The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-02-22
GETS SIS PER BUSHEL
LAKE COUNTY FARMER SELLS
SEED CORN At REC
ORD PRICE.

9E $lO per Ou6u6l, IOI ITO Ou8uClO "
iced corn was the experience OF ].
N. Kramer. q Lake county farmer.
The lab bushels was what was left
over of his 1916 crop Of corn. AS corn
IN 1916 was worth 81 per bushel he
was on the point Of marketing 1t, but
The elevators were not purchasing
TORN at the time, so he hauled 1t back
aOme and stored 1t. Recently, owing
20 the numerous reports Of q scarcity
II good seed corn, he thought Of the
las bushels. Taking this old corn
and testing 1t. he found that it was
excellent seed. He advertised to sell
t at auction on the street. This ad-
vertisement came to the attention Of
I Minneapolis concern, which offered
him $1,000 for the 148 bushels. This
offer was refused. as Kramer did not
wish the seed corn to so out Of South
Dakota, and he went ahead with his
a~uctioniong Of the corn At the auc-
ton 1t brought an average Of SIS per
bushel, or a total OF $4,000, and was
purchased by other Lake county farm
ers.. Kramer made $1,000 by holding
the corr q year.
After a service Of thirty-ave years,
ranging from errand boy to division
~trainmaster, Martin j. Flanagan, train
master Of the H. and D. division of the
Milwaukee road, left Aberdeen for Du-
buque, Ia, where he will be superin-
%tenedent Of the Dubuque division Of
the railroad. Mr.. Flanagan, a lad of
IL, started working for the Milwau-
kee at Perry. la. Ten years ago he
came to Aberdeen as chief train dis
patcher. and q year later was made
trainmaster. F. M. Melin, superintend-
emit of the Hastings and Dakota divi-
sion, and . number Of other division
officials accompanied MI. Flanagan as
far as Mitchell IN his way to Dubu-
que, to wish him godspeed in his new
position. His successor ~ trainmas.
ter has not yet been announced.
The Sioux Falls Commercial club
IL completing plans whereby all the
vacant lots will be utilized this sea-
o for the raising of vegetables and
other food supplies. The real estate
men will list all their vacant lots, and
they will be temporarily turned oyer
to city gardeners for the production
Of foodstu6 supplies under the super
vision OF the commercial club and
branches of the government food con-
servation forces and the boys and girls
clubs. The plan involves the blowing
Of all the lots and then assigning them
to those who will utilize them for cul.
tivatio1.
Ed Levine, OF vermillion, the fire.
man who III injured in the wreck
In December near the Big Sioux
bridge 1t Vermillion. when = passen-
ger train crashed into . freight train,
has settled with the Milwaukee com
pany. the corporation paying his hos
pital expenses, furnishing him with
an artificial limb and rendering him
. draft for $4,000.
The German-American bank. OF Red.
field. tho second larger banking insti-
tuition IN the northwest bearing the
name German-American bank. has
changed its name to the American
bank. In q letter addressed to ito
patrons it r~epudiates the inhuman con.
duct Of the German government and
army in the war and asserts It's pa
triotism to America.
Robert Bower. an automobile me-
chanic, suffered bruises and other per-
Sons In the building were badly shaken
up when the large acetylene tank 1T
the plant OF the Chandler Automobile
company ct Huron exploded. The ex.
plosion tore out the plate glass win
dows In the basement and drDt floor
Of the building.
A. A. Rowen secured q farm near
Parker tAirty-nve years AGO 81 nay.
Ing $500 for the REIMBURSEMENT OF the
original entry. The other day he sold
the farm for $27. 900. after having lived
on It continuously during the thirty
hve years. During most years Of that
period he raised good crops on the
land.
Esra O. Snyder and G. G. Issenhuth,
arrested at Huron by federal oficers
tor boarding -four In their homes.
waived preliminary examination be-
fore . United States commissioner and
were bound over to the April term OF
the federal district court for trial n
bonds Of $1,000 each. Both men fur
niShed bail and were released.
By Affirming the lower court OF
Stanley county, the supreme court
grants TO John Hayes . new trial on
his conviction OF bank wreckinx at
Fort Pierre. The case has been one
Of interest to many residents or STAN
ley county who suffered losses through
the bank failure,
A. the local band played THE Star
9panglsd Banner and the crowd stood
rigtdly Ct attention. . vigilance com
mittee consigned to the flames I pic-
ture Of the German kaiser and Field
Marshal ron Hindenburg, taken from
the hozne Of : German residing eleven
miles from Mclaughlin.
Live stock to las aggregate valuo
- 49,