The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-25
LOCAL ITEMS
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Next Tuesday is election day.
1t rained most of Monday night.
It is your duty as an American citi.
zen to 60 and vote next Tuesday.
When in Winner go to Feeney's
Confectionery for a good cigar, a nice
box of candy,or fresh fruits. 2ltf
p. Scott Merrill has been acting as
postmaster and "hello girl" during
the illness of the postmistress Mrs.
Kriehn.
The first snow Of the season fell on
the 25th, 70 according TO an old say
ing, we are to have twenty FIVE SHOWS
this winter.
j. B. Brown this week bad a new
floor laid in his store which is a mark
ed improvement. John Atkinson
done the work.
g. w. Sawyer went to Valentine
Nebraska, Monday to meet Mrs. In
graham who is here visiting with hel
daughter Mrs. Fred Lewis.
George Evans formerly Of Winner
but now at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Camp was in Wood last Fri
day shaking hands with old friends
and acquaintances.
George Moore went to Winner,
Monday to meet his brother w. A
Moore, of Leon, Iowa, who is here
visiting for a few days. He also ex'
poets to go to Colorado to visit before
returning to his home.
Dick Manard left Monday morning
for Marceline, Mo-, in his Buick cal
expecting to make the entire trip over
land. He will visit there with his
mother until such time as Uncle Sam
will call him into service.
Mrs. Frank Kriehn who has been
down with an attack OF influenza fol-
the past week and a half, developed
into pneumonia, and on Tuesday was
taken to the Winner hospital where
she could get the best of medical at
tention.
v. r. Branson went to White River
last Friday morning on the stage, in
tending to go from there to his home
stead, but we are told in a letter re
ceived from him, that he went to aurs
ing in one of the temporary hospitals
at White River instead.
The Influenza epidemic is still a
quite serious matter in this county,
and a number of deaths have occur
red from this disease since our last is
sue. mostly among the Indians. Only
two or three whites have died in the
county since this disease broke out.
Earl Mcclure was here Saturday
sud Sunday shaking hands with old
frields and acquaintance. Earl is
at Camp Funston where be is drive.
ing a motor truck for Uncle Sam, and
says he certainly does like army life.
He is looking we'll. He returned to
Camp, Monday.
They have established three tenn
porary hospitals at White River with
some fifteen or twenty patients that
have been brought in from the coun-
try. Two of the hospitals T devot-
ed to the care of influenza patients,
while the third is taking care OF
msasle patients, that disease also hav-
ing developed in the west end of the
county.
Rev. VanValkenburgh who was at
his ranch south Of White River all
last week taking care Of the sick IN
his household, came to Wood with
his family Sunday evening, and he
much more than got here when
81 received q message stating that his
cattle were dieing with black leg, so
IS immediatedlv returned to the
He came down again Monday
I'd eot his family. and bis daughter
ia also taken down With the infiusn-
Y sunday night. H lost 9 good
~ with black Az, but immediatsd-