The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-05
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Thursday, Nav. %. 1918.

Mrs. F. D. Wicka went to Sioux
City Tuesday.
Mrs. George Thorpe made a trip to
Sioux City Monday.
Load your camera at c. G. Max,
your druggist's.-Adv
H. A. Reeves has been on the road
the past two weeks selling beans
raised near Belvidere. and shipped by
his son, E. W. Reeves.
Mrs. Philip Schmierer, who had
been spending a week visiting friends
here and at Tyndall, left for her new
home in Sioux City Tuesday.
George Stafford came home from
Huron, where he is now making his
headquarters, and spent Thanksgiv-
ing with his mother and brothers here.
]. f. Necil. former proprietor of q
meat market in Scotland, but now lo-
Gated at Grand View, S. D., stopped
off here last Saturday while on his
way home from Sioux City where he
had been with a shipment of cattle
and hogs. and spent one day calling
on his old Scotland friends. Joe is
looking we'll and says business in his
part of the country is good.
The Maxwell Mennonite Colony will
hold an auction sale at the colony
pc3mises on Monday, December 18th.
w. A. Cobb will act as auctioneer and
Alex. Treiber as clerk. Most of the
members of the colony are already at
their new home in Canada, and those
that are left are closing out the busi-
ness preparatory to leaving about the
first of March.
We are Informed that Henry Stol-
Ter, president of the Bon Homme
County Bank, has sold his stock in
the bank to Solomon Wenzlaff and
Sons, and that he has purchased a
house in Memo and will move to that
place. The Wenzlaffs have a bank
at Sioux Falls, one at Trip, one at
Olivet. and they had one at Armour
which we understand has been recent
ly sold.
Mr.. William Mclaughlin of Sutton,
Neb., stopped off here on his way
home from Chicago and spent Thanks
giving with his sister. Mrs. A. R.
McKirgan. Mr.. Mclaughlin wasmet
in Chicago by n of his sons who was
in the navy. stationed at San Francis
co, CAL, but who has been transfer.
red TO Harvard University. Mr.. Nc.
Laughlin has three IONS in the service,
two in the navy and one in the med
ical corps.
Rev. Chas. w. Grosp, the Catholic
priest at Vodnany in this county, has
been called to Warrington, D. c., to
confer with officials there conc %erning
questions arising out Of the war and
affecting the Bohemian nation. 1t is
quite likely the Rev. Fr. will go as a
member of a delegation to Be sent
soon to Europe to confer with the
Czecho-Slovsk government. Father
Gross is u loyal American and has
been doing some good work in his
%neighborhood in promoting war con.
tributions. He is familiar with con,
ditions in the Slovak country, having
been raised there, and could render
valuable service as a representative
from America to the government JUS
forming in his native land.
T. F. Hughes, n of the old set
tiers of Bon Homme county, and
prominent farmer and stock raise,
from near Tyndall, made this Office
pleasant call while in town Wednes
day. He was accompanied by l.. F,
Smith, who recently moved to thi
county from Lawton, N. D. Mr.
Smith says when the non-partisal
league organization started in Nortl
Dakota he Joined it, as some of tn
things looked pretty good. but whel
the association Of the league with tn
l. w. w. organization was establish
ed he and many of his neighbcr
dropped it, and it has been LOSING
strength quite rapidly.
Jos. Plattner received a letter tn
first Of the week from his son Fran
who is now in France, and evidentl
he is having some interesting expert
ences. He is acting as clerk in tn
headquarters department. The lette
was written before the armistice wa
signed, and one of the duties that h
occasionally had to perform was t
deliver messages to the front. o
one occasion he was sent with