Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-21
GETS Sis PER BUSHEL
LAKE COUNTY FARMERs ELLes
SEED CORN AT REG
ORD PRICE.

M, Kramer, q Lake county farmer
The 148 bushels was what was left
over Of his 1916 crop OF II AS corn
In 1915 was worth 50 per bushel ne
was on the point Of marketing 1T, but
The elevators were not purchasing
corn at the time, SO he hauled 1t back
home and stored it. Recently, owing
to the numerous reports of a scarcity
of good seed corn, he thought OF the
l48 bushels. Taking this old corn
and testing 1t, he found that It was
excellent seed. He advertised to sell
1t at auction on the Street. This adj
vertisement came to Me attention OF
q Minneapolis concern,9Swhich offered
him $1,000 for the 148 bushels. This
offer was refused, as Kramer did not
wish the seed III to go out Of South
Dakota, and he went ahead with his
auctioniong OF the corn. At the auc-
ton it brought an average Of SIS per
bushel, or q total OF $4,000, and vas
purchased by other Lake county farm
srs. Kramer made $1,000 by holding
the corn a year.
After a service OF t~hirty-five years,
ranging from errand boy to division
trainmaster, Martin ]. Flanagan, train
master of the Fl. and D. division OF the
Milwaukee road, left Aberdeen for Du-
buque, Ia, where he will be superin-
tenedent OF the Dubuque division OF
the railroad. Mr.. Flanagan, a lad Of
IL, started working for the Milwau-
kee at Perry, Ia. Ten years 6 he
came to Aberdeen as chief train dis
patcher, and q year later was made
trainmaster. FIN. Melin, superintend-
ent Of the Hastings and Dakota divi-
sion, and a number Of other division
officials accompanied Mr.. Flanagan as
far as Mitchell on his way to Dubu-
que, to wish him godspeed in his new
position. His successor as trainmas-
ter has not yet been announced.
The Sioux Falls Commercial club
is completing plans whereby aH-the
vacant lots will be utilized this sea
son for the raising OF vegetables and
other food supplies. The real estate
men will list all their vacant lots, and
they will be temporarily turned over
to city gardeners for the production
of foodstuff supplies under the super
vision OF the commercial club and
branches OF the government food con-
servation forces and the boys and girls
clubs. The plan involves the blowing
Of all the lots and then assigning them
to those who will utilize them for cul.
tivation.
Ed Levine, of vermilIion, the fire,
man who was injured in the wreck
In December near the Big Sioux
bridge at Vermil1ion, when q passen.
ger train crashed into a freight train,
has settled with the Milwaukee com
pany. the corporation paying his hos.
pital expenses. furnishing him with
an artificial limb and rendering him
a draft for SO, 1000.
The German.American bank, OF Red.
field, the second larger banking insti.
tuition in the northwest bearing the
name German.American bank. has
changed Its name to the American
bank. In q letter addressed to It's
patrons It repudiates the inhuman con,
duct Of the German government and
armyy In the war aRa asserts is ps
triotism to America.
Robert Bower, an automobile mo,
chanic, suffered bruises and other per
SONS in the building were badly shaken
up when the large acetylene tank at
tho plant OF the Chandler Automobile
company 1t Huron exploded. The ex'
plosion tore out the plate glass win.
dows In the basement and first door
Of the building.
n "a. R0wen secured d farm near
Parker thirty-1ve years ago BY pay.
fng $500 Tor observation-disclosures Of the
original entry. The other day ne sold
the farm for $27, 200, after having lived
on Il continuously during the thirty,
dye years. During most years Of that
period Ne raised good crops on the
land. s
Ezra o. Snyder and 6. g. Issenhuth,
arrested at Huron By federal officers
for boarding -four IN their homes,
waived preliminary examination be.
fore a United States commissioner and
were bound over tosthe April term ot
the federal district court for trial ia
bonds Of $1,000 each. Hoth men fur;
nished bail and were released.
By affirming the Iowercourt 81
Stanley county, the supreme court
grants I'd John Hayes a new trial on
bis CONVICTION OF bank wrecAing hi
Fort Pierre. The 4 has been one
Of interest to many residents Of Stan
ley county who SUffereds losses through