The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-01-06
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
WEEK IN CONDENSED
FORM.

bridge across the Missouri river at
Yankton will go steadily forward as
weather and river conditions permit
in spite of the prevailing financial
stringency, IL was unanimously voted
by the stockholders of the Meridian
Highway Bridge company in annual
meeting at Yankton recently.
The work of building a monster
reservoir for the waterworks system
at Montrose has been completed.
The tanks are constructed Of rein.
forced concrete and are of sufficient
size to give the residents of Montrose
effective fire protection and an album
dance Of pure water for domestic pur.
poses.
The motor fuel tax law, enacted by
the last session of the legislature. be-
comes operative on January /. BY
the provisions OF this law every gallon
OF gasoline or other motor fuel used
In operating automobiles and other
motor vehicles on the highways Of the
state will be taxed l cent.
OF the foreign born population of
McCook county, nearly so per cent
are Germans, according to the 1920
government census figures, which
show the total foreign born popula-
ton to be 1927. OF this number SIS
we're born in Germany, POI in Swed-
en- and 115 in Russia.
Several counties of the state are
evidently desiring to start the new
year with as clean a slate as possible.
At public meetings it has been the
expressed desire Of those attending
that grand juries be drawn TO investi-
gate into general conditions within
these counties.
Two of the children Of Mrs. Carl
Vahigren were burned to death be-
fore her eyes when her homestead
shack near Ludlow was destroyed by
fire. Mrs. Vahigren herself was SO
seriously burned in trying to saw
her children that she nay not recover
Resolutions will be presented be-
fore the next state legislature asking
that the name Of the Northern Nor
NAL and Industrial school in Aber-
deem be changed to the state teach
ers' college, according to an unoffi-
cial announcement.
Fire starting in the basement of
the Lane hotel at Whitewood, laid the
building in ruins and caused a loss
estimated at not less than 500, 900.
The stock in a drug store adjoining
was damaged to the extent Of $1,000.
According to figures compiled by
the state immigration department,
South Dakota stands ninth in the list
Of corn production states for the year
1921, having taken a lead over Kan
sas in production of this cereal.
The contractors on the bridge over
the Cheyenne river near Carlin, have
been taking advantage of the open
winter weather to push work on that
structure, and expect to get the foun-
dations in this winter.
The student body Of the University
of South Dakota at Vermillion, at a
largely attended meeting, unanimous
ly adopted resolutions denouncing
TIC HTu5lhS VI AACoiuChI oAo5AO III
effigy recently.
Practically every Methodist church
in the Mitchell district has shown q
marked growth in the last year, &C
cording to reports submitted at the
session of the conference held in Nit
chell.
At q meeting of the executive com.
mittee OF the Black Hills Poultry as
ISOLATION il was decided to hold the
next annual show in Belle Fourche on
January 81 and February l and 2.
AS a result of attempting to remove
a bunion on his foot by home meth
DDS, Sebastian Schmitz, of Estelline,
was obliged to have his right leg am
putated at the knee.
Two rattlesnakes as his kill for
the middle of December is the record
claimed by Sam Smith, a teamster
who made his find" on a rocky hill
side east Of Pierre.
The first annual poultry show to be
held under the auspices of the new
Dacotah Empire Poultry association
will be held in Aberdeen on Jan. 16 to
20, inclusive.
A large attendance is expected at
the annual convention of the South
Dakota Bee-Keepers' association. to
be held in Mitchell on Feb. 13 and H..
Mrs. John Tollock OF Redfield, was
instantly killed when an automobile
in which she was riding turned turtle
on the outskirts Of Redfield.
O%ne-fourth of the school children
OF Dawson county are under weight,
according to a survey just completed
in that county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rowley of Nit
chell, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary recently.
Garretson houses and stores will be
lightad hereafter by electricity from
Sioux Falls.
Trappers in Pennington county are
roo piuu a horyack <b;e N a. &C. cc;l