The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-12-23
Of THE STATE

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IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF Tho
WEEK IN CONDENSED
FORM.
The Golden Feather mine, which
has recently started q number of i'm.
provements preliminary to resuming
active mining operations by Jan I.
promises to be one OF the best pay
ing mining proposition in the Black
Hills. Last September the Monarch
mining property was merged with the
Golden Feather and as the two prop
critics are adjoining and the workings
Of the one are only . few rods from
those Of the other. the merging proved
to be n of the best moves that could
have been made.
Dancing to music furnished by wire
less is one of the possibilities at the
University Of South Dakota this win
ter. The wireless station of the uni.
versity has been perfected until mes
sages from Europe can be received.
while the sending radius, has been ex.
tended to 1000 miles. Recently, how.
ever. a radiophone, OF wireless teie.
phone set, was put in, enabling the
operator to hear dance music at the
University Of Nebraska and the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Completing the most successful
year since its organization in 1913.
the Groton Cooperative creamery, &C.
cOrding to figures submitted at a
meeting OF the directors, made over
1885, 00 pounds Of butter from Nov. l,
1920, to Nov. I, 1921, and paid out
more than $4,000 to the farmers in
that vicinity for cream.
Madison fishermen say that the
numerous large pickerel in both Lake
Madison and Lake Herman are max
ing inroads on the small crappies
which abound in the two lakes. How
ever, as the crappies are propagated
SO rapidly it is not generally believed
that the pickerel will completely an
initiate the crappies.
Competition of Pacific coast pack.
ers for South Dakota hogs has Gre
ated a market in Aberdeen which has
made that city n of the biggest
shipping points in the northwest. Re
ports for the present indicate that
live stock shipments at this point are
In excess of q year ago. They are
chiefly hogs.
An important movement has been
inaugurated by a bank OF Wall. in
pose of aiding the farmers of the Wal
| district to purchase mich cows ant
thus rebuild their cattle herds. which
were sadly depleted during the war
The Redfield commercial club has
adopted a plan OF reorganization b,
which the activities of the club viii
hereafter be handled by committees
or bureaus working under three gen
eral subdivisions, club affairs, bust
hess affairs and public affairs.
Organization Of a new Associated
Charities body in Mitchell to coordi
late all relief work Of the city unde'
head was completed ct q meeting
at which representatives OF Is organ.
zatious OF various kinds in the city
were present.
light school for those who wish te
prepare themselves for citizenship
Anyone completing a course in thi
school is we'll qualified to 60 before
the court to secure citizenship papers
l. Fire, originating from unknowl
causes, In the basement Of the Well
block in Aberdeen ragged for II hours
cutting the basement and first floo
OF the building and causing damage
estimated at 100000.
Vernon McNichols. who PLEADED
guilty to the murder OF Raymond
Brooks in Trip county, was sen
fenced in circuit court at Winner I,
20 years in the ~penitentiary at Siou,
Falls.
Five thousand six hundred hail in
surance warrants. representing a to
tai Of $835.2S7 in paid claims hav,
9 mailed out since Oct. Is by The
state hail insurance department.
OF 100000 fish which were ordered
Cor government fish hatchery il
Rapid City, $4,000 brook trout hay,
been received for placing next sprins
in the Black Hills streams.
A special election has been called
for Lake NOrden to vote on a pro
posed ordinance prohibiting dances
and public dance halls in the town.
Tom Johnson, q lineman on a hisE
powered transmission line between
White and Flandreau, was Instant
killed while at work.
Recently a Doland produce com
pany purchased from farmers in the
vicinity Of Groton 5000 pounds 0
poultry in n day.
Farmers OF Jefferson have just
shipped q carload Of corr for the