The Mellette County pioneer. [volume], September 14, 1923, Image 1

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The Anthricite Coal Strike Is Settled—The Public Will Foot The Bill As Usual
VOLUME XU.
FARM HOME GOES UP IN SMOKE
The farm home of Harry Atwood in
the Cody neighborhood was burned
to the ground last Friday afternoon.
It was about two o’clock in the aft
ernoon when Mr. Atwood and his
brother, who were doing some work
in tlie yard discovered smoke issuing
from the gables of the house, and
they immediately investigated and
found the attic was in flames. The
fire gained headway very rapidly and
the family saved what household
goods they could before the flames
became so hot at to forbid any furth
er efforts at saving the contents of
the building. As it was many family
heirloom,s, all their winter clothing,
some bedding and some of the furni
ture and cooking utensils were
burned. Just how the fire start'd is
a mystery. It was first discovered
in the attic, where some old clothes,
paper, flour and such odds and ends
were stored, and about the only ex
planation that can be offered is that
a mouse got hold of a match and ig
nited it, which set the fire. Mr. At
wood carried $600.00 insurance on
the building but there was no insur
ance on the contents. The building
was a complete loss. Mr. Atwood
expects to begin the erection of a
new home to replace the one burned.
ANTHRAX AND HOG
CHOLERA MEETINGS
Dr. G. S. Weaver, of Brookings,
state veterinary specialist will be in
Mellette county on September, 24-25*
26, and hold meetings at the following
places: Wood, September 24, at 2:00
p. m. White River, September 24,
8:00 p. m. Norris, September 25,
1:00 p. in. Prospect Valley, Septem
ber 25, 8:00 p. m. Westover, Septem
ber 26, 8:00 p. in.
Now, farmers of Mellette county,
we have had a serious time with an
thrax and hog cholera. None of us
know us much about these*diseases as
we want to know and ought to know.
Dr. Weaver is possibly the best
trained man we can get to tell us
about these two diseases. Dr. Weaver
is a busy man as his work covers the
entire state. We are lucky to get
hold of him at this particular time so
we hope every farmer in the county
will try to attend one of these meet
ings. Tell everybody about it and
come yourself. We believe every
fanner is deeply interested. If you
are, we know \ou will attend one of
these meetings.
E. G. Rudolph, County Agent.
SOUTH DAKOTA MAY GET
HARD COAL FROM LIGNITE
Washington, D. C. —Completion of
apparatus which makes it possible to
manufacture anthracite coal from
comparatively worthless lignite was
announced Tuesday bv the bureau of
mines.
Efforts will be made at once by of
ficials of the interior department, it
was said, to interest some commercial
concern in the invention in order that
its benefits may be made available to
the coal consumin'* public.
The importance of the discovery
may be realized, the bureau said,
when it is known that the United
States possesses 1,051,290,000 tons of
easily mined lignite, of which 964,-
000.000 tons are located rn North and
South Dakota and Montana. This
territory annually imports a large
tonnage of anthracite and bituminous
coal.
The bureau’s experiments were car
ried out in cooperation with officials
of the Canadian government. An ov
en was perfected which is to turn the
lignite into a fuel having practically
the same thermal efficiency as the best
Pennsylvania hard coal.
The Canadian authorities, after
seeing the oven in operation, decided
to construct a sinqlar unit and give it
a thorough test. The Canadian tests
also proved successful, and Canadian
engineers reported to the department
of mines at Ottawa that the oven is
“a practical commercial oven, now
past the experimental station.”
CONTRACT LET FOR GRAVEL
AND ROCK SURFACING ROAD
A contract lias been let by file state
highway commission for gravel and
rock surfacing of the highway, known
as the Winner-Carter road, leading
west from Winner to the county line,
u distance of 18.1 miles. Sheehan &
Bjerknes, of Sioux Falls, S. D., were
the lowest bidders and were awarded
the contract. —Winner Advocate.
NO REASON FOR SLIPPING
Are you losing your pep? Are
you on the downward grade in the
affairs of life? Are you going to
continue slipping backward, or are
you going to ‘ * buck up and come
back again?”
