The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-03-03
OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.

large sugar beet refining company
which annually had purchased thous-
ands of tons of beets from growers
under the Belle Fourche irrigation
project, it was feared hat the com.
pany would abandon the Belle
Fourche field. However, as the re-
suit of recent correspondence be-
tween the commercial club of Belle
Fourche and the officials of the com
pany, it now is practically assured
that the company will again enter the
Belle Fourche district this year and
furnish a market for beets grown in
The district during the season Of 1922.
More than 1900 inquiries regarding
homesteads in South Dakota e
made Of the state department Of i'm
migration during the months OF De-
nember and January as a result of the
states exhibit in the Milwaukee rail
roads homeseekers' car which has
been touring southern Minnesota and
northern Iowa. Many of these in
guiries indicate that the persons max
ing them contemplate the purchase
of farms in South Dakota during the
next year.
The contractors on the new state
highway bridge across the Cheyenne
river, near Carlin, in the northwest
part of Stanley county, have most of
their piers completed and the steel
construction we'll along and expect
TO get the bridge in shape to stand
nny strain from high water by the
End of this month, putting them in
he clear before the spring floods on
that stream.
The 3Sth annual tournament Of the
South Dakota Firemen's association
will be held in Madison on June 13,
hundred dollars has been set aside for
prizes, $3.50 of which will be used for
band concerts. The fire chiefs OF the
state will hold their annual meeting
at Madison on June Is.
Precipitation for January this year
was the greatest for so years. Most
of it was in snow, Of which there was
a total Of Is inches during the month
The precipitation was LIT inches
more than three times the normal fol
January, which is Sc of an inch. In
other ways the first month of 1872:
was not unusual.
The bricklayers and plasterers o
Huron have officially announced tina
offoo+;ro NTo,oh 1 +hnrD mill no n II
per cent cut in prices of their labor
this action being taken ~voluntaril.
upon the recommendation of the Mas
ter Builders association of South Da
kota.
The Fort Pierre city commissioner
have purchased six lots in a desirabl
location and will fit them up for cit,
park purposes. The grounds also vii
be used as a camping place for aut
tourists during the summer, months.
Steps have been taken at For
Pierre to provide the town with a.
up-to-date gymnasium, which will b
installed in a desirable location an
provide a recreation place for tn
boys and young men Of the city.
Up to date four circuit judges c
the state have filed petitions as nor
political candidates for positions o
the circuit bench, those filing to dat
all being now on the bench and ash
ing for denomination.
There is a movement or foot
Bookings to recall the mayor an
present board of city commissioner
and return to the aldermanic form c
government. A petition is being eli
culated to that end.
A fall on the ice in December !
thought to have been responsible fo
the death of Clifford, the ~11-year-ol
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Peterson
who reside on a ranch hear New III
ierwood.
The new state highway betwee
Fort Pierre, Philip and Midland wi
be constructed this spring, accordin
to assurances received from the stat
highway commission.
The Dakota Central Telephone con
pany has decided to make ~extensiv
improvements in it's system in Mood
county, as well as in other countie
in the state.
Charles w. Couch, a well known al
respected farmer living near Philil
committed suicide by hanging. H
was found swinging from a rope
his barn.
William Popham Of Florence, CO..
, ington county, was killed near Sleep
Eye, Mimi, when a tree he vas Gu
> ting struck him in falling.
Fire which caused a loss estimate
at $40, 900 destroyed three buildings
FairburI, situated in the souther
Black Hills.
! George w. Henderson, uncle
Charles Ray, the movie star, died r
I cently in Huron.
: Humboldt is putting on a campaig
to raise and collect a car of corn IL
the starving people of Russia.
Work on Mobridge's new S175,0C
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