The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-17

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Col. NJ. l.. Shade, member of the state
highway commission. Colossal Shade
announces hat the supply depot and
assembly plant Of the state high
way commission will be located in
Mitchell. Already two carloads of
Quad frames and auto truck parts
have been unloaded there. At pres
ent the parts will be stored and later
the assembly plant will be erected.
When the concern is in full running
order 1T will employ approximately
100 men. About 500 carloads Of auto
trucks, road building machinery and
automobile parts will be shipped
there, where they will be assembled
and distributed. All road building
machinery coming to the state under
the orders OF the war department will
be valued in the neighborhood OF
$250,000.
State Market Commissioner Liv-
ingston reports complaints that grain
dealers at some stations in the state
are demanding excess profits for
grain delivered at their elevators.
The federal grain commission has
fixed 8 cents a bushel above freight
and war tax, as the limit which may
be charged, and any, dealer who is
asking more is acting in violation OF
federal regulations, it is pointed out.
Commissioner Livingston also has
complaints that some dealers test tbs
grain for grade without first cleaning
it, getting their test with the dirt
included, which is in violation Of the
state law for handling grain.
The minds Of the farmers in the
vicinity OF Garretson are now turn
ing to the gathering Of their enor-
nous corn crop. Il Is not believed
that there will be a scarcity e labor
to husk the corn, providing the farm
ers and the huskers can come to
terms. The huskers seem to be unit
ed generally upon 10 cents a bushel
for their work. The farmers think
8 cents is sufficient. The corn will
be easy to take off this year, it is
asserted.
The county agent of Union county
has received nineteen rim-necked
pheasants from the state fish and
game department at Pierre to be used
for stock purposes in that county.
They will be kept in confinement this
winter and will be turned loose next
spring. They are enormous insect
eaters, which is the reason for their
being distributed.
The Anderson resort on Lake An
des, three and one-half miles north
west Of Ravinia, Is just closing the
most successful season in its history.
The cottages have been filed almost
continuously since the opening Of the
fishing season on June /. Extensive
improvements are to be made be-
tween now and the opening time next
spring.
Arrangements have been made for
the %remodeling Of the Montrose Meth
odist church, which will be trans
formed into one of the finest edificss
Of it's kind in that section. Among
the improvements will be the addi-
ton of a rest room for women and
children.
More than one hundred Of the farm
ers in the vicinity OF Lake Norden
have purchased stock in a coopera-
tive company, which will establish
a creamery in Lake Norden. 1t Is
hoped to have the work of construc-
ton yet this fall.
At a special election held at Hayti
the voters without a dissenting vote
authorized the issue Of additional
bonds Of SIS, 900 needed to finish the
public school building now in course
Of construction.
A drainage ditch one mile and a half
in length, which will drain about two
sections Of land, and which will cost
&c. 900 will be built by ten Huron
men in Clifton township, seven miles
south Of Huron.
This years potato crop in South
Dakota will not be plentiful, accord
ing to the latest bulletin from Leon
M. Estabrook, chief Of the federal
bureau at Watertown.
1t Is announced that the Chicago
& Northwestern railway company
will erect a new freight depot in
Watertown, and probably a new pas
senger station also.
Highway engineers are surveying
for the new state road which is to
extend from Sisseton to Britton, and
on which work will be prosecuted at
an early date.
In most of the counties Of the state
the levy for highway purposes has
been 2 mills. However, in McCook
county a levy Of only one-half mill
was levied.
Residents of the Sand Creek con.
~solidated school district, some miles
from Huron, are planning the erec-
ton Of q new consolidated school
building.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the annual picnic and cele-
bration Of the old settlers Of Charles
Mix county, which will be held IN