Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10

Seventy men will be. taken from
South Dakota about the middle OF
October in special draft call which
has reached the local exemption board.
for the spruce production The men,
who are to be taken fsom the class
qualified Tor special and limited sery.
ice. will report to the commanding
officer at Vancouver barracks. Van
couver, Wash. ls4
Letters from many South Dakota
boys indicate q current rumor that
the state colleges quota Of studenta
In the student army training corps at
Bookings has already been filled.
This is not true. The state college
mas yet room for probably as many
young men as care to enter, although
1t is advisable that those desiring to
enroll should send in their applica-
tons at once. II the quota is exceed
ed. 2 waiting list will be drawn up.
It has been decided by the city com.
misstoners Of Madison to submit to
the voters at special election the
proposition Of issuing bonds. in the
sum- OF $15O,000. OF this sum 100000
VIII be used for rebuilding and equip.
ping the electric light plant, which
was destroyed by fire some weeks
ago; $4,000 will be used for the ex.
tension of the sewerage system. and
the remaining $25, 900 will be used
Tor extending the mains Of the mum.
cipal water works system.
Although he is still but lieutenant.
Royal Q. Johnson, Of Aberdeen. con.
gresham from the Second district.
has at last gratified his wish to be ~
the front. Word from there to his
wife speaks Of his strenuous work in
the officers, training school in France.
He wrote on August Is that he had
another week there before he would
be assigned to the front line trenches.
Lieut.. johnson, was recently offered a
captatncy in the ordnance department.
but declined 1t because It did not Of
fer enough lighting.
Tom Ayres, candidate for congress
OF the nonpartisant league Of Perkins
county, was refused the use Of the
nall In Witten in which to speak. He
then took up at one of the garages.
from which he was ordered by the
town board, also not to speak in the
town. But he refused to abide by the
order and an officer was called to
stop him; he still refused. The home
guards from Winner were notified and
they came up later and went up to
the hotel and notified Ayres to get
up and get, which he did. He stated
that he was going to Gregory county,
and was going prepared for trouble.
No wonder they refer to South Da.
kota as "the breadbasket of the
world" for no state in the union has
quite the same record this year on
crops. South Dakota is rated in per.
centage of crop Tor 1918 at the top
OF the whole list Of forty.eight states.
according to the South Dakota. immf.
grafton department The United
States department Of agriculture. ex.
perts' report for August on the staple
human food crops credit South Da-
kota with 1888 per cent the nearest
other state having 1871 per cent and
only few states showing better than
100 per cent.
| Mabel Williams was the victim Of
a peculiar accident. M. D. Candy was
working on the automobile when in
some manner the clutch. which held
the rim was released while the tube
was inflated with a pressure of about
eighty pounds. There was an explo-
sion and the steel rim struck Miss
Williams with such. force on the neck
and breast that she was rendered un.
conscious. Candy also was knocked
down and rendered unconscious and
suffered minor injuries. It required
the efforts Of physician for more
than an hour before the two victims
were brought back to CONSEQUENCES.
Their escape from death was narrow
one.
A recent letter from France tells of
an impromptu Pierre celebration" on
the front not long ago. A battary of
field artillery containing e large mum.
Der OF boys from old Company A, Of
Pierre, which has been changed into
the battery, were being guarded by an
airman. After several days the bird
man was compelled to come down on
account Of engine trouble and landed
among the boys Of the battery, reveal.
ing the fact. that their air scout was
Walter Smith, high school boy and
football star Of the class In which
most Of the boys of the company were
members. From that time on their
air scout had different individuality
to them than he had before they knew
who he was..
What is known as the Maxwell Men.
onite colony, near Scotland, was the
latest of the Mennonite colonies in
South Dakota to be sold in accordance
with the determination Of the Mem
onites Of the state to move TO western
Canada because they do not want their
Young men to serve as soldiers The
Maxwell colony was one Of the most
progressive In the state. The build.
'ngs are large and substantial and are
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