The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-03-01
Neus of
South Dakota

Through the efforts OF citizens a
boy scouts organization has been
formed in Mobridge.
The citizens of Gregory have taken
up the matter of providing the OWL
with a good sewerage system.
Fire which caused a loss estimated
at 100000 destroyed three buildings at
F%airburn, situated in the southern
Black Hills,
William Popham of Florence, Cod
fngton county, was killed near Sleepy
Eye, Minnn., when a tree he was cut
ting struck him in falling.
At a meeting of the Doland COM
mercial club plans were made for a
number Of BODYBUILDING projects to
be worked Upon during the spring and
summer.
The Dakota Central Telephone com
pany has decided to make extensive
improvements to it's system in Moody
county commissioners of Brown coun-
in the state.
The new state highway between
Fort Pierre, Philip and Midland will
be constructed this spring, according
to assurances received from the state
highway commission.
A fall on the ice in December is
thought to have beer responsible for
the death Of Clifford, the 1~1-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Peterson,
who reside on a ranch near New
Underwood.
There is a movement on foot in
Brookings to recall the mayor and
present board of city commissioners
and return to the aldermanic form of
government. A petition is being cir
culated to this end.
Up to date four circuit judges of
the state have filed petitions as non
political candidates for positions on
the circuit bench, those filing to date
all being now on the bench and ask
ing for denomination.
Steps have been taken at Fort
Pierre to provide the town with an
up-to-date gymnasium, which will be
installed in a desirable location and
provide a recreation place for the
boys and young men of the city.
A little over 3d. 900 900 of state sol
diers' bonus money has been paid out
to date, and the cases yet to be passed
upon are practically all such as will
require more or less investigation be
fore the final payments are made.
Wolves, coyotes and bobcats cost
South Dakota farmers s39,1S2 in live
stock and poultry de stroyed by them
the past year., according to a survey
of the United States biological bu-
reau. These animals killed 5,S01
head of livestock and 4,279 fowls, the
report shows.
Precipitation for January this year
Of it vas in o of which there was
a total of Is inches during the month.
The precipitation vas LIT inches,
more than three times the normal for
January, which is Sc of an inch, In
other ways the first month of 1922
was not unusual.
The 3Sth annual tournament of the
South Dakota Firemen's association
will be held in Madison on June Is,
IA, Is and is. Three thousand five
hundred dollars has been set aside for
prizes, $3.50 OF which will be used for
band concerts. The fire chiefs of the
state will hold their annual meeting
at Madison on June 49,.
The contractors on the new state
highway bridge across the Cheyenne
river, neal Carlin, in the northwest
part Of Stanley county, have most of
their piers completed and the steel
construction we'll along and expect
to get the bridge in shape to stand
any strain from high water by the
end of this month, putting them in
the clear before the spring floods on
that stream.
More than 1900 inquiries regarding
homesteads in South Dakota were
made OF the state department of i'm
migration during the months OF De-
cember and January as a result Of the
states exhibit in the Milwaukee rail.
roads homeseekers' car which has
been touring southern Minnesota and
northern Iowa. Many of these in
quiries indicate that the persons max
ing them contemplate the purchase
Of farms in South Dakota during the
next al
Through action taken last year by a
large sugar beet refining company
which annually had purchased thous.
ands OF tons Of beets from growers
Under the Belle Fourche irrigation
project, it was feared that the com.
pany would abandon the Belle
Fourche field. However, as the re-
suit of recent correspondence be-
tween the commercial club Of Belle
Fourche and the officials Of the COM
pany, it nov is practically assured
that the company will again enter the
Belle Fourche district this year and
furnish a market for beets grown in
the district during the season of 1922.
The contract for construction work