Many people make the mistake of
feeling that a few business reverses
put an end to their usefulness —that
the most they can hope for is to plod
along the rest of their days. Having
lost hope they lose their pop, and a
man without pep cnn not accomplish
much in this world.
Never consider yourself down and
out. You only reach that depth when
you admit that you are there, and it
you refuse to admit it you will never
reach it.
If you are not successful in your
present calling it is probably because
nature has not. fitted you for that
particular line of business. You
simply started off on the wrong foot.
We can not all hope to be bankers,
or lawyers, or doctors, or merchants,
because many of us are not fitted
by inclination for such work. If we
mistakenly drift into such lines wo
do not achieve any remarkable de
gree of success. Hence our discour*
agement, our loss of pep, our spirit
of indifference, and our eventual
slipping backward to the place where
we started in life.
If your present line of business
does not appeal to you, if you can not
acquire and maintain a vital interest
in your work, you are in the wrong
pew and should hunt another.
When you find the work or busi
ness that does appeal to you your
vanishing pep will return.
The bottom of the ladder will fade
away and the top will soon be in sight.
There is no such thing as permanent
failure for the man who is determined
to succeed.
Frost Wednesday Night
M’e were visited bv a light frost,
Wednesday night of this week. How
e\er it apparently did not do much
damage to growing vegetation. The
mercury droped to 31 degrees above
zero, which is one degree below freez
ing, during the night. Light frost will
help along the maturing of the corn,
rather than damage the crop. What
w*e don’t want at this time is a heavy
freeze, which would do a lot of dam
age to the late corn.
Anto Accident
“While returning home from Winner
last Monday evening, Mark Payne ran
into a horse on the highway between
Carter and Jordan, w’ith the result
that his Dodge coup© was pretty bad
ly smashed up. The radiator w
ruined* the windshield broken, the fan
demolished, the headlights put en
tirely out of commission, and both
front and the rear fender on the right
side were badly bent. No one w’as
hurt and it was h rather lucky acci
dent. We did not learn how* the
horse fared.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF" MELLETTE COUNTY
WOOD, MELLETTE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA, SEPTEMBER 14,1923
FALL CARTOONETTES
WOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH
Sunday, September 16, services will
be held as usual, Sunday School at
10:30, church service at 11:30.
Cody. Sunday School at 2:30,
church service at 3:30.
E very body welcome.
P. J. Kussman, Pastor.
Dr. Still Denied New Trial
Attv. 11. L. Bode was a business
visitor to Oacoma last Friday where
he had accompanied attorneys from
White River to argue a motion before
Judge J. G. Bartine for a new trial
for Dr. W. H. Still, who was convict
ed in a teim of the Jones count\
circuit court upon a serious charge
brought by a young lady of Mellette
county. The judge denied the motion
of the at tonnes and it was stated that
Dr. Still take the case up to tht
supremo court.- Murdo Coyote.
Tomorrow, Saturday, the loth, is
the day set for the big celebration at
Witten. There will he three bands,
plenty of sports and a general good
tim,e for everybody. Better attend.
Mellette-Todd County
Sunday School Convcntioo
Wood, S. D., October 6-7
1 lie following is the program for the Third Annual Convention’ of
the Mellette and Todd County Sumhiy School Association to be held at
Mood. S. D., beginning Saturday evening, October 6, and continuing
all day Sunday, October 7. Everyone is most cordially invited to attend
the sessions of this convention.
PROGRAM
Saturday Evening
7:30. Song Service.
7:45. Devotional Service Rev. Kussman
8:00. Special Music.
Address, “The Real American Citizen.” Rev. J. B. Clark
Address Rev. J. J. Hull
Sunday Morning
10:3(t. Song Service, led by Prof. E. 11. Hamilton.
10.4»5. Scripture Reading and Prayer Rev. Robert Eubank
10:55. Special Music by Male Quartet.
11:00. Convention Sermon Rev. J. J. Hull
11:45. Appointment of Committees.
12:00. Dinner.
• Sunday Afternoon
2:00. Song Service led by Prof. E. H. Hamilton.
2:20. Devotional Service. Rev. Lange
2:30. Address Senator Covey
2:55. Special Music by Girls’ Quartet.
3:00. Business Session.
% 0
Special Music.
