Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-04-02
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

| steps to have washington Incorporate
| ed as q city Of the third class.
| Sioux Falls business men lave ar
ranged for a booster trip to various
parts of the state next June.
Watertown is at work r~eorganizing
its commercial club. A new consti-
tuition and other improvements are
planned.
Corsica baseball enthusiasts have
started a movement to have an as
ISOLATION organized and a team placed
in the field.
At 4 meeting OF Forest City business
men, steps We're taken for the for
nation of a commercial organization
for the town.
Miss Margaret Merriman, for the
past six months society editor OF the
Aberdeen American, has resigned her
position and has re- urned to her home
at Moline, I'll. illness of her mother
being the cause.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the West Miner Telephone
company, at Carthage, with a capital
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Cook, Alfred Magnuson, Edison Olden,
John Hokenson, Caleb Morrell, all OF
Carthage.
At a mass meeting held at Mt. Vern-
on an athletic association was Or
ganized with the following officers:
| President, Prof. Smith; secretary,
Vern Rich; floor manager. Tom Oar
mer. Fine quarters will be secured
and fitted up.
1t is now assured that a new opera
house will be erected at Hartford. Ma
terial now is being assembled, and
active work commenced. 1t is tx
pected the new structure will be COM
| pleted and opened to the public not
later than June l..
The merchants in Aberdeen are do.
ing their duty this spring in educat.
ing the people of Aberdeen and vicin-
ity to the fact that there is positively
no object in making purchases away
from home. They are using newspa.
per space literally in announcing the
arrival of and describing their new
goods for spring and summer.
Five years ago John Haag, a farm
err living near De Smet, purchased a
heifer 10 months old for $12. He re-
Gently sold the COW at auction, to-
gether with several of her calves. At
the conclusion of the sale he found
he had received a total Of $23S.25 for
the COW and her offspring. In addi-
ton he had the milk profits during
that time.
The George Zeire farm, hear Dim
mock, sold at auction the other day
for $115.75 an acre. The farm lies
sixteen miles south of Mitchell and a
mile and a half from Dimock.
Sheriff Jerry Carleton of Mime
haha county and a number of his
deputies made a tour of Sioux Falls
the other evening, rounding up boot.
leggers.
In the annual industrial and agri.
cultural exhibit of Davidson county
rural schools, Elmer Tiedje. of Mitch
ell, for the second successive year,
won the silver loving cup offered by
a local seed company for the best ten
ears of corn displayed. The trophy
becomes the permanent possession of
the exhibitor winning three consec-
utive times.
Arrangements are being made for
the construction of a telephone line
from Bison to Twin Buttes, and even
tually to Cash, where it would be CON
nected with the line to Hettinger. The
line will pass through a region which
is wei settled with homesteaders and
%ranchers, who thus would be brought
into direct communication with their
market points.
One Of the most unique entertain
ments which has been given in Mis-
land was the st. Patrick's entertain
ment given by the Nisland Athletic
club at the Rossmall hall. A high
cass miscellaneous program consist
ing Of readings, VOC and instrument
tai solos, preceded a short play, 1.-The
Editor-in-Chief," which was put on by
the boys of the club.
A railroad man entered the Aber-
deem National bank, and deposited on
the counter in front of the teller's win
dow, a salt sack we'll filled with coin.
Upon counting the contents of the
sack it was found to contain zoos
dimes-$200.50. The man had been
saving up his dimes for the past two
years for the purpose of attending the
exposition at San Francisco.
After partaking of a hearty dinner,
Mrs. G.. j. Kelly. aged SO, wife OF an
employee of the Olwin-Angell store at
Aberdeen, went up stairs to take "a
nap Later, when her husband went
to awaken her. he found her dead.
Physicians say her death was caused
from dilation of the heart. due to ex-
cessive coughing. she having suffered
from a eve cough for several days.
Six little children, aged from 9 to ba-
Dyhood, survive her, all the children
except the youngest, being boys.
DR.. H. M. Finnerud, superintendent
of the Codinston county board of
health, in response to a rumor of a
smallpox epidemic in WATERFOWL, is
sued a statement that there were on
ly ten cases of the disease in the city.
Judge Thomas L. Bouck has sus-
pended the sentence of Frank Secora
to serve eighteen months in the state
penitentiary at Sioux Falls, pending
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