The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-29
WILL CLOSE WITH WAR
ERRED TO CLOSE THE Of
CICE ON SIGNING OF
PEACE.

tS"AN
he announcement hat he expects to
close his office as soon as the peace
terms with Germany are signed, as
the law creating the food administra-
ton provides for its existence only
until the end OF the war. This work
may continue for a few months" Mr..
Herreid said. 1T will be a great re-
lief to me when ii Is over" But while
the food administration will close,
Mn HerTeid emphasized his belief
that South Dakotans should continue
t. conserve food. 1t is his firm be-
which enabled the United States to
supply the allied soldiers and peoples
with food it would have been impos-
sible for the United States and her
allies to win the war. The loyal
women Of America who saved the mil
lions of tons of food for the allies did
as effective work to win the war as if
they had been in the trenches" he
said, and ! have no doubt that to
the loyal, noble, effective war work
Of the woman may be credited the
overwhelming majority for woman
suffrage in this state"
The office OF farm management, de-
partment Of agriculture. has been MAX
termine the acreage OF the different
divisions of the state, and III. II. Clark,
who was in charge of the work, has
just completed his figures from the
data in the various land offices, and
the office of the surveyor general. The
total acreage Of the state is given as
1898, 309. 81. 1t will be noted that
the only county with over 100000
acres is Meade, which has 2,225, 971.
The counties Of Brown, Butte, Corsor,
Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding,
Lyman, Pennington, Perkins, Trip
and Xiebach each show more than
1000, 900 acres. At one time in the
history Of the state Butte county
comprised all Of what is now con-
tanned in the counties Of Butte. Hard
which was more than one-tenth Of
the area Of the state. The only Oun
ties which get down to less than 300,-
600 acres are Clay, Davidson, Hanson
and Union, which are the small u
ties of the state.
Some months ago c. P. Darby, of
Parker, had four hogs stolen from his
yard. Hog buyers in other towns
~hereabouts have recently had hogs
stolen. A few days ago a nan with
some hogs drove into Salem and sold
them. Another man with hogs did the
anne at Cotton. The Salem buyer did
not know his customer and was also
somewhat suspicious of him, so he
told the customer that he did not pay
for hogs until they were loaded. The
hogs were loaded that night, and the
next morning two hogs had been
stolen from the car. Said customer
sold them next morning at a nearby
town, it was ascertained. A like
transaction occurred at Cotton. Both
the thieves were arrested and await
trial. The thieves had wagons and
when stealing the hogs at night load
ed them into wagons and carried them
to another town and disposed of them.
A summary OF the South Dakota
overseas casualties to date shows the
following interesting figures: There
have been a total of 353 casualties
among the South Dakota troops fight
ing In France. In the detailed state
ment the largest number Of any one
kind of casualties are the wounded
severely, Of which there was 1873: 70
were killed in action; So have died of
disease, % have been wounded, degree
undetermined; 27 have been reported
missing in action; 81 died from
wounds; Is were wounded slightly; 2
met their death through accidents.
Only n man, Private Christ Celfn,
of Ellington, is reported as being a
prisoner in Germany.
Cupid and woman suffrage have ap-
parently formed a corporation in
Mitchell. Miss Marie Clipper, % years
old, strobe into the office of the clerk
of courts of Dawson county and
pIduhCu uOWu Pl vi IHc ueSh 10 p1y
for the first marriage license that has
ever been bought in this county by a
woman. After she had procured the
license she went out and found the
municipal Judge. While obtaining the
license Miss Clipper explained that
her husband-to-be was "too busy to
get the license" The apparent object
Of the purchase was inscribed on the
clerks record as Ray Poyer, also OF
Mitchell. Mr.. Poyer is "a years old.
w. N. Van Camp. state fire marshal
for South Dakota, after Investigating
the recent school house fire at Fulton.
stated that poor quality coal which
does no store well is causing numer-
u destructive fires around the state.
He attributed the school house fire at
Fulton to this aus A new school
house at Hurley a destroyed som
weeks ago by the same cause. He
warns school officers, school teachers
and others to keep watch OF the coal
supplies in the school buildings to
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