The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-23
NEWS Of THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF TIM
WEEK IN CONDENSED
FORM.

Pho'
active mining operations by Jan 1,
promises to be one Of the best pay
ing mining proposition in the Black
Hills. Last September the Monarch
mining property was merged with the
Golden Feather and as the two prop
critics are adjoining and the workings
of the one are only a few rods from
those of the other, the merging proved
to be n Of the best moves that could
have been made.
Dancing to music furnished by wire
less Is one Of the possibilities at the
University of South Dakota this win
ter. The wireless station Of the uni
versity has been perfected until mes-
sages from Europe can be received,
while the sending radius has been ex
tended to 1000 miles. Recently, how
ever, a radiophone, or wireless tele-
phone set, was put in. enabling the
operator to hear dance music at the
University Of Nebraska and the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Completing the most successful
yCdA olhSO y VI 6duiZdIlOu III 1910,
the Groton Cooperative creamery, &C.
cording to figures submitted at a
meeting Of the directors, made over
10000 pounds of butter from Nov. /,
1920, to Nov. 1, 1921, and paid out
more than 100000 to the farmers in
that vicinity for cream.
Madison fishermen say that the
numerous large pickerel in both Lake
Madison and Lake Herman are max
ing inroads on the small %crappies
which abound in the two lakes. How
ever, as the crappies are propagated
SO rapidly it is not generally believed
that the pickerel will completely an
initiate the crappies.
Competition Of Pacific coast pack
ers for South Dakota hogs has Gre
ated a market in Aberdeen which has
made that city one OF the biggest
shipping points in the northwest. Re-
ports for the present indicate that
live stock shipments at this point are
in excess of q year ago. They are
chiefly hogs.
An important movement has been
inaugurated by a bank Of Wall, in
western South Dakota, for the pur.
pose Of aiding the farmers of the Wal
district to purchase mich COWS and
thus rebuild their cattle herds, which
were sadly depleted during the war
The Redfield commercial club has
adopted a plan Of reorganization by
which the activities of the club will
hereafter be handled by committees
or bureaus working under three gen
eral subdivisions, club affairs, bust
ness affairs and public affairs.
Organization of a new Associated
Charities body in Mitchell to coordi
nate all relief work of the city under
one head was completed at a meeting
at which representatives of 25 organi
cations of various kinds in the city
were present.
Monroe has recently organized
prepare themselves for citizenship
Anyone completing a course in thii
school is we'll qualified to go befor,
the court to secure citizenship papers
Fire, originating from unknown
causes, in the basement of the Well
block in Aberdeen ragged for IL hours
cutting the basement and first floo
of the building and causing damag'
estimated at 100000.
Vernon McNichols, who PLEADED
guilty to the murder Of Raymont
Brooks in Trip county, was sen
fenced in circuit court at Winner t.
20 years in the pe~nitentiary at Siou,
Falls.
Five thousand six hundred hail in
surance warrants, representing a to
tai of $S35,267 in paid claims hav'
been mailed out since Oct. Is by tn,
state hail insurance department.
or 1000, 900 fish which were ordered
for government fish hatchery il
Rapid City, $4,000 brook trout hav,
been received for placing next sprin,
in the Black Hills streams.
A special election has been called
for Lake Norden to vote on a pro
posed ordinance prohibiting dance,
and public dance halls in the town.
Tom Johnson, a lineman on a higl
powered transmission line between
White and Flandreau, was Instant,
killed while at work.
Recently a Doland produce com
pany purchased from farmers in tn,
vicinity Of Groton 5000 pounds O
poultry in one day.
Farmers Of Jefferson have JUS
shipped a carload of corn for tn,
starving children of the near east.
Sturgis Baptists are expecting t,
build a new church early in 1872.
which will cost $50
The county tax for Beadle count,
for 1921 will show a decrease of 4,
per cent over last year.
A Community Club has been organ
lied at Putney.
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