The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-04-28

tically every county Of the state, al
though apparently some OF the county
officials are more or less at sea as
to Just how they are to be used.
Hutchinson county is the one which.
is asking for the largest number, as
they want $500 in that county.
Mystery surrounds the strange dis
appearance OF Joseph Davis, a young
farmer residing 10 miles northwest OF
Firesteel. q small town west Of
Timber Lake. Davis left his home
on Sunday. March 10, and nothing
has beer heard from him since that
time. Firesteel creek has been
dragged practically its entire length,
but without results as yet.
The Butte county potato growers
believe that they a better their
conditions along the anne lines Of the
alfalfa seed growers organization.
which has been working in the west
ern part Of the state the past year
and they have organized the Butte
County Potato Growers association,
with headquarters at Nisland, and a
capital of $1,000.
Thousand Of fish, it has been dis
covered. were killed in the lakes OF
the Volga district during the winter
by smothering. The bodies OF thOus-
ands Of perch, pickerel, b~ullheads,
buffalo and suckers have lined the
shores Of the lakes this spring and
hundreds Of crows have been feasting
on the bodies and picking the bones
clean.
After a contest extending over G
period Of several weeks, the Dell
Rapids commercial club has adopted
a slogan for the city. Out of several
hundred slogans presented, this was
selected as the best: Dell Rapids,
the little city with big attractions"
Black Hills Masonic Consistory Of
Deadwood will hold a spring reunion
on April "a to %. at which time de-
grees from the fourth to the 32nd will
be conferred on a large class of ear
didates from different parts of the
Black Hills.
Work at the South Dakota owned
mine at Haynes, N. D., has been TEN.
porarily suspended" on account Of
the general coal miners strike, but
there have been no disturbances in
the vicinity OF the mine, nor are any
expected.
The city council of Watertown has
arranged for the installation Of two
electrical pumping units for the city
waterworks pumping station at Lake
Kampeska, to be operated by current
from the new municipal lighting plant.
Moody county has 5,400 acres Of
land which was reclaimed by the con
struction OF a huge drainage ditch,
which cost Moody and Lake counties
a total OF $86,5Sl, or an average Of
sl4.43 per acre.
Farmers in Fall River county are
jubilant over action taken at a meet.
ing OF the board Of county commits.
sioners which assures them funds TO
carry on farm bureau work until Jan.
/, next
The city council OF Clark has en-
acted an ordinance which regulates
public dances within the limits OF
Clark and provides for the appoint,
ment OF a matron to supervise such
dances.
Domestic science has lost its popu
larity in Mitchell schools and as a re
suit the board OF education is serious
ly considering the idea of dropping
the domestic science department next
year.
Roy Anderson post, No. II, the
/, Yankton unit of the American Legion
will build a post hut for headquarters
and clubrooms il it cannot obtain
some existing location that is suitable
At tho concluding session in Sioux
Falls, OF the annual convention Of the
South Dakota League OF Women Vot
ers, WatertOwn was selected as the
place for the next annual meeting.
Mystery surrounds the identity Of
! man whose body was found in a hay
stack in the Tuscan district OF Hutch
inson county. The dead man appar
) emily was about SIS years old.
Several business houses and a mum
W. VI - - OahoO "
construction at Memo, indicating
I, that the town will enjoy a goo(
growth this year.
, James Herman. a cripple making hi!
home at Gregory, was instantly killed
: by falling down the stairway from the
l second to the first floor of the hotel a
Custer.
Otto j. Floerschinger. a farmer lv
ing southwest of Chester, was killed
when a shotgun which he was carry
l ing was accidentally discharged.
The city Of Vermillion has takel
/ charge of the old our house grounds
in that city and will fit them up as
public parking place for autos.
Preparations are being made TO
: the Gettysburg Equity exchange t
resume business after being closet