The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-03-20

unless the postofice department sets
a different standard. the Gregory Of
fee will be put In the second-class
list next July. For an office to be-
come second class, the sale of stamps.
box rent and newspaper postage must
equal $4,000 during the fiscal year.
The Gregory office not only reaches
the standard, but the receipts from
these sources exceed the minimum
standard by $780,.
One of the biggest land sales ever
carried through in that section OF the
state has been transacted near Forest
City, when at the Cheyenne agency
102 tracts ranging from a section to
Gao acres down to the lesser subdi-
visions, was sold. On the 245 tracts
offered there were about 200 bidders.
and l02 OF them were Successful.
Last summer the farmers in that
territory, with the aid of business
men. erected in De Smet a stock sales
pavilion at a cost OF about ST. 900.
The pavilion was completed last DC.
tober. Since that time five sales oi
live stock have been held from the
pavilion and these brought the farm
ers an aggregate of s116,675.
To have crossed the Atlantic ten
times, twice with President Wilson
aboard, was 'the fortune of Robert
Mills, a Sioux Falls bluejacket on the
liner George Washington; who accord.
ing TO a wire received by his wife,
had just been discharged and was
about to leave New York for home.
A special election has been called
to be held in the Brookings school
district oil Tuesday, March Is. At
the election the voters will have sub
mitted to them the proposition or is.
suing bonds in the sum of S170,0 600
for the erection Of a new high school
building and its equipment.
The creamery at wilmot on one
day recently took in 5000 pounds OF
cream, for which the farmers Of the
vicinity were paid more than $500
The creamery, and the ~consequen
milking of cows, is becoming an eve
milking Of cows. is becoming an eve
Dakota.
New settlers are coming into South
Dakota in large numbers and the Mad.
ison territory is receiving its share.
In one day nine carloads OF new set.
tiers passed through Madison on their
way to points in western and north.
western South Dakota.
Although cut much later than ever
before, the ice which has been har.
vested in the Missouri al Pierre is
of the best quality ever secured. 1t
is this year OF astonishing clarity, not
a speck of dirt in it whatever. and OF
sufficient thickness.
Willis Z. Johnson, president Of the
Northern Normal and Industrial
school at Aberdeen, has announced
his acceptance of the prefer from
the regents of education of South Da.
kota of the presidency of the State
college at B~rookings.
Lead, the mining center of the
Black Hills, is already making it's pre-.
perations to entertain in June the
1919 state convention OF Elks which
was to have been there in 1917 but
was postponed on account of the war
Men with their ears close to DO
litical affairs in the state are talking
of w. H. King, chairman OF the state
central republican committee, as q
possible candidate to succeed Gov
Peter Norbeck at the next election.
The village of Cavour, east of HUI.
ron. is to be lighted by electricity in
the future. A Huron concer Is in.
stalling a modern plant in the village
and expects to have 1t in operation in
abont 60 days.
Sioux Falls will act as host to the
harness dealers Of the state. and sur.
rounding trade territory at a three
day convention of the South Dakota
Harness Dealers association on May
27-2S-29.
Elaborate and extensive plans are
being laid by committees of the YOUNG
Mems Booster association for the bic
festival and Mardi Gras to be held
at Sioux Falls May 10 to 20. inclus.
i've.
The Boyle Electric company of Get.
tysburg, recently Incorporated, are of.
fering bonds for sale so that they
might extend their lines to neighbor.
ing towns.
Hot Springs had a $4,000 fire last
week. 1t originated in the Plaza no.
tel, a three-story stone structure. en-.
tirely consuming the building and the
one-story stone building adjoining.
The voters Of sisseton at a special
election authorized the issuance OF
bonds in the sum Of S55. 900 to erect a
new public school building or to en-,
large the present structure.
The Miller Creamery company has
let the contract for a new creamery
building and work on the structure
-as start 40 so0I as weather con0f
lions permit.
The unexpected death OF Judge
Thomas L. Bouck. presiding judge OF
the Fifth judicial circuit of South Da..
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