The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-05

day) via Murdo, for Sioux City, Iowa.
lie expects to be gone a week or more
Circuit court is still in session at
! White River. This is the nest ex
tended term of court ever held in the
county.
Ted LundbIade arrived on the stage
! yesterday morning from Lower Brule
and will visit here few days with
friends,
Robert Emery of Mission was
,ransactirg business in Wood Tues
tay anH made the Pioneer office a
pleasant call
Boss Farmer Renmrk and wife re
turned home Sunday from the Agency
where they had been in attendance at
I thr Indian fair last week.
Wild cranes, geese and ducks have
berh ilying south the past weel or
more which is another indication that
winter is approaching md YOU had
! better SOC to it that your coal bins are
diled.
Benjamin F. Ives OF Huron, s. d.,
Grand Lecturer of the Masonic Order
Of the Jurisdiction of South Dakota
paid IN official v.sit to the local lodge
Thursday evening OF this week. Mr..
Ives is quite an old man and is excep
tionally we'll posted on the Masonic
work. He conducted a school of in
sttuction in the local lodge room last
! evening.
The first annual meeting Of the Mel
Iettc County Chapter of the Red Cross
will be held in the Auditorium at
White River, Thursday evening Octo
ber llth, at 500 o'clock p. m. All
branch Chapters are urged to have
representatives present to help elect
their directors to fill the vacancies of
those whose terms expire at this time.
! The Directors will meet to elect otfic-
ers for the coming year.
The federal authorities have issued
an order fixing the retail price of coal
and have stopped the expectation of
coal to Canadian ports. Coal prices
had ought to come down some now,
but wheather they will or not remains
to be seen. The best soft coal is sell
ing at from Sl3 to Sl4 per ton, and
hard coal Is practically unobtainable
at all at Winner. By adding the
overland freight, soft coal costs the
ultimate consumer right around S26
per ton this year. There are many
who cannot pay'such price.
The Murdo band boys returned
Friday evening from Wood where
thcy had breh for two days furnish =
ing The music for the Mellette county
fair A5 is usually the case with
county fairs the first uay was devoted
exclusively to the arrangements nec-
es-arv for taking care OF the produce
brought in from the country and
besides the band music and the en-
, tertainment furnished by vaudeville
company there was very little to
attract the people, but along toward
| evening more produce begun to show
uD and in a very short time one OF the
: best displays we have ever Witnessed
at fall fair or festival in this country
was neatly arranged for the inspection
of the many visitors that came The
, next two days, and many were the
expressions of surprise and favorable
comments that we heard concerning
J the showing the farmers Of Mellett'
county were making in growing al
1 kinds of farm produce, garden trucl
! and fruit this year and the association
of which Editor Fred G.. Kirch, OF tn
a Pioneer, is president and prircipa
! booster. should feel that their wor
4 is worth while in that it brings to
gether the people Of the county TO
4 the purpose of visiting and exchang
4 ing various views as to tie successe
i aud failures in the production c
$ good crops. II all the people of Me
D lette county are not already benin
Z the Wood Fair Association it is on
4 OF The greatest mistakes they eve
d made aud the sooner they find it OF
p the better off they will be. tn
q association is in fair way on th
4 road to growing into one OF the be'
:, advertisements the county can sur
"a port but it cannot succeed wlthOl
y the go operatioa OF the people as
y whole. The county COMMISSIONS
Z should spe to it that the association
4 assisted financially because 1t i
y benefit to all the residents OF {!