The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-02-07
DRAFT FOE is JAILED
DAY COUNTY FARMER PLACED
BEHIND THE BARS AT
ABERDEEN.

farmer, was put in jail at Aberdeen
On a charge of violating the espionage
act by attempting to obstruct the
draft. Sauer, who is well along in
years, has a son at Camp Funston
who is a drafted man. He claims
his opposition to the draft was based
on reports from his o who he said
.old him the soldiers were not well
Fed at Camp Funston and he had only
III 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
final proof has not been made. MIR.
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 Anal 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 well.
Young Dugall enlisted with the Cana
dians about two years ago and served
many months in the trenches. In adj
dition to being twice reported killed,
he was once on a t~orpedoed 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 a submarine
chaser. His soldier record is some
thing remarkable, and if he comes
through the war all right he should
be able to write an 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 was decided, because of
federal rulings on the Smith-Hughes
bill for federal aid to states for voca-
tional training, TO have teachers
trained i'll agriculture at the state col
lege at Bookings 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
in 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.
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 a result of a 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
II is expected arrests will be made.
Letters have been written to lao per.
sons in Lead notifying them that they
mad been appointed secret agents OF
the society and 95 per cent of these
already have accepted the appoint.
ment.
Rev. H. C. Atrops, pastor of a Ger.
man Lutheran church near White, this
state, and Rev. Carl Graf, pastor OF
a Methodist church at that place, were
arrested and taken before the Unit.
ed States court commissioner at Wat.
ertown on charges of violation of the
espionage act, in the case of the for.
mer, N pro-German activities on the
part of the latter.
Mrs. Gladys Gary, who is living
with her mother on a farm near How.
ard, has received a letter from her
husband, Major Franklin Jude Gary,
who is a 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.
Garrett Dopter of Webster, a grad.
uate of South Dakota State college,
has been appointed emergency dem
o~nstration agent in Beadle county
with headquarters at Huron. Mr.. Dop-
ter will also act as assistant to Coun-
ty Agent o. p. Drake.
Following Governor Norbecks 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.
John Bose. employed in a restau-
rant at Mobridge, is awaiting a hear
ing before federal authorities for se-
ditious ~utterances. He. refused to OBJ
serve wheatless day and says he
"wants to destroy all the wheat he
can"
Yankton county farmers, through
farmers league. have decided 70 con-
struct n farmarc o1ova<or IN varLtor