The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-04

Jack Lewis, 10.year-old son OF
George Lewis, of Sturgis. fell from a
rafe on Elk creek and drowned.
VIM. Janke. a clerk in a store at
Scotland, was drowned in the Jim
river at the Maxwell colony dam.
Members of the Flankinton Ameri.
can Legion are preparing for their big
harvest festival to be held Aug. 16, IL
and IS.
Mrs. Thomas Raines of Dell Rapids.
was burned to death while attempting
TO kindle a fire in her kitchen range
with kerosene.
Fatally injured by a young colt,
which knocked him down and tram
pied him, John Foreman, farmer, re-
siding near Pukwana, died of internal
injuries.
Poles are being set for the electric
line from an Aberdeen plant to Grotor
which will provide the residents Of
Groton with electric lights and with
electric power.
II. Z. Soleberg, Of Colman, had the
unusual experience of having a bolt
of lightning tear off a leg of the bed
on which he was sleeping, without be-
ing seriously injured.
After setting off five chan ges of
nitroglycerin in an attempt 10 force
open the vault, robbers who broke in
to the bank Of Kingsburg we're forced
to go away without any loot.
Watertown voters at a recent
special election authorized the issue
Of $225,0 600 bonds for the completion
of the municipal lighting plant by n
OF the highest votes on record.
The officers and members of the ad-
visory board of the Old Settlers ASSOC
citation of Union county, at q recent
meeting chose Alcester as the place
for holding their 9Th annual picnic
on Aug. 20.
Total receipts from the one cent a
7 gallon tax on gasoline used on the
highways Of the state for the first
six months of 1922 amounted to $211,.
170.S9, according to the records of
the state auditor.
Figures compiled at the Aberdeen
postoffice show that during the last
calendar year the office had total
gross receipts Of $173,S4S.55, this be-
ing an increase of nearly $1,000 over
the report of 10 years ago.
The James river claimed two more
victims when William Jenke, IS years
old, drowned in a deep hole near
Sentinel, and Ellsworth Whiting, 81.
year-old farmer. lost his life while
swimming % miles north of Huron.
That hog thieves in the Mellette
territory are utilizing chloroform in
carrying on their hog stealing opera
tons is the claim of a farmer living
% spring pigs from his place in one
night.
Mrs. A. B. Meester, of Brookinga,
was killed instantly by a live wire
when she went to the cellar Of the
butcher shop in which her husband
works. She was found dead with the
wire across her chest and her clothing
on fire.
After being out two hours, the jury
hearing the murder trial of Clyde
Chambers, at Faulkton, found him
guilty of killing William Y. Monroe on
the night of April %. Judge Hughes
Immediately sentenced Chambers to
life imprisonment.
One shearing outfit near Faith has
closed it's work for the season after
shearing $4,000 sheep. The wool pro-
duction of that county is heavy and
the shearing outfit in question is only
one Of several which have been at
work in the eastern part of Meade
county this summer
Forty-eight South Dakota counties
are TO- included in the list Of those
employing county extension agents.
Meade, one Of the latest counties to
make an appropriation for the extern
sion work in agriculture and home
economics, will employ two men be.
cause of the size of the county.
That striking railway shopmen in
all South Dakota centers are maintain.
ing orderly conduct is the consensus
of reports received from Aberdeen.
Watertown, Pierre, Mobridge and
Huron. A number Of the men have
obtained other work to carry them
over the period of the strike. No dis.
turbances have been reported from
any point.
Sven Johnson, a 6-year-old boy, Of
Garretson, died from an injury re-
! ceivcd in a peculiar manner. The
lad was watching a thing machine in
operation and was sitting on a length
of tile which was standing on end.
The tile tipped over, throwing the
boy to the ground and injuring his
spine in such a tanner as to cause
Inconsistencies at once, and he died
a few days afterwards without regain.
ing consciousness.
The authorities of Potter county and
Walworth county have entered into
an agreement whereby the counties
will combine in the expense Of con.
structing a highway on the county
lines leading into Hoven. Eight miles