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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-07-01
Successful Year.

With the presidents reception at
East hall closed one of the most sue
cessful years in the history of the Uni
versity of South Dakota. By far the
largest number of degrees ever con-
ferred by the university were given
this year. There were t~wenty-one
graduates from the college Of arts and
sciences and twelve from the college OF
law.
Military training was not given last
year, but an officer Will come next fall
to reorganize the cadits, and there
after it is expected that this depart
ment. will be maintained
This year a summer session will be
held 81 the university, and all instrnc-
tors will remain for six weeks, the ges-
sion to begin June 90 The Glavacoun-
sty institute is to be heldin connection
with the summer school, taking up the
first two weeks.
Townsites
At q meeting OF the state lands
board, it was decidedto offer six differ
snt tracts in Gregory county for sale
for townsite purposes, The tracts Sc
lected are northwest of section 2s.s
township 96, range 70, all Of section
rs, township 90, range II, northeastern
section 10, township 96, range n; all Of
section iestownship 81, range ~; all Of
section 36, township SO, range rs;
northeast o. section I6, township 90,
range 70. These are strung across the
country from Bonesteei to near the
the north line, and may be desirable
for TOWNSHIP purposes. Commissioner
Bach will send out notices advertising
them In Il few days.
The Newtown bee., 1904-08-19
IN MASONIC CIRCLES.
RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF SOM
 FRS D. CROFFUTT.

At the stated communication of Hiram lodge, No. IS, A. F. & A. M., held Wednesday evening, August IF, 1904, the following resolutions were adopted:
 WHEREAS the Supreme Grand Mas ter in His Infinite Wisdom has seen it to remove suddenly our worthy Brother, SOmerS D. CrOffutt, thereby severing another link in the fraternal claim which binds us together, and fOrc1bly reminding us that in the midst Of life we are in death. There fore be it
 RESOLVED, That in the death of Brother CrOffutt the lodge loses 8 worthy brother, an efficient worker, and the family d loving husband and kind father.
 RESOLVED, That while we deeply, sincerely and affectionately sympa- th1ze with them in their affective be- reavement, we would commend them all to the care of Him who doeth all things we'll.
 RESOLVED, That as a taken of re- spect our altar and jewels be draped in mourning for the space of 30 days.
 RESOLVED, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased brother, and placed on the records of the lodge. and furnished for publication in THE NEwTOwN BEE.
 JOHN l.. SANFORD,
 OTIs O. WRIGHT, ICommittee.
 WILLIAM B. ACKLEY,
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MT and Mrs Henry Mitchell, Mir and Mrs Frank Mitchell, Misses Ethel and Pearl Parsons attended the reunion of the Holbrook family at Fort Trum- bull beach on Saturday. The officers elected for the year were: Andrew Holbrook, president; Herbert Parsons, vice president; Mrs Downs, secretary and treasurer; Miss Mary Holbrook, historian.
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Paul Chapman of Bridgeport was . guest, over Sunday, of MT and Mrs
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all sorts of make-shifts for the habita-

| eeAA 0oA V0 OA A4oAO-OA1kUO 1O1 u0 Ul t1ons Of men, for we are in the gold bearing district of Colorado. AdVen. turOus miners have climbed these cliffs with pick and shovel to prospect fol gold. Some shafts have been opened and abandoned, while others are being 1nduStr1OuSly worked, and tramwayS and endless steel ropes convey the precious metal to the railroad track, 2000 feet below, thence to be trans. ported to the smelters for refining, at Colorado City, 165 miles to the east ward. And so the scared sides of Battle mountain give us our first i'm pression of mountain mining. Weird, wonderful and grand is the scenery through which we have been passing for hours, and when we have travelled 125 miles farther eastward we enter the canyon of the Arkansas, so called from the Arkansas river which rushes through it. The canyon is 10 miles in length. The narrowest and deepest point is called the Royal Gorge, where there is only 30 feet of width for both river bed and track. On either side the perpendicular walls are 2OOO feet high, with here and there pinnacle shooting still higher. In the language of another, "the place is measureless gulf, with solid walls on either side.
 
