The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-05-10


GOV Peter Norbeck in keeping mem.
bers OF their schools OF medicine from
the state board of health as provided
for by the state constitution.
Because OF the scattering OF the
members owing TO the war, II is prob
able that the baseball team which
gained fame for Bancroft during the
past seasons will not be organized this
year. Even the members that are left
are too busy during these strenuous
war times TO pay any attention 10
baseball
Throwing Of rice at weddings is
frowned upon by food administration
officials in South Dakota, il is an
nouuced II was deemed advisable
TO make this statement with the APP
proach of the June marriage season.
Old shoes and other missiles may be
I thrown. but rice as postnuptial am
munitiOn is taboo, it is stated
Live stock in large numbers is be-
ing shipped from the Rosebud country
10 eastern markets. Twelve carloads
OF cattle and hogs were shipped from
/ Gregory in a single day. the days ship
ments bringing the shippers an aggre-
/ gate Of more than 100000 Live stock
to the value of several hundred thou
sand dollars will be shipped from the
! Rosebud country during the spring and
/ summer months
The financial showing OF the state
treasury at the close or business April
80 showed 81 1892, 4S4 in all funds. The
income funa for public schools car
ried s672,S07 OF this, and the twine
plant fund $91,720 The game fund
had 2,545 and the motor vehicle tnnd
/ $27,427. The various agricultural ex-
tension funds were about $27 900, the
county extension funds being $16,230,
the federal Smith-Lever $10,263, and
the county supervision fund s1.193.
Sir young women have applied to
the recruiting station at Mitchell for
positions in the service. Four asked
for clerical positions and the others
wanted to get into the medical corps.
The recruiting officer found it diff
cult to convince them that Uncle Sam
doesn't want women in his army, but
they finally left, after announcing that
they were determined to go to the
front, and proposed TO study nursing
so they could enlist for Red Cross
work.
Joseph Kuhn, farmer living sew
n. L., u,
good record in the production OF food
stuffs. A few days ago he marketed
two carloads OF hogs which brought
him $6.S66.10. He still has sixty head
of hogs left. He Also sold recently
1000 bushels OF barley. which swelled
his receipts an additioaal $1,000. Sales
of poultry, produce, etc added to these
will increase his income for the year
to about $1,000. He farms a half sec
tion of land.
Mrs. Perry Stephens, who, with her
husband is doing jsnitor work in the
Meade county court house at Sturgis,
was so badly burned that IL is ques.
tion whether or not she will survive
from her injuries. While building a
fire with wet wood she used kero-
sene oil, which caused an explosion.
blowing the bottom out of the can and
throwing burning oil all over her
clothes The flames were put out by
her husband, but not until the woman
was seriously injured.
The automobile owner who has sent
in the fee for his license plate and
can't get It will have to blame war
conditions for this fact. The state de
partment was able to get 1000 plates
few days ago, the first received since
the last of March, and these only
supplied few OF the applications on
file. The company which contracted
20 supply the plates for this year
simply announces that 1t cannot tell
when It will be able TO make another
shipment and in the meantime the
owner is up against a violation of a
state law for failure to display tag
which he cannot get even after he has
r paid for IT.
r Following the announcement that
Sanborn county on the banks of the
James river had sold their holdings
through their leaders TO a group Oi
Artcsian capitalists, II is learned that
, the colonists at Rosedale, New Elm
and Rockport also have made con
tracts for land transfers and will re
ceive real estate in Canada for theil
South Dakota property. Leaders o.
the Huttrische brethren have been il
Canada for some time, seeking prom
ises OF exemption for their young mel
from Canadian officials and allege i'm
munity from service has been prom
ised them Their religion is opposed
to war and they already have shown
D their active opposition TO the draf
= laws of the United States by protests
$ Three leaders Of the faith were arrest
$ ed last week for attempting TO brib'
a officials OF the United States army ant
J. secure the release of Mennonite re