The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-03-11

Miui6no mas votod oOuoe LoI Wetcf'
works. and that place will install .
water system this spring.
Aberdeen baseball fans have or.
organfzSS . company which viii pro-
mote Aberdeen's end OF Q state base
ball league.
The owners OF o string OF theaters
In the northwest will start the con-
struction OF q $4,000 playhouse In
Aberdeen about April
With an initial membership Of forty
prominent cattle and hog breeders II
the Mt. Vernon Farmer Cooperative
Live Stock and Shipping association
has been organized at Mt. Vernon.
WATERFOWL will make g protest to
the state railroad commission against
the wartime rates charged by the
Dakota Central Telephone company.
which. in December. were extended
to March 1.
The Turner county court house in
Parker has become too small for prep
erly caring for the business Of the
county, and the county commissioners
are taking steps to have the structure
enlarged.
Work has been started at Buffalo
on the construction OF a new school
building OF five class rooms, which
will allow expansion to provide a high
school. The building will cost ap-
proximately Ak ono
Permits to Craze their live stock
In the national forest reserve in the
Black Hills during the coming year
have been granted to a number OF
ranchers OF the vicinity OF Memo. The
reserve has an abundance OF food and
water.
More than twenty regular collegiate
courses in agriculture and allied sub
tects will be offered In the 1920 State
college summer session for state
teachers who find themselves required
to handle such subjects in public
schools.
Miners from other mining camps OF
the country continue to arrive In
Lead and readily find work with the
Homestake Mining company. Among
the e arrivals are many exrservics
men, who have been put at work In
the mine.
A new bulletin on how TO have Q
good garden on the farm or in the
town back yard will make its appear
ance soon from the State college ex
tension division. "The Balanced Gar
den' Is the title. 1t will be mailed
free upon request.
II Is announced that q Luverne
Mimi, concrete materials company
which about a year ago purchased .
large acreage OF land on the south
east limits Of Madison, will this sea
son erect a plant for the manufactur,
Of cement on q large scale.
South Dakota, which ranked fourth
among the great corn p~roducin,
states OF the nation last year face,
a serious question In the matter oil
seed corn for the coming planting
according to A. L. Haynes, Of tn,
South Dakota farm extension division
Congressman Royal c. Johnson, OF
the Second district Of South Dakota
has advised friends that compulsory
at this session of congress Is doomed
at this SESSION Of congress is doomed
because Of the action OF the demo
cratic naIrnfa q faru Aaoa A.
Johnson believes that failure OF the
universal training plan will mean that
national guards viii be greatly
strengthened and hat federal aid to
them will be greatly increased.
An eastern grading company has
agreed to take over the grade and
right OF way for the proposed rail.
road from Leola, in Mcpherson coun.
ty, his state, to Ashley. N. D., a
distance OF forty miles. II will com
plete the railroad. which was started
before the war. Twenty miles OF
grades have been completed and the
right ct way secured for the remain.
der or the distance. A connection
with the 500 line will be made at
Ashley.
tuberculosis is playing havoc with
the herds OK South Dakota, mo- more
SO, however. than with the herds OF
any other state, according to authori.
ties OF the state extension division.
Farmers In this state are protected
to a large extent by the state against
loss In the case their herds are forced
TO slaughter by t%ubercular tests. But
so great has been the slaughter in
the last two and a half months that
the state funds. provided by the last
legislature for that purpose, are prac.
tieaily exhausted. The special ses.
sion OF the legislature, which will be
called some time late this winter or
carly In next spring will be compelled
to make additional appropriations to
take care of these losses. More than
one breeder OF pure bred cattle would
have been completely ruined this win
ter had It not been for the state law.
which provides that the live stock
growers shall be reimbursed for
losses sustained through tubsrcular
cattle.