Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-30
CANNING LESSONS
DAILY DEMONSTRATION TO az
MADE At STATE FAIR
At HURON.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE

~ HovleW OF tn0 Work OF the STATE
Government At the Capitol and
at the Various STATE
Institutions.
Pierre
Daily canning, baking and food
preservation demonstrations will be
mduc,e..
the state fair by team of girl club
members under the direction of Agnes
sion. The following schedule will be
observed:
September 1O-Demonstration In
canning fruits.
September IA bread demonstra-
ton.
September 12-Canning of vegeta-
bles.
September 13-Bread demonstra.
ton.
September 14-Demonstration of
drying and other means Of preserving
food
This work is to be done by team
of girls-enrolled in club work-who
have spent a good share of the sum-
mer learning the various methods of
food preservation and conservation.
and will be demonstration to show
that the girls are doing their share in
the army of food producers and con.
servers. Several teams are working
for the honor of being chosen to dem.
onstrate at the state fair. Before the
final choice is made each team will be
judged and scored on skill, neatness.
dispatch, time and final results.
| Given Guns and Shells.
The war department has advised
Senator Sterling that there have been
allotted to Gov. Norbeck for the use
of home guards 500 Springfield rifles
with fifteen rounds of ammunition per
rifle. Authority has also been given
to the governors of the several states
to call upon the educational institu-
lions and rifle clubs for such rifles and
ammunition, the property of the Unit
ed States. as may be in their posses
sion. The authorization for the issue
OF rifles and ammunition is contained
in a law passed last June. Recently
several bills have been introduced in
the senate intending to curb the activ-
tiles Of the l. w. w. and Senator Ster.
ling has been appointed on a subcom-
mtttee of the judiciary committee to
consider further legislation which it
Is hoped will be effective in restrain.
ing the I. w. w.
| Premium for Aakino.
The state fair offers six premiums
for bread made by the girl club mem.
bers in South Dakota as follows, a
gold medal. silver medal, two bronze
medals and two ribbons. The contest
is open to the girl club members Of
the state. who have enrolled with their
county superintendent, have baked
bread twice during the month and
made reports. and have written sto.
az on "How Made Nv , "a -
Bread.' Each contestant will bake a
,oar of bread, wrap IT rare',,
waxed paper and send it to Agnes
Morton, assistant state club leade
Woman's Building. Huron, South Da-
kota, before September 10. This
bread will be Judged early in the week
New Tax Rebate Law Explained.
On requests for construction of the
law of the last session which gave
county boards permission to make 70.
bates of tax payments, the state legal
department holds that the law fixing
the time limit for asking such rebates
runs back six years from the date OF
the enactment of the law While coun-
~ boards have in the past granted tax
REBATES, they were not made by au.
thority of law. but merely through
precedent. 1t is also held in the same
opinion that sheriff is not entitled
to a levy fee Of one dollar unless he
has made an actual seizure Of proper
erty for the collection Of delinquent
personal property taxes II he goes
out and accepts payment without seiz-
ure he is entitled to mileage, but not
to the levy fee.
Bounty to Red Cross.
Guy Barnes of Pierre, while out on
the prairie had trouble with his car
and while waiting for tow. saw a
coyote enter her burrow on the prai.
rie. He devoted his spare time to
digging out the animal and found be.
side the mother several pups. He col.
lected the bounty on the whole bunck
and turned it over to the Red Cross
as one of his donations to the fund
succeeds Miss Glenn.
w..O. Lamb of Trip is here to take
the position of credentials clerk in the
state educational department. He
takes the place made vacant by the
resignation of Miss Florence Glenn
who goes into the schools of Lead foa
the next year.