Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-31
A base hospital with 500 beds is
being planned for South Dakota.

A base hospital with 500 beds is
oeing planned for South Dakota.
The highest recorded price for wool
on the South Dakota ranges. 52R
cents per pound, was paid recently for
a clip of 1900 pounds near Belle
Fourche.
A check for $17,100 was what Man
tiger Versteeg Of the Redfield Flour
Mill company gave A. L. Bancroft, a
Sphinx county farmer, recently in ex
change for some 1914 and 1915 wheat.
This is the largest payment eve
made by Mr.. Versteeg to a farmer at
one time in his twenty-five years in
the grain buying business.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
land l11.30G acres in eleven counties
of South Dakota. The greater part of
the area in the following counties are
believed to be available for new home
steaders: Trip county, $500 acres;
Perkins county, $4,000 acres, and
Gregory county, 1880 acres.
AS the result of swallowing some
unknown object the ten.months-old
baby boy of Mr.. and Mrs. e. G. Dehart
of st. Lawrence strangled to death.
The little boy was playing On the floor
with an older child, when the latter
called to the mother that something
was wrong with the baby. The little
fellow breathed his last as the mother
raised him from the floor,
County Judge W. F. Eddy at Bison
has just ordered the distribution Of
the estate OF the late Claude Heron,
who was shot to death in an alterca-
ton with Frank Bell in 1914. The
widow, Nellie Heron, received one
third of the estate, which totals about
$4,000, and each of the eight chill
dren received one-twelfth of the prop
erty. The father of the dead man
was appointed guardian of the minor
children.
Because of the shortage of eggs
and poultry State Food Commissioner
Frary this veal will set rooster kill
ing day" much later than usual, so
the maximum number of chickens may
be produced. The late spring has de-
layed Matching and the commissioner
urges each farmer to set at least one
extra hen. If this is done on each Of
the 100, 900 occupied farms of the
state it is estimated that 1000, 900
pounds OF poultry will be added to the
normal production.
d. l.. Roberts Of Belle Fourche has
received a message from England stat
ing that his sister. Miss Jnenie Rob.
erts, was one OF the nurses drowned
on the i'll fated hospital ship Salta,
sunk April 10 by a German submarine
in the North sea. Miss Roberts had
been on duty in Egypt, but was home
for a vacation of thirty days. The va
cation was terminated in a week ny
orders to again report in Egypt and
she was Of her way to the Mediter-
ranean when the hospital ship was
sunk.
Will Trapp of Milbank has received
a cablegram from England stating that
his nephew J.. q. Ferry, formerly of.
MilbanE. had been killed in action in
France. He left four years ago for
Canada 10 hold down a claim and en-
listed in the Canadian infantry a year
ago. Last fall he vas shot in the
head, but recovered and returned to
the trenches. Mr.. Ferry is a brother
of Earl Ferry west of Miibank and a
nephew of VIII and Herman Trapp,
Mrs, ReTkner and Mrs. Fred Cook Of
that city.
Governor Norheck has announced
the complete membership of the state
rural credits board as follows: C.