The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-01
OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENiNGS OF THE
~ WEEK.

who served in the world war HAS oeeh
given a permanent place OF honor IN
the lobby of the county courthouse III
Hayti. The tablet bears the names OF
456 men, who now are numDeleo
among the veterans OF the world war.
Seventeen stars indicate those from
the county who were killed or VINO
died while in the service OF their
country.
The South Dakota State college
through the agronomy department, ex'
tension service and county agents Is
cooperating with the pure bred seeu
Of the state to establish a sys'
tenn Of seed examination and certlrlca'
ton which will encourage and aid IN
the growing Of the best varieties ana
strains Of farm crops for South Ia
koat.
It has been decided by the FEEDER
ated Council of Churches OF south Ia
kota to fight the repeal of the law
providing for the office OF state she'll
Jeremiah Davis, aged is, son or Mike
Davis, six miles north Of Yale, was in
stantly killed when he was thrown
from a wagon TO which he was driving
a four-horse team.
Small boys and grown ones, too
who spend much time in the open
country or who live on farms, VIII
find a neat source OF additional reNe'
nue. in the amended bounty law which
becomes effective July l, and puts a
bounty Of 10 cents IN the head OF
every crow and maybe killed.
The ~11-year-old son Of Andrew
Peterson, Of Wakonda, was fatally In
jured when he was struck by an auto
mobile. His skull was fractured and
several bones were broken. He lived
for some hours after the accident,
but did not recover consciousness.
The Sioux Indians on the Rosebud
reservation are receiving a per capita
payment from the federal government
amounting in the aggregate to thou
sands Of dollars. This is the first pay
ment of the kind made to- them since
March, 1920.
At a meeting Of the executive CON-
mittee Of the Yankton county chapter
of the Red Cross society 1t was voted
to appropriate a sum Of money to pur'
chase graphing hooks and other az,
pliances for life saving in case Of
drowning.
Reports made at the annual meeting
Of the stockholders of the Farmers
Elevator company, which conducts an
elevator In Howard, show the com.
pany is very successful, the profits for
the past year reaching about $4,000.
Losing control Of her automobile,
Mrs. Fred Richards, wife Of the pastor
Of the Methodist Episcopal church at
White River, was instantly killed
when her machine plunged over a
twenty-nine foot embankment.
One Of the finest new consolidated
school buildings in the state is now
being erected at Montrose. The build
lus Id Low Wy 20 LCOt LII oAhO, ohN . - liz
ished with stone trimmings. 1t Is OF
the Gothic style.
The first oil drilling operations to
be started in the immediate vicinity
Of Rapid City will be under way with.
in a short time, eight and a half miles
north Of the city on Elk creek.
Gus Carlson, a Deadwood man, who
was confined In the county jail there
awaiting a hearing before the insanity
board, committed suicide by hanging
himself In his cell.
The test oil we'll at Bear Butte
which struck a large artesian flow
and ran wild for a time, has been
cased and capped, and the water now
is under control,
Thirteen men from the University
Of South Dakota will spend six weeks
In the Reserve Officers Training
Corps camp at Fort Smelling, Mimi,
this summer.
Thought the efforts Of members OF
the lOC6l Au1cIICdll LCSiON IL Id PioS
tically assured that Howard will have
a commercial club In the near future.
Mitchell Protestant churches will
unite in union evening services during
the months Of July and August, &C,
cording to plans perfected.
1t is officially announced that Hope
school, Q. government institution in
Springfield for Indian girls, will be
reopened on July l.
The state highway commission is
advertising for sealed bids for gravel
ing the Sioux Falls-Ek Point.Sioux
City highway.
The Scenic Drilling company's oil
drilling rig has reached the town OF
Scenic and Is now in the process OF
erection.
Steps have been taken in Hot
Springs to pave the business section
of the city.
Dawson county is likely to become
he potato center of South Dakota, II