The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-05
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENiN0s OF THE
WEEK.

w. N. Van Camp, state fire marshal
for South Dakota, after investigating
the recent school house Ere at Fulton,
stated that poor quality coal which
does not store we'll is causing numer-
GUS destructive fires around the state.
He attributed the school house fire at
Fulton to this cause. A new school
house at Hurley was destroyed some
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
guard against disastrous fires.
Cupid and oma suffrage have ap.
parently formed a corporation in
Mitchell. Miss Marie Clipper, 22 years
old, strobe into the office OF the clerk
Of courts of Dawson county and
planked down 81 on the desk to ply
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 hu~sband-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. MI. Poyer Is "a years old.
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, 29 have been wounded, degree
undetermined; 81 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 Celin.
of Ellington, is reported as being a
prisoner in Germany.
Some months ago G. p. Darby, o.
Parker, had four hogs stolen from his
yard. Hog buyers in other town
h~ereabouts have recently had hog
stolen. A few days ago a man with
some hogs drove into Salem and sole
them. Another man with hogs did the
same at Cotton. The Salem buyer die
not know his customer and was also
somewhat suspicious OF him, so he
told the customer hat he did not pay
for hogs until they were loaded. The
hogs were loaded that night, and the
aext morning two hogs had beer
stolen from the car. Said customer
sold them next morning at a nearby
town, it was a~scertained. A like
transaction occurred at Cotton. Both
he thieves were arrested and avail
trial. The thieves had wagons an6
when stealing the hogs at night load
ed them into wagons and carted then
TO another town and disposed Of them.
The Office of farm management, de
partment OF agriculture, has been max
ing a survey of South Dakota to de
termine the acreage of the differen;
divisions of the state, and H. 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, 300. 81. 1t will be noted that
the only county with over 1900, 00c
acres is Meade, which has 2,225,97
The counties of Brown, Butte, Corson
Dewey, Fall River. Haakon, Harding
Lyman, Pennington, Perkins, Trip
nnA' HsAIanI 49, -. -
10000 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
ing and Perkins, or 5.010,311.67 acres.
which was more than one-tenth OF
the area OF the state. The only coun-
ties which get down to less than AGO.
600 acres are Clay, Davidson. Hanson
and Union, which are the small coun-
ties of the state.
c. N. Herreid, federal food admin
istrator for South Dakota, has made
the announcement that 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 q few months" Mr..
Herreid said. at will be a great re-
lief to me when 1t is over" But while
the food administration will close,
Mn He--e:a emphasized his belief
that South Dakotans should continue
to conserve food 1t is his firm be-
lief that without food conservation
which enabled the United States to
supply the allied soldiers and peoples
with food 1t 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 Gid
as effective work to win the wal as IL
they had been In the trenches" he
said, "and l 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"