Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-11-08
.N0RBECK |SPLEASED
SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR De.
LIGHTED WITH LIBERTY
BOND SHOWING,
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE
A Review Of the Work Of the state
Government at the Capitol and
at the Various state
institutions.

at the Various State
institutions.
Pierre.
That the farmers of South Dakota
are loyal was proved by their sub
scriptions to the Liberty loan, in the
opinion of Governor Peter Norbeck.
and he predicts that the state will do
its part in subsequent loans asked for
by the government.
In speaking of the compaign Just
closed, Governor Norbeck said:
OF course, am much pleased, but
indeed, not at all surprised at the sue.
cess of the Liberty loan campaign in
South Dakota. Twelve million dollars
is large sum to raise, and yet the
quota now appears to be oversubscrib-
ed about million dollars. have al
ready maintained that our people are
loyal and patriotic. At the time of the
first Liberty loan no general call was
made upon the farmers to. subscribe.
This time everybody was invited TO
help and the farmers subscribed most
literally. Each community seems to
have taken all their financial circum-
stances would permit. In many town.
ships every farmer took bond. In
one county at least more than 80 per
cent of the voters subscribed. Our
citizens Of every nationality have
demonstrated their loyalty; those of
German extraction were no exception.
South Dakota will also do her full
share when the government finds It
necessary to put out the next bond is
sue,
Many improvements.
The first and second wings of the
new women's building Of the Univer-
sity of South Dakota will be. occupied
by the Home Economics department.
Fireless cookers, electric, gas and coal
ranges and many other appliances will
have q place in the scientific kitchen.
The cooking laboratory for both ele-
mentary and advanced classes, the din.
ing room and the Office will be on the
first floor. The laboratories will be
finished in ivory-colored enamel
throughout and have ivory.colored fur.
niture. Elsewhere the furniture will
be of fumed oak. On the second floor
will be the serving room and class
rooms. The serving room will be fit
ted with cupboards, lockers for ma
terials, cases for garments in prepara-
ton, and special cases for the forms
used in costume design. The light will
be from the north. The cooking lab
oratorfes will each accommodate six
teen and the sewing room twenty-four.
A store room between the elementary
and advanced laboratories will contain
a refrigerator and other equipment.
Work on the new buildings is being
pushed.
Sheep Growing Clubs.
Sheep growing clubs are being or
gantzed among South Dakota boys and
girls by the State college extension
division for the purpose of increasing
the number of sheep in the state, to
improve the mutton and wool growing
qualities of the sheep, to reduce the
weed crop. to return food and clothing
and more profits to the sheep owners.
Membership in the clubs is open to all
farm boys and girls between the ages
OF 10 and IL years, and applications for
enrolment must be made before No.
vember Is. addressing the State Lead
er of Boys and Girls Clubs, Brookings.
Five or more boys or girls living with.
In radius of three miles, may group
themselves together to form sheep
growing club. At least ten head of
grade breeding ewes should be pur-
chased by each club. From two to ten
head may be purchased by each club
member according to his power to pay
and care for them.
Send Comfort Kits.
One hundred comfort kits of the
South Dakota pattern were sent to
Fort Du Pont, Delaware, where they
will be distributed among the men in
the company Of Lieut.. Porter F. Low.
~ OF the coast artillery corps, a grad.
uate Of the college of engineering at
the University of South Dakota. The
comfort xtts were made by women stu
dents In the department of home eco.
nomtcs under the supervision of Miss
Mae Wilson. of Dallas. 8. d., who de-
signed the kits last spring when the
goods undertook to furnish a kit to
every man who left the University of
South Dakota to 60 to the reserve off,
GERS training camps, the army, the
navy or the national guard. Money
: to buy the material to- make the kits
and to purchase the articles to I'LL
them was raised by the girls who sold
hamburger sandwiches to students in
the corridors Of the Main building.