The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-10
The STANDARD for job printing in
thoroughly down .to-now stvle.

There Is dearth of hen fruit IN
the city at present. The little brown
hen seems to be on a strike on &C
count OF the cold weather Eggless
cakes are the rule with the house
Keepers.
But take me out where the Aut.
umn skies bend over Summer as she
dies, where restless birds begin to
flock and the ripened corn is IN the
shock, where the gentle quail pipe.
to her mate, and the crows and
blackbirds congregate. l would 90
where the hazlenuts are dropping to
the ground where the frlsl.y squirrels
and chlpmunks play, or are storing
their winters food away; where the
big red apples swing in the breeze
and the frost has touched the per
slmmon trees. O take me out where
the pumpkins grow, away from the
town and its hollow show, away from
the haunts of selfish men and the
faint OF moneychanger's den. Away
to the country | long to flv and tickle
my Stats With pumpkin ple!.-Bliss.
Carl Elsen is earnestly searching
for the unregenerate son-of-a-gun
who played it low down on him in the
shape OF practical joke over the tele-
phone the other night and II he finds
the fellow who did 1T, it's safe bet
that the aforesaid practical Joker Will
have TO sidestep SO lively to keep out
of reach of the toe OF Carl's boot that
people Will wonder where he IS going
in such hurry. 1t seems that the
other night somebody telephoned
Carl that the Boxers were going to
have a big blowout at the court
house and told MIN to send up tour
barrels of beer and deliver them that
evening at the court house, and TO
call on a. III. lngersoll for his pay
for same when the shades of night
had fallen. Carl thought 1T a pretty
bIg order-l20 gallons but knowing
the capacity of some of the boxers for
the foamlng, frothy Budweiser, he
concluded 1T must be all right or
Judge lngersoll, a noted temperance
reformer, wouldn't o k. it, but when
he wen6 ub to Ingersoll to pull his
pay for the same, the judge denied
all knowledge of the transaction and
told Carl to go hence, he wouldn't
pay for any booze. Then Carr awoke
to the fact that he had been buncued
Tom Peever, with his customary
hustling ability secured IA special
train for the opening of tho Bentley
Grand Opera House at Mi!bank and
a large number took advantage of 1T
and went down to see the handso.. e
new Thesplan temple of which ILL.,
bank is Justly proud. Among those
who went down we noticed Howard
Babcock and wife, j. p. Croal and
wife, G. G. Knappen and wife. Thos
Peever and wife, A. a. Peterson aud
wife, l.. Q. Emerson and wife, Mrs
II. s Norris, Mrs, Geo. Grant, Mrs.
q. j. Turner. Will swaziland and
lady, Mack W.. Husban, Ed Laing,
Tom Ki1man, Ralph Tower and
many others. After several speeches
| by local celebrities, the historic play
Of Damon and Pythias was produced
, by the Sanford Dodge Co. This play,
as the late lamented Bill Nye would
say, was supposed to have originated
about $50 years b. z. +, during the
relsu OF one Dionysus the 1st and he
y was the wlckedest man in all Syr-
: acuse. He was what was known az
$ Boxer IN those days, and was espe
( cially odious and overbearing towards
, the party who at that time did not
! have their knees under The politica
I, pie counter. The strenuous times
a portrayed made US think of the cam
e paign IN Roberts county. Damcr
Y and Pythas, who were named for a
: popular secret society, loved each
, other 10 season and out. Their atfec-
o ton for each other was like TIE soft
bloom Oh the nose of South Dakota
legislator. When old Diouysius orders
Damon to be separated from his head
. Pythlas steps in and offers to ''sub'
for him while he goes to say goodbye
to his girl in Albany, and when Just
as PythlaS is about to pay the
penalty of his rashness, Damon come!
down TIE Syracuse toll road on
cayuse plug and gets there just il
time to spring comeback, the
king is touched. relents and the
curtain falls to trembly music.