The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-12

and residents pledged more than $20,.
600.
j. l.. Lockhart, of Pierre, was a
part Of recent gathering at the
old home in Clear Lake. when four
generations of Jack" Lockhart faced
the camera, the list being John Lock
hart, the father, who resides at Clear
Lake, and is now ninety years old.
John Lockhart, his son, Of Pierben,
and John I<ockhart and Baby John,
of Centerville, grandson and great
grandson.
Modification OF the food admins.
tration's order relative to sugar for
canning, by which housewives may
purchase as much as 100 pounds of
sugar for canning purposes, was good
news for the people Of Oacoma and
vicinity. The crop of wild fruit in
that vicinity is very large this year
and much Of it would have gone to
waste if the sugar allowance had not
been increased.
A 60-foot community fiagpole has
been erected in the chief business
| street through the efforts Of the
patriotic residents of Worthing, and
large banner now floats Nom the
top of the staff each day. A service
! flag bearing star for each boy Of
Worthing and vicinity who is serving
his country will be raised on the
same pole during the next few days
and kept flying until the close of the
war. Other stars will be added as
other boys are called to the colors.
The last woman inmate of the
South Dakota penitentiary has been
pardoned by Gov. Norbeck, and that
institution Is now strictly male so far
as it's population Is concerned And
even that part Of the population has
fallen of materially in the last year,
thenew arrivals not keeping up with
the completion of terms. Whether or
not the bone dry prohibition law Of
the state has had anything to do with
this condition or has not, the advo-
Gates Of prohibition point to the situa.
tfon as evidence OF the results OF the
law.
The application Of the state for an
injunction restraining the authorities
OF Moody and Lake counties from
constructing the Lake county portion
OF the Lake-Moody county drainage
ditch has been denied By Judge
Pleeger, Of the state circuit court, fol-
| lowing hearing in the case. The
injunction was sought on the ground
that the ditch would drain Milwau-
kee lake, north of Wentworth, and
make 1t too shallow for fish and to
preserve as lake. Now that Judge
Pleeger has denied the application the
two counties can go ahead with the
construction of the ditch unless 9TH
er legal proceedings are instituted.
William Hickey, of Yankton, took
the oath and assumed the duties Of
United States marsha: for South Da-
kota, to which position he recently
was appointed by President Wilson
For some time he had been a deputy
United States marshal and also was
sheriff of Yankton county. He suc-
ceeds in the Office Of marshal Can't.
Tom Taubman, widely known
newspaper man of the state. who has
just completed his four-year term. The
retiring marshal will return to his
former home at Planktinton, where
he again will become editor and pub.
Usher OF the Plankinton Herald. a
newspaper which he conducted from
pioneer days up to the time he became
United States marshal.
An example 70 the cruelty of the
Germans and the atrocities committed
against the civil populations Of the
invaded districts is shown in story
told in letter received from Rollo
Grover, former Huron boy, now
with the American expeditionary
forces in France. There is a French.
man see every day" Growers letter
says, who was captured by tho
Boches. He cannot talk because they
cut the vocal cords in his neck. His
right hand is cut off at the wrist. He
has told me how they stretched him
out spread eagle on a wheel and
then let him go round with it and
he shows me where his head was
cracked open and his legs broken. He
was at one time a powerfully built
man. but now is physical wreck"
After having been in custody for
several weeks, Peter Radalyac, a
young Austrian Of Terry, has been
released on instructions from the
United States attorney. Several
months ago ne came to Terry with a
young woman, Miss Olga FrummeI.
and within short tdime after their
arrival they were married. The moth.
er OF the girl, who lives in New York
city, opposed the marriage and fled
charges of abduction against the
groom. This charge was disproved.
and then the irate mother filed other
charges declaring that Radalyac was
Ucav,