Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-18


such products will not be seized or
taxed. nor will the amount be limited.
The food administration has repeat.
eddy and definitely declared that any
statement to the contrary are the re-.
suit of enemy propaganda.
There is evidently strong demand
for land in the state this spring. In
the western sales, in Butte county.
1,76O acres of irrigable land were sold
at total of $32,840, an average of
$18.66 per acre; in Meade county the
sales amounted to 4,667 acres, at an
average of s13.42 or total of &c.,.
623. In Beadle county, where the
first offerings were made for eastern
counties, the acreage sold ran up to
1852, with an average price OF
$3.50. and total of $935,2O0 In
Meade county one tract sold at $40
an acre, and in Beadle county one
tract at SOL an acre. In Beadle coun.
ty one tract of grazing land leased at
81 per acre for the year.
The work of building new bridge
across the Missouri at Chamberlain to
replace the pontooM bridge which
went out was begun by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway con.
struction crews. The bridge will be
of new type and designed to with.
stand the pressure of ice packs, which
heretofore have taken out the bridge
at this important point nearly every
spring.
A number OF patriotic women OF
Burke, in order to do their "bit" dur
ing the great war. have organized a
women's home guard company, with
Verna Lundak as captain. The com
pany starts out with about 80 char
ter members. They have commenced
drilling and in due time will be pro
vided with guns.
Carl Frederick Wilhelm Lemcke,
enemy alien. and said to be a <second
lieutenant in the German army, wa.
taken into custody by federal officers
at Crooks. He is being held at Sioux
Falls pending orders from the depart.
ment of justice at Washington.
Lemcke came to this country in 1914.
A. C. Bernau. auditor of Jackson
county. has resigned his position. and
will move to PIERRE where he has &C.
copied position as secretary of the
state tax commission. He is well
posted on tax matters. and is believed
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Two enemy aliens. Paul Gross, q
German editor. of Aberdeen, S. D.,
and Ernest Webbing, Sioux Falls
cigar maker, recently arrested as
dangerous" were taken from Sioux
Falls in custody of federal officers to
an alien detention camp.
Richard Foster. switchman in the
Milwaukee railway yards at Mobridge
was instantly killed when he missed
his footing and fell between two cars
while switching. The wheels passed
over his body, cutting him in two in
the region Of the lungs.
The belmont Study club, a small
club Of only IA meusers, gave a dance
from which Il realized SITS. One hun.
dred dollars was invested in Liberty
bond and the balance given to the
Red Cross. The entire community
gaze loyal support
Just when Vermillion people were
rejoicing over the fact that new de.
pot was to be erected by the Mil.
waukee company this year Uncle Sam
has stepped in and under the new
orders the work Of construction will
be delayed at least another year.
The sts. banking department has
declared 10 per cent dividend to the
Bancroft State bank, this making a
total of 40 per cent which has been
paid depositors.
The board of charities and correc-
ton has elected A. o. Ringsrud. of
elk Point. as president, and F. w.
Brown, IT Lead. as secretary.
Judsa Mallory and Mrs. Brethorst,
Of Lenaox, have each received a hand
grenade, which were sent to them by
Lieut.. Steven Brethorst, who is serv.
ing with the American expeditionary
army in France. The shells were
complete with the exception that the
explosives had been removed from
them.
Patriotic school children of Irouuois
have demonstrated their patriotism
| by refusing to study German. At the
close Of school Is scholars proceeded
to the school yard and burned all their
German books.