 care to penetrate the solitudes. The river, sOmber and swift, breaks the awful stiffness with it's roar. Soon the cleft becomes still more narrow, the treeless cliffs higher, the river closer confined, and where an iron bridge, over which we are to pass, hangs sus- pended from the smooth walls, the grandest portion of the canyon is reached" The sun was just going behind the highest mountain peak as we passed through the Royal gorge, the observation car was packed, no one seemed inclined to joke, and mer- riment was out of place,
 so SOLEMN AND AWFUL IN ITS
 GRANDEUR,
 and so utterly unlike anything we had dwarfed and dumb in such places, and the thought will sometimes ascend in- is man, that Thou art mindful of him!'
 Out of the Royal gorge and we are within three hours run of Colorado Springs, which we reached just before sunset. At Pueblo, the last station of much importance before reaching our destination, we parted with goodly company of cultured people who had been our companions on the days memorable trip, one of whom, Monroe Tar, of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, is particularly remembered from the information on mining and land values he was able to give.
 On this wonderful trip through such vast stretches of rock formation, the sides of which were so often of such reQular and snOoth Surfaca we woro glad to note an absence of all adver- tfsing either with paint or hand bills, and were told that a Colorado state law guards against defactng Natures face in such ways. Such a law should be in force in every state. Now and then some ranchman on his own terri tory had made attempts to attract att tention by some unique form of ex- pression. At one place in particular we remember passing a low ranch house, ,in an uninviting gulch, that had painted on the slanting roof in large characters it's name thus
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Miss Edna Lowell is visiting friends for few days at Ellsworth.

Chicken thieves visited Thomas Cavanaugh's hen roost on the Boule- yard. one night last week, and took 40 fowls with them.
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''- X RANCH, '

The crowd called their algebra in use, and we decided that by the expression the owner called the valne of his ranch to be less than nothing. We leave it for the algebra class in our High school to decide whether our solution Of the problem was correct. [E. l.. Johnson.
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A party consisting of Fred B. Wfl- Hams, R. s. Knight and Fl. Lees of Shelton are enjoying camping out on the banks of the Housstonic river. about . mile above the Sandy Hook bridge. -.
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Mrs Flansburgh has rented the house soon to be vacated by Arthur J. Smith.
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Miss Maude Brown enjoyed an ex- cursion to Danbury and Lake Kenosia, Thursday.
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0. W. Marsh of Bridgeport passed Sunday at the home of Prof c. s. Platt
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Mrs F. w. Barnett and son, Edward, of South Glastonbury, have passed a few days with her sister, Miss Ann E. Blackman. Her son, Joseph Barnett, who has been visiting in town, re- turned home with her.
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A SYSTEM OF 1RRIGATINa DITCHEs

l has been established and large crops of grain can be counted on; also peach eS, grapes, pears, apricOtS and smaller 1 fruits. As all Pullman passengers had the first chance on the observation car, we were out early to see the scenic beauty of valley, gOrges, cragS and mountains, that were to be ours to see during the day before us. Forty miles west of Grand Junction we saw on a side cliff near the track perpendicu- jar line of white paint, on one side of which was painted the word "Utah," and on the other side Colorado" We crossed the line and were in Colorado, the Centennial state.
 Ninety miles east of Grand Junction we pass through GlenwOOd Springs and are in the valley of Grand river. For while we run along it's fertile banks until the valley narrowS and high bluffs hem us in on either side, with just room for the river and the track between. We are now in the canyon of the Grand river varied in extent and character, with the distant | the open sky above our heads, save when we are whirled through dark ened mountain tunnel. With the gi- gantic rock-piled structures on either hand, not gray but with glowing colors of vermilion, maroon, green and yellow''-and in all conceivable forms of gracefulness and grandeur. On all sides can be seen by the careful ob- server evidences of fearful volcanic disturbances in ages long gone by. AS we move along and from the observa- and depths, we agree with one who has put this thought in verse:
 ''aod was good to make the mountains. the | valleys and the hills,
 To put the 9 rose upon the cactus, the ripple on my command. I couldn't paint picture of the Canyon of the Grand"
 | The mistake is sometimes made in cOnfounding the Canyon of the Grand, which is in Colorado, with the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river, which is in far off Arizona. We emerge from the Canyon of the Grand to enter the valley of the Eagle river, and as we wind along it's course, the clear snow water flows over the bright colored gravel of it's bed, and quite often we see some disciple of Izaak Walton waiting for some speckled beauty to appear, for it's waters swarm with trout.
 It was m Un1S dayS run we were to see the Mount of the Holy Cross and all eyes were turned to the right of us as we passed the range from which we knew it was to be seen. There are many points of vantage ground from which the symbol can be seen, disap- bearing at times according to the windings of the track, to reappear again later on. Two great and deep depressions, one vertical and one hori- Zontal which cross each other at near ly right angles on the eastern slope of the mountain, become filled in winter with masses of snow that remain in the summer when all around it is melted away, leaving that emblem of faith and hope reminding the traveller of the Cross and Calvary.
 THROUGH A MARROW GORGE WE PASS, walled in on each side with high cliffs. High up on the mountain sides we see
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MT and Mrs Frank c. Johnson of Bridgeport, who are passing some weeks in Monroe, drove to Newtown, Sunday, and called on MT and Mrs E.. L.. Johnson,
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Jerry Troy of Berkshire has been making extensive repain on his barn.
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Mrs John Donovan of Hawleyville spent the day, last Friday, in Water oury, the guest of MB James Donovan.
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John M. Beers lost 30 fowls from his hen roOst, one night last week.
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Travelling HomeWiard.
FROM SALT LAKE CITY TO COLORADO .. SPRINGS, COL.
An Interesting Letter by E. L.
 Johnson.

