The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-09-27
NEWS OF THE STATE
= RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGS OF THE
WEEK.

| OF Sully county to fill the vacancy
! caused by the resignation OF Forrest
Eager, who resigned to Join the army
Because of the growing shortage OF
male labor, the Homestake Mining
company has decided to employ WON
en- as laborers in the lighter occupa.
tions about the mining property OF
the company.
The four daughters of d. T. Gear
hart, Brule county farmer, volun
teered during their school vacation to
do the shocking of 500 acres of small
grain on the farm of their father. as
he could not procure help to otherwise
handle the crop. The girls proved
that they could make good by keep.
ing up with the machine for all the
work and did the job as we'll as any
crew OF men could have done II.
Thirty-fve years ago the University
of Dakota, now the University of
South Dakota, opened for its first
term. An old newspaper account de-
scribes the opening as a magnificent
affair" The members Of the board of
regents who were present were. Gen.
w II. II. Beadle, of Yankton; Erick-
son, Of Elk Point; Elwell, of Sioux
Falls, and Burdick, of Vermillion. Ex-
Chief Justice Shannon and President
Epstein made addresses.
The department of the secretary Of
state shows an increase of $2f 900 in
fees for the biennial period ending
June 80 last over the preceding BIZ
ennial period, this being in s6,359 for
certified copies, and s53,06S for mis-
cellaneous fees. The department
shows for the year ending June 30
last, the fling Of 64S domestic cor
porations with a combined capital of
S251 .3SS,530, and the Incorporation of
% state banks with a combined cap
ital of $550,OO0.
State college has more than enough
high school graduates enrolled in the
students army training corps two
weeks before college opens to insure
the establishment of a unit by the
war department The organization of
a unit of the students army training
corps at any college depends upon
the enrolment of at least 100 men of
collegiate standing. State college au-
thorities expect to double this number
before the opening Of school on Octo-
ber l.
l.. d. Manchester, of Sioux Falls,
was elected president of the South
Dakota Manufacturers and Employers
association in convention at Huron. J.
II. Foasburg. of Huron, was elected
vice pre- cnt. Directors chosen were
w. H. Foster, of Sioux Falls; c. ".
Mcmillan, of Sioux Falls; L. A. Kelly,
Of Sioux Falls, and F. d. Murrin of
Lead About seventy-five delegates at
tended the convention. No date for
the holding Of the next convention has
been set.
Boys as young as 16 years who
have completed the eighth grade work
will be admitted to the school of
agriculture at State college at Brook
ings as war measure. The school
of agriculture opens November 5 and
is intended for boys and girls who
want farm and home training. but
who are not eligible to enter the col
legiate classes. The military and me-
chanical work offered boys will be of
advantage to them when they are
later called into army service.
One of the most patriotic men in
South Dakota is F. j. Eager, an at
torney, Of Onida, who at his own re-
quest had the Sully county draft board
transfer his name from the fourth to
the first class, so that he could at
Cnce respond to the call for soldiers
for the American army in France. He
already has departed for Camp Funs-
ton, Kan, TO assume the duties of a
soldier He has a wife. and in addi-
ton to being separated from her, re-
signed the cashiership of a leading
Onida bank
"Oh, how our boys can fight!
Nothing can stop them" writes Lieut..
Donley, a Scotland young man, who
is serving with Pershing's army in
France. He continues: 1--WE see the
dead Germans scattered all over; very
large numbers in some places. There
is something about that gives one
feeling to go get them, and we sure
are doing that. You could see a great
many Of them Germany prisoners)
marching to the rear under guard.
rhe boys who were guarding them
were the proudest American soldiers
| have seen over here"
Believing it their patriotic duty to
do so the officers of the churches of
Sioux Falls are planning ways and
means TO conserve coal during the
coming winter. Among the plans con-
sidered is that of using stoves for Sun
day school purposes and also the COM
bining of weekly activities of the va
rious churches on a certain day in
the week. 1t also is planned to hold |
Joint services in churches where the !
services do not vary greatly. A plan
also is advocated to hold religious !
services on the east side in one |
church.
Secretary Beaumont, of the state /
live stock commission, says that the |
late frosts should put an end to the |
fungus poisoning of horses in the GEN.
trail part of the state. In the past |
few weeks the trouble has spread |