The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-07-28
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

lie QutSIIOn VI q SuppIy VI
appears to be getting the annual dis
cussion over the state. Some sections
claim they are short of teachers and
that it is hard to find enough to fill
out their schools. Other sections
nnoun that there is no shortage.
and that all their schools are contract
ed for the next school year. 1t is
barely possible that the wage question
may have something to do with this
situation, as a number OF districts
over the state have announced wage
cuts to teachers.
The Lake Norden district will pro.
duCe the greatest potato crop in it's
history this season, according to re.
ports. In order to handle the crop a
potato marketing association has been
organized by the growers of the
viginity. 1t is planned to ultimately
have a potato warehouse in Lake Nor.
den. Adequate machinery for the
grading and shipping Of potatoes will
be purchased by the association.
Revival of talk of a railroad line
from the northern part Of Nc
Pherson county to the southwestern
part OF Campbell county, a project
much discussed in the past, has come
about by the recent our of invest
igation through the territory by julius
Rosholf, we'll known railroad man Of
the Twin Cities.
The attorney general has held that
where a school board calls a bond
election without first having present
ed to them a petition signed by not
less than one-third of the voters Of
the district, such election is not valid,
and in case bonds are voted at such
election they are not a valid issue.
The Improvement in conditions has
resulted in half a dozen or more South
Dakota cities resuming. their street
paving programs, among the cities
now doing paving or preparing to
push this work being Beresford, HUI
ron, Aberdeen. Madison, Yankton,
Rapid City and Watertown.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has reaffirmed the decision in the
coal rate case involving rates from
Lake Superior docks to all statipns
east of the Missouri river in South
Dakota, according to Information re-
ceived by the state board Of railway
commissioners.
After five years of litigation the
adjustment Of all water rights among
nearly 200 claimants of water on the
Spearfish creek, one of the chief
w~atercourses Of the northern Black
Hills, was effected as the result OF a
hearing in the state circuit court in
Deadwood.
In accordance with a request made
by a number of citizens of Hot Springs
the city council has undertaken to
have the curfew bell ring at nine
o'clock each evening. and the ordi.
nance against the lettering of young
people on the street will be strictly
enforced.
Albert Young, age As, who has been
employed in a lumber camp near Hill
City, was sentenced to a term of Is
years in the Sioux Falls p~enitentiary
following his plea of guilty to making
an attack on his S-year-old %stepdaugh-
ter.
The commissioners of Douglas coun-
ty are contemplating submitting to
the voters Of the county at the cleo
ton in November, the question of is
suing bonds for the erection in
Armour of a new county courthouse.
Henry H. Gruetmacher, a prominent
young farmer residing near Messing
ton, was drowned at Red Lake while
he and several companions we're
fishing in a leaky boat which filled
with water and sank.
The service men Of Summit, in
Roberts county, have incorporated
the American Legion Building
association at that place with a cap
ital of $4,000 for the construc ton
of a home.
The work of erecting a new Presby-
terian church building in Sisseton
has been commenced and will be
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible. The edifice will cost about
$780, 900.
The White River commercial club
has been reorganized and will at once
commence work on several projects
for the u%pbuilding of White River and
that part Of the Rosebud country.
A $40, 900 auditorium 50x120 feet
is to be built in Dallas this summer
as the result Of recent action taken
by the Dallas commercial club and
interested local citizens.
Backers Of the movement feel that
there Is every likelihood Of a new
diagonal road connecting Pierre and
Mitchell being under construction next
summer.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for the annual Haakon county
fair, which will be held in Phillip on
August 81 and September 2.
A business college has been opened
in Redfield. Full commercial courses
will he given