The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-03-10
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SSoS aho IA DO VII Vi lu6 klI0S
states IN the union to adopt the uni
form vital statistics law prepared and
adopted by the commission on uniform
laws at its last session If the house
agrees with the action taken by the
senate. The bill is aimed to secure
complete records Of births and deaths
in the state through local registrars
appointed in the several communities
ard cities reporting to the state board
of health.
1t is believed that the wheat acre.
g OF the Centerville territory will
be materially increased this season,
with a corresponding decrease in the
acreage heretofore devoted to corn,
this being n of the best corn-grow-
ing districts of South Dakota. Many
OF the farmers believe that spring
wheat will prove a more valuable crop
to them than corn. The determine
ton to reduce the corn acreage Is due
to the present low price of corn.
The prevailing high prices of coal
has caused numerous residents of
Beresford to resort to wood as fuel,
even for furnace fires. Accordingly
consumption of coal in Beresford this
winter has been lighter than for years.
The farmers of the district also have
depended on wood from their groves
for their fuel supplies. Surplus wood
from these groves is sold in Beresford
at moderate prices.
Excavation for pier number one OF
the Meridian highway bridge across
the Missouri river at Yankton, has be.
gun, marking the first definite step
in actual construction on this project.
All work so far done has been of a
preliminary nature, but with derricks
and power plant now in place, con.
struction of the substructure can, now
be pushed.
An old school building in the vii.
lage Of Osceola, K~ingsbury county,
has been purchased by a syndicate OF
farmers and will be moved to a central
location in the farming community and
used rs a community hall by the farm,
ers and members of their families. A
pool hall will be installed. The build.
ing will be used for business meetings
OF the farmers and for entertainments,
The Centerville Commercial club
has commenced work on several prof.
ects for the upbuilding of the city and
the surrounding territory. One Of the
| y, otfaru 10 n, SV,uhnl ,yf1l hn unpI rood
construction. Among other things eff.
forts also will be made to have farm.
ers now on other telephone lines con-
uected with lines centering in Center.
vile.
Bonds aggregating s165,000 will be
voted on at the regular city election
to be held at Belle FOurche in April.
Bonds of $4,000 will be designed for
| securing an additional supply Of wa
ter for the city, and the remaining
$4,000. If voted, win be used to pur,
chased the American Legion hall in
Belle Fourche.
Joseph Wingfield, former state SUI.
Derintehdent of banks of South Da-
xota, is one OF five former officers
and directors of the Commonwealth
Mortgage company, Minneapolis, who
must face district court trial there on
a charge of ~embezzling 1925, 900 from
ahe company's stockholders March %,
1918.
Reports from widely different sec.
lions Of the state indicate hat the
forehanded farmers took advantage of
the weather conditions of this month
to begin their seeding operations. A
number of acres are reported to have
been seeded n the vicinity OF Belle
Fourche and In Sphinx county.
All Of milk in Mitchell
would be protected from receiving
dirty or impure milk in the future un.
der a city milk ordinance which was
placed on it's first reading at an adj
journed regular meeting Of the coun.
ell.
Gov. McMaster is expected to be the
principal speaker at a good roads
meeting, which is to be held in Dead.
wood during the last week of March.
The meeting will be held under the
auspices Of the Black and Yellow Trail
association.
Marie Schroeder, a Madison man,
has succeeded in capturing what is
said to be the largest pickerel ever
caught in Lake Madison. it being at
least the largest taken from the LAX,
in many years. The fish weighed
twenty-five and one-half pounds.
The little ~15-year-old Webster girl
who recently shot ard wounded her
self in Aberdeen, because daddy and
brother were mean" to her and drove
her from home, is doing nicely at an
Aberdeen hospital, and will probably
live.
March s has been set as the dats
for the proposed school bond election.
At that time the voters Of the city
will be asked to vote to raise the in
terest on the 5000, 900 worth of school
bonds voted at five per cent a year
ago.
The state highway department will
construct another bridge across White