The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-09-27

vote on the question of turning the
municipal electric light system over
to the Northern States Power COM
pany, OF Sioux Falls, which has con.
structed q high line to Chancellor
with the object of supplying this city
with electricity for lighting and
power purposes.
Buffalo Gap.-Work has commenced
on a new $4,000 public school build
ing which is to be erected in Buffalo
Gap. 1t is provided in the contract
that the structure must be completed
by early winter, and work of construc-
ton is being pushed so hat the
second semester OF school may open
IN the new building.
Custer Buffalo. elk, mountain
sheep. deer, beaver. and many other
forms, of wild life are numbered among
he citIzenry of the state game pre-
serve. comprising 91,400 acres Of
timber. hills and streams in the very
center of South Dakota's Black Hills,
according to H. S. Hedrick, state
game warden.
SoNo All diiCoIdh Z "hlth
was drilled here to furnish an addi-
~-tional supply of water for the NUM-
,ipai waterworks system, is a real
spouter as it has an estimated flow Of
300 gallons per minute, flowing at
this rate throughout the "a hours.
This great flow was struck at a depth
of 500 feet.
Ortley.-Melvin Eggebratten, 20,
farmer youth residing nea here was
killed after he was pierced by a pitch
fork handle. The young man vas
workinG on a separator and jumped,
landing ~5Quarely on the fork handle,
which pierced his abdomen. He died
several days after the accident.
Sisseton-Two young men visiting
Roberts county as book agents, and
giving their names as Byron Adams
and Homer Taylor and claiming
Wichita, Kan. as their homes, are
held for trial in the Roberta county
circuit court on the charge of attack
ing two young girls.
BroOkings.-A new weed, the horse
nettle, is beginning to appear in the
southeastern corner Of South Dakota
and should be watched for by farmers
and eradiCated as soon as possible
after discovery, according to Mat
thew Fowlds, assistant in agronomy at
State college.
Fort Pierre.-Stanley county Is
showing up with a fine corn crop this
year. In the Cheyenne river county,
in the northern part of the county,
there are fields which are completely
safe from any frost danger which will
make "a showing equal to any part OF
the state.
PierTc.-Corn is South Dakota's
man crop, according to Irwin ID. AL.
irich, state commissioner of immigra.
ton, who said that more thar three
million acres are planted to this crop
cash year, and nearly every county in
the state raises it as its main crop.
Wallace.-Farmers residing south OF
Wallace whose property was included
10 the independent school district OF
the town of Wallace won their fight
to be excluded from the Wallace dis,
trIct and to be permitted TO organic
a school district of their own.
Pierre.-The Federal Corn and
Market Bulletin, which in it's July esti
mate put the corn yield for South Da
kota at 1923, 600, 900 bushels for this
year, has changed the figures for the
Aug. 1 estimate to 131 1855 900 bush.
els.
Okaton.-The threshing season
practically is ended in this district
farmers generally having made un.
usually good progress with the work
Yields of most grains was very good,
as shown by the threshing machines
Rapid City.-The Warren-Lamb Lum'
Der company is running full blast and
employing a force of 275 men. Turn
ing out 20 5000, 900 feet of lumber each
year the company ranks as the third
biggest industry Of South Dakota.
Flandreau.-Frank Crimmins, OF
Lone Rock township, was found
hanging in his barn. He had beer
suffering for several weeks with
pains in his head and it was thought
he was temporarily unbalanced.
Groton-The Farmers and Mer
chants bank at Verdon was closed by
the state banking department. Bad
paper and a depletion of the cash re
serve fund were given as the causes
Flandreau.-The county commits
sioners have made the tax levy for the
coming year. placing the amount to be
raised at s72, $500. This is s15,S00 les,
than the levy made last year.
Aberdeen.-S. w. Steece, Sioux
City racing driver was killed here
when his car went through the fence
On the half mile dirt track at the Tri
state fair grounds.
Yankton. ALI informal poll taken
dur ing the county fair here showed 9
vote Of Isl In favor of a permanent
county fair grounds. and 80 against.
Mobridge.-C. e. Lang, Of AIeLangh
lin. died In a Mobridge hosI ital as the
result of injuries received when he
fell into a grain separator.
Philip Fly poison caused the death
Of the little three-year-old son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Buchholz, residing or
4 farm near Ottumwa.
Pierre.-The state educational do
partmcnt granted 1871 certificates on
the August examinations and rejected