The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-04-26

certificates are cOm1n to the Office
Of the secretary of state from prac-
tically every county of the state, al
though apparently some OF the county
officials are more or less at sea as
to just how they are to be used.
Hutchinson county is the one which
is asking for the largest number, as
they want $500 in that county.
Mystery surrounds the strange dis
appearance OF Joseph Davis, a young
farmer residing 10 miles northwest OF
Firesteel, a small town west of
Timber Lake. Davis left his home
on Sunday, March 10, and nothing
has beer heard from him since that
time. Firesteel creek has been
dragged practically it's entire length.
but without results as yet.
The Butte county potato growers
believe that they can better their
conditions along the same ines OF the
alfalfa seed growers organization.
which has been working in the west
ern part OF the state the past year,
and they have organized the Butte
County Potato Growers association,
with headquarters at Nisland, and a
capital of $1,000.
Thousand of fish, it has been dis
covered, were killed in the lakes OF
the Volga district during the winter
by smothering. The bodies of thous-
ands OF perch, pickerel, bullheads,
buffalo and suckers have lined the
shores OF the lakes this spring and
hundreds Of rows have been feasting
on the bodies and picking the bones
clean.
After a contest extending over a
period of several weeks, the Dell
Rapids commercial club has adopted
a slogan for the city. Out of several
hundred slogans presented, this was
selected as the best: Dell Rapids,
the little city with big attractions"
Black Hills Masonic Consistory of
Deadwood will hold a spring reunion
on April "a to %, at which time de.
grees from the fourth to the 32nd will
be conferred on a large class of can
didates from different parts Of the
Black Hills.
Work at the South Dakota owned
mine at Haynes, N. d., has been ITEM
porarily suspended" on account of
the general coal miners strike, but
there have been no disturbances in
the vicinity Of the mine, nor are any
expected.
The city council of Watertown has
arranged for the installation of two
electrical pumping units for the city
waterworks pumping station at Lake
Kampeska, to be operated by current
from the new municipal lighting plant.
Moody county has 5,40O acres Of
land which was reclaimed by the con-
struction of a huge drainage ditch,
which cost Moody and Lake counties
a total of $S6,5S1, or an average OF
$14.43 per acre.
Farmers in Fall River county are
jubilant owe action taken at a meet
ing of the board of county commits
sioners which assures them funds to
carry on farm bureau work until Jan.
l, next.
The city council of Clark has en-.
acted IN ordinance which regulates
puOIlS aoASCo within LuO III VI
Clark and provides for the appoint
ment of a matron to supervise such
dances.
Domestic science has lost its popu
larity in Mitchell schools and as a re-
suit the board Of education is serious
ly considering the idea of dropping
the domestic science department next
year.
Roy Anderson post, No. II, the
Yankton unit of the American Legion,
will build a post hut for headquarters
and clubrooms if it cannot obtain
some existing location that is suitable.
At the concluding session in Sioux
Falls, of the annual convention of the
South Dakota League of Women VOt-
place for the next annual meeting.
Mystery surrounds the identity of a
man whose body was found in a hay
stack in the Tuscan district OF Hutch
inson county. The dead man appar-
emily was about SIS years old.
Several business houses and a mum.
Der OF new dwellings are in course of
NOuSt1 uNllOA al VuCLl4Os 1nOAS0tAAA6
that the town will enjoy a good
growth this year.
James Herman, a cripple making his
home at Gregory, was instantly killed
by falling down the stairway from the
second to the first floor of the hotel at
Custer.
Otto j. FIoerschinger, a farmer liv.
ing southwest OF Chester, was killed
when a shotgun which he was carry.
ing was accidentally discharged.
The city of Vermillion has taken
charge of the old cour house grounds
in that city and will fit them up as a
public parking place for autos.
Preparations are being made for
the Gettysburg Equity exchange to
resume business after being closed
most OF the winter.
The Armour commercial club Is
- r.