Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-02-06
OF THE STATE
4 RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENiNGs OF THE
WEEK.

NORTHWESTERN Lie insurance COM
pany, OF Aberdeen, and the Aberdeen
Mutual Life Insurance company, OF
Aberdeen, in a meeting at Huron
merged the three companies, which
will operate under the name Of the
First National Northwestern Life In.
surance company. The home office
of the company will be at Pierre and
. branch Office will be maintained at
Aberdeen.
The Indians of lower Brule reserva.
ton are raising a fund among them.
selves to purchase a home for Rev.
Luke Walker, who has been acting as
a missionary on that reserve for the
last 48 years. Rev. Mr.. Walker is a
full blood Sioux, but his wife is a
white woman, whom he married while
both were engaged in missionary
work. The missionary has put in
more time in the last half century
looking after the spiritual needs OF
his people than in the collection OF
worldly goods for himself.
Otto Pichler, a farmer living 16
miles southeast OF Lennon, made an
unusual catch in a trap which he had
set for coyotes. When he went to
the trap he found a large eagle
caught in it. The eagle was released
and 1t was only slightly injured. It
has been placed in captivity and 1t
is attracting a great deal of atten-
ton. Pichler was badly scratched by
| tho 90 p1n yuhi1n4 hoE r,,ac ra1oo q !; ~ rs ~
as it made a desperate fight for free
dom. 1t is brown in color, with a
gray head, ard measures six feet from
tip to tip of wings.
John Morrell came recently through
the Colorado and Nebraska irrigation
fields of the Great Western Beet Sugar
company, and while visiting the head
quarters of the company was told by
the chief chemist that of all the beets
used by the company in all of Its
several factories those from the Belle
Fourche valley. gave the highest sac
charine percentage. The latest in
formation concerning the proposed
beet sugar factory in Belle Fourche
is that the Great Western Beet Sugar
company will begin building this year,
and will complete 1t in ample time
for 1920 crop.
F. E. Mccall, state college extern.
sion specialist in horticulture, recon.
mends for South Dakota the plan of
the American Forestry association to
plant great lines Of memorial trees
along national highways. Nc, Nc
Call says that the method now in use
OF marking highways with various
colored bands about the telephone
poles has not proved satisfactory be.
cause the markings generally are a
failure from the standpoint of beauty
and very often fail from the stand
point of utility. Those responsible
for placing such marks often have dis.
regarded rules and at many a corner
he traveller is in a quandary as to
which is the proper road to take.
The salaries of the county Judge
and states attorney of Perkins coun
ty will be reduced as the result Of
several township clerks falling to
send in registration lists. Through
the same cause several other county
officers will fail to receive expected
increases in salaries. In most cases
the salaries are based on the popula.
ton and where there is a failure to
send in registration lists the salaries
are based on the vote cast at the last
general election. The vote of 1915
was extremely light and therefore the
4 1a1nTiac NJ tho no,,nfy i,Ydro o,,J A.
states attorney will have to be based
on this vote. The result is that the
county Judge will have to be satisfied
with the dignity OF the office alone,
for his salary will be only about SIS
per month-just about enough to pay
his travelling expenses when attend.
ing terms of court. The states at
torney will receive about s75 pei
month, which, as in the case OF the
county judge, will only pay the ex
penses of the office and leave him
nothing for his work.
Pierre.--To cope with the growing
scarcity of rural teachers, the depart
ment OF education is preparing a bill
under the provisions of which exist
ing high schools in each of the coun
ties Of the state may be given state
aid in order to induce them to take
up b work Of preparing suitable
teachers for rural schools. The bill
provides for an appropriation OF $50,
600 annually to be distributed anon
the high schools Of ne state which
will undertake the ornament mainten
ance OF normal departments especial
1y for the training OF teachers for thu
rural schools. Each high school with
an enrolment OF at least five and no,
more than ten students should be en-
titled to an annual appropriation o,
$500. Each such school having al
enrolment Of over ten and less thar
20 students shall be entitled to ait
amounting to $7O0 annually, and eacl
high school with an enrolment of ii
or more students to receive annual,
$1,000
Building prospects Aberdeen
this year + good. They include /
100000 Equity Union creamery:
100000 bakery by the Ward-owsle,
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