The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-09-08
NEWS OF THE STATE
4 IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

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For the first time in more than a
wear the Dawson county jail IN
Mitchell is without an occupant.
Joseph Krachtiville, railroad sec
ton laborer, is in Jail at Lake Andes
accused of brutally numbering MS
wife with a knife.
The farmers in the vicinity OF YER
million have started a movement Tor
installing and operating a cooperative
creamery in Vermillion.
August Sessel was instantly killed
when he fell under a load OF grain.
lie was the 1O-year-old son of a farm
er residing near Pukwana.
]. II. Williams OF Gettysburg was
elected department commander OF the
American Legion for South Dakota al
the state convention recently held i'll
Huron.
As a result of two self-inflicted
wounds with a shotgun, William Alb
bolt. q farmer living five miles north
Of Canton died at a Sioux Falls
hospital.
Glenn Kirby, a farmer boy OF the
E}kton vicinity, was seriously in
'ured as the result Of having a
heavily loaded wagon pass over his
head and neck.
ConCreting has been resumed on the
Meridian Highway bridge across the
Missouri river at Yankton after a
lapse Of several months, owing to the
condition Of the river.
The city of Reliance VIII celebrate
its Home Harvest festival on Septem-
Der G2-23-24. The town had its first
annual gathering last year and made
a wonderful success Of it.
Marking of the Short Cut highway,
q new highway from Minneapolis to
Yellowstone park, which %traverses
South Dakota from east to west, has
been completed as far as Redfield.
Hugo olson, son of Lewis Olson,
who resides east Of Big Springs, was
seriously and probably fatally in
iured when he was thrown from a
mower into the sickles and dragged
a considerable distance.
Graders working on the Meridian
highway IS miles north of Yankton,
unearthed the body Of Patrick Nc
Naboe. the McCook county farmer
who disappeared December 5 last
and was believed to be murdered. The
skull was missing.
Perry S. Dahlquist, vice president
and director of the Farmers and
Merchants bank, Of Huron, and prom
inent land owner in that section OF
the state, was found dead in bed
when his daughter went to his room
to call him for breakfast.
The grain elevators in Huron are
having no difficulty in securing what
cars they need for the shipment OF
grain. either on the Great Northern
or Northwestern roads, this con
dition arising from the fact that this
is d competitive point, with two roads
there.
What is said to be the first aero
plane designed and built in South Da
kota is to be tried out in Vermillion
II is the work of Sven Swanson, 8
freshman in the college Of engineer
ing Of the University of South Dakota
who has been working on it since
February.
NJ. i. Parrish, states attorney o
Jones county, who Is lying wounded
at the Methodist State hospital il
Mitchell, q victim Of the guns of th'
four convicts who escaped from
the state prison at Sioux Falls, il
well on the way toward recovery, &C
cording to his physicians.
That Gen. Pershing, chief of stat
of the United States army, will be a
Mitchell for one day of the corr
palace celebration is assured. Thi
is to confer the honor of decoration
Of the COlors OF the One Hundred ant
Forty-seventh field artillery. this 70
the campaign about scissors, in Aug
ust, 1918.
With tens Of millions Of bushels o
grain and other products about read,
for shipment from South Dakota
shippers and receivers Of freight il
the state are being appealed to by tn
railroads to hasten the unloading O
incoming cars of freight so the car
may be promptly released for use i
shipping grain.
At an auction sale held at Epiphany
an interior point in Miner county, tn
Ole Father Kroeger sanitarium bullt
ing was sold to the highest bidde
This sale recalls an interesting ep
sode in the history Of that part @
South Dakota, when Epiphany wa
the mecca for sick people from ever
state in the union and from four o
five foreign counties. Father Kroegel
who died about IL years ago. wa
widely known as a priest-healer an
the sick and aiiing from all direction
made the journey to Epiphany t
seek relief at his hands. The san
tarium was founded + "cther Krot
ger more than q scor - ~ ago.
The members Of til T., ard G
vocational education, - ! 80 lcetin
in Pierre, made arrarse,nsnts t
further extend the vocational wor
for the coming year. During the pas
wear 3S high schools Oyer the stat