The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-02-15
COAL PROFIT LIMITED
DAKOTA FUEL ADMlNlSTR DR.
PUTS HALT TO PROF
ITEERiNG


sale Of coal w. G. Bickelhaupt, fed
eral fuel administrator for South Da-
kota, has issued an order limiting the
profit that can be taken by the retail
dealers and otherwise supplementing
The order of October ], 1917. The
order limits the profits on anthracite
and Ignite to S175 per ton at the
yard. On soft coal the margin is
placed at 81 per ton Where delivery
charges are made, the charge shall be
no greater than for similar service on
July /, 1917.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Pfantz, of Leola, was found dead
in a jar Of water. Mrs. Pfantz was
washing and had gone outside to hang
up some clothes. She left the 3-year-
old child and a brother a year older
in the house. The child. playing
around the ar, which was partly filled
with water, fell in and was helpless.
The brother, too young to realize the
danger that the child was in, did moth
ing to rescue him or call the mother.
IL was not until fifteen minutes later,
when the other children came home
from school, that the child was dis
covered dead.
The report OF Insurance Commits
sioner Van Camp recently submitted
to Governor Norbeck. shows that the
department for the fiscal year collect
ed in fees and taxes the sum of $19S,
644.5l, and that the cost of maintain.
ing the insurance and fire marshal
departments was 21,29147, which dis.
closes the fact that the department
for the year was operated at a profit
to the state of $l77,342.95, which in
cludes S29, 9,5S6.5S distributed among
the towns of the state maintaining
organized fire departments.
j. c. Parkin, a rancher homesteader
living near Provo, in the Edgemont
district, has just sold his alfalfa seed,
the product of last season, and finds
that the crop was a very profitable
one. From about seventy acres he
secured 476 bushels of alfalfa seed,
which brought him financial return
OF nearly $50 an acre for the tract
devoted to the alfalfa Farm land in
his district is worth only from $20 to
S25 an acre.
The state department has appealed
10 the court for authority to pay a
l5 per cent dividend to the depostors
of the Dakota State bank OF Eagle
Butte, which failed before the guar.
anty law went into effect This is
the first payment TO be made to the
/ depositors since the bank failed sew
/ eral years ago.
Grain men and farmers are getting
anxious about the stored corn in South
/ Dakota. 1t is claimed that unless the
| grain is moved within the next month
! that it will spoil. as its already soft
ened condition will not stand storage
in cribs when warm weather begins
| The state railway commission and the
food administrator have been appeal
/ ed to
President r. G. Perisho, OF State
Z NOlEtSC dl III OohlHSS, hdS dppOlHlCu q
war information committee at the col
lege which will collect and co-ordi
nate all the information available fol
state and college use in the interest
of greater food production and con
servation as a war measure
Governor Norbeck has received al
urgent call from the general manager
| of the emergency fleet corporation, il
which he asks for men to help in tina
work. The county chairmen of the
council OF defense have been supplied
with enrolment cards.
Reports from II. o. Herbrandson
field agent for the department of agri
culture for South Dakota, shows tha
the number OF horses in the state ha:
increased during the past year. Cat
tie also show healthy increase il
number.
Commencement at the University
of South Dakota will be held on May
l3 this year. This is earlier than any
previous commencement The reason
Is 10 give lue Uitu WHU NlSI
to do so a chance to work on the
farms
Mrs. John Hausman, of Pierre, i:
in a hospital, badly burned, as the
result of pouring kerosene over her
self and applying a match. She ha,
shown signs of mental trouble fol
several days before committing the
act.
John Bossee, /. w. W., and recen
resident of Selby. has been arrested
charged with violation of the espion
age act He is alleged to have said
Wilson ought to have his brains
blown out and | would like TO hell
do it."
Miss Laura Brookmdn, of Vermil
lion, has been chosen as editor of the
Volante, the student paper of the Uni
versity of South Dakota Miss Brook
man is the aourth woman to be thus
honored.
The enactment OF law by the state
legislature which will be designed t
mobilize labor and make it unlawfu
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