The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-25

amount for this year will be S39, 3SI.29
as compared with $33, 5S1.27 last year
and smaller amounts previous to that
This money represents 2R per cen
of the premiums on fire insurance bust
ness done by foreign companies ant
l per cent on the business done by
South Dakota companies, In the state
Each department is given its amount
on the ratio of the business done in
its home town or city. This would
indicate an enormous increase in the
fire risks taken out in the state dur.
ing the year.
The report which appeared in news
papers of the state to the effect that
washington Springs water supply was
gradually failing proves to be enron
ecu The towns water supply
from a huge, never-failing spring
which has been vailed with concrete
and furnished with a covering. The
wall and covering have become de.
lapidated and an announcement in a
local paper that the towns water sup.
ply was in danger led to the enron.
eous newspaper report that the spring
furnishing the city with water was
slowly drying up. washington Springs
water supply is said to be among the
best and most abundant in the state.
Pooling Of the wool clip owned by
the wool raisers in the western part
OF Lyman county will insure a much
higher price for the offering, it is be
lieved, and warehouses where the WOO
will be stored will be arranged for al
Presho and Kennebec. 1t is estimated
that the wool clip in Lyman county
this year will total $4,000 pounds, OF
more than four carloads.
Within a year the King Of Trail.
highway north and south through
South Dakota will be hard surfaced OF
nearly all Of it well on the way to that
desirable condition, say +. w. FARRELL
A. c. Ward and G. w. Brazier, repre-
sentatives of the King of Trails asso
citation of Kansas City.
The United States attorneys ofics
in Sioux Falls has received instruc
tons from the attorney general L
prosecute private manufacturers o.
beer and light wines in the homes
which practice is reported TO be OF
the increase there, as it is said to be
in other cities.
Mrs. Otto Sharon, OF Belvidere, il
believed to be the first woman to holc
the office of county treasurer in the
state. When Fred Barth resigned tina
office the Jackson county commission
ers appointed Mrs. Sharon to AXE his
place.
A Sisseton doctor has arranged tc
provide the town with much needed
hospital facilities. Work has beer
started IN a new hospital building
which will be modernly equipped ant
provide quarters for Is patients.
Visions of golden fields of ripenet
grain such as South Dakota has pro
duced for the past few years are bring
ing the advance guard Of harvest hand.
to the state in quantities fully two
weeks before they are needed.
AT a meeting Of the directors of the
~Tri-County Fair association held al
Faith recently September 8, 4 and {
were selected as dates for holding
what promises to be the best fair ever
held there.
Another woman has come into her
own, Mrs. Nettie Johnson having as.
sumed the duties of superintendent
Of schools Of Grant county, to which
she was elected at the election last
November.
Despite the fact that there were 129
fewer fires in South Dakota during the
year just closed than in the twelve
months previous, thirty-three persons
were burned to death in the state last
year.
South Dakota will have all the farm
help it needs this year, according to
A. L.. Barkman of kansas City, assis-
tant to the director general of the
United States employment service.
The city council has decided to in
stall a sewerage system in Elk Point.
and plants Of surrounding towns now
are being inspected with a view to
adopting the best for Elk Point.
At a meeting of returned service
men of Madison and vicinity prelimi-
nary steps were taken to organize a
local post to be auxiliary to the state
American Legion.
High water mark in the price Of
farm land in the Violin territory was
reached recently when Henry Knutson
sold a forty acre tract for $3.50 an
acre.
The Flandreau park, the chief city
park, is being improved by the cree
ton Of a pavilion and bath houses.
The pavilion will be one Of the best
in the state.
1t is believed that so far as building
In Sioux Falls this year is concerned,
the usual 81, 900, 900 mark will be ex.
ceeded by a considerable figure.
A company of Mobridge business
men has been formed for the opera
ton of an airplane at that place.