The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-04-27

tltiSdNCo dIC tODlikk u the OIkItt
OF the secretary OF state from prac
tically every county OF the state, al
though apparently sopae OF the county
officials are more or less at lea as
to just how they are TO be used
Hutchinson county is the one which
IS asking for the largest number. az
they want $500 In that county
Mystery surrounds the strange dis.
appearance Of Joseph Davis, G young
farmer residing 10 miles northwest Of
F~iresteei. a suaii town ~ st OF
Timber Lake Davis lett his home
ON Sunday, March 10 aud nothing
has been hearG from him since that
tine Firesteel creek has been
dragged practically its entire length,
but without results as yet.
The Butte county potato growers
believe that they can better their
conditions along the same 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
/ WHY AaN oAONCl5 dSSOCldNlOug
with headquarters at Nisland, and a
capital OF s 5000.
Thousand OF fish, it has been dis
covered. were killed in the lakes of
the VOlga district during the winter
by s~mothering The bodies of thous-
ands OF perch, pickerel, bullheads,
buffalo and suckers have lined the
shores of the lakes this spring and
hundreds OF crows have been feasting
Cd the bodies and picking the bones
clean.
After a contest extending over a
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 bsst: Dell Rapids,
the little city with big attractions"
Black Hills Masonic Consistory Of
Deadwood will hold a spring reunion
on April "a to Is. at which time de-
grees from the fourth to the 32nd will
be conferred On d large class of can
didates from different parts OF the
Black Hills.
Work at the South Dakota owned
mine at Haynes, N. d., has been "tem-
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 Waterfowl mas
arranged for the insta .lation 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 $S6.5S1. or an average of
$14.43 per acre.
Farmers in Fall River county are
jubilant yer action taken at a meet
ing of the board of county commits
sioners which assure 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. IL, the
Yankton unit OF the American Legion.
will build a post hut for headquarters
and clubrooms If it cannot obtain
some existing location that is suitable.
At the 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 a
whose body was found in a hay
stack in the Tuscan district OF Hutch
inson county. The lead man appar-
emily was about SO years old.
LI
Several business houses and a num-
Der OF new dwellings are in course of
at Memo, indicating
the town win ENJOY a good
this year.
James Herman, a cripple making his
home at Gregory, was instantly killed
by falling down the stairway from the
second To the first floor OF the hotel at
Custer.
Otto J. Fioerschinger, a farmer liv-
Ing southwest OF Chester, was killed
when a shotgun which he was carry.
ing was accidentally discharged.
The city Of vermillion has taken
OF the Old court house grounds
IN that city and win fit them up as o
parking place for autos.
Preparations are being made for
The Gettysburg Equity exchange to
business after being closed
most OF the winter.
The Armour commercial club is
an energetic move to in
its membership.
The cos or the new consolidated
school to be erected in Barnard is to
De $4,000.
Organization OF a thild's welfare
society has been completed in Nit
shalI.