The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-07-16

MdTk tayne TetuTneu NOME Mon
day from Lake Andes.
Black Hills weather "sharps" are
predicting that 1920 is the beginning
of a cycle of ten wet years.
Miss Mary Runolfson, who has been
employed at the Hotel Wood, left last
Sunday for a short visit with her
home folks in Nebraska.
It's time to begin the hay harvest.
The crop this year is certainly good
one and our people should endeavor
to save every ton possible.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. A. j, Krieger in Butte Val
ley on I thursday July 2znd. All la
dies are earnestly requested to be pre-
sent
Al Krieger went to Murdo yester
day, (rLursday1 to meet his sister Mrs
Sadie Cooper of North Yakamo, Wash
ington, who will visit with him here
for time
j, Fl. Bundy and wife and little
Ardeth left Yesterday in their car to
driye to Lake Andes, where they will
visit with friends and relatives until
about August lst.
The Bon Homme County State Bank
of Scotland, S. d. failed last week af.
ter the disappearance OF it's president
and withstanding weeks run. rhe
bank. vas one of the oldest in the
the state and carried 100000 in de
roslts.
Mrs Msrgaretba Kilber, came down
from the west end of the couaty Sat
urday, and visited with her daughter
Mrs. Ed Graf north of town until
Yesterday, when she returned home.
She expects to move back on her
homestead north of Wood this fall.
John Krieger one of the prosperous
farmers north Of Wood, pulled out
the first binder last Saturday, which
be purchased of F. S. Richardson &
Sons, and with which he expects to
harvest his small grain crop which is
just about ready to cut Mr.. Krieger
says that his small grain is exception
ally fine this year.
Mis-. VIM. Hare on Wednesday
brought the Pioneer a fne mess of
home grown new potatoes. They
were mighty fine specimens fo' this
season of the year and were of ex.
cellent flavor, far surpassing the new
potatoes that are shipped in. The
potato crop in Mellette county this
year promises an abundant harvest,
out owing to the high price of seed
last spring, there were not as many
potatoes planted as usual.
When one plants nice garden in
the spring, and it come up and is
coming along fine, and YOU are just
about ready to supply your table with
fresh vegetables from said garden,
and then one day you discover that
your lAbors, your anticipation has been
all for naught, for your neighboIs
stock has visited the garden when you
weren't looking, and entirely destroy
it, it rather makes you forget your re
if YOU ever had any, and it
doesn't improve your regard and es
TEEN for vour neighbor either. In
fact its no joke.
rhe best soft coal now brings SIS a
ton at Winner, SO we are told, and the
overland freight charg" to bring il to
Wood at the present time is SIS a ton
making the coal cost the consumer
S33 ton laid down in Wood, and il
Is hard to get even at that price.
rhis is certainly heavy burden for
the pioneers of this country to bear.
We have lived here since 1912, and
the Overland freight rate has been
steadily increasing every year since
that date, and also the price of coal
haa nearly doubled in that time. We
venture to say that the people of Mel
lette county have spent enough money
in overland freight charges during
the past seven years to practically
have built railroad themselves from
here to Winner. Wonder how many
more years they will continue this
losing gamei A little comprehensive .