The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-02-22
News of
South Dakota

Preliminary plans are being made
for a farmers short course. which 1t
is planned to hold in Spencer this
month.
Joseph Rykman, aged n. o promi-
nent pioneer farmer nj Clark county,
during a fit of dependency. shot and
killed himself.
The new community school build
ing, which is nearing completion in
Hill City. is expected 10 be opened
for class work about March l..
Ben Regain. prominent farmer. Wv
ing just outside of Mitchell. was found
dead in a tumble down shack near the
railroad tracks. a victim Of alcohol
poisoning.
Word that the Underwood high
school has been placed on the accred-
tied three-year list has been received
there with a great deal of enthusiasm
by pupils and teachers alike.
The first months registration of
motor vehicles in the department Of
the secretary of state shows 46,927
automobiles registered; 4,006 trucks
and 90 motorcycles properly licensed.
business conditions in the Dallas
community are gradually recovering
from the depression OF general financ-
ial conditions. Farmers are selling
more grain than at any other time
since harvest.
An accident in which his hand was
caught and mancled in a gasoline on.
Oinn Of hic form, onnr akn NnrI1n
resulted fatally for Carl knutson.
He died in a Watertown hospital Of
tetanllS. or lOcklaw.
With a half emptied bottle of moon
shine beside him and six urner of
a a stove opened, A. j.. Struckman
was found dead in a chair at his home
in Watertown by his wife and son on
their return from downtown.
Thousands of dollars are to be
spent this spring on the Custer bat
tlefied highway between Mitchell and
the Jim river. The improvements fol.
low the completion of the new $4,000
viaduct between the river and Fire
steel creek.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a
general store and confectionery at
Surrey. causing $4,000 damage. The
loss of the store, the only one in Sur
rey. is working a handicap to the res
identS of that village since they nav
no mean of securing groceries and
other provisions.
A trip over the state these days
shows that the bobsled is taking the
place of the auto for travel. The high
ways show most of the travel by this
method, and the towns which gener-
ally show a large number of autos
parked along the streets o show
long lines of bobsleds.
The citizens of Harrisburg, believ-
ing their telephone rates should be
reduced to prewar rates. held a mass
meeting and presented to the tele-
phone company a petition, signed by
80 resident phone patrons, demand
ing that the prewar rates of 81 per
month for residence phones be rees-
tablished, or said phones taken out.
Ice cutters at Pierre, with the con
ditions of last winter in mind, started
cutting when the crop was about IA
inches thick. They filled their
houses and outside orders and cleared
the work several days ago. Since
that the ice has formed to a thickness
of two feet, and the smaller users who
are putting up home supplies are get.
ting heavier ice for their packing.
Apparently the Wyoming oil inter-
ests are beginning to look toward cen
trail South Dakota as a prospective
oil field. as several of the leading
drilling outfits from Wyoming have
announced their intention of sending
their leading biologists and locators
to look over the field between Pierre
and the Cheyenne river as soon as
the snow leaves the ground in the
spring.
Another chapter has been started
in the Wakonda consolidated school
matter, which will enc to lengthen
out the strife over the proposition of
consolidation. The opponents of con
solidation have filed petitions for an
other election to be called on the
matter of disbanding. and these petit
tions ask that instead of voting at a
central point that elections be called
in each one of the six districts con-
cerned in the consolidation.
The people locally about Capa have
tor years taken advantage of the hot
baths from the artesian well at that
place for. their curative properties, and
the people of the place itself have
used this hot water in a number of
ways. But there has been no particu-
lar movement to call the attention o:
the outside world to the conditions at
that place. Now a company has been
organized to build a large hotel at
Capa and to bring the properties Of
THIS well to more public attention.
Seated in her favOrite rocking chair,
nor parrot Gagged beside her on the