The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-19

ty this year will be 1.9 mills. or A OF
q mill higher than for 1917. The com.
bined report from the assessors rolls
shows the following values OF prop.
erty in the county: A total of 1886
horses and mules valued at ST. .273;
1.051, $50 head OF cattle valued at 81
26o,4l2: 22,SS7 hogs valued at 1884,
728. Values on other property were
placed at follows: Real estate, gen
eral. s36.398.373; personal property.
$7.947.ss railroads, $4.b75 OFT:
press companies, $23. 79l: telegraph
companies. s2s.ss3, telephone lines
within the corporate limits OF Huron,
$126,S5S; telephone lines outside the
corporate limits. $70,355; sleeping
cars. 1851. At the time OF taking
the assessment there were 1892 auto
mobiles in the county with a valuation
OF $92O,2S9. The value OF farm i'm
plenents Is placed at $165, 492. The
value placed on light. water and gas
company properties was s15s. 500. The
total valuation OF all the real and per-
sonal property in the county 81 placed
at s49,474173. or an Increase over last
year Of s4,25S.9r5. In the city OF
Huron on all properties owned there
Is an increase over 1917 Of $500, 900
Ten conscientious DIRECTORS hove
been procured from Camp Dodge, Ia.
by the purchasers of the Mennonite
colony lands near Alexandria to work
nm the uyna Hnrinn @hn fall rxsoh Thn
10 are Quakers. Dunkards and Memo
mites. who have religious scruples
against war. They have been granted
Burroughs during the time they are
working on the old colony lands. TIE
sums earned by them, above the $50
per month paid them by the govern
ment for their services, are turned
into the Red Cross fund.
Willie T. Johnson. president of the
Northern Normal and Industrial
schoo, at Aberdeen, finally has ac-
cep.ad a place with the government
educational survey OF the Hawaiian
Islands instead of the position as the
head of the government school TO be
established In Washington for the pur-
pose of training instructors in occu-
p~ational trades for MANNED soldiers,
which he had at once time practically
accepted.
Food administration officials in Hu.
ron are making a special plea to farm.
ers to assist the railroad companies
to pillow a fire guard along the railroad
tracks near their lands. The railroad
companies fire breaks extend for 100
feet on each side of the track. Farm.
another 100 feet adjoining this and
doubly insure their grain against loss
by fire caused from engine sparks.
Desiring 10 do her "bit" in the great
war, and believing that the men anS
boys should not be called upon to do
all the work. Miss Jennie Belts. daugh-
ter of Mrs. pr. Belts. OF Madison,
volunteered for work repairing and
painting some farm buildings near
Madison. She rendered valuable as
sistance in tearing down some old
buildings and In repairing and paint.
Ing others.
Thomas McAndrews, IS years old.
OF Humboldt, who Is a veteran OF the
civil war, wanted to do his bit" in
the harvest fields. Notwithstanding
has advanced years he worked for q
period OF six days on the farm Of
James Thompson at stacking and dur.
to- kAs- co~t1A kx~naH 0nf NJ Anrh
work as the average young q The
old man earned $3.50 per day.
Louis Wagner. living near Beres-
ford, was the victim OF an accident
which caused him to lose the greater
part of his right erm. The mechan-
lead feeder on a thresher became clog
ssd and Wagner attempted to M It.
In some manaer his arm became
caught In the belt and was mangled
o such an extent that II had TO be
asnputated above the elbow.
Fifty thousand bushels of seed corn
picked before frost is the slogan OF
the campaign now being wsged by
H. B. Wilson. emergency demonetra-
ton agent OF Moody county. Two
thousand bulletins have been mailed
TO the farmers Of that county urging
them to get busy In the fields. Moody
county has $4,000 acres in corn this
year.
AS the result Of injuries suffered
when shs LOST her balance and fell
from a load Of hay while aiding In
putting up hay, Mra Lena stsffsn, Nv
ing on q farm near Sherman, will be
incapacitated for several weeks. Dur
ing the summer she has been doing
her bit" by aiding in the production
Of crops and other foodstufs.
Alexander Cournos. one OF the l.
w. w. members sentenced by FEEDER
al Judge Lands. In Chicago. nj n
time was IN observer at ths Huron
weather bureau. Cournos weat 10
Huron IN February. 1917. and was ~
rested BY the Huron Police on advtces
from the department Of Justice on 90
tobsr 1 d last year.
Thronbfn~ whRck NOW ara