The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-09-02
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENlNGS OF THE
WEEK..

VI outNSAp 80
to E. Fl. Baldwin, of Clark, president
OF the new organization. Several
creameries have been making carlot
shipments recently under informal!
agreement, and substantial gains in re-
returns have been thus secured not
oll ip freight rates but also in higher
prices ION a product delivered in bet
ter condition and in more regularity
OF shipment. The results obtained
have created a desire among cream
cries to form a legal organization with
ironclad contracts. Savings will also
be effected in carlot purchases of salt
and other creamery supplies.
Subnormal temperature throughout
the state during the last week, while
it has retarded to a certain degree the
development Of the corr crop, has
been more than compensated by the
rather general light to moderately
heavy showers accompanying it, &C.
cording to reports from county agents
and the weekly crop summary Of M.
E. BlystOne, Of Huron, state meteoro-
logist for the Unit I'd States depart
ment OF agriculture. Some early fields
will be beyond danger of frost within
two weeks, the Huron report states.
That the depression which hit the
live stock industry in this part of the
country is passing vas indicated by
prices paid at a recent sale Of pure
bred Duroc Jersey hogs held in Mitch
ell. The average price received for
thirty-two hogs was s101. the top be
ing $210. 1t is the growing impress
sion among stockmen that prices are
becoming stabilized and hat the un
certain conditions of the past few
months are gradually improving.
Joe" Foertsch. charged with the
murder Of his wife at her ranch home
near Fairburn in the Black Hills, OH
the night of July 20, as the result of
his preliminary hearing has been held
under a bond Of SIT, 500 for trial in
the circuit court of Custer county
Thus far he has been unable to furnish
bond and occupies a cell in the Custer
county Jail.
Twenty-eight persons were burned
to death or died as the result of burns
in South Dakota during the calendar
year of 1920, a report 500 to be issuen
by the state insurance department vii
show. This is almost twice as many
as were burned during the fiscal yea
ending June 80, 1920 and establishe-
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Stanley county sheepmen viii b.
given an opportunity this year to bar
ter their wool for mill products a.
the result of arrangements made by
J. G. Rogers, Of Midland, president Of
the South Dakota Sheep and Woo.
Growers association, who has re
turned from a trip to Chicago for tina
purpose.
To date, $3.50 has beer contributed
by residents Of South Dakota t.
Pueblo floor sufferers through Re-
Cross channels, according to figure
from the auditing department of the
central division with headquarters il
Chicago.
A bronze tablet ordered by Hyde
county about a yea ago to common
crate those who died, were wounded
or who served during the world wa
has just arrived and soon will be put
into place in a position yet to BIZ
chosen.
Aroused by the many bank, postof
flee and store robberies the citizens
OF the towns OF Moody county are
forming organizations of %vigilantes to
assist the sheriff in running dow
robbers.
Lincoln county will be the scene OF
q hot senatorial fight, which will b.
waged from this time until the primary
election next March. 1t is expected
the fight will be a t~hree-cornered one.
The Western South Dakota Alfalfa
Seed Growers exchange, with head
quarters at Rapid City, now claims TO
have 1,O00,0 00 bushels of seed in sight
for the crop Of this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elon G. Pettigrew. who
came to Moody county in 1878 and
AaSC SiASC ItSlutu mere, |CbiCDEdEEu
their golden WI dding at their home IN
Flandreau.
More than one-half Of the street paw
ing planned In Rapid City for this sea.
son has been completed, this amount
ing to 10000 square yards.
The flour mill at Miller has been
placed in good condition and will soon
resume operations after having beea
shut down for some time.
Never since the hog raising business
became n of the industries OF the
state have porkers been as scarce as
they are now.
At a special election in Wagner
bonds Of $4,000 were voted for the
erection of a new school building.
AS threshing progresses in the
northern half Of the state there is no
definite increase in the percentage Of
y