Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-04-27
FOR MOTHERS DAY
PA
GOVERNOR PRocLAIMs MAY IA
TO BE OBSERVED AS
MOTHERS DAY.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and Diff
ferent Parts of the
State,

Pierre.-Gov. Vessey has issued the
following Mothers day proclamation.
fixing the date for Sunday, May IA:
Whereas, the cycle of the seasons
has once more brought us to the
springtide, giving me the pleasureable
/ opportunity of again calling attention
! of the people of South Dakota to the
/ beautiful custom of setting apart one
! day in each year as Mothers day, and
Whereas, we we'll realize and appre-
ciate the fact that not only the church
and the state but the very nation itself
| is formed in and grows out of the midst
of the home; that if our home life be
pure, simple and worthy, and the
household government temperate and
| judicious, then indeed are the hopes Of
the commonwealth builded upon a
foundation firm and impershable.
Further, we realize that within
the limits of the home the mother is
the omnipotent power, bending the
twig as she wills it to incline, shap-
ing the plastic mind as it unfolds and
develops, making plain the path of
duty and wisely interpreting the code
of an honorable life.
Nov, therefore, in appreciation of
the illimitable debt we owe to our
mothers, |, r. S. Vessey, governor of
the state of South Dakota, do hereby
request that Sunday, May Ia, 1911, be
observed throughout the entire state
as Mothers day and urge that all per-
sons be in attendance at church ON
that day wearing a white carnation as
a symbol of the true mothers virtues.
.'R. S. Nessey, Governor
Nearly Million Dollars.-The state
land department has completed its
sales of state school lands for
this year. While the acreage
sold was not so large as last year. the
average price was far above that of
any other year in which sales have
been made.
The sales reached 19,0O7 acres,
bringing total of $9SS,052 to the fund
of which % per cent must be paid in
cash. Many of the purchasers paid the
full amount, and the permanent fund
will be in shape to supply demands
for many of the loans pending.
BY counties the sales we're: Davi-
son, 1900 acres at an average of
s54.30: Hanson, 1855 acres, average
$56.64; Hutchinson, 2,193 acres, at an
average of S54.SS: Codington, 3,193
acres, average $5634; Deuel., 1,153
acres, average $2734; Hamlin, 4,1SO
acres, average s54.93; Day, .49S acres,
average S32.6O; Brown, 759 acres av-
erage $56.3S, making the general aver
age for the state, $52.03.
Most of this land was purchased by
owners of adjacent tracts and was not
speculative buying Some of the tracts
went above S100 an acre. At such
prices the school fund of the state will
run into many millions more than the
founders of the state ever dreamed of
when they placed the minimum selling
price at $40 an acre, with doubts in the
minds of many of them whether much
of it would ever sell at that price.
Attack Rate Statute.-The Wells
Fargo, American and Great Northern
Express companies have representa-
tives here at the hearing on the rate
law passed by the last session of the
legislature. They all make the same
plea: that they are operating at loss
on their business which both origin
ates and ends in South Dakota, and
that they cannot stand the proposed
reduction. In this as in their state
ments for taxation. they base all Their
figures on state business" and de
cline to include interstate business in
their estimates.
Gets Good Revenue.-The state in
surance department in the month o1
March received insurance company
fees to the amount of $S,3S4; and fol
the same month fire marshal fees
, amounting to s2,41O, with a total o
$S,3S5 fire marshal fees received since
the first OF January.
Grants Requisition.-The governor
has granted a requisition on the gov
! ernor OF Missouri for H. H. Muggley
wanted at Deadwood on a charge O
obtaining money by false pretense
Muggley is locked up at Kansas City
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