The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1916-09-20


saver Of fuel
Awards for agricultural exhibits at
the state fair Held at Huron gave
first place to kinssbury county. see
ond place to Nankton county. third to
Hand and fourth place went TO Min
uehahs county.
About l5,eo0 FISH were received in
Huron from Wsubay and later were
taken to Lake Byron, where thev will
supply fishermen with sport in the
months to come. The fsh we're all
Of the black bass variety
Thrcshins completed in the neigh
borhood of Dallas shows an average
wheat yield of more than twenty
bushels TO the acre. with oats run.
ming from twenty eight to as high as
torty-tive and fifty bushels
At the family home near Dalesbure
occurred the death of John Berg
strom, one of the early homesteaders
OF Clay county. He was seventy-two
years old and had been a resident of
tie county since pioneer days.
What promises to develop into a
battle of statewide interest Is being
waged in Mitchell over the repeal of
city ordinance which provides that
a motion picture theater shall forfeit
its license by charging admission for
a Sunday show.
Despite the fact that this proved
to he an unfavorable year for wheat
in that locality. Ray Rasmussen near
BrdgewateT marketed 235 bushels of
velvet ChaT. threshed from twelve
acre field, which sold at S1i7. netting
sGS19 per acre.
The authorities of Mcpherson coun,
ty are making war on peddlers, who
| have become very numerous in that
part of the state and some of whom
! carry on their business in the rural
precincts without securing licenses as
required by law.
Magnus Lovas, farmer near EC
! fngtcn. has mysteriously disappeared
| The last time he was seen vas when
talking to an acquaintance on the
street He left him for a moment
| saving he would be back Immediately
but did not return
Howard Elliott aud w. n Dahl, ar
rested in DAY county as they were
caught digging up from n cache a
large quantity of guns. flashlights and
other gun men" paraphernalia. were
given one year and six months, re
speCtively. I'm the county Jail
The state supreme court has ts
sued a restraining order on an In
crease of express rates in South na
kota. proposed in tariff effective
Sept. ID An order to show cause
was made returnable Oct 2. when q
hearing vii, be held in Pierre.
Babe" Ward Of Aberdeen made I
record run I'm carrying the war de
pariment message, which was relaye,
across the continent Ward traverse,
the fifty seven miles between Aber
deem and Bowdle in n minutes, al
average Of 465 miles an hour.
Articles of incorporation for a neV
railroad to run between Bell
FourChe. S. D., and Miles City, Mont
have been issued by the secretary q
state. The articles say the line vii
be known as the Belle Fourehe ant
Northwestern. The company is incoT
porated at 100000,
The board Of county commissioner
of Hand county. at Miller. has grant
ed the request contained in a petition
OF taxpayers and will submit to th
voters at the November election tn
proposition of issuing bonds in th
sum of $4,000 for he construction
of new court house.
] Egan is dry" town Since Apr
the question has been in litigation
At that time license election wa
held. resulting In slight majorit
for the drys, which the vets cor
tested. The decision was reached b
r.. r. Winans Of Sioux Falls, who wa
appointed to take testimony.
Dan Clarke. Yankton man. VIII
was found guilty OF assaulting an
robbing Tom Gorlick of Springfield
was sentenced to ten years In th
state peniientiary by Judge Tflpp
Henry Townsend. his accompltcf
pleaded guilty and was sentenced Il
two and one half years.
+. One person was killed and tw'
were injured. one probably mortally
when an automobile turned over oI
the road between Huron and Wolsey
Mrs Fred Hicks was instantly killed
Mrs. Mat Matson was injured IN
ternally and Chris Johnston was -
verely bruised All resided in Miller
4 One of the hardest campaigns eve
mapped out for a football team Is ina
framed by the schedule makers 10
the eleven that will represent Sout
Dakota this fall The severity OF IN
card has forced Coach Blaine NJ
Kusick to plan two complete llne-up'
Johnson of the 1912 Coyotes Is ~
sistant coach
Press dispatches recently state
that King Christian of Denmark va