Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-06-07
South Dakota
News Notes

An lnQeX OF what harvest wages
will be in the Bridgewater locality
can be taken from the fact that al.
ready help has been engaged at IS per
day.
The voters of Marvin. by heavy
majority, decided in favor of that
place being incorporated as a village.
Only two votes were case in opposi.
ton.
The directors of Dakota Wesleyan
university, at their annual session and
the spring commencement, voted to
purchase $1,000 worth of liberty loan
bonds.
twenty-five cases of measles have
been reported to the city health au-
thorities at Aberdeen. Threescases of
typhoid and two of smallpox have
also been reported.
One Fort Pierre firm is preparing
to seed twenty-five acres of alfalfa on
each of eighteen quarter sections of
land which it owns south of that place,
a total Of $50 acres.
After having been without weekly
newspaper for about three years, Ban.
croft again has a paper, George
Brown having returned and resurrect.
ed the Bancroft Register
Michael M. Hofer, aged 80 years, a
pioneer settler near Bridgewater, in
vited his sons and daughters, number
ing fourteen, to his farm home, where
check.
A report Of an oversupply of farm
labor is reported from the Huron Com.
mercial club, which has been acting
as free employment bureau, to get
the labor seekers jobs on farms in
this vicinity.
The commercial club of Faith has
been reorganized with F. G. King of
the Faith Gazette as president, G. o.
Thompson, secretary and treasurer,
and G. w. Potter, Robert R. Saul and
w. H. Pine directors.
All local records for prices paid for
single hogs were broken when w.
Weerts of Bancroft received $1O7.31
for hog weighing 730 pounds. For
eleven other hogs marketed the same
day he received $3.50.
A liberty loan subscription campaign
has been opened at Huron and the
result of the first days work was a
total Of $4,000 of liberty bonds sub.
scrfbed. Huron's allotment is 100000
and Beadle county's share, together
with Huron, is $15O,O00.
Alex. Rosengrin, aged Is, was cleo.
trocuted in the Mitchell power station
when he swung his hand against a
wire carrying 5000 volts. Death was
instantaneous. Surgeons arrived with
lungmotor few minutes later and
succeeded in getting the man to
breathe, but life could not be restored
At mass meeting Of the Jews OF
Aberdeen and vicinity $51S as con.
tributed to fund for the relief OF
their brethren in Europe and Asia
and a committee was appointed to
raise further funds. A resolution was
also adopted pledging their lives and
fortunes to the support of the United
States in the world war.
JIG. Bassett, chairman of the lib.
erty loan commission for South Da.
kota, is making good on its share OF
the loan, and will easily raise it's quota
of nearly $10,0OOOO0, he thinks. The
largest individual subscription so far
is $4,000, but there are many sub
scriptions ranging from 500 to 1000
Farmers are taking an Unexpectedly
large amount Of bonds.
At the meeting of the Fifth district
Federation Of Women's clubs, held ir
Milbank, Mrs. w. w. Downie of Mil
bank was elected president; Mrs
Howard Babcock of Sisseton, vice
president; Mrs. D. l.. Printup of Brit
ton. secretary, and Mrs. Jessie Dyal
of DeSmet, treasurer. Waterfowl
was selected as the meeting place fol
1918.
Yankton held a liberty loan demon
stration to stimulate interest in the
raising of the Yankton county share
of the war bond funds. The chic
speaker was C. E. Mills, of st. Paul
vice president of the Scandinavian
American bank. Following the patri
otto speeches the county was organ
lied with a committee in every votint
precinct to look after the securing o
subscriptions to the liberty loan bonds
Ivan Herman and Harold Scott
young men of Sioux Falls. prove,
themselves heroes when they. Will,
boating on the Big Sioux river, save,
the lives Of two lads, aged II and IL
who were rescued from a water!
grave just in time. The two boy
were attempting to cross the river OF
q raft when they fell into the stream
The promptness of Herman and Scot
in responding to their cries for az
sistance enabled them to effect tn,
rescue.