The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
FOR DISABLED YANKS
GOVERNMENT MAY EsTABlISh
HOSPITALS AT HOT SPRINGS,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

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A commission from the government
visited Hot Springs to look over Ger.
tain buildings with reference to taking
them owe for the use Of sick and dis.
abled soldiers OF the present war. The
Evans hotel may be taken over as a
hospital for convalescent men and the
Battle Mountain sanitarium, national
home for disabled veterans Of the civil
and Spanish wars, may be taken over
for bed-ridden patients and surgical
cases. There Is also a possibility that
the two large hospitals of the town,
the Lutheran and Our Lady OF Lour-
des, may be used for the same purpose
The commission made a thorough in
spection, but gave out no hint OF
the nature OF the report they will
make. They left for Washington In
the evening. The party comprised
Lieut.. Col. Northington. head OF the
commission; ]. Milton Trainer. real
estate expert; Richard Schmitt, archi-
tect, and Emil Block, secretary, accom
pdHleu Ine party.
Information that Mrs. Lloyd Smith,
a former well known resident OF
Beresford had accidentally met death
at the new home OF the family near
Burnstad, N. D., was a great shock
to her friends here and In this vi.
cinity. About two weeks previously
her husband had loaded his shotgun
and started out to hunt ducks. He
was interrupted by some n and In
his haste he put the gun aside with
out unloading it, and during the rush
OF the busy season had completely
forgotten about 1t. Mrs. Smith vas
preparing to go to town when her
two little boys discovered the gun
and dragged 1t into the room where
she was dressing. The u was dis
charged, the charge striking the I'm
fortunate in the back. She
lived just long enough to tell the boys
to 90 for their papa, who was work.
ing in a field about three miles dis.
tant. She was dead long before her
husband could arrive on the scene.
A telegram from Herbert Hoover
nnounces the immediate abandon
ment OF the rule requiring consumers
/ to buy or pledge themselves to buy
"substitutes"-four to one. But the
appeal to save food for furnishing Eu-
rope is intensified, by the recent war
developments. Therefore, the con-
servation Of food campaign must go
IN. A world composed in part OF
vanquished countries Of furnishing
millions, is not a world safe for de-
mocracy.' Now, let there be no
"slackers" IN food conservation, said
Mr.. HerrieG. The demand for food
for export is increasing. While our
people are no longer required to buy
substitutes" they are expected to
use the Substitutes" in~telligently,
and save exportable food even to a
greater degree than heretofore.
AS the result Of a fire which de-
stroyed the barn on the place Mrs.
Frank Woods, wife Of a farmer living
nea Cottonwood, and her 6-yearold
daughter were seriously burned. The
little girl was burned so badly she Ia
not expected to recover, while the
mother has a fighting chance for life.
The four small children of the family
accidentally started a fire in the barn
while playing with jack-o-lanterns,
the flames cutting off the escape. Mrs.
Woods went to the rescue and u C
ceeded in getting the four children
out OF tho burning structure, but not
before herself and her 6-year-old
daughter had been seriously burned.
It Is doubtful II any town in the
country, population considered put on
a more enthusiastic celebration of the
contamination Of peace han did Stick.
ney. Autos to the number OF $50,
headed by a coffin containing an efigy
Of the kaiser, paraded the streets.
Later flag bedecked autos drove to
Plankinton. The Stickney city Jail
was burned to the ground. Outbuild-
ings were used as fuel for numerous
bonfires, which had died down. when
the band began playing Keep the
Homie Fires Burning which was the
signal for another outburst of fires.
Eraa lunch MOS corvad n tho ufraate