The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-02-20

district.
The engineering contract for the
Meridian highway bridge across the
Missouri river has been let by the di.
rectors Of the bridge company.
Shippers of Aberdeen will save ap-
proximately $4,000 a year by reason
of the freight rate adjustment just
ordered by the interstate commerce
commission.
Gov. Frank o Lowden and Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood will debate repub.
lican party principals under the
South Dakota primary law in Pierre
March 20, according to an acceptance
filed with the secretary Of state.
The county commissioners Of Tripp
and Lyman counties met in joint SEES
SION recently down on the White river,
between Kennebec and Winner, where
it has been agreed to put in a bridge
across the river.
Mltchell's school board has taken
cognizance OF the high cost of living
and voted TO pay all city school teach
ers a bonus OF 500 at the end Of the
year. The teachers asked for a
monthly salary increase, but this the
board refused.
Petitions asking the board Of county
commissioners to put before the vot-
ers 1T the March election the PROPOSE
ton Of bonding the county for $500, 900
for building a Highway system, are
being circulated among the voters Of
Perkins county.
Road improvements are to be made
in Moody county during the coming
season, both the roads east and west
from Flandreau coming in for a good
share Of the work. From the Lake
county line to the Minnesota line
this road will be graveled.
After the railroads are returned to
their owners on March l, it is expect
ed the Milwaukee company will make
good on promises made the residents
OF Alexandria before the war that a
new passenger and freight depot
building would be erected in that
city.
In the Orland consolidated school
district in Lake county, a special cleo
ton will be held when the proposition
for issuing bonds Of $40, 900 to be used
TO erect a consolidated school build
ing and a home for the teachers en-
ployed in the school, will be submit
ted 10 the voters.
The May brothers will establish in
the vicinity OF Parker a new industry
for the state, the manufacture Of sorg-
hum molasses. The decision to estab-
lish the industry will result in a
greatly increased acreage of sorghum
cane IN this territory his year. Seed
will be provided the farmers at cost,
II the state agricultural college at
Brookings will cooperate in making a
success OF the new industry.
Thirty-three South Dakotans lost
their lives during 1919 through the
medium OF fires, according to the an
nual report OF w. n. Van Camp, state
fire marshall. The total loss from
fires amounted to 81, 026, 2SS46 This
resulted from asa conflagrations. Sta
tistlcs show that 80 per cent of all
Tires are preventable. 1t was noted
that the per capita loss from fire
last year was Sill.
There is excitement in the so called
colony oil fields, some distance north
or Belle Fourche, and daily big trucks
are leaving Belle Fourche loaded with
material for those who are drilling
test wells for the purpose Of demon
stratlng whether or not oil car be
found in paying quantities. There
also Is excitement in the Nine Mile
creek district, where several oil drill
Ing rigs have been set up preparatory
to developing the district.
Kennebec has reason to feel rather
boastful because Of the rapid growth
II has made recently and the prospect
there Is for the immediate future. It
mas Deen estimated that 100 families
Will move into the town and country
contiguous this winter and spring, and
much building and other improve
ments are planned. The town has q
commercial club Of forty members,
who have recently rented a brick
building to be used as a club home.
Among plans for the immediate future
are the installing of a sewer system
and purchasing Of the electric light
plant which is now in estate and to
be sold. The town has a splendid
water system and some Of the best
residences In Dakota west Of the Mis-.
souri, river.
At a business session Of the annual
meeting OF the Society of Black Hills
Pioneers. OF Deadwood, the following
officers were elected for the coming
year: President. Capt. G. v. Gardner;
secretary, Paul Rewman; treasurer,
Charles Zoellner; historian, r. S.
Hughes. During the meeting former
Congressman E. w. Martin announced
that the late Capt. Seth Bullock. be-
fore his death. arranged for the pur-
chase Of twenty acres of land sur