The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-07
NEWS OF THE STATE
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF
PAST WEEK IN SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Newspaper Union News ssrvIca

Plerre.-AppaTeHlly lHe pl0,iH~N
proposal meetings did not call out any
heavier vote this year than in former
years, except in towns where there
was a contest staged for representa-
tives at the county proposal meeting
The average vote at such meetings Is
possibly from five to 10 per cent or
the voters Of any ward or precinct, eX-
cept in a few special cases where
some one gets busy and gets the
voters out.
Miller.-The conditions have been
so favorable that many farmers have
finished husking corn. These used
picking machines and have since sold
them to others or hired them out. In
dividual hand huskers have made as
high as $40 a day. The price is 10
cents a bushel in some instances and
an extra good man will husk 100
bushels a day. The yield is 80 to 50
bushels an acre. Considerable new
corn is being marketed.
Mitchell.-Through the efforts OF
the South Dakota board Of railway
commissioners a number of important
freight reductions have been obtained
for Mitchell since the first OF last
April, which are proving of benefit to
Mitchell jobbers. Other instances in
which lower rates on various COM
modities are pending before the
board and further freight reductions
may be expected in the near future.
Milbank.-That the livestock indus
try is taking on new life in this dis
trict is shown by the steady increase
in shipments, especially of hogs. A few
years ago two carloads per week were
the average shipments from Milbank,
These shipments now have increased
to eight and nine carloads per week, a
continuous flow that brings a substan'
tial amount OF money to the farmers
of the Milbank territory.
Newell.-A Newell business man
needed some salt. He ordered a car
load from Lyons, Kan. The invoice
shows it cost $92. The freight
charged from Lyons to Newell amount
ed to 1913, almost three and a hall
times the cost of the goods. A wae
remarked that the earth's salt would
lose its SAVIOR, at that price, and
substitute would have to be provided
White Lake.-Graveling operations
have commenced on the stretch OF
road between White Lake and Plank
inton, and when this is completed, the
Custer Battlefield highway will be
/ ~graveled from Chamberlain through
to ~Bridgewater. 1t is expected the
graveling from here to P~lankinton viii
be completed not later than February
/.
Highmore.-The post office at Zieg
Ter, 80 miles north Of this place, viii
be discontinued on or about November
80, according to advice received by
Postmaster Carter. Ziegler is one o
the Oldest postoffices in this part o
the state. After December l mail t
patrons at Ziegler and vicinity will bt
supplied out Of Seneca or Sedgwick
SissetOn.-In the circuit court here
Howard Taylor, of Missouri, anC
Bryan Adams, OF Kentucky, entered
pleas of guilty to the charge Of at
tempting to attack two Sisseton girl
last summer, and will be sentence,
later. They are each subject to a tern
of not to exceed five years in tn
state penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
Belle Fourche.-Belle Fourche ha
shipped out more than 400 carloads o
sheep this year, with the prospect
hat an additional 100 carloads will b.
shipped. This place also has market
ed so carloads Of wool, or more THAI
100000 pounds.
Pierre.-The assignment OF auto
mobile numbers for the differen
counties Of the state have been mad
for 1924. The numbers start on &c
001, which goes to Aurora county, an
u to 147-000 which goes to Ziebacl
county.
Sioux Falls.-Gertrude Kraemer
aged 10, whose home was nea
Parker, died in a Sioux Falls hospita
after a futile effort to save her lf,
by amputation Of a leg which was in
jured when an auto truck ran owe
her.
Oacoma.-Lyman county this yea
produced the. greatest corn crop in it
history. The corn acreage of tn,
county was $3.50 acres. 1t is esti
mated that the corn raised this yea
totaled nearly 100000 bushels.
Edgemont.-The biggest concret'
Job of it's kind ever undertaken by thu
state, the building Of the bridg'
across the Cheyenne river, near thi,
city, will be in the hands Of a Siou,
Falls contractor.
neutrality-suspicious. are being laid b.
the Commercial club OF B%rookings fol
it's first annual corn show, which will
be staged at the high school gymnas
ium early in January.
1roquois.-Work was completed or
the new graded state highway between
Iroquois and Cavour, the work having
been in progress since last spring.
Belle Fourche.-Odd Fellows here
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