The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-05-21
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

directors association will meet in Mitch
ell on May d, q and Is. President w. H.
Wilson, of Aberdeen, will call the associa-
ton to order on Tuesday morning, May &c.
Mayor A. L. Hitchcock Will welcome the
undertakers to the city. and w. f. Lum-
bard, of Chamberlain, viii respond. w.
II. ~Broadbsnt, of Mitchell, is the secre-
tary and treasurer of the association.
Observation-Disclosures OF the two
telephone systems in I~roquois Is antici-
pated as the result of the conference here
between W. G. Bickelhaupt, secretary Of
the Dakota Central Telephone company;
H. Il. Vollmer, district manager, with
Thomas Tyrell and T. ]. Murphy. presi-
dent and secretary of the Farmers ex-
change.
LEAD-Reccgnition of the First Nation-
al bank of this city, the largest national
bank in the state. was accorded through
the appointment of its cashier, r. H. Dris-
| coll. on the organization committee for the
federal reserve bank system for district
| No. 9, which takes in this state and has
its headquarters In Minneapolis. Mr.. Dris-
coll accepted the appointment and left at
once for Minneapolis for a meeting of the
| committee. He is the only representative
from this state.
YANKTON INDIAN AGENCY-E. Ben
jamin. who for some time has been in
| charge of agricultural affairs on this res
| erVation, his duties being to instruct In
dams In crop raising, has rendered his res
ignation, having accepted a similar posi-
ton in Montana. Homer Red Lightning.
81 educated Yankton Sioux, who is as
good a farmer as most white farmers, has
been appointed temporarily to fill the va
cancy caused by the retirement of Mr..
Benjamin.
BRIDGEWATER The Br~idgewater
high school will graduate a class of seven
this year, as follows. Dettner Divine.
Harry Bernard Garry. Elsie Margaret
Gullander, Clara Emma Mayer, Carl
Nuench, Ray Ellet Rasmussen, Frederic
William Weber. Sunday, May II. DIR. A.
c. McCauley, will preach the baccalaure-
ate sermon; Tuesday evening, May 10, the
class day program will be given. and on
Wednesday evening, May %, the gradua-
ton exercises will be held at the opera
house.
IRoQUOIS-Albert A. Kaye. of Scot
land, S. D., has been elected principal of
the lroQuois schools for the coming year.
Miss Eva 81. Stephenson, of Denver, Colo.
was chosen assistant principal. The other
teachers will be Miss Laura Emery. of
Brodhead. Wis: Grace Gilliland. of Mitch
ell, S. D., and Miss Ida L. Binger, of TIL
lare, S. D., and Miss Hazel Bretz, of War
rem, III.
BROoKINGS-For the past year or two
there has been considerable Illegal SEM
Ing IN Lake Campbell, at the south edge
OF Brookings county, and the local au-
thorities succeeded in experimenting a cou-
pie of the offenders this week and are
after others. Louis Sundet and Gerhard
steruo were arrested and fined $50 each,
both pleading guilty of SEEMING without au-
thorty.
PI~ERRE-There is a standing complaint
that apples raised in the Black Hills Sec
ton OF this state cannot be brought to
markets east of the Missouri river on ac-
count of the freight rates, which are less
from Iowa and Missouri points than thew
are from the Black Hills. The state rail-
way commission has called a hearing at
Belle Fourche on June "a.
BELLE FOURCHE-Camp Crook and
the section it serves has started a yigor-
Gus protest against the proposed move of
the postofhce department to abandon the
star mail route between this city and
Camp Crook and putting on a three times
a week service between Harding and
Camp Crook in its place.
DEADWooD-Mayor N. E. Franklin
and the new city council took office here
before a large number Of citizens in the
council chamber, The mayor announced
the following appointments: City auditor,
X w. Trimble: attorney. N. T. Mason:
engineer, F.. S. Peck; physician, DR.. F. S.
Howe; chief of police, E. Mckinley; po-
ceman Sherman Reese.
WINFRED-At a meeting of the new
town board a 20-year franchise was
granted to the Howard Electric Light
company 20 extend a line to this town.
All farmers along the line will connect for
light and power. Canova has had the
service for the past two years. The
towns of VI Roswell, Fedora and Ar
tes'an are considering a like proposition.
FAULKToN-Public Examiner j. L..
Wingfield, of the state banking depart
ment, has fled with the clerk of the cir
cult court of Faulk county a complete in
yentory of the assets of the Security State
bank, which was turned ossr to the de-
partment on March q of the :reaent year,
showing assets aggregs;..Eg 81 ,3nj.
GROTON-The Epworth league has
elected the following officers for the com
Ing year: President, T. E. Gage: vice
presidents, r. E. Eyestone, Gale Peppers,
Roy Steele, Ed Johnson; secretary, j. j.
Warkentin; treasurer, Miss Wood; organ
LIST, Hazel Mueller; reporter, Ruth Claw
son.
CORSICA Children playing with
matches set fire to the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. j. Van der Linden and for a time
it was feared it would be totally de-
stroyed. A great deal of damage was
done to the furnishings before the flames
were lnSulSne
TYNDALL-The Masons and Odd Eel
lows of Tyndall opened their new Joint
lodge building with a joint banquet. Two
hundred plates were spread. Masons and
Odd Fellows were present from Yank-
ton. Springfield, Scotland, Avon and
Wagner.
WINFRED-Charles Singer, of this
city, has recently perfected and patented
a folding storm window. BY means Of
this window the storm ash can be either
folded or divided into halves. making it
more easily handled without chances of
breaking.
1ROQUoIS-Heart failure is supposed
to have caused the death Of August Du-
bro, a pioneer resilient of Kingsbury
county, who was found LEAD in his bed.
He had not been very well for a time,
but his condition was not regarded as
serious.
PIERRE-In the late teachers
ton for second, third and primary grades
IN this state there were 1854 applicants.
and of these $50 were given second grade
certificates, 1874 third grades and six pri-