The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1913-01-17

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is visiting in Sioux City.-Sioux City
Journal.
Tuesday and Wednesdays weather
made us think it was April instead Of
January.
This balmy spring like weather this
week is said to he due to ''chanook'
winds according to the knowing ones.
Frank Brown the popular clerk at
the Wood Mercantile Co., returned
from a three weeks holiday vacation
at his old home in Piqua, Ohio. last
Thursday.
The Indians of this and Todd coun-
ties had a big Council meeting at Oak
Creek last Friday and several very
important subjects came up for con
sideration.
Otto Selling, a homesteader near
Wood, received a message Monday
announcing the death Of his brother
at Fairfax. He left immediately to
attend the funeral.
A. X. Wood is getting ready to do
a little experimenting this season with
dynamite farming on his ranch north
of town. He and Ella Place fired a
few shots last Tuesday to see how it
would work.
III. l.. Jarboe who has been living
on his homestead with his son north
west of Wood, left Thursday of last
week !or his FORMER home in Kansas
where he will visit for n time with old
friends and relatives.
One day last week Ii. L. Watson
was driving his automobile and the
sharp cold wind frosted his legs pref.
ty bad. As a result Mr.. Watson is
not quite as spgy as he used to be.
bait he is getting better.
Richard Manard who has been
freighting for the Draper Mercantile
Co., resigned his position last Thurs
day and hied himself to his home
stead ten and a half miles north west
OF Wood, last Saturday.
After being dry territory for some
time past, Lyman county, to the north
of us, has again got saloons in its
various towns. The old board of
County Commissioners would not
grant any licenses, but the new board
granted them.
The indications are favorable that
the present Legislature will give South
Dakota a blue sky" law modelled
after the Kansas law, a bank deposit
guarantee law, some real good roads
legislation and Legislation to encour-
age irrigation projects in the state.
The PIONEER would like to secure
several more country correspondents.
We would like to print the news of
your neighborhood. We furnish sta
tionary, stamps and a copy of the pa.
per to any one who will report the
news OF agiven neighborhood to us
each week for publication.
Announcement cards of the marri-
age OF Helen Grace Day to Sheffield
Blaine Coon which occurred mt Be-
~atrice, Nebraska on January 4th, have
been received in this city. The bride
is the daughter of III. q. Day who has
a homestead north west of town. The
newly wed couple will make their
home at Norfolk, Nebraska.
Nearly 100000 parcel post pack
ages were sent through the postofices
of the fifty leading cities of the coun.
try during the first week of the opera
tion Of the new service, according TO
teiegraPhic reports received by Post
master General Hitchcock. Postal
officials estimate that between three
and four million parcel post packages
were mailed from January | to Janu-
airy i.
AT noon on the 2lst of this month
the South Dakota Legislature will at
tempt to elect a United States Senator
Sterling received the primary nomi.
nation, but the Taft Republicans are
makinga strenuous fight on him and
are trying to prevent an election on
the first ballot. claiming that if they
can do this, Sterling will finally be
defeated. All We can do is to watch
and see.
On another page of this weeks pa
per you will find Governor Byrne's
message to the South Dakota legisla.
ture. You will also find considerable