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Newspaper
The Lemmon Herald
Location
Lemmon, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1915
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR item mentions a weekly event in South Dakota and a publisher with a date rough year 1807. Details are unreadable and names unclear. appears to be a local notice or column brief with minimal legible specifics.
An Aberdeen News editorial reprinted from the Aberdeen paper discusses prairie chicken scarcity in South Dakota and Minnesota due to severe weather. It urges a prolonged closed season, proposing state control or a governor empowered to declare closures, with sportsmen groups to advise. It notes the need for harmonizing party prospects in Illinois and previews a busy year ahead for South Dakota politics.
The Journal argues for a mandatory close season on pinnated grouse in South Dakota and Minnesota as birds grow scarce and reproduction falls. Dr William T Hornaday warned the species could go extinct in many areas, with no captive restocking solution available. Legislators and sportsmen weigh the drastic step to protect the prairie chicken.
Community leaders urge a coordinated drive to curb mail order encroachment by uniting business firms and the press. The piece argues collective action strengthens resistance to outside sellers and emphasizes the newspaper’s role as a powerful tool in defense of local commerce.
A call for sustained local advertising arguing it costs little and yields big returns by keeping current customers, reclaiming former buyers, and blocking large catalogue firms from draining regional business. It urges merchants to join the effort, warning that neglect invites dilution of town commerce in favor of mail order sellers. The choice is between the dollar and the penny.
The notes report a month end holiday for punctual students and no tardies, a Rose Club formation, and a talk on proper ventilation by Professor Hayworth. Study schedules for each pupil are issued, with one subject to study at a time. Football begins soon, with growing interest and hopeful strength rivaling last year’s champs. Sophomore officers elected Walter Cole president and Septie Allen vice president and secretary. Eighty pupils enrolled, including students from freshmen to juniors, the largest in the area. A High School Literary Society is planned for the year.
Mrs T A Bra spends a week with daughter Mrs F C Taylor while B D Dahl visits Lemmon. Frank Berens and John Gary hunted Monday and have not appeared for days. Dan Bennett has sold about 850 dollars of onions this year and earned a ribbon. Conrad Bras visited the Simons home Monday and cut alfalfa Wednesday. Miss Mable Scholacs shows marked improvement and can be outdoors in the fresh air again.
The Peace Poet David W. Bush will appear in an imper sonative recital at the Armory Opera House on Tuesday evening October 12. He will also give impersonated lectures titled Pike's Peak or Bust and Smile Smile Smile.
The Bw of September ceremony united Miss Leths seivester and Willis Meumtie in marriage at Bison Mississippi witnesses included Mery Meurets Basler and Fred Gos sman. Locals note relatives and friends from Sele Teele and surrounding areas wish them happiness as community weather, crops, and daily life events fill the week.
The South Fork News notes persistent rains this past week easing threshing progress and mentions local residents like Doc Groviii making rounds with hieroslivine. Improvments are seen in Mrs. C. B. Alkire, EB. J. Motecheetachor conducts Lemmon business, and various visits and social calls occur among townspeople including Mina Alte, Lillian Mowelenbacher, Mrs. Thos. Alkire, Mrs. Ge Hetton, and Katie Kurt with her sister Mrs. John Goeros.
Neighbors gather at the Stamm home on Sunday to celebrate Miss Lucile Clark turning 17 with a lively party. Farm work continues as families note other visits and tasks around the community including barn and chicken house repair, school duties resumed, and social calls between families such as Motechenbacher, Grovum, and Bissell.
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