The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-06-23
South Dakota
News

ment has been reorganized.
South Dakota Osteopaths will zneet
in Sioux Falls some time during the
month of August
Celebration of the Fourth Of July
is to be held at Lake Madison, &C.
cording to an announcement.
The Washington Springs Junior col
lege this year graduates % pupils
from the various departments Of the
school.
The baseball grandstand in Redfield
burned to the ground, entailing a loss
of over $1,000. The fire is believed to
lave been of incendiary origin.
Tens of thousands of young trout
are being distributed in the streams
and ponds of the Black Hills, these
coming from the federal fish hatch.
cry at Spearfish.
Harry Meyers, OF Mitchell, who suf-
fered an accident which resulted in
conclusion of the brain, regained con-
seriousness after having been in a
state of coma for 102 hours
Governor McMaster has advised the
local committee that he is planning
to attend the annual frontier day
celebration, to be held in Belle
Fourche on July 4, 5 and s.
Local committees of the Masonic
lodge are meeting with good success
in their efforts to secure funds for the
erection Of new Masonic temple in
Dell Rapids. 1t now is believed the
project will be successful.
Work will commence at an early
date on an electric power and heating
plant to be installed in Brookings in
accordance with the result Of
special election, when bonds of $50, 900
were voted for the purpose.
The state board of railroad com.
missioners, as the result of hearing
held some time ago, has issued an
order requiring the Great Northern
railway company to install electric
lights in the .Voiin depot and also
light the depot platform by electricity.
That the Rapid City authorities are
in earnest in their campaign to en-,
force the curfew ordinance was indi.
Gated when a number of little boys
were rounded up by the police for
not observing the curfew and being
off the streets after 8 o'clock at night.
Good progress is being made in tbs
wnrk nf rocfnol/i,,o Lob
with game fish from Big Stone lake.
The lake, which is one Of the largest
in the northwest mas an average
depth of IA or Is feet, sufficient to
insure the safety and increase OF
nearly all kinds of game fish.
Lying -on bank of ferns in his
greenhouse in Huron, Charles KnadIe
age 80 years, was found by his wife
dying, while lying beside him was
glass which had contained a nicotine
solution used for spraying plants. He
had swallowed an ounce of the solu
ton
That South Dakota farm land yet
commands good prices, notwithstand-
ing the slump in the prices of many
farm products, is shown by the sale
of the Fibben estate near Davis,
Turner county, embracing zoo acres
of farm land, which brought 1920 an
acre cash. 1870.
Six men at the University of South
Dakota have qualified this year for
membership in the national athletic
fraternity, Sigma Delta Psi. Member
ship in this organization is purely hon
orary, depending on the candidates
ability to pass number Of difficult
tests in various forms Of athletics and
gymnastics
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has rendered a decision in the
Moody county telephone cases, order
ing the Dakota Central Telephone com
pany to permit subscribers living in
the vicinity Of the exchange towns OF
Moody county to use the lines Of the
company upon payment of an addi-
tional rental Of $3.50.
The Black Hills section OF the
state appears to be the outing place
for boy scouts this summer, the big
gest movement in that direction being.
the delegation from Clinton, Ia, which
will be in the Hills the latter part Of
the month. Scouts from Chamberlain
are now in the Hills, and another dele
cation from Lennon Of both boy and
girl scouts Is making the tour with big
trucks TO haul them and their camp.
outfits.
For the past week alfalfa cutting
and corn cultivating hos bean the Or
der OF the day on most Of the farms
OF the state, While an occasional
field of corn, is to be found in the
southern part Of the stats which show.
more progress than the average, these
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