Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-05-07

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Vienna is the only wet town in
Clark county. according to election
eturns.
A movement has been inaugurated
to have a new public school building
erected in Bradley.
The board Of education is arranging
for the erection Of a brick school
building at New Ellington.
About $500 has been subscribed at
Miller by the business men towards
%equipping a play ground this summer
for the children of the city.
Charged with setting fire to a barn
on his farm near Watertown for the
purpose of collecting the insurance
money, Franz Korth is to stand trial.
A. w. Puff, aged 81. died without
warning of heart failure in Florence
at he home of his daughter, Mrs.
John Ronke, with whom he had lived
for some time.
In the near future the Groton city
council will open bids for drilling a
new Az inch artesian well, which is
designed to increase the supply of the
municipal waterworks system.
Mrs. Peter Hartman, a prominent
st. Lawrence county was
thrown from a buggy in a runaway
Saturday morning and died almost in
stantly.
Mobridge is to ave a canning fac
tory, being incorporated by John J.
Klein, Lewis Larson, w. F.. Nailand,
c.. G. Nordvold and VIM. Hid, with
capital stock of 10000.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
June Is, II and IS, are the days Sc.
lected by the board of directors for
the 1915 water carnival to be held in
Woonsocket.
1t is estimated the shipments from
Miller's four elevators for. the past
season amounted to $50, 1000 bushels
of small grain, of which from so to
IS per cent was wheat.
Through the efforts of the CONNER.
cial club at Alexandria it now is as.
sured that the Milwaukee Railway
company will make extensive i'm.
provements to it's passenger and
freight depot in this city.
The Presbyterian church society
has purchased the old Methodist Epis.
copal church edifice at Parkston, and
the structure is being ~remodeled and
improved preparatory to being occu.
pied as the permanent home of the
Presbyterians.
Although so and IS years old re-
spectively, Mr., and Mrs. G.. M. Lynch
of Elk Point have just celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary, three
generations of descendants being
present. Mr.. Linch has for twenty
years been a city official at Elk Point.
Judge Taylor Of the state circuit
court, after hearing the arguments in
the case, has denied a change of
venue in the case of the state VS.. e.
A. and e. P. Syverson, father and son,
who are charged with Irregularities
in connection with the failure some
months g Of the Bancroft State
bank, of Bancroft, of which they were
OwnerS.
Mrs. Ruth Robare is under arrest
at Aberdeen charged VITA shooting
her husband, Percy Robare, with a re.
volver purchased from money she Sc
cured by pawning her wedding ring.
This rather unusual occurrence hap
pened early this morning, being
the elimination of a quarrel and fam
lily troubles dating back several
months.
Children playing with matches set
fire to the COW barn on the Frank
Stefan farm northwest of Lennon,
and before the flames could be
checked, the horse barn, chicken
house, implement sheds, wagons and
farm machinery was destroyed. Mrs.
Stefan liberated seven head of calves
just before the roof of the COW barn
fell in.
A deputy sheriff was in Spearfish
and served notice on business houses
which have been operating punch
boards that the practice must be
stopped. The county authorities have
placed a ban on all forms of gambling
and other games of chance. Dealers
in every city and town in Lawrence
county have had personal notice to
this effect served upon them.
The sale Of an eighty-acre tract of
farm lane near Chester by Sorn Jor-
gensen to his brother for $50 an acre
illustrates the great advance there
has been during recent years in the
price of farm land. Forty acres Of
this tract was purchased only two
days previous at 81 an acre, while
the other forty also greatly increased
in price during the past three or four
years.
What promises to be one of the
strongest financial institutions in the
smaller towns of eastern South Da-
kota is just being organized at Lake
Preston. Application has been made
to the comptroller of the currency at
Washington, D. c., for a charter for
what is to be known as the Farmers
National bank of Lake Preston and
the stock is being generally sub
scribed for by the prosperous farming
population of the community.
Sigvert Michelowski and August
Gruba were arrested and brought to
Webster charged with stealing a load
Of seed wheat from Walter Noviak.
The men waived examination and
were held under $500 cash bonds each
to appear for trial at the next term