The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-11-26

\ large number Of "dis-inaugura-
tions" will take place early in January
Bank deposits in South Dakota show
a decrease of over 81. 0O0,00 since the
June statement.
Wednesday was pilgrim Day"
1t was suitably celebrated in a num-
Der Of the larger cities.
Did you know that the state Of
South Dakota has an automobile for
every six of its inhabitants? Alabama
has one automobile for every forty Of
her inhabitants.
Those three youthful mail robbers
who pulled of that big $1,000. 000 mail
robbery at Council Bluffs, Iowa last
week, got considerable notoriety out
Of the affair, if they did not get to
keep their loot very long.
II feel respondent, low spirited,
Without appetite, hope or ambition, >
said a Mellette county patient describ
Ing his case to his physician. "You
must have been a candidate on the
democratic ticket in the late election
diagnosed the doctor.
Nine state banks in North Dakota
have been forced to close their doors
within the last week. The shrinkage
in values of farm products, and the
tightening OF the money market is
making it pretty tough IN some of
the banks liz the rural districts.
Now they are going to put a ban on
the nale Of malt and hops and thus
make even the ''makings" unobtain-
able. The prohibition forces are yet
going to drive this Thou shalt not
business so far, that there will set In
a period OF reaction that will bode no
good for the people of this nation.
A New York doctor has suggested
this solution Of the domestic question
make divorces more easily to get and
marriages more difficult" We opine
that the courts have been doing their
full share towards filling the fore part
OF the doctors prescription, and the
coal dealers are playing a winning
hand in fulfilling the latter part Of
the doctors panacea.
They claim to have discovered real
pofrolnum oil ooyipu fror, , alo hail.
near Geddes, and the people Of that
locality are all "het up" over the new
discovery. There are any number of
small local oil booms now being work.
ed to capacity In various parts Of the
state, and IL real oil wells should fin
ally be discovered, we will yet be liy-
ing In a land of greater riches than
we have dreamed Of.
The Northwest Square Deal the
leading daily paper of the Non-Parti-
san League in this state, published at
Aberdeen has struck thu rocks and
suspended publication after an exist
ence of less than a year. Seven hun.
dred farmers in that part Of the state
financed the enterprise to the extent
of 100000, and now the institution is
In the hands of a receiver. 1t was a
long ways from being a square deal'
for those 100 farmers.
The Aberdeen Daily News came to
US for a few days the past week in
the form Of a bulletin, with Skill
pages and the reading matter was
typewriter and then Autographed.
The printers of ABERDEEN all went out
on a strike and left the printing In
dustry In that town high and dry for
time, and this was the only way the
News could appear for a few DAYS.
They now have a new force of non.
union printers and are getting out
their paper in regular form once more
Mobridge is already beginning to
work on the newly electe members
to the state legislature, building up
their line of defense, hoping to have
= favorable decision from the legisla-
ture at the coming session ON the loca
lion OF the states first hydro electric
plant. The Mulehead site boosters
were quite active before the recent
election, and 1t is to be hoped that
they will launch a new and more act
I've campaign to have the plant locat-
ed at Mulehead, when the legislature
makes It's anal decision early next
year.