The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-04-07
JUNIOR Gu B WOR K
SOUTH DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS
ENROLL IN MANY
ACTIVITIES

More than $500 South Dakota farm
boys and girls between the ages OF
10 and Is years inclusive, are already
enrolled in the various projects Of the
junior agricultural club work for the
present season, according to Paul j.
Scarbro, state club leader. connected
with the extension division of the
state agricultural college. The work
which these boys and girls will con-
duct on the farms of the state this
year will range from the growing OF
pigs to dressmaking and will include
nearly every subject farm youngsters
are interested in. Baby pork clubs
are the most popular with SOY litter
and gardening clubs running close
seconds. Plans are already being
made for the Boys and Girls club
camps this Summer, which in former
years have developed so much inter-
est in junior farm work throughout
the state. Indications are that prac-
tically every county will either con-
duct its own camp or will cooperate
with other counties in the junior
short course work for these club
camps.
Another effort for the immediate
linking of eastern and western South
Dakota, by means Of a permanent
wagon bridge, is being made by the
Pierre commercial club, according to
the recent announcement of that or
g~anization. The club has obtained en-
gineers' figures showing the cost and
feasibility of the Chicago and North
western railway company planking
the railroad bridge between this city
and FIT. Pierre and adopting a system
of tolls for vehicles and pedestrians.
The plan, which will be submitted to
railroad officials within a few weeks
by a committe representing the club,
calls for the planking OF the bridge
b the company, the construction Of toll
gates at each end and the discontin-
uance of the ferry train, which makes
the two-mile run between the cities
on a wo-hour schedule during the day.
After a legal battle which ran the
gamut of the state railway commits
sion, the United States district court,
the South Dakota supreme ecu aud
the federal railroad administration,
the chamber of commerce of this city
at last is seeing the contamination of
its efforts to have the Northwestern
Railway company build a "Y" to con-
meet their tine with the Milwaukee.
This will virtually give Mitchell a belt
rail service.
Bids will be opened on April 20 at
Fort Thompson on about 60 tracts of
Indian inheritance lands which will be
sold to the highest bidder. These
tracts range from 40 acres to 800
acres in size. The sales are made
under sealed bids, and the terms are
optional, either 10 per CEN with bid
and 80 per cent on acceptance; or 10
per cent with bids, 20 per cent within
30 days and the balance in two annual
payments at s per cent.
The farmer may lay just claim to
holding the record for deflation, ac-
cording to figures complied by the
American Farm Bureau federation
covering d~eflation comparisons of var
ious commodities. Price indexes of
the month of February, as founded on
figures released by the bureau Of labor
statistics on March IL, show farm rod
ucts to be only % per cent above
the 1914 level, and all commodities 67
per cent above.
Yankton homes will have to be
opened to accommodate the bankers
Of the state who are expected to at
tend the annual convention OF the
South Dakota Bankers association,
which will be held here June FL and
%, according to advance indications
! for local hotels will be taxed far be-
yond their capacity.
County school superintendent in
counties having an area in square
congressional townships or major
fractional parts of such townships, are
entitled to receive a salary of not less
than $1,S00 per annum, according to
the opinion handed down by Attorney
General Byron s. Payne.
On March 80, the new Black Hills
sale pavilion will be open to the public
with a Hereford sale. Fifty-eight pure
bred Hereferds will be the first ami
mails to be sold through the new sale
ring at Whitewood, 6. d. The new
pavilion will seat 500 people and stall
eighty head of cattle.
A hearing recently was concluded
before the state supreme court at
Pierre IN the action involving the ap-
pointment of a city manager for Rapid
City. At the conclusion of the hear
ing the court took the case under ad-
vissment. An early decision Is looked
for.
A law enforcement convention will
be held in Mitchell on Tuesday, April
5, with a number of prominent people
of the state al speakers.
The South Dakota Farm bureau has
received a copy of a letter from Cas-