The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-10-05

Gankton county's tax budget for
* year is S21, 900 larger than 1t
was for this year, q comparison Of
leyies shows.
Genevieve Gilday, five, was killed
at Huron when she was struck by q
taxicab returning from the South Da.
kota state fair grounds with a load OF
passengers.
One of the most important cases
ever brought up by the state railroad
commission will be heard in Sioux
Falls on October 2 when the hearing
involving freight rates on grain Is to
be held.
The county commissioners OF Kings
bury county placed the tax levy for
the coming year at one and one-half
mills on the dollar, reducing II from
two and one-half mills which was the
,lgure last year,
Kennebec is without fire protection
at the present time, the casing of the
artesian well having given out and the
! Yatsssr Coming up through the ground
at the side OF the pipe, II is to be re-
paired at the earliest possible date.
Three of Flandreau's four elevators
are filled up with grain and are un-
able to take in more because of the
! absence of cars in which to ship the
grain to the market Similar con-
dit.ons are said TO exist in a Humber
of South Dakota towns.
With q total attendance of over
10000 during the live days, South
Dakota closed its 3Sth annual state
fair with a big production of Mystic
China" witnessed by a huge crowd.
Financially, from point of receipts
alone, and not net figures. this has
been the third largest fair in the
history of the state.
The business men of Belvidere
have started a movement to have the
town Incorporated. In the past there
was strong opposition to this, but re.
Gently several propositions of a com
munity building character have de-
veloped which could not be handled
because the town was not ~incorporat.
GU. ANoN tlic nSHIlliltIl ID DIdCllCdllt
unanimous in favor OF Incorporating
and the necessary steps will be taken
at once.
B~rookings will realize the ambition
of it's lifetime as a result Of an en-
thusiastic meeting held by a large
group of representative business men,
members of the commercial club, the
Rotary club and the Kiwanis club. The
outstanding result Of the meeting will
be the purchase of the lair grounds
tourist camp, a playground and an
athletic field and track for the Brook.
ings high school.
United States Veterans bureau
headquarters for 10 counties in South
Dakota have been opened in the fed
eral building in Yankton, with NJ. L..
Lawton, contact representative in
charge. The territory includes the
Todd, Trip, Gregory, Brule, Aurora,
Charles Mix, Douglas. Hutchinson,
Bon Homme, Turner, Yankton, Clay
and Union, that part of Dawson and
Hanson counties tributary to and
south of the Milwaukee railroad, and
Bridgewater in McCook county.
Admission to the South Dakota
state fair will be free in future years
If the plan being considered by the
fair board is carried out, according to-
a statement made public at Huron
by John White. secretary of the
board. The board plans to throw open
the gates of the fair grounds as an
inducement to a larger attendance.
Although the attendance in past
years and this year has been very
satisfactory, il is believed that a
larger number OF persons would be
induced to visit the fair under the new
plan.
Wealth produced by South Dakota's
grain crop this year Is approximately
$4,000, 900 in excess of the wealth
produced from this source in 1921.
according to figures issued by the
bureau OF crop estimates of the United
States department of agriculture.
The grain fields of the state this year
will bring nearly $100,000,0 900 to the
farmers of South Dakota. IL sold at
prices prevailing on Sept. /, the corn,
oats, spring wheat, barley and flax
from South Dakota farms would be
worth a total of $99, POS, 900. Last
years total production of these grains
was worth only sS1, 32l 900, as the
Yields Of some OF the crops for the
last year were considerable below the
total yields for this year.
Several recent barn fires in the
Mellette district have caused the
farmers to believe that dangerous
firebugs have commenced operations,
as the fires were all of a mysterious
character. Just before one Of the
fires a strange automobile was seen
near the barn, and after the automo.
bile disappeared the flames were dis.
covered. One farmer, in addition to
losing his barn, had two Of his cows
burned to death and lost a quantity
of grain and several sets Of harness,
his loss being $500. In another fire,
which Is believed to have been set by
firebugs, nine horses were burned to
death. The farmers of the district