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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-01-12
Christian CHASER and Adam
Hauck Either Blew Out or
Turned on Gas
BOTH RESIDENTS OF EUREKA
Chaser Was WeIl.to-do Farmer
-Enroute to WoIsey With
Family of his Nephew

Christian CHASER and.Adam Hauck
were found dead Wednesday morning
in their room in the European hotel.
The gas jet was turned on full force.
The window, door and transom were
closed and death must have come
early in the night. Both men had
evidently been dead some time when
found.
CHASER came to Aberdeen Tuesday
eveDing'from Eureka, his home, in com
pany with a nephew and family who
were on their way to their home in
Wolsey, after having visited owe the
Christmas holidays with CHASER. In
Aberdeen they met Hauck, a friend
who also lives near Eureka, and who
was on his way to Redfeld. CHASER
and Hauck arranged for a ROOF to-
gether and retired at rather a late
hour. Hauck may have taken a glass
or so of beer but CHASER was a mar
who never drank. When they retired,
says Mr.. Workman, proprietor of the
hotel, he showed them how to turn of
the gas and how to light it. 1t seems
quite likely therefore, that n of the
two turned off the gas but inadver.
tently turned it on again. Both evil
IDENTIFY fell asleep at once. They had
left a $50 call and when they failed
to repond to the summons at that
hour an Investigation was made and
they we're found.
Relatives in Eureka were at once
notified and the bodies were taken
there Thursday morning for burial.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-01-12
SALE OF SCHOOL N
March 23rd Day Set for Brown
County Sale

The state land board has decided to
offer state lands for sale in several
counties in the state in the spring.
Common school lands will be offered
in Pennington, March 3; M%innehaha,
March -, and Deuel., March Is.
Common school and capitol building
lands will be offered in Hyde, March
10; Hand, March 20; Faux, March 81;
Edmunds, March %, and Mcpherson,
March %.
Common school and endowment
lands will be offered in Brown, March
%; Day, March 81, and in township
125, range SIS, in Marshall, March %.
The lease date for all counties south
of the second standard parallel, incIud-
ing Gregory, will be March Is. and all
other counties where lands will be Of
fered for sale, and in these counties
the leases will be made the day follow
ing the sale, except in Pennington,
where they will be made on March %.
The lease price for lands west Of the
river is from 10 to 15cents in Gregory,
according to location; l0centsin Law
renee, 8 cents in Stanley and Lyman,
and Z cents in all other counties in
that part of the state. East of the
river the price is ST. an acre in Union,
and ranging from that down to cents
an acre in the northern counties of
the state. The term of lease will be
three years in the southern and east
ern counties of the state and five years
for the rest of the state.
In Brown county abouta third, prob
ably, of the school lands will be offer
ed for sale. The remainder is now
leased and cannot be sold unless
the lessons choose to let their leases
run out. This will be done in some
cases so that the present lessons can
bid on the lands when offered. There
are fine quarter sections Of land in
Portage township which belong to
the Aberdeen normal school endow-
ment and they will likely be sold.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-01-12
Scottish Rite Reunion

The annual reunion of the Scottish
Rite bodies of the Masonic lodge will
begin in Aberdeen on Monday, Janu-
AIRY Is. The work will be continued
throughout the week, terminating on
Friday afternoon. Walter G.. Jacobs
has been appointed temporary secre.
tary and all communications or re.
quests for information should be ad.
dressed to him. The ladies of the
Eastern Star will serve luncheon at
noon and at + O'Clock in the evening,
each. day. The music for the occa.
sions will be in charge of Fred J.. Nc.
Arthur.
, 1906-03-21
AMONG THE CHURCHES
NEXT SABBATH DAYS OBSERVANCE
SERVICES AT THE
CHURCHES, ALL OF WHICH
EXTEND A HEARTY WELL
COME TO VISITORS.

