The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-06

lanktOn cOlleSe SWamped Dakota
Wesleyan OF Mitchell AZ to 0, last
week, completing Wesleyan's most dis.
astrous season in years.
Nels Nordstrom of Platte was killed
and Hiram De Void. companion,
was seriously injured in an antomo-
bile accident last week
Fairfax has appealed to the supreme
court against lower court ruling to
the effect that at the recent election
Burke became the legal county seat.
The State Livestock Sanitary board
issued a quarantine last Tuesday
against stock shipments from Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Sioux City,
George Cheatham of Chamberlain,
who for years carried Sl.700 in saw.
ings about with him in a grape bask-
ct, is dead at the state hospital for
insane at Yankton.
When a team ran away near Hart
ford, Kenneth Johnson, one OF three
brothers in the buggy, jumped for
safety and suffered brain conclusions
The others were unhurt.
Selam knutson, eighteen years old,
was suffocated when her automobile
turned over near Canton and held her,
face down, against soft earth. Two
companions were unhurt.
A rock blast on the Christ Sem
mler farm. near Armohr. failed to go
nj ,lnr or he
fuse and prodded it with a stick. He
was killed by the explosion.
Bicycle tracks in newly fallen snow
provided Edmunds county authorities
with a trail by which they caught and
arrested Charles Rape, thirty years
old. on a charge of robbing the Franz
Doonan farmhouse.
Francis w. Carlson will get s34 800
for caring for Rev. James J. Heideg.
gen, pioneer missionary priest Of
Salem, this state, according to all
agreement filed in probate court in
/, Minneapolis recently.
Ii is said that the two recruiting
officers who spent two months each
at Rapid City and Sioux Falls recruit.
ing men for the South Dakota regi-
nent on the border, only succeeding in
enlisting seventeen men altogether
Governor Byrne has appointed Floyd
w. Brown of Lead a member OF the
board of charities and corrections, 10
succeed DR.. c. G. Redfield of Rapid
City, who recently resigned to become
warden of the penitentiary at Sioux
, Falls
President III. X Warren of Yankton
college. has been notified of the deatA
of his son, Robert Warren, in hos
pita at Bordeaux, France. lounE
Warren, who was Connected with the
American Red Cross Relief corps, was
a Rhodes scholar.
Police Chief Foley OF Britton, sus-
pecting prisoners because OF prolons
ed singing, investigated and found a
rhythmical attackk on the jail wall
had produced a hole nearly laTE
enough for a man To crawl through.
she escape was frustrated.
The students and faculty OF the
state college at Brookings recently
pledged $3.50 for the relief "ofh
among students in the prison camps
in Europe, which is being conductea
by the Y. NJ. G. A.. the only American
organization TO which these camps ar
open. The students expect to Drlh-
the total contribution up TO more thah
$4,000. which is said to be the largesi
amount raised by any institution o.
its size i'm the Northwest.
Yankton will have new Company
NJ OF the South Dakota National guaru.
The old Company NJ is now with the
Fourth regiment at San Benito. Tex
but arrangements were completed WIN
Major Aldrich Of Sioux Falls for me
formation of the unit Of the Fifth resi-
ment. Yankton has many old guards
men who have taken up the matter
and Major Fred B. Ray. who saw serv.
ice in the Philippine islands, will take
command Of the new organization.