The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-02-14
COAL PROFIT LIMITED
DAKOTA FUEL ADMINISTRATORS
PUTS HALT TO PROF.
ITEERING.

eral fuel administrator for South Da-
kota, has issued an order limiting the
profit that can be taken by the retail
dealers and otherwise experimenting
the order Of October /, 1917. The
order limits the profits on anthracite
and Ignite to $1.75 per ton at the
yard. On soft coal the margin is
placed at 81 per ton. Where delivery
charges are made. the charge shall be
no greater than for similar service on
July l, 1917.
The 3-year-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Pfantz, Of Leola. was found dead
In a jar OF water. Mrs. Pfantz was
washing and had gone outside to hang
up some clothes. She left the 3-year-
Old child and q brother a year older
In the house. The child, playing
around the ar, which was partly filled
with water. fell In and was helpless.
The brother, too young to realize the
danger that the child was in, did moth
ing to rescue him or cali the mother.
1t was not until fifteen minutes later.
when h other children came home
from school, that the child was dis
covered dead.
The report Of Insurance Commits
sioner Van Camp recently submitted
to Governor Norbeck, shows that the
department for the fiscal year collect
ed in fees and taxes the sum of $685.
644.51, and that the cost of maintain
ing the insurance and fire marshal
departments was $21, 291.47, which dis
closes the fact that the department
for the year was operated at a profit
to the state OF s177, 1872 5, which in
cludes $~29,586.58 distributed among
the towns OF the state maintaining
organized fire departments.
j. c. Parkin, a rancher homesteader
living near Provo. in the Edgemont
district, has just sold his alfalfa seed,
the product Of last season, and finds
that the crop was a very profitable
one. From about seventy acres he
secured 476 bushels Of alfalfa seed,
which brought him a financial return
of nearly $50 an acre for the tract
devoted to the alfalfa. Farm land In
his district is worth only from $40 to
SIS an acre.
The state department has appealed
to the court for authority to pay a
Is per cent dividend to the depositors
of the Dakota State bank of Eagle
Butte, which failed before the guar
anty law went into effect. This is
the first payment to be made to the
depositors since the bank failed sew
eral years ago.
Grain men and farmers are getting
anxious about the stored corn In South
Dakota. It is claimed that unless the
grain is moved within the next month
that 1t will spoil, as its already soft
ened condition will not stand storage
In cribs when warm weather begins.
The state railway commission and the
food administrator have been appeal
ed to.
President E. C. Perisho, of State
college at B~rookings, has appointed a
war information committee at the col
lege which will collect and co-ordi-
nate all the information available for
state and college use in the interest
Of greater food production and con-
~servation as a war measure.
Governor Norbeck has received all
urgent call from the general manager
of the emergency feet corporation, in
which he asks for men to help in that
work. The county chairmen of the
council OF defense have been supplied
with enrolment cards.
Reports from II. o. Herbrandson,
field agent for the department of agri-
culture for South Dakota, shows that
the number of horses in the state has
increased during the past year. Cat
tie also show a healthy increase in
number.
Commencement at the University
of South Dakota will be held on May
Is this year. This Is earlier than any
previous commencement. The reason
is to give the men students who wish
to do so a chance to work on the
farms.
Mrs. John Hausman, of Pierre, is
in a hospital, badly burned, as the
result of pouring kerosene over her
self and applying a match. She had
shown signs OF mental trouble for
several days before committing the
act.
John Bossee. 1. w. W., and recent
resident of Selby, has been arrested,
charged with violation of the espion-
g act. He Is alleged to have said:
Wilson ought to have his brains
blown out and l would like to help
do It,"
Miss Laura Brookman, Of vermil-
lion. has been chosen as editor of the
yolante. the student paper OF the Uni.
versity Of South Dakota. Miss Brook
man is the fourth woman to be thus
honored.
The enactment OF a law by the state
legislature which will be designed to
mobilize labor and make 1t unlawful
for a physically capable individual
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