The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-10-07

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in length, the full width Of the road,
will span the creek. The approaches
will be filled level with the bridge.
The hills on each side Of the draw
will be cut down and widened and
when the whole is completed it vii be
one OF the finest pieces Of cOlstruc.
ton work on the highway.
Maxine Tretheway, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. T. II. ~Tretheway of Dead
wood, died in a hospital as the result
Of burns received while playing near
her home. In some manner the little
girl, who was only A years old. pro.
cured some matches, and lighting
them set fire to her clothing.
Two jewelry sample trunks con-
tanning watches and other iewclry
worth nearly $4,000, were stolen from
the Northwestern railway station at
Salem. The trunks were in the pos.
session Of a. l.. Huer, a representa-.
tive Of the II. +. Murdoch company Of
Minneapolis.
Charging that racial prejudice5 aug
mented by employees OF the Indian
service are barring The doors Of the
public schools to thair children. the
Lower Brule Sioux Indians have
made an appeal to the commissioner
OF Indian affairs in Washington for re-
lief.
The state fire marshaI5 department
is sending out for posting over the
state on Fire Prevention Day" Oct.
3, a striking poster showing firemeD
at work on n burning building, and
calling upon the people of the state to
use more ~precaution in regard to fire
Nearly 5000 acres OF school land
are to be leased by the Dawson IL
ty commissioners at public auction.
The land, according to the state law,
is leased under ~five-year contracts,
but the law provides that the rental
shall not be less than 81 per year.
At a meeting held by the county
commissioners of Kingsbury county and
The state highway commission, bids
were opened for the construction OF a
highway between Iroquois and De.
Smet. The contract was awarded to
a Sioux Falls contractor.
The Tulare consolidated school dis.
trict has purchased two new trucks
with passenger bodies, which will be
used for hauling children to and from
the consolidated school there. Each
vehicle has a capacity of from 20 TO
rs pupils.
Farmers in the vicinity of Madison
have decided TO pay three or four
cents per buahoI to corn pickers this
season. A large number of men can
be used in Lake county when work in
the cornfields gets under way.
AS the result Of eating liver pills
which are supposed to have contained
a liberal quantity Of strychnine, Mil
dred Pearl Edison, the o~ne-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. S. Edi.
son, Of WATERFOWL, is dead.
A total of 1900 persons were in at
tendance on the last day of the first
annual fair Of Mcpherson and Camp
bell counties held in Eureka. Gov.
McMaster was the chief speaker on
the closing day.
Residents in the vicinity of White
Lake were frightened recently when
an earthquake shock occurred there.
The tremors were also felt in other
towns west of the Missouri river, it
is reported.
Fred Brerton, a farmer in the vi
entity of Wetonka and a former rail.
road man, has invented a potato dig.
ger which bids fair to revolutionlze
the method Of digging the crop.
Gam Valley has organized a vigil.
ance committee as a %pTecaution in
case Of a visit from one of the numer-
Gus gangs of burglars and robbers that
are infesting that territory.
AT a special election to be held in
Winner October IL bonds will be vot-
ed on for the purchase of an engine
to more fully equip the local electric
light and power plant.
1t is officially announced that the
attendance at the state normal school
in Aberdeen this fall shows an in.
crease Of Is per cent over the attend
ance n year ago.
Fire which swept through the ma.
tiOnal forest reserve in Parmalee can.
yon, west Of Lead, was brought under
control after doing much damage to
standing timber.
The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hugo Oldsen, living on q farm near
Oldham, was drowned as a result OF
falling into a pail of separated milk,
Homer Ness, the 13~-months-old son
Of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ness. who re-
side lea Fulton, fell into a tank OF
water and was drowned.
Because Of tho increase Of burglary
and other crimes in Aberdeen, bust.
ness men are demanding that the Pc
lice force be increased.
Bids have been opened at Huron fol-
the erection of a new school building
which is to be built in that city at a
cost Of about $50, 900!
The contract for a new $50, 900 sew
err system in Tyndall has been award