The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-11-02
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
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According to reports given out by
Huron coal dealers Huron is facing a
serious hard coal famine.
Students Of Huron college who take
their meals at the college dormitory
are to observe one meatless day a
week hereafter
A jury in the state circuit court OF
Howard in the $4,000 damage suit OF
the John Windedahl estate at Garth.
age, returned a verdict in favor OF
the defendant.
The Huron mill, which has been lin
itlng its output to 60 per cent OF its
capacity for the past three weeks, has
received notice that the normal
amount of work may be resumed.
Corn husking is in progress near
Bridgewater with every available man
and boy pressed into service. Farm
ers are paying as high as 10 cents per
bushels, while the average wage seems
to be cents
Libery bond day was appropriately
observed in Bridgewater by a patriotic
demonstration, in which the pupils of
the public and parochial schools
formed in parade, headed by the
Bridgewater band.
One thousand two hundred and sixty
housewives Of Huron signed the Hoov-
er pledge to conserve the food supply
in the first days canvass of the city
In a campaign to enlist every house
wife in the national food saving plan.
A music house of Bridgewater has
inaugurated a corn contest, the pro-
ceeds derived therefrom to be turned
over to local committee who will
purchase suitable Christmas gifts for
soldier boys from Bridgewater and
vicinity.
The latest snake story to come out
of the west is that Of the two Kelly
boys, who live near Capa, who 10.
Gated a colony in a dog town, and
by the use Of spade and axe. de-
stroyed 72 rattlesnakes in less than
an hour.
C. w Jarrett, a farmer near Brit
ton, is the first farmer in this part OF
the state to engage in cabbage raising
on large scale, and he is meeting
with great success. He has just ship
ped out his first carload, which was
consigned to dealers at st. Louis, Mo.
Through his cattle becoming poi
soned from eating the tops of sugar
beets and mangles, ]. F. Summers, of
Spearfish, a prominent stock raiser,
sustained heavy loss. Thus far nine
head of full-blooded polled Hereford
cattle have died. The cattle were val
ued at $500.
A coroners jury which investigated
the death Of Jacob d. Tasker aged
27, who was found dead in his room
in a Sioux Falls boarding house, re-
turned a verdict to the effect that
death was GJe to the accidental turn
ing on of the gas in his room. Tas-
ker came to Sioux Falls from Shell
don, Ia. about year ago and was un-
married.
Mrs. Henry Whittrock a resident Of
the eastern section of Sioux Falls, had
started for a physicians Office with
her infant child. which had been all
ing. She had the child in a baby car
riage. Reaching the home of sister
she decided to stop for a few min
utes, and, reaching in the cab for the
baby, was shocked to find that it had
died while being wheeled along.
Sentences will not be pronounced
Immediately in the cases of the 27
Russian farmers of Hutchinson county
who were found guilty in the United
States court at Sioux Falls of the
charge of being anti-draft agitators
Joe Kirby. their attorney, was granted
a motion for a stay of sentence pend
ing action on a motion for a new trial
which was made by him. The twenty
seven defendants have been temper
arily released under their old bonds
lending decision of the court on
the motion for a new trial.
Ulysses Zephier, son of a farmer
living twelve miles southwest of Wag-
ner, was accidentally shot and killed
while playing a piano. When he sat
down to play he had a revolver in his
hip pocket. He played dance music
and several Of the younger children
in dancing around the small room to
the accompaniment of the music must
have knocked the revolver from his
pocket, When it struck the floor it
was discharged. the bullet striking
the young man under the jaw and COM
ing out on the side of his head.
The youngest purchases Of a Liber-
ty bond in the state or northwest is
believed to be Howard Eugene John
son,aged six, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank J. Johnson, Of Onida. The lit
tie boy appeared at the counter of the
Farmers bank and asked IL he had
enough money in the bank to buy a
livery barn He stated that his
father had told him that it was the
duty of everyone to aid the govern
ment by purchasing one of these
bonds. One of the bank attaches
counted up the savings Of the little
and found he had the required $50 on
deposit in the bank, so the proud lit
tIe fellow was invited IN cit down ~