The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26

ing activities during the spring n
summer Among the enterprises TO
be taken up and financed to a stated
amount are high school athletics, a
Fourth Of July celebration, farmers
dinner, soldiers picnic, old settlers
picnic and assistance to the building
Of hat part Of the Yellowstone auto
mobile trail which passes through lp-
switch.
An indefinite postponement of the
high school building project in Water
town will result from the defeat OF
the proposed additional school bond
issue OF $50, 600. The sun of $780,
900 already had peer voted, but this
was found insufficient and the add.
tional bonds were asked for.
Boys OF Milbank have organized a
Junior band Of 90 pieces, which is ex-
pected to be increased to SO before
the summer is over.
Preliminary steps toward the pos
sible amendment at the next session
Of the state Legislature OF the present
good roads law were taken at q meet
ing held in Sioux Falls by the good
roads committee OF the Sioux Falls
chamber Of commerce, several county
commissioners and representatives OF
4 number Of townships.
Work will be started as soon as
weather will permit on the construc.
ton Of a new high school building
IN Sn1hU uyhinb ,,,t11 ,,-A I. hpn
coo. Features Of the building will be
a modern gymnasium, domestic
science department, shower baths and
manual training.
September %. 80, and 80 have been
set as the dates for the annual Clark
county fair in Clark. During the sum.
mer a new stock barn will be erected.
only five paupers are inmates of
the Beadle county poor house at the
present time.
March % has been fixed as the date
for a special election to be held
opment company has been organized.
the proposition of authorizing the is
suance OF 100000 in bonds for good
road building will be submitted to the
voters of the county.
Gov. Peter Norbeck has announced
that he will call a special session of
the state legislature soon after the
March primaries. The principal mat.
ter to come before the legislature. he
said, will be the matter Of a bonus TO
soldiers Of South Dakota.
The contract for the concrete work
on the Observation-Disclosures Highway
has been awarded by the Dawson
county commissioners. A number of
small culverts will be included in the
work to be done.
The state highway commission has
practically decided to gravel the roads
from the Peterson schoolhouse north
OF Elk Point on the middle grade to
the Sioux bridge at North Riverside.
The town board Of Rec HEIGHTS has
been petitiOned to call a special cleo
ton and submit to the voters the
question of issuing bonds for Install
ing a municipal waterworks system.
Madison baseball fans plan organ
lzing a stock company or baseball
association, with a capital of $4,000,
10 maintain a team in the field dur
ing the coming season.
The annual Walworth county fair
Will be held in Selby beginning July -
it was decided at the annual meet.
ing OF the fair association.
The work Of street paving will be re-
sumed in Huron about April 1, and a
number of paving projects will be
pushed to completion during the
spring and summer.
Miller is making a bid to get into
the state baseball league and will
have a representative in the organiza-
ton meeting 1t Huron.
Presbyterians Of Britton have start
ed construction of a new church
building which will cost $50, 900 be-
fore it is completed.
The capacity of the Mobridge cleo
trio light plant will be doubled by
the installation Of more equipment
during 1920.
Because OF the high cost Of street
paving. F~landreau's street paving
project for this year may be aban-
doned.
FIandreau Methodists have decided
to erect a new church this year at a
cost of about $4,000.
The American Legion in Faulkton
plan a modern and fire proof building
which will be a community center.
On the 1100-foot level of the Home
stake mine there is at work a little
machine that is doing the work of
many men and doing it we'll. 1t is
an invention of Captain Hoar, one of
the old time mining bosses of copper
region of Michigan, a mechanical mine
shovel, and since it has been in op-
Grafton has loaded from 100 to 125
cars of ore a shift with the assist
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