The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-01-10
LESS WINTER WHEAT SOWN
Decrease in South Dakota Is $4,000
Report Says.

succeeding spring mas Deen approx
imately Is per cent for a 10-year
average. The 10-year average yield
per acre of this crop has been about
Is bushels per acre" the report said,
There is a natural tendency more or
less latent in South Dakota farmers
to experiment with improved varieties
OF winter wheat each year, but
weather conditions have usually been
adverse to the crop becoming Of
much real importance. This season
climatic and soil factors have been
quite ideal for the crop. but, the un-
satisfactory price realized for wheat
has discouraged production and there
are several agencies abroad advocat-
ing even greater reduction of wheat"
Huron.-Whether or not the Farm
ers Cooperative Packing plant OF
Huron is to be put into operation
next spring is now directly up to the
5000 stockholders of the institution
The officers and directors have been
working for weeks perfecting a plan
whereby the Emerson company. Of
New York, which owns a long string
Of chain grocery and neat stores
throughout the east and south, will
furnish the operating fund. operate
the plant and handle the distribution
of its product, leaving the ownership
Of the million dollar packing plant
here in the hands of the original
stockholders.
Sioux Falls.-Federal officers are
investigating the case of E. |. Rosen-
crantz, stock detective on the Pine
RIDGE Indian reservation, who was
brutally beaten by some Sioux indiana
belonging on the reservation. He was
dubbed and nearly killed, according
to information reaching the federal
authorities here in a report from the
reservation. His skull was fractured
at the base of the brain and an opera
ton was performed in a hospital.
Proceedings against the Indians has
been delaved pending the inveStiga.
ton which is being made.
Sioux Falis.-John SChamber, form.
er state treasurer of South Dakota,
died Dec. 81, at Hot Springs, S. ID. He
was born in Russia 67 years ago and
came to the United States in 1874 and
to South Dakota a short time later.
He finally engaged in the banking
Schamber served three terms as
county treasurer of Hutchinson cou
ty n was state senator in 1898 and
1895. In 1898 he was elected state
treasurer, being reelected in 1900 as
a republican.
Pierre.-An independent petition
carrying the name Of Hiram Johnson
for president, with a list of delegates.
a~lternates and electors, was present.
ed to Secretary of State Coyne for
filing. AS there is a question as to
the proper method of such filing il
was refused and a test case will at
once be taken to the supreme court
to find II such a method of filing is
valid or whether it is necessary to
present a different petition for each
Of such candidates.
Pierre.-While the lack of snow
~ "oAhi WEALTHY ullo"S BLUM u
Craze on the prairies and saves feed.
ing, and helps out the town resident
by saving on his coal bill, it leaves
another danger which would not have
to be met with a little snow on the
ground, that Of winter prairie fires
Several have been reported from
various sections of the state, but none
have covered any great territory.
Aberdeen.-Due to this winters
remarkably mild weather, one citizen
of Aberdeen has been forced to get
his lawn move out of the basement
and trim the rank growth of heritage
on his lawn. On one or two occasions
therometers have registered 80
degrees in the sun, it has been report.
ed, but so far there have been no
heat prostrations reported.
Wakonda.-As a result of the fast
progressing installation of equipment
and other facilities for the study and
practice Of farm problems, the Wa
konda consolidated school will soon
rate first among all schools in South
Dakota in its possibilities for this
class of study. according to NJ. A.
Sharp, state supervisor of ~agricultur.
al education.
Iluron.-Advocates Of good roads
along the entire line of the Black and
Yellow trail will meet in Huron JAN
lary % to celebrate the fact that a
~graveled highway from the Mime.
sofa state line to the Missouri river
will be ready for tourists lex year.
Huron.-Dr. Charles Prosser, direct
)r Of the Dunwoody institute at Min.
eapolis, will be the headline speak
II al the ninth annual convention OF
The Associated Contractors of South
dakota which is to be held In Huron
January 8 and 10.
Huron.-Huron is to have n of
he largest and strongest banks in
he state as the result OF a special
meeting OF the stockholders OF the
first National bank when a resolu-
ion was adopted to increase the cap
talization of the bank from SOS, 900
o $4,000.
Spearfish.-The artesian we'll on
he farm of William Wall which for
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