The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-06-16

s Trooper steps nave sDSaflF TAKEN ~
the Volga, Athletic association to OBJ
serve Independence Day.
Hundreds of people will attend
the annual sports day, to be held a.
Bison on Thurs June 3D.
Marion Hunt, aged z, was drowned
/ in Rhine creek near Yankton, tha SEQ
Iond local drowning of the season
The contract for the erection of
junior high school building in Aber
deem has been awarded The struc
sure will cost about $125, 900.
The egistra ton Of antotaon iles IN
South Dakota to the close OF business
May 81 shows a total OF 10I, 129 autos,
1922 trucks and 462 motorcycles.
Grandma Elliott, Of Abs deem, who
claims the distinction of being the old
est woman8in the state, celebrated her
lO2d birthday anniversary recently.
Fred Hoffman, so, farmer living
between Lennon and Worthing, was
instantly killed when the gun he was
carrying was accidentally discharged.
Actual construction of the James
river vladuct, four miles east Of Mitch
ell, Tor which a contract was let by the
state several weeks ago, has started
Because they believe taxes are too
high in Mitchell, a number of Staxpay-
ers have called mass meeting to
discuss the ways and means of lower
ing the tax levy for next year.
Reduction of wages of employees on
the 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.
One Potter county man who failed
TO market all his last years potato
crop is planting over 100 acres to DO.
tatoes this year, on the basis that they
will be about the most profitable crop
he can handle
The first case to test fhe constitu.
tlonality OF the much discussed
abandonment of the consolidated
school" law passed by the last legisla.
ture will in all probability come from
Minnehaha county.
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A bill has been introduced in the
lower house of congress by Congress-
man Christopherson providing an ap.
preparation of 100000 for the pur.
chase Of site and the erection Of a
postoffice building in Flandreau.
Proposals have been made to ths
Yankton park board that piles be
driven into the, bottom of the Mis-
| souri, river at point near the city,
and that an area be roped in to pro,
vide suitable patching beach for ths
water-lovers Of the city.
| The Tri-state Fair association,
whose grounds are in Aberdeen, recog.
nizing 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.
Yankton will make an effort to Sc.
cure the 1922 convention of the South
Dakota Retail Merchants association,
The construction of 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.
i large number of motion picture
4 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 in France and Belgium, feature stories
involving war episodes. health films
and industrial series.
Plans for remarking ana IMPROVING
the trail from Granite Falls to it's
western terminus, working in coop.
5eTation with the state highway com.
mission in the development of the road
west of Gettysburg and also for the
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 WATERFOWL.
Governor McMaster will deliver the
chief address at the "oil day cele.
bration, to be held at the Standing
Butte field, 50 miles northwest Of
Pierre and Fort Pierre, on Friday.
June IL This will be the biggest oil
event in the history Of the state, and
is being arranged for under the aus.
pieces Of the Pierre and Fort Pierre
commercial clubs, celebrating the
"spudding I'M by the South Dakota De.
velopment and Refining company az
| the Standing Butte field.
When because Of a lack Of funds,
the county commissioner OF Day
county were compelled to leave I'm.
graveled q part OF a new highway run.
ming through Webster last fall, the
| Webster commercial club took the