The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-08-17
NEWS Of THE STATE
IN PoRTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN souTH
DAKOTA.

western Newspaper Union News Service
The new motor vehicle law which
goes into effect in South Dakota on
January /, next, will take q great deal
Of revenue away from the cities and
towns of the state, which have derived
a great deal Of annual revenue from
the taxation of automobiles. The new
law fixes q license according to
weight of the cars and trucks, and the
provisions of the law specify that OF
the $4,000, 900 which 1t is estimated
will be collected from this source in
the state each year, 3 per cent will be
placed in the state motor vehicle fund
to pay expenses incurred by the sec
rotary Of state, 81 per CEN OF the
funds will be credited to the motor
vehicle fund of the county in which
it is collected. and the remaining 70
per cent will be placed in the state
highway fund.
One of the oil boosters in the Lem
mon district who Intend to" develop
a large territory. returned money re.
ceived TO. sale of stock, and pulled
out of the place, when the local paper
Of the town published his plan as a
pure proNrotion scheme. and virtuous-
ly handed back the none and an
nounced publicly that he intended to
they tolerated q publisher who had
the nerve to express his view of the
plan proposed by the promoter.
AS the result Of a meeting OF good
roads boosters. held in Lennox. it,
was decided to ask the next North
Dakota legislature to cooperate with
the residents of northern South Da.
kota in the construction of the Yellow.
stone automobile trail along the line
dividing North and South Dakota
west OF Lennon.
The farmers Of the WATERFOWL
district have been receiving large
aggregate sums during the past few
months from the marketing of live.
stock. During a period of six months
livestock which brought the farmers q
total of nearly $50, 900 was marketed
through a local shipping association.
The best yield of grain yet reported
in South Dakota for the season of
1922 is reported by Frank D. Morrison
Of Yankton county, who threshed the
winter wheat crop from I2 acres and
secured a total of SGT bushels-or an
average of a little better thar Al
bushels to the acre.
A two-day celebration will be held
at LennoX on Thursday and Friday
Aug. 81 and Sept. /. II is the inten
ton Of those who have originated the
idea Of holding the celebration to
combine it with "a fair to cooperate
with the work Of the boys and girls
club.
In the list OF consolidated school
districts recently compiled by the
state educational department is shown
one district in Corson county which
cover almost 81 townships in the $50
square miles within It's territory, with
Mclaughlin as the central point
HALEY Partridge, a Newell lad cF
Is years, is in the county Jail at Belle
Fourche. He was arrested sor beating
Henry Peety. jeweler at Newell. Over
the head with a steel bar in what l.
believed to have been an attempt a!
robbery.
An important decision bearing on
the Legality of contracts signed by
minors was rendered in the circuit
court at Mtlbank. the decision holding
that contracts signed by anyone un
/ lar th1 inra1 nna 80 % n-, ;n,oliJ \.
1t now Is assured that Roberts coun
ty will have a fair in the fall. Thi
will be the first fair to be held for
several years. and it Is planned to
make 1t one Of the best held in north
eastern South Dakota this year
At a meeting of the %stockholder
Of the Aberdeen street railway com
pany they voted unanimously TO trans
fer their holdings without charge to
any organization that will assume the
Indebtedness OF the COMPANY.
One OF the features of a harvest
festival to be held in Chancellor on
Thursday. Aug. II. will be a radio
concert. In addition there will be var
ious sports including two bali games
Reports just compiled show that
during the year ending May 1, 1922,
nearly 1000. 900 bushels Of grain was
marketed through the elevators Of
Moody county.
This years assessment of personal
property and real estate in Woon.
socket reaches more than $1,000, 900
This Is a substantial increase owe.
last year.
The city manager of Chamberlain.
has discovered a sure cure for the
common drunk. which Is 30 days at
work on tho streets.
The piling has been driven for the
tramway OF the Meridian Highway
bridge across the Missouri river in
yankton
Miss Eva Ketelsen. ~. ~ Huron
died after an illness of a week caused
by eating raw green peas
The Farmers elevator at Brandt
was totally destroyed by fire
Indications are that the fourth
annual convention of the south Ia
kota Department OF the American
Legion. to he held in Huron this year
On Aug. 2i.24. will be the greatest In
the history of the organization