The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-03-22
News of
South Dakota

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A community club, with q good
charter membership, has been organ
lied in Hudson. ;
The Winner city council has award
ed the contract for street paving to be
done in that city this summer.
Plans are being prepared for ad-
ditions to the Hudson public school
building. The improvements will
cost more than $40, 900.
Work has commenced at Memo on
h construction of a new postoffice
building. 1t is being arranged espec-
tally for postoffice purposes.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the store and stock OF Close & Conkey,
general merchants in Lane, entailing
4 loss of approximately $12, 600.
Since the state bonus board started
payments the cash has gone out at
the rate OF 1000, 900 a month, or
at about $4O,0 0 for each working day.
Aberdeen police report that Febru-
airy was n Of the quietest months in
the history of the department. Only
Is arrests were made during the
month.
The Parker post OF the American
Legion has taken up the project of
providing Parker with a city park,
and it is expected work will start as
soon as spring opens.
The second annual Huron style
show, auto show and Made-in-Huron
exposition is to be held March 80, 81
and April |, under the auspices of the
Huron commercial club.
For the purpose of providing a place
for tourists who visit that part of the
Black Hills during the summer. it is
planned to erect a pavilion in the city
park in Hill City for them.
1t is announced that sufficient stock
has been subscribed for and sold to
farmers to make the opening of the
LaKota Farmers Cooperative cream
cry in Centerville a certainty.
South Dakota shoe repairers who
organized the Master Shoe Repairers'
association at Aberdeen about a
month ago, will hold their first annual
convention in Sioux Falls July 10.
A big new engine and generator
recently added to the Brookings power
plant will greatly increase the capac.
ity of the plant and provide Brook
ings with first class electric service.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company has named Aber-
deem a transit storage station for lum-
Der, which will add greatly to the i'm
portance of that city as a lumber dis
tributing center.
Brown county's model one-ro0m
country school house was dedicated.
The school is located three miles out
from Aberdeen and is one Of the best,
II not the best, one-room country
school in South Dakota.
Organization of a national guard
unit of the 147th Field Artillery,
which will be undoubtedly assigned
to the regiment as the headquarters
effected in Bookings.
Last yea at this time thousands of
acres OF wheat had been sown in the
Doland district. Now the ground is
covered with great masses Of snow.
1t is probable that no seeding can be
done until early in April.
With the advance in the price of
hogs, IroQuois again is becoming an
important hog market. During a per.
iod Of 80 days recently 81 carloads of
hogs were shipped from there to east,
ern markets, with shipments steadily
increasing.
At the annual meeting OF the Trent
Live Stock Shipping association re-
ports were made showing that the as,
ISOLATION had made good progress in
it's first year and that it made q good
profit for the farmers Of the surround.
ing community.
At Q meeting OF the council Of the
Grant County Community league, 70.
Gently organized in Milbank, plans
were made to establish night schools
throughout the county. Night schools
have already been established at Troy,
Strandburg and Revillo.
A light epidemic of influenza caused
by the rapid change Of weather. has
spread rel the campus OF the Uni
versity OF South Dakota in Vermil-
lion, claiming more than 100 students
rs victims. Vermillion physicians say
the illness is not serious and that re-
covery Is rapid.
Announcement is made by the state
railway commission OF . reduction in
Ignite rates from the mines at Isabel
and Firosteel, this state, to stations
on the Chicago. Milwaukee 4 st. Paul
railroad In central, northern and
northwestern South Dakota, amount
ing to approximately 40 per cent.
James Harmacek, living al Greg
ory, was instantly killed while driving
into his barn. He was seated upon
the spring seal OF a triple box and as
he drove into the barn his head hit
the door header, throwing his head
against the back of the spring seat
and breaking his neck. Death result
al fu~<auf1v