The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-12-06
NEWS OF THE STATE
pGNlNoo OF the

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
ices not store well 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 woman suffrage have ap-
parently formed a corporations in
Mitchell. Miss Marie Clipper, % 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 e 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.
A summary OF the South Dakota
overseas casualties to date shows the
following interesting figures: There
have been q total Of 1853 casualties
among the South Dakota troops fight
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; q have been reported
missing in action; 81 died from
wounds; Is were wounded slightly; 2
met their death through accidents.
Only one man, Private Christ Celfin,
Of Ellington. is reported as being a
prisoner In Germany.
Some months ago C. P. Darby, OF
Parker. had Tour hogs stolen from his
yard. Hog buyers in other towns
hereabouts have recently had hogs
stolen. A few days age a q with
some hogs drove into Salem and eolC
them. Another man with hogs did ne
same 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 we're 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 q nearby
town. 1t was a~scertained. A like
transaction occurred at Cotton. Both
he thieves were arrested and avail.
trial. The thieves had wagons and
when stealing the hogs at night load
ed them into wagons and carted then,
to another town andsdisposed 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 different
divisions OF the state. and H. H. Clark
who was in charge Of the work. has
lust completed his figures from the
data In the various land offices. and
the office of the surveyor general. The
otal acreage OF the state is given as
1898. 3O9. 81. 1t will be noted that
the only county with over 1000, 600
acres is Meade. which has 2,225.971
The counties of Brown, Butte, Corson
Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding
Lyman, Pennington, Perkins,, Tripp
and Ziebach 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
ing and Perkins, d 5,01O.31l.67 acres.
which was more than one-tenth OF
the area Of the state. The only coun-
tics which get down % less thar 800.
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 It's existence only
until the end q the war. This work
may continue for 4 few months" Mr..
Herreid said. 1T will be a great re-
lief to me when 1t is over" But while
the food administration will close,
Mr. Herreid emphasized his belief
that South Dakotans should continue
to conserve food. It IS his firm be-
lief that without feod conservation
which enabled the United States to
supply the allied soldiers and peoples
with food II would have been impos-
sfble 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
Is effective work to win the val O. Il
they had been In the trenches" he
said. and | have no doubt that to
the loyal. noble. effective val work
Of the woman may be credited the
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