The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-02-13
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENiNGS OF THE
WEEK.

Al the vaults Oh MS Oftlce the IlrSt OF
January, by the various insurance com.
panies operating in Estate, and
finds a total of 81 57 ,S47.53 in value.
Eighty agricultural extension work
ers have spent the week in Bookings,
in annual conference at the State col.
lege, of whom 46 are county agents, IL
are boys and girls club workers, IL
are specialists for state work, seven
are home demonstration workers. and
four Representative extension work OF
the federal department at Washington.
Fifty Sully county boys have joined
a registered hog" association. Each
boy will purchase a well bred SOW at
an approximate cost of about SIS and
try to see what he can do In making a
success of raising such hogs. The
banks of the county are backing the
boys in the move and will see that
fails to start for lack Of the necessary
cash.
Mitchell is to have an anti-rat cam
paign, which will be put on under
supervision OF the state pure food and
drug department. Deputies Harry
Lovald and Cox will have charge of
the war of determination. The cam
paign will open February 3 and last
until the evening of February 8. 1t
will be preceded by an educational
campaign by means OF which it is
hoped TO reach every citizen in Mitch
ell. Thousands of dollars worth of
merchandise is destroyed each year I'm
the business section of the city and
it is planned by the state authorities
TO make Mitchell even more free from
rats than the Pied Piper left Hamelin
in Prussia.
A number OF clubs composed Of
farmer boys and girls have been or
ganized in different sections Of Sully
county and this year will engage in
hog raising competition. The clubs
were organized through the efforts of
the county agricultural agent. Exhibits
OF the hogs raised by the members will
be made in the fall and prizes will be
awarded those who have had the great
est success in hog raising. Following
the stock Judging and awarding OF
prizes there will be an auction sale of
the hogs raised by the members Of the
clubs during the yea When prizes
are awarded the owners OF the three
filters showing the most points each
will be given a free trip to the state
fair at Huron in the fall.
The two Capts. Johnson, r. G. and T.
r., each recently returned from France
with a war medal for ~gallantry In
action, had similar records in sports
at the University of South Dakota.
Capt. Royal Johnson, representative OF
South Dakota in congress, who re-
ceived the distinguished service medal
after being wounded in action, was a
member Of the 1906 baseball team.
Capt. T. Y. Johnson received the croix
de guerre and also wears a wound
stripe. He played on the famous 1912
football eleven that defeated Mime
sofa II to 0 and was assistant athletic
coach in 1917. Both were students in
the college Of law. These men are
believed to be among the first South
Dakota soldiers to receive military
decorations.
Financiers of the Southern Black
Hills have organized a company and
will establish a custom plant. using
the Bland process OF metal separation
in this city. The company has secured
the old mica mill and electrical power
plant, which o are being remodeled.
The plant will be fully equipped with
additional machinery. It is expected
the plant will be placed in operation
about February /. Customers will be
received from various producers of
minerals in the Custer district and
surrounding territory. Bland, the in
ventor of the separation process to be
used is a nephew Of the late Silver
Dick" Bland of Missouri. He has had
much experience with Black Hills
mineral production. A series of recent
tests have, it is said, demonstrated that
the process shows most gratifying re-
suits in the treatment OF the complex
ores of the southern Black Hills
district.
Railroad men report that never in
Inc nfStOTy VI the oOutu bdhotd ihC
has there been such a large volume OF
grain and live stock shipments as at
present. The movement OF grain and
live stock to eastern markets has as
sumed such large proportions that
railroad officials have been puzzled as
to how to 60 about it to take care of
the business with the transportation
facilities at their disposal. In some
cases the railroads have been unable
TO move the grain fast enough to keep
the elevators from being filled to over
flowing. and congestion OF grain has
occurred at several points. AT Hudson,
= for instance, for a period OF three
weeks the elevators had an aggregate
Of from so to 100 carloads of grain on
hand awaiting cars in which 1t could
be shipped. A number OF cars have
been supplied and conditions have
somewhat improved.
THE first shipment, consisting Of