Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-12-17
Pioneer Special Service by Western Newspaper Union
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
estern Sewsn,ncr Union News Service.

Robbers cracked the safe of the
First State bank of Hetland, S. d..
making their getaway with about
$1,000 cash and currency.
The newly organized company of the
South Dakota National Guard recent
ly formed has started on its military
career.
Meetings among the farmers are
being held throughout the Belle
Fourchc valley in an effort by the
Belle Fourche Commercial club to es-
tablish beet sugar factory.
Shortly after midnight fire was dis
covered in the rear Of the Joe Moore
drug store at Monroe. Eight buildings
were burned, some of them good bust
ness houses, before the blaze was con-
| trolled.
Henry Wonderland of Huron is to
share in the $4,000 estate left by
his late father at Remsen, Ia, and will
get an equal division Of the s140,00V
property with his other II brothers
and sisters.
The football season of the high
school at Rapid City came to an end
with a big carnival in the new high
school building. The auditorium was
decorated with flags and pennants
The proceeds amounted to 1852.
Mrs. John America, wife of a Sioux
Indian living near Dixon, was badly
burned about the lower limbs while
making her escape from the family
dwelling after it had caught fire. She
came in contact with the ames, which
set fire to her skirt. Her husband
saved her from being burned to DEATH
A prairie fire which started in some
unknown manner caused excitement
around Violin and burned over consld
cradle pasture land before the scores
of farmers who turned out were able
to extinguish it. BY hard work the
fire-fighters prevented it entering corn
fields which had not yet been har
vested.
Dick Mouse, a Sioux Iidian, convict
ed at term of circuit court for Mel
lette county of raising check which
had been given him, appeared before
Judge Williamson, of the circuit court
at White River, and was sentenced to
a prison term. He is one of the few
Indians ever convicted III the United
States of this crime.
Norman Bond, a lad from Ola, S
D., has started in motor boat on the
old, treacherous Missouri river from
Chamberlain for trip to New Or
leans, expecting to land in that city
the middle of next month. Many dan
gerous experiences will be encounter
ed but with an excellent boat he ex
poets to make the trip safely.
Miss Dot Washburn of Goodwin re
ported yield of 1,O37 bushels of on
ions per acre, and Deuel. county people
believed that their county had estab-
! lished the onion growing record Of
the state. However, a farmer in San
born county reports the average OF
1,16O bushels per acre, which tops the
Deuel. county record by considerable
So scarce are vacant houses al
Bushnell that many people who Woulc
like to locate there are compelled te
stay away. In many instances two
and even three families are occupying
one residence, and to cap the climax.
Charles Lynch is living in the old
school house because there is not an
other place in the town where he can
live.
DR.. C. w. Rood, who has resided in
WATERFOWL for the last three years
has gone to New York, and from there
he will sail for Paris, where he will
enter a military hospital. He made
application for a commission as sur
geon in the French army last sum
mer, and after months OF waiting the
commission arrived. DR.. Rood's com
mission is for one years service.
President Robert L. Stable of the
University of South Dakota at Vermil
lion, has left for months trip. Part
of the time he plans to spend at St
Louis with his sister, and he will prob
ably go east as we'll. DR.. Slagle seeks
rest and opportunity for recuperation
after the great strain occasioned by
the long illness of his wife, who re-
Gently died. He expects to return to
Vermillion in January.
Coach Lloyd r. Brown of the North
ern Normal at Aberdeen, has succeed
ed in organizing the Aberdeen Sunday
School Basketball league, and several
of the largest Sunday schools of the
city have already entered teams.
These teams will compete for the city
championship. H. w. Mayne, repre-
senting the st. Marks (EpiscopaD
Sunday school, was elected president
of the new league. Rules and regula-
lions have been issued and teams are
- now practicing.
At the next regular meeting of the
school board at Watertown the mat.
ter of providing military instruction
in the public schools of the city will
engross the attention of the board
members. This idea is credited to
Frank L. Bramble, member of the
board, who served many years in the
National Guard of the state, both be-
fore and after the Spanish-American
war, in various capacities. Water
town is the first city in the state to
consider military drill and instruc-
ton in it's schools.
Edward Hengel, junior at the Uni
versity of South Dakota at Vermillion,
was elected captain of the 1916 foot
ball team at recent meeting of the
monogram men. Frank Mccormick,
who played at full this season, is the
retiring captain.
Information from Cotton tells of the
tragic death near Pitts, N. D., of Mrs.
Steven Pitts, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. p j. Pitts, who reside on a farm
near Cotton. According to the infor.
nation she was burned to death, and
her husband, who also was burned, is
In hospintal in serious condition.
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