The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-09-24

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Wool, 4,367, 900 pounds.
Alfalfa, 1,137,OOO tons.
Several changes have beer made in
the state highway department. State
Highway Engineer F. S. Peck has re
signed and will take the position OF
district engineer for the department
in the Fifth district, the Black Hills
section, which will allow him to live
in his old home at Deadwood. Fred
w. Schneider. who has been assistant
highway engineer, has been advanced
to the position Of highway engineer.
III. S. Sternberg has been made district
engineer for the First district, with
headquarters at Pierre; Earl Eby has
been made district engineer for the
Second district. with headquarters at
Brookings: O. n. Hetel has been made
district engineer for the Third dis
trist, with headquarters at Pierre, ana
A. S. Manning has been maded istrict
engineer for the Fourth district. The
state highway commission has re
IIONtu tlIt COully iS hNoS 0AbAHNNA "
Hughes county on a charge OF negle+t
Of official duty.
Miss Nina NJ. Ferguson and Floyd
p. LOefler, of Luverne, Mimi, enjoyed
the novelty of being married in an
automobile. This was due to the re
sourcefulness Of Cupid. They arrived
in Sioux Falls, expecting to be mar,
ried there, after first providing them
selves with a license from the clerk
of courts in the Minnesota county,
where they reside. Everything ""~~ '"
readiness for the marriage at Sioux
Falls when the clergyman noted the
license was issued in Minnesota and
was not valid in South Dakota. LOef-
Ter got out of the difficulty by sum
moning his auto. ~bundling the clergy.
man and his wife and daughter n
Mrs. Earl Horton and himself and
sweetheart into it. The car was head
ed eastward. and when the Minnesota
boundary was crossed the car stopped
and the marriage ceremony was per-
formed.
1t is expected that choke cherry
| Tags will soon make their appear
ance in Lead and vicinity. Scores OF
people now are engaged in gathering
the choke cherry crop, which is abun-
dant this year in the lower valleys
of the Black Hills. AS numerous per-
| sons who never thought Of choke cher
nv picking before are among those
-.1,or chic fr,,if ~ ic G1CnpPfpd
that many Of the choke cherries Will
find their way into liquids with he
necessary kick"
AS the result Of a tent in which
they were sleeping catching fire. three
children Of Mrs. John Blewitt. of Mad
ison, had a narrow escape from being
burned to death. The tent was one in
which the members OF the family had
been sleeping during the summer. n
tent caught fire during the temporary
absence OF the mother. Mrs. Raeligh
Scudder. driving by, discovered the
fire and rescued two Of the children
while the third was rescued by Thorn
as Walden, a neighbor.
Sheriff f. A Keller, Of Madison. had
a narrow escpae from death when he
was overcome by gasoline fumes IN
his garage, where he was found IN An
unconscious condition. When Mrs. Kc.-
Ter retired at 1890 o'clock she heard
the engine of the car running In the
garage and thought her husband would
come to the house DOR When she
awakened at 5 a. m. she discovered
her husband was missing, and. going
to the garage, found him unconscious
and near death.
According to superintendent Roy
Brazell. Of Wind Cave, August OF this
wear established a new record for the
number Of visitors to the park In any
one month. The record on file shows
that approximately 5000 persons paid
admission to the cave during that
month.
A total Of sass, O50.40 is spread for
the support OF Aberdeen city depart
ments and schools, in the annual bud
get ordinance which was given its first
reading at a meeting Of the city com
mission.
The famous case Of the state OF
South Dakota against John Hayes, a
former Fort Pierre banker, whose
bank failed several years ago, will be
tried at the state circuit court foI
HYDE county "a Highmore. A change
Of venue was granted TO the Hyde
county circuit court SO the defendant
can secure a fair and impartial trial