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

guard OIEdHlLdt4'H' VIM"
fected at a meeting 10 be held carry
this week
Joe Williams is the latest Aberdeen
man to be called into the aviation
branch OF the regular army Nj.
Williams received orders 70 report at
Berkeley, Cal
Donald A. Baird son Of Mr. and
Mrs. II. H. Baird, Of Aberdeen was
accepted as member Of the recruit
ing corps of the United States army
and has assumed his duties at the
Aberdeen recruiting station.
Windows were broken and build
ings within a radius Of mile were
rocked by The explosion OF a generator
at the Gilbert Manufacturing com
pany's plant at Aberdeen. No one was
injured workmen at the plant bcins
out OF the danger zone when the tank
let go. Excessive gases were given as
the cause OF the explosion.
Andy" Lockhart, editor Of Chain
Lightning at Milbank, sentenced 10
serve three years and a half in the
federal penitenJiary at LeaVenWorih.
Kan, for sending obscene matter
through the mails, will ask President
Wilson to pardon him. Lockhart lost
an appeal to his case from the United
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 third
officers training camp az Camp stan
ley, Leon Springs Tex are: Rich
G. Anderson. Elk Point, field artillery;
Donald VI Beach, Aberdeen, infantry;
Ralph f. Browne Aberdeen, field ar
tillery; Christian J. Warren, Warner
infantry. Leslie r. Collins, Webster
infantry; Nern ID. Cooley Britton, in.
fantry; Arthur p Danaher, Sioux
Falls, infantry; Eugene b. Field, Sioux
Falls. infantry; Carl y. Norton, Mitch
ell infantry; Harry ID. Petherman
Madison, infantry; John Paddock San
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, S. D.. died, and on
that date the affairs OF the Citizens
State bank, OF OacOma, were taken
over by the state banking department
and the bank closed. Arrangements
were Immediately instituted for pay
ing off the depositors out OF the de
positors guaranty fund, accumulated
under the provisions OF the South Da
kota bank guaranty law, and on Octo
Der 3, 1916. the department paid of
the claims OF the depositors as rapid
ly as presented. On September 25
1917, there was paid back into the de
positors' guaranty fund a dividend OF
90 per cent, and on May l, 1918. a fnal
dividend Of 40 per cent was paid, SO
that now all depositors have been paid
in full, and the guaranty fund has been
reimbursed for the expenditure thus
made.
Russell Merriam aged %. son of
Mr.. and Mrs William J. Merriam. OF
Sioux Falls, died from burns received
when his clothing caught fire from
gasoline. He had filled the tank of
his motorcycle at garage and the
tank overiowed. spilling a quantity
OF gasoline over his clothing AS he
mounted the machine he lighted a
match TO light a cigaret. In an in
slant he was enveloped in flames.
Officers Of the Mitchell recruiting
station claim the honor OF enlisting
the first man Of the Mennonite faith
volunteering for service in the United
States army. He is Robert Kleinsas
ser, OF Freeman, 20 years old. and
is now OH his way TO camp. The
Huttrische brethren, or Mennonites
oppose war and some of their leaders
in this state are under indictment for
trying to brlbe officers of the United
states army TO release some of their
young men. When asked why he
wanted to go to war klensasser re.
piled: 1T is Gods fight"
A. W. Closson, deputy United States
marshal, has returned from Timber
Lake and Isabel. where he arrested
two farmers, A. J. Hansen and Harry
Bickel, living near Timber Lake. ON
charges of having made pro-German
remarks. The two men were taken
before a United States commissioner
at Isabel and released Oh $1,000 bonds
each, Tor appearance in United States
court at Aberdeen for trial this week
Hansen Is charged with having said
IL ne were drafted for military sery.
ice in France he would shoot over his
shoulder and kill as many allies as
ne could, and that "all this country "a
IN the war for is for the profit there
Is in it, Men want to get all the
money they can out OF il. and the
united States wants to get all the land
out OF II 1t can. IL they ever draft
me / will throu, aou,u -