The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-11
What is known as the Maxwell Men

South Dakota TO be sold in accordance
with the determination of the Men,
onites of the state to move to western
Canada because they do not want their
young men to serve as soldiers. Inc
Maxwell colony was one OF the most
progressive in the state. The build
ings are large and substantial and are
equipped with electric lights from a
central plant operated by power at the
Touring mill. The colony lands con-
sisted Of 5000 acres, a large part or
it fine, level farming land. The pur-
chase price was $40 an acre, which
included 400 acres OF corn in the field.
The property was purchased by Hum
phrey Slater, Of Sioux City.
A recent letter from France tells OF
an impromptu Pierre celebration" on
the front not long ago. A battery OF
field artillery containing q large num-
Der of boys from old Company A, OF
Pierre, which has been changed into
the battery, were being guarded by an
airman. After several days the bird
man was compelled to come down on
account Of engine trouble and landed
among the boys Of the battery, reveal
ing the fact that their air scout was
Walter Smith, a high school boy and
football star Of the class in which
most Of the boys OF the company were
members. From that time on their
air scout had a different individuality
to them than he had before they knew
who he was.
Mabel Williams was the victim OF
a peculiar accident. NJ. d. Candy was
working on the automobile when in
some name the clutch, which held
the rim vas released while the tube
was inflated with a pressure OF about
eighty pounds. There was an explo.
sion and the steel rim struck Miss
Williams with such force on the neck
and breast that she was rendered I'M
conscious. Candy also was knocked
down and rendered unconscious and
suffered minor injuries. 1t required
the efforts OF a physician for more
than an hour before the two victims
were brought back to consciousness.
Their escape from death was a narrow
one.
No wonder they refer to South Da-
kota as 1.-The breadbasket of the
world" for no state in the union has
quite the same record this year on
crops. South Dakota is rated in per-
centage of crop for 1918 at the top
of the whole list of forty-eight states.
according to the South Dakota immi-
grafton department. The United
States department Of agriculture ex-
perts' report Cor August on the staple
human food crops credit South Da-
kota with 1898 per cent the nearest
other state having 1871 per cent and
only a few states showing better than
100 per cent.
Tom Ayres, candidate for congress
OF the nonpartisan league of Perkins
county, was refused the use of the
hall in Witten in which to speak. He
then took up at one OF the garages.
from which he was ordered by the
town board, also not to speak in the
town. But he refused to abide by the
order and an officer was called to
stop him; he still refused. The home
guards from Winner were notified and
they came up later and went up to
the hotel and notified Ayres to get
up and get, which he did. He stated
that he was going to Gregory county,
and was going prepared for trouble.
Although he is still but a lieutenant,
Royal G.. Johnson, of Aberdeen, con-
gresham from the Second district,
has at last gratified his wish to be at
the front. Word from there to his
wife speaks Of his strenuous work in
the officers training school in France.
He wrote 81 August % that he had
another week there before he would
be assigned to the front line trenches.
Lieut.. Johnson was recently offered a
captaincy in the ordnance department,
but declined it because il did not of.
fer enough fighting.
1t has been decided by the city com.
m%issioners OF Madison to submit to
the voters at a special election the
proposition Of issuing bonds in the
sum OF $3.50, 600. OF this sum 310O, 900
will be used for rebuilding and equip
ping the electric light plant, which
vas destroyed by fire some weeks
ago: $4,000 will be used for the ex-
tension of the sewerage system, and
the remaining $4,000 will be used
for extending the mains Of the mum.
cipal water works system.
Letters from many South Dakota
boys indicate a current rumor that
the state colleges quota Of students
in the student army training corps at
Brookings has already been filled.
This is not true. The state college
has yet room for probably as many
young men as care to enter, although
it is advisable that those desiring to
enroll should send in their applica.
lions at once. II the quota is exceed
ed, a waiting list will be drawn up.
Seventy men will be taken from
South Dakota about the middle OF
October in n Special draft call ub;oh