The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-24
SOUTH DAKOTA MAY LAND
BIG BEET SUGAR REFINERY

Belle Fourche. S. D., Aug. 21.-It ID
| asserted on positive authority that a
site for the 100000 sugar beet faci
tory that the Great Western Beet SUI
gar company, of Denver. has been in,
vestigatins here has been selected on
ground adjacent to this city. Several
officials of the company were here this
week and returned to Denver after ar
ranging for the shipment of 100 car
loaGs of sugar beetS. raised here this
year as test. to the SCOTS Bluff, Neb.,
factory. The beets are bringing IS a
ton on board the cars. A weighing
house and scales are to be put in on a
siding four miles from here and definite
announcement of the intention to build
the refinery is looked for soon.
YANKToN-A great deal of the grain
in this vicinity Is being threshed from
the shock. Showers have interferred
somewhat with the progress of thresh-
Ing, but most of the grain in shock has
now been taken care of. Returns in
Yankton county are for the most part
highly satisfactory. Oat yields are re-
ported from 40 to so bushels per acre,
and while the wheat acreage is small, re-
turns from this crop have been large
Corn, which is the main crop in this
section. is looking exceptionally fines
There has been plenty Of moisture I'd
fully develop the ears and many of the
fields have begun to harden already, and
Will be entirely out of the way of an
early frost If such should occur.
DINON-At a mass meeting of the
members OF the local Catholic church it
was decided to erect a church building,
which il is intended shall be one of the
finest structures OF the kind in the en-
tire Rosebud country. Within a few
minutes more than $1,000 in cash was do
mated to the building fund. The church
extension society of the national church
is expected to make a liberal donation
to the building fund. Work on the new
church building will commence at once
and be pushed to completion with all
possible speed.
PIERRE-The people of White Butte.
IN Perkins county. are continuing their
fight for the location OF a station on the |
Milwaukee line for their town Seyera! !
hearings have been held in regard to the !
matter. and another date has been set |
for September % to attempt to adjust /
the differences between the people of the !
Town ana get station esta blished to al i
low them some of the benefits of the rail- |
way which passes through the town.
ALSEN-The committee on arrange |
ments for the Labor day picnic to be |
heid at Alsen on Labor day has com |
pieted us program. A 25-piece band from |
vermllion will furnish the music for the |
uay. Two or three speakers Of state |
reputation will deliver addresses Thera i
VIII be ball game between Elk Point !
ana Hawarden. The picnic will be held /
IN Hendrickson's 15-acre maple grove.
RAPID CITY-Cato Sells, United |
states Indian commissioner, announced |
mat ne had accepted an invitation to de: |
nVer an address on August 81 at the
E.piscopal convention which meets fol |
three days on the Lower Brule reserya: |
ton. The commissioner is here paving
ms first visit to the Rapid City indian
, BHlDGEWATER-In the eighth grade |
q ec!amatory contest for McCook county
neid at Salem today, lack ]. WHIP. Of
. won first honors; David |
o,Is nlontrose' second. and Miss Luz |
Gle Smith, of Canistota, third place.