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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Clark County Courier 8 NOTICE OF HEARING FOR Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Clark School District 12-2 Notice is hereby given that the School Board of Clark School District #12-2 will conduct a public hearing in the High School Library of the Clark School District, Clark, South Dakota on Monday, July 13, 2020, at 5:30 p.m. for the purpose of considering the foregoing budget for the fiscal year of July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021 and its supporting data. Mary Nelson, Business Manager Clark School District #12-2 2020/2021 Preliminary Budget and Means of Finance APPROPRIATIONS Elementary Programs Junior High Programs High School Programs After School Program Drivers Education Programs Special Education Programs Food Service Preschool Services Title I Programs Guidance Health Services Library Technology Board of Education Election Legal Services Audit Board Services Superintendent NESC Expenditures to General Elementary Principal High School Principal Medicaid Admin Fees Business Manager Elementary Janitorial Elementary Electrical High School Janitorial High School Electrical Rent to Colony & P4 Agmt. Care & Upkeep Buildings Care & Upkeep Grounds Care & Upkeep Equipment Care & Upkeep Vehicles Vehicle Service/Maintenance Contracted Bus Service Field House Debt Service Band Vocal Athletics Oral Interp One Act/Play Yearbook Transfer out to General fund TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS: MEANS OF FINANCE Revenue From Local Sources Taxes Non Credit Tuition - Drivers Ed Tuition from Pupils Earnings on Investments Co curricular Activities Medicaid Other Revenues CO Certificates Total Local Sources Revenue From Intermediate Sources County Apportionment Revenue in Lieu of Taxes Total Intermediate Sources Revenue From State Sources State Aid Wind Farm Tax Cash Reimbursement Bank Franchise Tax State Apportionment Total Revenue from State Sources Revenue From Federal Sources Use of Fund Balance Transfer in from capital outlay Transfer in from pension fund TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUE LEVY: General Capital Special Food Enterpris. Fund Outlay Education Services Fund 818,557.00 620,780.00 597,842.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 49,263.00 185,379.00 63,392.82 2,000.00 33,242.00 68,231.00 16,450.00 2,400.00 3,500.00 10,000.00 4,300.00 77,772.00 2,000.00 90,189.00 138,592.00 400.00 99,383.00 76,404.40 52,000.00 150,367.00 68,000.00 0.00 34,200.00 12,700.00 12,900.00 13,500.00 320,000.00 17,788.00 0.00 65,604.00 61,597.40 110,711.00 5,642.00 7,025.00 10,633.00 0.00 3,902,744.62 0.00 2,277,500.00 0.00 0.00 3,500.00 24,300.00 1,500.00 11,100.00 2,317,900.00 20,000.00 500.00 20,500.00 951,650.00 384,000.00 0.00 27,000.00 34,000.00 1,396,650.00 138,896.00 28,798.62 3,902,744.62 47,315.00 44,530.00 88,925.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 19,100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,000.00 22,600.00 117,480.00 7,000.00 132,600.00 30,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 88,266.28 3,000.00 10,600.00 9,500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 624,916.28 0.00 558,796.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 558,796.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 66,120.00 0.00 624,916.28 558,796.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 899,585.74 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 899,585.74 0.00 743,485.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2,000.00 0.00 745,485.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 154,100.74 899,585.74 0.92 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 293,743.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 293,743.00 87,700.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 87,800.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 800.00 0.00 0.00 800.00 143,000.00 62,143.00 293,743.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3,710.00 3,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6,710.00 0.00 0.00 3,000.00 7,500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10,500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10,500.00 Published once at the total approximate cost of $183.73. 7-8-1t _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “South Dakota’s Best Known Novelist Dead,” announced the headline in the Feb. 2, 1909, Aber- deen Daily American. The author referred to was Will Lillibridge of Sioux Falls. The publication of his first novel, “Ben Blair: The Story of a Plains- man,” in October 1905 brought Lil- libridge national fame as an author. “Will Lillibridge, a ‘new writer,’ in Ben Blair: The Story of a Plains- man, has told a story that not only lays fast hold on the reader’s atten- tion and sympathies, but carries to his mind something of the sanity and serenity that comes from con- tact with untamed nature,” stated a review in the Minneapolis Jour- nal. “The scene is in Dakota before the days of division and statehood. The characters are such as natural- ly find their way to the frontiers, simple, direct, strong in good or evil, chiefly the latter … The story is one very much above the average in its power to grip the interest of the reader, and its emphasis on nat- ural and simple living makes it one of the stories one ‘ought to read.’” The novel sold 150,000 copies in the days when such a sale was immense, stated an April 6, 1939, article in the Sioux Falls Daily Ar- gus-Leader. In an autobiographical sketch for the