The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-11-06

ton or South Dakota will ask that
steps be taken to bring about the pass.
age OF a bill in the state Legislature
to provide for a censorship OF all nov.
ing p-~.ure films exhibited in the
state. The announced purpose OF the
meeting is to secure cooperation in
seeking those things that all Christian
people desire for the state" accord.
ing to officials OF the federation. The
church federation is composed Of rep
rosentatives of the Methodist. Baptist.
Congregational, Evangelical, Presby-
terrain and other churches.
While blowing in his field last spring
with a small tractor. Tolleck Tollipson,
a farmer living near Hitchcock, was
badly injured when his tractor tipped
over and pinned him underneath. He
was held in that dangerous position
for more than an hour and while Ia
that position his mind was busy think.
ing out a way in which such accidents
could be avoided. He has recently
put his ideas into tangible form and
has applied for a patent which his
friends say will make him wealthy.
South Dakota has many things for
which to be grateful and among them
Is the fact that 1t Is an unusually
healthful state. Even last year about
this time when the influenza siege
was raging in other sections, while
South Dakota was far from free, 1t did
not suffer like other states and today
according to the reports OF the state
health department for the week end.
ing October Is, there were but III con.
tagious cases of disease in the whole
state.
A party of Mellette county farmers
discovered a colony of rattlesnakes
evidently making for winter quarters
at some point, and killed forty-one of
these dangerous reptiles before they
had cleaned up all in sight. The next
day they returned to the location and
cleaned up nineteen more of the
snakes. which were headed in the
same direction as the first bunch.
One of the most remarkable of the
aged women of South Dakota is Miss
Syneve Henjum, residing in the east.
ern part OF Mnnehaha county, who
a few days ago celebrated her goth
birthday. She Is active for one of her
years and can do as much work as
many ONE of half her age. She
has been a resident Of Minnehaha
county since 1872.
The report of the commission which
made the recent survey of the educa.
tional system Of South Dakota shows
that the Northern Normal and Indust.
rial school. in 1867, graduated 243,
or about SO per cent of the total OF
$50 trained teachers turned out that
year by the fourteen accredited
teacher-training schools In South Da
kota.
The banking department has granted
applications for charters to the follow
ing new banks: The Farmers State
Bank Of Bigstone; Wakpala State Bank
of Wakpala; Putney State Bank o.
Putney; Farmers State Bank of Hos
mer; Bookings State Bank OF Brook.
ings, and the Security State Bank Of
Sherman.
The present condition OF prices has
stimulated the construction Of local
flour mills, and such enterprises are
now unde construction at the towns
OF Trip, in Hutchinson county, and
at Orient, in Faux county, and the
local mills over the state are doing
more business than during former
years.
The recently organized farmers CO
operative company, which will engage
In the grain elevator business at Chan.
%cellor, has about completed the work
OF selling shares of stock, and the
work OF ~remodeling the elevator re-
Gently purchased by the company will
commence in a short time.
Two special trains of South Dakota
farmers will go to the International
Livestock show in Chicago late in No
vember. One train will leave from
Mitchell and the other from Huron on
November rs. Farmers will join the
train at convenient points.
A movement has been launched for
the holding of a county fair for Brown
county In Aberdeen next year. The
plan is backed by the Aberdeen Com,
mercial club and the Brown County
Purebred Livestock Association.
A Parker capitalist has purchased
the necessary ground and in the
spring will erect IN 1t a new and mod.
ern theater building. The playhouse
will include a large stage for road
shows.
The city health officer OF Huron
states that so per cent OF the deaths
Ia Aberdeen are those OF infants under
one year OF age.
A temporary organization or a South
Dakota branch of the federal highway
council has been perfected at a meet
ing in Huron.
Several arrests have been made in
connection with extensive worthless
check swindles in towns In southern
South D@.ota.
More than %two-thirds of the gold
now In use in the world was discov.
cred during the last so years.