The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-02
NEWS OF The STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
WEEK IN CONDENSED
FORM.

returned from the duulloI oiiiSC
were checked and put into the mail.
To Floyd A. O'Toole OF Presho. goes
the honor of having warrant No. /.
His file number was 36,631 and the
amount paid was S158.50. August G.
Schloesler Of Reliance, was No. z,
with a warrant for 5000, and George
l.. Goneway of Aberdeen, was No. 3.
with the maximum Of $500. The first
payments mark the beginning OF a
steady stream which will continue un-
til all applications are cared for.
For the third time Mrs. Elizabeth
Gamble Of Watertown, has been
awarded damages against Z. r. Reyes
and A. c. Ring OF Watertown, for in
juries alleged to have been sustained
by her when the defendants in 1914
forcibly entered her residence in
search of liquor and placed her in Jail
without, it was alleged, a warrant or
proper authority to do 30. The last
award was for $1,000.
South Dakota was represented at
Chicago at the ratification meeting of
the livestock marketing plan devel'
oped by the committee of fifteen by
the Western Stock Growers associa'
ton, Of Buffalo Gap. Every livestock
producing section of the United States
and practically every important live
stock producers organization was
represented at this conference.
One peculiar feature, in view OF
present conditions, Is reported from
the offices of county treasurers all
over the state, showing that the
amount received for taxes this year
is generally greater than 1t was for
the previous year, and hat there will
not be any great increase in the de.
linquent Ia lists.
Dale Barr, out on S25, 900 bail in
connection with the killing at Yves
sington Springs on October 20 of
George Washington Clifton, will be
tried in Dawson county. The motion
of Bars attorneys, requesting a
change of on the ground of pre-
JUDGE, was granted by Judge Frank
B. Smith.
Tentative plans for the annual Lin
coin county mid-winter fair to be held
in Canton, have been announced. The
dates are yet uncertain, officials OF
the fair state, but will be some time
during the month of February. The
fair will be held In the Canton live
stock sales pavilion.
At a meeting in Belle Fourche of
poultry raisers Of the Black Hills, the
Black Hills Poultry association was
reorganized. 1t was decided to hold
a poultry show in February, 1922, the
place and exact date to be decided at
a future meeting.
American Educational week will be
observed In South Dakota, as In all
the rest of the country, for the week
starting Dec. 4. The week Is being
backed by the American Legion and
the National Educational association
A monster boulder, weighing close
to 10, 900 pounds, has been placed in
the corner of the campus Of the Had
ison state normal school as a memoir
ial to Lake county soldiers and
nurses who served during the war.
Eight persons lost their lives in 9
fire which destroyed a farm dwelling
near Nunda. The victims were Mr.
and Mrs. Osmund Wallem and their
six children, the entire family being
wiped out.
To place alfalfa fields on the farms
of Hughes county along the Black ant
Yellow Trail is one Of the plans Of
the commercial club Of Pierre in 9
movement which has beeen started.
Two days open season on Chinese
r~ingnecked and English pheasants II
Beadle county has been announced
by State Game Warden II. S. He'd
rick for November Is and rs.
Phyllis Elenore Olson, age three
and one-half years, daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Olson who reside on
farm near Canton, was fatally burnet
and died a few hours later.
The trapping season does not begil
in this state until the first Of mex
month. Game wardens are reporting
arrests for trapping out of season.
The Rebekah lodges of White River
Dallas and Gregory met in Gregor!
recently and formed a district Re
bekah association.
The Flandreau Lutheran society
which was organized in 1880, dedi
Gated it's first church in Flandrea,
recently.
State Commercial club secretaries
will hold their annual convention II
Mitchell November Is and 26.
Residents Of Bancroft are proud O
a new school building which recently
was completed.
Work has commenced on the con
%struction of a Catholic church In
Owanka.
Women of Clark county have or
ganized q league of women voters.
In spite of the so-called crime wave
over the country. Yankton Is a law