The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-22
STATE NEWS.

Redfield-Logan Bean, a Doland
mail carrier, has confessed to aiding
two workmen, employed near Do
land, escape from this city, after rob-
bling a gambling party of nearly 5000.
Huron-Approximately 35 blocks
of paving will be laid in Huron this
year, city officials estimate. Several
contracts for paving, which were let,
probably will not be completed this
year, it is said.
Sutrgis--At the recent session of
the commissioners of Meade county
it was decided to build a bridge
across the Belle Fourche river at
what is known as the Pratt crossing.
Bids are to be called for at once.
Sturgis-The Meade County Fair
association is doing its utmost to
make the coming county fair far sur
pass any ever given. The fair will
be held on the Meade County Fair
grounds near Sturgis on September
"a, rs and 26.
Huron-Miss Emma Shelley, new
6ChGidt oCCi Cldlg VI tue btdutC
county Y. w. C. A. work, has arrived
In Huron t. take up her work. She
departed with a large delegation of
Huron girls for the national Y. w.
c.. A. conference at Lake Geneva,
Wis.
Huron-Huron Catholics are said
to have contributed $4,000 to the
fund now being raised in the state to
build a Catholic school at Sioux Falls.
The work of soliciting money in
Huron vas in charge of Rev. Father
Kirley, president of Columbus college
at Chamberlain.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the old
One Hundred and Forty-seventh field
as a part of this states share in the
new national guard, which the war
department is organizing, is forecast
in dispatches received from Adjt.
Gen. Morris, at Redfield.
Draper-A line of clothes which
had been hanging in the sun for only
fifteen minutes caught fire and burn
ed at the home of Mrs. Jas. Moore,
of Draper. The only explanation
was that a piece of glass might have
been lying on the ground in such a
manner that the rays of the sun were
thrown on the clothes.
Huron-With the harvesting of
Beadle county's crop about over, the
,talI 1f xvhaat ;o 1~ffp.atol hv 60 rna
ers to average from 7 to Is bushels
to the acre. The normal wheat crop
In the state is about IL bushels to
the acre. This yield of wheat is much
larger than was anticipated earlier in
the year. Oats are yielding about 40
bushels to the acre.
Sturgis-Meade County Post No.
33, American Legion, has been organ
ICED here with the following officers:
Capt. Robt. l. Wood. post command
err; Sergt. Edwin Cruiekshank. vice
post commander; Henry McCrary, ad-
jutant; Lieut.. d. ID. Evans, war risk
insurance and publicity officer;
Lieut.. Carroll d. Erskine. chaplain;
Harry L. Smith, post historian; Lieut..
w. III. Johnson, employment officer;
Richard Stoll, finance officer.
Mitchell-Raymond G. Gray, alias
Raymond C. Hyde, who claimed to be
the sol of a Wichita, Kan, million
aire, and who was brought back to
Mitchell from Des Moines to answer
to the charge of obtaining money I'M
der false ~pretenses. waived prelimi.
nary examination and was bound over
to the circuit court. which convenes
September Q. 1t is believed that
Gray's case will be given an early
hearing by Judge F. b. Smith. Gray's
bail was fixed at $500. in default
of which he was locked up.