3:45. Address „ Rev. J. E. Hull
Sunday Evening
7:30. Community Song Service.
8:00. Devotional Service. Rev. P. J. Kussman
Address, “The Youth in Our Community,” Rev. J. B. Keejiers
Address, “The Church School of the Future,”. Rev. Pinkerton
A community dinner will he served Sunday October 7.
The people of M ood v\ ill provide hot coffee, mashed potatoes and
gravy, and everyone is requested to bring well filled baskets
Free entertainment will be provided for all out-of-town visitors.
To Let Bridge Contract
The State Highway Commission
announces that it will receive bids on
October 10th tor the construction of
the new Missouri river bridge to be
built at Wheeler. This is what uu
known as the Rosebud bridge and will
link the Rosebud country with the
balance of the 9tate. This bridge
will also no doubt bring one or two
competing railroads into Rosebud ter
ritory as soon as it is completed,
which will ~o a long way toward solv
ng the transportation problem in this,
the riche t asricnltyral section of the
t«te. Everybody in the Rosebud
hones that construction will be
rushed as much as possible on this
bridge, once the contract is let.
Teachers Normal Institute
The dates for the Teachers Nor
mal Institute for Bennett and Mel
lette counties, are October 8,9, and
10, and the institute will be held at
White River. The conductor is Supt.
Fred L. Shaw of Pierre.
Read the Pioneer.
PREDICTS LONG, COLD WINTER
According to Grant Searl, local
weather prophet, who last spring pre
dicted plenty of moisture for the
Rosebud this summer, we may look
for an exceptionally cold winter, and
he advises consumers to lay in more
coal than they did last winter, as they
are going to need it. He says the
winter will be unusually dry, with less
snow than normal, hut look out for
low temperatures.
Mr. Senrl reaches these conclusions
from a study of the heavens and he
:s willing to gamble that he is right
Last spring he told the Times that
the rainfall would be plentiful this
summer, with good showers about
every week, and his predictions proved
true.
Get out vour overcoats. —Colome
Times.
SHEVLIN FOUND GUILTY
OF SELLING “BLUE SKY’’
The following press dispatch ap
peared in Saturday’s Sioux City
Journal. Shevlin is well known in
the Rosebud, having been at one time
editor of the Tripp County Journal,
and the only daily paper ever printed
at Winner. He left these parts foi
the Black Hills region several years
ago, and lias been interesting himself
in* the promoting of oil companies in
and around Scenic.
Mitchell, S. 1)., Sept. 7.—J. W.
Shevlin, an attorney of Rapid City,
was found guilty by a circuit court
on a charge of selling stock in viola
lion of the ‘blue sky” law of South
Dakota. It was charged that lie was
denied a permit to sell stock for an
oil company. Shevlin enimod that he
gave warranty deeds to tracts of and
and that this was not selling stock.
ROSEBUP VAf&EY
Jerry Koskan is busy threshing this
week.
Joe Sanders brought 135 head of
cattle out to his home-toad for fall
pasture.
Nace and Zeno O’Bryan have just
finished cutting a quarter of hay land
for Mr. Califf.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Il.tkl and Din 1
othv returned from a pleasant trip
to Lake Andes.
Lillian Gustatson left tor Wood
Monday to attend school and will stay
with Mrs. McDonald.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Z. O’Bryan and
family visited at the Dale home in
Tripp county, Sunday.
Clms. Califf, John Beauvais and
Mr. and Mrs. Crane attended the
fair at Winner last Wednesdav.
The Paseka family gave a dance
Saturday night in honor of the birth
day anniversary of Frank Paseka.
Lilian and Edwin Gustafson, Edith
Anderson, Bessie Berry and Ernest
Aeschbacher attended church in
Wood, Sunday.
Frank Hickman attended the fail
at Winner while hauling grain to
market. They have some very nice
chickens and expected to make an
exhibit.
Mrs. Boyd O’Bryan is enjoying a
visit from her brother, Mr. Easton,
of Missouri. He expectst to work
here for a time and get acquainted
with our country.
