Sioux County pioneer., 1919-08-07
The finest fair ever hold in Salem
will be staged the first week In Sop

AAou V0tiLion AOI authority W OTS&0'
ise post OF the American Legion.
Two separate camps will be con.
Quoted at the South Dakota gtate fair
this fall for boys and girls who are
members of Junior extension clubs.
The United States railway admins.
tration has declined to interfere In the
matter Of planking the steel railroad
bridge across the Missouri river at
Pierre.
Authentic information from the re.
gion west Of the Missouri river, in
northwestern South Dakota, indicates
that the drought has hit that region
quite severely
Medical relief will lbe given ali dis.
abled soldiers In Minnehaha county
who are in need OF attention. accord
ing to word Just received by the local
home service section.
In the per capita ownership Of au.
tomobiles the state of South Dakota
Is the fourth from leadership In the
United States, 1t is shown in figures
tabulated at WatertOwn.
Smoke from the forest fires in west.
ern Montana and northern Idaho has
reached the Black Hills. A heavy pail
Of smoke hangs over the hills and
makes 1t appear like Indian summer.
Stockmen from the drouth stricken
districts Of Wyoming nd Montana are
buying alfalfa hay and leasing valley
pasture In western South Dakota, and,
will move their stock this fall for win
ter feeding. Y
Reports from farmers to the Huron
employment office show that the har.
vest In that section of the state is very
light Some farmers reported that
they would not attempt to cut some
Of their fields.
Mitchell lodge Of Elks probably will
have charge of the Salvation Army
campaign to raise DAWSON county's
quota OF the $13,o0b,ooo which the
army, is asking the United States to
donate for Its activities.
Several men and teams are engaged
in excavating for the foundation of the
new school building which will be
erected in Humboldt. The contractors
expect to have large force of men
and teams at work in short time.
At meeting of the board Of direc.
tors of the Lake County Fair associa-
tion September 2. 3. 4 and was &c.
lected the time for the annual county
fair. which will be held on the perma-
nent grounds of the association there.
One source of wealth of the farmers
Of Moody county is shown in the an.
nouncement that they now own. in the
aggregate, spring pigs which when
they are grown and in marketable con.
dition will, at present prices. bring
them not less than $2.O00,O0O.
August IL Custer county voters will
ballot upon $l50,000 bond issue for
road improvements. The money will
be used in surfacing and making o
permanent road out Of every important
highway III the county. Good roads
boosters are confident the measure will
carry.
Buffalo, running wild on the prairies
Of western South Dakota in wholesale
quantities, attracted most attention at
the st. Paul wholesalers making their
trade tour visit to the city. There are
about 700 Of them now in the Philip
herd, which pastures on some 10000
acres Just out of Fort Pierre.
Total hail insurance premiums for
this, the first year of the operation
under the state insurance plan, give
promise Of making total above tho
81 100000 mark. Three more counties
have reported, Brown with se4,ss7.
Tripp with $27,637 and jackson with
s3,507. These, with four counties al
ready published, make the total so far
S170,8 ,843.65.
Complaints are coming to the state
railway commission on account Of In
creased telephone rates, and the fail.
IRE Of the commission to regulate
them. To this the state commission
,ends out statement that It is power.
less to control the situation under the
ruling Of he United States supreme
court and the federal authorities had
complete control.
Somewhere and somehow more than
500 automobiles have disappeared from
DAWSON county since their license ap-
plicati0ns were made and the county
tax books were closed. Since March
|. 1919, 1850 automobile licenses have
Oeen bought and paid for by Dawson
county owners. ASSESSORS records
passed and approved by the county
commissioners, who have just con
cluded sittings as the county board Of
equalization, showed there were only
t,789 cars In the county.
Belle Fourche, situated north of the
Black Hills, has become one Of the
greatest wool markets in the west.
The wool market there has been fairly
active during the past few days, wool
shipments for the season being about
completed. During the present wool
shipping season buyers ct Belle
Fourche have purchased and shipped