The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-10-11


for the spruce production. The men,
who are to be taken from the claSs
qualified for special and limited serV'
ice, will report to the commanding
officer at Vancouver barracks, VAN
couver, Wash.
Letters from many South Dakota
boys indicate a current rumor that
the state colleges quota of students
in the student army training corps at
Brookings has already been filled.
This is not true. The state college
has yet room for probably as many
yong men as care TO enter. although
il is advisable that those desiring 10
enroll should send in their appl!ca-
tions at once If the quota is exceed
ed, waiting list will be drawn up.
1t has been decided by the city com
missioners of Madison to submit 10
the voters at a special election the
proposition Of issuing bonds in the
sum Of $150.000 or this sum 100000
will be used for rebuilding and equip
ping the electric light pant, which
was destroyed by fire some weeks
ago $500 will be used for the ex-
tension Of the sewerage system, and
the remaining s25 600 will be used
for extending the mains of the muni-
cipal water works system.
Although he is still but a lieutenant,
Royal C. Johnson, of Aberdeen. con-
gresham from the Second district
las at last gratified his wish 20 be at
the front. Word from there to his
he officers training school in France
He wrote on August % that he had
another week there before he would
be assigned to the front line trenches.
Lieut. Johnson was recently offered a
"aptaincy in the ordnance department.
but declined 1t because it did not Of,
fer enough fighting
Tom Ayres. candidate for congress
Of the nonpartisan league of Perkins
county, was refused the use of the
ball in Witten in which to speak He
,hen took up at one OF the garages,
from which he was ordered by the
town board, also not to speak in the
town. But he refused to abide by the
order and an officer was called to
stop him; he still refused. The home
guards from Winner were notified and
they came up later and went up to
the hotel and notified Ayres to get
up and get, which he did. He stated
that he was going TO Gregory county,
and was going prepared for trouble.
No wonder they refer to South Da-
kota as "the breadbasket OF the
world for no state in the union has
quite the same record this year on
crops. South Dakota is rated in per-
centage of crop for 1918 at the top
OF the whole list of forty-eight states.
according to the South Dakota immi-
grafton department The United
states department Of agriculture ex.
perts' report for August, on the staple
human food crops credit South Da-
kota with 1898 per cent the nearest
other state having 1871 per cent and
only few states showing better than
100 per cent.
Mabel Williams was the victim OF
a peculiar accident NJ. D. Candy was
working on the automobile when in
some manner the clutch, which held
the rim was released while the tube
was inflated with a pressure of about
eighty pounds. There was an explo.
sion and the steel rim struck Miss
Williams with such force on the neck
and breast that she was rendered un.
conscious Candy also was knocked
down and rendered unconscious and
suffered minor injuries. It required
the efforts of a physician for more
than an hour before the two victims
were brought back to consciousness.
Their escape from death was a narrow
one.
A recent letter from France tells of
an impromptu Pierre celebration" on
the front not long ago. A battery of
field artillery containing 2 large mum.
Der OF boys from old Company A. Of
Pierre, which has been changed into
the battery, were being guarded by an
alrman After several days the bird
man was compelled to come down on
account of engine trouble and landed
among the boys Of the battery, reveal.
ing the fact that their air scout VIA i,
Walter Smith. high school boy and
football star OF the class in which
most OF the boys of the company were
members. From that time on thai,
air scout had different individuality
to them than he had before they knew
who he was.
what is known as the Maxwell Men
onite colony, near Scotland, was the
latest OF the Mennonite colonies IN
South Dakota to be sold in accordance
with the determination of the Men
onites OF the state to move to westsru
Canada because they do not want tbei,
young men to serve as soldiers. Tb,
Maxwell colony was one of the mos,
progressive in the state. The build
ings are large and substantial and ar,
equipped with electric lights from ,
central plant operated by power at thu
houring mill. The colony lands CON
sisted OF 5000 acres, a large part O,
1t fine. level farming land. The pur
chase price was $40 an acre, which