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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-04-24
Notice for Publication.

ypr. 3t6
Notice for Publication.
Department. OF the Interior. Land Office
at Huron, South Dakota, March %, 1902
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed nolice OF his inten-
tiou TO make final proof in support Ut his
claim and that said proof viii be made be-
fore Judge of the County Court at Miller, S !.
D., on May 10, 1902, viz:
MICHAEL JOHNSON,
II. f. No. r. & X. co. for the $ u NEK
Sec. IS, Lots / q Sec. 81, Il. 100, n. 4. 40
w. 9Th +. ~
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
ton OF said land. viz:
Aleck Johnson, Ernest Stevenson Frank
BeraRek. of Bailey, =. D., GundeT Gunder-
son, Of Peno, ). ID.
c, A. BLAKE, Register.
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HA! HA!

Say stranger, are you looking for farm?
oh you've bought one Bought it OF some farm
er, suppose? Oh you bought at the
REAL ESTATE BROKERS EXCHANGE.
Well now that's good, that's where | got mine.
used TO know those fellows down east, and
saw do YOU know, when man buys farm of
them it's Just like pig drinking swill, 1.-the more
ne gets the more he wants" until he is nearly
busted.
But in short time the price has gone up that he
let 90 and make little stake. listed mine back with
them did you? That's the stuff It'll be gone in few
DAYS and will have to buy more.
Office over Crabtrees store Miller, S. D.
o
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'pr. BIO
NntIca For puhlInntinn

Apr. 3t6
Notice For Publication.
Department OF the Interior. Land Office at
Huron, So. Oak. March 26, 1902
Notice T. hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice OF his inten-
tion TO make final proof in support OF his
claim. and that said proof Will be made be-
fore Judge OF County Court at Miller, S. D.,
on May 10, 1902. viz:
ELLEN NJ. OLSON, formerly Ellen NJ, John
son,
II. +. No. So r. q n. for the s + II SW u.
Sec, 81. and n + "a NV u and \ y L Il
Sec. rs, Il, 100 n. II. 20, w. 9th =. M.
He names the following witnesses TO prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultiya.
ton OF, said land, viz: Aleck Anderson,
Ernest Stevenson. Frank Beranek, of Bailey
s. ID, Gunder GundersOn, OF Peno, s. ID.
c. A BLAKE. Register.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-04-24

Notice for Publication.

Notice for Publication.
Department OF the Interior Land Office
at Huron. S. ~. March ,. 1902
Notice Is hereby given TINT the following
named settler has filed notice OF his inten-
ton To make finai proof In support OF bis
claim and that said proof will be made be-
fore Judge Of County Court. at Miller, ). ID,
on April 30 1902, viz:
CHARLES 4. HAMMILL.
II. f.. No, 1888. for the r. " N. +. u and
s. w. a n. r. "a Sec. o, and Lois l 4 ? See.
10. Twp. 10. n. Range 20. W. 9Th p. NJ.
lie names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultiVa-
tien OF said land viz: Bert s. Bell, George
A. Price. Alfred Crackle, OF Cedar. s. ID GIL.
bert W. Collins, OF Glendale, ). ID,
c. A. BLAKE. Register.
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Apr i0tG.
Notice for Publication.

Apr toto.
Notice for Publication.
Department OF the Interior. Land Office
Huron, south Dakota. April 2. 1902.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice OF his inten-
tion to make final proof in support OF his
claim. and that said proof will be made be-
lore Clerk OF Courts at Miller, ). d., on
May II, 1902. viz:
WILLARD SHAW,
II. f. No. 1879, for the r. II, Sec. &c,
4. 10, N, II. 60. W., 9TH +. NJ
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
ton OF said land viz
Peter Friis OF Glendale. S. n, Charles
Thomson, OF Miller. s. D.. w. VI. Penwell of
Ames. $. ID. w. A. Scott, Of Cedar, $. u.
c. a. BLAKE, Register,
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Financial Statement.

