River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-04-22
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| Seattle, Wash, was chosen for the
| 1922 convention of the three national
nursing associations in biennial con-
vention at Atlanta, Ga
1 Sioux Falls will be the headquarters
of R. B. Leady, federal prohibition en-
forcement agent in South Dakota, ac-
| cording to official orders.
| Philip Obeschain, years old, was
killed at Watertown, S. D., when an
automobile knocked him down and
crushed his chest His parents wit
messed the accident
In a weeks campaign the Aber-
deem, S. d., Y. M. G. A. building COM
mittee raised by public subscription
| $225,O00 with which to build a new
association building in that city.
While extracting shell from a
| gun, Alvin, 10 year old son of An
drew Goehring, of Highmore, South
Dakota, accidentally discharged the
bullet which killed him instantly
| Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Wis
consin will be represented at the dis
trict meeting of the Mississippi Valley
| Conservation Congress, scheduled to
| take place in La Crosse,the latter part
of the month
| Farmers of Mcpherson county, S.
D., have received more than $4,000
from their wild hay crops during the
last nine months, besides retaining
| enough feed to carry their herds
through the winter
Announcement is made by III. C.
Cobb of Redf1eld, president of the
South Dakota farm bureau, of the ap-
pointment of P. J. Crandall, former
county agent of Union county as sec
rotary of the state bureau.
| e. L. Boland of independence S. D.,
will realize more than S11, 900 from
his sweet clover crop of last year,
| having just finished threshing 40
acre crop. Last fall he sold $4,000
in seed and still has about 600 bushels
valued at approximately $4,000.
Announcement made by E. U. Behr-
dahl, secretary of the Retail Mer-
chants association of South Dakota,
that the annual meeting of the asso-
citation will take place May IL, IL and
13 at Watertown 1t is expected that
700 guests will be in that city for the
meeting.
Coal dealers at the head of the lakes
are apprehensive that the supplies of
anthracite and bituminous coal will
become acutely short before boats can
| arrive from down lakes. Captains who
are fitting out their boats for their
| first trip from Duluth are having diff
| ficulty obtaining COAL
John Hendricks, farmer of the De
Smet district in South Dakota, was a
heavy loser from disastrous farm
| fire, which destroyed the large barn
on his place. Twelve calves were
burned to death, and in addition 800
bushels of oats, so tons of hay and
other personal property was con-
sumed
1t is estimated that IS per cent of
the wheat crop in Brown, Edmunds,
Day and Marshall counties, S. D., has
been put into the soil during the last
week. In the lighter soil districts
most of the wheat is through the
ground. Farmers are offering SIS a.
month for help and say the supply is
sufficient at that price. !,
Fargo, N. D., was awarded unaui-
mously the 1921 Rotary conference for
the 18th district at the conference just
closed at Wausau, Wis. More than
1000 attended an informal reception
at Rothschild pavilion, followed by a
conference dinner, brief address by
e. j. Filiatrault, five minute talks by
H. b. Craddick, district governor, and
Albert S. Adams, International presi-
dent.
Rev. H. H. H. Fox of ST. Johns Epis-
copal church of Detroit, Mich, was
elected suffragan bishop of the diocese
to have charge Of new division of
the diocese in eastern Montana, at the
annual convention of laymen and
clergy at Livingston. Mont The cleo
ton followed a deadlock during which
the clergy favored Rev. Edward NJ
Cross of st. Johns church, St. Paul,
MINI.
What is believed to be the record
price for school land In Marshall
county, S. D., is $276 an acre paid for
20 acres by Joe Gartner OF Eden at
the annual school lands sales held at
Britton. The record previously was
held By Sphinx county, where .S205 was
paid for parcel Of school lands. A
delegation of Danes from southern
Minnesota and northern Iowa bought
heavily and win establish a colony
near Lake City.
From February Is to April 8 total
Of 315 deeds were recorded in the Of
ice of the register of deeds at Madi-
son. S. D., representing a total valua-
ton of S5,547, 370.12. Between January
i, 1920, and February Is, so other
deeds were recorded, this bringing the
total valuation of transfers in farm
land and city property to more than
s6,COO,000
Tom Goodwin was denied pardon
by Judge Fleeger In circuit court at
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