The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-05-19

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF The
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

handle. The claims are coming In
slowly, ranging as high as 80 new ap-
plications on some days, while others
bring no new ones. Pay ments are
now being made at the rate OF about
$50 per day, as it takes more CORE
s%pondence and investigation to prop
erly clear the claims which are left
than those which came in regular in
all particulars. Practically rs per
cent Of the applications have been
taken care of, and also approximately
rs per cent of the amount voted has
been paid out.
Clyde II. Chambers, 35, a farm
hand, was bound over to the circuit
court OF Faux county without bell
on a formal charge Of murder, when
the states attorney introduced evi.
dence from four witnesses to show
that Chambers planned and executed
the murder of Will Monroe, a farmer
of Faux county, shortly after mid
night on the night of April %.
Rapid progress is being made in
the grading Of the Meridian Highway
in Yankton county, a state and federal
aid project. Two miles Of the 20-mile
project have been practically com
pleted. The part to be graded ex-
tends from the city limits of Yankton
to the northern border of the county.
Huron is rapidly coming to the fore
as a hog market and Capitalization
point, as is demonstrated from the
fact that since Jan. 27 approximately
$50 double-decked cars of hogs have
been shipped out of that city to Kan
sas City, Milwaukee and Chicago mar
kets.
Women of Kingsbury county have
organized a league OF women voters
for the study of public questions and
for the purpose of enabling the new
women voters to vote i~ntelligently
upon matters of public interest which
come before the voters.
South Dakota stands fourteenth
among the states in the number of
units in the American Legion auxil.
larry, and now has 1872 units of the
1895 in the United States, Canal
Zone, Cuba, Mexico and Hawaii.
Miss Barbara Rame, living with a
brother on a farm some miles from
Tyndall, was found dead in one Of the
buildings on the place. The coroner
decided that death resulted from an
attack of heart trouble.
The Wall community club has com
menced work on preparing a fine
tourists park and camp ground.
which will be located adjoining the
Custer Battlefield Hiway and Black
and Yellow trail.
Plans have been completed for an
outdoor theater which is to be erect
ed on the campus Of the state normal
school in Aberdeen. 1t will have a
seating capacity of from $500 to
5000 people.
Yeggmen blew open the big vault
Of the Westport State bank at West
port, about Is miles north Of Aber-
deem, making away with over $1,000
in cash, after working for over three
hours.
Work of dragging and repairing
the road between the Hills and Spear
fish and from the junction of the
Spearfish-D eadwood road to st. Onge
has been started and will be pushed,
A number of towns and cities over
the state are acquiring park sites and
getting park systems lined up before
the price Of land for such purposes
gets too high to allow of purchase.
Directors Of the Tri-State Roundup
association have selected July 8, 4
and 5 as the time for the fifth annual
roundup and frontier day ~celebra.
ton, to be held in Belle Fourche.
The Mitchell May musical festival,
which will be held in Mitchell May
"a, 25 and &c, is expected to be one
Of the most important musical events
of the state during the year.
The city council of Beresford will
advertise at once for bids for about
IL blocks Of street paving which it
has been decided to have done this
summer In the city.
Liz iCicpiIOuC COMPANY
plans putting all the city's telephone
wires under ground for the purpose of
reducing cost of maintenance.
A review OF the work of the Nit
chell boys club outdoor activities for
the past seven months shows a large
amount of work accomplished.
The contract has been awarded to
install new sewer and waterworks
systems in DeSmet. at a cost of q
little more than sos, 900.
August %. % and "a has been fixed
as the time for the annual convention
in Rapid City of the registered nurses
Of South Dakota.
Good progress is being made In
the work of installing a waterworks
system in Wall.
Plans are being made to erect a
new public school building In Trent.
An experiment in operating a coun.
~ hospital in Faux county has not
proven a success. At the end of tho