The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-11-19

organized and are preparing TO estab-
lish Il \. w. {. a. in Kearney.
Burwell IS threatened with a coal
famine. Many homes have only a few
days supply Of fuel and the amount
Of coal in Dealers bins is very limited.
Fred Gains store, Winters tailor
shop, HOlenbeck barber shop and the
library OF Ansley, were totally destroy
ed by fire, the origin OF which is un-
known.
The city council Of Central City has
brought suit against the Central
Power company of Grand Island 20 en-
join them from shutting off electric
power in the city.
Professor James III. Frandsen, one
of the best known dairy experts in the
state and Il member Of the staff of the
university dairy department, has r.
signed his position.
Mildred Kennedy, Loup CITY high
school student, fell downstairs at tie
scloo and ran Il pencil into her arm
several inches. An operation was
necessary to remove it.
Fields of corn in Hamilton county
are runnig as high as seventy bushels
TO the acre. 1t is believed that the
average for the county will be more
than fifty bushels to the acre.
Tie United Electric Co. of -Lexing-
ton has contracted with the village
board Of Smithlicld to run Il transmits
sion line across country and furnish
light and power for that place.
Ar tLnir ANIMAL c,r, l,,r,,, -
quet at Iioldrege, attended by more
than 100 men and women, Phelps coun-
ty farmers voted to build Il livestock
sales pavilion at a cost Of $1,000.
Eight hundred boy scouts at Lincoln
have started on Il hunt for fire haz-
ards, and they expect to visit and eX-
anime every residence and business
house in that place in their search.
An autonomous teachers college as
an item of greatest importance to high
schools of the state, was Il topic OF
much interest discussed at the meet
ing of the state teachers at Omaha.
Three hundred alumni, members OF
the faculty and friends of the Peru
state normal, met for Il banquet and
get-together session during the state
teachers association meet at Omaha
The department Of conservation and
soil survey has sent five motion pie
ture reels, showing the Nebraska state
fair to Tulsa, Okla, where they VIII be
shown before an agricultural confer
cnce.
A stranger, about twenty-five years
old, was killed at Fremont when hit
by a Westbound Union Pacific train at
Il street crossing. 1t is assumed that
he had attempted to board the moving
train.
Samuel Vail at Falls City, pro-
priet0r of the oldest established mor-
camille house in southeast Nebraska,
has closed its doors and will retire
from business. His stock will be sod
at auction.
Fifteen miles Of road have been i'm
proved through the action Of the
Burwell community sclub. The m"r-
chants contributed 81 1900 in cash and
the farmers did the work for half lhe
usual price.
There is an urgent demand for
telegraph operators for the Washing
ton-Alaska telegraph and cable system,
Capt. A. Il. Whitworth of the signal
corps, L. S. A., Omaha recruiting
office, announces.
The constitution of Nebraska as
amended by vote Of the people from
time to time since 1879, including
amendments proposed by the recent
constitutional convention, has been
printed in pamphlet form. Il is Il re-
production of the compilation as made
by the convention and filed with the
secretary of state.
Bishop Homer G. Stunt. head Of the
Methodist church in Nebraska, was the
guest Of honor at a banquet of Meth
odist of the North Platte valley at
ScOttsbluff, when 80 churchmon aud
women of that place, GcrinT, Mitchell,
Minatare, Bayard and other towns of
that section gathered to pay thcir re-
spectS.
The Omaha Poultry association will
hold It's seventh annual exhibition and
poultry show November 22 to -, in
elusive, at the Auditorium. This show
is the first free educational Il 10 he
held in the country Il ranks third
in the United States, the Madison
Square Garden, II in New Ioik and
ChicagO's exhibition preceding il.
Following is a list of the schools
which have made application for adj
mission TO the state high school de-
batting league: Battle Creek, Bloom
field, Burwell, College View, COwles,
Dana College Academy, Diller, Emer-
son, Hastings, Lawrence, Ord. RAN
dolph, Red Cloud, Republican City, st.
Paul, Wakefield, Wesleyan Academy,
and Wisner, n a number of others
are smaking arrangements to become
eligible
The committee in charge of Organ
lied Agriculture, the annual winter
meetings Of between thirty and forty
farmers organizations to be held at
Lincoln. January 3 to Z, report salts
factory progress in arranging the pro-
grams. Secretary Of Agriculture Il.
Il. Meredith has written that he will
make every effort to be present. The
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