The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-07

Seventeen more DAYS until Christ
mas.
Sam Funk returned Wednesda,
from Pilger, Neb, where he had beer
with load of cattle
Uncle Sam expects to sell abou
eight and a half billion dollars worth
of bonds between February and
July l, next year.
There is to be big Red Cros,
membership drive this month. 1t i.
expected to swell the membership tc
100000 in this nation during the
drive.
1t showed good part of the day
Wednesday, but the snowfall did not
amount to much The ground was
well covered with coat Of white but
it was hardly enough to measure 1t
did MA ke the landscape look rather
"Christmasy" however.
Cleo Nickel came up from Gregory
J Tuesday to visit with &. Abourezk and
to lock after his interests in this coun
ty and get them in such shape so be
could leave them. He bid his
friends here good bye and left here
Wednesday evening and expected to
go to Omaha immediately, to enlist
in some branch Of Uncle Sans army.
Leland St. Clair who has been in
Kansas City, Nc, for the past eight
or nine months, arrived here Thanks.
giving day and is visiting with his
brother Roy and his sister Mrs. Writ
Peterson of Butte Valley. Leland
says he thinks there is no place like
the Rosebud country, and he hopes
to return some day to make it his per
manent home.
Lieutenant A. B. Hancock who ar
rived here Wednesday evening OF last
week from Ft. Smelling, Minnesota,
to spend Thanksgiving with friends
and to look after some business in
terests here, will leave Sunday for
Lincoln. Nebraska, to visit few days
with his parents before taking up his
new duties at amp Funston, Kansas.
Bert is looking we'll and makes IA
mighty good looking officer, and bis
friends here wish him success in his
new undertaking.
There was good crowd out to see
the show at the hall Thanksgiving
night. The attraction was the five
part drama entitled Polly Put the
Kettle On, ".and it wa. we'll received
by all who saw it. The play was
rep 4ated Saturday evening but the
attendance was rather small. There
will be another show tomorrow (Sat
urday) evening and a good program
lS DtOiilioci Wy tut IOCdl uldudgtulent
Attend the picture show in Wood
might as well enjoy life as you go
alorg.
The Farmers Short Course is to be
held in Wood today (Friday) AS we
go to press on Thursday we cannot
tell you what is happening at this
session, in this weeks paper. We
trust there will be a good attendance
and that much interest will be mani
tested, for these Farmers Short Cour-
ses are mighty good thing for any
community We will try and tell yeu
about the meeting in next weeks pa
per, or maybe you will be there your
self and we will not have to tell you.
You ought not to miss it.
Mr.. Little, of Detroit, Michigan,
arrived here Friday of last week aud
is making an effort to organize a
lodge of the Cleaners, here. This is
a sfraternal insurance organization,
but is new orga aizaton in this state,
having just recently been admitted to
South Dakota bv the state insurance
department. Mr.. Little is very
pleasant man to meet aud the pros
poets are bright that he will institute
local lodge of the Cleaners here
shortly. The memberships restricted
to farmers in this organization.