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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
ON The ACCREDITED LIST
Mitehell's High School is Given
Place on List North Central
Association of Colleges.

Superintendent Hoff received a let
ter this morning from State Superin-
tendent Kramer which comes in the
nature Of good news for the Mitchell
hi9h.school. 1t is to the effect that
the high school has been placed on
the accredited list Of the North Cen
trail Association of colleges and uni
versities. Mr.. Ramer presented the
credentials Of the Mitchell school to
the members Of the association. u
as they conformed with the require
ments of the association this prefer
ence vas given the city. 1t means
that the graduates Of the Mitchell
high school can enter any Of the COL
|leges OF universities belonging to the
North Central Association without
examination, and all it will require
will te the presentation of the mark
|ings from superintendent of the
school.
There are but six towns in the
state which have been placed on this
accredited list. and they are Mitchell,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
watertown, Sioux Falls, Yankton,
Lead and Dea1wood. This recogni-
tion indicates that Mitchell's schools
are in a high state of proficiency
Here's a Girl That Can Hustle.

Aberdeen special: Miss Christine
Fehr arrived from Russia, her ma
tive country, last Thursday morning.
She first went to the office Of the
clerk OF courts, where she declared
her Intention to become a citizen of
the United States, and then secured
a marriage license. She visited the
federal building and filed on a quar-
ter section Of government land in
Campbell county. Later In the day
she was united in marriage to Fred
Giese, a prosperous young farmer, OF
Campbell county. Giese and Miss
Fehr had been sweethearts for years.
and Giese came to America to win a
home for himself and bride. taking a
homestead i'm Campbell county, which
he has just proved up m. lie then
sent for his sweetheart, who proved
herself possessed of the hustling
qualities calculated to make the new
home a success. The bride is about
81 years OF age and very prepossessing
in appearance.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06

be required as the passing point, and
Candidates not making this standard
will be debarred from the regular
pharmaceutical examination which
follows. ana another examination
must be taken at a subsequent meet
ing of the board.
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Announcement

| hereby announce myself a legis-
lative candidate fo- the House, sub
ject to the action of the county re-
publican convention. believing my
service with and long afiliation in
the party will merit favorable con-
sideration. Respectfully,
Fred C. Hoffman.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
CAUCUS LAW SUSTAINED
Judge Marquis Sustained the New
Law on Every Point on Which
It Was Attacked.

Watertown, April Ain the hear
ing held here yesterday to test the
validity of the "honest caucus law
which was attacked by the demo-
cratic state committee ON seventeen
different points, Judge Marquis rem
dered a decision sustaining the law
i'm every particular on which it was
attacked.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
Announcement.

| hereby anounnce myself as a cam
didate for county auditor, subject to
the decision of the republicans Of
Dawson county, and if nominated
and elected will serve the people Of
Dawson county faithfully and give
everybody a square deal.
Respectfully,
II. b. Anderson.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
Candidate for Register of Deeds.

hereby announce myself as \ can
didate for the Office of Register of
Deeds of Dawson County, South,
Dakota, subject to the approval Of
the next republican county conven-
ton. Fred L. Tiffany.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
Announcement.

By r~equest.of friends. I hereby an
nounce my candidacy for the Office Of
Register Of Deeds OF Dawson county,
subject to the republican county
convention. w. B. Tobey.
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JURORS FOR APRIL TERM
Names of the individuals Who Will
Hear the Cases at the April
Term of Court.

Wednesday the proper county
officials drew the names OF the jurors
who are to serve at the regular April
term OF circuit court. as follows:
Abner Cox, X. S. Christensen,
James Grace, Hoyt Cox. Joseph X.
johnson. Jesse Barth. David Loevin-
ger. c. v. Eilert. L. j. Holland.
Frank Sand, III. Il. Anderson, B..
Kane, Martin l.. Larson, Nat Slade,
Call Knappe, Frank Livingston, A.
b. Hager. Z. b. Bollman, II. G.
Nichols. j. p. Nicolaison, w. a.
Davis. III. z. Field, +. w. Cole,
Frank b. Kelsey, Nick SCHNEIDER,
o. III. Kittleson. Charles Donk, Wm.
Nash, Arthur Gardner, G. B. KEEL
sey, o.. j.. Fish, Phil Tobin, Frank
Clark. w. II. Sand, Thomas Grace,
A. @. Streeter, Levi PIERCE, III. c.
Cook. W. II. Herbert.
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Notice.

