The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS OF THE
WEEK

The Clay County Sunday School as
sociation will hold convention in
Vermillion on April and T.
Twenty-Five were graduated from
the state college school of agriculture
at the eighth annual commencement.
Much more wheat than usual win
be sown in the Rosebud country this
spring, work having already been be-
gun.
Miss Hildegarde Waltze had her arm
broken and was otherwise injured
when corn elevator which she was
assisting her father in moving fell
over on her.
Knights of Columbus TO the number
Of 800 gathered at Yankton in annual
service and for the Initiation of class
Of 67 A ST Paul degree team put
on the work
At an auction sale for the benefit
OF the Red Cross, held at Aberdeen,
the total receipts were around $500,
besides over $4,000 received from the
SdIt VI chances on fOTu.
Ora b. Right, a school teacher at
Jonesville. Meade county, was drown
ed in the Belle Fourche river when a
cake OF ice struck and overturned the
buggy in which she was driving.
A number of Mitchell business men
have made an offer of 100000 for
the head of Kaiser Wilhelm The of
fer is made through Frank : Weller
and is, he says, a bona fide PROPOSE.
ton.
The St Thomas Catholic church So
ciety at Madison has received $4,000
insurance money and will rebuild at
an early date TO replace the church
edifice destroyed several weeks ago
by fire.
Mrs. Charlotte Jane Turner, who
died at Yankton at the age of 85 years
held the distinction of being a daugh.
ter of the American Revolution, her
father having been a patriot in the
Continental army
A brother of Walter William Owens
of Dupree, lost his life on the Lusi
tania To avenge his death, Mr.. Ow.
ems has enelsted in the United States
army and seeks to be sent to France
as soon as possible.
The state council has been given
authority to list men for immediate
overseas service in the 469th and seth
! engineers, which want practical rail
way men, clerks. stenographers and
cooks for immediate service in France
Movie films are being distributed
by the University of South Dakots
without charge for use by high schools
reading circles, extension centers
commercial clubs and other educa
tional and social organizations in tn,
| state.
Richard Reiser, Of Bridgewater was
the first men from McCook county tc
leave for the training camp in re
sponse to the second draft He lef
on the special call for blacksmiths
which was recently made, for San An
| tonic, Tex
c. NJ. Everetts former trooper o.
the United States cavalry, was con
| yicted in the circuit court at Leat
| on the charge of assault and battery
on a 15-year-old girl and was sen
fenced to pay fine of 500 and serve
| 30 days in Jail.
| Prof. r. ID. Elliott, head of the de
| partment OF Greek language and litera
! ture at the University of South Da
! kota, will present a paper On "Transi
! tions and Their Classification" at tn,
| meeting of the Classical Association
! Of the middle west and south at Oma
ha April 4. and 6.
In order to help use up the enor
nous potato crop, c. n. Herried, fed
eral food administrator for South Da
! kota, suggests to every hotel and res
taurant manager in the state that h.
adopt a schedule whereby potatoe.
viii be given free with every meal anC
definite and specific charge be mad,
for bread
AS the result of a meeting held il
Sioux Falls an advisory committee fol
the regulation of the handling of ex
plosives in South Dakota was perfect
ed. Michael r. Magner, of Yankton
appointed chairman of the federal ex
plosives committee for the state o.
South Dakota, will be chairman o.
the new committee. w. w. Soule. O
Rapid City, Is vice chairman, Will,
d. p. Lemon, OF Sioux City, was Sc
lected secretary.
Limited purchases of 20 cents worth
OF sugar TO each Huron customer ant
so cents worth to each rural custome,
has been decided upon by the grocer!
OF Huron. The step is taken to make
the present supply of sugar In tn,
city last as long as possible. Grocer.
deny that there is a shortage there
and say that the step is being taker
to prevent boarding and to give eacf
person fair share of the supply or
hand.
The 25th anniversary OF the organi
zation OF the Holy Cross society of tn.
Catholic church at Parkston was cele
brated by silver jubilee.
The rural school teachers of Soutl
Dakota are helping to make surve,
of labor needed on farms, w. c. Board