The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-07-21
NEWS Of THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.


bushes and vines loaded with plums,
cherries and grapes. Thousands Of
bushels will be gathered OF native
fruit this fall.
The Deadwood fire department has
accepted a proposition made by the
city commissioners and are to as
sumo The management of the amuse-
ent park there. 1t is planned to
erect a pavilion in the park and make
other Improvements that will add to
the attractiveness of the park.
At the annual meeting of the South
Dakota Duroc Breeders association,
held in Huron, it was decided to offer
$500 in prizes for boys pig club work.
The competing pigs will be displayed
at the state fair in Huron in Septem-
Der, and the prizes will be distribut-
ed at that time.
Tourist travel through and to the
Black Hills is the heaviest in the his
tory of that region. 1t is estimated
that approximately 5000 tourists have
either camped at or visited the tour
list park in Rapid City since it was
opened to the public the latter part of
May.
With an abundant harvest begin
ming in that section Of the state, the
annual Pre-Haryest festival, to be
held at Redelm on July q, promises
to eclipse any previous one. The fes-
tival will include western sports
broncho-busting, races and baseball.
Driving of piles for the tramway at
the Meridian Highway bridge site IN
the Missouri river at Yankton has
been started preparatory to the re-
sumption of work on the substructure
after a delay of several months owing
to the high stage Of the river.
Tentative assessed valuation Of
railroad property in South Dakota
has been placed at 1929, 71O,7SS, ac-
cording to the report of the state tax
commission recently completed. This
amount is nearly $425,O 600 more than
the assessed valuation. for 1921.
The two banks at aOnida cashed
approximately $1,000 liz cream checks
during the month of June, while it is
believed the bank at Agar did nearly
as much. Sully county is rapidly
forging to the front in dairying and
diversified farming.
1t is claimed that of the ferries op-
Grating at Is different points along
the Missouri river, in South Dakota,
the ferry which Is operating from
Forest City to the west side of the
Missouri is the largest in capacity
and displacement.
has made its regular summer trip to
the upper reaches of the Missouri,
and will remain on the headwaters Of
the river until fall, and hen get back
to the winter quarters at Sioux City.
John Pfaff and Harry Sautner, who
are charged with the murder Of two
Indians near Isabel on January Z,
were found guilty of ~manslaughter in
the first degree after 40 hours DELHI
Grafton Of a jury at Timber Lake.
The federal crop figures give the
states of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebras-
ka and Kansas as one-fifth Of the total
Of farm crop production Of the United
States for last year.
A special election will be held in
Bradley on August 5 for the purpose
of submitting to the voters the propo-
sition of issuing bonds Of $4,000 for
erecting a new public school building
and lighting plant.
James w. Wilson, director in charge
of the experiment station at Brook.
ingS is notifying county agents that
no more blackleg vaccine will be dis
tributed by the U. S. department OF
agriculture.
Walter May was fatally injured in
an automobile accident between De-
Smet and Lake Preston, when the
a in which he and three other men
were riding turned over.
With 193,751 automobile LICENSED
registered with the state department
to the first day Of July, the record for
the year will probably go beyond that
Of any former year.
Frank Them, who was buried under a
mass of brick while engaged with
other men in wrecking an old store
building in Lead, has succumbed tc
his injuries.
The Rosebud country will this year
produce the greatest crop of tame
and wild fruit since that region was
settled, it is stated.
"Cootie Day." the annual celebra
ton of the Dell Rapids post of the
American Legion, will be held at Del
Rapids August 4.
Articles of Incorporation have beer
filed at Pierre for the Yankton County
Fair association at Yankton.
The farmers elevator at Gettys
burg, which has been closed since las1
fall, has been reopened.
The ~conveniences offered to auto
tourists at the tourist camp in the
park In Pierre are pronounced by
tourists to be ahead of anything of
fered them at any other place alonf