The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-20

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outs on the SUBMITS Of both Harvey
peak and Bear mountain, n addltlon
70 the lookouts maintained in other
portions of the national forests in the
Black Hills. These lookouts will be
on duty constantly until the close OF
the fire season. They will have tele-
phone communication with different
centers.
The Mitchell Masonic Building asso-
| citation has come into being and IL dl'
rectors representing the York Rite
bodies and the Eastern Star named to
have charge Of their new temple to be
built there. Plans and specifications
have been called for with this defin-
ite step toward building, and it Is e1
pected that these will be adopted and
work begun on actual construction
within a few weeks.
The report of the field agent in
South Dakota of the bureau OF crop
estimates, department of agriculture,
states that with conditions as OF
JuIt L, oOuIH bdhONo 6iNSo plOLA'pN VI
producing an aggregate Of 63,3S3,O0O
bushels of wheat for the present year,
providing, Of course, that present con
ditiOns are not seriously affected by
unfavorable weather or unforeseen
agencies.
The new automobile highway to
Harvey peak, near Custer, the high.
est point in the Black Hills, noW is
open the entire length, after extensive
good road work extending over a per.
iod of more than a year. Last year a
portion of the road was surfaced with
gravel and this year it is planned to
surface the remainder Of the con
structed portion.
DR.. Eli Lewiston of the Canton high
that the people of the city consider
the question of a new high school foi
Canton. The buildings which were
formerly Augustana college will ther
be used for the Canton Normal which
is to be established there. Cantor
is in great need of a suitable higf
school.
Hundreds Of stockholders Of the
Farmers Cooperative Packing com
pany were in Huron to attend the sec
ond annual meeting of the wne Cd
the company. A business meeting and
a tour of inspection Of the plant Of
the company which is now being
!. erected here, were the principal fea.
lures Of the program.
1t is reported that the governments
has withdrawn all the balance of tn
homestead lands on the coded portion.
of the Cheyenne River Indian reserva
ton and that SUCH lands will be offer
ed for sale to the highest bidders
This would mean a clearing out of al
homestead opportunities in that part
of the state.
The largest land sale in western
South Dakota was consummated al
Draper when the "a. T." ranch was
sold. The ranch consists of $3.50
acres of decided land, 1880 acres OF
leased land, 600 head of Hereford cat
tie, IT'S head Of Percheron horses and
equipment. The consideration was
$175, 900.
State Fire Marhal Van Camp, while
advocating an enthusiastic observance
of the Fourth Of July in South Dakota
as in keeping with the victorious end
Of the war and the return of the sol.
diers has issued a warning against
carelessness in the use of explosives
and firework on that day.
At a meeting of about so Deadwood
young men who have returned from
war service preliminary steps were
taken to organize a Deadwood branch
Of the World War Veterans. At an.
other meeting the organization Is ex.
pected to be perfected.
Butte county, under the direction OF
the county engineer Of that county, is
doing extensive work On the Butte
! county end of the Deadwood-St. Onge.
Belle Fourche highway. The road is
being Strengthened, brought to grade
and rounded up.
Police authorities have been unable
to find a clew which would solve the
mysterious death |of Ernest Meehl,
prominent farmer living lei the Nc
Cook-Turner county line, who was
found slain in bed.
Huron has probably never seen as
many cases Of smallpox as have pre-
vailed in the city during the last two
months, in the opinion Of DR.. c. H
Hall, head of the city board Of health
South Dakota in general and Sioux
Falls in particular, will send a good
delegation to Milwaukee June %, to
| attend the meeting Of the National
Educational association.
Fire, believed to have started from
a boiler, burned the hoist at the Iron
| Hill mine in the Carbonate district
A great deal Of wood and mine tim
bers also were burned.
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