The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-28

worth Of silk from the Morrison store
and 81. 900 worth of the same class of
goods from the Golden Rule. Very
little was taken at the Kemper store.
At the bank the thugs contented them
selves with taking $40 worth Of rev.
enue stamps, and three pistols.
Richard c.. Craven of Albany, \. Y,
field director Of American Red Star
animal relief, made the assertion re-
Gently that Nebraska lost 81 IA cat
tie from disease and exposure between
March. 1917 and March, 1918. Enough
cattle are lost every year in the
United States through starvation and
exposure to feed an army Of 3,O00,O0O
men, figured from The regular army
rational basis, he said.
Carl J.. Modesill, head of the Potash
Refinery company ut Holland, has
made the prediction that every potash
plant in this state, with 1000 en-
ployes and representing investments
Of $1,000 600, will be closed within
thirty days. "The truth Of the sit
uatiOn is" he is quoted as saying,
1.-THE bottom has dropped out OF the
potash market"
Henderson, York county, has been
the scene Of considerable excitement
lately as the result Of the return 70
the community of two conscientious
DIRECTORS, Peter Dickson and Geo.
KlippenStein, from the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan. An attempt to
give q public reception TO the men
resulted in one of them being legged"
Governor McKelvie, in a statement
to newspaper men at Lincoln, declar-
ed Nebraska communities are being
demoralized by the influence Of illegal
liquor traffic. There was more booze
in Nebraska when | assumed office
than when the saloons were in Oper.
ation," he said.
District Attorney Allen at Lincoln
has announced that hereafter patrons
Of bootleggers in Nebraska will face
criminal prosecution ia the federal
court. Anyone buying liquor will be
included in the complaint Of ConSpir-
ing to violate the Reed amendment.
The making Of brick and tile from
pure western Nebraska sand, using
large quantities of electrical energy
be q reality in the near future, &C
cOrding to Il number Of BaSsett bust
ness men.
What is said to be a world record
price for a sow at a public sale was
made ut the John Bader sale sc Duroc
Jerseys at Scribner. One female sold
for $4,000. Thirty-nine head Of sows
sold for n total Of $26,5S5, an average
Of S719.
The Madison county farm bureau
has decided to continue its work this
season and has re-empiOyCd Noel
Rhodes as the farm demonstrators An
effort is being made to have every
farmer in the county join the organ.
%iZatiOn.
Richardson county claims to have
established a record in land deals.
Just the other day q tract OF 353
acres five miles south Of HUMBOLDT.
sold for $50 an acre, or a total sum
Of $52,95O.
Representative Sloan OF Nebraska
has introduced a resolution in the.
lower house of congress to repeal the
daylight saving law. Farmers and
farm journals generally protest
against the law.
More than five hundred EXPERT buy
erS from all over the United States
gathered at Stanton, when 81 hogs
were sold at an average price Of
SLIGO each. The highest price paid
for one hog was $f,O5O.
The Rev. j. III. Salisbury, d. D., pas
tor of the Presbyterian church ut Au-
rora, has been called to Minneapolis
to take charge of the New Era move.
ment' in II states of Minnesota and
North Dakota.
Between $500 to 5000 ministers and
laymen from Nebraska and Iowa at.
tended the Centenary Movement CON
ference, or world program convention
OF the Methodist church at Omaha.
The problems of the rura! school
will be discussed i'm detail at he
meeting of the state association of rr-
raj school patrons, February u, at
University Farm, Lincoln.
Smallpox has made it's appearance
among patients at the insane hospital
at Hastings. This is the first case OF
smallpox reported in the fifteen state
institutions.
d.. 4. May, proprietor Of a hotel nj
Utica, fell forty feet from u tower Of
q windmill and died from his injuries.
John Levaty, 16. living on a farm
eight miles north Of Seward, was in
stantly killed when his gun was ac-
~cidentally exploded while hunting.
Judge Tronp in district court OF
Omaha, granted a temporary restrain
ing order, enjOining the Nebraska Tel