The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-12-20
NEWS Uf ihE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
pENiNGs OF IKE
WEEK.

iClc IIdtl u ldIu upOA NllSh hO ca
ed the crop. His Weld ran over Is
bushels to the acre and made a total
OF 1000 bushels. At the present
market price this crop is valued at
about $500.
A GREATER degree Of prosperity thar
ever before is being enjoyed by farm
ers Of Chancellor, who devote some
Of their attention to hog r~aising. Wes-
sci Buskohl marketed a bunch Of hogs
that brought him s1,443.12. The hogs
required but little work to raise. Dur
ing the summer he let them run in a
pasture and this fall he let them huST
a 10-acre field of corn. They were
then finished of by four weeks feed
ing in the pen. He still has 30 head
Of hogs left to market later. George
Heibult. another farmer, marketed
hogs which brought him $1,721.75 and
has So head left.
Sioux Falls gave S2,412 by the
tag route to the Children's home
that the many homeless babies may
nave a pace u SIdg' lis IN u
largest collection Of money that has
ever been turned in by tag day" for
the upkeep OF this wonderful organ
ization. Dozens Of patriotic Sioux
Falls women and young girls took 1t
upon themselves to make this years
collection greater than that OF any
previous year, and they did it. Prac-
tically every person who walked the
main streets Of Sioux Falls was
tagged" and willingly gave the WON.
en- what they could afford. Many
persons were retagged that the am
paign would be a success.
The supreme court has held that
an insurance policy is valid when a
note is taken for part payment of the
first premium, even though the note
has not been paid at the time Of the
death of the party to whom the policy
was delivered. This decision was In
a suit against the North American
Life company, OF Omaha, in which
policy there was no forfeiture clause
IN the failure to pay the note, and
the further provision that the note
was drawn to provide a certain rate
OF interest after maturity. Under
these circumstances 1t was held that
the policy was good regardless Of the
fact that the note had not been paid
Of the holder Of the policy.
The state game department has
he lines OF grading and ditching to
assure lakes the year round in places
where there have been swamps only
ii some Of the drier years. In that
line they have purchased a dredging
outfit, and after providing for a supply
Of water for a small lake in Turner
county, the outfit was moved to Scat.
terwood lake, in the northeast corner
Of Faux county, where the course Of
a stream will be turned into that lake
and assure an all the year round lake
with water deep enough to prevent
The killing OF fish by freezing. When
that work is done the outfit will be
moved to Hanhlin county to cut an
overflow channel from the Sioux river
to Lake Poinsett, and complete the
dream of a storage basis for the up.
per Sioux valley, which has been talk
ed of for years but never brought to
completion up to the present time.
Nine Russian-Germans of Carlyle
township, in the southwestern edge Of
Beadle county, are poorer by more
than $500 as the result Of a hearing
before the state council Of defense.
The men, one Of them a minister,
we're charged with violating the de-
tense councils orders by talking Ger.
man over the telephone and using
the language at church services.
Testimony introduced at the hearing
showed that the charges brought
against them were true. The men
promised to strictly adhere to the
councils orders in the future and con.
tributed sums of money 10 the Red
Cross as a punishment for their acts.
The Oschner family pocketbook was
hard hit. Jacob Oschner contributed
s25 to the Red Cross, Nick Oschner
s25 and George Oschner $25. The
other members OF the party made con-
tributions as follows: Jacob Lear,
s25; Fred Koerner, $50; Ludwig Neu-
hart, SIS; Chris Bitner, 500, and
Rev. Albert Haller-Leuz, $40. Carl
Oschner, another member Of the
party, was exempted from paying any
money because In a very recent hear
ing before the council he was obliged
to give up 500 after he had refused
to buy Liberty bonds. Rev. Albert
Haller-Leuz is an itinerant minister
who breaches in about Ave different
churches in the Carlyle township sec.
ton. He lives in Alpena, 8. D., Just
over the Beadle county boarder in
Jerauld county. He is the one who
conducted the services in the German
tongue. The other members Of the
party are all fairly we'll to do farmers
of the county, most OF them having
lived in South Dakota for many years.