We left Salt Lake City at 8 p. m., July B. Four years ago Mrs Johnson made the same trip, and was so fasci- hated by the grandeur and beauty of the castellated character of the geological formation as she saw it by moonlight, that we longed for a similar opportunity on this trip, but the almanac failed to have the moon rise. at the de sired time and so we lost all that was grand and beautiful between Salt Lake City and daylight, 29O miles be- yond, at a station called Green River, where we enter what is called the Utah desert, which stretches 100 miles to the eastward.
 The station takes its name from a river of the same name that rises in Wyoming and flowing southwesterly forms one branch of the Colorado river. This Utah desert, so called, can be made fertile by irrigation. Water is being got on this land from the Grand as we'll as from the Green river, and great transformation will be seen in this, now desert waste, within 20 years. The desert stretch left behind and we enter the valley of the Grand river, valley that will never want for water, and at T a. m. we bring up at Grand Junction sta tion, still 375 miles west of Colorado Springs. As we move along, we see
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Mrs I. H. Camp and daughter, Mar. ion, of Waterbury have been spending few days with MT and Mrs M. s. Otis.
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Allison P. Smith and Miss Hazel Fl. Smith enjoyed an excursion to Lake Quassapaug, Middlebury, with dinner at the Wallace house, Saturday.
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POPULAR EXCURSION TO SAVIN
 ROCK.


LAST OF THE SEASON TO THIS RESORT.
 The last excursion of the season to Connecticut's popular summer resort, Savin Rock, is announced by the N. r., N. H. & H. R. R. Co.,, for Wednes- day, August "A. The favorable reports of excursionists on a previous trip have this locality, and that another oppor- tunity is to be offered will be fully ap- preciated. The unusually low rate of 65 cents has been announced for the round trip. Train leaves Newtown at 7.56 a. m.
 John M. Otis of Bridgeport passed Sunday with his parents, MT and Mrs M. s. Otis.
 Dear MT Editor: I enjoy THE BEE every week: Find enclosed check. INV. L: Mitchell, oil City, Pa.
 George Camp of Waterbury passed Sunday at Frank Mitchell's.
 Allison P. Smith and Miss Hazel H. Smith enjoyed an excursion to Lake Quassapaug, Middlebury, with dinner at the Wallace house. Saturday.
 MT and Mrs Frank c. Johnson of Bridgeport, who are passing some weeks in Monroe, drove to Newtown, Sunday, and called on MT and Mrs E. L.. Johnson.
 Miss Maude Brown enjoyed an ex- cursion to Danbury and Lake Kenosia, Thursday.
 0. W. Marsh of Bridgeport passed Sunday at the home of Prof c. s. Platt.
 Mrs Flansburgh has rented the house soon to be vacated by Arthur J. Smith. Mrs F. w. Barnett and son, Edward, of South Glastonbury, have passed a few days with her sister, Miss Ann E. Blackman. Her son, Joseph Barnett, who has been visiting in town, re- turned home with her.
 John M. Beers lost 30 fowls from his hen roOst, one night last week.
 Mrs I. H. Camp and daughter, Mar ion, of Waterbury have been spending few days with MT and Mrs M. s. Otis.
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George Camp of Waterbury passed Sunday at Frank Mitchell's.
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Dear MT Editor: I enjoy THE BEE and welcome same as an ola friend every week. Find enclosed check. w. L: Mitchell, Oil City, Pa.
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John M. Otis of Bridgeport passed
 Sunday with his parents, MT and Mrs M. s. OtiS
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-11-10
Death of Mr.. Edwin Dunn.

