Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-03-29
South Dakota
News Notes

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Western Newspaper Union News Service
It has been decided to build an ad.
dttton to the city auditorium at Dead
wood and the work will commence at
once.
Arrangements are we'll under way
for the twentieth annual convention
OF the South Dakota State Luther
League, which will be held in Sisseton
May 1912.
Aberdeen will be state headquarters
for the Military Camps association,
a nation wide organization for the
purpose Of encouraging citizens to
train for military service,
Judge d. A. w. Perkins, long county
Judge of Hyde county and for mum.
Der OF years publisher of the News at
Holabird, suffered stroke Of apop.
leXy at his home at Highmore.
The residents Of Violin are so peace.
ful that c. ]. LaBarge, who few
months ago was appointed Justice Of
the peace for Violin, threatens to re.
sign the office because of lack of bust.
ness.
Fire starting in the engine room
caused the destruction of the Hub.
bard & Palmer elevator at Spencer.
Inc loss is estimated at upward of
$4,000, and is partially covered by in.
surance.
| The war scare has resulted in
number of new members being added
TO the three companies of South Da.
kota national guardsmen which are
made up of young men of Sioux Falls
and vicinity.
Because of several recent bad fires
and no effective method of combating
them, the residents of Spencer have
commenced an agitation for the in.
stalling of an up-to-date municipal
waterworks system.
Business men and other residents
OF Egan have declared in favor of q
sewerage system being installed, and
are asking the city council to take
early action to provide the town with
such an improvement.
The building and campaign commit.
tee of the washington Springs semi.
nary met and perfected plans for the
immediate beginning of the new s25..
600 dormitory for the seminary. 1t is
hoped to have it ready to receive the
students at the opening of school next
fall.
| ]. D. Hofer, Vermillion pharm.
acist, convicted of maintaining a
place for the illegal sale of liquor,
was fined $500 and costs by Judge R.
B. Trip. His clerk, Claude Richard
son, convicted of selling liquor con.
trary to law, drew fine of $3.50 and
costs.
Reports generally from the western
part of the state, in all sections where
ranchers have been spreading out"
on beef stock the past few years, is
that the feed supply is practically ex.
hausted, and the live stock loss will
be much heavier than 1t has been for
several years.
! One of the evidences of Jerauld
county's new and permanent pros.
perity is shown in the tide of immi.
grafton this spring. Over so cars of
immigrant effects including horses,
cattle, farm machinery and household
goods have been unloaded at Messing.
ton Springs recently.
At the annual city election on April
II the voters of Alexandria, in addi-
tion to electing city officers and mem.
bers of the city council, will have sub.
mitted to them the question of issuing
$4,000 in bonds for the enlargement
and improvement of the municipal
electric light and power system.
The toYn board of Lesterville had
hoped to install municipal electric
light system here this spring, but finds
that the bonds in the sum of $4,000
which were voted for the purpose are
not sufficient to install such system
as the town requires. 1t is probable
that another special election may be
called to vote the necessary additional
bonds.
Local and state committees, work.
ing together, have completed the ar.
rangements for the state convention
Of the South Dakota Sunday School
association, which will be held in Alb.
erdeen on May /, 2. and 3. 1t is ex.
pected that at least 800 delegates and
visitors will be in attendance at the
gathering, making 1t the largest as.
semblage in the state, with the single
exception of the State Educational a.
sociation gathering.
Actions started against H. A. Wag
ner, former mayor Of WATERFOWL; W.
D. Townslee and John H. Conley, for
mer city treasurers: their four bonds
men and the bondsmen of o. M. Lane
former city auditor, to recover $12,
1856 Of the amount which is alleged
to have been embezzled from the mu
nicipal funds by Lane. Lane is serv
ing term in the state penitentiary al
the result Of his conviction on q Grim
inal charge growing out of the alleget
irregularities.