The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-02-01

Alfalfa growers Of western South
Dakota are interested In house bill.
No. 9711 introduced by Congressman
William Williamson requiring that all
dealers handling alfalfa and clover
seed shall plainly label all packages
and containers to show variety and
strain. lot number, state in which
grown, or II imported. the label shall
so Designate; also that all growers
shall certify as to variety or strain
and locality from where seed from
which his alfalfa seed was produced.
The financial condition OF Brule
county is a matter in which its citi-
zens take pride, the county having es-
tablished q record of starting out the
new year with no Indebtedness. In
spite OF the generally recognized 30
called hard times and large expend.
lures Of the county during the past
several years, the county is without
a dollar Of Indebtedness and has to its
credit a fair cash balance, as shown
by the records in the county treas
urer's office.
The. establishment of a star mail
route between Huron and Wolsey so
as to make connections with the north
and south lines OF the Milwaukee is
being pushed by the p~ostoffice,
figures and facts compiled showing
that this route will enable mail to
reach 81 various towns to which mail
is daily sent from Huron by an aver
age of II hours earlier.
Boys and girls between Is and 10
years of age who are 10Y allowed
to attend public dances in Mitchell
without restriction SO far as city or.
dinances are concerned, would not be
allowed to attend such dances unless
accompanied by their parent or guar
dian under the provisions of a new
dance ordinance being drafted by the
city attorney.
A rancher of the Fort Lookout dis
trict, reports a freak in the nature of
the Matching of chickens in midwinter
on his ranch. He reports that one Of
his hens, evidently completely misled
by the moderate weather of the win
ter, has hatched out ten lively little
chicks in a nest stolen In the barn.
The young chicks are said tt be thriv-
ing.
Since the adoption Of the co-opera.
tive plan last fall the Farmers Ele.
vator company OF Davis has handled
approximately 5000 bushels of grain
which indicates that farmers of the
Davis territory have been marketing
grain in large quantities during the
past few months.
The work of draining several lakes
south Of Lesterville, which has been
under way this winter, vas suspended
until spring, when the work will be
finished. Hundreds of acres of farm
land which heretofore has been too
wet to produce crops will be re-
claimed.
Harvesting of the 1922 ice crop has
started on the Missouri river at Yank-
ton with several outfits at work and
several hundred men employed. The
ice is OF very good quality this year,
it is said, clear and solid and free
from sand, and about II inches thick.
A good flow of soft water has been
secured in an artesian well which has
been drilled to give residents of
Hitchcock water for fire protection
and domestic use. The water will be
piped to a reservoir to give the neces-
sary pressure.
Twenty-eight thousand, three hun.
dred and thirty-six persons visited
Wind Cave national park during the
three-month tourist season of 1921,
according to the annual report OF the
secretary OF the interior.
A corn and grain show staged at
Springfield under the auspices Of the
commercial club and the Springfield
township unit Of Bon Homme county
farm bureau, created keen interest
among farmers Of that locality.
Without money and without work,
Christopher Peterson, for more than
rs years a resident of Canton, com.
mitted suicide by hanging himself
from a timber of a railroad tressle.
Eight persons were burned to death
in South Dakota during the month Of
December, 1921. according to the
January issue OF the Fire Marshal
bulletin.
Another Brown county tragedy
came to light when the body of Joe
Simelson was found in a house on the
George Heinze farm, near Ferney.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed the
large general store Of Barnes 4 Co.,
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$50, 600. with insurance of $4,000.
Work is In progress on a new
building which will replace the Rec
Heights telephone exchange, which
was recently destroyed by fire.
Arrangements are being made for
the annual meeting of the Fall River
county farm bureau, which will be
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