The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-06-10

credited three-year high schools, 10
hlgh schools having a two-year accred.
tied course and eight with a ~one-year
course which are accredited, according
to the directory of secondary schools
Inc educational institutions for the
years 1920 and 1921 recently published
by the state department of public in
struction.
Those who are behind the movement
to make the Methodist Deaconess hos
pital in Rapid City one Of the leading
institutions Of it's kind in the north
west, had some Of the fruits OF their
labor realized when workmen began
excavating for the basement to the
new addition which is to go up two
stories. with a 57-foot front.
Some OF the residents of the Worth
ing consolidated school district who
are opposed to school consolidation
are circulating a petition asking that
a special election be called. At the
special election the proposition as to
whether or not consolidation should be
abandoned will be submitted to the
voters.
After several years agitation esti-
mates are being prepared for work on
a huge monogram, ~. S. d." in con-
crete to be placed on the bluff over
looking the Milwaukee railroad tracks
east Of Vermillion, to advertise the
state university to all travellers on the
railroad.
The spring movement of tourists
has commenced, a number Of parties
already having reached the Black
Hills. Among the first overland tour
lists to pass through the Black Hills
en- route to the Pacific coast was an
automobile party from Michigan.
According to official announcement,
A. c. Townley, head of the national
Nonpartisan league. and William Lang
er, former attorney general of North
Dakota, will appear in public debate
in Huron on the night of June 6 and
in Sioux Falls June 8.
Thirty armed members Of the Web
ster emergency police secured Day
county in an effort to round up mem
bers Of two hobo gangs who staged a
battle on a freight train between Bris-
tol and Webster. Seven suspects have
been arrested.
Fifty persons have become stock
holders of the Brown County Milk
Producers association, which has been
formed in Aberdeen with a capital OF
$4,000. The association decided to
install its own distributing station in
Aberdeen.
The state marketing department has
framed a form of articles of incorpora-
ton for cooperative marketing associa-
tions, following the ruling of the at
torney general that such associations
cannot be formed under the law with.
out they issue capital stock.
Representatives from Madison at the
annual convention of the North Cen
trail Electric association, to be held at
Duluth, Mimi, on June %, will make a
hard fight to have Madison selected as
the place for holding the 1922 conven-
ton of the association.
Clarence Vannetta, Is, was drowned
In Roy lake, near Langford, when he
attempted to swim out to untangle his
fish line. A large party of friends, in
Guiding his parents, saw the lad go
down six times, but were unable to
save him.
Named after a Watertown man who
was killed in the Philippines while
serving with the First South Dakota
volunteers, the Frank II. Adams post
Of the Veterans of Foreign wars was
organized in Watertown at a meeting
of former service men.
The principal address at the second
meeting Of the South Dakota Council
of Rural agencies, which is to meet at
the Brookings State college, Friday,
June II, will be given by S. J. Lowell,
of Fredonia, N. Y, master of the Ma.
tional Grange.
The 1S-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Mcmahon, living on a
Moody county farm, died from burns
received when it stumbled and fell in
to a boiler filled with scalding hot
water.
Work will commence at an early
date on a new high school building
which is to be erected in Mobridge at
a cost OF about 1928 1000. When COM
pleted the structure will be one of the
finest in northern South Dakota.
In an effort to "clean up" Dead.
wood, the officers raided a number OF
places and took into custody 10 won.
en- charged with various offenses.
A law enforcement convention held
Members OF the Canova American
Legion post have taken preliminary
steps toward the erection Of a combi-
nation city auditorium and post build
ing.
A special election has been called at
Bruce for May "a to vote on the issu-
ance OF $4,000 worth OF town bonds to
extend the municipal electric lines and