Statement OF the condition 81 the Hand
County state Bank at the close Of business
April 18th. 1902. made to the Public Ex-
amlner and ex-oaieio Superintendent Of
Banks.
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APR 24t3
Notice OF Hearing Petition for Letters
OF Administration.
state Of South Dakota, In County
County Of Hand Court.
In the matter OF the estate OF Henry p.
Chaplin, Deceased.
The State of South Dakota sends greeting,
to Mrs Alice G. Noyes. Lawrence l.. Chaplin.
Wexford ;. Chaplin ana Mabel q. Chaplin NIL
of Georgetown, Essex County, Masrachu-
sets heirs at law aud next ~ Kin OF Henry
Chaplin, deceased and to oil To whom these
presents may come.
Notice Is hereby given. That IT, Howard
Moves has filed with the Judge OF this Court,
a petition praying for Letters oi Adminis-
tFation OF the estate 81 Henry y. Chaplin de-
cpnsed and that Friday the 10th day of
May 1902. az ten o'clock In the forenoon OF
said day, being day ot u Special term 81
this Court, to-wit: At the Office of this
Court Ina the Court House In the Town 81
Miller. in said County Of Hand, has been set
for hearing said petition, when and where
any person interested may appear aud show
cause " by the said petition should not be
granted
Dated at Miller $. D. this 21st day of April
A. D. 1902.
(sEAL) G. G. BBIGGs
Judge of the County Court.
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Apr 1878
Notice OF Hearing Admitting Foreign
VIII TO Probate.
State OF South Dakota, In County
County cf Hand. Court
In the matter Of the e5tate OF Thomas d.
Robertson Deceased.
Notice IL hereby tfven. That by order Of
the undersigned, Jp dge of the County Court
ia and Tor hand County. State OF South Da-
kots, made on the 14th day % April A. d.
1902. that Monday the 9Th day OF May 4.
ID. 1902, at ten O'Clock In the forenoon It
the Office of the Judge Of said Court IN the
Court House at the Town Of Miller IN said
County and state has been fixed and ap-
pointed as the time and place for hearing
the petition OF William r. Robertson that
the will Of Thomas ID. Robertson deceased
proved. allowed and admitted TO probate In
the County Court of the County uf Winnie
bngo In the State of Illinois be admitted 10
probate. and recorded In this said County
Court, and that letters testamentary issue
~ said William L. Robertson of Rockford,
Illinois.
Witness nv hand and the seal OF said
County Court, this 18th day OF April A. ID.
1902.
(SEAL1 q. G., BRIGGS.
Judge ofsaid County Court.
Affect: WM. nnwLER.
Clerk OF said County Court
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
THE INSPIRATION OF THE NEW CENTURY.

Concluding his interesting the Southern Educational
Conference Robert
conference reviewed accomplished He
public
duties stewardship accommodating wealth. higher
IN
general higher institutions
Rockefeller
but to be assist the Southern youth the
The Peabody fund employed impetus the establish
graded schools Raleigh
the
a
of by
The first fruits of the gifts public education in North Carolina
would
$4,000 raised
command 1t
will
caional
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
THE REVIVAL THE RESULT OF WISE IN
STRUCTION.

in a
school the Commonwealth that the progressive
better
facilities
oquence After quoting of all his predecessors
people Of
of battle
white black
o az
education everybody declared
l.
be
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
THE NEED OF BETTER SCHOOL HOUSES.


s
o he
a Eel a
children
with little school facilities the
ra
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
COUNTRY PASTORS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
presbyterian Standard.)

The country pastor, with the revival
of the educational spirit that is spread
ing now to all parts of The South, has Il
peculiar opportunity for greatly enlarg-
ing his sphere of usefulness by throwing
the weight of his influence into the edu-
cational movement He is. generally,
and he ought to be, the best educated
man, himself, in the community Reli-
gior has often begun It's bereficent
course with the ignorant But education,
by its very nature, must spread from
above to the planes below. ONLY he who
knows something of what education is,
desires its blessings for his children, and
the most discouraging thing about the
progress of education is the indiffer-
ence towards it that is felt by those
who need it most. The minister, with
his gifts of public speaking. with his
known attitude towards the things that
are good and helpful, and with his per-
sonal influence over the people OF his
community, can certainly accomplish
more than any other man in the cduca-
tional campaign, and it may as we'll be
recognized that without his aid The bat
tie is already lost for our generation.
Then, because the minister knows
what an education is and how the schools
should be equipped and what kind of
teaching the children ought TO have, he
can go farther than simply stirring up
! the people to the need of better educa-
tioral facilities and to the advantage of
an education in the abstract. He can
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
ELIZABETH COLLEGE.

