Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-02-14
NEWS OF THE STATE
CHIEF EVENTS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
READERS.
A home guard company has been


Fire at Kimball destroyed the brick
store building occupied by w. M.
Shepley as bakery For time the
entire block was threatened.
Jess Herman was arrested at Alb.
erdeen charged with having forged a
check for $65 Herman cashed the
check at bank at Barnard.
Homer Smith, Stateacollege gradu-
ate of 1916, has accepted the position
as district leader of boys and girls
clubs, with headquarters at Rapid
City.
The Woman's Alliance of Sioux
Falls, which provides home for girls,
is making arrangements to erect a
building which will cost about $780,
600.
The enactment of law by the state
legislature which will be designed to
mobilize labor and make it unlawful
for a physically capable individual
to be idle in South Dakota, is pro-
posed.
Miss Laura Brookman, of Vermil-
lion, has been chosen as editor of the
Volante, the student paper of the Uni
versity of South Dakota. Miss Brook
man is the fourth woman to be thus
honored.
John Bossee, I. w W., and recent
resident of Selby, has been arrested,
charged with violation of the espion-
age act. He is alleged to have said:
"WilsOn ought to have his brains
blown out and l would like to help
do it,"
Mrs. John Hausman, Of Pierre, is
in a hospital, badly burned, as the
result of pouring kerosene over her
self and applying a match. She had
shown signs of mental trouble for
several days before committing the
act.
Commencement at the University
of South Dakota will be held on May
IS this year. This is earlier than any
previous commencement The reason
is to give the men students who wish
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farms.
Reports from H. O. Herbrandson,
field agent for the department of agri-
culture for South Dakota, shows that
the number of horses in the state has
, increased during the past year. Cat
tie also show a healthy increase in
number.
Governor Norbeck has received an
urgent call from the general manager
of the emergency feet corporation, in
which he asks for men to help in that
work. The county chairmen of the
council of defense have been supplied
with enrolment cards
President E. c. Perisho, of State
college at Brookings, has appointed a
war information committee at the col
lege which will collect and co-ordi-
nate all the information available for
state and college use in the interest
of greater food production and con-
servation as war measure.
Grain men and farmers are getting
anxious about the stored corn in South
Dakota. 1t is claimed that unless the
grain is moved within the next month
that it will spoil, as it's already soft
ened condition will not stand storage
in cribs when warm weather begins
The state railway commission and the
food administrator have been appeal
ed to.
The state department has appealed
to the court for authority to pay a
Is per cent dividend to the depositors
OF the Dakota State bank of Eagle
Butte. which failed before the guar.
anty law went into effect. This Is
the first payment to be made to the
depositors since the bank failed sew
eral years ago.
}. c. Parkin, a rancher homestead der
living near Provo, in the Edgemont
district, has just sold his alfalfa seed,
the product of last season, and finds
that the crop was very profitable
one. From about seventy acres he
secured ats bushels of alfalfa seed,
which brought him a financial return
of nearly $50 an acre for the tract
devoted to the alfalfa Farm land in
his district is worth only from $50 to
$25 an acre.
The report of Insurance Commits
sioner Van Camp recently submitted
to Governor Norbeck, shows that the
department for the fiscal year collect
ed in fees and taxes the sum of $685.
s44.51, and that the cost of maintain
Ing the insurance and fire marshal
departments was $21,29147, which dis
closes the fact that the department
tor the year was operated at a profit
% the state of s177,34295, which in
cludes s29,586.58 distributed among
The towns of the state maintaining
organized fire departments.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Pfantz. of Leola, was found dead
IN a jar Of water. Mrs. Pfantz was
washing and had gone outside to hang