The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-14


den wedding anniversary at the Nor
wegian Lutheran church in Volga
| The cement for the second floor OF
/ the new school building at Dante has
been poured and the brick layers are
making good progress with their part
of the work.
The citizens of Plankinton held a
mass meeting recently and organized
a company OF home guards with an
, enrolment of SO, which will be re-
cruited 10 over 100.
Mrs. Nora Callahan, who died at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. Ann Far
rell. well konw resident of DeSmet,
Is believed to have been l07 years of
age at the time OF her death. This
made her the most aged person in the
state.
Announcement has been made at
Mitchell that the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad had secured two
new engines OF the C-2 Mogul type
for the Mitchell-Murdo division TO care
for the greatly increased grain and
stock traffic.
An important business change Is an
nounced at Yankton, the selling OF the
big Queal Lumber company yard, with
the Thompson Yards company, OF Min
neapolis, the purchaser. The regular
force is to be retained here in the
local management.
A number of boys in the vicinity OF
Howard are deyoting their spare time
to trapping and some OF them are
making good money at it, They are
trapping muskrat and skunk and oc
casionally get mink. Skunk hides
are worth $3.50 each.
Drillers at depth of 1875 feet have
struck n good flow OF water in an ar
tesian well sunk at Ipswich, to in
crease the supply of water for fire pro-
lection and domestic purposes. II is
estimated that the wei! has a flow OF
eight gallons per minute.
Fishermen of Mitchell who have
been forced to go many miles to par
take OF the sport, are elated over the
news that Game Warden III. s. He'd.
rick has dumped 5000 fish in the Jim
river at that place. The fish are be-
ing brought from Alice lake
Some unknown person is suspected
Of having been responsible for fire
which broke out in large straw pile
on the farm of julius Berkner. two
Ito, % a. "A
threatened the complete destruction
of the barn and other farm buildings.
A school of telegraphy for men of
draft age has been opened in Huron.
The course will cover period of three
months, ct which time the men will
be qualified for enlistment in the sig
nal corps of the army. Z. J. Hagen.
Of Minneapolis, is in charge of the
work.
T. L. Owens, sheriff of Davidson
county, was given a jury verdict in
district court at Mitchell in a libel
suit against c. d. Downey, editor and
publisher of the Mitchell Gazette, a
tri-weekly publication The amount
OF the damages was placed at $500,
the defendant to pay trial costs.
At a meeting held at Winner the
Ideal Mutual Telephone company was
organized and the following officers
Were elected: w. w. Lenker, presi-
dent; L. f. Heller, vice president: c.
II. Flint, secretary, and A G. Iyers,
treasurer. Nels Anderson, w. C. Bal
fany and Frank Frank were elected
as a board Of directors.
]. A. Cole farmer of the Tyndall
territory, reports that Miss Rose Krey-
elk, who in period Of Is days husked
corn on the ]. A. Cole farm near Tyn-
dali. husked an aggregate Of S67 bush
els. or an average OF nearly IS BUSH
els per day. She also unloaded her
own corn each day. Many of the ex-
pert male huskers have made little
better records than that of Miss Krey-
elk
Joel Everett Powell young man
formerly of Dell Rapids, who recently
was arrested by Black Hills officers
on the ground that he was a suspicious
character, and who was found TO have
a card bearing another mans name
indicating that he had registered In
the selective draft, has confessed to
the officers that he deserted from the
United States ship Wyoming at York.
town, Va. last April
The 10Th annual convention OF the
South Dakota Implement Dealers as
sociation. which has just been con-
cluded In Sioux Falls. elected the fol.
lowing officers for the coming year:
President. G. w. Johnson. of Salem.
reelected: vice president, J. NJ Mug.
gil. of Ramona; treasurer. E. c. Bar.
ton, of Vermillion. II. Nissen, OF
Yankton, and ID. w. Oaks, of Hart.
ford. were elected trustees.
In one day a special train of 10 car.
loads of stock left Doland for eastern
markets. the bulk OF the shipment
being hogs. One farmer who had hogs
In the shipment received a check for
$500 in payment therefor Another
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