The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-06-09

increasing with each succeeding time
that the we'll is bailed out.
A new community church at Memo
will be dedicated there early this
month with appropriate exercises. The
pastor of the church will be Miss
Fanny B. Mills, who recently arrived
in the Black Hills, from New Mexico,
to assume her new duties in Memo.
Mrs. e. r. Owens Of Spain, S. d.,
was instantly killed and her husband
sustained serious injuries when their
automobile left the Yellowstone trail
near Webster, crashing into a seven
foot embankment and falling back
bottom side up in the ditch.
A number of farmers in the vicinity
hemp as a field crop this season.
Samples previously tried out have
made a good growth, and it is believed
that it can be made to pay if handled
in sufficient quantity.
That prices received by South Da-
kota stockmen during 1922 are above
the general average for the country
and noticeably higher than the quo.
tations for 1921 is shown by the most
recent bulletin of the department OF
agriculture.
Crows are the cause OF the spread
Of hog cholera, according to a prom
inent hog raiser who made public his
opinion in Pierre recently. He asks
the inauguration of a campaign of ex-
determination against the crow.
With 29,4O0 claims for soldiers
bonus filed to date it is probable that
The total number will be in excess Of
the 10000 estimated when the bonus
provision was enacted. Few new
applications are coming in.
Mitchell's streets are being i'm
proved to a greater extent this spring
than ever before. Practically all the
approaches to the city on the south
and east sides are being scraped
gravelcd and rolled.
The laying Of five blocks of water
mains, to onnec UP with the fire
protection system, is in progress in
Redfield. When the system is COM
pleted Redfield will have first-class
fire protection.
To residents of western Meade
equity are doing everything possible
to have Fort Meade, near Sturgis,
designated a hospital for wounded
and disabled veterans of the world
war.
According to the record Of ship
ments there, 1000 gallons Of cream
was shipped from Gettysburg in a
period Of two days, the farmers re-
ceiving a total of about $3.50 for it.
An announcement is made that
arrangements have been made with
both the Milwaukee M Omaha rail
roads to run special trains into
Mitchell during corn palace week.
Seized with cramps while bathing
in a lake near Willow Lakes, Thomas
Macious, a Willow Lakes pool hall
manager, drowned before the eyes of
his companion, Lloyd Berger.
The Aberdeen city commission has
awarded a paving contract for the i'm,
provement of $1,000 square yards OF
Aberdeen streets and avenues OF
greatest traffic at this time.
Members of the business and pro
fessional women's club of Yankton
have started a movement for the
erection Of a club house or the secur
ing OF a community home.
Matt Johnson was found dead in his
-. e. CA D-4k aa,-~
by taking ~strychnine. 1t is thought
that financial troubles had affected
Mr.. Johnson's mind.
The contract has been awarded FOL
the brick work on a fine new Masonic
temple which is to be erected in lisp
witch. The work of construction viii
soOn ommence.
Arrangements are being made Il
open the Kirk limestones quarry neal
Pringle. A large number Of men will
be placed at work in the quarry abou
June l.
Because two expensive fires swep
the village during the past few years
efforts are being made to organize
volunteer fire department in Claire
City.
The stockmen Of n community o
Haakon county have been organized
for the construction of a dipping va
to control an outbreak of cattle scab
Construction work on the stat'
highway between ~Iroquois and De
Smet has made a good start from tn,
M Cp,at ayd ~ Tho ioh
Daniel Roberts, %, employed on
ranch. near Aberdeen, was drowned
while attempting to ford the Elm
river on horseback.
A big improvement being made i,
Miller is the removal of all telephone
and telegraph poles from the street!
to the alleys.
, A contract has been awarded fol
the construction of "a bridges il
Yankton county at an aggregate cos
of s34,500.
yIyl,ln .l:~- $500 l- Ot--p