The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-06-16
South Dakota
!. News

ii The town and vicinity of Carthage
will celebrate their annual field day on
Monday, June 20.
1 Rube Beck, who was employed on a
| farm Lar Miranda, was instantly
/ killed in a runaway.
] Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Amlund Of
Canton nave just celebrated their Elf
tieth wedding anniversary
Seventy-four student of the Mitchell
high school received diplomas at the
annual senior commencement.
Severe hail over limited territory
four miles south of Mellette caused Sc
we're damage to growing crops and
gardens.
The Bon Homme county farm bu-
reau has organized county livestock
shipping association with headquart-
ers at Tyndall.
Lennon promoters are making
plans for the organization of com.
pany to drill for gas within short
distance of Lennon
Farmers are subscribing literally
for stock in a new company which
plans erecting and operating a farm
ers' elevator in Elrod.
About 100000 speckled trout from
the government fish hatchery at Rapid
City are being placed in the streams
Il 1,1x q n. Is E =
Organization of the Willow Lakes
chamber Of commerce by the leading
business and professional men of that
thriving little city was perfected at a
recent well attended mass meeting.
An ordinance regulating the smoke
problem in Yankton was given it's first
reading by the city commission. 1t is
designed to lessen the fire risk and to
prevent inconvenience and discomfort
Ito residents.
The fee record of the department Of
the secretary Of state shows up for
| May with collections of $3,260.25,
which is one of the largest monthly
collections of that department since
its organization.
The great Bear Butte artesian well,
/! which has developed into the grand
father Of all artesian wells in South
/ Dakota, is running wild and strenuous
efforts are being made to control it..
This will be done by Gaping it.
The first harvesting OF the 1921 crop
/ So
cutting Of alfalfa begun, and by the
time this is completed winter rye, if
! it keeps up its progress, will require
4 attention in the earlisr sown fields.
An elaborate program has been pre-
! pared for the annual picnic and cele-
bration of the Lookout Picnic associa-
ton, to be held in Canton on Wednes-
day, June %, under the auspices of the
members of the local American Legion
H Post.
Mitchell overwhelmingly voiced dis
approval Of any effort to saddle furtk-
er Indebtedness on the city when vot-
ers went to the polls and voted, three
! to one, against proposal to increase
worth of water bonds and $4,000
worth Of sewer bonds.
With charter membership of "a
representative farmers and dair5men
in the vicinity of WatertoWn, the Cod
i ing ton County NiiiK Z roiueers assucia-
/ ton has been organized to promote the
interests of dairying, to increase pro-
duction and investigate plans for the
better marketing Of the milk supply.
1t now is assured that an immense
/ potato warehouse will be erected in
l Hayti in time to take care of this
seasons crop Of spuds. This district
Is one Of the great potato growing dis
tricts of the state, and many thou
sands Of bushels are annually shipped
| to other parts of the country where
the potato supply is short.
/ dividend Of $4,000 on an invest
ment Of only 5000 is said to be the
amount realized by Charles Warner in
/ Charles Mix county during his stay
there. Thirty years ago he moved to
10 farm which he bought near Platte
for 5000. Now he is moving back to
his former home at Cherokee, Ia. havH
ing rented his land interests to his
! sons.
Judge Frank Anderson, Of the cir
cult court at Aberdeen, has granted q
temporary Injunction, to restrain the
Ordway common school district OF
Brown county and its school directors
from issuing school bonds for that dis
1 trict in the sum Of $4,000 for the pur.
pose Of erecting q new two-room
school house.
Definite decision Of the South Da-
kota bonus board, meeting in Huron in
j conjunction with the executive com
mittee, to use the county seat plan Of
i distributing the bonus was reached