Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-03-09

'PoAg 'nic0 PiodshilU uayS IN GGl-
tysburg commencing with last
Saturday night. Naturally, we
spent the Sunday-most of tat
church, and were much pleased
with the evidences OF growth and
prosperity which we saw. There
was a good attendance at the
morning services. This was fol-
lowed by Sunday School, with a
membership of about so. In the
afternoon the Junior branch of the
Epworth League met. There
happened to be some business on
hand this time, which was trans
acted under the direction of Miss
Leone Ellis, u young lady well
known in Forest City, who is pres
ident of the league. The business
was to organize a temperance
department under the name of the
White Shield League. This was
constituted by the election of a
president, vice-president. secreta-
ny and treasurer. and the appoint
ment of Mrs. =. Wall as conduct
ress. This work is also an index
to the growth Of a church. and
with this we mean spiritually.
The Junior League has a member
ship of "a, and the Senior League
a membership of 50. 1t has al
ways seemed to us that Gettys-
burg had an earnest band OF
workers among its young people.
which heretofore, however, has
been shown mostly in it's Sunday
Schools. 1T is under the ministra-
tons OF the present pastor, Rev.
j. +. Norton, and wife, that the
League is making q raeid and
steady advance.
between charity "fOr sweet
charity's sake" and trying to keep
a crazy mar in Jail, Gettysburg
has been having what might be
called a week of excitement
I'VE would say agitation, but Get
tysburg seldom does things by
halves.) And the charity" shows
the appreciation of the town for
one of its former citizens, who pre-
coded the present pastor in the
pulpit of the M. E. church. Our
readers will remember our an
nouncement last week of the en-.
tertainment to be given for the
benefit of Rev. w. P. Arnold.
The writer had the pleasure of at
tending it and adding his mite to
the $13O that the proceeds amount
ed to. OF this, we are informed
81 came from Lebanon. and the
net proceeds were 1927, which was
to be sent by telegraph. At the
time of Brother Arnold's depart
ture from Gettysburg, on account
failing health, another citizen, Mr.
Dodd, collected and presented to
him the splendid sum Of $1OO.
"Crazy man" did we say? Well.
he has hardly become a citizen of
the burg, or county, as yet-and
we Judge Gettysburg is nearly if
not quite unanimous in not want
ing him to. He came in about two
weeks ago with Teddy Roosevelt's
"wave of prosperity" (some other
emigrants.) The town makes two
or three charges against this crazy
man as a reason that they won't
have him, viz: that he has broken
out of their Jail twice, tried to
break in the doors of its
/ private citizens and fired off
revOlvers on her streets in
the dead of night. The older set
tied states are building reformato-
ries and insane asylums or enlarg-
ing them n after another. So
the old question comes up, What
makes a man crazy? We say il
is the WHISKEY traffic! A large
n proportion of those who continue
n to drink whiskey and the othe1
viands of high license saloons eli.
Their become drunken sots. crazy OF
insane; and another large proper.
\ ton of such WHISKEY drinkers
are the direct cause of innocen,
women and children becoming in.
sane. GETTYsBURG doesn't seem
to want to do anything to hurt thi.
"crazy" friend Of hers, SO she viii
either have him committed to al
insane asylum or presented with ,
railroad pass taking him to Illinoi.
I-"AND THE COUNTY PAYS
FREIGHT"
= Representative j. Il. Hughes re
= turned from Pierre Saturday nigh
{ and gives q good account of tn,
reCOrd If tho lnUislofnro Th,