The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-01-06
The interes and income apportion-

for this yea will amount to Sl,I34,5lO,
according to the announcement made
by Mort Adams, deputy commissions
in the department of school and pub
lie lands. This will average, accord
ing to Mr.. Adams, $S.95 for each of
the 1913, 500 persons in the state under
school age.
The city council of White River is
pushing the project of building a dam
in the White river, in order to pro-
vide power for the operation of the
electric light and power plant. Mem
bers of an engineering firm have been
engaged to make a complete survey
of the proposed project, to determine
which will be the more practical CON
struction.
At Belvidere, in Jackson county,
cut the salary Of the town marshal
from $40 q month to $40 a month,
and the ungrateful officeholder re-
fused to continue his position at any
such stipend, and the town is getting
along without any marshal until they
find one who wants the job at the
price.
A refund of s mills Of the levy col
lected by the city Of Beresford in
taxes this year will be made to all
commencing taxpayers about January
10, according to the announcement
been working on this matter for sew
eral weeks. Through an error, IL
mills too much taxes was levied last
year.
Reports of tax sales over the state
indicate a lack of interest in such
procedure In most of the counties.
Such sales in the past generally
brought bidders anxious to secure the
delinquent lists as investments, but
this year there were but few bidders,
and q very large majority of the
sales were to the counties.
A formal protest a~.inst the publ
cation of increased " ights on GER
tain building and roofing materials,
which the South Dakota lines are at
tempting to establish, has been filed
w III llIC llllC1 olNllt SollllllClSS WIN
mission by the state board Of rail
way commissioners.
Work on the addition to the Brook
ings power plant is now we'll on the
way to completion, and with the ar
rival of the equipment, which is ex.
pected daily, Bookings and Volga
will receive a much better service
han eve before.
Allen, the ~11-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Eastland, farmers re-
siding seven miles west of Wolsey,
was burned t death and his father
is still in a critical condition as the
result of attempting to light a fire
with gasoline.
Declaring they believed that An
drew Pody killed William j. Patzke
in self defense, the jury at Miller try
ing Pody on a charge of murder,
brought in a verdict of not guilty az
ter having been out all night.
Arlington o has a motorized fire
department, the new motor truck hav-
ing arrived. The new apparatus con
sists of a truck equipped to carry
hose, chemicals, men and a complete
equipment for fighting fires.
Seventy per cent Of the total area
of South Dakota was in farms in 1920,
according to recently announced fig
ures Of the federal census. Of this
amount, SO per cent, or 1890, $50
acres, was improved.
Monly Vorrinufnn orractnl ~ chad
ron, Neb., on the charge of having
murdered On Tai, a wealthy Rapid
City Chinese laundryman, will be
brought to Rapid City and given a
preliminary hearing.
Complete equipment for Battery B,
S. d. N. G., is on the way to Mitchell,
according to an announcement made
by Lieut.. Craig of the outfit. A part
of the equipment will be 80 head of
horses.
The Violin Commercial club is max
ing arrangements for a ~get-together
1t is expected that many farmers as
we'll as prominent business men will
attend.
That the city water supply of Nit
chell is in excellent condition bac-
t~eriologically is the finding of the
South Dakota board Of health, follow
ing an analysis of a sample of the
water.
What iss said to have been the big
gest payment of money to the In.
dams OF the Rosebud reservation was
made by the government when each
Indian received 1888.
Jacob Stoller, aged so years, OF
Aberdeen, was stricken with heart
failure while entering a grocery store
and died before anyone reached him.
Governor McMaster has announced
the appointment Of B. ". Baer of
Woonsocket, to fill the vacancy on
the state tax commission.
The matter of issuing bonds for the