Mr.. w. E. Dunn, eldest son OF the
late A. S. Dunn, died at Whltakers
Sunday night November 9th, aged ~
years. Since his fathers death last
winter the son had continued the lum-
Der business at Whltakers. On the
7th of August be was taken with ty-
phoid fever and had suffered long
time. He had recovered sufficiently
to be abe to walk about, but from
some cause took relapse and soon died
The body was brought to Scotland
Neck Monday afternoon and carried
to his mothers residence from which
it was taken and inferred in the Epis-
cop~l cemetery Tuesday morning,
Father Price, OF Raleigh, officiating at
the funeral.
The friends and acquaintance OF the
family sympathize with them in the
double afflictlon of losing husband and
son, father and brother In so short q
time.
The son was said to be succeeding
very we'll in the business left him by
his father, and the blow is peculiarly
heavy upon the mother who In the
death of her oldest son loses her strong
est and best support.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-11-10
Sale of Valuable Tim
Der.

RY virtue OF a decree of the Superior
Court of Halifax county rendered
in the special proceeding therein en-
titled J. III. and D. q. Fenner, exec
utors OF w. E. Fenner, deceased,
vs. NJ. H. Clark and others, we will
sell at public auction for cash, at the
Courthouse in Halifax, on Monday,
the 9Th day of December, 1904, all
the pine, oak, hickory, poplar, ash ana
other kinds of timber standing and
growing on the two tracts OF land own
ed by w. E. Fenner, deceased, at the
time of his death, one being known rs
the "John II. Fenner Tract" situated
near the town of Halifax, bounded by
Roanoke river, Quankie creek, the
lands of H. B. Furguson, J. Z. Flem-
ing, John T. Gregory, and others, and
containing about 1850 acres, more or
less. The other being known as the
"Clanton Tract" bounded by Roanoke
river, the lands of II. l.. ard M. w.
Thlery, Mrs. Mary S. Moore and others,
and containing about 1,25O acres, more
or less.
ALI of said timber will DO sold which
will measure ten inches or more at the
stump, at the time Of cutting, and the
purchaser given twenty-five years in
which to cut and remove the same
with the right to build and maintain
such railroads. bogy tracks and cart
roads as the purchaser may deem
necessary for removing the timber, and
to use such trees and timber from the
Lard as may be needed TO build said
roads. The right will be reserved t
the owners of the land to use such tim
Der and trees rs may be needed fol
plantation purposes, and for their owr
fire wood, but no trees to be cut fol
fire wood that are suitable Tor saw mil
purposes. The trees contained in the
groves around the dwelling on eact
tract will be excepted from the sale also
Any person desiring to inspect sale
timber will be shown over the same BY
the undersigned, or by M. 81. Clark
at any time before the sale.
| J. III. FEENER,
D. G. FENNER,
Executors of WE. FenpeT, decd
J e L.Travis,Attorney.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-11-10
Edwards & Co.'s
S P E c. I A L
CUT PRICES.

WIRE FENCE-for farms and pas
lures. The best made.
HARNESS, SADDLES AND BRI-
DLES.-Will sell you $40 90 Har-
ness for 100; SIS 90 for $1,000, and
a 500. so for $500
DRESS GOODS AND DROP
SKIRTS-A handsome line and spe-
cial prices this week.
CLOTHING.-For 10 days We are
Offering special inducements on Live
right High Grade Clothing.
SOMETHING SPECIALLY NICE
in Suits and Overcoats for men and
boys.
SHOES.-Remember we carry the
best Shoes to be had. For men the
Stetson $5CO and Sc 90. The Com
fort 50 so and $500. The Jas. Means
50 so and $500. For ladies the Reed
$500 to $3.50. Randa!-Adams 81 81
and - 60. Fer children the Lenox
Shoe. These Shoes are all high grade
and every pair guaranteed.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-11-10
They Kill Deer and Turkeys.

