The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-01

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a request to Secretary Tumulty, urg.
Ing he president to come through
Aberdeen, and of possible to make q
short stay here and give an address.
Secretary Tumulty's reply was non.
committal. but encouraging.
Senator Sterling has been advised
by the secretary of the interior that
lands withdrawn within the Cheyenne
River and Standing Rock reservations
in North and South Dakota would be
restored to homestead entrys About
100000 acres are thus restored. They
can be entered on August Is and are
subject to settlement August 20.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual camp meeting OF the
Sioux Falls district Of the Methodist
Episcopal church Of South Dakota,
which will be held on the permanent
camp grounds at Canton commencing
August Z, and continuing to and in
Guiding August II.
Dallas school district has purchased
the St, Edwards hotel building and
will move it to the city school
grounds, where it will be converted
into a modern rooming house to be
used for the teachers in the schools,
who have experienced great difficulty
in past years procuring places to live.
Local committees have commenced
making preliminary arrangements for
a big celebration which is to be staged
in Beresford in honor of the returned
sailors and soldiers from that territory
who served during the great war. The
exact date for the celebration has not
yet been selected.
James Coffey, collector of internal
revenue for the states Of North and
South Dakota, states that the total
collections for the district on soft
drinks and ice cream will aggregate
approximately $4,000 for the month
of June, under the provisions of the
federal luxury tax.
The government Indian school in
Pierre has received notice of the ap-
preparations and allowances coming to
the institution for the coming year
a total Of $83 $40. This is a consider
able increase over former years, and
much more than in the early years
Of its existence.
There will be cabbage heads at the
state capitol soon. Along the north
the hedge, someone has planted a
dozen or more cabbage plants, and
they are doing very we'll, fighting
worms and other cabbage enemies.
Miss Winnie ]. Crouch, who is, SO
far as is known, the first oma to
be ordained a minister in any church
in South Dakota, took the rites OF the
Nazarene church in Mitchell recently
at a special service at the Nazarene
camp meeting held in that city.
A big barbecue and field meet will
be held in Huron August 3 under the
auspices Of the William Reeves post,
American Legion. Invitations to at.
tend the gathering have been issued
to all service men and their relatives
Preliminary plans have been made
at Mitchell to entertain what is to be
the largest gathering Of Methodiste
this year in South Dakota when the
annual South Dakota Methodist con.
ference is held there October 8 to Is.
Sweet corr and potatoes in gardens
in and near Pierre are yielding abun.
dainty and we'll this year. Full grown
new potatoes have been served on
tables there for some time, and roast
ing ears are now becoming common.
At a special election at Centerville
the voters by almost unanimous ballot,
authorized the issuance of bonds Of
SIG, 900 tor the extension Of the water
mains and the improvement of the
municipal waterworks system.
At a meeting Of the executive CON-
mittee of the South Dakota Press as
ISOLATION it was decided to hold the
midsummer meeting of the associa-
ton in Sioux Falls, and August IA and
Is was selected as the time.
Losses settled by the state hail in
surance department up to the present
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| Figures already on file in the Offic
are for S44, 937 so, and there is about
$4,000 ready to come in.
The prosperous condition of the
people of Centerville and the farmers
of the surrounding district is shown
by the deposits in the local banks,
which now reach the record breaking
sum of $1,91IO73.99.
The Sunday afternoon service of the
Northwestern railroad between Pierre
and Huron has been resumed after
nearly a year, during which the after
noon passenger train ran only on
week days.
At a meeting Of the Old Settlers
| committee at Elk Point 1t was decided
to hold the annual old settlers picnic
at Riversioux park, six miles north OF
Elk Point on the Sioux river.
The citizens of Garretson have again
| decided to hold a fall fair and festival
this year. Thursday, Friday and Sat.
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