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

Judge Charles S. Whiting of Pierre:
c. G.. Caldwell. attorney general;
Frank r. Aikens and Tore Teigen, OF
Sioux Falls, the legal advisory board
selected for South Dakota to assist
soldiers in answering their question
by the national council of defense at
Washington in which they request all
attorneys of the state to extend their
free services to give legal advice in
regard to benefits of war risk insur.
ance. allotment of soldiers and sailors
pay by the federal government. the
soldiers and sailors civic rights act
and other emergency laws relating
to men entering the service; to draft
Wills and attend to caring for property
and settling business affairs of SOL
diers; to represent soldiers and sail
range to attend such business mat
ters as require and are capable of
attention in the absence of men in
the service; to report to the Red
Cross home service section cases re-
quring relief which come to the at
tention of the committee.
Because he furnished the bond for
the release of Gustav Crossman, pend
ing his trial in federal court on the
charge of threatening the life Of
President Wilson, w. C. Uecker, presi-
dent and owner of the majority of the
stock in the bank at Raymond, may
be compelled to dispose of his inter-
est in the bank and resign to prevent
the ruin of the institution. Follow
ing Cheeseman's hearing at Water
town. Uecker and Raymond farmer
furnished his bond of $4,000. That
night Raymond citizens, enraged at
the act. posted large yellow cards all
over the bank and when the institu-
tion was opened next morning custom
ers drew out their deposits, exhaust
ing. it is said, practically all of the
banks cash on hand.
Dealers in wheat flour and the sub
stitutes are permitted to sell all pure
corn. rice. oat. barley and buckwheat
products. containing no wheat, as SUBJ
stitutes for wheat -four for the pur.
poses of the wheat conservation rules.
whether these products be canned,
faxed. puffed or in any other form,
under a new rule issued by C. N. Her.
reid, Federal Food Administrator for
South Dakota. Heretofore dealers
have been permitted to sell only GER
tain specified forms of the substitute
products.
Mrs. Mary C. c. Bradford, of Den
YER. superintendent of public instruc-
ton for the state Of Colorado. presi-
dent of the National Education Asso.
citation and the most eloquent woman
speaker among the educators of the
United States. will give two addresses
in Aberdeen, Tuesday. June 4, in con-
nectfon with the greatest Joint coun-
ty institute ever held in the state
and in the nation. The public will
be given an opportunity to hear this
gifted speaker on this day.
Governor Peter Norbeck has an.
nounced that but few changes would
be made just now in the state and
county councils Of defense. The new
law authorizing and governing these
bodies names the number of members
and some changes are imperative to
comply with it. Under the law Just
passed the governor becomes chair.
man OF the state organization.
The supreme court has decided that
where hospital receives any and all
classes OF patients. regardless of pay.
ments. 1t is. under the law. free from
taxation.