The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-09-14
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THU
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Western Newspaper Union New. ssrv,c.

mitchell is WITHOUT an OCSupahe'
Joseph Krachtiville. railroad sec
ton laborer, is in Jail at Lake Andes,
accused of brutally numbering his
wife with a knife.
The farmers in the vicinity OF Yer
million have started a movement for
installing and operating a cooperative
creamery in Vermillion.
August Sessel was instantly killed
when he fell under a load OF grain
He was the 10. year-old son Of a farm
er residing near Pukwana.~
J.. II. Williams of Gettysburg was
elected department commander OF the
American Legion for South Dakota at
the state convention recently held in
Huron.
AS a result OF two self-inflicted
wounds with a shotgun, William Alb
bolt, a farmer living five miles north
of Canton died at a Sioux Falls
hospital.
Glenn Kirby, a farmer boy OF the
Elkton vicinity, Was seriously In
tured as the result of having a
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head and neck.
Concreting has been resumed on the
Meridian Highway bridge across the
Missouri river at Yankton after a
lapse of several months, owing to the
condition of the river.
The city of Reliance will celebrate
its Home Harvest festival on Septem'
Der 22-23-24. The town had its first
annual gathering last year and made
a wonderful success of it..
Marking OF the Short Cut highway.
a new highway from Minneapolis II
Yellowstone park, which traverses
South Dakota frssn cas-. to west, has
been completed as far as Redfield.
Hugo Olson. son of Lewis Olson.
who resides east of Big Springs, was
seriously and probably fatally in
jured when he was thrown from a
mower into the sickles and dragged
q considerable distance.
Graders working on the Meridian
highway Is miles north of Yankton,
unearthed the body of Patrick Nc,
Naboe, the McCook county farmer
who disappeared December 5 last
and was believed to be murdered. The
skull was missing.
Perry S. Dahlquist, vice president
and director of the Farmers and
Merchants bank, of Huron, and prom
inent land owner in that section OF
the state, was found dead in bed
when his daughter went to his DON
to call him for breakfast.
The grain elevators in Huron are
having no difficulty in securing what
cars they need for the shipment Of
grain, either on the Great Northern
or Northwestern roads, this con
dition arising from the fact that this
is a competitive point. with two roads
there.
What is said to be the first aero
plane designed and built in South Da
kota is to be tried out in Vermillion
1t is the work of Sven Swanson, /
freshman in the college Of engineer
ing of the University of South Dakota.
who has been working on it since
February.
M. L. Parrish. states attorney of
Jones county. who is lying wounded
at the Methodist State hospital in
Mitchell, a victim OF the guns of the
four ~convicts who escaped from
the state prison at Sioux Falls, is
we'll on the way toward recovery, &C
cording to his physicians.
That Gen. Pershing. chief Of staff
of the United States army. will be at
Mitchell for n day Of the corn
palace celebration is assured. This
is to confer the honor Of decoration
of the colors of the One Hundred and
Forty-seventh field artillery, this for
the campaign about scissors, in Aug,
ust. 1918.
With tens of millions, of bushels of
grain and other products about ready
for shipment from South Dakota.
shippers and receivers of freight in
the state are being appealed to by the
railroads to hasten the unloading of
incoming cars OF freight so the cars
may be promptly released for use in
shipping grain.
At an auction sale held at Epiphany.
an interior point in Miner county, the
old Father Kroeger sanitarium build,
ing was sold Ia the highest bidder.
This sale recalls an interesting cpl
sode in the history OF hat part of
South Dakota. when Epiphany was
the mec a for sick people from every
state in the union and from four or
five foreign counties. Father Kroeger.
who died about IL years ago. was
widely known as a priest-healer and
the sick and ailing from all directions
made the Journey to Epiphany to
seek relief at his hands. The SAM
tarium was founded by Father Kroe.
ger more than a score of years ago.
/ The members Of the state board Of
vocational education, at their meeting
In PIERRE. made arrangements to
further extend the vocational work
for the coming e During the past
year 3S high schools over the state
gave instruction in home economics.
receiving a total Of $2S.245 in state
and federal aid. The previous year
"a schools re eived such aid. In ad-
dition to this % high schools gave
instruction in agriculture for the
yea-. recaiyiue s95 954 state and