The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-09-23

bushels of oats. Farmers who have
marketed their crops and lack
enough money 10 pay the taxes and
hail insurance premiums on their land
are now giving more attention to
marketing their cream and eggs.
Camille Cacci was convicted in The
L. S. supreme court 1T DeadWoOd Of
shipping dynamite in violation Of law.
He was arrested last October charged
with transporting dynamite to an ac-
complice in Omaha. Evidence pre-
scented showed the explosive had been
stolen from a mining camp. 1t was
shipped in unmarked boxes by eX-
press, witnesses testified.
Howard Taylor, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. G. Taylor, of Nermillion, has re-
ceived the appointment from the state
department at Washington to a posi-
ton in the consular service at KovnO,
Lithuania. He was graduated from the
University of South Dakota last
spring. He will be among the youngest
in this branch of the service, being
only % years of age.
The existence of several outbreaks
of hog cholera in the state is reported
by DR.. G.. S. Weaver, extension spe-
cialist in animal diseases at State
College. The disease, he says, is dis
tributed mainly over the eastern part
Of the state. Many cases have been
reported where the disease has wiped
out most Of the animals in the herd.
Plans whereby western range cat
tlemen of South Dakota will meet the
farmers in the eastern part Of the
state halfway in filling their feeder
lots with unfinished animals to the ad-
vantage of both the range man and
the farmer, have been worked out by
the state department of agriculture
and are about to be put into operation.
In some sections Of the state there
is complaint that parents are not send
ing their children to school, preferring
to keep them on the farm until the
work of ehe fall is cleaned up. The
state truant officer will be sent to
see that the school law is complied
with and that children are sent to
school as required by law.
Material is being piled up on the
Cheyenne river for the new bridge
which is to be constructed near Car
lin. This bridge, which is being put
in by the state and federal funds, will
mean the only sertain crossing on
hat turbulent stream between Wasta
and the mouth Of the river. a distance
Of about $50 miles
Members Of the Sturgis post Of the
American Legion, recently in receipt
of their first state bonus checks, have
pledged $l1 coo Of their money for
the erection OF a $4,000 community
building, which is designed to have
gymnasium, showers, bowling alley,
rest room and dance hail for the en-
tire city.
A number of farmers in eastern Cod
ingtOn county have formed an orBani-
cation and raised a fund to employ
guards and to prosecute any hunters
who attempt TO come upon their land
his fall. They also hove posted
signs in the whole territory in which
they live.
The old-fashioned coon hunter OF
the timber country Of the east would
find his delight in the upper White
river country this year from the re-
ports coming from that section. II is
claimed that raccoon are more plen-
tiful in that section than ever before.
Albert Volzke, Of Herreid, reports
striking a good vein of Ignite coal at
a depth Of 200 feet while drilling for
a well on HIS farm. He will do further
testing to find out if the deposit is
such as to make ii a profitable propo-
Sition to work
Reports at Fruitdale are to the ef-
feet that the Great Western Sugar
company is 10 erect a branch refinery
in that district. The sugar beet crop
n the irrigated district has been ex.
ceptionally heavy this year.
The engineers in charge Of the con-
struction of the new city well in Aber-
deem report that a flow of 300 gallons
Of water per minute has been obtained
at a depth of l,205 feet Dilling will
be continued.
Peter Norbcck, United States sena-
tor from South Dakota, has given his
endorsement to the u. s. Grain Grow
ers, Inc. the new farmer-owned-and-
controlled grain marketing agency.
A farmer Of Miner county marketed
a load Of oats, for which he received
1915. He had a case Of eggs, which
he sold for 81 so. nearly as much as
the load Of oats.
Plans for the new school building
to be erected ut Wapala have been
approved. The contract for the con-
structiOn OF the edifice has been
awarded.
The Meade county fair, held in
Sturgis is said by fair officials to nave
been the most successful and profit
able in the history of the association.
The general store of III. +. Cooper
at Stratford was robbed OF about $500
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