The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-08-13

number of farm owners scattered
throughout the state. This plan Of
farm rental shows great promise Of
eventually doing away to . large X
tent with the old-fashioned one-year
cash-and-shar rent plan, which is
rapidly impoverishing tenant, owner,
and soil alike. The Wendt plan sub
stitutes for the annual spring move
and the poorly-eQuipped, neglected
tenant farm, the steadily developing
and substantial farm partnership in
which the landowner and the land
operator work together as a team
year after year.
Aberdeen is again lightly infested
by l. W. w. who have started agita-
ton among the laborers in the rail.
o a camps near there, and the men
coming in for the harvest. The lead
ers have started their propaganda in
the form Of circulars which call upon
b railroad workers to strike against
the contractors, principally for the
S-hour day, but plans are being laid
for a later strike for more wages.
Authorities of Brown county, who
drove the I. w. w a~gitators from the
city several years ago with spank.
ers" are prepared to take similar &C.
ton this year, If it becomes neces.
sary.
That employers are as much en-.
titled to organize and refuse to sell
material under certain conditions az
labor Is to combine and decline to
work under certain circumstances, is
the statement made by Attorney Gen.
eral Byron S. Payne, Of South Dakota.
in a legal opinion rendered on the
Sioux Falls building situation. Both
sides are equally to blame, the attor.
ney general holds, but he insists tina,
there is no violation Of state Grim.
inal statutes in the situation as out
lined.
Elaborate ceremonies marked the
dedication and formal opening OF Q
new Farmers Union hall building
situated at a point southeast of Greg
DRY. The hall is the first Of the kind
to be erected in the RosebuG country
and will be utilized as a community
center. as a meeting place for mem
bers OF the union and their families
and as a place for public gatherings
Because of the difficulty Of the com
missfoners of Sioux county to cast
warrants with which to buy poison
grasshoppers may take an excellen,
crop in the vicinity of Selfritge. The
commissioners levied a tax with
which to buy poison, but they canno,
sell their warrants.
One hundred business and profes
sional men of Milbank turned out and
built good roads for a day, the oc
casion being the first good roads
day. They were Joined. by so bust
ness men from Marvin and an equa.
number from Albee n other town,
in the county.
D Oldham commercial club 4,
working on several important town
building projects. including the i'm
provement Of the highways leading t.
Oldham and the securing of an i'm
provement In the local telephon,
service,
Blackleg has appeared among SOM
of the cattle herds along Snake Creek
In the Ipswich territory, and expert
are urging the farmers to vaccinatt
their animals at once to prevent 9
spread of the disease and heay,
losses.
Army worms IN countless number,
nave appeared in the region immedi
ately west Of Canistota and a figh,
now is on between the farmers OF
that region and the worms 90 seq
which will first harvest the crops.
A contagious disease commonly
known as pink eye is affecting many
cattle OF all ages in South Dakota at
the present time, says DR.. G. 8
weaver, extension specialist in ami
NAL diseases at the state college.
With more than 300 laborers al
work in the yards Of the Milwaukee
railway company in Aberdeen, in con.
nection with the project OF enlarging
those yards, marked progress is be.
ing made.
The state sheriff's office reports
fifty. arrests for the past month.
most OF which were for running Illicit
stills CT booze peddling. A few were
for violations Of auto traffic laws of
the state.
An increase Of nearly a million dol
lars In n assessed valuation of real
and personal property in Yankton
during the last year is shown by the
report of the city assessor.
Not to be outdone by the town base.
fans, a number Of the younger
farmers of the vicinity of Mt. Vernon
lave issued challenges to all the town
teams in that part Of the state.
Tuesday, August "A. has been fixed
the time for the annual picnic and
celebration OF the old settlers OF
Union county, to be held at River
park.