The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-09-14
NEWS OF THE STATE.

satile. During the absence from town
OF j. F. K~issinger, a Fairview harness.
maker, his daughter ran the shop.
Fifty-five families, numbering 209
persons, received aid from the Asso-
ciated Charities at Mitchell during the
period from May, 1915, to June, 1916.
The new high school building at KIM
ball, costing $4,000, and one of the
best in South Dakota in a town Of
kimball's size, has just been opened
for use.
A number of Kingsbury county farm.
ers shipped in over 5000 head of sheep
from Montana, which will be turned
into stubble fields TO Craze for abou:
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, now have S26 head Of
high grade steers which they have
brought up 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 it claims guards
men from other states write from the
border to the newspapers.
The threatened rail strike even in
terfered with automobiling. Some east
ern tourists who had reached Madison
in an automobile cut short their Jour
ney 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 $500 acres Of South Dakota
lands within the past three weeks.
There is considerable activity in
South Dakota farming land in all parts
Of the state at present, despite the
poor wheat crop in about a third of the
state.
Sheriff T. c. Wyckoff OF Brown coun-
~ had a desperate encounter with
John Walsh of Columbia in the county
Jail, where Walsh had been taken
pending an inquiry regarding his SAM.
y. The man Unexpectedly attacked
the officer and fought ~viciously before
he was subdued.
Aberdeen anglers were made happy
by the announcement of the park
board that fishing will be permitted ir
Lake Minneeho, in a park at the out
skirts Of the city, every Saturday dur
.ng September, between the hours Of
8 a. m. and 8 p. m. There are about
1000 toe many bullheads in the lake.
Iodine serves many useful purposes,
but it isn't much good as an eye To-
ion. A Hanson county man, John Nc
Cormick. had a cinder in his eye, and
lie asked his wife to apply an eye To-
lion to quiet the pain. By mistake
Mrs. Mccormick applied iodine, and
Mccormick was nearly crazed by the
Jain for several hours.
A Witten man tells an interesting
tale Of a fight between a house a
and a rattlesnake. He says the cat
would tease the snake until 1t struck,
nd would then spring away. Finally
he ~rattler's nerve became SO over.
wrought because of the tantalizing
ways Of its adversary that it sunk it's
tangs into its w body and persisted.
A Sturgis young man named Bar.
ard was sentenced to two years in the
state penitentiary on a perjury charge,
lpon pleading guilty to having sworn,
n procuring a marriage license, that
| lis girlish sweetheart was 10 years
Of age, when she was but Is. The
| marriage OF Barnard and the girl was
lnnulled, and Barnard's sentence was
suspended.
There Is general rejoicing among
5outh Dakotans who are homestead
RS and also members of the national
| suard, because of the passage by on
yress, and approval by the president,
IF Representative Johnson's bill pro-
viding that homesteader guardsmen
| N the border shall not lose their home
'tead rights because Of absence from
their claims on account of the per-
Torrance of military duty.
Isaac Lincoln, state senator, banker
AID large land owner of Aberdeen,
declares the South Dakota corn crop
s not yet out Of danger from frost. He
says squaw corn Is safe, the early va
rieties of dent corn are about Is per
cent safe, late corn is about IS per cent
safe. But he expresses the opinion
| that the entire crop will be 80 per CEN
safe by Saturday, provided there is
warm weather and no rain.
Arrangements have been made to re-
store the twenty-four hour electric
light service at Utica.
John A. Nelson of Day county was
drowned 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
both hands had to be amputated. De.
spite that handicap. he succeeded in