The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-02-21
GETS SIS PER BUSHEL
LAKE COUNTY FARMER SELLS
SEED CORN AT REC
ORD PRICE.

ORD PRICE.
To receive an aggregate OF $4,000.
Or SIS per bushel. for las bushels of
seed corn was the experience OF j.
VI. Kramer. a Lake county farmer.
fhe l4S bushels was what was left
pver of his 1916 crop Of corn. As corn
IN 1916 was worth 81 per bushel he
The elevators were not purchasing
corn at the time. SO he hauled II back
acme and stored 1t. Recently, owing
20 the numerous reports of a scarcity
Of good seed corn. he thought of the
las bushels. Taking this old corn
and testing it. he found that 1t was
excellent seed. He advertised TO sell
Il at auction on the street. This ad-
vertisement came to the attention of
Minneapolis concern. which offered
him $1,000 for the 14S bushels. This
offer was refused. as Kramer did not
wish the seed corn to go out of South
Dakota, and he went ahead with his
l hhSkiOHlOuS " tuC COfH. n luC duC-
ton 1t brought an average of SIS per
bushel, or a total of 81, ZOO, and was
purchased by other Lake county farm
ers. Kramer made s 1890 by holding
the corn a year.
After a service OF thirty-nve years,
ranging from errand boy to division
trainmaster. Martin ]. Flanagan. train
master Of the H. and ID. 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 g he
came to Aberdeen as chief train dis
patcher. and a year later was made
~trainmaster. f. M. Melin, superintend'
ent Of the Hastings and Dakota divi.
sion, and a number Of other division
officials accompanied Mr.. Flanagan as
far as Mitchell on his way to Dubu.
que. to wish him godspeed in his new
position. His successor as trainmas
ter has not yet been announced.
The Sioux Falls Commercial club
is completing plans whereby an the
vacant lots will be utilized this sea
son 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 Over
to city gardeners for the production
OF foodstuff supplies under the super
vision Of the commercial club and
branches Of the government food con
s~ervation forces and the boys and girls
clubs. The plan involves the plowini
Of all the lots and then assigning then
to those who will utilize them for cul
tivation
Ed Levine, of vermillion, the fire
man who was injured in the WRECK
IA. December neal the Big Siou,
bridge at Vermillion, when a passen
ger train crashed into a freight train
has settled with the Milwaukee com
pany, the corporation paying his hos
pital expenses. furnishing him with
an artificial limb and rendering hin
a draft for 10000.
The German-American bank. OF Red
field, the second larger banking insti
tuition in the northwest bearing the
name German-American bank, ha.
changed its name to the American
bank. In a letter addressed to Its
patrons it repudiates the inhuman con
duct OF the German government and
army In the war and asserts its 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 al
the plant of the Chandler Automobile
company at Huron exploded. The ex
plosion tore ~ the plate glass win
dows in the basement and first floor
of the building.
A. A. Rowen secured a farm near
Parker t~hirty-fve years ago by pay.
ing $500 for the REIMBURSEMENT of the
original entry. The other day he sold
the farm for $27, 900, after having lived
on 1t continuously during the thirty,
five years. During most years of that
period he raised good crops on the
land.
Ezra o. Snyder and C. c. Issenhuth,
arrested at Huron by federal officers
for boarding flour In their homes,
waived preliminary examination be.
fore a United States commissioner and
were bound over to the April term OF
the federal district court for trial in
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 10 John Hayes a new trial on
his conviction Of bank wrecking at
Fort Pierre. The case has been one
of interest to many residents of Stan.
ley county who suffered losses through
the bank failure.
AS the local band played The Star
Spangled Banner and the crowd stood
rigidly at attention, a vigilance com.
mittee consigned to the flames a pic.
ture of the German kaiser and Field
Marshal o Hindenburg, taken from
the home Of a German residing eleven
miles from Mclaughlin.