The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-04-05
News of
South Dakota

Western Newspaper union News Service.
The winter wheat crop of Hanson
county has come through the winter in
fine condition and promises a large
yield this season.
The Mitchell board Of education has
given up the idea of staging super.
vised dances for the high school pu-
pills, at least for the present.
over 1900 delegates are expected
at the annual convention of the South
Dakota Sunday School association, to
be held in Huron on May 2, 3 and 4.
The greatest highway project to be
completed this year in Brown county
involves the construction of a mod
ern highway from Hecla to Frederick,
a distance of 10 miles.
The county commissioners of Brule
county have given the city authorities
of Chamberlain permission to use the
north half of the Jail yard in that city
as an auto tourist camp this season.
The business men OF Draper will
give a free moving picture show each
Saturday afternoon and night during
the summer months. This is an adj
vertising venture on the part of the
merchants.
During the past few weeks an cpl
demic Of influenza has struck the
towns Of the Black Hills, i~ncapacitat-
ing about SO per cent OF the population
at a time. To date one Of the cases
have been serious.
II &c nvnncfnI that en- rnr month
with board and lodging, will be the
prevailing wage on the farms of Sphinx
county this season for experienced
farm hands, and about $50 per month
for inexperienced men.
A movement has been inaugurated
in Alexandria for the erection of a
community building, to include an au
ditorium, rest room, library room, a
lodge hall and club rooms for the x
service men of the city and vicinity.
The advance premium list for the
educational department of the Tri-
State fair. to be held in Aberdeen on
September 4 to s, has been issued.
Premiums will be offered for work in
manual training, printing and in the
commercial department.
At a recent meeting of the city com
missioners of Sioux Falls the ordi-
nance fixing the age limit at which
boys may loiter in pool and billiard
halls vas ace more changed so that
no youth under 81 years of age may
now frequent such places.
The authorities of Aberdeen will ap-
peal to the circuit court in an effort
to have adjacent territory taken into
the city limits. Owners OF the land
insist hat until it becomes market
able it should not be placed under the
burden of municipal taxes.
The farmers elevator in Mellette,
which several weeks ago was forced
to temporarily close by the failure of
a commission firm in Minneapolis,
which temporarily tied up the work
ing capital of the elevator company,
has again been opened for business.
A man named Smith, who is be-
iieved to be demented, is running at
large somewhere in the Black Hills,
following a daring escape from a
train near Puma while he was being
taken to Rapid City by two special
deputies for the purpose of having an
examination before the board of in
sanity.
A petition has been circulated in
Elk Point, signed by the residents of
the city, to submit for vote at the
next election the proposition of levy
ing a tax amounting to n mill on
each dollar of taxable property within
the city limits for the purpose OF cre-
ating a fund for the furnishing OF
tree musical concerts to the public.
Farmers and ranchers of the val
leys surrounding the Black Hills look
for a prosperous crop this season.
The snowfall in the Black Hills dis
trict during the winter was one of the
heaviest on record, and all this snow
now has melted and gone into the
ground, placing the soil in the best
possible condition for giving crops
the right sort of a start in the spring.
Cattle in the district have wintered
well and there has been little or nc
loss.
While the opinion appears to have
generally gained ground that there has
been a reduction in the number of
livestock in South Dakota the past
year, on account of the liquidation
which has been SO general. apparent
ly from the report of the federal
bureau on crops and farm products
that is not the case, with the en-
ception of cattle other than milk
cows. In that class South Dakota IS
below the average for the country
generally, but on all other classes it
stands above the federal average.
The ratio of different classes of live
stock on Jan. l, 1922, as compared
with the record for Jan. /, 1921.
Figures as to both the state and. fed
eral showing gives the state an
average OF: Horses, 100: milk cows,
1877; all other cattle, 90; sheep, 1922;
hogs, 10S.