The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-07-31

- Win $SosSCA. Aese JN~
and smaller amounts previous to that
This money represents 21A per cent
Of the premiums on nre Insurance BUSH
ness done BY foreign companies and
1 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
It's home town or city. This would
indicate an enormous increase in the
fire risks taken out in the state dur
ing tho year.
The report which appeared in news
papers u the state to the effect that
Washington Springs water supply was
gradually falling proves to be erron-
Q The towns water supply comes
from . huge, never-failing spring
which has been walled with concrete
and furnished with a covering. Tho
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.
cous newspaper report that the spring
furnishing the city with water was
slowly drying up. washington Springs
water supply n said to be among the
best aA6 most abundant in the state.
Pooling Of the wool clip owned by
he wool raisers in the western part
OF Lyman county will insure a much
higher price for the Offering, 1t is be-
lieved, and warehouses where the wool
will be stored win be arranged for at
Prcsho and Kennebec. 1t il estimated
that the wool clip in Lyman county
this year will total 7S.0ee pounds, or
more than four carloads.
Within . year the King OF Trails
highway north and south through
South Dakota will be hard surfaced or
nearly all Of 1t we'll on the way to that
desirable condition, say II. 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 ONCE
In Sioux Falls has received inst-uc
tons from the attorney general to
prosecute private manufacturers OF
beer and light wines in the homes,
which practice is reported 10 be on
the increase there, as 1t is said to be
ia other cities.
Mrs. Otto Sharon. of Belvidere, is
believed to be the first woman to hold
the ONCE Of county treasurer in the
state. When Fred Barth resigned that
office the Jackson county commission
ers appointed Mrs. Sharon to take his
place.
A Sisseton doctor has arranged tc'
provide the town with much needed
hospital facilities. Work has been
started on . new hospital building,
which will be modernly equipped and
provide quarters for Is patients.
Visions Of golden fields of ripened
grain such as South Dakota has pro
duced for the past few years are bring.
ing the advance guard OF harvest ha,ds
to the state in quantities fully two
weeks before they are needed.
At q meeting OF the directors of this
Trf-County Fair association held at
Faith recently September 3, 4 and s
were selected as dates for holding
what promises to be the best fair evei
held there.
Another oma 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 nres In South Dakota during the
rear 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 1t needs this year. according to
A. L. Barkman OF Kansas City. assis.
tant to the director general OF the
United States employment service.
Tho CITY council has deciiad Ia In
stall . sewerage system IN Elk Point,
and plants OF surrounding tswns o
are being Inspected with . view to
adopting the best for Elk Point.
At . meeting Of returned service
nae OF Madison and vicinity preitrsz.
nary steps were taken t organize .
local pest to be auxiliary to the state
American Legion
High water mark IN the price Of
farm land IN the velin territory was
reached recently whom Henry Knutsea
sold . forty acre tract for $3Se an
acre.
TIE F~1andreau park. the chief city
park. Is being improved " the erec
tion Of . pavilion and hath houses.
The pavilion viii 10 enc Of the best
IN the state. .
1t IL believed that 30 far ~ building
In Sioux Falls this year Is concerned,
the usual $1,000, zoe mark win 10 "a.
cesded By . considerable figure.
A company Of Mobridse business
men has been formed Tor the opera
tion Of an airpiane 1T that place.
The Fort Pierre Aero company IL
the name OF the new which
organized there recently.
A carload Of Mennonites left Yank-
ton recently for Canada. where they