The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-29
SNAP SHOTS
A HAPPY New Year to all
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ROBERTS county gets 50, 235. IS of
the state school fund

have the paradoXlcal effect OF warm
ing up Patsy NcNuIty to sescr heat.
Norway went to the Trouble #
electIng a kin. when she migt,t have
had King David, of Roberts county
for the asklnw.
ONEIstriking difference tctweeu ii
hog and certain boxers vito arc fond
OF instituting libel suits, ,s that the
hog know. when he has euetush.
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ONk might almost Lhiuk ti,at the
paragrapner on the Chicago News
who wrote The following M,ght have
had an intimate acquaintance with
some Ut the Roberts cuuuty l"iltical-
Auancier>:
''llow often 1t lihppen> tttAt tne
cream Ut society is made up Of people
who have money, tut are uadble To
remember how they. got u"
YOUNG Mccall comes tack from
Paris with a "volumlnous state. eat
by Judge" Hamilton at Lttc uc
made by HIM of The 1856. 00N gwen
him bv the Mutual to use ia watch
ing legislation. But we have seen
40 statement of the redemption by
the elder Mccall of his promise. to
the committee that if "Judge"
Hamilton did not return and pay to
the Mutual what he wed it toy Dec.
J, he would pay 1t himself
so expressive that it becomes lncor-
porated into the language as an al
lOwabie ldiom. Doe of the most
striking of these is 'maki0g good"
1t has come 10 have not simply
general, but specific meaa,ng. 1t
illustrates the idea OF competition;
it indicates that under intense mod
err methods 1t is only he who sue
ceeds that can. 10 the long ru0, win
recognition. Recommendation, Jes-
tlmonials, requests from emiaent
men, all fall before the stera decree
that you must ''make good. Sue
cess.
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With this issue OF the STANDARD
we print the first of the series of
American Indian calendars. This
will be one of the regular features Of
the paper Tor the year 1906. We are
.smaklng arrangements for other
special features which we think Will
be appreciated by the reading public.
The STANDARD will continue to
print all the news while it is news,
in the future as in the past and bV
giving its readers a newspaper in
every sense of the word, hopes &c
merit and receive the support OF the
people. Ia conclusion, we wish you
all a Happy and Prosperous New
Year
THE fact that the two-hundredtt
anniversary of the birth of Bcnjami,
Franklin is to be celebrated shortl
afforded occasion for a reference II
the annual repor. of Postmaster
General Cnrtelynu to the cOntras
between the postal service at tn
time of Franklin's death and its con
4dition to-day. In 1890 there wer
only IS post offices; now there az
more than $4,000. The receipts i
the tirst mentioned year amounted I
$37,975 and the expenditures I
$32.l4O. Now the recipes amout
to $i52.826. 585 and the expenditure
to 8l67, 399. l69, while the total fore
subject to the orders of the head
the postal service has increased fro
500 at the time Of Franklin's death
about 28O, 900 to-day. franklin.
may be remembered, was for maj
years Deputy Postmaster General
the colonies.
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"T4n South Dakota delegation
the NAptonal congress are feeli1
pretty pod, thank you, over tn,
committaA assignments. Burke is
two eoduittees. Interstate a
foreign commerce and Indian affai
Mr.. Martin ranks ffth on. the co