The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-06-23

graveled a part of a new highway run.
ming through Webster last fall, the
webster commercial club took the
matter in hand. with the result that
surfacing was recently completed by a
community graveling bee. Farmers
m to~wnspeorle pledged ia all 100
days works. Food Cor the workers was
donated by the merchants of Webster,
cooked and brought to the men on the
job. Sufficient force was maintained
to move about 200 loads of gravel q
day until the project was completed.
Governor MoMaster will deliver the
chief address at the "oil day" cele-
bration, to be held at the Standing
Butte field, 80 miles northwest of
Pierre and Fort Pierre, on Friday,
June II. This will be the biggest oil
event in the history Of the state, and
Is being arranged for under the aus.
pices Of the Pierre and Fort Pierre
commercial clubs, celebrating the
"spudding in" by the South Dakota De-
velopment and Refining company at
the Standing Butte field.
Plans for remarking and improving
the trail from Granite Falls to its
western terminus, working In coop
Grafton with the state highway com-
mission In the development of the road
west of Gettysburg and also for he
organization of towns and communi-
ties along the route through western
South Dakota were made at the an
nual meeting Of the Twin City, Black
Hills Trail association in Watertown.
A large number of motion picture
films are being sent out to American
Legion Posts in South Dakota by the
state university. The material con-
sists in the main Of battlefield pictures
in France and Belgium, feature stories
involving war episodes, health films
and industrial series.
Yankton will make an effort to Sc
cure the 1922 convention of the South
Dakota Retail Merchants association.
The construction of a bridge across
the Missouri river, and the location OF
the city, it Is argued make it an ideal
place for the holding of this and other
conventions.
The Tri-State Fair association,
whose grounds are in Aberdeen, recog-
ni2ing the Importance of corn growing
in northern South Dakota is offer
ing liberal cash prizes for exhibits of.
the standard varieties Of corn to be
made at the fall festival of the asso-
citation.
Proposals have been made to the
Yankton park board that piles be
driven into the bottom of the Mis-
souri, river at a point near the city,
and that an area be roped in to pro-
vide a suitable patching beach for the
w~ater-lovers Of the city.
A bill has been introduced in the
lower house Of congress by Congress
man Christopherson providing an APP
preparation of 5000, 900 for the pur-
chase of a site and the erection of a
postoffice building in Flandreau.
The first case to test the constitu-
tionality of the much discussed
Abandonment of the consolidated
school law passed by the last legisla-
ture will in all probability come from
Minnehaha county.
One Potter county man who failed
to market all his last years potato
crop is planting over 100 acres to po-
tatoes this year, on the basis that they
will be about the most profitable crop
he can handle.
Reduction of wages Of employees OF
he city street department of Yank-
ton, from 81 to $3.50 per day, to con
form to reductions made by the board
Of county commissioners, has been dc
cided upon.
Because they believe taxes are too
high in Mitchell, a number of taxpay-
ers have called a mass meeting to
discuss the ways and means of lower.
ing the tax levy for next year.
Actual construction of the James
river viaduct, four miles east of Mitch.
ell, for which a contract was let by the
state several weeks ago, has started
Fred Hoffman, so, a farmer living
between Lennox and Worthing, was
instantly killed when the gun he was
carrying was accidentally discharged.
Grandma" Elliott, of Aberdeen, who
claims the distinction of being the old
est oma in the state, celebrated her
102d birthday anniversary recently.
The registration of automobiles in
South Dakota to the close of business
May 81 shows a total OF 101 ,129 autos,
1912 trucks and 462 motorcycles.
The contract for the erection Of a
Junior high school building In Aber.
deem has been awarded. The struc.
ture will cost about S125, 900.
Marion Hunt, aged z, was drowned
in Rhine creek near Yankton, the sec
ond local drowning OF the season.
Hundreds Of people will attend
the annual sports day. to be held at
Bison on Thursday. June %.
Proper steps have been taken by
the volga Athletic association to OBJ
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