The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-09-16
Reports from tourists to the lands

say it is a land of wonderful oppor'
tunity. The government town OF New
ell, in the center, is headquarters for
the Belle Fourche Valley Water Users
association and the United States rec
lamation service. The soil is very
fertile and Will produce a large yield
Of all farm products, while the Alfalfa
crop is at present the leading crop.
The large storage reservoir holds zoo
600 acre fee. OF water and is supplied
by the Redwater and Belle Fourche
rivers, so that there is never any
shortage Of water.
Huron was chosen as the next con-
vention city by the state convention
vention city by the state convention OF
American Legion in session in Rapid
City. II was also decided not to es-
tablish a permanent South Dakota
headquarters at this years meeting.
\ resolution which would have made
it impossible for a state a%ppointiye Of
sicar to hold office in the legion was
defeated. This is said TO have made
certain the reelection Of Fred b.
Ray, Of Yankton. as state commander
of the organization. Mr.. Ray is head
Of the South Dakota soldiers bonus
board.
AS a result Of a special election re-
Gently held there, Faulkton will take
a plunge into municipal ownership.
At the election bonds were voted to in
stall an electric light plant. The
present plant, owned by private par
ties, has been ordered sold to satisfy
the claims OF creditors, and it is the
intention Of the city, with the bonds
voted at the special election, to buy
that portion Of the equipment which
can be used in installing the new city
electric light plant.
Little Bend school district, in Sully
county, is at present erecting a log
schoolhouse. But unlike the old ones,
it is being erected along the lines re-
quired for a modern country school
building, with logs used as the struc-
tural material instead of lumber, as
they are cheaper and more convenient
in that locality than would be lumber
with a haul Of over forty miles.
Emile Klebe. of Harold, is one Of
the successful tobacco growers Of this
state, having 4 good crop this year
md stating hat he has been success
fully growing tobacco on his farm for
the past several years. He reports
his crop this year to be maturing, and
that he has never had any trouble in
getting a crop finished ahead of frost.
Because the Mexican National Mil
itary band has never been uniOnized,
that musical organization will not APP
pear at the Mitchell corn palace festi-
val as originally planned. Instead,
Karl l.. King and his band has been
engaged to provide the music for the
occasion.
After lying on the ground in an I'M
conscious condition for several hours
Patrick Reeves, a prominent unmar-
ried farmer of Roberts county, was
found by a ~neighbor, who rushed him
to a hospital, where he died as the
result of an attack of heart failure.
A landscape gardener has been in
specting the state park near Custer
with a view to beautifying it and Sc
lecting the most desirable sites Tor
several cottages which are to be built
by the state for renting purposes.
Work on the road between Salem
and Montrose is being rapidly pushed.
This will be the greatest Improvement
in road making yet attempted in Nc
Cook county and will facilitate travel
Of all kinds.
Completion Of the full eight piers
Of the Meridian Highway bridge at
Yankton before winter sets in is the
aim of the contracting firm, and will
be accomplished, according to the con.
tractors.
A $4,000 issue Of Volga city bonds
has been sold to VOlga citizens. 1t is
the intention of the council to have
Volga connected up with the light and
power plant of Brookings by Novem-
Der /.
One million, five hundred and nine
" IuOuodHu, SCNCD Iultticu duu lllty
dollars worth of property was con.
sumed by fire in South Dakota during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1921.
Not a single case Of army worm
trouble has been reported in South
Dakota this year, according to A. L..
Ford, extension entomologist at State
college.
Three city employees of Aberdeen.
Louis Vandercoy, Dan Guse and Leo
Stroh, lost their lives by drowning in
the city sewer disposal plant there.
The hall at Wentworth has been
purchased by the local American Le-
gion post, which will expend $1,000
in improving the building.
After a delay for some time, drill
ing operations have been resumed at
the Elk creek oil structure. The drill
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