Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-02-28
GERMAN is BARRED
STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
PUTS BAN ON TEACHING
OF LANGUAGES.

Tho South Dakota council Of de-
Tense at a session held in Sioux Falls,
adopted a resolution ordering that the
teaching of the German language be
Immediately abandoned in all the edu-
cational institutions in South Dakota,
including state normal schools, col.
leges. universities and public schools.
So far as known this is the first &C.
tion of this kind taken by state
council of defense anywhere in the
union, making South Dakota the pio.
neer in putting the teaching Of the
German language under ban
throughout the entire state
South Dakotans are cautioned to
have nothing to do with persons rep
resenting themselves to be represen-
tatives of the federal food admins
tration for this state. unless these
persons have credentials signed by c.
N. Herreid, federal food administrator.
Reports have been received of per-
sons operating in the state as agents
OF the food administration, who have
no authority whatever from the state
administrator One of these persons
is said to have collected So from
merchant. Every bona tide represen-
tative of this office is given proper
credentials before starting out on any
investigations.
The state will offer for sale between
10000 and $4,000 acres of land in
Meade county on April 2. this year.
The lands are placed at minimum
of $40 an acre, and range as high as
$35. The terms are in -four payments.
one-fourth down, and the balance in
three payments of five. ten and Is
years, at 5 per cent. This is the most
extensive Offering of state lands which
has been made in any OF the western
counties of the state. and will mean
that number of cheap farms will be
secured by someone in Meade county
this spring.
A private telegram received at
Flandreau from Washington is to the
effect that an amendment has been
added to the Indian appropriation bill
III congress, providing for $4,000 for
the rebuilding of the machine shop
building at the government Indian
school in that city, to replace a SIM
liar building which was destroyed by
fire month or two ago.
When the city council of Beresford
opened the bids for the construction
Of a municipal waterworks system, for
which the voters at special election
authorized the issuance of bonds in
the sum OF $4,000. it was found that
all the bids were too high and all
were rejected. New bids now are be-
ing advertised for.
A most successful auction sale for
the Red Cross was held at Vermillion,
when donations for seven of the IL
townships of Clay county, including
Vermillion city. were sold for a total
of $4,000. Three auctioneers were
kept busy for six. hours. Three thou
sand people were present.
iliOuottlIll lCdllLCu
at Red Cross sale at st. Lawrence.
Townspeoplc and farmers contributed
horses, cattle. sheep, hogs and poul.
try, besides every imaginable article.
A young calf was sold and resold un-
til it fetched over $500. A SIS bill
brought nearly $500.
A few hours after a Red Cross sale
at st. Lawrence. unknown parties GOV.
cred the front of the j. w. johnson
store at Miller, a neighboring town,
with yellow paint. Ii is supposed to
have been done because it was alleg-
ed Johnson had not given anything to
the Red Cross sale.
Mobridge is preparing to DO it's full
duty in the way of raising food for
home consumption. A committee of
citizens is listing every vacant lot or
block Of ground, and arrangements
are being made to put every such
parcel OF ground into a war garden
this summer.
Hecla, a town of about 500 people,
has made a splendid record for the
loyalty of her women folk to the
cause of the war. Every woman re.
siding in the town has registered for
war service in the women's rcgistra.
ton now being carried on over the
country.
The new steel flag pole recently
purchased by the city council of
Gregory has been erected in the cen
trail part of the city, and the stars
and stripes will be kept floating from,
the top until the war with Germany
is successfully concluded.
City mail carriers and rural mail
carriers out of the Aberdeen postof.
flee sold $2,714.17 worth Of thrift
stamps in four weeks. The high school
boys and girls are also making house
to house canvass Of the city, selling
the stamps.
At a meeting held by a number OF