The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-25
NEWS Of THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

A tragic accident happened north
OF Hendricks when Sigrud Digre was
killed by runaway horses hitched to
a binder.
Preliminary arrangements are be-
ing made for the annual Mellette
county fair, to be held in Wood on
September 2G, 81 and %.
q. NJ. Brady, a furnace man resid-
ing at Mitchell, was killed in an auto
mobile accident near P~lankinton,
when his car turned turtle,
The Doland commercial club is
having the telephone poles in its ter
ritory on the Short Cut" highway
marked for the guidance Of travellers.
Jack Heinrichs, aged 312 years, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Heinrichs, of
Claremont, died from an infection re-
sulting from a Slight scratch on n
of his feet.
The 19-month-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Kraaggbrink, living on a
Lake county farm, died from burns
received when she fell into a bucket
Of boiling water.
The Springfield commercial club,
with the backing of the business men
Of the city, is pushing the project for
the installing of a modern co-opera-
tive creamery in Springfield.
The city council Of Emery has
awarded contracts for installing
waterworks and a sewer system in
Emery. The two systems will cost
an aggregate Of more than $4,000.
The. Lennox community club, an
organization Of boosting farmers and
business men of LennoX and the
surrounding community, will hold its
first annual agricultural fair and
celebration on Aug. 20 and so.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Hughes, living on a farm five
miles south Of Bradley, was found
drowned by the mother, who started
a search when the child was missing.
The body was found floating in a
water tank.
The Golden Feather mine, in
Spruce Gulch, one Of the best pros
poets in the Black Hills for gold
mining, will resume operations short,
ly, following TIE installation Of a
new 150-ton roll mill, the first Of its
kind to be installed in the Hills.
A movement is Oh DOT in Onida to
install a sewer system in place Of the
cess pools now being used, it being
argued that the cost Of the system
will no ,,oofariol1y Iacc tn tho nrn,nptU
owners affected than the upkeep Of
these cess pools, besides being much
moro sanitary.
Bernie Burdick, Of Sisseton, who
had but recently received his dis
charge from the army after serving
since 1917, was almost instantly kill
ed three miles east Of Mobridge when
the car in which he was riding went
over an embankment while endeavor-
ing to pass two other cars.
Tourists travelling through Mitchell
may now take a direct highway route
through the city without the least
difficulty, as the main highways lead
ing east and west, and north and
south, have been thoroughly marked
with arrows indicating right and left
turns. and with sign posts designating
the highway.
The first effect Of the coal and
railroad strike to be felt in Woon.
socket was when the Schiller Light
and Power company was forced to
shut down from Q 24-hour service to
q 12-hour service on week days and
cut ont the Sunday service. This was
done to conserve the coal supply I'M
til more coal could be procured.
The cream shipment record for
this season has Outclassed all former
years. 1t has been conservatively
estimated that the receipts for cream
shipments between Rapid City and
Mitchell amounted to the huge sum
Of 500, 900 during the past month.
The greater portion Of these ship
ments were from west Of the river.
In an attempt to offset as far as
possible an impending shortage of
freight cars for the movement Of
agricultural produce from that section
OF the state, the traffic bureau Of the
Watertown chamber of commerce
has appealed to the state railroad
commission and to the interstate COM
merce commission for a sufficient
supply Of cars to handle the move
ment necessitated by the harvest
season.
Dead fish by the thousands are
lining the shores of Lake Byron, the
summer resort for Huron and Beadle
county, IA miles north Of Huron,
causing that place to be Stunned.
Those most %conversant with con.
ditions at the lake lay the blame for
this condition to the rank growth of
vegetation in the lake bottom, which
natures about this time Of the year
and is dug up by the carp, catching in
the gills OF the fish and sausing them
TO die from s~uffocation.
With Iowa in the first place and
South Dakota in the second place in
corn production per farm, according
to the federal figures of the 1921
crop, the northwest is coming to the
front 40 tho corn cauptrv Thn