The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1914-10-09
Fred G. Kirch, Secretary.

c. L. Watson made a business trip
to Gregory Monday.
Mrs. L. G. Wood returned Wed
nesday of last week from Omaha,
where she had been visiting for
bout a month.
D. B. Duffy, Independent candidate
for State Senator from this district
was in town Tuesday highland made
this otfice.a pleasant call He has
al al i'll this weeks paper. Look it
up.
Fred Won Scggern q Gregory. and
Vie Oxford OF Colome were here
Tuesday looking after the formers
business interests here. They went
to the Agency Wednesday before
returning home.
Fred B. Egleston of Cody passed
through town Tuesday on his way to
White River where he went to meet
his wife who has been visiting with
her parents at Corning, Iowa, for the
past three weeks.
Dr. Edmonds returned Tuesday
from Chicago Ill, where be has bean
for the past two months taking
special medical course. He and his
family expect to leave soon for Los
Angeles, CAL, where they expect to
make their future home.
Ed Olson and D. B. Duffy were
moving Mr.. Hoffine's house from
Butte Valley to place near White
River Tuesday and Wednesday and
when then they passed through town
they broke the telephone line be
tween our office and the garage build
ing and pulled down the telephone
polls just south of our Office.
Edd Olson, who is the Democratic
candidate for Sheriff of this COUNTY
was here the first of the week looking
after his political fences The Demo.
Gratis were little slow in selecting
their candidate for sheriff and as a
consequence their candidate will have
to run ON the In dependent ticket
SEQ his announcement in another
column.
Did you read the referred laws and
the constitutional amendments in the
insert in last weeks issue of the Pio-
neer. If not you should be sure to
read them in this weeks issue. You
will be called upon to vote on these
questions at the coming November
election and unless you familiarize
yourself With the various propositions
you will not be able 10 cast an intel
ligent vote This will be the last
issue they will appear in the Pioneer
so you had better preserve them for
future reference.
The indications are that county
politics at least, are going to warm up
some between now and election.
There are quite number of indie
pendent candidates that are coming
cut from under cover and this fact
will add some life and spirit to the
cam paign, and as far as county pol
itics is concerned General Apathy is
going to be rather hard pressed be.
tween now and election day. There
will be mighty few straight party
tickets voted on county candidates at
tthe coming election and with three
candidates in the field for almost
every county Office the voter ought to
be able to select set of good officials
for the next two years.
A cash balance of $3S5,0S9 in the
state treasury on July /, 1914, where
by the claims of Mr.. Richards there
should have been deficit "by reason
OF the low one-mK levy is an object
lesson that connot be refuted. Ttat
and other equally untrue claims ma!
have cost Governor Byrne some votes
in the primary. He will get then
all back with interest NOW that it il
seen that the wild claims made b]
the Huron office-seeker had no foun
ldatiOn in fact.