The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-09-08
Work on the %graveling Of TyndalPs

ports indicate.
The business men Of Bryant have
taken steps to have a white way in
stalled on the chief business street
Of Bryant.
The Grant county Jail is filled with
alleged moonshiners as the result OF
a series Of raids completed by Sheriff
Baker and his deputies.
The Roberts County Bankers asso-
citation was formed recently in Sisse-
ton as a part of group seven OF the
State Bankers association.
The board Of county commissioners
of Dawson county has let contracts
for four new concrete bridges, which
viii cost in the neighbOrhood OF
$4,000.
Caught between the bars of her
crib, the infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. Shewfelt. of Lowry, strangled
TO death before her plight was dis
covered.
James Boyd, a pioneer Of Hand
county, and one of the unique char
acters Of that section of the state,
w S lOIil1 dCAlu lltdI ~ iiOAiC ~
~neighbors.
For the first time in the history of
the Mitchell corn palace, women are
to be included this year among the
force Of paid workers to help deco
rate the palace.
The wife Of John Mead. who is en-
ployed on n farm. six miles east or
Alcester. died from burns received
when a can of kerosene exploded and
set fire to her clothing.
Fire starting in the attic over the
engine room, near a smokestack, com
| pletely destroyed the Clark creamery,
causing q loss estimated at $4,000,
! which is covered by insurance.
There are 26 more pupils enrolled
in the schools of Woonsocket and
Sanborn county this year than there
were last, according to the county
school census, which has been COM
pleted.
Operating with a capacity Of $4,000
pounds OF butter a week, an up to date
creamery with every modern equip
ment has beer started at the Morrell
Packing plant in Sioux Falls and is
getting into full swing.
John Misar, a 42-year old farmer
living nine miles north of Tyndall,
was thrown from a load of hay to the
ground and instantly killed when his
team became frightened at a car
coming up behind and ran away.
A drouth Of SO days has been
broken in the vicinity of Bradley, but
too late to save much of the corn
crop. Pastures had dried up, trees
were shedding their leaves and corn
stood scarcely more than hip high.
The state immigration department
taking the estimates of the federal
department on production for this
year, finds tina in total production
this state ranks seventh on corn, be-
ing passed by Texas and Minnesota
in the race.
Officers over a wide scope OF
country in the region where South
Dakota. North Dakota and Montana
ioin are conducting a search for Omer
Crawford, a Harding county desper-
ado, who has proven himself II or
the champion jail-breakers Of recent
years.
According &c information received
from the war department at the office
Of Acknowledgement w. A. Halle, the
horses of a Minnesota national guard
F.. regiment have been ordered trans
: ferred to the 147th Field Artillery,
South Dakota's national guaro
regiment.
| At the September meeting OF the
/ state board Of charities and correc
lions, the matter of distributing the
/ reward Of $3.50 for each Of the -four
convicts killed and captured in west
: ern South Dakota will be determined
The state had offered this reward fol
f the capture Of the fugitives dead OF
t alive"
\ Practically every county in the
5 Black Hills will hold county fairs
\ this fall, and the time for them is fas1
4 approaching. All Of them are prom
r ising added attractions in exhibits o.
purebred livestock, agricultural pro
ducts and industrial features, as wei
f as speed programs Of more than or
Y binary merit.
To prevent fraud in the matter o
n interchangeable mileage books, fol
e lowing reports that attempts had beeI
# made to obtain funds from business
S firms for the purpose of obtaining thu
n mileage books, the Sopth Dakota rail
road commission made public infor
nation it has received concerning
the bill now awaiting the signature o
President Harding. The information
given out by the railroad commission
shows that the bill proposes tt
f amend Section 20 of the interstate
8 commerce act by providing: n
v the interstate commission
r be directed to require, after notice
and hearing, each carrier by rail, sub
8 ject to the interstate comerce act, tt
d issue at such offices as may be pre-
s scribed by the commission inter
O changeable mileage or scri"t coupon