Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-02-07
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
RESUME OF WEEKS EVENTS IN
THE SUNSHINE
STATE.

will be held at Huron February 81.
Fire at Tea destroyed pool hall
and the local telephone Office. The
loss is about $4,000.
The South Dakota Shorthorn Breed
ers' association will hold their third
semi-annual sale at Huron on April
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| Robert LoWder. a farm hand near
Yankton, had leg broken by being
caught under tree which he was
telling.
VIM. Sweeney, bachelor farmer, Of
| Lyman county, was found dead by
neighbors. Death resulted from heart
| failure.
Steps have been taken to begin work
at once on the $4,000 extension to
the city waterworks recently voted at
Beresford.
The Batterberry-McGee elevator at
Sisseton was burned, together with
500 bushels of wheat. The fire was
accidental
| The business men of Artesian en-
| tertained about $50 farmers of that vi
cinity in big get-together meeting
and banquet.
The Charles Mix County Farmers
Union Exchange at Wagner has incor-
porated They will deal in general
merchandise.
A small boy at Nunda had one of
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plosion of a dynamite cap with which
he was playing.
Mrs. Mat Wimsey, of Brookings, was
stricken with heart failure while in
a bath tub at the family residence,
and died instantly
Reports made at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders show the
the Volga Hospital association to be in
a fourishing condition.
The second annual exhibit Of the
Day County Poultry association, held
at Webster. was very successful.
About 400 birds were on exhibition.
,, Depositors of the old Meade County
Bank, of Sturgis, are soon to be paid
per cent dividend by the state
banking department This will make
As per cent paid on the claims.
On the same day that son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hirsch,
one year old, fell into pail of boiling
water and died "a hours later.
The failed Farmers and Citizens
Bank of Bryant has just made another
payment to depositors of 121a per
cent, making an aggregate of S7% per
cent which has now been paid.
1t is expected that at least 500 men
of Aberdeen will volunteer to do at
least five days work on the farms of
that vicinity during the seeding, har-
yesting and threshing periods this
year.
Mayor j. E. Wells, of Mitchell, says
lie did not give permission for the
holding OF the Socialist meeting in
that city which resulted in William
c. Rempfer, Of Parkston, being es-
corted from the city.
A. E. Deeney, farmer near Lily,
told the ladies of the Red Cross they
could have a triple box load of corn if
they would come to his farm and husk
it themselves. The ladies accepted
the offer and sold the corn for $44.
Chris Sauer, wealthy Day county
farmer, was put in Jail at Aberdeen
on a charge of violating the espionage
act by attempting to obstruct the
draft. Sauer, who is well along III
years, has a son at Camp Funston
who is a drafted man. He claims
on reports from his son who he said
told him the soldiers were not well
fed at Camp Funston and he had only
an apple for breakfast.
The federal circuit court of appeals
has reversed the decision of the lower
court in the alienation suit brought
by Mrs. Clara T. Armour, former wife
of Bert H. Armour, of Aberdeen.
against Mrs. Mabel e. McGowman, a
wealthy widow, Of Milbank. The case
had been tried twice before, the final
decision in the second trial giving the
plaintiff damages in the amount of
$4,000. An appeal was taken and the
decision reversed. 1t is assumed the
decision means the case will be sent
back to the federal court for a third
trial.
Jacob J. Huber, a wealthy farmer of
Mcpherson county, whose holdings are
said to be valued at more than $780,
900, has been placed under $4,000
bonds for his appearance at the next
term of federal court on a charge of
having violated the espionage act. The
specific charge is that when solicited
for subscription to the Red Cross
he exclaimed: II won't give damn
thing. If those s. of b want
to go over there and get killed let
them go. And if they ever get me over
there I will drop my gun and go and
help the Germans"
Garrett Dopter of Webster, a grad
uate OF South Dakota State college,