The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-09
The 1919 legislature Of South Da-
kota appropriated $4,000 as state aid

the requirements prescribed Dy the
law and the department of public in
struction at Pierre. Standard one
room schools receive $50. First class
consolidated schools get $400< and Sec
ond class consolidated schools get
$3.50, The work of inspecting the
schools making application for this
state aid has begun and the rural
school supervisor has been in Union,
Clay, Yankton, Turner and Lincoln
counties for the last three weeks.
Turner county has the most schools
asking for state aid. 1t has twenty
one, though few counties will have
more than twelve. Not all the schools
applying can qualify.
Many one-day farm management
schools will be held throughout the
state this winter by the state college
extension division for the purpose of
demonstrating how to keep farm rec
ords and how to discover what fea-
lures Of the farm business are profit
able or Improbable. NJ. r. Benedict,
farm management specialist, says that
keeping farm records is much more
simple than many farmers believe.
These meetings will comprise groups
of ten to thirty farmers, and will be
arranged by county agents, local bank
ers and others.
j. c. Holmes, live stock specialist
Of the state college extension division,
is out cunning for farm records Of
feeds and gains. He says that the
most efficient and cheap feeds for
gains are questionable, therefore he
proposes to get, facts direct from farm
ers who have practical experience.
The results obtained by farmers will
be published as a further guide to
stock feeders. Farmers who have such
records are invited to correspond with
Mr.. Holmes or to hand the facts to
their local county agents.
More than 10 young men are en-
rolled for classes in the first tractor.
auto course at state college. OF this
number "a anne to college solely for
the course, while 83 are school Of agri
culture students. Prof. j. A. Bonell,
III Shdl sc, says that IL IlIllJeu uuLlDoT
will be admitted in January and that
the course is arranged SO that late
entrants will secure practical training.
Students will be of great service next
summer in the states large road build.
ing activities.
n South Dakota Federation OF
Women's Clubs, which is on record as
opposed to any weakening Of the state
waite prohibition law by means of re-
ferring it to the voters of South Da.
kota, will ask the next legislature to
enact a law providing for state censor
ship OF moving pictures. The fedora
ton will ask, also, for an amendment
ment to the state mothers pension
law, which in it's present form, it
thinks, is inadequate and impractical.
A game reserve Of approximately
10000 acres to be known as the Gus
ter state park game sanctuary, and
adjoining Custer state park in South
Dakota, is provided in a bill intro
duced in the house by Representative
Candy. Custer state park is $4,000
acres in area and is the largest state
park in the nation. The area included
in the proposed game sanctuary con-
tains Harvey peak and Sylvan lake.
The South Dakota Hampshire
Breeders association selected Aber-
deem as the place for the 1920 con-
v~ention during the closing session Of
the 1919 meeting at Mitchell. The as
ISOLATION adopted resolutions calling
on the state fair board to provide bet
ter housing and showing conditions
for live stock at the Huron fair and
advocated the building of a permanent
hog pavilion.
Ice on the Missouri river at Pierre
at the present time is from IA inches
up in thickness. This would look like
a good year for the ice harvest, but
icemen say that it is hard to find good
ice for cutting, as the river froze up
full of slush, and ice of that kind 10
not profitable for storage, being 90
porous to keep for the season after
packing.
Good roads boosters Of Codington
county are circulating petitions ask
ing the county board Of commission
ers to call a special election for the
purpose of voting on a $4,000 900 bond
issue for the construction Of ninety
six miles of hard road in the county.
Owing to the egg shortage, Rapid
City merchants are compelled to pay
81 per dozen for them, and they are
being sold to consumer at the rate
Of $1.1O per dozen. This is the high
est price ever paid for e3gs in Rapid
City.
The proposition of issuing bonds Of
$350,000 for the construction Of a new
county court house, which was sub
mitted to the voters of Beadle county
at a special election, has carried by
what appears a safe majority.
Business men are sponsoring .
movement to incorporate Orient into
a town Inc at a mass meeting a COM