Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-03-06

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year. The IRE was famed by fierce
wind and burned over considerable
territory, sweeping valuable pasture
and hay land before It could be ex.
tinguished.
Statistics gathered by q legislative
committee show that South Dakota Is
shipping between $4,OO0.O00 and S..
100000 worth Of furs every year. THIS
industry has proved SO profitable for
trappers that the legislature Is con,
sidering regulating II.
The question of submitting bond
issue to the voters for the purpose Of
erecting a municipal building. which
will contain council chamber, of.
fees, auditorium and fire station, will
be taken up at the next meeting of
the city council of Woonsocket.
Arrangements have been completed
by which two boats will be placed in
the ferry service At Pierre next year
In competition with the train ferry
service. which stops at such an early
hour In the evening that many who
desire to cross with cars are stranded
Mitchell's plans for d monster den
onstratton for returned soldiers liz
held UP pending some definite word
from Washington regarding the time
the Dawson county men in the One
Hundred and Sixteenth supply train,
now at Camp Dix, will be sent to
Camp Dodge for rehabilitation.
until the morning train is resumed.
1t is practically assured that Old.
ham will have new lodge hall build.
ing. Members of the lodges Of Odd
Fellows, Masons and Modern Wood.
men are working for the erection OF
such a building, which will be used
by all three lodges for their headquar.
tiers and permanent homes.
Huron business firms are greatly
agitated over the orders from Wash.
ingtcn which may close the United
States employment office there. Fore.
teen kilograms are understood to have
been sent to Washington urging con-
gress to make some appropriation for
maintaining the labor office.
A hearing was opened by ]. Edgar
Smith, attorney examiner for the Iii.
terstate Commerce commission, in the
matter of unfair shipping rates alleged
to have been charged the dealers and
shippers Of Aberdeen and other cities
In the northern part of the state by
the railroads running through the dis.
trict.
Forty Poland China hogs, owned by
o. 8. Larson, Of Mt. Vernon, sold for
trifle more than $4,000. The high
est price paid for an individual ami.
NAL was paid by a buyer from Mime
sofa, who bid $3.50 for blooded boar.
Breeders Of blooded stock from Iowa,
Minnesota and North and South Da.
kota attended the sale.
The farmers of Jerauld county met
In mass convention last week and
organized the Jerauld County Live
Stock & Poultry Breeders association.
The purpose of the organization il
to improve the stock breeding bust.
ness and to erect in the county seat
large stock pavilion. 1t is expected
that a $4,000 building will be the
| final outcome.
At the regular spring election the
voters Of Vermillion will decide on q
bond issue totaling between $4,000
and $4,000. The town owns the cleo.
trio plant. The business has increas.
ed to such extent that a new unit
must be added and more housing room
furnished A new fire department
building is necessary and other Inn
provements may be made.
An important organization was
perfected in Belle Fourche last week.
when the Butte County Fair associa-
ton started out to provide education
and pastime amusement for the large
tributary territory of three states
Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota.
The entertainment will be known a.
the Tri.state Roundup. and much to
perpetuate or re-enact the old sciences
OF pioneer days will be given.
The faculty OF the South Dakota
state college has adopted resolutions
favoring the defeat of the United
State senate bill which, it is said.
would create federal department Of
education and provide funds for its
conduct. The resolutions assert that
this bill would give the proposed new
department power to dictate to the
states a policy for public schools and
to fx the details of the policy.
Two scholarships for French girls,
valued at $500 each will be available
each year at the University of South
Dakota. beginning in 1880, II plans
OF the Vermillion chapter of the Asso.
citation Of Collegiate Alumni are car.
ried out. The association, In 1918.
started the scholarship campaign and
11S French women students were en-.
rolled in leading American colleges
and universities as result.
Consolidation of the Scandinavian.
American bank of Sioux Falls with
the Sioux Falls Savings bank took