The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-05-25

a small amount OF finished product,
and Is feet Of 34 inch coil were seiz-
ed.
The first forest fire Of the season
in the Black Hills broke out in the
heavy timber near Maurice. All avail.
able forest rangers were called to the
scene to battle with the flames. After
a hard fight the fire was extinguish.
ed before great damage had been done
to the growing timber.
Complaint is being made that some
vandal in central Meade county Is
killing horses. About a dozen head
belonging to different owners have
been found dead on the prairie, and
some of them were thrown into swol-
len streams and found floating down
with the flood water.
A coroner's jury summoned to in.
vestigate the case decided hat the
tragic death of Mrs. Louis Jorgenson.
aged %, living with her husband on a
Clay county farm, was a case of sui.
eide. Dependency because of a long
siege of sickness is thought to have
been the cause.
On May 81 the South Dakota state
treasury will be entirely out Of debt.
according to an announcement made
by State Treasurer w. S. O'Brien.
who says hat on that date the state
will take up all outstanding tax
anticipation warrants, amounting to
$1,000, 900.
Three teams of South Dakota boys
and girls dairy club members will re-
present the state at the 1922 Nation
al Dairy show, to be held at st. Paul
in October. They will compete with
similar teams from a score Of other
states for prize money totalling 3d..
$50.
In one day Judge Lightner, county
judge Of Edmunds county, heard the
cases of Is parents who were charged
with failing to send their children to
school in accordance with the school
laws ofthe state. In a number of the
cases fines were imposed.
1t is expected the contract soon will
be awarded for the ~gravellng of the
highway from Brookings 10 Volga.
The contract for the construction of
the bridges on this highway was
awarded last fall, the work to be com.
pleted by Aug. l next.
With the object of boosting the
Custer Battle Field highway, a sports
day will be held in Hudson June z
under the auspices of the people of
the eight towns from Harrisburg to
Westfield, Ia, through which this
highway extends.
With the payment Of the last out.
standing $4,000 bond, the board of ed.
ucation OF the Salem city schools finds
itself entirely out of debt besides
having a comfortable cash balance in
the treasury for future use.
The business men of Philip have a
plan to boost cream buying at that
place this year. They will on a Ger.
tain day each week. the date to be Sc
lected by lot, pay three cents above
the market rate for cream.
The new community singing club
recently organized at Vclin is making
gooti progress and promises to be.
core a leading organization of its
kind in that section. A competen
instructor is in charge.
Aberdeen was chosen as the next
meeting place for tho South Dakota
Sunday School association and Siou2
Falls was endorsed for 1926 at the
closing business session of the con
vention in Huron.
The eastern half of Edmunds county
was settled in the spring of 1883. The
old pioneers plan holding a great eel
ebration next year in honor of tn,
4Oth anniversary of the settlement o
the county.
A package containing $3.50 in gov
eminent bonds and $1,000 in notes
after being mysteriously missing sine,
last summer has been recovered in .
field on the Edinger farm, in Aurors
county.
Work will commence at once on the
construction Of a state highway from
the Miner county line through the
Vermillion hills to a point nea
Junius, Lake county.
AS a result Of the new curfew ordin
ance in Lennon. the parents OF fou
children who violated the ordinanc,
were called into court and fines of 81
and costs assessed in each a
On May /, of this year tho city o
Iroquois had registered warrants o
only $500 outstanding and these will
be taken up with tax money collected
this month.
The Madison board Of education ia
advertising for bids on $4,000 schoo
bonds to be used this summer in build
ing additirns to two local schools.
Better lighting for Tyndall was
voted by the city council when it let
a contract for a new White Way" &c
a Sioux City electrician.
Notwithstanding that he was elect
ed to the office OF mayor Of High
more, d. C. Lewis refuses to qualify
for the office.
The residents OF Bowdle and vicin
ity have contributed a fund for the
erection OF a hospital in Bowdle.
A new dope craze-peyote bean eat
sng-has takon such a hold Of the In
dams on the nine reservations o.
0..xn M Irnf. - a. $500