The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-09-15
NEWS or H STATE.

OF j. +. kissinger, a Fairview harness
maker. his daughter ran the shop.
Fifty-iye families, numbering 200
persons, received aid from the Asso-
ciated Charities at Mitchell during the
period from May, 1916, to June, 1916.
The new high school building at Kim
bail, costing $4,000, and enc Of the
best in South Dakota in Il town Of
KimbalIs size, has just buen opened
for use.
a number Of K~ingsbury county farm.
ers shipped in over 5000 head OF sheep
from Montana, which will be turned
into stubble fields TO Craze for about
two months, and then shipped to mar
ket.
The Sioux Falls authorities and the
traction companies have reached an
agreement whereby the street cars will
not be compelled to stop on the near"
side OF a street crossing for some time
YET.
The Jackson brothers. Of the Rose
bud country, 0 have S26 head of
80 Sf 1&1 ll1AL tAIs IdNN
brought mp from the south to winter on
their ranch and placed in condition
for the market.
The Aberdeen American complains
bitterly that Aberdeen guardsmen are
not permitted to write letters to the
home papers, though il claims guards
alen from other tates write from the
oordes 70 the newspapers.
The threatened rail strike even in
erfcred with automobiling. Some east
orn tourists who had reached Madison
IN an automobile cut short their jour
icy and returned home, fearing the
strike would prevent them from get
ting a sufficient supply of gasoline.
A Yankton real estate firm has dis
posed of IL, 800 acres Of South Dakota
'ands within the past three weeks.
There is considerable activity III
South Dakota farming land in all parts
ali the state at present, despite the
Door wheat crop i'll about a third Of the
| state.
Sheriff T. G. Wyckoff of Brown coun-
y had a desperate encounter with
John Walsh Of Columbia in the county
all, where Walsh had been taken
lending an inquiry regarding his sani-
Il. The man Unexpectedly attacked
he officer and fought ~yiciously before
he was slibdued.
Aberdeen anglers were made happy
~ the announcement Of the park
board that fishing will be permitted in
Lake Minneeho. IN a park at the out
kirts Of the city. every Saturday dur
ng September, between tie hours Of
J q. n ard 5 p. NJ, There are about
1000 too many buliheads III the lax.
Iodine serves many useful purposes,
ut it isn't much good IN an eye To-
ion. A Hanson county man, John Nc
1ormick, had a cindei III his eye. and
be asked his wife To apply an eye 10.
ton TO quiet the pain. 81 mistake
Ms. Mccormick applied iodine. and
Mccormick was nearly crazed by tn
| rain for several hours.
A Witten mar tells an interesting
tale Of a fight between a house cat
l @ia q alil'oltih LIZ say Liz AGl
would tease the snake until il struck,
nd would then spring away. Finally
he rattler's nerve became so ovc9.
wrought because of the tantalizine
ways Of its adversary that It sunk its
angs into its own body and persisted.
A Sturgis young man named Bar
ard was sentenced to two years in the
state pcnitentiary on a perjury charge.
,pon pleading guilty TO having sworn,
n procuring a marriage license, that
his girlish sweetheart was 10 years
Il age, when she was but 10. Tho
marriage of Barnard and the girl was
tnnulled. and Balnard's sentence was
suspended.
There is general rejoicing among
south Dakotans who are homestead
rs and also members of the national
yuard, because of the passage by on
gress. and approval by the president,
# Representative J%ohnson's bill pro.
yiding that homesteader gUardsmen
il the border shall not lose Their home
;tead rights because OF absence from
heir claims on o OF the per-
.ormance of military duty.
Isaac Lincoln. state senator, banker
md large land owner Of Aberdeen.
declares the South Dakota corn crop
1 not yet out Of danger from frost. He
says squaw corn is safe, the early va
| gieties OF dent corn are about u per
,ent safe. late corn is about 80 per cent
safe. But he expresses the opinion
tnat the entire crop will he so per cent
safe by Saturday, provided there is
warm weather and no rain.
Arrangements have been made to re-
tore the twenty-four hour electric
light service at Utica.
John A. Nelson Of Day county was
.rowned in Enemy Swim lake, his body
being found in the water some time
after life was extinct. Nelson was a
native of Sweden, who had lived near
the lake for ten or twelve years. Eight
years ago he was cut in a blizzard and
so badly frozen that all the fingers on