The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-06-15

Hot Springs.-Figures recently com
piled show that Hot Springs has the
third largest post of the G.. A. K. IN
South Dakota.
Redfield.-Articles of Incorporation
have been filed at Pierre for the Red
field Building Loan association, with
a capital of 100000.
Lennox.-Fred D. Sutherland, a
veteran rural mail carrier Of this city
has completed 20 years of service as
a carrier on rural routes extending out
of LennoX.
Garretson.-The board of education
has called a special election to be
held on June s. for the purpose Of
voting on a $4,000 bond issue for a
new school building.
Ipswich.-Farmers who sowed
winter wheat last fall are blowing the
same fields and putting in corn. Lack
Of moisture last fall did not give the
wheat a chance TO start.
Sioux Falls.-Definite announce
ment was made here by United States
Senator Thomas Sterling Of Yer
million that he will be a candidate in
the March, 1923, primaries for re
election.
Sioux Falls.-Members Of the Lions
organization, of Sioux Falls, are great
ly pleased at the action of the district
convention of Lions, held at Fari-
bault, Mimi, in selecting Sioux Falls
as the place for the district convention
in 1924.
Mitchell.-A large attendance Of
members from all over the state is eX-
pected at the annual camp meeting Of
the Holiness association, which will
be held at the Holiness camp grounds,
four miles east OF Mitchell, on June
20 to July s.
Lemmon.-Lemmon's lake is at
tracing larger and larger crowds
each day as the season advances. The
fishing is good and anglers are to be
found on the shores Of the lake each
day from the earliest hours until
darkness comes.
Redfield,-The board Of directors Of
the local commercial club has elected
Norris r. Mallory as secretary Of the
organization, and he has already
assumed the duties Of the office. Mr..
Mallory will devote his full time to
the work of the office.
Belle Fourche.-Miles Canon, com
missioner of reclamation, a new de
partment created by the department
Of the interior, addressed citizens at
a meeting here. He declared the
Belle Fourche project would shortly
see $4,000 people on the lands under
irrigation.
Observation-Disclosures Of livestock
from Beresford continue to be heavy,
and the farmers Of this district are
each week receiving an aggregate Of
many thousands of dollars in payment
for livestock shipped by them. In
one day "a carloads of cattle and hogs
left Beresford.
Parker.-For the first time in the
history of Parker a Sunday show was
put on here. The Women's club pro
tested against the show but no action
has been taken against the manager
of the theater. Petitions for and
against Sunday shows have been cir,
culated for some time.
MISUNDERSTANDING a gun battle
which ran over two miles Of country
and in which more than a score of
shots were exchanged, three men,
giving their m as Gordon, Berry
and Wilson, were captured by a posse
of officers and citizens. The men
were surprised in an effort to break
into IN oil filling station here.
Belle Fourche.-Half an hour after
the 5-year-old daughter Of Arthur
Raber had apparently died, DR.. j. A.
Couch succeeded in restoring heart
action by the injection Of epinephrium
into the child's heart. The child
lived for "a hours after the treatment,
but finally succumber to the disease
which had gained great Roadway.
Clark.-Miss Matte Pickles, mayor
Of Clark, who enjoyed the distinction
of being the only woman ever elected
to the office of mayor in South Dakota
has resigned her place as teacher of
the eighth grade in the Clark schools
and will remove to Springfield, where
she has accepted a position as mem
Der Of the faculty of the Springfield
normal school.
misunderstanding to word re-
ceived from Belle Fourche the Texas.
Northern Oil company, Of Denver,
holding leases on 10000 acres OF
ground on the Sour Dough dome, six
miles west of Belle Fourche, has had
a standard rig transported to the
ground and as soon as the derrick is
erected, will commence drilling opera
tons on the ground, starting with a
10-inch hole and sinking to a depth OF
1000 feet.
Flandreau.-Through the efforts of
the local commercial club experiments
will be made this season by a number
of Moody county farmers in the Pro
duction of sugar beets, an entirely
new crop for this part Of the state.
The secretary Of the commercial club
has secured about GO pounds Of sugar
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