Saturday Evening Herald of Chicago, Lillibridge wrote, “Proba- bly if there ever were one typical of Dakota and that for which it stands, I am that person.” William Otis Lillibridge was born on Dec. 18, 1878, according to the Find a Grave website. He was two years old and living in Union Coun- ty, Dakota Territory, at the time of the 1880 Census. Lillibridge studied dentistry at the University of Iowa at Iowa City and came to Sioux Falls in 1898 to establish a dental practice. He prac- ticed dentistry during the day and did his writing at night. He mar- ried Edith Keller, the daughter of a Sioux Falls physician. Lillibridge followed the success of “Ben Blair” with another western that hit pay dirt. “Where the Trail Divides” was published in 1907 and was also a best seller. “And then he did what few au- thors have done,” stated the Ab- erdeen Daily American. “He gave to the reading public two works of fiction in a single year, one be- ing ‘The Dissolving Circle,’ a story of the Sioux Falls divorce colony, which had only a limited sale, and ‘The Quest Eternal,’ his most recent publication. This, like his first and second works, tells the tale of west- ern life in the range region of South Dakota.” The year 1909 saw the publica- tion of “The Dominant Dollar.” Lillibridge also co-authored a home reference book about the den- tal, medical and legal fields with his father-in-law, Dr. A.H. Keller; and two Sioux Falls lawyers. “Ben Blair” and “Where the Trail Divides” were made into si- lent motion pictures but Lillibridge never lived to see them. Two of Lillibridge’s manuscripts were pub- lished posthumously. These were “Quercus Alba, The Veteran of the Ozarks” and “A Breath of Prairie and Other Stories,” a volume of short stories selected by Edith Lil- libridge. As Edith wrote in the preface of “A Breath of Prairie,” “Every novel may have a happy close, but a real life’s story has but one inevitable ending, -- Death.” Death for Lillibridge came on Jan. 29, 1909, at his home in Sioux Falls. Edith stated in the preface that the characteristics of the heroes in her husband’s five novels were the same qualities her husband pos- sessed – firmness of purpose, an abhorrence of artificiality or affec- tation and love of nature. “Markedly reserved, silent, force- ful, he was seldom found in the places where men congregate, but loved rather the company of books and the great out-doors,” Edith wrote in paying tribute to her late husband. “But thirty-one years of age, he had won a place in literature so gratifying that one might well rest content with a recital of his accom- plishments. But his youth suggests a tale that is only partly told and the conjecture naturally arises, -- ‘What success might he not have won?’’ This moment in South Dakota history is provided by the South Da- kota Historical Society Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising partner of the South Dakota State Histori- cal Society at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre. Find us on the web at www.sdhsf.org. Contact us at [email protected] to submit a story idea. Dentist by day, writer by night ▲ South Dakota History and Heritage This is a photo of the cover of Ben Blair, Will Lillibridge’s best selling novel published in October, 1905. This artwork often appeared in newspaper ads nationwide circa 1905-1906 promoting the novel Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society. The Clark Traders suffered their first amateur base- ball Eastern Dakota League loss Sunday, 8-7, against the Milbank Firechiefs at Dakota Style Field, in Dick- inson Park. This week the Traders play at Bryant, Friday and Sunday, Sisseton is the foe, at Clark. Clark defeated Lake Norden, at Clark Wednesday, 4-2. Against the Lakers, Grayson Florey, left, is safe at second. On the right, Clark Trader Kyle Braun rounds third base after the ball got away from the Lake Nor- den catcher. Clark is 5-1 in EDL play. Photos by Heather Jordan Clark Traders are 5-1 in the Eastern Dakota League In a battle of Eastern Dako- ta League unbeatens, Milbank squeezed out an 8-7 win over Clark, Sunday afternoon at Dakota Style Field, in Dickinson Park. Clark jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first, but by the middle of the seventh it was 8-2, Firechiefs. Clark then scored five runs total, two in the seventh and three in the eighth, but Milbank prevailed by a single run. Lane Hovde from his lead-off spot had a big game with four hits including a double and three runs scored. Brent Griffith launched a three-run homer in the eighth. Kyle Braun had a pair of hits and three RBI. Zach Toben had a dou- ble. Jay Huber pitched six innings and took the loss for the Traders. Griffith pitched the final three in- nings. Dom Boerger went the dis- tance on the mound for Milbank. Taylor Boerger and Johnny Ash had the big Firechief hits. Clark 4 Lake Norden 2 The Traders used single runs in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings to pull out a 4-2 Eastern Dakota League amateur baseball win over the Lake Norden Lakers on Wednesday, at Clark. Lane Hovde’s run-scoring single in the seventh snapped a 2-2 tie. Grayson Florey added an insur- ance run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Brent Griffith and Rhett Florey each doubled and singled for the Traders. Tyler Brinka added two singles. Zach Toben earned the com- plete-game victory on the mound, recording seven strike-outs. Trevor Thue had a two-run sin- gle for Lake Norden. Mick Tulson, Jordon Johnson, Blake Jensen and Matt Stevenson each added singles. Nathan Wicks also went the dis- tance, but took the loss.
