Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-02-07

begin business.
Alexandra has decided to tax fe-
male dogs al ST and male dogs at So
the coming year
The Aberdeen bank clearings show
an increase over the same period last
year of 10 per cent.
Mrs. Cynthia Samuels, of Kimball,
was killed by an automobile while Wis
iting in Des Moines, la.
The directors of the Hanson County
Fair association have decided not to
hold the annual fair this fall.
The Catholic church at Madison was
destroyed by fire Eighteen thousand
dollars insurance was carried.
The board of education of Redfield
has decided to substitute Spanish for
German in the local high school.
Yankton county farmers, through
farmers league, have decided 20 con-
struct farmers elevator in Yankton
this spring.
Over one hundred members of the
Aberdeen District Medical society at
tended a meeting of the society held
| in Aberdeen.
Ralph Kositzy, of Winner, has won
his fight against the Chicago & North
western Railway company for site
for an elevator at Winner This was
one of the most hotly contested ele-
vator site fights ever had in the state.
John Bosse, employed in a restau-
rant at Mobridge, is awaiting a hear
ing before federal authorities for Sc
ditiouS utterances. He refused to OBJ
serve wheatless day and says he
wants to destroy all the wheat he
can"
Following Governor Norbeck's in
structions every unnecessary light in
the capitol building will be dispensed
with and the temperature of all rooms
will be kept as low as can be done
with moderate heat for working pur-
poses.
Mrs Gladys Gary, who is living
with her mother on farm near How
ard, has received a letter from her
husband, Major Franklin Jude Gary,
who is member of a Canadian regi-
ment fighting at the front, in which
he states that he was among those
recently decorated for bravery by be-
ing presented with the Military Cross.
The local advisory board Of the
American Defense society at Lead has
been investigating a number of al
legged cases of disloyalty in that COM
munity, and as result of report
made by its secret agents the cases OF
eight Lead residents charged with
making disloyal or seditious remarks
have been reported to the United
States attorney at Sioux Falls, and
it is expected arrests will be made.
Letters have been written to I40 per.
sons in Lead notifying them that they
had been appointed secret agents OF
the society and So per cent of these
already have accepted the appoint.
ment
At the meeting of The state board
Of education, popularity known as the
vocational board, at the capitol in
Pierre, it was decided because of
| federal rulings Oh the Smith Hughes
bill for federal aid to states for voca.
tional training, to have teachers
trained in agriculture at the state col
lege at Brookings and in home econ
! omics both at this school and at the
university at Vermilion The four
nOrmals of the state cannot receive
this federal aid for training teachers
n these vocational branches, under
the ruling of Washington federal voca-
tional board, because they do not offer
sufficient years of study in them past
the high school training.
A letter has been received by Ed
I ward Byrne, of Madison, advising him
that his grandson, Roy Dugall, who
twice was reported killed on the Cana
dian front in Europe, is alive and well
Young Dugall enlisted with the Cana
dams about two years ago and served
many months in the trenches. In ad
dition to being twice reported killed
he was once on torpedoed boat and
was supposed to have been drowned
but turned up all right. He now has
decided to enlist in the navy and will
| be assigned to duty on submarine
chaser. His soldier record is some
thing remarkable, and if he Gomez
through the war all right he should
be able to write an interesting book
of his thrilling adventures.
Adolph Hoberz, president of the
Farmers Equity exchange, at Eagle |
Butte. and also president of the Eagle |
Butte Farm Loan association, as the
| result OF visit made to President
Hogan, OF the federal land bank, at
Omaha, Neb., reports that an import |
| ant concession has been made rela
tive to loans on homesteads on which |
| final proof has not been made Mr.. |
HoberZ states that he was assured by |
President Hogan that in future home |
steaders could secure from the federal |
land bank loans sufficient to cover
the making Of final proofs, and that |