The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-09-26
NEWS OF THE STATE
4 R9eUMG or IMPORTANT HAP.
PgNlNo9 or The
WEEK.

The Salem commercial club has 90.
0upisd tine new apartments which re-.
sently were fitted up.
A farmers telephone company which
owns several rural lines will install an
exchange In Rutland, to be connected
with the rural lines.
A new high sales mark has been set
BY South Dakota land. Fifty acres Of
improved farm land. situated one mile
cast of Mitchell. has been sold for
$500 an acre. or sc. 900 for the tract.
BY a vote Of almost nve to one, q
bond issue Of $780, 900 was approved
by the voters OF Mitchell to be used In
the erection Of = new corn palace ~.
ditorium. BY sven q larger majority.
q bond issue for t25 900 for q new ire
station ri approved.
Coachsr post, American Legion, f.
nally has completed its organization At
Mitchell, and Immediately after doing
20 announced that 1t will serve . duck
dinner to Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt, when
he visits Mitchell on September a.
during Corn Palace week.
The Gregory county fair dates this
year are Sept. II. Is and 10 and will
be held at Bonesteel as usual. The
mon in charge Of the fair this year are
making plans for q record breaking
attendance, and promise some good at
fractions.
Automobile thieves and those who
make . practice OF stripping car
which are temporarily abandoned near
highways. have been very busy in
Trip county during the past few days.
Several residents Of the county report
the losses of cars, OF which no trace
has yet been found.
One of the features Of the annual
Interstate fair. to be held at Lennon
this month. will be 4 wild west show.
Some OF the est bucking horses of the
northwest will be with the show, and
there will be expert riders. A new
grandstand Ii being erected on the
fAir grounds, which have been en-
larged.
Members Of the Baptist church -
ciety at Centerville have completed
arrangements for the erection of . new
church building. The plans provide
for Z commodious auditorium and
rooms for Sunday school classes. 1t
also Is planned to have a reading room
and we'll equipped gymnasium in the
basement OF the new church.
One car to each six one one-half per-
sons in the state is the estimate OF the
auto licenses recorded for this year.
Up to July l the licenses issued had
gone to 80. 1884, and the 1OO, 900 mark ID
expected to be passed before The close
OF the year. One OF the features Of the
showing IL that The number OF cars for
each county indicate that the rural
counties stand first in number with
those containing the larger towns In
the state making a smaller showing.
Recent rains throughout western
South Dakota have greatly improved
pasturage. and as a result stockmen
and farmers now believe there will be
an ample supply of feed for live stock
during the remainder of the fall in that
part of western South Dakota, where
feed had become scarce. while in 9TH
weather OF July and August, the stock
men will be able to cut additional sup
plies Of hay to carry their stock over
the winter.
Last spring the county agent OF
Jackson county started a number OF
boys In that county raising pure bred
hogs. securing the money from the
banks to get the boys started. Now
some OF them are cleaning up" on
their summer work, and making q good
profit. Most of their sales are the
original stock Of registered sows,
which are being taken to another loca-
ton to get a new class of boys inter
ested. In every ase the boys have
sold their original stock at a better
price than they paid last spring, and
have all the registered offspring left
tor further profit in their ventures
along that line.
Several prominent ranchers residing
near Bixby in southern Perkins coun-
ty. have al oil development fund on
hand and are willing to use it for
practical oil development whenever
the proper plant for that purpose il
produced. This is on account Of . re-
cent promoter In that section who
showed just where oil could be found.
and raised the funds for development,
but at that stage put in his claim for
about $40, 900 Of the fund for his share
and refused to do anything further un-
til b money was turned over. The
contracts were submitted to an attor-
ney. who told the men putting up the
money that il they paid, there was no
obligation on the part Of the promoter
to go any further than he had, and
they promptly backed up and the man
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