$ 00 Inclu1des Tax Number 52 Volume 111 Philip, South Dakota 57567 Thursday, August 17, 2017 www. pioneer-review.com Scoreboard in place before first game New school facility on schedule, issue arises by Nancy Haigh What to do with the maintenance shed was the main focus of the Haakon School District Board of Education meeting, Monday evening, Aug. 14. The original plan was to leave the build - ing at its present loca - tion. The board was informed by the gen - eral contractor that leaving it there creates problems with grading of the site. They need to be able to slope the area for drainage pur - poses. The board discussed moving the shed, if possible. It was to be used by the vocational agriculture program as part of the new facility. If it tinues apace. Building committee members have se - can’t be moved, it may be torn down. Drainage issues lected paint colors, carpeting, etc. and ice in the northwest parking lot have been an on - The eastern portion of the playground is cordoned going problem since the fine arts building was off for parking. The area has had buses parked there, erected. The board would like to eliminate those is - but they will be moved, possibly, to another nearby sues for safety of students, staff and visitors. lot for the time being. Student, school personnel and Board member Doug Thorson said he would visit game attendees may use that area this school year. with a structure moving company to see if that is a Read the full meeting minutes in the Aug. 24 issue feasible option. of the Pioneer Review. All footings are complete and building of walls con - H.C. livestock producers eligible for hay N.D. lottery Nancy Haigh The new football scoreboard, replacing one that was damaged by a summer storm, was installed earlier this week and is ready for the first game of the season, Thursday, Aug. 17, at home against the Kadoka Area Kougars. Ministery of Rev. Clark – the man who buried Calamity Jane Dr. Charles B. Clark preached serving as president of the South the sermon at the funeral of Dakota department of that organ - Martha Jane Canary, also known ization for a year. as Martha Jane Burke or The work and outdoor life re - Calamity Jane, at the Deadwood stored Clark’s strength, and he de - Methodist Church, Aug. 4, 1903. veloped into an able and popular Calamity Jane had died at preacher, occupying some of the nearby Terry on Aug. 1. best pulpits in the Iowa confer - Clark was pastor of the church. ence. According to “Calamity Jane: The Overwork took a toll on him, Woman and the Legend” by James and, as Badger Clark put it, “doc - D. McLaird, Clark emphasized tors told him that he could remain Calamity Jane’s humanitarian a citizen of this world only if he acts during Deadwood’s early dropped preaching and all the years in the eulogy. “Echoing pop - nerve-straining activities of his ular sentiment, Clark asked, ‘How profession and took up outdoor often amid the snows of winter did work, not too heavy, for the rest of this woman find her way to the his life.” Haakon County livestock producers are now elig - too hard to pick and choose who receives what hay we lonely cabin of the miner’ to help The family moved to Dakota ilbe to particpate in a hay lottery organized by the can bring. This program will give everyone a little one suffering from illness?” Territory in 1883 and home - North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) hope and let them know that farmers across America Dr. Charles B. Clark The minister’s son and name - steaded four miles south of Plank - and North Dakota State University (NDSU) N.D. are thinking of them. We really hope to see hay come 1840? – 1921 sake, poet Charles Badger Clark, inton. The minister’s health Agricultural Experiment Station. in from all over the Midwest to help these folks in often lamented that his father was an unkind thing of friend or foe.” improved and he returned to his The hay lottery was expanded last week to include their time of need.” the person to preside over Badger Clark described his fa - first love of preaching. He was ap - drought-affected producers in the tri-state area. “The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Sta - Calamity Jane’s funeral. ther as “a man of above middle pointed to the Methodist pastorate Haakon County is in the D2 and D3 drought zones. tion, through the Department of Animal Sciences, is “My father’s deeds of mercy are height, had a full black beard at Mitchell. He later became dis - “We are pleased to open the hay lottery to produc - ready to assist producers who have been adversely unnumbered, but such is the irony which gave him a practical aspect trict superintendent at Mitchell ers in South Dakota and Montana experiencing impacted by this year’s drought conditions and grass - of human nature, he’ll be remem - but which was offset by kindly and pastor at Huron. He was one drought and wildfire,” North Dakota Agriculture land fires,” said Greg Lardy, NDSU Animal Sciences bered longest, because he buried crinkles around his eyes. He wore of the original promoters of Commissioner Doug Goehring said. “Ag Community department head. “We know livestock producers in Calamity Jane,” Badger Clark the true badge of professional men Dakota Wesleyan University, Relief, the Michigan organization arranging a large- this region are struggling to find adequate hay sup - was quoted as saying in articles by of those days, the Prince Albert which conferred upon him an hon - scale hay donation convoy to North Dakota in mid- plies for their livestock, and this program is one small Helen F. Morganti. coat and topped the costume with orary doctor of divinity degree in August, is fundraising and continues to seek way we can help them.” The elder Clark did, indeed, do a Stetson hat, always cocked 1892. donations and volunteers. We are so appreciative of Livestock producers interested in applying for the much more than bury the notori - slightly to the right.” Clark accepted a transfer to their efforts. We are also grateful to NDSU for pro - hay lottery should fill out and submit their state’s ap - ous woman of the West. In his 57 The Rev. C.B. Clark also pos - Deadwood in 1898, as the health viding the space and staffing to store and distribute plication. Applications for each state are available at years as a minister, the Rev. C.B. sessed a mellow bass voice, a flu - of his wife, Mary Ellen, was de - the donated hay. Without these two entities, this www.nd.gov/ndda. Eligible producers must be from a Clark built four churches and took ent command of English and a clining due to tuberculosis and he would not be possible.” D2, D3 or D4 or fire-affected county and own at least more than 2,000 people into the sunny temperament. thought the change in altitude “With much of South Dakota experiencing drought 25 animal unit equivalents of state-specific livestock. church, most of them being con - Clark was born around 1840 in would benefit her. However, his conditions, the hay lottery is a great resource for pro - Eligible livestock and a description of animal unit verts under his preaching. Sauquoit, N.Y. The family moved wife died that October. ducers looking for additional feed for livestock,” said equivalents may be found directly on each state’s ap - “The primary job of a preacher west in 1857, finally settling at Clark married Rachel Anna South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Mike Jaspers. plication. The latest drought monitor depicting the in those days was to preach and Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He at - Morris three years later. He closed “I appreciate Ag Community Relief, all the producers drought levels of specific counties may be found at Dr. Clark could preach. His ser - tended Iowa Wesleyan University, his active ministry as chaplain at providing hay and the North Dakota Department of http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/. The application dead - mons were to the point and well leaving to enlist in the 25th Iowa Battle Mountain Sanitarium in Agriculture for making this program possible.” line is Aug. 31, 2017. thought out,” wrote Morganti. Infantry in 1862, fighting for the Hot Springs. He died in Hot “Donations have been pouring in from throughout Each state will conduct their own drawings. The In Clark’s obituary in the “Jour - Union Army in the American Civil Springs on June 10, 1921, and was Montana to help folks affected by both drought and hay will be distributed in semi-load lots with the first nal of Dakota Conference,” an un - War. The private received a shell buried in Graceland Cemetery in fire. These people are the unsung heroes of the dis - drawing in early September. If additional donations named minister is quoted as wound to his head at the battle of Mitchell. aster response and a reminder of how the worst of are taken in after that date, more drawings will saying, “I think that all who heard Arkansas Post in 1863 and was This moment in South Dakota times can bring out the best in people,” said Montana occur. Drawings will occur in two age categories: ages him speak felt as I did – that I was discharged from the service. His history is provided by the South Department of Agriculture Director Ben Thomas. 35 and under, and ages 36 and above. Producers that ashamed of every mean thing I injury resulted in the total loss of Dakota Historical Society Founda - “We are proud and grateful to join with Ag Commu - are selected will be responsible for arranging hay had ever thought or done and hearing in his right ear.