The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-06-30

mail via Witten and Wood instead Oh
Carter and Wood as at present. An
other route will go from Winner
west-through Carter and Oak Creek
to Mission from ~CroOkston, NeD.,
through Rosebud, while the route that
now goes from White River to Rose
bud through Mission will, after July
/, go only as far as Mission. A new
route has also been established from
Rosebud to Norris via Paramalee.
Winter rye has reached a height of
more than four feet and carries heavy
heads rapidly filling out. The alfalfa
is ready for the first cutting and, in
fact, a number of fields are already
out and being stacked. Spring sown
grain is a foot or more high. The
color is light on account Of he rains
and cool weather. but with the past
few warm days this is being rapidly
cured. Corn is s~prouting, encouraged
by the warm weather. The prairie
hay is coming rapidly to the front,
and there will be no shortage of feed
in the central and western part Of the
state this fall.
An increase of 40 per cent in the
production of winter wheat in South
Dakota, the promise Of a so per cent
increase in rye production and esti-
mated decrease of 2 per Cent in the
spring wheat acreage, 4 per cent in
the oats acreage and 1 per cent in
the barley acreage, all as compared
with figures Cor last year, are out
standing features Of the crop report
issued by the United States bureau
Ct markets and crop estimates,
The crop outlook for the northern
and western part Of the state was
never better than it is at this time OF
the year, and the north half should
garner an immense crop for the year.
The southern, or rather the south
eastern part Of the state is picking up
since the rains of the past week
which put q different appearance on
the situation, and while their winter
grain may be short they are in line for
a big corn crop.
An action by which r. L. Youngers,
Of Parker, seeks to recover damages
Of $25, 900 from the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul railway company has
been instituted in the circuit court
there. The plaintiff seeks the re-
covery of damages for injuries sus-
tanned when he stepped from a train
and fell from a railroad bridge near
Parker into the river bed.
Henry Koch of Memo, shipped 131
head of fat cattle which he had been
feeding all winter to Chicago and top
ped the market with 81 head Of them,
getting $3.50 per 100 pounds. For the
other so head he received SO per 100,
the entire shipment bringing him
$13, 900, or nearly 500 per head.
Final reports from the 224 complet.
ed home projects conducted by boys
and girls throughout the state who
are receiving Smith-Hughes agricul-
tural work, conducted under the state
department of public instruction, show
a total net profit over and above all
expenses Of $6,769.12.
A petition from farmers in Day,
Grant and Robert counties, in the
vicinity of Summit, asking that hail
losses sustained in the storm of June
II be paid under the terms Of the
state hail insurance law has been re-
ceived by officials here.
One hundred twenty students, ex.
elusive of the conservatory, are now
enrolled in the goth annual session Of
the Yankton college summer school,
Lateregistrations will undoubtedly
carry the enrolment above 1913, the
figure for last year.
]. A. Pierce, a Hudson man, has
secured an injunction restraining the
Hudson school board from selling
bonds in the sum Of $4,000 which
recently were voted for the purpose
Of increasing the school facilities Of
Hudson.
Delegates from each Of the 140 posts
located in all quarters of the state
assembled at Huron for the second
annual two-day convention of the
South Dakota American legion aux.
Hilary convention.
Rudolph Norvold, the ~14-year-old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. NOrvold,
proved himself a hero when he
rescued Andrew Baker, a boy champ.
ion, from drowning in the Big Sioux
river near Volga.
Tying the halter of a farm horse to
the suspenders of his overalls re-
suited in the death of Jacob, the 10
yelr-old son Of Zach Walters, a Sully
county farmer.
Robbers entered the general mer.
chandise store Of Maui & Son at
Broadland, IA miles northwest OF
Huron, taking about 5000 worth OF
merchandise.
Fire, caused by lightning, destroyed
the large barn on the Saby farm near
Flandreau, with all its contents, in.
Guiding horses. harness. grain. hay and