The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-03-08
Meus of
South Dakota
Newspaper Union News Service.

Gustave Vail, son of Carl VAIL, a
farmer Of near Emery, was accident
ally killed while hunting.
During the month of January, SO
carloads of corn and nine carloads of
oats We're shipped from Worthing.
The South Dakota League of Wo-
men Voters will hold its third annual
convention in Huron April 4, 5 and 6.
The Centerville civic league will he
reorganized and will take up work on
several projects for the advancement
OF the city.
A loss of several thousand dollars
resulted when fire destroyed the ware
house of the Minneapolis Brewing
company in Madison.
Preliminary steps were taken at a
mass meeting of taxpayers Of Emery
to provide that city with an up-to-
date waterworks system.
Paul Steffen, a farmer living near
Pierre, succeeded in killing a large
gray wolf with his hands after driving
it into a snowdrift on the highway.
Arrangements are being made at
Dakota Wesleyan university in Nit
chell for the annual Y. M. c. A. train
ing camp, which will be held March
"a, 25, 90 and q.
The condition of the ice on the Mis-
souri, river near Vermillion has en-
abled local people to bring a large
amount OF wood from the Nebraska
side of the river during the past few
weeks.
School facilities of Lake Preston
have become SO congested that the
business men and other residents
have started a movement for the cree
ton of a new and much larger school
building.
At a meeting of the Groton city
council it was decided to make a
change in the rate for electricity
when used as power, a reduction be-
ing made from $1.1O to 81 minimum
per horsepower.
The conference of educators held
in Huron accomplished one object
which will have statewide beneficial
results, by paving The way for a uni
form course Of study in all schools in
the state, rural as we'll as city.
Plans for marking, locating and ad-
vertising the Black and Yellow trail
through Wisconsin, Minnesota, South
Dakota and Wyoming were taken up
at a meeting of the national board of
directors of the trail association, held
in Huron recently.
Par and accrued interest with a
premium of $416 was the bid of a
II nn1ic@ rnynnany Cor fhn COT Enn
water and sewer bonds which were
sold by the city council of DeSmet.
A year ago bond brokers demanded a
bonus before they would even consid-
er bonds.
The ice on the Missouri river at
Yankton this year ranges from Is to
25 inches in thickness, and, if a sud
den thaw m throughout the valley
river men anticipate possible trouble,
as a sudden rise in the stream would
cause a breakup while the ice is still
solid enough to gorge.
The Sturgis commercial club closed
a deal with the government and leased
the 35-acre tract OF land adjoining the
east side of the Meade county memoir
ial park. This will be fixed up and
used for park purposes and will make
the Sturgis park the largest and best
in the state.
A careful Investigation among the
farmers of the Lennon territory re-
veals that practically all of them have
decided they are through trying to
gamble on the Uncertainty of wheat
production and will, during this and
succeeding years, devote their acre
age to corn, millet and other feed
crops.
At the primary election to be held
throughout South Dakota on March
rs, h voters of Stanley county will
have submitted to them the separate
proposition of issuing bonds in the
sum OF $4,000 for the purpose of re-
funding the outstanding warrant in
d~ebtedness of the county. The idea
IS to place the county on a cash basis.
The annual report OF H. O.. Her.
grandson, OF the bureau OF crop esti-
mates, shows that at the beginning of
1922 South Dakota had 7S4, 900 horses
valued at an average Of $40, or of a
total value of $3S,416,OO0; $4,000 mules
of an average value Of $50, or total
value Of $9SO,0 0 Al, 900 milk COWS,
valued at SAT each, or a total value Of
$19,599, 900; 1901 900 other cattle,
valued at $24 each, or of a total value
of $39,545, 900; 709, 900 sheep, worth 81
each, or a total value of 50, 1870, 900:
1900, 900 hogs, worth $40 each, or a
total value of $4,000, 900. This shows
a large decline in the number of
horses and mules compared with the
period before the war. Farm tractors
are believed to have beer an impor-
tant factor in bringing about this de-
cline. The report shows that the
farm value of horses has declined to