Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1918-1920, 1920-01-15
NAV RICK S
Happenings in County and State
Some items are rehashed
some given credit where cred
IL Is due, and some are swiped
bodily.

bodily.
Ex-President Taft is schedul
ed to deliver an address at Sioux
Falls on Lincoln's birthday.
A reunion of Scottish Rite
Masons is being held at Murde
this week. Sixtythree candidates
are having the degrees confer.
red on them by degree team OF
twenty-five members from Dead.
wood and vicinity.
A charter for a post of the
American Legion at Midland has
been applied for. At the organ
ization meeting held New Years
night Ivan Welch was elected
chairman and S. C. Nelson sec
retary and treasurer.
Representatives of Haakon
and Jones counties were here
yesterday Thursday in con-
ference with the members Of the
state highway commission in
regard to highway work in their
respective counties. - Pierre
Capital-Journal.
Mrs. Palmer Gilbcrtson, of
Sioux Falls, arrived Wednesday
mo. n,ng to be with her mothar
Mrs. c. e. Coyne, who UNDER
went an operat:ol i al st. Mary's
hospital in Pierre Monday morn
ing. Mrs. Coyne's operation was
quite serious, but she is doing
nicely at present.-.Fort Pierre
Times.
The explosion of gasoline
iron in the Heinemann home at
Wasta would have meant the
destruction of the home, except
for the immediate use of hand
fire extinguisher, kept in the
kitchen for such contingencies.
About $50 damage was done by
the flames before they were un-
der control.
According to information
which has been received at Lem
mon, that town is to be made a
division point of the c., M. & st.
?. railroad, it being said that
this is included in the 1920 plans
of the company. Lennon is re-
garded as the logical place for a
freight division point, as it is
midway between Marmath and
Mobridge.
Bloodhound evidence proved
inaccurate in a case at Lennon.
A clothing store in that city
was robbed of goods valued at
$4,000. Bloodhounds were Sc
cured and followed an alleged
trail direct to the homes of E.
-. Palmer and Claud Smith. The
men, upon being arrested, estab-
lished complete alibis and had to
be released.
That the artesian wells along
the Northwestern road between
Pierre and Miller are failing in
both flow and pressure, is the al
arming report of experts. The
!shrinkage has been gradual and
extends over a period of years.
The artesian wells in that terri
tory yet flow freely, though with
reduced force and in less quanti-
ty than in former years.
A. G. Williams, a farmer re-
siding near Gettysburg, recently
shipped a car of sweet clover
seed for which he received the
sum Of $6,772. Sweet clover is
becoming almost as valuable a
forage crop as alfalfa altho only.
q few years ago il was consider
ed q noxious weed that stock
did not eat and farmers waged
war on for its eradication
Harold Journal.
The Ottumwa correspondent
to the Midland Mail reports Nat
Butler and family, who lived q
few miles west of Ottumwa on a
ranch, have sold out and on Mon
day of this week n. j. Brady
took them to Midland, at which
place they took the train for
Buffalo, N. Y, the former home
OF Mrs. Butler. According to re-
ports they expect to purchase q
small farm and raise poultry and
do truck farming"
Chas. B. Hunt and G. G. Wag-
|ner left Sunday night for Ra-
|pid City for q few days stay,
prior to leaving with Mrs. Hunt
and the children for Los Ange-