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

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
In the buffalo pasture" near Fort
Pierre, besides the buffalo herd they
have a number Of elk, and in addition
have a small herd of Shetland ponies,
which run with the buffalo and elk,
One Of the buffalo cows evidently
lost her calf, and Immediately ap'
propriated one of the Shetland colts
of the herd for her own, and is as
an offspring OF her own, sucking
and caring for the adopted n and
not allowing anyone to in any way
disturb her wee baby.
Plans have been put under way at
Canova to start the sale Of $4,000
worth Of stock for the proposed Can
V clinic, the plan being that if the
stock is not all sold in 60 days the en-
tire project will be dropped, as it is
the understanding that unless the hos
pital can be constructed and opened
free Of debt it will not be opened at
all.
The head Of a local milling com
pany is working on a power project to
be located near Belle Fourche. He
has filed with the state engineer an
application for an appropriation of wat
er from Redwater river, near there,
for power purposes. The site of the
proposed power plant is about six
miles south of Belle Fourche.
Dotitipnc ora boinm ciroulatad Of
Canova to secure the consent Of four
fifths Of the freeholders of the city
to the issuing of $4,000 bonds for the
purpose Of putting in a transmission
line and the necessary equipment for
handling power from the Minnesota
Electric Distributing company.
A preliminary survey of the pro-
posed generally diagonal highway
from Pierre to Gam Valley has been
started, the proposed road to make a
short cut between Pierre and Mitchell
and making Pierre more accessible to
the southeastern part Of the state.
Mrs. Minerva Cross, widely known
as Granny" who died recently at the
home of her daughter at Owanka, had
the distinction Of being one Of the
oldest women in South Dakota. She
celebrated her Tooth birthday ami
versary eve months ago.
Eluding the viligance of two sher-
ifs, Frank Albright, aged %, an ex-
service man, just after being arrested
at Canistota on complaint of a Ham
lin county girl, reached into his grip,
snatched out a % caliber revolver
and blew out his brains.
Raymond Colby, 10-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Colby of Canton,
was instantly killed when struck by
an automobile. He was riding on the
side step of a milk ago. and jumped
off directly in front of an approach
ing car.
The boys in the Smith-Hughes agri-
cultural department of the Clear Lake
high school made more than $1,000 in
potatoes last year, according to the re.
port Of their instructor to the state
department Of public instruction in
Pierre.
The state highway commission by
rejecting the first bids presented to it
for graveling contracts on state high
ways and securing new bids, cut the
cost on 1872 miles of highway to be
graveled approximately $4,000.
The Tri-State Utilities company has
purchased the lighting system at
Colome and in the future will furnish
users in that city from the Winner
plant Of the company. The company
provides 24-hour service.
Tourist travel over the Yellowstone
trail through Aberdeen is daily be.
coming heavier. 1t is estimated that
an average of 200 tourists per day
now are passing through Aberdeen
over this trail.
Work will commence in the near
future on installing a new sewer
system in Philip and in extending the
municipal w~aterworks system, bonds
of $4,000 having been voted for the
two projects.
Lola Watkins. six-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Watkins, Of the
Haynes district of Perkins county,
is expected to die as the result of
burns received by an explosion of
kerosene.
A %bi-county fair organization of
Hughes and Sully counties for the
purpose of conducting a fair at Blunt,
Sept. l and 2, was formed at a repre-
sentative meeting in Blunt.
An annual evenue of over $1,750,-
600 for highway construction in the
state is looked for by the highway de-
partment when the new auto registra-
ton goes into effect.
Woman of the South Dakota Ameri-
can Legion auxiliary were the second
OF any state OF the union in the sale
of peoples on Memorial day.
During a period of 81 days farm
products valued at an aggregate of
$37,417 were marketed in Clark and
shipped to eastern points.
Philip shows that it is shipping
about 160 cans of cream each day
from that station.