Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-11-26
Pioneer Special Service by Western Newspaper Union
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
John B. Elko, a farmer near Mo
bridge, steps forward with yield Of
300 bushels of potatoes to the acre.
Hurley Methodists, with appropriate
services, have just opened new 3d.
500 parsonage which will be occupied
by the pastor.
Miss Abora Kleinsasser, daughter of
prominent farmer living near Park
ston, was perhaps fatally hurt as the
result of being thrown from a wagon.
A campaign for recognizing the Y.
NJ. C. A. at Mitchell will be started at
once, according to the decision reach
ed at meeting of Is prominent citi-
zens.
Good progress is being made in the
work of extending wires from Armour
to Parkston, by which Parkston will be
furnished with electric lights from the
central plant at Armour.
While riding in a train bound for
Sioux City from Yankton, Mrs. ]. Ford
was robbed of SIG, supposedly by a
man who sat near her. The money was
taken from her purse.
AS the result of scaffolding falling
on him, while at work in the Milwau-
kee roundhouse at Mobridge, John w.
Austin died from injuries received. He
is survived by widow and eight chill
dren.
What is believed to be the largest
barn in Hyde county, If not in South
Dakota, is now being constructed on
the Mcdowell ranch, in Chapelle town.
ship. The barn will be 80 feet wide
and $50 feet long.
The winter wheat raisers say their
crop is getting the best possible start
this fall, as the ground was we'll soak
ed at the time of seeding, with several
showers since, giving it growth
much heavier than usual in this part of
the northwest.
The proposed paved road from the
Big Sioux bridge to Jefferson, 8. D.,
will be made link in the Washington
highway extending from the Atlantic
coast to Yellowstone park, according
to Col. Charles w. Thatcher, promo
ter of the project.
Permitting of dancing in country
schoolhouse is not cause for the dis
missal of the teacher, is the holding
of the circuit court of Gregory coun-
ty, where a school board dismissed
the teacher in country district for
allowing a dance to be held.
Former Governor B. F. Carroll of
Iowa spent some time looking over
the Isabel section of South Dakota,
and expressed himself well pleased
with the soil and the indications of
prosperity. 1t is stated he will invest
heavily in land in that section.
James Waldron, ST., is one of the
first of the farmers near White Lake
to commence the work of corn husk.
ing. He reports that his corn is near
ly as good, both as to quality and
quantity as any ever raised by him in
South Dakota. All of his corn will
run not less than 40 bushels to the
acre.
Two young men who formerly resid.
ed in Storla are fighting with the al.
lies in the European war. They are
Jack johnson and Philip Abrahamson.
Some years ago they took up their
residence in western Canada, and now
word comes that both are in the Brit.
ish army in Europe, having enlisted
in a Canadian regiment.
Engaged in repairing the machinery
at the top of "a windmill on the A. w.
Soladay farm near Fulton, Fred
Waite Of Alexandria did not notice that
the tower was topping over until it
was too late to escape. The tower
fell, carrying him with it. He alighted
on his feet and escaped with a frac.
ture of his right leg and dislocation
of the knee cap.
Sheriff Russell and Chief of Police
Foley, of the Britton police depart
ment, were summoned to the sand
hills northwest of Britton on hurry
up call, due to some angry threshers
kidnapping a farmer. The threshers
claimed that the farmer had not paid
them their wages and took matters
into their own hands, making his a
prisoner and threatening dire ven
geans.
The farmers and ranchers in the vi
cinity of Timber Lake are forming
an organization for the purpose of
systematic Encouragement of live
stock rustling operations" which ap-
pear to be prevalent in that part of
the state, and which are source of
considerable loss to many of the farm
ers and ranchers of that section of
the state.
John Wesley DeKay, whose arrest
in London last week on the charge Of
attempting to defraud the Belgian gov
eminent in the sale of rifles was
chronicled in the cable dispatches, be-
gan his career in South Dakota, where
he lived for many years and laid the
financial foundation for many Of his
ventures. AS the publisher of the
Whitewood Plain Dealer, in western
South Dakota, DeKay first came into
prominence in the early COS. Through
state printing contracts and the NAM
ing of his newspaper as the official es-
tray paper, by which the brands and
descriptions of lost cattle were iden-
titled, it is said that he amassed $780,
900 in his first year there. After sev-
eral years at Whitewood, DeKay went
to New York city.
Mother NJ. Angela, O. S. B., of st.
Martins academy at Sturgis, is dead,
aged 70 years. Death was caused by
dropsy. She had been ailing for ten
years. On Thursday of last week she
celebrated the golden jubilee of her
entry into religious life.
That the 1owly muskrat must have
his rights along with other wild life
in the state is indicated by the arrest
of George Featherstone in Lake coun.
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