HOLLYWOOD M. f. CHURCH
Corner Roberts and Pacific Avenues.
Rev. Stanley n. Clark, Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at 1870.
Sunday-school, go.
Sunday evening service at 7.30
O'Clock, preceded by a song service.
Prayer Meeting Wed. Ev'g, 7.30.
Seats free. All are welcome.
p
ANGLESEA NJ. f. CHURCH
Rev. Stanley N. Clark, Pastor.
Sunday school, 200 p. m.
Preaching by the Pastor, 800.
All are welcome.
, 1906-03-21

ing we'll to do from raising choice pork.
apparently the last thing a woman
would be apt to undertake. But it is
woman's capacity for detail that makes
her successful in enterprises requiring
close attention and careful manipula-
ton.
At Glenview, twenty miles north of
Chicago, a woman, Miss Mabel Bah
cock, conducts Il 100 acre poultry farm.
Ten years ago Miss Babcock was a
clerk in a Chicago wholesale house.
She lived at Kenilworth and had a nat
ural fancy for the hen business. She
began with one coo of chickens in the
back yard of her. home. She gave the
fowls the best of care, and In three
years her enterprise had already grown
till the coops and runs covered nine
acres.
When she took the 100 acre farm she
added the dairy business to the poul-
try scheme, the one fitting admirably
into the other. Her business interests
are now so great that Miss Babcock
has opened a store In Chicago for the
sale of her farm products.
CAROLINE ANDERSON.
, 1906-03-21

it, and l have always regarded it as a
calling for which l was peculiarly fit
ted"
The hard work on the farm connected
with st. Michaels church Is performed
by a man, but Mrs. Yocum manages
the property. She rings the church bell
every Sunday and from April to Nov.
l is required to ring 1t every day at II
Il. m. to notify the nelghboring farmers
at work in the fields of the approach of
the dinner hour. Every Sunday she
and her two daughters are found In the
choir loft. One of the daughters plays
the organ while the mother leads In
the singing. Mrs. Yocum has a voice
of unusual charm. but it is at funerals
that she has demonstrated her greatest
usefulness.
The members Of st. Michael's are
widely scattered, some living ten miles
from the church. Should Il death oe-
cur Mrs. Yocum is Immediately in
formed. On the day of the funeral
she drives early to the home of the
deceased. There the first services are
nelu. MIS-. 1OculH leuuS lue CIVIL "hu
then joins the cortege to the church,
occupying one Of the first carriages.
AT the grave Mrs. Yocum's splendid
voice is again heard.
The Reformed pastor Of st. MichaePs
church lives sixteen miles away and
the Lutheran pastor half that distance.
In case of the deaths Of children the
services Of a minister are not always
considered necessary, and it is then
that Mrs. Yocum conducts the religious
ceremonies at the grave, while the
daughters furnish the music. Mrs. Yo-
cum is never deferred by the weather,
and, no matter how severe the winter
storms, she never fails to make the trip
to a house of death. = Philadelphia
North American.
, 1906-03-21

If a girl learns to raise something for
human food she is tolerably sure of a
living, for man must eat.
The successful honey producer can
get good returns for her labor, and m
of the advantages of her line of work is
that it car be conducted at home by
the country girl in connection with 9th
er trades, as, for instance, housework.
But beekeeping must be conducted care
fully and thoroughly or it will fail.
There must be, to begin, a fairly good
way of getting the product to market.
Then i'll early summer there must be
white clover fields and later a buck
wheat field for the bees to forage in.
The native flowers of the and are no
longer enough for them. Hives must
, 1906-03-21
A UNIQUE RECORD.
Mrs. Emma j. Yocum Has Assisted at
Over Seven Funerals.

Mrs. Emma j. Yocum Has Assisted at
Over Seven Funerals.
To have officiated, either by singing
or conducting the services, at W. 700
funerals Is the probably unique record
held by a Pennsylvania woman. She
is Mrs. Emma j. Yocum, who resides
on the forty acre farm connected with
st. Michael's Union church-Lutheran
and Reformed-in Berks county, fif-
teen miles north of Reading, Pa. Prob
ably the best known person in that sec
ton, Mrs. Yocum is organist, choir lea
der and sexton of the church which Is
used by two congregations. She is a
pleasant faced, cheerful woman, whose
presence Is always comforting in a
house of mourning.
"Taking part in the service at funer-
ais has always seemed natural to me-"
Mrs. Yocum stated recently. 81 helped
my husband, John s. Yocum, an organ
list and cholrmaster, during his lifetime
and after his death 1 followed in his
footsteps. I've become accustomed to
, 1906-03-21
Wednesday, March II, 1000
A LIVING.
Life Is Full of Opportunity For the
Girl of Grit.

