The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-03-14
SEED WHEAT PRICES
FARMERS OR OTHERS WILL Be
PERMITTED TO TAKE \
REAcSNAsLE PROFIT.

n South DAKOTA mas Dcen as 10 Swnat
profit farmers or dealers were permit
ted to make on seed wheat under the
government regulations. F. o. Simon
son, Of Pierre. while in Sioux Falls.
stated that after taking UP the mat
ter with the federal officials he was
informed that with the price Of wheat
fixed by the government at ~ per
bushel, the farmer or other dealer In
seed wheat may add to the local
market price OF wheat 15 per cent
where 1t is sold in his home market
II the wheat is shipped in by them.
they are permitted to take a reason
able net profit. not to exceed 5 cents
a bushel. These prices. 1t was Of
fcially announced by Mr.. Simonson,
are fixed by the national food commits
sion and are based on No. / wheat.
To utilize jitney trucks for bringing
coal down the Missouri river is the
plan Of w. e. Lyman. OF Gettysburg.
That is, the trucks will help get
barges up stream but the current will
bring them down. His plan being TO
construct several coal barges at up
river points where the coal can be
cheaply secured, and float the supply
down the Missouri. The power to
drive the barges back up the river
will be supplied from the trucks which
he has been using for freighting pur-
poses. There is a plentiful supply
Of Ignite coal further up the river, and
IL it could be laid down at points with
q freight rate which would make the
price reasonable a large amount OF II
would be used. But up to the present
the freight rate has been so high that
there could be no practical market for
the Ignite coal.
What close attention to farming will
accomplish Is shown by the record
made by s. o. Bison, a farmer living
some miles from Garretson. He start
ed farming II years ago without n
capital to speak Of. He gave his farm
ing operations close attention and has
been very successful. raising good
crops most years because OF the sys.
tematic manner in which he cultivated
MS uCAaD vi bloWih6 6iuih oho OshS
products. He now has one of the best
farm dwellings In eastern South Da-
kota. Up to last year he was the
owner of a fine farm OF $40 acres.
Last year he purchased an additional
240 acres, giving him a farm Of $50
acres, all OF which Is highly improved.
Federal officers are investigating an
alleged attempt OF Harry Zetman, a
conscientious objector" of Messing
ton Springs, who is serving a seven
months sentence in the county jail
1t Sioux Falls for failure to register
for the selective draft, to evade mill
tary service by removing several gold
crowns and other dental work from
his mouth. Zetman has been ordered
to report to the district board for phys
ical examination and 1t is claimed he
mutilated his teeth in the belief that
he would be exempted. The gold was
discovered by the sheriff when Zet-
man attempted to mail 1t to a Milwau-
kee firm that purchases dental work.
The school board of Pierre has fol
lowed. the suggestion Of the state
meeting at Sioux Falls, and will eli
inmate German from the school
course Of study for next year. It will
be continued through this year; as the
that X it Is eliminated now. the pupils
who have been taking this study for
the past two years will not be allowed
any credits for any of the time put
in, and will lose the work of both
years, which would mean that q num-
Der OF students who expect to gradu-
ate would not be able to so do.
&C. II. Billings, a homesteader and
stockman living near B~elvidere, who
recently was arrested by federal
agents and bound over to the next fed
eral grand jury under a bond Of So
600 on the charge Of threatening the
life of President Wilson, is remember
ed in Phillip as the man who held one
end OF the famous ''ringtailed cow
case. which made its way through all
the courts of Stanley county about 10
years age. developing as 1t progressed
intO q WCoftA VI AoAtOt anu al az
emulation Of costs which made 1t
notable.
Residents Of the towns In the north
western part of the state are taking
great interest In q meeting Of those
interested In the promotion of the Vel
lowstone Trail association, which is
to be held at Minneapolis.
John Mcmillan, a Sturgis boy, who
now has been definitely reported as
n OF the rescued from the Inflated
Tuscania. enlisted at Lead on Decem-
Der 5. 1917.
The Q SIS, 900 consolidated school
building at st. Charles has been open
ed and the teachers and pupils now
have occupied It.
Rural Newspaper Management" is
the title Of q new course IN the depart
ment Of journalism at the University
Of South Dakota
At q Red Cross auction at Gayvil.e
q fresh egg. which was laid by q hen
after she had been brought to the sale,