The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-09-01
NEWS Of THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF n
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
xes,ern Nersnaper Union News service.

HlCPllI5 plONC
yention of the American legion.
Work has commenced at Leola on
the erection Of a German E~yangellcal
church building which Will cost 0
$1,000.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the observance or LABOR day
by the labor people and other resi-
dents Of Waterfowl.
Pierre was chosen as the 1928 meet
ing place for the state convention OF
county commissioners at the closing
sessions at Hot Springs,
Nat Rush, a young man, was klIieu
when he missed his footing and fell
from the new courthouse IN Rapld
City where he was employed.
The Garden City State bank mas
been closed by the state banking de-
partment, owing TO the financial de-
preston of the past year or more.
WoonsOcket personal and real
property has been assessed at more
than 81, 900, 900 this year, according to
figures supplied by the city assessor.
A new venture in oil drilling is
promised at Blunt, where a firm
agrees to drill at a location west OF
that town, with very few leases Sc
cured.
Trent will have but one bank in
the future, the Trent State bank hav-
ing purchased the Peoples State bank,
which has been consolidated with the
first named bank.
The Canova city council has put a
permanent ban on all garages, auto
repair shops, machine shops, black
smith shops and livery barns within
the fire limits Of the city.
The Garden Prairie school district,
near Aberdeen, has awarded the con-
tract for the erection of what will be
one of the finest country school build
ings in hat part Of the state.
The bottom dropped out of the
South Shore frog market when word
was received that the price Of frog
legs had followed wheat in its down.
ward trend, and were quoted at Z
cents a dozen.
The canning season is on in Big
Stone and a force Of about 200 people
are now employed at the canning
factory. The yield is not as heavy as
the average year, but the quality OF
the corn is very good.
The high water pressure provided
-, A. ~. ,,otor t@yy a.1 h;~h
pressure system recently installed in
Redfield, is causing old water mains
to give way, causing considerable
trouble and property loss.
The program has been completed
for the annual alfalfa palace festivi.
ties, to be held in Rapid City on Sep
81, % and %. 1t is planned to make
this years event the greatest agri'
cultural show ever held west Of the
Missouri river in South Dakota.
Traffic over the Missouri river at
Yankton has made a sudden increase
with the installation Of the pontoon
bridge crossing. The approach is
good on both sides and there is ex
pected to be no further interruption
by the river until ice flows in the fall,
A special election will soon be held
in Dell Rapids for the purpose of de-
Gliding several questions on which
Mayor Nisbet and the city council
have been unable to agree. The citi.
zens will be asked to decide whether
or not the office of city street com
missioner shall be abolished, and will
also decide what salaries shall be paid
to city appointive officers.
indications all point to the biggest
n best state fair in years when the
fair grounds are opened September
II for the 3Sth annual South Dakota
state fair and exposition. Entries for
all departments are heavier this year
than in many years past, and already
Secretary John White has been forced
ments for lack of sufficient display
Don The agricultural exhibit will
be the largest in years. Last year
there were eight county exhibits in
the agricultural building. This year
Il counties have applied for space
and have voted money to put in their
exhibits.
The strike is having a keen effect
on the farmers throughout this state
they being about the keenest sufferers
of any line Of business. Numerous
elevators in various sections are re
fusing to accept grain except fol
storage, very little buying going or
for the reason that lack Of transpOr
tation facilities prevents the elevators
from shipping their grain, with the
result that they are unable to turr
over the crop. Farmers who have the
finances to back them are building
granaries on their own farms, while
others are stacking their grain fol
future threshing when the strike il
settled. Other farmers are finding
1t impossible to pay their threshins
bills, with the result that the thresh
,ers are finding themselves in hare
straits.
A c%OrOner's jury which investigated
the shooting and fatal wounding o
Harry Landmaster, a switchman EN-
p1OyAd in tho wards NJ tho purliuptO,