The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-02
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.

winch annually had purchased :hOus-
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.
More than 1900 inquiries regarding
homesteads in South Dakota We're
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 year.
The contractors on the new state
highway bridge across the Cheyenne
river, near Carlin, in the northwest
part Of Stanley county, have most of
their piers completed and the steel
construction well 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.
The 38th annual tournament of the
South Dakota Tiremen's association
will be held In Madison on June Is,
IA, Is and 1e. Three thousand five
prizes, $3.50 OF which will be used for
band concerts. The fire chiefs of the
state will holj their annual meeting
at Madison on June 10.
Precipitation for January this year
was the greatest for so years. Most
Of 1t was in snow, Of which there wa"
a total of Is inches during the month
Tho precipitation was LII inches,
more than three times the normal for
JaLuary, which is Sc of an inch. In
other ways the first month Of 1922
was not unusual.
The bricklayers and plasterers OF
Huron have officially announced that
effective March l there will be a 10
per cent cut In prices of their labor,
this action being taken voluntarily
upon the recommendation of the Mas
ter Builders association of South Da
kota.
Ths Fort Pierre city commissioners
have purchased six lots in a desirable
location and will fit them up for cit
park purposes. The grounds also will
be used as a camping place for auto
tourists during the summer months.
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.
Up to date four circuit judges OF
the state have filed petitions as non
political candidates for positions OF
the circuit bench, those filing to date
all being now on the bench and ask
ing for denomination.
There is a movement on foot in
Brookings to recall the mayor anC
present board of city COMMISSIONS
and return to the a~ldermanic form o
government. A petition is being cir.
Gulated to that end.
A fall on the ice in December is
thought to have been responsible for
he death of Clifford, the ~11-year-old
iop of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Peterson
Who reside on a ranch neal New I'm
lerwood.
The new state highway between
sort Pierre, Philip and Midland vii
be constructed this spring. accordin
to assurances received from the state
highway commission.
The Dakota Central Telephone com
Dany has decided to make extensive
improvements in it's system in MOODY
county, as well as in other counties
in the state.
Charles w. Couch, a well known and
respected farmer living near Philip
committed suicide by hanging. He
was found swinging from a rope In
MS barn.
William Popham of Florence, Cod.
ington county, was killed near Sleepy
eye, Mimi, when a tree he vas cut
ting struck him in falling.
Fire which caused a loss estimated
at $4,000 destroyed three. buildings al
Fairburn, situated In the southern
Black Hills.
George w. Henderson, uncle OF
Charles Ray, the movie star, died re
Gently in Huron.
Humboldt is putting on a campaign
TO raise and collect a car of corr for
the starving people of Russia.
Work on Mobridge's new $175,000
w~aterworks system is now under way.
w, c. Cook, new minister to Vene.
zuela, and his party arrived in Car
acus, the capital of the South Amer
lean country. Tuesday. January "a.
and were given a cordial welcome by
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