The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-10
EDUCATORS WILL MEET
NOTED MEN FROM ALL PARTS
or COUNTRY TO SOUTH
DAKOTA.

IuG oblUJu obdtCc Will NC ihSC LIN
at the national conference on rural
education and country life. which is
to be held in Sioux Falls commenc-
ing October Ii and ending October Is.
Preparations for the conference now
are well under way. 1t is estimated
that the conference will attract from
$500 to 1000 people, coming from all
parts Of the United States. as it will
be held by the United States bureau
Of education through the South d.
kota department OF public instruction,
and is TO precede the nESl statewide
drive for better school facilities in
rural sections that the country will
see. Other states will watch with
keen interest the result OF this con-
ference and drive, as upon them will
depend the extension OF the work
through the United States and the
progress OF the movement for improv-
ing the educational opportunities OF
the country boy and girl to a stand
ard more nearly equal those provided
the boys and girls in the cities. The
conference will be in direct charge
OF DR.. J. l.. McBrien, director Of rural
school extension for the government,
who will come here from Washington
for the purpose. Several governors
are scheduled to make addresses dur
ing the conference.
The oil boom in the northwestern
part Of the state apparently is yet a
going proposition, without any definite
sign as to what there really is i'll it.
But it is good SO far for the o~rganiza-
ton Of a number Of companies which
will be offering stock to investors,
with alluring pamphlets, if the COM
panies can get past the state securi-
ties commission. So far non of them
have got over the barrier and pro-
cured any permission to sell stock
in this state, but that in no way ham
pers them in offering what they have
to sell in other states. There may
be oil in that section, but it has never
been proved, and the rush to lease
the whole country is much like that
which went or in this part of the
state shortly after natural gas was
discovered in the artesian flow, and
thousands Of acres were leased by
would be promoters. No actual devel-
opment work was ever attempted by
any Of them, however.
The average herd of twenty grade
cows in South Dakota made $40
more profit last year by the use Of
pure bred sires than where grade or
scrub sires were used, according to
a survey Of fourteen representative
counties by the various farm bureaus.
The GAG breeding herds of cattle in
the average OF the fourteen counties
would return an increased profit of
$332,100 by using all purchased sires.
The survey shows that IS per cen of
all the sires are grades or scrubs.
Purebred sires in all counties would
therefore give the live stock men
$21 ,626 500 more profit than they 10Y
get.
South Dakota potato growers are
to wart disease at digging time this
fall, and to send suspected samples
to the state college agronomy depart
ment for examination and report. Ac-
cording to Aanley Champlin, associ-
ate %agrOnomist, potato wart disease
Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
through the use Of European potatoes
for seed.
Now that the potato harvest is on,
the state market department is re-
ceiving inquiries from the potato
growers Of the state who have a sur
plus, asking for a market. II any
dealer in the state desires to purchase
potatoes, a communication to the
state market department will put
them in touch with the potato grow
ers who have potatoes for sale.
The new six-story hotel building to
be erected by the Hsron lodge Of Elks
is to cost 346o, 900, 1t 10 announced
by Elks following q meeting Of the
building committee. Bonds in the
sum a not less than $100, 600, to draw
6 per cent interest, will be sold for
the construction Of the building.
The Stanley county farm bureau
poisoned $4,000 acres Of prairie dogs
in one month this summer. A squad
Of six men, a cook and a federal ro-
dent control agent had the job in
charge in cooperation with the United
States Biological survey.
Dissolution Of the Huetterische
Bruder Gemeinde, Russian colonists,
was ordered by Judge Alva e. Taylor,
of the circuit court. The colonists
we're ordered to cease action as a
business corporation.
Work is to start in Huron within
O few days on a three-story fireproof
home Of the Knights of Pythias lodge.
The building is to cost approximately
500, 900.
The Deadwood Christian Science
society has decided to build a new
church edifice in the near future.
Ground already has been purchased.
Indications at the end Of the sec.
Ond day OF registration at he Uni