The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-04-30
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Winter came on in Octo1cr il year
with SO little warning th&. Il caught
some OF the seed corn before it had
time to dry out thoroly and the result
was that it froze up anu is showing
poor terminating qualit.es this spring.
This applies to some Of the seed coyu
that was picked early and hung up to
dry, as we'll as TO that watch was left
in the field until after the freeze came.
Twenty-Five million dollars increase
in deposits Of state banks tor the past
year, and a $12, 1000, 900 increase since
November last year is shown by the
report OF condition of state banks.
The total deposits in the state banks
are 1875, 993,952, an increase CT $l1,-
S96, 053. This showing is on the re-
ports from 543 such banks. The
national bank Showings will be ap-
proXimately one-third that OF the state
banks. Over $500 is on deposit in the
banks for every resident regardless
OF age.
The greatest Homecoming in the
history OF Bookings State College is
10 be a feature Of TIE commencement
week program. June Il TO 16. Del
eSations Of alumni from New York,
Texas, Washington, Hawaii and the
Philippines are already assured. The
BIG ~Dipeorgan in the auditorium, gift Of
the alumni association, to be ded-
icated the night Of June Is. The in
auguration of the president is another
feature on the program.
At a recent joint session of he
BruLa County Fair association and tho
livestock pavilion board at Kimball,
the fair association made arrange
ments TO allow the pavilion board TO
erect on the fair grounds the new
livestock pavilion building with a SO.
year lease, which will be a fine aqui-
sition for the county fair.
Over 10000 acres of land in the
Cheyenne and Standing Rock Indian
reservations will be sold to the highest
bidder at sales at Lennon on Nav 27
and at Timber Lake on June /. The
land has been appraised at from so
cents 10 $500 an acre.
The new artesian well to increase
the supply Of water for fire protection
ana domestic purposes in Lake Pres
ton has been completed. The well ia
LILY feet deep INC in six inches i'm
diameter at the top and four and one.
half inches at the bottom.
Five rural school in Lake county
VIII receive state aid under the pro-
vision OF a state law designed to en-.
courage rural schools to become as
efficient as city schools. These
schools will receive about $50 each
from the state fund.
A shepherd dog, which was taken
from Sphinx county to Wisconsin by
ms owner last winter, trotted, foot
sore and weary, back to the old homo
place in Sphinx county about a month
after he had been taken east in a
car.
Spearing and SEEMING of fish in the
lakes of Day county is permitted under
a recent ruling Of the state game and
fish department. 1t is permitted under
the ruling that pickerel are not in
the game fish class.
The contract has been awarded for
the first piece Of good road construc-
ton in Beadle county for this season,
the construction and Improvement OF
a highway extending from Huron to
Cavour.
A genuine beaver hide hat worn az
a wedding in 1880 by the great, great,
great, great, great grandmother OF
a sioux Falls young woman, is on dis
play in a Sioux Falls store.
Upwards Of 1,500 miles Of highway
in South Dakota will be under perma.
nent improvement during the coming
summer, a statement from the state
highway department shows.
John Harry, former cashier of the
State bank Of Pukwana, has been in
dicted on three counts by a federal
grand jury on the charge Of using the
mails to defraud.
Application has beer made for a
charter for. the Midwest corporation,
capitalized at $4,000 for the purpose
of building a ffty-room freproof build
ing in Blunt.
The fourth interstate interschol.
astic track and field meet will be held
under the auspices Of the university
of South Dakota in Vermillion on
May IA.
Arrangements are being made for
the holding of the annual convention
Of the South Dakota Sunday School
association in Rapid City, June 1, 2
and 3.
Recently the directors of the packing
plant in Huron took over the work of
completing the construction Of the
buildings and installing the machinery.
An indication of the rapid growth of
Corson county is in the fact that six
new school buildings will be built in
rural districts this summer.
Several buildings at Miller that
were started last fall and work