CHAS. B. KING, President, writes:
Elizabeth College, Charlotte, is now en-
joying its fifth year. This institution for
the higher education OF young ladies
started at the beginning with fine build
ings and substantial equipment and a
high literary standard. The school has
been adding to its first outlay about
$4,000 annually for improvements,
equipment, etc, the latest addition being
a new building for the Conservatory of
Music and the extension of the car line
from the city of Charlotte to the front
gate of the college grounds. The college
has a property valuation of $3.50, 000 The
attendance has increased each year. The
college can take only limited number
of boarding students. The school was
intended to be select, ninety being the
limit for boarding students. Present en-
rollment 121."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
ST. MARY,S SCHOOL.

THEO. d. BRATTON, President: "Ten
years ago the buildings and grounds of
St. Mary's were rented, no endowment
fund was contemplated. Four years ago
the Episcopal Church in North and
South Carolina purchased the st. Mary's
plant, including five buildings and twenty
FIVE acres of land. During these years
more than $4,000 has been raised half
Of the purchase fund (S50, O00) paid. five
new buildings erected, the old buildings
equipped with modern. conveniences. the
equipment of music, art and other de-
partments renewed, and the boarding ca
pacity almost doubled. The Alumnae
Association has an investment fund of
$4,000, in round numbers. being a part
OF an endowed scholarship. The attenda-
ance in 1902 is 24S. the number in the
faculty 23."
These letters add up 5 ,29S, 400.
1t will be observed that no informa-
ton was furnished by some of the
institutions that received large
sums. 1t is estimated that they
have received $25O,OOO, making a
grand total OF one and a half mil
lion dollars in ten years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
TO ABOLISH ILLITERACY.
(Atlanta constitutional

Since 1885 the national government of
This country has set apart to the bene-
fit of educational funds more public lands
than there are acres in Great Britain.
The fact is scarcely realizable by the
mind and yet it is the truth.
The greater part of che benefits aris-
ing from this tremendous liberality has
gone to the new States formed from
the Louisiana purchase and those organ
lied from territories farther west and
northwest. Travellers in those States Of
ten wonder at the apparent extravaganza
with which the people have builded in
their smallest villages school houses OF
amplitude beautiful architecture and
costly modern equipments. They do not
at first understand such zeal for the
advancement of public education but all
is made plain when they learn that the
work is done with the proceeds of school
land sales, or Of bonds based upon the
present and prospective values of such
lands. Thus have these commemorative
been lavishly endowed with educational
funds by the liberal policy of the people
through the medium of the national gov
eminent and the use of the public do
main.
tional leaders in the country that the
time for reciprocity, or the equalization
of educational bounties, has arrived. In
many of the older States where no pub
lie lands were set apart for the endow-
ment of common schools there exist per-
centages of illiteracy that ought to be
speedily and radically reduced. Yet the
people of those States are not able to
bear the burden of taxation that would
follow the expansion Of their public
school systems to the full measure of
their needs.
The failure of Congress nearly twenty
wears ago to pass the Blair educational
bin was lamentable sacrifice OF wise
craftsmanship to mere traditional senti-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
MUCH MORE MONEY GIVEN
This Sum Includes Only The Leading
Colleges of The State.
APPROPRIATIONS TO STATE SCHOOLS
DOUBLED.
The Legislature Has Almost Doubled In the
Past Ten Years the Appropriations
10 The State lns'i.

