The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-10-21

. DETER price before placing them
upon the market. as the present price
Is not considered high enough to pay
Tor the raising OF that product. The
state market department has been
active in attempting to secure a bet
ter market for this wool. either In
TINS country or in Europe, and now
appears TO go to congress for the prop
er authority to carry out its plans.
Generally speaking, this is to author
ize a credit to foreign countries to
allow them to purchase wool.
There is reason to believe that the
Great Western Sugar company is pre-
pairing to build q sugar refinery on
the Bullock ranch. near Belle Fourche,
which was purchased by the company
some years ago. The plant would
cost about 100000. This year there
has beer a big increase in the sugar
beet acreage of the Belle Fourche ter.
ritory, and the construction of the
refinery would result in the sugar
beet acreage being greatly increased
in thai territory from year to year.
Although registration day in South
Dakota, according to the state, is
formally set for the Tuesday before
election, which this year means Oc-
tober rs, as a matter of fact, voters
and prospective voters may be regis
tered now at any time.
A number Of the pupils who have
been attending the government Indian
school at Fort Bennett have been
transferred to the government school
in Pierre, the school on that reser.
walton having been discontinued.
Hutchinson post of the American lie.
gion at Gregory will celebrate Ar
mistice day, November II, by a pro-
gram consisting of a football game, a
banquet, dance and an address by a
speaker of national reputation.
Work in the department Of civil en-
cheering of the College of Engineer
ing, University Of South Dakota, has
grown so rapidly in the last year that
it has been found necessary to en-.
gage another instructor.
Clinton r. Wiseman, assistant pro-
fessor OF vocational education at State
college, has been appointed state SUI
pervisor of agricultural education, CO.
operating with the state department of
public instruction.
More than three hundred farmers
registered the opening day OF the an
nual convention of the Farmers union.
held in Mitchell. Centralized market.
ing was the principal subject OF dis.
cussion.
The board Of education OF Arlington
has purchased a tract of land for the
new school house site and the con.
tractors now are unloading lumber
on the ground. The basement and
foundation will be put in this fall.
Recent rains have caused lowlands
in the vicinity OF Arlington to become
flooded, and many grain and corn
fields and pastures are now standing
submerged in many feet of water.
That good mules can be raised in
South Dakota vas demonstrated at
the county fair at Roscoe, recently,
by a fine showing Of these animals
from Edmnds county farms.
Flandreau city authorities have de-
cided to sink several new wells Of
mammoth size to increase the water
supply Of Flandreau for domestic and
fire protection purposes. Il
Within the last ten years, thirty
prisoners have either escaped from
the South Dakota ~penitenetiary or
have violated their paroles and not
yet recaptured.
At a meeting Of the Clay county
farm bureau held in Vermillion it was
decided that a uniform price of five
and six cents per bushels be paid for
corn picking.
Corn husking rates will be G to z
cents a bushel in the vicinity of Yank.
Ton this year IL farmers generally
agree to the proposal Of the local farm
ers' union.
Members Of the Deadwood Odd Eel
lows lodge have purchased what is
Known as the Olympic block, which
viii be used as a permanent home of
the lodge.
The county institutes in South Da-
kota this year, beside local speakers,
viii have the benefits of a number OF
speakers of national note.
Roland Walker, a ~13.year-old guest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Smith, of
Columbia, died from burns received
in a kerosene explosion.
Damage of $4,000 resulted from a
fire OF unknown origin which de-
stroyed the L. A. Lovenstein general
store IN Milbank.
1t Is announced that the Goudyville
postoffice, situated at an interior
point In Hyde county. has been dis.
continued.
Contracts for bridges and culyerts In
Dawson county amounting to SGT,
21S.37 were let by the county commits
sioners.
Good progress is being made in the
work OF erecting a new Evangelical
Lutheran church in Howard.
The first day OF school work opened
at the Madison state normal with some
255 students enrolled