The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-04-14
NEWS or The STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF TIE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.

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Governor William II. McMaster WI
carry the state for denomination by
10000 according to the latest com
pwilation OF figures at the office oil
the republican headquarters in Huron.
Exam has carried six counties OF the
! state: Deuel. by 80 majority, McCooE
! by 226. Miner by 200, Mlnnehaha by
$50, Moody by S97, and Pennington by
100. The balance Of the state has
gone for McMaster. The west river
country including both Rosebud and
northwestern counties, have mo- made
very definite reports as yet, but ali
show maioritics for McAlaSter.
A farmer living seven miles south
Of Brookings was hauling straw from
a stack in one Of his fields when his
pitcbfork struck a hard substance in
the interior of the stack. An invest.
igation revealed a touring car, in
good reDair. 1t has been learned that
the automobile is the property Of 4
Moody county resident, from whom
it was stolen in January or this year.
Farmers Of the Lake Nogden terri
tory have each year become more OK
| tensively Interested in the dairy bust
ness, with the result that the Lake
Norden cooperative creamery, in
which NAM OF the farmers Of that
district are stockholders, expect SO
break all former records this year in
the volume of business transacted and
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market.
Garden City was visited by a dis.
astrous fire which started in a garage
in the business district Of the town.
The garage and two other structures
were destroyed before the fire was
gotten under control. The fire wiped
out the last of the frame buildings on
the main business street Of the village.
In a short time work will COM
meuce on the construction Of the new
100000 public school building which
is to be erected in Mclaughlin. The
foundation was put in last fall. 1t is
planned to have the building com
pleted IN time for the opening Of the
fall term of school.
Extensive improvements will be
made this spring to the highway lead
ing south from Violin, this being
among the important road work to be
| done in that vicinity this season. The
highway extends across bottOmlands
| and will connect with the Washington
highway.
Plans for a cleanup" week are
being made by the Yankton park
board, during which every home
owner, the city authorities, and all
clubs and organizations, will be asked
to Danish unsightly spots, trim-trees
and put lawns and streets in order.
Justice Charles S. Whiting, of the
South Dakota supreme court, died in
a Pierre hospital March %. A local
enesthetic being administered in
preparation for IN operation on his
tonsils reacted on his heart, causing
commissions and death.
The latest cooperative live stock
association to be organized by farm
ers in the state was formed by the
farmers of the vicinity Of Violin who
are members of the Pleasant Valley
Farmers union.
The tourist season appears to al
ready have opened in the Black Hills
Each day automobile parties from
different parts Of the state and ad
joining states pass through Black
Hills cities.
At a special election to he held il
Lake Preston on April % the question
of issuing bonds of $4,000 for thu
erection OF a new high school build
ing will be submitted to the voters.
At the annual Am~ericanizatiol
dinner given in Mitchell by the League
Of Women Voters there were native
born persons from every c%ontinen
except Australia present.
Salaries Of public school teacher
in Mitchell next year will remain a
the same figure being paid this year
it was decided at a meeting Of thu
board Of education.
Peter Magnusson, bankrupt cattl
dealer, was aquitted of the third de
gree forgery charge against him b,
a jury at Tyndall after about min
hours elaboration.
Work has commenced on the cor
struction of a pipe line, which is t
bring water from mammoth spring
in the Spearfish valley to Bell
Fourche.
The Carthage Odd Fellows hav
secured fine quarters in a bushes
block and will utilize them as a PEI
manent home of the lodge.
The city council OF Salem ha
enacted an ordinance regulating dane
halls in Salem and those within on
mile Of the city limits.
Preliminary steps are being take
to push the large amount of stree
paving which is to be done in III
Springs this summer.
Elsie, the ~13-year-old daughter of M
and Mrs. Frank Jeffry, near Philil
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