The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-02-27

ton with % charter members.
A movement has been ~inaugnrated
at Corson to erect a community build.
ing al a cost OF about 500
The Milwaukee stock yards IN Nit.
chell will be doubled In capacity this
year, according to unofficial announce
ments.
Plans are being perfected for the
organization in Waterfowl OF a wo-
mans auxiliary 10 the American
Legion.
Effort Is being made ii DAWSON
county to persuade the county com
missioners to restore the position VI
county agent.
The contract for the erection of a
new public school building in Alex
andria has been awarded by the board
OF education.
James Sheldon has just completed
the construction Of q 25-room hotel in
Dupree, the first modern and up to
date hostelry in the town.
The South Dakota official publicity
phamplets are now received from the
printer and shortly to be mailed TO
the male voters OF the state.
Two Moody county boys were
wounded by the same bullet when a
% caliber rifle in the hands of a third
was accidentally discharged,
A contract has been let to a Mime
apolis construction company for the
building Of a new school in Webster
which will cost approximately $780,
900.
Groton will hold a special election
on February "A for the purpose Of yot-
ing on a proposed bond issue of $170,.
600 with which TO build a new public
school.
For the purpose OF voting on bonds
for $4,000 with which to build 4
second grade school building, a special
election will be held in Groton on Feb
ruary "a.
The Edmunds County Farm Loan
association has been organized at
AtS" ~ - AlCio Ill . TIC olIy
one west OF Aberdeen In the northern
part OF the state.
The plans for the big girls dormI-
tory, which will be erected on the
South Dakota state fair grounds. in
Huron, have been drawn and sub
mitted for approval.
H. C. Cobb. ar farmer at Redfield.
was reelected president Of the South
Dakota Farm Bureau federation at
the annual meeting of the farm bureau
delegates at State college.
If an experiment now being conduct
ed proves successful all delinquent
boys brought up in the juvenile court
in Aberdeen will be turned over to
Rotarians for guardianship.
Resulting from a fire OF unknown
origin, the slaughtering plant of the
Sioux Falls Rendering company was
completely destroyed, entailing a loss
said to approximate $4,000.
A vigorous campaign for recruits
for the United States army has been
begun In the district Of North and
South Dakota by Colonel T. j. Rogers.
chief of the recruiting service in the
district.
A colony of Yankton young soldiers
Will leave May Is or Whereabouts for
near Casper, Wyo., to settle on claims
on Powder river. Claims in that sec
ton, which is in the sheep grazing
region, are $40 acres In size.
According to advices just received
there were 1,220 South Dakotans who
were killed or who died while In the
service. OF this number about 4Sl lost
their lives in France either through
cknes or on the battlefields.
h state tax department shows by
us figures that the collection OF in
heritance tax since the law went into
ERECT has reached over a half million
dollars, about half Of which has been
collected from nonresident estates.
Whether or not the school bond is-
sue for a new high school building is
to be increased sufficiently to make
possible the completion Of the struc-
ture on which conditional contracts
were awarded recently, will be decided
by the people Of Watertown at q
special election.
For years Claremont in Brown
county has not had a cemetery. 1t
was not because none Of her citizens
died but because community pride had
not reached a point Of action. Her
citizens were buried in nearby towns
and the lack Of a cemetery has been
widely commented on by visitors. A
movement is now on to establish 4
cemetery.
The sample ballots which have been
prepared as state ballots by the secre-
tary OF state are very short for both
parties, that of the democrats con.
tanning only two presidential candi.
dates, state committeeman, state
chairmen and senatorial candidates
The republican ballot is a little
longer, but In counties in which tbara