Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-05
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
occurrences Of tile Week From
All Over the State.
NUMEROUS MTERESTNGTEMS
Events chronicred In Brief Form III
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid Perusai.

OIaer 20 faciiitate Their
Rapid Perusai.
Part of the waters of the Big Sioux
river r to be turned into Lake POM
sett, Hamlin county, through the bed
Of Dry lake.
A quiet school election was held at
Hurley Five votes In ali were cast,
three of them by members Of the
school board.
Brown and Minnehaha counties lead
In the state in providing recruits for
the regular army, giving lis and 1T
men, respectively.
Charles Edwards of Turton has re-
ceiyed word that his brother Tom has
been killed while serving with a Cana
dian regiment in France. !.
Maurice Stanley is the first Aber-
deem boy to set foot in France as a
member of the United States army.
He is a member Of the second contin.
gent.
Fire destroyed barns and granaries
on the Andrew Schar farm near
Stroll. About 1000 bushels of grain
was saved from the flames, the loss
a~ggregating $500.
The new state rural credits board
was organized at Pierre with the Sc
lection of G. M. Henry as president,
"A. W. EWert as treasurer and Alfred
Soske as secretary.
The little city Of Pierpont was SO
elated over the Liberty loan subscrip-
ton that a celebration was staged in
which band music, speeches and fire.
works were features.
"A business transaction of large pro.
portions was the purchase by Sheriff
Charles Hardin of Deadwood Of the
Louis Barber ranch of 1,760 acres, sit.
uated four miles north of Belle
Fourche.
T.. R Whey of Highmore entered a
plea OF guilty to a charge of operating
a blind pig" and was given q SEN
tence of thirty days and a fine of $500.
This vas the first arrest made by the
new state sheriff.
While Saying goodbye to q young
man who was going hunting Miss Ha.
Eel Screnson Of Bryant was wounded
in the neck by the accidental dis.
charge of his rifle, causing her arms
and legs to become paralyzed.
The high price being paid for sheep
and their products is expected to
greatly increase the industry in this
state. Twenty dollars a head has been
paid for sheep and as high as 5611a
cents a pound has been paid for wool.
The South Dakota university faculty
has agreed to accept heavier teaching
duties this fall in order to care for stu
dents engaged in agriculture. Special
classes will be started at vermillion
in November for the benefit of farm
ers.
Charles shiekengaust, county com
missioner of the Second district Of
Meade county, died very suddenly at
his home neal White Owl. Death was
caused by rheumatism and paralysis.
He was n of Meade county's leading
citizens.
When Mrs. Ole Olson, who went to
Sioux Falls from East Sioux Falls to
visit, returned to her home she found
that her husband had been killed by
lightning in his pasture. The body
was found neal a wire fence. Six chill.
dren survive.
IA. e. Cortelyou, chief of the Sisse.
ton volunteer fire department, has just
completed eighteen years, service as q
member or officer of the department
and as a testimonial to HIM the other
members of the department presented
him with a gold badge.
The University of South Dakota
will continue instruction in all
branches Of athletics, despite the war,
and will maintain intercollegiate
athletic competition in all the major
sports. This is the decision Of the
athletic board Of control, announced
last week.
Members OF the newly appointed ru-
raj credits board met at Pierre for or.
ganization and starting the machinery
Of the new law. The members of the
board are G. NJ. Henry, chairman 81
the commission; A. w. Ewert, treas,
urer; Alfred q. Oske, ]. q. Zeibach
ndgGovernor Peter Norbeck.
Professor M. H. Guhin advocated a
requirement in every state similar to
the New York order compelling teach
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