Parties wanting land west of tie
Missouri river will do we'll to cores
pond with w. NJ Lewis, Stcarns P.
o., Stanley Co.. S. ID. Choice re-
linquisbments. Also do locating.
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Their Attitude on License Question.

Mr.. Geo. Rev, Mitchell. S. ID.
My Dear Sir:-You have asked me
to define my position on the liquor
question. | thought | had made my
self clear, but | have no %hesitancy in
saying further, that if l am elected
mayor of Mitchell and the people
should vote for prohibition my vote
and my voice will be used to enforce
the law accordingly. If, on the
other hand, a majority of the people
vote for licensed saloons, my vote and
influence will be for license. | be-
lleve that the wish of the people, as
expressed at the ballot box, should
lie respected and carried out by pub
lie officials.
Yours respectfully,
w. Z Upton.
Mitchell, April ,, 1906.
10 the Vote1s:-Some of the citi-
zens. who are opposed to my cam
didacy for alderman Of the Second
Ward L hear, are saving / have not
made myself clear on the license
gu stion.
II a majority of the voters Of
Mitchell say they favor licensing sa-
looms, | will vote to grant license and
advocate the enforcement of the
law. Ii a majority Of the people
vote against licensing saloons | Will
advocate the enforcement of that
law. Respectfully,
A. @. Berry.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
Candidate for Representative.

l hereby announce myself a candi-
date for the lower branch OF the
state legislature, subject to the APP
prevail OF the Dawson county repub-
lican convention.
". b. Rowley.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
NEW THINGS 70 GROW.

An annual income of 40 million dol
lars on an original investment of
$4,000 is he surprising record of
the U. S. Department of agriculture,
says Dewey Sheldon Beebe in the
Technical World Magazine.
To the riddle, Why is the depart
ment of agriculture? some scoffers
have been wont to reply, ''just
cause -. They used to ridicule
the agricultural work of the Govern
ment because they said there we're
no tangible results. But the depart
ment, in it's yearbook for 1905, comes
to the front with just cause for its
existence. What business man in
the United States, whether he ia
theirs a trust or runs a corner drug
store, can point to profit like this:
An investment of $4,000 in 1864,
now produces an annual income of
S. 100000, yet his is one of the
records of the much-maligned agri-
cultural department The depart
ment introduced from China and
France in 1864, q comparatively small
amount of sorghum at a cost of
1000 Now considerable part
of the molasses consumed in the
United States comes from this out
lay of $4,000, and the annual value
of the sorghum crop is at least $40,-
100000 But the astonishing DIRK of
the agricultural department does not
stop with sorghum. The branch
of the Departments work which en-
deavors to find new things for the
farmer to grow, and to make the
United States independent of foreign
countries for all of it's cereals, has
been most prolific III tangible re-
suits; and its success in transplant
ing alien grains is phenomenal, and
is financially paying proposition.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
BE STRONG.

Whatever MAJ happen, whatever may
come,
Whether things go right, whether
things go wrong,
There is just one duty; abroad, 1t
home,
1t is told in the order, be brave. he
strong.
The fellow who falters and loses
heart,
The fellow who fears In the thick
of the fight,
And he who behaves with the cow
ards part,
Has never heard this order Alright.
Be strong to suffer, be strong to dare.
Be strong to speak, let your words
ring true;
Be strong the burdens of life to bear,
Be strong to wait, and be strong
to do,
And whether around you be silence
spread,
Or whether anear you be shout
and song,
In the core of your sole let these
words be said,
In the combat of living be brave, %,
strong.
Margaret E. Sangster
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
Il brilliant PORTAGE Girl

