Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-06-25
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
~e..ero Newspaper Union Mes, Service.

"es'ern Newspaper Union Nsws Service
Ipswich will celebrate the Fourth of
July in big fashion this year.
Potter county has had over 14H
inches Of moisture thus far this year
The organization of the Jackson
county fair association has been per.
fected.
The automobile owners Of Willow
Lakes and vicinity have held meet.
Ing and organized an automobile club
Ground has been broken for the fine
new Presbyterian church building
which will be erected at volga this
summer.
A cloudburst Struck the Wind Cave
country in Custer county, swelling the
streams in few mintes to unheard of
proportions.
The South Dakota Association of On.
temetrists concluded its annual con-
vention at Aberdeen June 16 with the
election of officers.
Burglars who entered the store of
Albert Berven at Baltic made the
smallest haul on record. They Sc
cured only Is cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrence Burns, resid-
ing on a farm in the southern part of
Hand county, recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
While attending to the horses at the
Martin Lien farm, five miles northwest
of Veblen. Jacob N. Aadland, one of
the hired men, was kicked by stallion
and instantly killed.
Brothers residing at Raymond have
been advised of the death of Nose A.
Redmond. former resident of the
vicinity who was killed while serving
with the Canadian contingent in the
British army in Europe.
As the result of correspondence be.
tween members of the Wagner library
association and the Carnegie corpora
ton of New York City it now is as
sured that Wagner will have $4,000
Carnegie public library building.
The twenty-fifth annual district con.
vention of the w. C. T. U. recently
held at Bryant was very successful and
we'll attended. The district embraces
the counties of Hamlin, Deuel., Coding-
ton. Clark, Kingsbury and Brookings.
Snow in South Dakota on the 18th
of June. in this freak year, was the re.
port carried by the wires on that date.
Snow was reported in Charles Mix
and Yankton counties on that day with
heavy rains in other portions of the
state
Arrangements have been completed
for a baseball tournament which will
be held at Mobridge on July 3, 4 and
s. The Lennon and Mcintosh teams
will compete with the Mobridge team
on those days. and a series of inter-
esting games is looked for.
The annual Huron chautauqua as.
sembly will be held this Year from
July 6 to Is. Ex-senator Lafayette
Young, editor of the Des Moines Capt.
tai. who has recently returned from
the European war zone, is one of the
headliners among the talent.
A new school law goes into effect in
South Dakota on July I, which adj
vances the compulsory age of students
from Is to 16 years. The new law pro.
vides that every boy and girl in the
state attend school every day until
the sixth grade is passed After the
completion of the sixth grade the stu
dent must attend school at least four
months of each year until 16.
Carrying Spitz pup a la mode, and
following burly Indian. good look
ing squaw attracted attention about
the state capitol of Pierre. The usual
papoose was absent from the scene
and the pup evidently took it's place.
pictures were taken but in each case
a promise OF one of the pictures was
exacted as the right to take a view.
Seventeen years resident of the
state and thirteen years state director
of the Baptist Sunday school and
young peoples work in South Dakota
is the record of Rev. T. H. Hagen of
Huron. who will leave soon to take up
the same work in the state of Wash.
ington, with headquarters at Seattle.
Gov. Byrne has selected delegates
from the state to the biennial conven-
ton of the National Anti-Saloon
league. which meets at Atlantic City,
July to 8.
Winter rye in the section of the state
around Pierre has passed the expert
mental stage of farmers and the acre.
age is being increased every year.
Some of the fields now stand over FIVE
feet high, and are nicely headed out,
assuring a harvest under anything like
normal weather conditions. In fact,
some of the early experimenters with
this grain say that it has proven sue
cess for enough years to assure them
a good showing under practically any
weather conditions.
1t is held on inquiry from Jerauld
county that veterinary license while
voidable, is not void unless so de.
clared by the state live stock board,
where there is question as to its
validity. Under the 1918 law, prac-
tice of five years in the state was one