Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-10
NEWS OF THE STATE
hEsuME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PEhihas OF THE
81 WEEK.

uhVeiilng OF a monster service hao
when has been swung across the chiel
business street OF Madison. 1t con
tains 7l8 blue stars and nine gold
ones. representing young men from
Maolson and Lake counties who en-.
tered the service of their country,
me local depots of the Waterfowl
and Sioux Falls and the Milwaukee
railways in Wentworth it now is as.
sured, Will be moved from their pres.
eht locations to the crossing of the
TWO railroads and merged into a union
ohclals of the companies were
IN wentworth and decided upon this
important move, which will be of great
convenience to the travelling public.
The farmers Of Charles Mix county
nave named 10 cents a busheI as the
price for husking corn this fall. The
crop in Charles Mix county is unusu.
any good this year and a large num-
Der CT men will be needed to helm
harvest the crop. Any men coming
INTO the county wanting to help save
the corn should report to County Agent
Johnson at Lake Andes. He will see
That they get jobs.
IN order to meet the Spanish infu,
enza epidemic which has travelled as
far west as Sioux Falls, the American
Red cross has asked Miss Blanche
to perfect plans to meet any
emergency. Miss Townsend appeals
70 all nurses who are married to en-.
roll for home defense work. The pub,
Tic health department and the various
nurse associations and societies are
to help in the work.
German is a dead Language at the
University of South Dakota. 1t has
been executed twice. There will be
no classes in German for members
OF the student army training corps.
Earlier announcements for the student
army training corps schedule included
German among the modern languages
TO be taught, although the board OF
regents voted last February to elimi
nate it from the university curriculum
A heavy enrolment in the French de.
partment is expected and classes in
French have been scheduled for every
period every day.
The war department has detailed
nine commissioned officers of the regu,
lar army to the University of South
Dakota to handle the military work in
connection with the students army
training corps. They are. Captain ]
L. Beer, commanding officer; Captain
D. 9. Barnhill, of the dental corps;
First Lieutenant F. e. Townsend, OF
the medical corps; First Lieutenant
M. B. Robinson, of infantry; Second
Lieutenant w. F. McMurry, R. H. God,
dell, G. G. Mulgrew. E. J. Goen and
G. B. Allen, all Of the infantry.
r. S. Peck, state highway engineer,
has received a telegram from the fed.
eral highway department stating that.
the federal priorities commission has
granted permits for material to com
plete any highway construction work
which a be completed before the list
of November. For any work which
cannot be completed in October it will
be necessary to secure permission
through the different state highway
commissions and the federal commits
sion to continue the work, and the con.
tractor who has work ander way
which will carry him longer than DC.
tober needs to get in his application
to the state commission at an early
date to be certain of his materials.
One of the most disastrous farm
fires for some time in South Dakota
is reported from the farm of G. Fret
burghaus, near Ramona. Seventeen
stacks of barley and oats in the harm,
yard were entirely consumed, and it
was with difficulty the barn was saved.
The fire started from a thresher en-.
CINE, threshing being in progress on
the farm at the time. In less than
q minute after the fire was discovered
It had spread to all parts of a straw
pile, and from there to the stacks,
The separator caught fire, and was
practically destroyed before it could
be hauled to a place of safety. Fire.
men from both Ramona and Madison
were rushed to the scene, and by hard
work held the fire to the grain stacks.
The loss is estimated at about 81, 900
in all, with insurance to only partly
cover the loss.
Complaint having been made to the
state market commission that unfair
grading was being used at several
places in the state, an investigation
made at the stations of Platte,
Armour, belmont and Corsica, where
it is reported the grading was done
without first cleaning the wheat, which
would place the product brought in by
the farmer at a lower grade than that
to which it was entitled and lower the
price. This matter was taken up with
the federal authorities and the state
market commission has received !
communication from Frank T.. Carey.
vice president Of the national food adj
ministration at Minneapolis, in which
he asks that any such grading discov,
cred be reported to the federal depart.
ment and action would Immediately
be taken through that department.
Federal Food Administrator G. M
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