The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-07-08
OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS OF THE
WEEK.

Of young men from Hamlln county
who served in the world val has been
given a permanent place OF honor In
the lobby Of the county courthouse IN
Hayti. The tablet bears the names OF
456 men, who now are numbered
the veterans Of the world war.
Seventeen stars indicate those from
the county who were killed ~ who
died while in the service or their
country.
The South Dakota State college
through the agronomy department, ex-
tension service and county agents is
cooperating with the pure bred Seed
growers of the state to establish a sys,
tenn of seed examination and certifica,
ton which will encourage and aid in
the growing Of the best varieties and
strains of farm crops for South Da
koat.
It has been decided by the FEEDER.
ated Council of Churches of South Da
kota to fight the repeal of the law
providing for the office Of state shelf.
jeremiah Davis, aged Is, son OF 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, will
find a neat source of additional reNe-
nue. in the amended bounty law which
becomes effective July /, and puts a
bounty Of 10 cents on the head of
every crow and magpie 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 t. them since
March, 1920.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Yankton county chapter
of he Red Cross society it was voted
to appropriate a sun of money to pur'
chase graphing hooks and other ap
p~liances 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 $15, geo.
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
ing is 100 by SO feet in size, and is fin
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.
Through the efforts of members of
the local American Legion it is prac-
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.
It is officially announced that Hope
school, a government institution in
Springfield for Indian girls, will be
reopened On July 1.
The state highway commission is
advertising for sealed bids for gravel
ing tbs Sioux Falls-Elk Point-Sioux
City highway.
The Scenic Drilling company's oil
drilling rig has reached the town OF
Scenic and is nov 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