The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-02-08
DRAFT FOE IS JAILED
DAY COUNTY FARMER PLACED
BEHIND THE BARS At
ABERDEEN.


BEHIND THE BARS At
ABERDEEN.
Chris Sauer. a 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 IL well along in
years, has a son at Camp Funston
who is q drafted man. He claims
his opposition to the draft was based
on reports from his son who he said
..old him the soldiers were not well
Ted at Camp Funston and he had only
IN apple for breakfast.
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 a visit made to President
Hogan, Of the federal land bank, at
Omaha. Neb., reports that an import.
ant concession has been made rela-
i've to loans on homesteads on which
fnal proof has not been made. MI.
Hoberz states that he was assured by
President Hogan that in future home
steaders could secure from the federal
land bank loans sufficient to owe
the making Of final proofs, and that
upon receipt from the United States
district land Office of a receipt show
ing that this amount had been paid,
the balance OF the approved loan
would then be made by the federal
land bank on the land.
A letter has been received by Ed
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 we'll.
Young Dugall enlisted with the Cana
dians about two years ago and served
many months in the trenches. In ad.
dition to being twice reported killed.
he was once on q torpedoed boat and
was supposed to have been drowned,
but turned up all right. He nov has
decided to enlist in the navy and will
be assigned to duty on . submarine
chaser. His soldier record is some.
thing remarkable, and il he comes
through the war all right he should
be able to write IN interesting book
Of his thrilling adventures.
At the meeting of the state board
OF education, popularity known as the
vocational board, at the capitol in
Pierre, It raj decided, because of
federal rulings on 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 ct this school and at the
university at Vermilion. The four
normals OF the state cannot receive
this federal aid for training teachers
in these vocational branches, under
the ruling Of Washington federal voca
tional board. because they do not Offer
/, suficient years OF study in them pas
the high school training.
The local advisory board Of the
American Defense society at Lead ha.
been investigating q number OF al
legged 8 OF disloyalty in that com
munity. and as q result OF a report
made by its secret agents the o.
eight Lead residents charged with
making disloyal or seditious remark,
have been reported to the United
States attorney at Sioux Falls, ant
1t is expected arrests will be made
Letters have been written to 40 per
sons in Lead notifying them that the,
had been appointed secret agents o
the society and IS per cent OF thes.
already have accepted the appoint
ment.
Rev. II. G. Atrops. pastor OF q Ger
man Lutheran church near White, THU
state, and Rev. Carl Graf, pastor o.
. Methodist church II that place, wer,
arrested and taken before the Unit
cd States court commissioner at Wat
ertown on charges Of violation OF tn,
espionage act, In the case Of the for
mer, and pro-German activities on tn,
part Of the latter.
Mrs. Gladys Gary, who il livinl
with her mother on q farm near How
ard. has received a letter from he
husband, Major Franklin Jude Gary
who II . member OF q Canadian regi
ment lighting at the front, in which
he states that he was among thos.
recently decorated for bravery by be
ing presented with the Military Cross
Garrett Dopter of Webster, a grad
uate Of South Dakota State college
has been appointed emergency dem
O~nstrati0n agent In Beadle county
with headquarters 1t Huron. Nj. Dop
ter viii also act Is assistant to Coun
y Agent Q. p. Drake.
Following Governor Norbeck,s IN
structi0ns. every unnecessary light ii
the capitol building will be dispensed
with and the temperature OF all room,
viii be kept - low a. ran be done
with moderate heat for working pur
poses.
John Bosse, employed In . restau
rant 1t Nobridge. 10 awaiting q hear
ing before federal authorities TOR se