The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Sioux Falls.-While South Dakota


will be the first state in the union to-
express a choice for president of the
United States in the great campaign
of 1924. The choice for president by
the republicans and democrats Of
South Dakota may have no p~erceptible
bearing on h choice OF the ~republi-
cans and democrats of the nation, but
it will attract considerably more at
~tention than the size OF South Dako-
ta's vote might reasonably warrant.
Pierre.-Every physically handi-
capped man and woman in the state is
given an opportunity for retraining so
as to be able to return to remunera-
tive employment under the action OF
South Dakota in accepting, on No
vember 81, 1920, the federal act which
matches with the states, the funds app
propriated for the work of industrial
rehabilitation, according to Fred l..
Shaw, superintendent Of public in
struction. Provision was made at that
time, for $4,000 yearly appropriation
for a twO-year period, he said.
st. ~Lawrence.-J. G.. McCool, whose
home is in st. Lawrence, maintains
an office at Miller, and, n~otwithstand-
ing that he will be over so years Of
age in %Jenuary, he, on each week
day, walks over to Miller, four miles,
every morning in time to get his
office swept and busted by 10
o'clock. In the evening he is &C
customed to walk back to his home in
st. Lawrence.
Clear Lake.-A great sensation re-
emily was created here when it be-
came known that warrants for seven
Clear Lake men had been issued up
on complaint of a Clear Lake mother,
who charges that the men arrested
had contributed to the delinquency of
her minor daughter. Among the seven
men arrested are two or three
married men.
Hudson.-Miss Amanda Clement, Of
this city, who some years ago gained
fame as a baseball umpire in South
Dakota and adjoining states, has ac-
,epted a position in the Jamestown.
n. D., high school, where she will
leach athletics, coach the girls basket
ball team and have charge of the
athletic exercises in the school.
Worthing.-The final chapter in one
Of the most bitterly contested con-
~sOlidated school fights in the history
Df South Dakota was written here in
ali election held under an enactment
Of the last legislature, at which cleo
lion all rural districts included in the
Consolidation voted to withdraw there
from.
Chamberlain.-Several hundred
members of the Farmers union Of
South Dakota are expected to attend
he annual convention of the union,
which will be held in Chamberlain
the first week in October. An in
teresting program is being prepared
FOR the event.
Bryant.-The Farmers cooperative
store at this place has been closed.
Because Of extensive credit during the
trying times of the past few months
the store became financially involved
to such an entent that it was found
impossible to conduct the business
any longer.
Deadwood.-Six COWS belonging to
1 rancher near here, ate several sticks
Of dynamite left by road contractors
along Boulder Park road between
Deadwood and Sturgis, presumably
thinking them sticks Of salt. Now the,
rancher mourns the loss of his cattle.
Java.-In the near future Java will
have 24-hour service both for electric
power and electric lights. The city
council has purchased a new 5O-horse-
power engine to be utilized in con-
junction with the present plant, which
has a capacity of 50-horsepower also.
Salem.-An acute shortage of dwell
ing houses exists in this city, and
many more will have to be erected to.
meet the brisk demand. The city is
enjoying a substantial growth, and
every place where it is possible for a
family to live now is filled.
Huron.-In order to assist his
patrons in the orderly marketing Of
grain, a Huron banker has secured an
elevator here of 80, 900 bushels capaci-
ty to be operated in connection with
the management of the bank as q
storage warehouse.
Observation-Disclosures for the COM
ing school year at the Northern nor
NAL and industrial school which will
open September "a, are bright. From
advance enrollments the prospects are
that there will be a large enrolment.
Pierre.-Apparently several Of the
government buffalo herds are grow
ing too fast for the space on which
they are located, and an effort will be
made to market some Ct them the
coming winter as beef.
Vermillion.-The Clay county au-
thorities have as vet been unable to
ascertain the identity of a man whose
body was found on a sandbar in the
Missouri river, about six miles west
Of Vermillion.
WessingtOn.-Mat Lackner, of this
place, attempted to shoot his tenant.
N. c.. Arends. but luckily for Arends
and himSolf tho phoruo IN hic oun