The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-06-30
South Dakota
News

Steps have been taken In Hot
Springs to pave the business section
of the city.
The Scenic Drilling comp1ny's oil
drilling rig has reached the town Of
Scenic and is now in the process Of
erection
The state highway commission is
advertising for sealed bids for gravel
ing the Sioux Falls Elk Point-Sioux
City highway.
1t is officially announced that Hope
school, a government institution in,
Springfield for Indian girls, will be
reopened on July /.
Mitchell Protestant churches will
unite in union evening services during
the months Of July and August, ac-
cording to plans perfected.
Thought the efforts of members OF
the local American Legion it is prac-
tically assured that Howard will have
commercial club in the near future.
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.
The test oil well at Bear Butte
which struck large artesian flow
and ran wild for a time, has been
cased and capped. and the water now
is under control
Gus Carlson, a Deadwood man, who
was confined in the county jail there
awaiting hearing before the insanity
board, committed suicide by hanging
himself in his cell.
The first oil drilling operations to
be started in the immediate vicinity
of Rapid City will be under way with,
in short time, eight and half mil IS
north of the city on Elk creek.
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.
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
twenty-nine foot embankment.
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 Sic ,0OO
At meeting Of the executive COM
mittee Of the Yanlston county chapter
of the Red Cross society it was voted
to appropriate sum of money to pur
chase graphing hooks and other ap.
planes for life saving in case of
drowning.
The Sioux Indians on the Rosebud
reservation are receiving 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 te, them since
March, 1920.
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.
Small boys and grown ones, too,
who spend much time in the open
country or who live on farms, will
find neat source of additional reye.
nue. in the amended bounty law which
becomes effective July i, and puts a
bounty of 10 cents on the head of
every crow and maybe killed.
It has been decided by the FEEDER.
ated Council Of Churches Of South Das
kota to fight the repeal OF the law
providing for the office Of state sheiff.
Jeremiah Davis, aged 16, son of Mike
Davis, six miles north of Yale, was in.
stantly killed when he was thrown
from q wagon to which he was driving
a four-horse team.
The South Dakota State college
through the agronomy department, Elk.
tension service and county agents is
cooperating with the pure bred seed
growers Of the state to establish sys.
tenn Of seed examinat ton and certifica,
ton which will encourage and aid in
the growing OF the best varieties and
strains Of farm crops for South Da.
koat.
a bronze tablet bearing the names
of young men from Hamlin county
who served in the world war has been
given permanent place OF honor in
the lobby Of the county courthouse IN
Hayti. The tablet bears the names Of
456 men. who a now are ln,lmherad