The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-10

TO take steps to nave munlclpaI wa
ter works system installed.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. Ford of Fairfax
have just come into possession of a
! Lincoln relic Ii is in the form of a
ANAL piece of linen sheet which was
| used on the bed on which Abraham
Lincoln died.
At the family home on a farm near
Oiivet occurred the death of Stephen
Rames. one OF the early settlers of
Hutchinson county. Mr.. Rames and
family and other relatives reached
Hutchinson county from Wisconsin In
1870.
Lying in . Deadwood hospital with
. broken back and fractured breast
bone Thomas Phillips, a rancher, has
q fair chance to recover and regain
the use of his limbs, physicians say.
Phillips was driving a seeder on his
farm when the team ran away. He
is paralyzed from the waist down.
"Gunny" McAlger, who has just com
pleted a term in Leavenworth prison
for robbing the postofflce at Yale, this
state, has been brought to Huron by
, the sheriff OF Beadle county to face .
charge of burglary with an explosive
! In connection with the Yale robbery.
He waived examination and was bound
ever to the June term of the circuit
court.
The task of raising an endowment
fund for Sioux Falls Baptist college
would be easy If all interested in the
institution would make as great per
rifices as have Leighton. Maxwell and
Ernest Palmerton, sons of Rev B. l..
Palmerton OF Madison, who have do
mated their spotted Shetland pony to
the fund. A student of the college
took the pony away.
According to information received
at Bruce from Laurel, Mont, Caroline
Elizabeth Sponsler, the eight-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Spons.
'"r. died as the result of a woodtick
bite. After the tick was removed the
child refused to eat. The following
morning she fell to the floor uncon.
N4SuS anu ltDidlItu So uHtll u.
She was born near Bruce.
The first fatality from lightning In
South Dakota this season happened
ON farm near Hoven, when Herman
struck by lightning and instantly
killed. Mr. Ahlers was in the field
with his twelve-year-old son when the
bolt fell. The boy was knocked to the
ground and partially stunned, but re-
covered quicklp and ran to the house
and spread the alarm.
The pastors of the Centerville
churches have taken action which. it
| is believed, will result in a ban being
placed on Sunday baseball in Center
vile. The baseball management last
year promised not to play Sunday bah
In Conteryille and an effort is being
made TO have the pledge renewed so
| it will cover this season. Those op-
posed to Sunday baseball may take
the matter up with the states attor-
Hey.
| Through the efforts of the Milbank
| Commercial club a baseball team will
be placed in the field to represent Mil
| bank. Louis Saunders was elected
manager of the team It is planned
to hire first class pitcher and prob
| ably catcher and one or two other
| players. the remainder of the team to
be made up of local players. The
business men and other residents have
contributed literally to fund for
financing the team.
| Reports of officers and department
| superintendent at the state conyen-
ticn of the South Dakota Sunday
School association at Huron indi-
cate that this organization is in bet
ter condition than ever before, both
| financially and as an agency for good
George w. Miller, the state secretary
| reported that in the state there are
603 Sunday schools, with 3.S29 Off.
GERS and 46.6l5 pupils. Treasurer NJ.
ID. Nhisman of Huron showed re-
sources of S4,7l164 and liabilities of
Is4,062O2.
| No names of candidates may be writ
ten on the ballot at the state primary
| election on May %, according to a rul-
ing made by Attorney General C G.
Caldwell Under this version of the
| primary law enacted by the special
| legislative session held in February il
| viii be impossible for followers of
| either Colonel Roosevelt or Justice
| hughes to vote their preferences for
candidates lnasmuch as the name of
Senator Cummins was the only one
| filed In time to go on the Republican
| ballots indications are the Iowa solon
will have the instructed support OF
the South Dakota delegates.
| Notwithstanding that opponents Of
the new city administration contended
that the Watertown Water COMPANY
of which Colonel Lee Stover is head
would control the city of Watertown
under the new regime. the city coun.
ell refused to confirm the appointment
OF James T., Mather. member oS tho