks to rest in a re
Ginning position. This is regarded as
a most favorable development.
An important event in Britton bust.
ness circles is the retirement from &C.
tive business of ]. E. McDougall, for
many years head of the farm nipple.
ment and vehicle house of J.. E. Nc
Dougall & Son. and a pioneer nipple.
ment man of the state.
Horses to the value of $23. 900 have
been shipped from Burke during the
past feW weeks, all of them having
been purchased from the homesteaders
and ranchers of that vicinity, who are
finding the horse raising industry a
profitable one.
The report of the government wealth
er bureau at Pierre for January shows
that the mercury did not get down to
zero at any time in that month, get
ting within M of that point for the
lowest. December showed n below
as the low record for that month.
To illustrate the mildness of the
winter in northwestern South Dakota,
Pete Toft went down in a ravine ear
his house hear Buffalo the other day
to clean out a spring, and he found &
fine fat frog hopping about as lively
as though the month was June instead
Of January. A meadow lark is report.
ed to have been seen at Karinen last
week.
People living along Rabbit creek in
Perkins county were surprised last
week 10 find the creek running bank
full. AS there had been no rain or
shnow to cause a rise in the stream
they were at a loss to account for the
matter, but finally concluded the warm
weather of the past few weeks caused
the springs to thaw, and the unusual
food followed.
Ever since the new state printing
law went into effect the contracting
printers have been complaining of the
extremely, low prices, but each quar-
terly bidding appears to show a slight
reduction over the previous one. The
last bidding at the close of January
shows that former prices were dis
counted, the number of bidders being
practically the same as for former let
tings.
James Coogan, a wealthy farmer Of
the North Bend neighborhood, arrived
home from Ireland bringing with him
a girlish looking bride Of 20 summers.
Cooaan is 70. He has been a bachelor
ALL his life VI to four weeks ago, when
he was ready to start back from Dub
lin to America. Coogan and the girl
he brought from Ireland decided to
make the trip together and were ma
ried the day the boat sailed.
1t is reported the Milwaukee rail-
road company is about to institute an
action against the Washington Springs
concert band for the recovery Of a
sum dileSou 10 U6 uue LH6 railway
company for a special train, which
was furnished the band last summer
when it went to Woonsocket to play
for the water carnival there. The rail-
road company claims a sufficient num-
Der of tickets were not sold to meet
the requirements Of the contract en-
tered into when It agreed to furnish
the special train.
A tall, lank stranger, as to whose
identity or vocation nothing can. be
learned, he having told the police that
they should "go to and find out" broke
into Jail at Grand Island. He called
at the Kaumann saloon and asked for
work enough to get something to eat.
The owners had no work for him and
suggested that he go to the horse sale
He had been there, he said,
and it was poor advice. The man left
the saloon and Immediately upon
reaching the outside, hit the painted
on the plate glass front a blow
that took out most OF the main tail
feathers and caused a Carrie Nation
scare.
Because of the small number of auto
licenses taken out in the state for 1914
a notice has been issued stating that
the law requires the license number
every car and authorizing the oun
ty sheriffs to arrest any n caught