the shops Miss Gale was gradu-
ated from the Wisconsin university
in 1895. and during college days ex-
hibited in many ways and on various
occasions marked literary talent She
became a close personal friend of
the late Mrs. Charles Kendall Adams,
herself a woman of fine attainments,
especially in poetry, and was a IA
miliar figure in the presidential
home 1t fell to her part 10 be a
sympathetic guest in the newer Adams
home on the Pacific coast in later
years whsc profound Ill health Ger
whelmed it; and there she was, ten
Derby welcome. when finally death
entered. For time subsequently
Miss Gale was engaged on a Milwau-
kee evening paper, then went TO New
York serving with highest credit in a
Ike sphere in that city. For year
past the old home at Portage has
claimed her presence and from that
restful retreat since have been COM
ing many short stories and poems to
find honored place in the foremost
publications of the country Now Ro
nance Island. a volume of several
hundred pages. appears, the browning
achievement of her literary endeav
ors.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

injured was 8I3; the total number of
shopmen killed was /, and the to.al
number OF shopmen Injured was 43,
the total number of stationmen killed
was l, and the total number OF sta
tionmen injured was As; the total
number of other employees killed was
10, and the total number injured was
4O3; the total number of trespassers
killed on trains was 81, and the total
number injured was 20; the total num-
Der OF trespassers killed on right IL
way was So. and the total number in
jured was 46; the total number Of
persons neither trespassers nor en-
ployes who were killed was s, ami
the total number injured was II; the
total number killed on crossings was
~, and the total number in
jured on crossi3es was 80.
The total number of all classes
of pers ons killed was 211, and the u
tai number injured 1888. An inspec-
ton of the table will show how these
casualties are distributed.
n ACPt SSSuIdllNG Vi lHS OOAuAslAS
siOr was sent to the scene If the
wreck which occurred on the line of
the Wisconsin Central railway south
Of Theresa on February II, 1906 The
breaking of a tire on one Of the drive
wheels of the locomotive threw the
train off the track and over an EN-.
bankment. There were no fatalities
and hut one person seriously injured
among the passengers and crew.
On February II, 1906, a collision
occurred on the Belyidere line of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway south
of Evansville, in which one engineer
and two firemen were killed and
number of other members of the two
train crews seriously injured The
passengers escaped with few slight
injuries A representative of the
commission visited the wreck soon aft
er it occurred and interviewed as
many of the train crews as he could
find. The accident was caused by the
failure of the conductor of a freight
train to wait at GAINESVILLE for the
passenger train from Belvidere, which
he had orders to meet at that point.
The conductor mistook the arrival OF
a train from Chicago for the one he
was waiting for and proceeded south,
colliding with the passenger train
about two miles south of GAINESVILLE
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

into the yard and examined critically
by the pupils and criticised by them,
the different points being brought out
by skillful questioning on the part of
the teacher.
From this place the class went to
livery barn where a splendid black
Percheron stalli, was STABBED for
the day. "A member of the class ha
discovered the horse as he was being
driven in from another town IA miles
away, and following the driver to the
barn had got permission for the class
to examine him. When the livery
barn was reached the driver brought
his stallion out into the street, put h'rl
through is PAGES, helped the teacher
in calling attention to his good points
and the contrast between the draft
type and the roadster type of horses,
and allowed us to take several photo
graphs. 1t was an instructive lesson.
not only for the members of the agri-
cultural class. but for the score or
more of farmers and townsmen who
collected around the livery stable. In
much the same way the local butcher
is an instructor in the high school.
The class studying the beef type of
cattle, or the mutton sheep, or the diff
ferent classes of swine is taken to the
butcher shop and given a demonstra.
ton lesson on cuts and their relative
values, which of the breeds are +.pt
to produce the better cuts, which the
better quality and so on.
Thus this little village high school,
though it pays only 81. 23O year in
salaries and only 1870 for other ex-
penses, has faculty made up OF nu-
merous specialists and an equipment
in illustrative material such as few
technical high schools could afford
And the pupils are being trained in
the elements of failure and success
on all the farms of the neighborhood
in the village shops and in the mar
kets. This is training for culture, f.
breadth of view, and for sympathy
with all that goes to make up the life
of the community.
The writer has also visited a con
solidated rural school In East Ten
nessee and county high school in
northwest Kansas, where similar work
in agriculture is being successfully
carried on. Indiana has numerous
township high schools, in some of
which agriculture is being taught in
small way; likewise Ohio in consoli-
dated schools, and Illinois, Missouri
North Dakota and numerous other
states in occasional schools of differ
ent grades. Wisconin has two very
success sful county high schools of az,
riculture and domestic science, anil
will open another this fall Mime
sofa, Nebraska, Maine, Rhode Island.
Oklahoma and Washington, have state
agricultural high schools.
Alabama has nine agricultural high
schools, one in each congressional dis
trict, and the Georgia legislature has
just provided for an agricultural high
school in each of her congressional
districts, each school to receive about
$4,000 from, the state fertilizer tax.
Both of these states and several
other southern states require agricul-
ture to be taught in all rural schools.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
SQUIRRELS FIX UP FOR WINTER.

