Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-01-07

NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

postoffice during the Christmas sea
son than ever before.
Sunday, January 8, has been fixed
as the time for the dedication Of the
new Methodist church which has just
been completed in Roswell.
Redfeld business men have placed
their stamp of approval upon the bud
get fu::d system, and will operate for
another year at least on this plan.
Aberdeen merchants, in all lines, re.
port a larger Christmas business this
year than ever before in the history
Of the town. Bank c,earings, too. show
marked increase over last year.
Samuel E. Linton, for the last six
years superintendent of the Sioux Falls
Gas company. has accepted the posi-
ton of general manager of the Nash
vile Gas company of Nashville, Tenn.
and left for that city.
| The raZing of one of the first bust.
nees blocks of the city, now occupied
by the First National bank, the wealth.
lest banking institution at Watertown,
will begin early next spring to make
room FOR $4,000 banking building.
Death came suddenly to Mrs. Eliza
beth Kelly, one of the best known of
the women pioneer settlers of the
Draper territory. She died of heart
trouble, almost without warning, at the
! family home five miles south of town.
p,,<1 srh i'm
at Vermillion, who disappeared some
time ago following the issuance of a
warrant for his arrest on charge pre-
ferred ny a former telephone operator
here, has returned and has been ar
rested.
L. w. Robertson, prominent citi-
zen of Fedora, was found dead in bed
at his home, death evidently having
resulted from an attack of heart fail
ure. He had retired the night before
apparently in his customary good
health.
Clarence Schulze of Watertown.
commonly known as "Schlitz," local
bookkeeper of unmistakable national
ity, short, fat and jolly, with face
like JOHN Bunny's, has been offered
$500 per week by Chicago moving
picture house.
A 5O-pound buffalo roast, purchased
through the Jaynes meat market of
Pierre and coming from an animal
taken from the famous "Scotty" Phil.
ip herd of bison in Stanley county,
graced the board at the annual ban
quet of the duck-hunters held in Alb
erdeen.
Bonnie Young, the young fellow who
was convicted at Aberdeen Of arson
but placed under parole, and who it
was believed had broken his parole
and skipped from the state, has been
located. He did not leave the state
or even Brown county. He quit one
place where he was at work and took
position on a farm just two miles
away, where he is now working con-
tentedly.
The members of the Dante saxa-
phone band, which is the only band Of
its kind in South Dakota, have COM
menced work on the project of sup
plying the town with town hall
building, which is badly needed for
public gatherings and entertainments.
The bandsmen will themselves raise
the money necessary to erect the
structure.
Garretson people are rejoicing be-
cause the Great Northern has finally
taken steps to build a new depot and
roundhouse there, conveniences the
business of the road at that point
have long demanded, the present
round house and station having long
ago grown inadequate to the demands
upon them.
Reports concerning the extent Of the
alleged smallpox epidemic at Waubay
have been greatly exaggerated. 1t is
true a very mild form Of smallpox
has prevailed at Waubay, and at times
several persons, especially children,
have had the disease in a mild form
at the same time, but there has been
no serious illness, no deaths, and moth
ing in the form of an epidemic of the
disease.
With many colored electric lights
and large attendance, Deadwood eel
ebrated it's second municipal Christ
mas tree in the auditorium. The ex-
ercises were more extensive than the
first one and were participated in by
the school children with songs, folk
dances and little play, an address by
Mayor Franklin and the distribution of
gifts from the tree to the children.
Deadwood's municipal tree last year
was the first one in South Dakota.
The Lennon Commercial club, at
its last meeting, voted to resume the
Monday noon lunches at the club
rooms, beginning on January 8. The
club also discussed the matter of fur
nishing trees to citizens at cost. 1t
is planned to buy carload of trees
and have them shipped by freight, and
then sell them to citizens desiring to
purchase trees at cost, including
freight. BY purchasing in carload lots,
the club men can secure trees at dis
count of from so to rs per cent from
regular nursery prices.
Thomas Crull, an extensive farmer
residing near Miller, is applying mod
ern ideas to his farm work, and has
Just purchased a ten-ton motor truck
to haul his grain and other produce
to market with.
James Marsh, a prominent old SOL
der of Cedar county, residing just
across the river from Yankton, is
dead, aged y years. He was one of
the few surviving pioneers of the COS.
He lost all he had when Green Island
was swept away in the memorable
flood of 1881, and has since resided
at Aten.
To Draft Ford Peace Plans.