The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-31
Declaring that there is an Improper

age Of q bill in the state Legislature
to provide for a censorship OF all NOV
ing picture films exhibited in the
state. The announced purpose Of the
meeting is to secure cooperation In
seeking those things that all Christian
people desire for the state" accord
ing to officials Of the federation. The
church federation is composed of rep
resentatives Of the Methodist. Baptist,
Congregational, Evangelical, Presby-
terrain and other churches.
While blowing In his field last spring
with a small tractor, Tolleck T~ollipson.
a farmer living near Hitchcock, was
badly injured when his tractor tipped
over and pinned him Underneath. He
was held in that dangerous position
for more than an hour and while In
that position his mind was busy think
ing out a way in which such accidents
could be avoided. He has recently
put his ideas into tangible form and
has applied for a patent which his
friends say will make him wealthy.
South Dakota has many things for
which to be grateful and among them
healthful state. Even last year about
this time when the influenza siege
was raging in other sections. while
South Dakota was far from free, it did
not suffer like other states and today
according to the reports Of the state
health department for the week end.
ing October Is, there were but IL con-
tagious cases Of disease in the whole
state.
A party Of Mellette county farmers
discovered a colony Of rattleSnakes
evidently making for winter quarters
at some point, and killed forty-one Of
these dangerous reptiles before they
had cleaned up all in sight. The next
day they returned to the location and
cleaned up nineteen more of the
snakes, which were headed in the
same direction as the first bunch.
One Of the most remarkable Of the
aged women Of South Dakota is Miss
Syneve Henjum, residing in the east
ern part of Mnnehaha county, who
a few days ago celebrated her Goth
birthday. She is active for one of her
years and can do as much work as
many of half her age. She
has been a resident OF Minnehaha
county since 1872.
The report Of the commission which
made the recent survey of the educa-
tional system OF South Dakota shows
that the Northern Normal and Indust.
rial school, in 1867, graduated 24s,
or about SO per cent of the total OF
$50 trained teachers turned out that
year by the fourteen accredited
teacher-training schools in South Da-
kota.
The banking department has granted
applications for charters to the follow.
ing new banks: The Farmers State
Bank Of Bigstone; Wakpala State Bank
Of Wakpala; Putney State Bank Of
Putney; Farmers State Bank of Hos.
mer; Bookings State Bank Of Brook,
ings, and the Security State Bank Of
Sherman.
The present condition Of prices has
stimulated the construction of local
flour mills, and such enterprises are
now under construction at the towns
Of Trip, in Hutchinson county, and
at Orient, in Faulk county, and the
local mills over the state are doing
more business than during formaz
years.
The recently organized farmers CO.
operative company, which will engage
in the grain elevator business at Chan.
cellor, has about completed the work
OF selling shares Of stock, and the
work Of ~remodeling the elevator re.
Gently purchased by the company will
commence in a short time.
Two special trains of South Dakota
farmers will go to the International
Livestock show in Chicago late in No.
vember. One train will leave from
Mitch I'll and the other from Huron on
November %. Farmers will join the
train at convenient points.
A movement has been launched for
the holding Of a county fair for Brown
county In Aberdeen next year. The
plan Is backed by the Aberdeen Com.
mercial club and the Brown County
Purebred Livestock Association.
A Parker capitalist has purchased
the necessary ground and in tho
spring will erect on it a new and mod.
ern theater building. The playhouse
will include a large stage for road
shows.
The city health officer Of Huron
states that SO per cen of the deaths
in Aberdeen are those Of infants under
one year of age.
A temporary organization Of a South
Dakota branch Of the federal highway
council has been perfected at a meet
ing I'm Huron.
Several arrests have been made in
connection with extensive worthless
check swindles In towns In southern
South Dakota.
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