The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-02-08
News of
South Dakota

ed in Pierre.
A Business and Professional Wo
mems club has been organized in
Yankton.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of John Mohrer, a farmer living
northeast of Lake Preston.
Arrangements have been made for
grading and %graveling nine miles OF
road leading into Lennox from the
south.
Spanish-American war veterans in
Huron are making arrangements for
the organization of a local post OF
veterans.
State Bank Examiner Hirning an
Inc the chartering of the Com
munity State bank at Lesterville, with
a capital of $4,000.
Fifteen of the b~uffaloes from the
Philip herd at Fort Pierre will be
shipped to Kansas City to be placed
in the park at that place.
The Alpena commercial club is max,
ing arrangements for a farmers insti.
tute and short course, which will be
held there February 7, s and 8.
The farmers and ranchmen OF the
region in and around the Black Hills
are looking forward to a record-break-
ing crop for the coming ummer
The Western township consolidated
school near Amherst has been for
mally opened. The school is one OF
the best equipped in the northern part
of the state.
Miss Tenna H. Stratton. assistant
principal of the Faith schools, was
killed by a revolver shot from her
own gun, according to the finding of
a c~oroner's jury.
According to the statistics com
piled by the state tax commission. the
total gross collections from the mort
gage registry tax up to January /,
1922. was $1,436,4S9S
Grain shipments are becoming
heavy from Madison. In one day re-
Gently eight carloads were sent to
eastern markets, and there were de-
mands for Is other cars.
Fifteen conventions will be enter
tanned by Huron during the next six
months, according to announcements
made by the convention committee of
the Huron commercial club.
A Deadwood bakery has reduced
the price of bread to 10 cents a loaf.
The loaves will weigh 90 ounces, COM
pared with the ]24-ounce loaves which
have been selling at Is cents each.
Bonds of $4,000 voted by the tax
payers of Wall for the construction of
a municipal waterworks system have
been sold at par, showing there has
been a substantial improvement in
the bond market.
Yankton is going to have 2 park
overlooking the Missouri river, a
gently sloping, grassy rest area
provided with walks and benches and
beautified with trees and ~shrubbery
and flower gardens.
Organization of the Watertown Law
Enforcement league to combat the
~bootlegging and gambling evils in
that city. has been perfected. TEN
porary officers, with the recommen.
dation that they be permanently Sc
lected, were lamed.
In accordance with the result of a
recent election, when the voters of
DeSmet authorized the issuance of
bonds for improving the local water
system and installing a sewer system,
steps will be taken to begin actual
work as soon as possible.
Francis J. Ulrich, aged 81 years, a
resident of Moody county the past %
years, was found dead in his corn
field near Flandreau. Ulrich was en-
gagged in gathering his corn when he
was stricken with cerebral hemorr.
hage. causing his instant death.
The Rosebud Indians evidently de.
sire a little more self determination
in the management of their reserya'
ton affairs. and have called a meet.
ing to outline a policy of control with
in the reservation, which they claim
they want to apply equally to all up
on that reserve.
The South Dakota Grain Growers
association, in annual convention in
Mitchell, passed resolutions favoring
the st. Lawrence-Great Lake-Atlan
tic deep waterways. The association
also wen on record as opposed tC
guaranteed railroad rates and urdue
protective tariff on manufactured
goods. Resolutions demanding lower
freight rates and more rigid seed i n
spection were passed.
The United Stats land office a.
Gregory is the first in the United
States to be affected by the fedora
law passed last October, which EN-
powers the president to recommend
that the offices of both registrar ant
receiver may be held by the same in
cumbent. Under this ruling Johr
Widlon, the present registrar, will as
sumo the duties and salaries of botl
offices on March II, 1922. J. A. Full
wider, the present receiver, will re
tire at that time.