The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-09-23
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According TO the Aberdeen Ameri-
can the South Dakota State Fair held
at Huron last week is short something
like $4,000 this year on account of
wet weather.
If they make the South Dakota
Bad Lands IA national park, here's
hoping they change the name. That
bad Lands has tainted a fertile
and desirable part Of the state in the
minds of strangers and the east long
enough.-Aberdeen American.
Dewey Wetzel has resigned as man.
ager Of Of the Northwestern Bell tel
ephone company for this district and
has gone TO Norfolk, where he will be
associated with his father in the
monument business. &. G. Wetzel, a
brother Of the former manager. has
accepted the position Dallas News.
DO YOU WANT CLEAR
ROADS NEXT WINTER?
Let every farmer see to it that all
weeds and grass along the roadWays
be cut at once 50 that it will be easy
Lo keep the roads open for traffic next
winter. This will mean that you will
get youc mail regularly and that if
anybody becomes suddenly i'll during
stormy weather, a doctor will be able
to get through. Now the weeds. Do
it now.-Colome Times.
South Dakota druggists who get
permits for buying liquor, will have
their work simpliied by a recent reg
u.ation Of commissioner Haynes. The
state law requires that a certified copy
Of the federal permit be filed with the
state sheriff Of Pierre, and then he
issues the state permit TO buy and to
transport the liquor. According to a
regulation received today 10y Isaac
Pearson, prohibition director, he is
now given the authority TO send the
copy direct TO Pierre, thus saving the
purchaser the trouble of bothering
with the red tape, and Fastening tie
delivery about three days. Hereafter
the prohibition commissioner will take
care of this detail, and relieve the
druggist or other purchaser Of the
necesSity.-Vermillion Republican.
We often wonder why there is such
a vast difference made in things. 1t
is all right to take a bath OF Sunday
but to go in swimming on the same
day is wicked, according to some peo-
pie. Playing ball on Sunday is also
wrong, according to the same indiyid-
uals. But these same birds see moth
ing wrong in burning up roads in
their jitneys and high powered cars.
And in other instances they are equal
ly inconsistent, 1t is a fact that the
blue Sunday" fellows have no Scrip
tural authority for the p~uritanical
Sunday they are en%deavoring to force
on tie people. A close reading Of the
Scriptures carries the conviction that
the Lord ordained and appointed the
Sabbath to atford'mankind a day of
rest and relaxation from the strenu-
oSities of the preceding six days. Sit
ting down, with folded hands, is far
from being either restful or refresh
ing to the man or woman who has
theoretically striving for six days in
whatever vocation or calling in life
their lot may have been cast. We
have all the respect in the world for
those who feel that they cannot con-
sistently 60 to a Sunday ball game.
But when these self appointed exposi-
tors of the Scriptures and guardians
of the public endeavor to force their
ideas and convictions on everybody
else they are taking in too much ter
ritory and should be told to attend to
their own knitting. Your true Chris
tian Is broad minded enough to adj
nit that other people have a right to
their own opinions and that it is not
beyond the realms Of probability that
some of his own particular ideas may
be a trifle twisted. The world is grad
ually emancipating itself from the
thru s of puritanical prejudice and
r. anded bigotry and emerging forth
into an era in which children to enjoy
to the full harmless pleasures of this
life-and the Lord is regarded as a
loving father-one who wishes his
earthly not the austre, ascetic task
master pirtured by these "Blue Sun
day. fellows, We have seen people
who claimed to be happy in the Lord
and they put in most Of their time
making other people miserable. We
have seen others who have made no
loud protestations but who went their
several ways scattering sunshine, help
ing their fellow men oye the rough
spots of life and granting to their fell
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