The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-05-17

rectcd at a meeting 70 DC 1''0
this week
lac Williams is the latest Aberdeen
man 10 be called into the a'ia'.01
branch OF the regular army M
williams received orders to Fepo'' -
Berkeley, Cal.
Donald A Baird, son Of Mr and
AIRS H. H. Baird, Of Aberdeen was
.ccented As a member Of the recruit
ing corps of the United States army .
and has assumed his duties al 'he
Aberdeen recruiting station,
windows were broken and ouilu
ings within a radius OF a mile were
rocked by the explosion OF a generator
at the Gilbert Manufacturing com
nany's plant at Aberdeen. No one was
injured, workmen at the plant being
out OF the danger zone when the tahN
let go Excessive gases were gwen aS
the cause OF the explosion.
Andy" Lockhart, editoF OIL Nh' -
Lightning at Mlbank, sentenced 10
serve three years and a hall III 'ile
federal penitentiary at eaVeh"or'n'
Kan for sending obscene matter
through the mails, will ask Presldeh'
Wilson TO pardon him. Lockhart !os'
an appeal to his case from the uhl'eu
States court of the district OF South
Dakota to the United States court OF
appeals at St. Louis, and his prison
term is 70 begin June rs.
South Dakota men announced as
having been graduated from the thlrd
officers training camp az Camp stan
ley. Leon Springs Tex, are; Rlch
/ c. Anderson. Elk Point, field artillery;
Donald VI Beach Aberdeen, infantry ;
Ralph f. Browne, Aberdeen, field ar
tiuery: Christian ! Warren, Warner
infantry; Leslie R. Collins, Webster
infantry: Nern D. Cooley, Britton, IN
fantry: Arthur p. Danaher, Sioux
Falls. infantry; Eugene b. Field, Sioux
Falls, infantry; Carl b. Norton, Mitch
ell infantry; Harry d. Petherman
Madison, infantry; John Paddock San
ders. Garretson, infantry; Milton J
Sanderson. Kennebec field artillery
Blaine Simons, Sioux Falls, infantry
Harold w. Sprague, Clark, infantry
Thomas F. Tobin, Mitchell, infantry
On September 80, 1916, Peter b
Dirks. OF Oacoma, 5. D., died, and OF
that date the affairs Of the Citizen
State bank, OF Oacoma, were takel
over by the state banking department
and the bank closed. Arrangement
were Immediately instituted for pay
ing of the depositors out OF the de
positors' guaranty fund, accumulate
under the provisions Of the South ID.
kota bank guaranty law, and on Octt
2 ber 3, 1916, the department paid o
/. the claims OF the depositors as rapi'
ly as presented. On September 2
5 1917, there was paid back into the d
r positOrs guaranty fund dividend {
, 50 per cent, and on May l, 1918 a Ems
: dividend OF 40 per cent was paid, $
Q that now all depositors have been pal
n in full, and the guaranty fund has bee
i reimbursed for the expenditure thu
made.
: Russell Merriam. aged %, son
= Mr.. and Mrs William J. Merriam,
Sioux Falls, died from burns receive
q when his clothing caught fire fro
= gasoline. He had filled the tank
o his motorcycle at garage and ii
6 tank overflowed. spilling a quantit
;, Of gasoline over his clothing As |
a mounted the machine he lighted
|, match TO light cigaret. In an /
slant he was enveloped in flames.
Officers of the Mitchell recruitil
station claim the honor of enlistil
~ the first man of the Mennonite fai
volunteering for service in the Unit,
= States army. He is Robert Kleinsa
y ser, OF Freeman, 20 years old al
= is now on his way TO camp. II
:. Huttrische brethren, or Mennonite
oppose war and some of their leade
- in this state are under indictment (
- trying TO bribe officers of the Unit
% States army to release some OF tn,
. young men. When asked why
Is wanted to go to war Klensasser
'i piled: 1T is Gods fight
y A. W. Closson, deputy United Stat
* marshal, has returned from Timt
- Lake and Isabel, where he arrest
Ie two farmers, A. j. Hansen and Har
,e Bickel, living near Timber Lake,
At charges Of having made pro-Germ
ID remarks. The two men were tax
d, before United States commission
N at Isabel and released on 1900 bon
re each, for appearance in United Stat
court at Aberdeen for trial this we,
=, Hansen is charged with having 9;
"a II he were drafted for military Sc
A ice In France he would shoot over
N shoulder and kill as many allies
n. he could, and that "all this country
,e In the war for Is for the profit tn,
O. is In It. Men want to get all ,
9, money they can out Of it, and /,
Is United States wants to get all the la
" out OF 1t it can. II they ever dr.
10 me l will throw down nv gun q