Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-04-23
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA


Charles H. Burke has left Wash
ington and vii! be at his home in
Pierre in a few days.
Articles of Incorporation have beer
hled at Pierre for the Grange Eleva-
tor company at Altamont, with a cap
ital of $4,000.
The congregation of the Aberdeen
Christian church has voted to re.
model their present church edifice at
a cost OF $4,000.
The baseball fans of Humboldt have
perfected an organization and com.
pleted arrangements for placing a
team in the field.
Dudley E. Chapman was found
guilty in the federal court at Sioux
Falls of having robbed the p~ostoffice
at Scotland in October, 1912.
Henry Solem, of Baltic, a promi.
nent resident of M~innehaha county,
was thrown from a horse and sus-
tanned a broken shoulder and a
broken wrist.
The commissioners of Codington
county have purchased land for a poor
farm adjoining the present one, which
gives a total of 156 acres for the coun-
TVS farm.
April 8 was the warmest day at
Meadow since November 20. The
night of April 3 and 4 was the first
night without frost there since the
above date in November.
Home farming for Watertown chill.
dren from s to 10 years of age is be.
ing planned by the executive commit
tee of the parent-teachers' association
lately organized in that city.
G. H. Amcs has been selected as
manages Of the Clark baseball team
for the coming season. Plans are be-
Ing considered to install shower baths
for the use of the ball players.
Arrangements are being made to
erect a grain elevator at Newell. A
milling company at Belle Fourche is
said to be behind the project. It will
be the first elevator to be erected in
Newell.
A fine new Baptist church building
has been dedicated at Lake City with
elaborate ceremonies. Clergymen
from a number of cities and towns
in that part Of the state were present
and assisted in the exercises.
A sugar bush of 100 maple tree,
is located on the farm of G.. l.. Cor
ham in Beadle county, and since a
recent sugaring off this South Dakota
family enjoy genuine home grown
maple syrup like folks way down east.
ness establishment of his own.
Work has commenced on the new
opera house which will be erected at
Hartford, to replace a similar struc-
u which was destroyed by fire
some months ago.. 1t is expected the
building will be completed the latter
part of May.
Chris Scott. of Sherman, is fighting
in the juvenile court an action brought
by the Children's Home to remove his
two children, girls aged - and IA
years, from him and place them in
the home. Scott charges the action
is due to spite work.
Aberdeen experienced it's warmest
day of the year Wednesday when the
mercury reached the so mark. While
there were no heat prostrations many
were thinking seriously of donning
their summer attire in an effort to
escape the uncomfortable tempera-
ture of the streets.
A mass meeting was held at Thomas
to discuss the question of consolidat.
ing the country schools of the place
and vicinity into one school, at a GEN.
trail location. The plan is meeting
with favor and may be adopted. It
would mean a material saving in an.
nual school expenses.
One of the largest families in the
state is that of Mr.. and Mrs. SEVERN
Mentele, prominent pioneer residents
Of Epiphany. They are the parents
of ten boys and four girls. The young
est member of the family is a baby,
born a few days ago. All the children
are healthy and strong.
After being in the hands of the
states banking department for sew
eral months the Bank of Springfield
has reopened for business. All inter-
ests of the Farmers and Merchants
bank have been purchased and the
two institutions merged. New stock
holders are in charge.
The first case tried this term by
the petit jury in the United States
cour at Sioux Falls was hat of Will
liam C. Kinser of Geddes. The YER
dict was that Kinser was guilty of one
count in the white slavery" indict-
ment. The defendant was formerly
proprietor of a hotel at Geddes.
Frank Visa, of Sioux Falls, fell
dead in a drug store there where he
had gone to purchase some quinine,
after telling friends he had not been
feeling well. He was IS years of age
and had no family. Mr.. Visa worked
at the harness trade in Sioux Falls
at an early date and later had a bust
Sam Speddon, prominently known
over the northwest as head of the
Spedden-Paige Theatrical company,
has retired from the show business
and opened a moving picture theater
at Bristol named the Orpheum.
The affairs OF the failed Farmers
State bank of Winner have been !
closed up by the examiner who was
placed in charge when the bank closed
Its doors. The creditors of the insti-
tuition have received their final divi
dend. This dividend was for Il per
cent, making a total of eighty-ssven
cents on the dollar that tho creS-.pre |