More money has been given to
endow colleges and institutions of
learning in North Carolina in the
past ten years than during the en-
tire previous one hundred years.
The State of North Carolina has
made larger appropriations to the
University, State Normal and In
dustrial College, the College of
agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
and the normal schools during the
past ten years from the public
treasury than it made for 100
years prior to 1876.
The educational spirit has touch
ed the people everywhere. The
rich feel the responsibility that
rests upon them and are giving.
Those in fair circumstances are do
ing more than ever. The poor see
that education is necessary to give
their children a fair chance in the
race of life. As a result the col
1eges get larger endowments, the
State institutions receive large ap-
preparations, and for the first time
in the history of the State a four
months school is maintained in
while in nearly all the towns a nine
months school is conducted. In
many school districts, the term
varies from five to seven months.
With view to giving a state
1nent Of the increase in endowment
of all the colleges in the State, a
letter was addressed to the heads of
each with the request that the de-
sired information be furnished.
Letters have been received from the
following:
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE FOR Wo-
WEN
j. r: BRIDGES, President "Ten years
ago the Presbyterian College for Women
at Charlotte was closed, DR.. Atkinson.
the former president, having gone to
Columbia, S. G.. In 1896 the property
was bought by trustees representing the
Presbyteries of Mecklenburg and Concord
and the college was reopened. 1t was con-
Quoted successfully for three years by
Miss Lily Long, and then in the fall of
1899 Rev. ]. r. Bridges, D. D., of Vir-
ginia. was elected to the presidency. In
1900 the new building was begun, and by
the opening of the next session, Septem-
Der, 1901, the new building was COM
plete, having been erected at a cost of
$85 ,000-a greater portion of which was
subscribed by the Presbyterians of Char
lotte. The new college is remarkable in
many ways. 1t was built without inter-
fering with the conduct of the school,
and then it is today one OF the largest
and finest buildings in the State, if not
in the South
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ment. BY that folly the South especially
was sadly damaged and her educational
equality with younger States in the West
set back by the lifetime of one genera
ton, II not many Now, however, more
sensible views of the subject matter Dre
vail, and it is recognized that what re-
mains of the public lands of the nation
should be devoted to the cause of popu
lar education in those localities where
the largest lack OF literacy is found. We
do not need to be told that such lack
is large in the South.
The problem of popular education is the
one that presses most heavily upon us
who have had the equal education of the
colored race to deal with. The impoy-
erished States of the South have strug-
gled herocally to carry forward the work
Of establishing and operating public
schools for both races with the taxes al
most wholly paid by the white people.
The results thus hardly achieved already
are marvellous to all who have ia
ken the pains to study them in the light
of the actual facts.
Public men in all sections If the land
are now realizing that the South needs
help to carry this burden and to solve
the pressing problem of lliteracy The
nation has vet some 600 600 acres Of rub
lie lands that might be devoted IN cdu-
cational endowments. Wisely used, the
funds arising from their gradual sale
would ultimately wipe out the Hitter
acy of the nation. And the proposal to
SO use those funds by distributing them
to the States IN proportion to the sta
tistics Ct .lliteracy is rapidly growing
in favor with the friends of popular
education.
There is no measure that we now think
of that would more directly and sensibly
benefit the South than this one, and we
hope it will be pressed in season and out
and in fact.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

see to it that educational officers from
the county superintendent to the teacher
in the smallest back woods school in the
for the places to be filled. This is not
an agreeable task. but righ- here the
best plans are sometimes brought to
nought and it is better to hurt a few pri-
vate feelings sometimes, than to let pub
lie interests especially those that af-
fecr every home. suffer for want OF some
man with the courage and the sense to
speak.
There is hardly a country neigh
borhood in all the South in which the
public school system could not be
gradually improved, if the minister took
an active interest in all relating to the
educational life of the people.
There is still another side to the qucs-
ton, and that is more particularly in
line with the minister's work, namely.
the securing of Christian teachers for
the schools One of the evils of the
public school system has been the some
time clashing of UNCONVENTIONAL inter
ests. PreSbyterians are far enough re-
moved from sectarianism and have clear
enough ideas of the spheres of the
Church and State to steer clear of this
trouble and to set good example to
others. But we are a Christian people
anG we do not want our school,: in the
hands of those who will teach the child
rem that the fear Of the Lord is not the
beginning of wisdom.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
GUILFoRD COLLEGE.

