Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-03-14
A new 100000 school building has
Just been completed at Mobridge.

A new $4,000 school building has
Just been completed at Mobridge.
Robert Jacob. farmer living near
Yankton. was attacked and seriously
gored by q young bull.
Rural Newspaper Management" is
the title Of new course in the depart
Of South Dakota.
The Frank Wiedman farm of about
1870 acres adjoining the city limits Of
Parkston, has just been sold for $140
per acre to Gustav Stelzer, Of that
city.
w. l.. Darnell. radical Socialist and
pro-German sympathizer. a wealthy
farmer living near Burke. has been ar
rested by federal authorities on
charges Of violating the espionage act.
c. II. Billings, a homesteader and
stockman living near Belvidere, who
recently was arrested by federal
agents and bound over to the next fed
eral grand jury under bond OF S.
600 on the charge of threatening the
life Of President Wilson, is remember
ed in Phillip az the man who held one
end Of the famous "ringtailed cow"
case, which made its way through all
the courts Of Stanley county about 10
years ago, developing as 1t progressed
into wealth Of humor and an ac-
emulation OF costs which made 1t
notable.
The school board OF Pierre has fol-
lowed the suggestion of the state
meeting 1T Sioux Falls, and will eli
inmate German from the school
course OF study for next year. 1t will
be continued through this year. as the
state educational department holds
that If it is eliminated now, the pupils
who have been taking this study for
the past two years will not be allowed
in, and will lose the work of both
years, which would mean that num-
Der Of students who expect to gradu-
ate would not be able to so do.
Federal officers are investigating an
alleged attempt of Harry Zetman, a
conscientious objector" of Messing
ton Springs. who is serving seven
months sentence in the county Jail
at Sioux Falls for failure to register
for the selective draft, to evade mill
tary service by removing several gold
crowns and other dental work from
his mouth. Zetman has been ordered
to report to the district board for phys
ical examination and it is claimed he
mutilated his teeth in the belief that
he would be exempted. The gold was
discovered by the sheriff when Zet-
man attempted to mail it to Milwau.
kee firm that purchases dental work.
For some time weighty question
in South Dakota has been as to what
profit farmers or dealers were permit.
ted to make en- seed wheat under the
government regulations. F. o. Simon.
son, Of Pierre, while in Sioux Falls.
stated that after taking up the mat
ter with the federal officials he was
informed that with the price Of wheat
bushel. the farmer or other dealer in
seed wheat may add to the local
market price Of wheat Is per cent
where 1t Is ssld in his home market.
II the wheat Is shipped in by them.
they are permitted to take O reason
able net profit, not to exceed cents
bushsl. These prices. It was Of
ficially announced by Mr.. Simonson,
are 6xed by the national food commits
sion and are based on No. l wheat.
To utilize Ntney trucks for bringing
coal down the Missouri river is the
plan OF w. e.. Lyman, Of Gettysburg.
That is. the trucks will help get
barges up stream but the current will
bring them down. His plan being to
construct several coal barges at up
river points where the coal can be
cheaply secured, and float the supply
down the Missouri. The power to
drive the barges back up the river
will be supplied from the trucks which
he has been using for freighting pur-
poses. There is plentiful supply
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If it could be laid down at points with
a freight rate which would make the
price reasonable large amount OF it
would be used. But up to the present
the freight rate has been so high that
there could be no practical market for
the Ignite coal.
The supreme court Of Iowa has de-
cided q case Of importance to bank
srs throughout South Dakota whose
customers are In the habit of shipping
livestock to Sioux City. The winner
of the case was the Farmers and Mer.
chants National bank, Of Webster.
The hank held q mortgage on cattle
which the mortgagor agreed to ship
in the name Of one Of the bank Of
ficers, but which he shipped in his
own name. A Judgment creditor Of
the mortgagor garnisheed the pro-
ceeds Of the sale Of the stock in the
hands OF commission merchants, and
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