The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-08
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS OF THE
WEEK.

or agrOnOmy at state ColleSe' oH
Kharkoff, a winter wheat, on an ex'
pertinent station field near BrooklngS
A careful search failed to show TINS
rust on any other variety or wheat.
The rust is not enough to 10 any ma
terial damage to the crop under pres
ent rather dry conditions, when
should hold it in check. Marquis, one
of the most susceptible varieties, ma
not yet been touched by rust here
The spread of this rust depends solely
upon weather conditions.
A movement is now on loot 10 pro
vide Redfield with a municipal park
and recreation grounds, an offer hay
ing been made the city 10 sell a 40
acre tract Of land adjoining the city
along the creek for $4,000 II take
tw~enty-year 6 per cen bonds in pay
ment. Petitions are now being circu
lated and very generally signed, ask
ing that a special election be called
TO vote on this proposition. The com
mercial club has been working on this
for several months.
Sunday night dances will be under
the ban in South Dakota on and after
July l, according to the provisions TO
an act of the last Legislature. The new
law also provides that Saturday night
dances must cease at midnight, SO as
not to encroa:h on the Sabbath day
Dance halls outside the limits OF a
city are placed under the control OF
the county commissioners, and they
are authorized to Issued permits to the
owners Of the dance halls.
Roy Orvis, OF Humboldt, who in
court gave his occupation as a tramp
painter must serve a term of one
year in the county Jail in Sioux Falls
because he struck his 7,months'old
daughter in the face. He was arrested
on complaint of neighbors and entered
a plea of guilty, explaining that the
child was ''ornery.' Orvis was given
the year term without any option OF
a fine.
Nine hundred and f~ifty-eight stu
dents Of AmericaniZation courses this
year in contrast to the 625 Of last year
form the basis Of the night schools
held throughout the state by means of
the different agencies carrying on this
work, according to M. NJ. Guhin, state
secretary of Americanization.
Considerable agitation is in prog
ress in the northwestern part of the
state for the construction Of a railroad
from Belle Fourche by way Of Buffalo,
Meadow and Bison to LCmmOn, con
Meeting the northwestern railroad
with the Milwaukee and opening up a
large strip of territory.
At a special election held in the
Worthing consolidated school district
those favoring the withdrawal of some
of the former districts from the con
solidated district failed by seventeen
votes in securing the required Legal
number OF votes to disband the con
solidated district.
Contracts covering the expenditure
of an aggregate IT about 500, 900 IN
good road construction in BeresforC
district have beer awarded, assuring
that the district, when the work is
completed, will have as good high
ways as any district in the state.
Fire caused a loss of between $50,
900 and $4,000 at Highmore, county
seat of Hyde county. The fire startet
in a hardware store and swept thi:
in addition to a three-stOry hotc3 ant
other buildings adjacent.
Hundreds OF dollars worth Of dam
age are reported to have already beer
done in Faux county to growing crops
by the false cinch bug, a dark bodied
white, transparent winged fly.
The Mitchell Y. w. C. A. has an
nounced that it will conduct a sum
mer vacation camp for girls this sea
son The camp will be located SIEVE
miles northeast OF Mitchell.
August 10 is the date that has beer
fixed upon by the directors Of Blum
Oil Well, Inc, for starting actual drill
ing in the deep test to be made e
Blunt.
Peter Paulsen, a bridegroom o
three weeks, was instantly killed by
live wire in Madison, when he was a
the top of a pole transferring wires.
Day and night shifts are working
on the oil we'll at Standing Butte, Il
Stanley county, and are already Sc,
eral hundred feet down.
Tho new seven-story Elks' hotel i
Huron has been officially named tn
Marvin Hughitt" in honor Of the lat
Marvin Hughitt.
Davis musicians have organized
band, which will be made a leadin
organization of that part of the stat,
Five hundred South Dakota girl
will probably be enrolled in brea
clubs this year.
The state highway department n
ports the lowest bid on grading col
tract work which has been submitte
to it since the department was organ
lied when a contractor hid as low a