The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-01-20

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Chris AnGers is back in the garage
busines at White River.
The Rosebud Poultry Show will
hold forth at Gregory next week, Jan
uary % to %
Mrs. Jess Burns and daughter
Mildred went to Winner last Sunday
TO visit with Mrs. Burns daughter
Mrs. How, this week.
Mrs. George Balint returned last
Saturday from Omaha vhere shs had
been visiting With her sagghter for
the past six weeks.
Dug Burgess began fs.i.s lne ice
house al she Hooking place east of
town this week. Ii begins to look as
though there would be az ample sup
ply OF ice put up for the needs Of our
people next summer.
1t is reported that all claims oi
South Dakota service men now resi-
dent in the state will be paid by March
lst, according to Fred b. Ray, execu
i've officer Of the state bonus board.
Tuesday We had dsanother snow. By
the time il quit showing there was q
three inch fall with a water content
OF II inches. There was more or less
wind with this snow and it drifted
quite bit.
Word was received here this week
that Mrs. j. l., Orrs mother, Mrs. Ho-
ban. who suffered stroke Of paraly-
sis last week, had passed away at her
home at Gladwln, Iowa. The many
friends of Mrs. Orr join US in extend
ing our heart felt sympathles.
The state lands board has decided
that there will be no state lands of
tered Tor sale this year, as the real es
tate market is not one which is salts
factory. The lease dates in all roun
ties of the state except Butte, Hard
ing and Perkins, is fixed for April 3.
We have been having real winter
weather the past week. 1t has been
showing more or less and the mercury
has been lowering around the zero
mark. 1t has been rather hard on
the coal pile, but it is this sort of
Of weather that makes the ice man
smile.
f S. Richardson and wife who at
tended the implement dealers con ven
ton at Omaha last week, and then
visited with friends at Sioux Falls,
returned home Thursday night of
this week. Thry found some snow
drifts to buck on their way from Win
ner to Wood.
q. w. Sawyer this week received
report from the Agronomy Depart
ment Of the State Agricultural COL
lege at Brookings on some alfalfa set d
that he sent there from his certified
field on his farm west Of town, az tu
It's purity. The report read as follows
Purity 1916 per cent, matter 3 per
cent and per ceLt OF fox tail and
rough pig weed. This makes an ex-
ceptlonally pure seed lacking only
four tenths Of one per cent OF absO
lutte purity" Of course George feels
quite elsted over this report and he
has perfect right to.
We were told of little. fstic en-
counter that took place dt the county
,eat last Monday, aud were requested
10 write it mp, but we do not think
that any great amount of zeal good is
accomplishei in this wicked old world
by printing al the scandal and rot
that is brought to country newspa
per mau. We refrain from giving
the affair more than passing mention.
Ii appears that one of the self appoin
ted moral and religious guide posts OF
the county seat used the short and
Ugly word in discussing. some matters
With respectable citizen OF that town
with the result that the aforesaid
self appointed moral and religious
guide post mer up with fist rather
suddenly, aud he immediately duck