PRESIDENT L. L. HOBBS: "Our en-
dowment fund has increased by about
SIS, 900 in ten years and there are present
conditional subscriptions of over 500, 900
to be paid when the amount reaches one
hundred thousand. The number of stu
dents has grown gradually now for few
years, the attendance this year having
gone beyond any previous record. The
increase in teaching force is about one
tenth greater than it was in 1892: and
the increase in equipment is more mark
ed than any other feature of our work,
the building and furnishing of Memorial
Hall having taken place in the last de-
cade."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

cause these are not now found in the
college At present the endowment fund,
including endowed professorships,
amounts to $409,25O Other holdings of
the college amount to $512, 694 &C. Total
valuation, 1921, 944.S6. This year there
are ia students In the four college
classes and graduate department, and
100 in the Trinity Park High School,
making total of 3O4, corresponding to
the 142 students in 1892 1893, represent
ing the departments of the college still
in existence.
This year there are "a men in the
teaching force of the college. including
the four new chairs to be filled in June
now already arranged for, and 8 in the
teaching force of the High School"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
TRINITY COLLEGE.

PROFESSOR w. P. FEW I'm 1892 the
college had an endowment Fund OF $22,
500 The value of the property in Dur
ham was $155,000. Excluding the profess
sor in Theology and the professor in the
Law Department, not now represented in
the college. there were ten men in the
teaching force. There were 126 students
in the four college classes, two graduate
students, and sixteen in the sub-fresh-
man class. l omit again students in the
Law and Commercial Departments, be-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
A MORNING TONIC.
(JOHN RUsKIN.)

ought ish
IN O and
Thirdly he
am ifusing
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
BAPTIST FEMALE UNIVERSITY.

PRESIDENT r. T. VANN: 1--WE have
finished our third year. Our property and
buildings have increased in real estate
from $4,000 to 100000 within that time.
We have no present endowment but have
received legacies amounting to 5000,
which, however, is not yet in hand. Our
encumbrances now amount to $36000.'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE

GEORGE T. WINSTON. President:
THE following figures shows the growth
for ten years:
Total property-1S92, $4,000; 1902.
$162, 900; per cent. OF increase 300
'Students-1S92, 40; 1902 1863; per cent.
increase, 1886. .'t' go
"Teachers-1S92, IL; 1902, 80; per cent.
increase, $50"
This college is supported by the State
and has no endowment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
ELON COLLEGE.

]. U. NEWMAN. chairman of the ia
Guilty: During the past ten years the
endowment fund has been increased $685.
900, four new professorships have been
established. and the attendance has in
creased CT"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
THE EDUCATIONAL CLEARING HOUSE AND
THE TEACHERS MECCA.

THE TEACHERS MECCA.
meeting North
DINA this the annual meeting of the Teachers Assembly
lima
college, university public
MATES sciences
the and the hree RS soldiers in fight
being drill
Assembly of
Carolina Clearing banking houses of
the great metropolis 1t time reckoning when the
leaders take stock make and with fresh books for
Assembly the
where of the past
that they knowledge to
resd;nr hooks 70 d+. i th ~ en 1+i hftor He has
the
ombine that will rd tho 1o;, f auran IN an hour Of con-
of
of (which N1urphey
dreamed
it's
As before
interests of their children From Muphy to Manteo the whole State
is alive school
the In
that
things for
One of the
the active men
and who
problem They spirit saying show how
to make with
us heip you solve the problem which much yours as
ours We ready to work give experience
Danish
S the men who belong to the Southern Educational
the Board
cannot be too highly leaders
VINO are IN with the National Board
educational leading
forwarding
the agencies for which it organized
The Assembly will representative
in Raleigh
"Proca'aation
ure
from such would North Carolina but
today by
of suffrage thirteen six
unless ne learns to- read and this time the appeal will
to effort
fore been
OF the state forgetting those things wherein they
controlled by the1nu in the rural puD schools and III
demanding the
noble educational leading in the only
wise steps fer children the
commonwealth by efforts qualify it wisely
The Teachers Assembly n Edu
Good The that will draw hundreds
the exhilaraing will touch
ing the past courage And
then looking at the field they will make
boy In North Carolina and when ed"ea
ton will of the daugh
tiers OF every illiterate mother in carolina
hope bearing an humble mart in the great work
edition. TEN YEARS EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN NORTH
CAROLINA" is presented today.