The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-05

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office OF the county auditor, is 1884,.
639, 1903. In making the apportion-
ment to the various war funds and
other funds which are being spread
OF the tax lists the total amount of
the 1918 tax to be collected by the
county will amount to nearly 1,500,-
900.
That wheat raising greatly exceed
ed other grain production is indicated
by the threshers' reports from farms
lear Mt. Vernon. One report, GOV
ering nine farms, shows a total Of a.
31S bushels OF wheat as compared to
1929 of oats, 1882 of barley, and $50
Of rye. Another report, based upon
several other farms in the same part
Of the county, gives a total Of 11,036
bushels of wheat, 1888 of oats, 1854
of barley, and 178 of spelt. Reports
from all parts Of the county are III
available as yet.
The secretary Of war has called up
on the authorities of the different
states and the larger cities asking that
they retain the control Of health con-
ditions which has been taken up dur
ing he a 1t emphasizes the de-
termination of the government to re-
turn to their homes the men clear OF
venereal disease and asks especial
control along that line. The state
health department has established a
division OF veneral disease for the
nurnnSa of nravantinp traotmant oo5
control Of these diseases.
Influenza caused the death on the
same day at their homes on farms
some miles from Sisseton Of J. G..
Manley and Eugene Hagen, who were
married to sisters. The Hagens were
married about 10 years ago., while the
Manleys were married early. in 1916.
Hagen was returning from attending
the funeral Of a sister at Westhope,
n. D., when stricken with influenza.
Thus the two sisters were made Wild
ows within period of Is hours, one OF
he husbands dying in the morning
md the other in the evening of the
same day.
Some farmers are commencing to
think that the corn huskers are play
ing a game OF hide and seek, for, al
,hough there appears to be numerous,
men and women seeking jobs Of va
'ious sorts and a constant labor turn
over, for some unexplained reason
wen the high wages offered fail to
.empt them into the cornfields. The
wages perPitted are 8 and 9 cents
Der bushel, which, with only ordinary
~lligence, so bushels per day can be
'eadily picked, netting the workers a
air sum for their labors, considering
hat most Of them get their dinners
md many are taken to and from their
work..
Friends have been advised Of the
leath at the home Of her son at San
lose, Cal, of Mrs. Betsy Moon Rice.
.ged l02, who for many years was a
esident Of Alexandria. Herself and
'ther members OF the family were
'mong the pioneer residents of Han
9on county. In 1896 Mrs. Rice and her
son moved to California, where the
home OF the family has since been.
)uring her residence in South Dakota
Mrs. Rice was an ardent advocate of
m suffrage and when California
ave women the right to vote she was
he most aged woman in the state to
3ast a vote for Charles E. Hughes for
resident.
Every county auditor in the state
except the one in Campbell county
las made an unofficial report of the
zotes cast in the county, and, with
he vote of that county out. the totals
how: Senate Thomas Sterling So
I'll; Orville w. Reinhart, 35.535; w.
T. Rafferty,, 5,164. Congress-First
district, G.. A. Christopherson, 1920;
R. E. Dowdell, 14,752; o. F. Carlson.
1853: j. D. Wipf. 1888: Second dis
trict, Royal c. Johnson, 1852; j. w.
McCarter, $500. Third district, Harry
?. Atwater, 7,7G5; Harry l.. Candy.
10000; J,E. Basford, 210; Thomas HI.
Ayres, 2,50S. Governor-Peter Nor.
beck, 1881; James E. Bird. 1880;
Orville s. Anderson, 1923; Mark p.
Bates, 24,913; Knute Lewis, 1852.
"ASoS WIN has DCCu uOuc uuTlUR
the present Influenza epidemic in Lead
and vicinity by the members of what
is known as the ambulance crew. This
organization Is composed of 26 men
and three women, who have worked
steadily day and night caring for in.
huenza victims. Their work is both
dangerous and difficult. Every hour
Of each "a they take their lives in
their hands, so to speak, and have
braved direct and intimate contact
with the most uirulan. cases that. ths
city has produced. Thirteen OF the
members, including two of the won.
en-, have themselves become victims
of the disease, and n OF them.
George Packard, sacrificed his life in
the work Of caring for other victims.
They have been in almost constant
association with more than 1000
cases OF the disease that have broken
out in Lead. in taking patients from
their homes to hospitals, in moving
them from the influenza to the pneu.
MONA wards and from the latter To