The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-04-13
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS or The
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.

tsec'u NrNsphpcf UNION news service.
At the most conservative estimate
Governor William H. McMaster will
carry the state for denomination by
10000 according to the latest com
pilation of figures at the Office Of
the republican headquarters in hu, On.
Egan has carried six counties Of the
state: Deuel. by 80 majority, McCook
by 226, Miner by 200, Minnehaha by
$50, Moody by S97. and Pennington by
100. The balance of the state has
gone for McMaster. The west river
country including both Rosebud and
northwestern counties, have not made
very definite reports as yet, but all
show majorities for McMaster.
A farmer living seven miles south
OF Bookings vas hauling straw from
a stack in n of his fields when his
pitchfork struck a hard substance In
the interior OF the stack. An invest.
igation revealed a touring car, in
good repair. 1t has been learned that
the automobile is the property Of a
Moody county resident, from whom
1t was stolen in January of this year.
Farmers OF the Lake Norden terri.
tory have each year become more ex.
tensively interested in the dairy bust.
ness, with the result that the Lake
Norden cooperative creamery, In
which many of the farmers Of that
district are stockholders, expect to
break all fol mer records this year in
the volume of business transacted and
butter manufactured and sent to
market.
Garden City was visited by a dis
astrous fire which started in a garage
in the business district Of the town.
The garage and two other structures
were destroyed before the fire was
gotten under control. The fire wiped
out the last of the frame buildings OF
the main business street of the village
In a short time work will com
fence On the construction Of the new
800, 900 public school building which
is to be erected In Mclaughlin. The
foundation was put in last fall. II lie
planned to have the building com
pleted in time for the opening of the
fall term of school.
Extensive improvements will be
made this spring to the highway lead
ing south from Violin, this being
among the important road work to be
done in that vicinity this season. The
highway extends across bottomlands
and will connect with the Washington
highway.
Plans for a Cleanup" week are
being made by the Yankton park
board. during which every home
owner, the city authorities, and all
clubs and organizations, will be asked
to Danish u~nsightly spots, trim-trees
and put lawns and streets in order.
Justice Charles s. Whiting, Of the
South Dakota supreme court, died in
a Pierre hospital March 25. A local
enesthetic being administered in
preparation for an operation or his
tonsils reacted on his heart, causing
commissions and death.
The latest cooperative live stock
association to be organized by farm
ers in the state was formed by the
farmers OF the vicinity of Violin who
are members of the Pleasant Valley
Farmers union.
The tourist season appears to al
ready have opened in the Black Hills.
Each day automobile parties from
different parts of the state and ad.
joining states pass through Black
Hills cities.
At a special election to he held in
Lake Preston on April % the question
of issuing bonds of 100000 for the
erection of a new high school build
ing will be submitted to the voters.
At the annual Americanization
dinner given in Mitchell by the League
of Women Voters there were native
born persons from every continent
except Australia present.
Salaries of public school teachers
in Mitchell next year will remain at
the same figure being paid this year,
IL was decided at a meeting of the
board of education.
Peter Magnusson, bankrupt cattle
dealer. was aquitted of the third de-
gree forgery charge against him by
a Jury at iSuudu dltSI auout bhhS
hours deliberation.
Work has commenced on the con-
struction of a Pipe line, which is to
bring water from mammoth springs
in the Spearfish valley to Belle
Fourche.
The Carthage Odd Fellows have
secured fine quarters In a business
block and will utilize them as a per.
manent home of the lodge.
The city council OF Salem has
enacted an ordinance regulating dance
halls in Salem and those within one
nile of the city limits.
Preliminary steps are being taken
% push the large amount of street
paving which is to be done in Hot
! springs this summer
Elsie. the 13-year-old daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Jeffry, near Philip,
was killed by the kick of a horse.
1t developes that Henry E. Bairey.
aged "a, who committed suicide
on his farm in the Olga district of
Brule county, feared the approach of
old age and helplessness and that
this fear induced him to take his W
life.
The people back OF the Huron Co
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