Some days ago Mr.. Montgomery
Shields, OF Enfield, went over to Hal
flax to join some friends in a hunt.
They hunted day in Halifax where
Mr.. E. Fleming killed fne doc and
Mr.. J. III. Fenner, Jr., killed turkey.
The next day they hunted in North
ampton county where Mr.. Montgomery
Shields killed buck which weighed
PAP pounds gross and 40 pounds to the
quarter after he was dressed.
Some hunters have had good success
near Scotland Neck recently.
Last week Rev.R.T.Vann and MIR. ].
II. Lewis went out on Roanoke river
and;killed several turkeys. There may
have been other successful days but
they have not been mentioned to us.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-11-10
Baptist Church Dedicated.

A Baptist Church Dedicated.
Last Sunday number of persons went
from Scotland Neck to Speed to be
present and participate in the dedica-
ton of new Baptist church there.
A large congregation gathered and at
IL O'Clock the dedicatory services were
held. Rev. G. T. Lumpkln preached
the dedicatory sermon and Rev. J. K.
Henderson offered the dedicatory pray
er.
The church is gem of neatness in
Its plan and workmanship and has
been built under the direction and SUI
pervision of Rev. G. l.. Merrill who
has lived at Hobgood until recently,
when he moved to Rocky Mount, and
Mr.. A. J. Parker who lives at Speed.
The building was completed before
the day appointed for its dedication.
After itihad been dedicated collection
was taken amounting to SIG for paint
ing the church, and the ladies of the
Scotland Neck Baptist church agreed
to carpet the rostrum aud the ladies of
Tarboro Baptist church agreed to car
pet the aisle.
A number of people were there from
Tarboro, and from other places and at
l O'Clock fine dinner was spread on q
long table outside and all we're invited
to partake. The dinner had been pre-
pared by the good housekeepers of the
community and in their preparation
they left out nothing that was needful
to make the dinner complete.
After the dinner was over the peo-
pie reassembled and there were other
exercises in which the Sunday-school
work was emphasized and the work Of
the Baptist orph anage at Townsville.
1t was pleasant day and the peo-
pie of Speed and community are to be
congratulated on the nice church they
have and the favorable circumstances
In which they begin their work.
Rev G. L. Merrill who has pushed
the work to completion announced that
Rev. J. K. Henderson would take
charge of the church and fill regular
appointments, and Mr.. A. ]. Parker
formally presented the keys to Mr..
Henderson as token of completion OF
the building and the control which he
was to assume over the work.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-11-10
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Coming, Going and Where abouts
Of Our People and Other Folks.

of Our People and Other Folks.
Mr.. 0. K. Taylor has been on visit
to his father at Whitakers.
Mr.. w. L. L. Hall came up from
Greenvllle some days ago.
Mess. Charlie Speed and Otis Bracy,
of Rocky Mount, were here some days
ago.
Mr.. ]. K. Bolton, of Portsmouth,
was here last week on a visit to his
friends.
DIR. Il. NJ. johnson went to the west
ern part of the county Tuesday on bus
mess.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Andrews
were here last week. Their many
friends were glad to see them.
DR.. G. A. Whitehead, of Tarboro,
was here short while Monday shak-
ing hands with his friends.
Mr.. w. B. White, of Washington, N
c., has been in this community some
time visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. J. A. Vance, Of Salem, N. c.,
came down some days ago, called by
the illness and death of her aunt, Mrs.
Whitehead.
Rev. R. T. Vann, president of the
Baptist University tor Women In Raj
eigh, preached in the Baptist church
here last Sunday morning to the de-
light of his audience. He returned
home Monday.
Mr.. B. H. Hale, of Halifax, who has
been merchandising in Halifax for a
number OF years will return to the road
AS "knight Of the grip" and will
travel for the large clothing house OF
w. III. Lauchheimer, of Baltimore. Mr..
Hale some years ago was we'll known
travelling man and his old customers
will gladly greet him again.