Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-04-04
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENlNGS OF THE
WEEK.

spring work mas begun In a num-
Der of places. The ground is in good
shape for working.
The Clay County Sunday School as
ISOLATION will hold a convention in
Vermillion on April and Z.
Twenty-Five were graduated from
the state college school of agriculture
at the eighth annual commencement.
Much more wheat than usual will
be sown in the Rosebud country this
spring, work having already been be-
gun.
Miss Hildegarde Waltze had her arm
broken and was otherwise injured
when a corn elevator which she was
assisting her father in moving fell
over on her.
Knights of Columbus to the number
OF 300 gathered at Yankton in annual
service and for the initiation of class
of 81. A st. Paul degree team put
on the work.
At an auction sale for the benefit
of the Red Cross, held at Aberdeen,
the total receipts were around $500,
besides over $4,000 received from the
sale OF chances on a Ford.
Ora B. Right, a school teacher at
Jonesville, Meade county, was drown
ed in the Belle Fourche river when
cake of ice struck and overturned the
buggy in which she was driving.
A number of Mitchell business men
have made an offer of $1,o00,OOO for
the head of Kaiser Wilhelm. The Of
fer is made through Frank s. Weller
and is. he says, bona fide PROPOSE
ton.
The st. Thomas Catholic church So
ciety at Madison has received $4,000
insurance money and will rebuild at
an early date to replace the church
edifice destroyed several weeks ago
by fire.
Mrs. Charlotte Jane Turner, who
died at Yankton at the age of IS years,
held the distinction Of being daugh-
ter of the American Revolution. her
father having been a patriot in the
Continental army. :
A brother Of Walter William Owens,
of Dupree, lost his life on the Lust
tania. To avenge his death, Mr.. Ow-
ems has enelisted in the United States
army and seeks to be sent to France
as soon as possible.
The state council has been given
authority to list men for immediate
overseas service in the 469th and Seth
engineers, which want practical rail
way men, clerks. stenographers and
cooks for immediate service in France.
Movie films are being distributed
by the University of South Dakota
without charge for use by high schools,
reading circles, extension centers,
commercial clubs and other educa.
tional and social organizations in the
state.
Richard Reiser, of Bridgewater, was
the first men from McCook county to
leave for the training camp in re.
Spouse to the second draft. He left
on the special call for blacksmiths,
which was recently made, for San An.
tonic, Tex.
c. NJ Everetts, former trooper of
the United States cavalry, was con-
victed in the circuit court at Lead
on the charge of assault and battery
on a 15-year-Old girl and was SEN
fenced to pay fine of 500 and serve
80 days in jail.
Prof. R. D. Elliott, head of the de.
partment Of Greek language and litera-
ture at the University of South Da-
kota, will present paper on "Transi-
lions and Their Classification" at the
meeting Of the Classical Association
Of the middle west and south at Oma-
ha April 4, s and s.
In order to help use up the enor-
nous potato crop, C. N. Herried, fed
eral food administrator for South Da-
kota, suggests to every hotel and res
faurant manager in the state that he
adopt schedule whereby potatoes
will be given free with every meal and
a definite and specific charge be made
for bread.
AS the result Of meeting held in
Sioux Falls an advisory committee for
the regulation of the handling OF ex-.
plosives in South Dakota was perfect
ed. Michael R. Magner, of Yankton,
appointed chairman Of the federal ex-
plosives committee for the state Of
South Dakota, will be chairman OF
the new committee. w. w. Soule, of
Rapid City, is vice chairman, while
d. P. Lemon, of Sioux City. was Sc
I lected secretary.
Limited purchases of rs cents worth
Of sugar to each Huron customer and
so cents worth to each rural customer
has been decided upon by the grocers
OF Huron. The step is taken to make
the present supply Of sugar in the
city last as long as possible. Grocers
deny that there is shortage there
and say that the step is being taken
to prevent boarding and to give each
uoroon Z fair an aro NJ ffso Qurnlv an