Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-05-14
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Cam Valley is enjoying a building
boom.
There are 70 graduates OF the Sioux
Falls high school this year.
A new amusement park located on
the Jim river at Mitchell has been
named Riverside park.
An $11 900 fire struck Ipswich Sun
day when the Ipswich Exchange store
was badly burned by a fire of I'M
known origin.
Public Opinion estimates there will
be 100000 worth Of new buildings
constructed within the fire limits OF
Watertown this year.
G.. A. Christopherson, speaker OF
the house at the last session Of the
state legislature, will be Memorial day
orator at Watertown on May 80.
The Sioux Falls Commercial club
has adopted the Aberdeen plan of re-
curing solicitors to procure creden-
tials from the solicitors bureau of the
club before c%anvassing the town.
The general business condition in
Sioux Falls and vicinity is rated at
100 per ent according to a report Civ
en- out by Babson's Statistical Organ
i~zation, Inc, of Wellesley Hills, Mass.
Substantial fireproof business
houses will rise out Of the ashes and
ruins OF the recent fire at PeeVer, all
the property owners who suffered in
Saturdays $4,000 fire having an
%nounced their intention to build i'm
m%ediately.
Old settlers of Dawson county will
hold their annual picnic at Mt. Yer
non on June 9 and 10. The associa-
ton having the meeting in charge is
in good financial condition and 1t is
planned to make the picnic the most
elaborate eve held.
DR.. Edwin L. Perkins, Robert Per
kins and Miss Mary Perkins of Sioux
Falls are the principal heirs to an es-
state of several hundred thousand dol
lars left by the late Edwin c. Perkins
OF Prairie du Sac, Wis, a cousin Of the
Sioux Falls people.
Hobart Brown of the Mitchell high
school won first honOrS in the commit
ted orations class in the division con-
test there and will participate in the
state contest at BrOOkings on May II.
Miss Hazel Clark of Armour won first
hOnOrS in the ~declamatOry class. The
division contest is the semi-finals for
the state contest.
The girls of the graduating class
of the Pierre high school are in line
for economy this year, each having
pledged that her graduating gown
shall not exceed IS in cost. Other
graduating expresses have also been
cut down to a minimum and the ex-
penses this year will be much lower
han for former classes.
All previous records for special
trains through Aberdeen are doomed
to be shattered on July 9, according
to information issued by passenger
officials of the Milwaukee. On this
date a total of 81 trains are due to
pass through the city yer this Dad.
Practically all the trains will be filled
with Shriners en- route to the big con-
vention at Seattle.
John T. Lee, aged 60, of Haiti, S. D.,
was found in an unconscious condition
in a local hotel nearly asphyXiated,
with a gas jet in the room open. PLY.
sicians by hard work saved his life.
The fact that the room was provided
with electric lights, and that it was un.
necessary to use the gas, gave rise to
the rumor hat it was an attempt at
suicide, but this was denied.
H. D. Rice, for twenty-five years
connected with the Citizens National
honl IF yVafnrtnWn has SaVora6 hi9
connection with the institution, OF
which he was vice president, and with
other Watertown business men will
organize a state bank and trust COM
pany with a capital of $4,000. The
new institution will start business
about June IS, it is expected.
Preliminary arrangements are be-
ing made by the citizens for a fruit
and flower day celebration, to be held
in Scotland the last week Of August.
At hat time prizes will be given to
the boys and girls who make the best
exhibit of fruits, flowers or vegetables
which they a grown during the
summer. A large number of the boys
and girls will enter the contest.
Prof. A. B. Colligan, principal for
some time of the Lesterville schools,
has resigned his position and has de-
parted for Manila, Philippine islands,
where he has accepted a position in a
government school. He has a three
year contract at $1,000 per year for
nine months service each a Mr..
Colligan came to South Dakota from
New Jersey. He has made a good
record as an educator.
Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Robinson of
Philip are celebrating their golden
wedding anniversary. They were a
ried in San Francisco on May 3, 1865.
Mrs. Robinson was born in Liverpool,
England. and, when the California
gold excitement came on, went to that
state with her uncle, a sea captain,
by way of Cape Horn. Mr.. Robinson
was born in Ch%illicothe, O., 81 years
ago. and in his youth lac many pio-
neer experiences in that state. In
1850 he crossed the plains to Cali
fornia.
Homesteaders and ranchers in Stan
ley county have organized a company
and will install a telephone system.
which will cover a wide extent of coun-
trv and ba c~onnected with tho Philin