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.

| SEED CORN Al HEC-
ORD PRICE.
To receive an aggregate OF $4,000.
Or SIS per bushel. for 14S bushels OF
iced corn was the experience OF j.
N. Kramer. a Lake county farmer.
fhe l4S bushels was what was left
Dver OF his 1916 r Of corn. AS corn
N 1916 was worth 81 per bushel he
was on the point OF marketing 1t. but
the elevators were not purchasing
corn at the time. so he hauled 1t back
acme and stored II. Recently, owing
| 20 the numerous reports of a scarcity
If good seed corn, he thought OF the
las bushels. Taking this old corn
and testing 1t, he found that 1t was
excellent seed. He advertised to sell
It at auction on the street. This adj
vertisement came to the attention OF
I 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
~auctioniong of the corn. At the auc-
| ton 1t brought an average Of SIS per
bushel, or a total Of $4,000, and was
purchased by other Lake county farm
ers. Kramer made 81, 900 by holding
the corn a year,
After q service OF thirty-flve years,
ranging from errand boy to division
trainmaster, Martin j. Flanagan. train.
master Of the III. 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 ago he
came to Aberdeen as chief train dis
patcher. and a year later was made
trainmaster. +. M. Melin, superintend-
ent Of the Hastings and Dakota divt-
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 all 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
servation forces and the boys and girls
clubs, The plan involves the blowing
of all the lots and then assigning them
to those who will utilize them for cul.
tivation
Ed Levine, of vermillion, the fire.
man who was injured in the wreck
III December nea the Big Sioux
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 him
a draft for $4,000.
The German-American bank. Of Red
field, the second larger banking insti-
tuition in the northwest bearing the
name German-American bank, has
changed its name to the American
bank. In a letter addressed to its
patrons 1t 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 at
the plant of the Chandler Automobile
company at Huron exploded. The ex-
plosion tore out the plate glass win
dows in the basement and first floor
Of the building.
A. A. Rowen secured a farm near
Parker thirty-five years ago by pay
ing $500 for the REIMBURSEMENT OF the
original entry. The other day he sold
the farm for s27, 900, after having lived
on it 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 -four 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 TO 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 CON-
mittee consigned to the flames a pic
ture OF the German kaiser and Field
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