Unconscious of the fact that there
is no necessity of their doing so, tic
squirrels brought to the city from
Texas last summer are busy storing
away nuts for the winter, says tue
Saginaw correspondent of the Detrcit
Free Press. The part Of the food
which they do not consume now.
with the fruit OF the oak, forms the
uulA OF the hoard.
Obeying the impulse of inherited
instinct, they deposit the nuts In
shallow holes and cover them ca. g
fully with dirt and leaves. How
these little Texas exiles are to find
their boards when the ground is froz
en- and covered with snow and &c
is Il problem the solution of which.
Will be interesting to watch.
Scores of these Little animals were
brought here from thu Lone sta"
state last summer by the city and pri-
yate citizens, the object being to
make the town homelike and bring
the residents and visitor to the city
nearer to nature.
Homes were provided in parks ana
dooryards and the little strangers
nave made their surroundings ex-
cedingly attractive by their pres
ence. The homes in which they lie
We're constructed by the boys who at
tend the w. r. Burt Manual Trainin :
school. These afford complete shell
ter from the storms of winter as we'll
as summer. In the summer Iii,
boys become interested in their wei
taTe.
Food is provt4ed for the squir 9ff
in liberal measure. There is COZ
siderable speculation as to whether
they will lose, in a few years, by be
ing fed each winter day, their instinc,
to provide themselves with food TO-
the cold months of the year.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
"The Old Blue Bear and the Rabbi,."

"ine Old Blue Bear and the Rabbit"
An unpublished poem by Eugene
Field is rare literary treat for both
old and young. The wonderful sym
PATTY and love for his children
shows strongly in these verses from
the poem published in the Woman's
Home Companion for the first time:
A big blue Bear came I'D one day
And to the Rabbits ma said he:
I've come to take your child AWAY
To roam the fields and woods with
me-"
Then Rabbits mamma said ooh no
You big blue Bear, you shall not
take
My little Rabbit wandering so
Unless you've lots of jelly-cake"
The Bear replied. you need not
fear
To let the Rabbit go with me.
For | have lcJs of goodies here.
AS you yourself can plainly see."
And saying thus, the old blue Bear
Back from his bag the cover threw,
And mamma saw the goodies there
The jelly-cake and candy, too.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
FLATS ANNOYED OLD ROME.
Compliments of People Were About
Same as Heard TODAY,

