The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-31

Ipswich, =. D., Aug. 26.-MrS. Marcus
p. Beebe, Of this city has announced the
engagement Of her daughter, Miss IneZ,
to DIR. Ellwood c.. Perisho, president Of
the State college at Bookings. The
wedding will be solemnlZed at an early
date.
HOT SPRINGS - ARRANGEMENTS have
been completed for the Nth annual con-
vention Of the w. G. 7. y. district or
ganization, comprising Custer and Fall
River counties. and the Pine Ridge Indian
reservation, which will open in this city
next Monday and continue until Tuesday
night. Mrs. Lora s. LeMance, national
w. G. II. U. organizer and lecturer, will
be present and will make addresses at
several of the business sessions. She was
a w. C. r.. u. missionary IN Alaska for a
number Of years, and brought back with
her a very interesting collection of Curios
from tina far off land. and has a fund
OF unique experiences with which to
amuse and entertain her audiences. The
annual sermon of the convention will be
given by the Rev. e. p. Johnson, Of Buff
falo Gap.
IPSWICH-Thrashing in this neigh
borhood has just started and yields are
better than was expected two weeks ago.
No hard wheat has been thrashed and
the yield will be small on accounteof rust
OdnldRe. ESIlIldleS EuH lIoul u y
nine bushels per acre. The following are
reports from early average fields: Engler,
80 acres rye, 21h bushels per acre; $50
acres rye thrashed 2.06S bushels, or 1871
bushels per acre; 9O3 bushels barley on
"a acres, at elevator weighed 912 bushels:
one field OF oats yielded 55 bushels per
acre; large field of durum wheat, IL
bushels per acre. Auchampach, $500
bushels barley from 100 acres. Corn is
denting and with three weeks of warm
weather will be heaviest crop ever raised.
Frost will do great damage If early.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. probable solution
and the most probable so far offered, Of
the mystery surrounding he finding of a
human skeleton near here last Sunday.
Is that il is likely that some member OF
4 party of travellers of an early period
GLOWING the old trail from Fort RAN
iall west, became sick and died on the
way and was buried near the 'trair' by
his friends who afterwards proceeded on
their way toward the setting sun. In
Vestigation has show that the body was
buried about the usual depth, n that
the water had cut through the grave"
some OF the bones of the skeleton being
ound on one side OF the wash and
some on the opposite side. No marks of
violence were found.
MILLTOWN-William Rairdin, a farm
II iNluS near Town, was a fcaNy loser as
the result of a fire or his farm. His
dwelling house and all its contents. in
Guiding a new plano. were burned, it be-
Ing impossible TO save anything from the
burning structure because of the rapid
spread of the flames.
FREDERICK-As the result OF a meet
ing held here by a large num6sr OF farm
ers, what will be known as the Brown
County Drainage association was organ-
lied. The purpose OF the organization is
to secure better drainage for this part
OF the Jim river valley. Tit association
expects to reclaim several thousand acres
OF valuable farm land and place it in con-
dition to produce crops.
SCOTLAND-Sherifr Wagner has re-
turned from Murdo, having In custody "A
prisoner named lockwood who is charged
with having committed a statutory OF.
tense In the region south of TyEdaiI.
Rockwood'E wife and two children &C.
sompanied b sheriff n his prisorJsr,