The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-01

Representative y. Ii. IeITY anu MS
son of White RIVER were in town Mon
day and made this Office a pleasant
call,
Miss Mae Fitzkee who taught a
term of school at Ortonville, Mime
sofa the past school year, arrived Sun
day and is visiting at the j. A. Sieg
mund and Fl. r. Stahl homes, and
with other friends in this vicinity.
Some of the fields were more or less
damaged by the excessive hot and
dry weather last week, Other small
grain may have suffered some, but
not to so great an extent, while corn
has been doing fine and most of the
fields are very clear Of weeds.
Elizabeth NJ. Coleman and Leonard
w. Webb were united in marriage at
Huron, S. D., on Saturday June Is,
1927. The bride and her mother
we're former residents of Wood, hav-
ing at one time been engaged in the
restaurant business at this place.
William Hare of No-Mans.Land
brought the Pioneer family a fine
mess of new home grown potatoes last
Saturday that just hit the spot. Mr..
Hare also disposed of a bushel of the
new spuds on the local market.
These were the first home grown pc
tatoes we have seer and they certainly
were fine ones. Mr.. Hare usually has
about the first new potatoes to appear
on the local market of the home grown
variety.
The Editor was called to White
River, Tuesday afternoon to testify as
to weather conditions in November
and December 1919. The month of
December of that year was n OF the
coolest we have experienced here and
the mercury dropped to u degrees
below zero on one day during that
month, while the day we were called
on to present this testimony to the
court the mercury registered lOl In
the shade-the warmest day we have
had this season
The county grader outfit is now
working west of town grading the
new stretch of road beginning just
west of town and extending due west
on the half section line some four or
FIVE miles. When this grading is Tin
ished it will practically complete the
Memorial Highway from the east
county line to White River, and it is
certainly a fine piece of road. We be
lieve it will be one of the finest stretch
es OF dirt road to be found in the
the state, and a road that the people
of this county can justly feel proud.
Highway Superintendent Terpin
seems to be making good in his new
office. and is accomplishing consider
able good work.
Killing crows, magpies and gophers
may bring South Dakota small boys
"a large amount of pocket money in
the future, as a law passed by the
legislature last ~inter giving a boun
ty for the killing of these birds and
animals, will 60 into effect on July /.
According to the new state law, ten
cents will be paid for each crow, mag
pie or gopher killed. 10 order to Oh
tain the money the person killing
them must bring to the county aud
tors Office both the front feet and
claws of each gopher killed, and the
head and feet of each or magpie
killed. A statement must be made
under oath that the bird or animal
for which a bounty is asked was kill
ed in the county in which the bounty
is to be paid, as the sum is taken out
of the county general funds. The
persons claiming bounties will be paid
after the bills have been allowed by
the board OF county commissioners
Chamberlain Register.