The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-05-19
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

pail Ol Twins III tIlS family.
Next October has been fixed as the
time for the third annual Rosebud
musical festival, to be held at Win
ner. 1t is expected this years f~ertiyal
will surpass those Of the last two
years.
Over three hundred entries have
been filed for the Minnesota-Dakota
intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Meet to be held on the South Dakota
state fair grounds at Huron, May &c
and q.
The Canova board of education has
decided to put in a full 12-year high
school course in the local schools dur
ING the coming school year. This will
mean the addition of one more teach
er to the faculty.
SO far as can be learned among the
numerous towns which voted this
spring on the ~levying Of a tax for sup
port OF bands, the only towns where
the question was up, and the propo-
sition voted down, were Eureka and
Memo.
liz Dioua lild!dllS III tiit Nllltt IlNti
district Of the Rosebud reservation
have been paid $50 per capita by a gov
eminent agent, this being money due
them from the federal government.
The payment aggregates several thou-
sand dollars.
NJ. L. Graves. a Bijou Hills business
man, received a telegram stating that
his brother, Fred Graves, had died in
California from injuries received IN a
dynamite explosion. The victim was
we'll known in Bijou Hills and vicinity,
having visited his brother on several
occasions.
To place the Meridian road in per-
feet condition from the southern to
the northern limits of Lake county is
to be made the special object Of a good
roads day. set for Thursday. June s..
Prominent citizens of the city u
county have been appointed to take
charge of the work.
The boosters Of northern Dewey
county are taking the steps to raise a
fund for a grist mill to be erected at
Timber Lake. Residents of several
towns in that part Of the county took
a part in the meeting. and the prelim-
mary steps We're taken for the organ
ization of a company to put in the
mill
The authorities at Cheyenne River
Agency are looking for the young son
Of Mrs. Spotted Grow. who made his
escape from the government Indian
school a. Pierre and attempted to re
turn to the home Of his mother some
miles from here. He stole a boat 50
he could make his way across the Mis-
souri, river.
4 great amount OF building is being
lone at Aurora at present. Among the
new structures is a $4,000 building
which viii be occupied by the Aurora
bank and other business institutions.
The second floor Of the structure will
be used for office purposes and a. a
public hall. in which entertainments
and gatherings will be held.
The Indians Of Washabaugh county
are arranging to hold an agricultural
fair this fall. and several prominent
Indians are pushing the owe ana
have secured a permit from the In
dian department to hold this fair Of
their ~ separate from the annual
fair which is held at the agency, for
the whole of Pine Ridge reservation,
It Is estimated that the wheat acre
age OF the DeSmet territory has been
reduced IS per cent this year over last
wars onrnaoa hic hnjnp duo tn ha
excessively wet weather last fall pre-
venting farmers doing the customary
amount Of fall blowing. much Of their
land as a result not having been prop
erly prepared for a wheat crop this
year.
While driving over bis rural mail
route. w. II. Bacon, Of Mitchell was
the victim of a stroke Of paralysis.
A farmer happened to see him as he
fell from his buggy. The automobile
which he usually drives had been dis
abled the day before. otherwise the
disaster might have resulted fatally.
Mr.. Bacon's left side was paralyzed
and his condition is very serious.
Sioux Falls will entertain the larg-
est convention of the veal during the
second week in June when the Mason.
ic grand bodies meet there for their
annual meetings. These include Grand
lodge A. r. 4 A. NJ. Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons. Order of High
Priesthood. Grand Couneii X. & S. NJ,
and indging from previous grand lodge
gatherings it is estimated that there
will be at least $500 visitors III the
city.
Edna Torkelson, daughter Of a well
known farmer living near Hudson.
had a narrow escape from death when
she fell from the seat OF a gasoline
tractor, on which she was riding with
her father. The wheel Of the heavy
gang pillow passed over her back. but
her father succeeded in stopping the
engine before the sharp coulter reach
ed her. which would have cut her 70