The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-28
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF The
PAST WEEK in SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Newspaper Union News Service.

and vicinity for some time have
planned organizing a lodge of the
order here. The state Grand lodge
now has granted a di%spensation for
the organization OF a new lodge, and
under this the lodge will be conduct
ed until April 80, next, when appli-
cation for a charter will be filed with
the state Grand lodge. The new lodge
will be known as Hamlin lodge, and
permanent quarters now are being
fitted up.
Parker.-As a result OF action taken
by the Parker Kiwanis club when
they appointed a committee to get
the Parker business men n farm
ers Of the vicinity interested in gray
cling the two roads to the two Parker
cemeteries, a number Of men Of Par
ker and community gathered with
teams or shovels and went through
with the project.
Brookings.-South Dakota is on the
eve Of a pronounced influx of rural
home seekers, according to indioa-
tions which in all respects duplicate
those Of the unprecedented popula-
ton boom of 1880 and 1881, Irwin d.
Aldrich, state commissioner OF i'm
migration, asserted here at a confer
ence of the South Dakota Commercial
club secretaries.
Deadwood.-Gold is not the only
thing being shipped from the Black
JTs1I, INra,o thn ,yo11nuc t,rrpIndinU
the Black Hills shipments of pure
bred hogs are being sent to eastern
markets and are bringing the ranch
ers large sums OF money. st. Onge
and Whitewood are the centers Of
these shipments.
Sioux Falls.-Bequests amounting to
about $1,000 according to a will
filed in the probate court here are
left by Neils Peter Okesen TO Miss
Mathilda Kringsberg, a nurse, while
the will provided that a brother of
Okeson should receive 81, n Of his
Esisters 81 and a sister at Seattle,
Washington $40.
Parker.-With the coming of winter
steps are again being taken to organ
ize a boys band at Parker. A similar
move was made last winter, but not
much was accomplished. However,
since the city Of Parker has appro-
priated money for the purpose, some
Of the citizens are urging the organ
ization.
EdgemOnt.-A movement has been
inaugurated by several country
school districts near here to effect a
consolidation. At present there are
! seven schools in the district to be
consolidated, with a total Of about &c
Hpupils. The expense of maintaining
these schools is about $4,000 per
year.
Dell Rapids.-Burt Sanders, a ten
ant on a farm east of Dell Rapids, has
finished harvesting a crop Of POI
corn which he put in last spring, and
finds that the crop paid him a profit
Of $50 per acre for the acreage de
voted to the pop corn. The croI
brought him the sum of $4,000.
Pierre.-The campaign committee
of the Congregational church at 6
recent meeting took definite steps
toward securing the necessary fund:
and financing the construction Of
new church building by hat congre
cation, the work being laid out fol
the present year.
White.-Fed Polzin, 40, deaf mute
automobile mechanic, employed in
garage at White, is dead as the re
ing accidentally discharged when thu
family dog playfully leaped upon him
as he was returning to his home aftel
testing the gun.
Hot Springs.-In order that the
women of western South Dakota ma!
have representation in the next leg
Nlature, a campaign has been inaugu
rated for the election of Miss JESSIE
Martin, of Hot Springs, to that body
Mitchell.-An increase Of NOR,
than a third in the business Of tn
Farmers Union exchange here wa
reported for the past year over 1872.
at the annual meeting Of the stool
holders.
Rapid City,. A. Hauge, Box Eide
rancher, was killed by being throw
from a load Of hay. His chest wa
crushed. apparently by being steppe'
on or kicked by one of the horses.
Clark.-The dates Of January s, !
10 and IL, have been selected as tn
time for the annual Clark count
poultry show, which will be held i
this city.
Sioux Falls.-W. e. Madden,
travelling man Of Huron, was instant
ly killed when the auto he was dri,
ing went in the ditch near De-
Rapids.
Huron.-The family OF Henri
Thompson, Is miles north Of Yale
is worried over the disappearance @
Mr.. Thompson and his SON here.
Marion.-Fire which swept a par
Of the business district of Mario
caused damage and loss of abou
$4,000.