Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-02-06

NEWS OF THE STATE
a RESUME or IMPORTANT HAP.
PENlNGs OF THE
WEEK.

VEGA. MANY yUuluS Winter III tuS
cedar thickets on the Islands Id the
Missouri sfver and get out into the
open when the weather is mild.
Several farmers in the western part
Of the state have tried raising broom
corn and all appear to make success
of it, but the best record vet shown
Is that OF a farmer near Presho, who
put in eight acres the last year and
got 1912 an acre for his crop. As
land in that section IAN be bought at
from $40 to $50 an acre, a return
such as that makes farming iii that
section profitable.
A movement has been innugurated
at Bancroft for the erection of a pub
lie school building. The present
school facilities have become made.
quate for the increasing number OF
children OF school age, and increased
! facilities have become imperative. It
is hoped that a special election a
be held in the spring to vote upon
the proposition OF issuing the neces-
sary bonds.
~ 1Js0T aPCSASA HGtCCtAOU fASlA rStlf llhtt~
ford, bonds to the amount of $4,000
were voted for the extension of the
waterworks system. Only five votes
were cast in opposition. The PROPOSE
ton was voted IN last summer and
carried by a good majority, but the
company which had agreed to pur-
chase the bonds found a technical IT.
regularity In the calling of the cleo.
ton, and therefore it finally was de.
termined to hold the second election.
Mrs, Jens Johnson, q prominent
resident of the Beresford territory,
has been made the defendant IN a
$40. 900 damage suit which has been
instituted in the state circuit court by
Aldrick Larson, a wealthy farmer OF
the vicinity. The damage suit is the
outgrowth of the arrest some months
ago OF Larson on the charge that he
might have been responsible for the
tragic death OF Albert Johnson, a boy,
son Of the woman who is made the
defendant in the damage suit.
Harvesting the wind and the util.
ization OF the unlimited power OF
prairie breezes Is the plan which a
young rancher of Ziebach county
claims to have evolved in the way OF
a motor for travel His machine is
driven by a wind engine SO construct.
ed as to regulate the amount of power
developed by the engiEe and geared
to his wagon SO al to allow him to
travel against the wind as we'll as
with 1t. II his claims of what he can
! do with the machine prove up OF
tests he has q motive power which
costs him nothing and all he needs
for his 10Y rides is to watch the
wind to see that it is not too strong.
Amos B. Kellogg, secretary OF the
Rapid City Commercial club, has sug.
gested a plan whereby Rapid City can
erect a memorial to the soldiers and
sailors who served in the war from
that city and at the same time give
the city's youth something for which,
they have great need. He has sug.
gested that instead OF erecting a mo,
mortal in the form Of q monument the
city build a community building, ia
be conducted something after the
form Of d Y. M, C. A. Rapid City
has had need for such an institution
and now that plans are being made
for the erection of a suitable me.
mortal such a plan might be followed
out.
Freeman college, which was started
some years ago, and which has been
accounted N Of the smaller colleges
of the state, promises to be developed
into n of the leading educational in.
situations OF the state. Al movement
has been inaugurated to raise afund
Of 100000 for the enlargement Of the
college. 1t is reported that scores OF
farmers Of the Freeman territory
stand ready to donate $1,000 each to
the college fund, and other wealthy
men OF the city and surrounding coun.
try will do equally as well. The pres.
ent college buildings have become in.
adequate for the increasing number oil
students, aSd hence the determination
to increase the building capacity and
enlarge the scope Of the college.
The experience OF Henry Kost, oil
Menno, demonstrates wlTat cen be ac
complished on the average South Da,
kota farm during these days OF high
prices for farm products. He owns q
ranch in Hend county, which Is be
Ing looked after by another man on
shares. Kost made a profit Of more
than $500 on fax from 40 acres. fol
which he paid "a per acre for break,
ing and So per acr for seed fax, the
more than $500 profit representing
only one-half the crop. One-third Of
the oats from 40 acres gave him
profit OF $3.50, and, in addition, he sold
q number OF cattle IN the fall from
the ranch, for which he received
$l25.25 per head. His third Interest
in the corn crop raised on the ranch
In 1918 alone brought him more cash
Per acre than he paid for the land fve
or six years ago.
A movement has been fnaugnrated
by the business men and other resi-
dents sof Britton for the erection Of
an auditorium or pavilion, In which
to hold sales Of live stock and exhi