The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-11-02

j. VI. NORM, manager of the Huron
Grocery company, declares that there
is no prospect of a sugar shortage in
Huron
Jacob d. Tasker OF Sioux Falls was
found dead in his room. Death was
caused by gas. but whether by acci-
dent or design has not been deter
mined
Sugar, so far rs Mitchell is con-
cerned, has become an unknown guam.
tity Merchants OF Mitchell were
without it for two days, and none is
TO be had from their jObbers. they say.
Thomas Sterling, United States sena-
tor, addressed a large audience in the
high school auditorium in Clark on
Liberty loan bonds. After the meeting
the citizens raised $4,000 for the sec
ond Liberty loan.
The fire which destroyed a large
section of the business portion OF Sis
seton caused loss estimated at $780,
600 to 100000, with the average in
surance carried estimated at so per
cent of the actual value.
Germania Verein of Sioux Falls,
which recently voted the contents OF
its treasury for Liberty bonds, gave
a dance to which the public was in
vited. Twenty-Five per cent of the
proceeds will be presented to the local
Red Cross.
Sylvia Stedronsky of Wagner had a
narrow escape from death when she
jumped from the running board Of
an automobile in front Of her nome
and was run down by another auto
mobile which sne had not seen when
she jumped
Rev. f Birkholz, we'll known cler-
gyman OF Roscoe, has accepted call
to the pastorate of the Lutheran
churches at Olivia and Danube Mimi.
His departure is deeply regretted, as
the local church had prospered greatly
under his pastorate.
Hon. A. L. Van Osdel of Mission Hill
has presented to the state gallery at
Pierre a very effective life-sized oil
portrait of himself, painted by Louis
Janousek of Yankton. Mr.. Van Osdel
is widely known in South Dakota. hav-
been a member Of the South Dakota
legislature several times.
II is believed the final contingent
of the selected men from Lawrence
county will not be called to the col
ors for some little time yet, it evil
IDENTIFY being intended to pass on the
physical and other qualifications of
the men of the second and third con-
tingents before calling out the fourth
contingent
The Parker high school decided to
Liberty bond The interest from the
bond was to go toward the purchas-
ing of books for the high school
library. At the maturity of the bond
the $50 was to be used for the same
purpose The student drive resulted
in raising 1852.
A decided sensation was created
at Sioux Falls when it was announced
that w. Gray Tisdale. a pianist well
known throughout eastern South Da
kota, had been arrested at Vermil.
lion and brought to Sioux Falls by
a deputy United States marshal on the
charge Of sending an obscene letter
through the mails.
Frank Gilmour, formerly of Cham
Derlain, but now living on his ranch
near Murdo, recently sold a grass fed
steer at Sioux City that broke all
records, tipping the scales at 1920
pounds and brought the fancy price of
$3.50. This steer was right off from
the range with the rest of the cattle
he had in his big shipment.
Arrangement of the SO organized
companies of the First South Dakota
home guard into three regiments of
three battalions, each with tributary
headquarters, machine gun and supply
units with total enlistment of 2,547
men, was perfected when forty off.
GERS of the state convened at Mitch
ell at the order Of Adjt. Gen. w. A.
Morris of Redfeld. The plan is vir.
tually the same as the regulations OF
the old state guard
The 3-year-old daughter of Oscar
Anderson, who lives near Ola, south
west of Kimball. was burned so badly
she died. The mother had started
fire in the stove and had gone outside
10 get some kindling for the kitchen
stove and when she came back into
the house, the rooms were full OF
smoke and on the bed lay the child
with her clothes burned entirely of.
Mrs Anderson was able TO put out
the ire and the injured child was
taken 10 the Chamberlain sanatorium.
but she died soon aft er arriving at the
hospital
To be buried under three feet of rock
and yet escape with his life when
caught by a cavein in a we'll was the
experience OF John w. Johnson,
Gregory homesteader. Johnson was
trying to connect an old well with a
new one only a few feet away by
driving a pipe through the ground
when the jar Of the pounding caused
the we'll to partially cave in. He was
caught under a mass Of rock and was
una bla IN aid hiyDSolf in tho least For