Our Valley will have school again
at the Union school. This school ha
been closed several years but enough
children justify having a teacher and
Miss Idona Hill lias been has been
hired. We are glad to have Miss
Idona among us again. «
Bundys Leave Wood
J. If. Bundy and family departed
yesterday morning in their Durant
sedan for Geddes, where they will
visit for a time with Mrs. Bundy V
sister. Just where they will finally
locate the'* have not as yet fully
decided. The Bundy* came here
from Lake Andes some three or four
years ago when Mr. Bundy bought an
interest in the First State Bank at
Wood and was elected president of
the institution, and acted in that
capacity up until the time that institu
tion was compelled to close iftr doors
on August 20 on account of slow col
lections. They made a number ot
friends in Wood and Mellette county
during their stay here, and all will
wish them success and prosperity
wherever they may locate and in
whatever field of endeavor Mr. Bundy
mav find employment. ——
NUMBER 33.
BOY SCOUT NOTICE
Last Monday evening a very profit
able and enjoyable evening was spent.
Eleven boys were present and it is the
desire of the troop to try and get
sixteen boys in t lie troop so as to
make two patrols.
Several interesting mutters were
discussed, of these the Scout band is
the one that all the scouts are hoping
will become a reality. There are
many details that need to be consid
ered. but there is no reason why wo
should not have one of the be9t bands
of the kind in the state for we have
enough boys and it ig the desire of
the scoutmaster to try and get a girl
scout organization started in the com
munity, and if any girls wish to plav
in the scout band it would be their
privilege to do so. W# also have some
talent in this community that is hard
to heat along the band line, which
will give us good leadership. So let
us all cooperate and boost the Scout
hand propositon.
Probably before the next issue of
this paper some of the Boy Scouts
will solicit the people of this com
munity for a small contribubtion for
a very worthy cause, that they will
tell you about when they ask for your
aid. We do not ask a large sum from
anvonc, but if everyone asked will
yive a quarter or a half dollar it will
be a bi* r he! for the cause for which
it is intended.
I\ J. Kussman, Scoutmaster.
K. S. Cleaver, Ass’t. Scoutmaster.
A CHAIN OF STRIFE
Since the days when Cain killed
Abel the spirit of strife has been
in the blood of mankind, and it will
continue in the b.ood as long as man*
kind exists.
Nations are merely collections of
individuals ban M 4 og#ther for their
own protection. As /long as their
nationals fight among themselves it
must be expected that nations will
fight each other.
Just when many people were hoping
that the league of nations would trait*
ually be able to function to
practical purpose we are confronted
with the spectacle of Italy defying
the league and taking forcible pha
ses non of Greek territory.
We in America ure not concerned
with the merits of the controversy
between Italy and Greece, but we are
\itally concerned with the effect upon
tins country if we are dragged into
another general Euiopean conflagra*
turn.
Italy and Greece may adjust the
present difficulty, or they may fight
it out.
In either event, it is our business
to keep hands off.
Some claim that w’e should inter
lere in European affairs because we
owe u duty to civilization. But what
if civilization declines to be servedf
Europe today is just one great con
glomeration of grasping, self seeking*
jealous, intriguing and backbiting
nations, uwaiting only an opportunity
to devour each other. The last war,
which should have taught them a les
son, did not improve matters in the
slightest degree. If anything, it made
them worse.
Civilization should be preserved and
1 advanced, but that can be accomp*
, lished only when honor and a spirit
- of fairness return to the nations that
| are destroying it.
Until then our duty to ourselveb
j demands that we keep out of the en
| -rulfing mess.
t The man who shoves his hand into
, n lions’ mouth must expect to have
| it chewed off.
We have no hands to lose. •
i *
I APPRECIATION
1 take this method of expressing
*my thanks to my neighbors and
friends and the people of Wood who
have so free heartedly helped me
with mv fall work and threshing.
Words fail to express the gratitude.
I feel toward you all.
Elmo Mitchell and family
inn II —— mmmmmmm we
Shertff Chris Buum was in* town
vester<my morning cn his way to Jer
ry Koskan’s, to feerve a warrant
charging Koskan with an assualt on
John Sherwood.
Business ueeds trained office men
and women. Training at Mafctirtai
Commercial College, Sioux Falls,
meets the demand. Enter now. Get
a fro© catalog.