The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-01
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Westerns pumping plant on the Yer
million river, near the Centerville mil
last week.
Parker is organizing new city
band. Twenty-eight pieces have al
ready been secured and more are ex
pected to join.
Eighty-six tons of steel rails have
been received at Mitchell for the con
struction of the new Mitchell street
railway system.
A crew of NJ. & st. L. carpenters
were in Stratford last week building
platform along a side track for use
OF freight traffic.
On September s, Canton will have
auto races. c. A. Peterson of Sioux
City has made arrangements for three
races to be held on the fair grounds
on that date, with purses aggregatine
$4,000.
The Yankton and Northwestern Rail
road company. with s2,000,000 capital
has been chartered by the secretary OF
state. This company proposes to built
railroad line from Yankton to Wa
tertown.
Farmers in the northern section O,
Union county and southern portion ol
Lincoln county report the appearance
OF the army worm-a crop pest which
has not appeared in South Dakota il
many years.
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larger cities in southwest South Da
kota which shows a healthy gain ir
population by the new census. Ant
the gain is showing right now beyone
any other time in its history.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
TO rob the Ross store at the Sissetor
Agency. Early in the morning Mrs
Ross was aroused by the intruders
but they were alarmed and ESCAPED
before they had time to take ANYTHING
While riding horseback over his
ranch on the Little Powder river, in
Montana, northwest of Deadwood. vii
lis Mossman, aged 20, of Deadwood
was pitched over the animals head
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death
The railroads will be able to handle
the Dakota grain crop without any
congestion of traffic, according to G.
w. Heinecke, travelling freight aqen,
for the Minneapolis and st. Louis rail
road, who was in Aberdeen on bust
ness.
The harvest festival held at Bridge
water during last week proved quite
an attraction, although the attendance
was cut down quite materially from
the fact that the farmers were toe
busy stacking and threshing to fine
time to attend
The government snagboat McPher
son passed through Yankton from
Sioux City for Runningwater. Or
board was Joseph M. Hanson of Yank
ton, the first passenger from Siou,
City to Yankton by steamboat foI
twenty-five years.
The Canova city we'll has been fin
1shed and the pumping test showed
that with the pump cylinder down l4t
feet it was discharging at the rate O
4o gallons minute. The well is 400
feet deep, cased with eight-inch pipe
to the bottom.
Reports come from Custer county
stating that elk and buffalo in the re
serve are destroying the crops of the
farmers whose land is inside the re
serve. The animals are not restrained
by an ordinary fence and the farmers
ere puzzled what to co.
The building improvements in Sioux
Falls, including structures. street
work, and other permanent improye
ments. completed since the first of Jan.
uary or under contract for immediate
completion, have now at the end O,
eight months reached sum exceeding
million and a third dollars.
Monday, August %, marked the fiji.
heth anniversary of the marriage OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kent of Bridge.
water, They have eight great grand
children and eight grandchildren. The
occasion was celebrated in a quiet way,
Mr.. Kent. who is IS years of age. is n
veteran of the Civil War. Mrs. Kent
is 20 years old
Arrangements have practically been
completed for the installation of a cen.
tral plant from which the towns of yo
lin, Gayville and Mission Hill will be
lighted by electricity. The central
plant will be located in Violin. Farm
ers between Violin and Gayville and
Mission Hill also will be able to secure
electricity for lighting purposes from
the system. The system will be in
stalled and operated by syndicate of
Sioux Falls men.
A splendid schedule for football
games has been arranged for the Alb
erdeen high school team. The opening
game will be with Britton at Aberdeen.
but the finish of the season will see
the Huron high school on the local
gridiron on November %. The sched.
ule follows: September 25, Brittou at
Aberdeen; October 2, Groton at Gro