The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-12-16
Neus of
South Dakota

The Aberdeen police department is
waging war on violators OF the auto
mobile speed law.
The state collected $277,S60.75 mort
gage registry tax for the first 10
months Of this year, up to Nov. l.
A Flandreau factory has been award
ed the contract for building all the
grain graders put out by a grain
grading company Of Minneapolis.
A number of young men OF Hooker
have started a movement for the
erection OF a small opera house to
meet the demand for q public meeting
place.
Four thousand dollars toward the
reward for the capture Of the slayer
of Rev. Father A. B. Belknap. at Lead,
was pledged by state officials of the
Knights Of Columbus.
1t ia believed by many that a fire.
bug" is operating at Egan, and citi-
zens Of that city are making an in.
vestigation to determine the cause of
a number of fires there recently.
The new artesian well drilled at
Wylie park near Aberdeen to refill
Lake Mime .Eho has been completed
and the flow is said to be between
1900 and $500 gallons per minute.
Everett, the 12-year-old O of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Mediger. residing on a
farm, rear Huron. accidentally hung
himself in a roller towel. Death was
instantaneous, due to a broken neck.
Battery A OF the national guard of
Flandreau soon will be an active mill.
tary organization. Word has been re-
ceived that 80 cavalry horses have
been shipped to Flandreau from Camp
Grant.
The sheriff of Edmunds county is
detailing some of the business men.
under agreement, to serve each night
as guards in the business section Of
Ipswich. Besides the regular night
Waterman, two are also on duty dur.
ing the night.
A committee appointed at a meeting
OF taxpayers of Day county will ap
pear before the county commissioners
for the purpose Of going ver county
matters, in the hope that county ex
penses can be reduced SO taxes will
be lighter next year.
Attorney General Payne holds that
q suit club, which is being conducted
ct Huron, where 40 men agree to each
pay In 81 . week, one of them to get
: so suit each week, the selection to
be by drawing, is a lottery under the
law Of this state and therefore il IL
legal.
Allen Gordon Ward. 5-year-old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Allen w. Ward. OF
Farmingdale, is q youthful prodigy.
He can read anything that is placed
before him. His knowledge of loca-
ton is remarkable, al he can tell in.
stantly where any town in the United
States IL located.
When business men of YanktOn, In
so cars. made q two-day booster trip
up the Platte line they did something
unprecedented in the annals OF such
tours by taking with them a com.
pletely equipped radio car and issuing
q special wireless edition Of a Yank'
ton newspaper in each of the % towns
visited.
It IL not necessary that county in.
stitute warrants be audited by the
board Of county commissioners. &C
cording to to a recen opinion from
the attorney generals office. Such
warrant may he issued by the county
auditor upon certified vouchers ap
proved by the county superintendent
OF schools.
The latest oil discussion starts In
weird tale that the Sioux Indians or
Cheyenne River reservation have fol
many years known OF immense OF
areas, but have kept this q secret
from the whites. Now It is said they
are making arrangements to open NJ
this field on the reservation for thei1
own benefit.
As the oil investigation by the state
geological survey progresses. more
favorable indications are found Of the
presence OF oil In this state. Prof. r
A. Wilson, oil geoogist OF the survey
has recently returned from his field
work west Of the Missouri river and
north Of the Cheyenne. bringing this
optimistic report.
The Canistota commercial club hal
decided to place q large electric ligh'
on top Of the water tower. which car
% seen for miles. around. A commit
tee Wal appointed to provide = mu
nicipal skating pond, and also . com
mittee was appointed to secure, o.
build . place In which the school pu
pills can play basketball.
Sheriff Dahlin. Of Union county. In.
received ! letter demanding that hi
drop his investigation Of q recent RAID
% the farm home Of Les Morlan. I
wealthy land owner. by . band o
white robed men. who compelled hin
"a return to his tenant. Harry Hamp
ton. ! note Tor $500. Tho letter in
dicated that the sheriff would have =
lot 81 nee. Tor ) pine coffin" II he die
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