compliments OF People Were About
Same as Heard To-day.
How an old Roman would sigh il
he should suddenly pop in here and
hear us talk about the apartment
house as product of modern civiliza-
tion,' said the scholarly appearing
man, in the Washington Post.
Get up to date he would probably
say. why, we had apartment
houses as early as 455 B. c., and big
ones, too, some of them sixty and
seventy feet high. Why don't you
think of something new?"
Those apartment houses were call
ed insulae Gslands), and a very ap-
pirate name it was, considering
that they house floating population.
And tic tenants had their torubles,
too, just as they have today.
There was the same hue and cry
then about the height of the buildings
and in the time of Augustus there
was law restricting tae heig1t OF
dwelling houses to seventy feet, but
this law was evaded with all the i'm
pertinence of the twentieth century.
And the tenants had their troubles,
for there were in Rome at the time of
Augustus over 1,500,0 00-which was
crowding the city some-and, OF
course, the natural tendency was to
build up rather than out.
CAS- for sky-scrapers-well, those
old Romans knew something about
them. The pediment of the Temple
of the Sun rose about 260 feet above
the Campus Martius. in which it was
situated. The palace of Septimus
Severus rose to a height of 25 feet
above the arena of the Circus Maxi
mus.
Another thing that would make an
old Roman howl with delight is the
enthusiasm with which we call atten-
ton to the glorious future in store
for concrete We point out that
houses of great excellence are to be
built of it, that roads are to be paved
with it, that it is to enter widely into
manufacturing processes, that it has
properti IS of endurance never before
dreamed of in building material.
An old Roman would probably
shout: The future of concrete? Ny
dear fellow, don't you know that con
crete has glorious past and that it
was the agent that mad Rome an
eternal city? Don't you know that
although the rest of Rome decayed
and crumbed away, its wonderful
concrete structures remain to-day as
substantial as when they were built?
The stories of the destruction of
temple after temple of magnificent
marbles, brilliant mosaics and mas
with: Only the concrete base re-
mains.
Now, the Roman temples were set
on high foundations of this cement,
called podiums The podium con-
sisted of four stone walls, forming q
box, into which concrete was poured
even with the top. These podiums
you will see now in Rome, but no.
thing but ruins remain of the mag
nificent structures which were set on
them"
The scholarly looking man settled
his spectacles little more comfort
ably on his nose.
There is nothing which will so
take the wind out of the sails OF our
boosted up-to-dateness as a little con-
temptation of ancient Rome" he said
as he lodged into his own insulae.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
Better a Worker Than a Striker.

My boy, there are two classes in So
ciety, the class that lifts and the class
that leans. They that lift are the
ones who do the worlds work. The
leaning class are they who depend
upon the exertion Of others and do the
grunting and fault-fnding and com
planning. My boy, be a litter and
you will have little time to fuss about
the failngs of others. It's the fellow
in the lodge that shirks his duty who
makes the most trouble and 1t is the
same in the church and in society in
general Oberlin, Kan. Times.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
The Editor Refuses Office.

postoflice and newspaper ach re-
quire som ebody'S undivided attention.
Men qualified to run either one salts
factorily are hard to hold these days.
Another reason is that when man
has held good Office eight years he
ought to teach himself to be satisfied
and get out and give somebody else
a chance. The third reason is that
a woman whose judgment is pretty
good was dead set against our having
the office any longer. She claims
that it is better to live on less and
have a little more time TO enjoy what
we do have.-Jewel City, Kan, Re
publican. r.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
Y Y Y Man.

There is farmer who is Y Y
Enough to take his E f.
And study nature with his /.
And think of what he c c.
He hears the chatter of the J
AS they each other T T,
And sees that when a tree D X X
1t makes a home for B B.
4 yoke Of oxen he will L L
With many haws and G G,
And their mistakes he will X @ @
When blowing for his p P.
He little buys, but much he sells,
And therefore little o O;
And when he hoes his soil by spells
He also soils his hoes.
Sam Lloyd in Home Companion
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
San Francisco undaunted.

Just to show that it will take some
thing more than an earthquake to
land solar plexus San Francisco in
creased it's internal revenue receipts
for the first two weeks in June s11.-
043 over the receipts for the cores
ponding period last year. That
glorious climate has once more been
cindicated.- News.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
RATE COMMISSION MAKES
FIRST BIENNIAL REPORT
Nearly Forty Complaints Filed Against the
Roads Each Month
Many Issues Adjusted Through Good Of
fees of Commission
New Law Found Good But Some Changes
Are Proposed

number 90 We're disposed of without
a ruling of the commission, in infor-
NAL conference, or by means Of cor
respondenee. The formal complaints,
informal complaints, and other in
formal matters brought officially &c
fore the commission, were distdbut-
ed by months as follows;
Complaints by Months.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
WELL SUPPLIED.

Si1gieton--I suppose your wife has
4 lot Of will power.
Wedderly-Yes; but she has a lot
Of won't power.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

A woman was arrested in New
York for threatening TO kill John D.
Rockefeller unless given $1,000. 900.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

President Spencer of Southern rail
road and six other persons were
killed in a wreck at Lawyers. Va
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

One of the brightest and most
promising of Wisconsin authors is
Miss Zona Gale Of Portage, whose
Romance Island has Just appeared in