The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-05-20
MAY GRANT BONUSES
EXTRA SOUTH DAKOTA SESSION
LIKELY TO PASS ON
THE QUESTION.

Soldiers bonus will perhaps be the
overshadowing event OF the special
session Of the South Dakota legisla-
ture which has been called by Gov.
Norbeck to meet on May "a. Although
the various American Legion posts
in South Dakota lave made no request
for such a bonus. there is much senti-
ment for 1t. Some lawmakers favor
the plan adopted by Minnesota pro-
viding each soldier with SIS per
month for each month spent in active
service. The special session is not
expected to prove q long one, as the
season will not permit for many
farmer members remaining long away
from their home work. However. i'm
portant subjects will be taken up.
Reports OF the state cement plant
commission and the state water power
plant commission and q proposed con
stitutional amendment which would
permit the paying Of a bonus to the
ex-service men OF South Dakota are
the chief subjects to be brought up.
The session is called to open at 10
o'clock on the morning Of May "a.
Boys and girls Of South Dakota are
greatly interested in the bread clubs,
a new project Of the club department
OF State college. Four hundred mem
bers are already enrolled. There is
to be a champion bread demonstration
team in every county OF the state.
This team will represent its county
at the state demonstration to be held
at the 1920 state fair. Demonstra-
lions will be given daily during the
bread exhibit. The state champion
team will represent South Dakota at
the Interstate fair, Sioux City, and
will compete for honers with teams
from twelve states. Milling companies
Of the state have contributed to a
fund to send the state champion
bread demonstration team on an edu-
cational trip to Chicago at the time
of the international stock and grain
show. The slogan Of the bread clubs
is more Home Baked Bread or Home
Milled Flour"
jean LlallCuis q oAdNnoAhibh Va 80
ferson, s. D., hopes to become a mil
lionaire from an invention OF his,
which is in the form of a lifting de-
vice for airplanes. He has been
granted a patent on his invention.
The lifting apparatus invented by him
enables an airplane to fly straight up
ward from the ground. and is fitted
with brakes by which is can be easily
and successfully lowered to the
ground, eliminating all possibility of
accident. The invention has had a
practical demonstration and is said
TO have done everything claimed
for 1t.
Lake Andes the famous black bass
resort, now has the highest water
stage aver known. Water in the
lake now stands 27 inches above the
high water mark of last year and
nearly 1000 acres of farm lands that
have not been flooded in recent years
are now under water and farmers are
organizing to ecu a drainage pro-
ject which will lower the water level
from three to five feet.
A%ble-bodied inmates OF the Sioux
Falls pe~nitentiary can be classified
as real farmers because OF the fact
that they were this season raising
a total OF 575 acres OF crops on the
penitentiary farm. About 800 acres
has been sown to small grain, with
the remainder divided between corn.
millet, potatoes and everything in the
garden kne. from onions to sweet
corn.
Moody county still leads the world
In the number of automobiles per
capita. With an estimated population
Of 5000 there Is an automobile in the
five people. So far this year 1906
auto licenses have been issued by the
county treasurer.
A meeting of representatives from
all along the Black and Yellow Trail
will be held in this city May 20 and 81.
Delegates will be present from South
Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming and
the work OF lettering the trail will
get a boost from this meeting.
Higher costs of building materials
and labor seem to have no depressing
effect on Sioux Falls building activi.
ties. During the month OF April, 1920,
building permits show an increase Of
S182.s75 over the same month in 1919.
Educators OF the seven big institu-
lions Of South Dakota are SO hard hit
by the cost of living that they will
petition the special session of the
legislature to give them a 40 per
tent increase In salaries.
Creamery men and buttermakers OF
northeastern South Dakota have
formed an association which will pro-
mote the interests Of dairying in the
counties Of Marshall, Day. Roberts
and Grant.
In all probability the bridge over
Box Elder creek ON the Camp Crook
Marmarth mail route will be rebuilt
with state aid from North and South
Dakota.
A membership drive by which the
American Legion seeks to increase
It's membership in South Dakota to