The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-02-28
GERMAN is BARRED
STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
PUTS BAN ON TEACHING
OF LANGUAGES.

tense N y SESSION n0lO Ia olOuX r&iASs
adopted a resolution ordering that the
teaching OF the German language be
Immediately abandoned In all the edu-
cational institutions in South Dakota,
including state normal schools. col
leges, universities and public schools.
ton OF this kind taken by ! state
council of defense anywhere in the
union, making South Dakota the pho
neer in putting the teaching OF the
German language under a ban
throughout the entire state.
South Dakotans are cautioned to
have nothing to do with persons rep
resenting themselves to be represee-
tatives of the federal food admins
tration for this state, unless these
persons have credentials signed by c.
N. Herreid, federal food administrator.
Reports have been received of per-
sons operating in the state as agents
Of the food administration, who have
no authority whatever from the state
administrator. One of these persons
is said to have collected SO from a
merchant. Every bona fde represen-
tative of this Office is given proper
credentials before starting out or any
Investigations.
The state viii offer for sale between
10000 and SO, 0e0 acres OF land In
Meade county on April 2. this year.
The lands are placed at a minimum
Of $40 an acre, and range as high as
$35. The terms are in -four payments,
one-fourth down, and the balance in
three payments of five. ten and 15
years, at s per cent. This is the most
extensive offering of state lands which
has been made in any of the western
counties of the state, and will mean
that a number of cheap farms will be
secured by someone in Meade county
this spring.
A private telegram received at
Flandreau from Washington is to the
effect that an amendment has been
added to the Indian appropriation bill
In congress, providing for $500 for
the rebuilding Of the machine shop
building at the government Indian
school in that city, to replace a SIM
liar building which was destroyed by
fire a month or two ago.
When the city council of Beresford
opened the bids for the construction
Of a municipal w~aterworks system, for
which the voters al a special election
authorized the issuance of bonds in
the sum OF S25, 900, 1t was found that
all the bids were too high and all
were rejected. New bids now are be-
ing advertised for.
A most successful auction sale for
the Red Cross was held at Vermillion,
when donations for seven of the IL
townships Of Clay county, including
vermillion city, were sold for a total
of $14, 600. Three ~auctioneers were
kept busy for six hours. Three thou
sand people were present.
Ten thousand dollars was realized
at a Red Cross sale at st. Lawrence.
Townspeople and farmers contributed
horses, cattle, sheep. hogs and poul-
try, besides every Imaginable article.
A young calf was sold and resold un-
I'll 1t fetched over $500, a IS bill
brought nearly 500.
A few hours after a Red Cross sale
at st. Lawrence, unknown parties COW
cred the front of the j. w. Johnson
store at Miller. a neighboring town,
with yellow paint. 1t is supposed to
! have been done because ii was aiieg-
ed Johnson had not given anything to
the Red Cross sale.
Mobridge is preparing to do its full
duty in the way of raising food for
home consumption. A committee Of
citizens is listing every vacant lot or
block of ground, and arrangements
are being made to put every such
parcel of ground into a war garden
| this summer.
Hecla, a town of about 500 people,
has made a splendid record for the
loyalty Of her women folk to the
cause of the war. Every woman re-
siding in the town has registered for
wa service In the women's registra-
| ton now being carried on over the
country.
The new steel flag pole recently
| purchased by the city council of
Gregory has been erected in the cen
trail part OF the city, and the stars
and stripes will be kept floating from
the top until the war with Germany
Is successfully concluded.
City mail carriers and rural mail
carriers put of the Aberdeen postof-
flee sold $2,714.17 worth of thrift
stamps in four weeks. The high school
boys and girls are also making a house
to house canvass of the city, selling
the stamps.
At a meeting held by a number of
the young men of Alcester and vi
cinity preliminary steps were taken
TO organize q local company Of state
national guard.
A large number Of the farmers of
the southern part of McCook county
| held q meeting in Beresford and organ