The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-11
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

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 a license according to
weight OF the cars and trucks, and the
provisions of the law specify that of
the $4,000, 900 which ii 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, q per cent 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 for sale Of stock, and pulled
out OF the place, when the local paper
of the town published his plan as a
pure promotion scheme, and virtuous-
ly handed back the money and an
nounced publicly that he intended to
leave the town to it's fate so long as
they tolerated a 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 Watertown
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 a
total of nearly 100000 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 IL acres and
secured q total of SGT bushels-or an
average of a little better than AZ
bushels to the acre.
A two-day celebration will be held
at Lennox on Thursday and Friday,
ton of those who have originated the
idea OF holding the celebration to
combine ii 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
covers almost q townships in the $50
square miles within its territory, with
Mclaughlin as the central point.
HALEY Partridge. a Newell lad of
Is years, is in the county Jail at Belle
Fourche. He was arrested for beating
Henry Peety, jeweler at Newell, over
the head with a steel bar in what is
believed to have been an attempt at
robbery.
An important decision bearing on
the legality Of contracts signed by
minors was rendered in the circuit
court at Milbank, the decision holding
that contracts signed by anyone un-
der the legal age Of FL were invalid.
II now Is assured that Roberts coun.
ty will have a fair in the fall. This
will be the first fair to be held for
several years, and it is planned to
make it one of the best held in north
eastern South Dakota this year.
At a meeting of the stockholders
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 ball games.
Reports just compiled show that
during the year ending May l, 1922,
nearly 2,o0O,o 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 81, 900, 900.
This is a substantial increase over
last year.
The city manager Of Chamberlain,
has discovered a sure cure for the
common drunk, which is 80 days at
work on the streets.
The piling has been driven for the
tramway OF the Meridian Highway
bridge across the Missouri river in
Yankton.
Miss Eva Ketelsen, II, of Huron,
died after IN 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 Da-
kota Department of the American
Legion. to be held in Huron this year