The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-03

fIe home economies department OF
TIE University OF South Dakota at
VTmillion has fixed upon 10 cents a
neai. or $2.l0 week per person, a.
tie proper amount to spend under
Present conditions for wholesome
food. Menus calling for that expendi-
ture have been prepared for every day
In the week They are based on the
calory system.
8. Forbrago, a convict in the South
Dakota penitentiary at Sioux Falls,
Vas released again recently on
his honor to attend the funeral of his
father This is the third time within
a month that Warden G. d. Redfield
has paroled Forbragd. having releas.
ed him Dec. ! to attend his sisters
funeral and again Dec. 20 to attend
the funeral of his brother.
The voters of Webster. at a spe-
cial election. by a majority OF So, de-
feated a proposition to issue addi-
tcnal bonds in the sum Of $4,000 for
the erection of a school there. The
voters last spring authorized bonds Of
$4,000 for school purposes and the
result Of the special election just
held indicates they deem the original
bond issue sufficient for the erection
of building.
Six months without a case of infec-
tious disease makes Deadwood the
healtbiest city in the state, says DR..
Howe, city physician of Deadwood. He
attributes the freedom of the city
from contagion to the spring cleanup,
an annual hobby that Deaiwood has
had for some years The cleanliness
campaign, the treating of the roads
with oil to prevent dust contagion,
screening of doors and careful al
herence to pure food laws and gen.
eral hygiene are some Of the reasons
DR.. Howe gives as cause for present
excellent health conditions.
When one friend offered to bet
Henry Bronson of Ramona that he
would not be married within twenty
four hours. another offered 10 bel All
oyster supper for twenty on the same
proposition, and third expressed a
willingness to risk free storage for
Bronson's automobile on the same ba-
sis, Bronson acted. He called Miss
Blanche Ripley of Sioux Falls by tel
ephone and asked her if she wouid
marry him at once. The ceremony
followed. The actual time elapsilg
between the making of the bets and
the conclusion of the wedding cere
mony was a little less than twenty.
four hours
The sixteen football players who
were awarded varsity monograms in
recognition of their seasons work on
the University of South Dakota's 1916
football team have been announced
as follows: Ferdinand H. Duncan,
captain. Humboldt; Don McKinnon.
Sioux Falls: Harold Sprague, Clark;
Claude Manary. Sioux Falls: C. Hoy.
Huron; Clark Elmore, vermillion: /:
Robert Bergh, Sioux Falls: Hugo AL.
leman, Pierre; Abraham Seely, Ando-
yer; Frank Mccormick, Yankton; Leo
Hack. Pierre; Floyd Brown, Ellen
dale. N. D.: F. Harmon, De Smet;
George Ellis, Mitchell; Carter Riegel,
Sioux City, Ia; H. w. Frankenfeld,
Dallas.
The Belle Fourche and Northwest.
ern Railway company. which proposes
line from Belle Fourche in this
state to Miles City, Mont, has nled
an amendment to its articles of in
corporation to include its extension
of forty miles down the Little Mis-
souri, to the town of Camp Crook
Approximately 10000 acres for the
raising of sugar beets in the vicinity
of Belle Fourche have been contract
ed for the coming year The con
struction of branch factory of tbs
Great Western Sugar company al
that place means the opening of q
new field of agriculture to the resi-
dents and land tenants in that sec
tion of the state.