Miss Ella w. Frederick, twenty-four
years old. Is one of the up to date ag-
riculturists of Pennsylvania. Her farm
consists of lifty-three acres of fertile
land. She deyotes it largely to pork,
poultry and dairylng. OF chickens,
ducks and geese there are hundreds.
She has sixteen cows and twenty hogs.
Her farm stock includes also several
horses, and no farmer in Pennsylvania
could manage and care for these ami
mails better than Miss Frederick does.
Much of Miss Frederick's income is
derived from her milk route. which she
attends to in person. She rises at half
past 2 in the morning winter and sum-
mer, harnesses her horses to the milk
wagon and starts on her delivery route.
Besides milk, she carries in her wagon
butter, cream and eggs. She has ready
sale at good prices for her wares, which
are excellent. When she starts out on
the dark road with her wagon this
strong and fearless girl farmer always
slips a revolver into a side pocket,
where she can lay her hand on it in an
instant, Everything on her place is of
the best quality. Not long ago she paid
$500 for a pair of bay farm horses.
1t has been proved time and again
that with modern agricultural imple-
ments a oma of grit, common sense
and perseverance car run any kind of
a farm successfully, from a cattle ranch
to a truck patch. The state agricultur-
nj schools have recognized this and adj
NIT pupils on the same terms as
men. That women also know they can
be farmers is shown by the fact that
they are always among the agricultural
college students.
The Massachusetts State Agricultural
college at Amherst has girls in its
courses of horticulture, bee and poultry
keeping, dairying and general agricul-
ture.
, 1906-03-21

be sheltered on the northwest in the
colder parts Of the country. The mid
die south is a favorable region for the
beekeeper. The month of May is the
time to go into the bee business. Books
will give information to the amateur.
The American people eat more eggs
and less beef and pork than they did a
few years ago; consequently there is IN
ever increasing demand for the scien-
tiic hen woman.
, 1906-03-21
Facts About Women Farmers.

If women never had succeeded In ag-
riculture, both general and special,
likewise in stock raising on a large
scale, this would be mere writing to kill
time and fill space. But for a dead
sure fact there is at least one M
in New York state who gets a large an
nual income from her bees. Another
fact is that a girl who is a college grad
uate established herself upon a little
New England farm and is now becom-
, 1906-03-21
Less Next Day Effect.

81 am tempted to drown my troubles
in drink"
1.-THE more sensible way is to stab
them with a bologna"
, 1906-03-21

Pine avenue west of Pacific. Services:
Morning, 11.00 a. M, Sunday school
2.30 p. M, Song service, 7.45 p. m.
Evening, 500 p. IL. Prayer meeting,
Thursday evening, 500. A Hearty
welcome extended to visitors. Sup
ported by voluntary contributions.
Rev. J. w. Riddle, pastor.
wMM
ANGLESEA BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Levanus Myers, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday evening at
7.30.
Sunday school at $50 p. m.
Prayer meetings Wednesday even
ings at 7.30.
ST. SIMEoN's-BY-THE-sEAP PROTESTANT
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Corner Pacific and Maple avenues,
Wildwood, N. j.
Services as follows Holy commun-
ion at 7.30 a. m. Morning service and
sermon at 1870. Evening service and
sermon at 7.30. Sunday school, $50.
Weekday service as announced. Rev.
Samuel Ward, B. d., rector, residence,
121 Maple avenue.
ST. AIMS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
st. AIMS Roman Catholic Church on
the corner of Garfield and Pacific
AYES, Holly Beach, N. J. Mass on
Sundays at 8 o'clock a. m. Sunday
school at 2 o'clock. Rev. Father Ma
roney, Rector.
sss
Corner Pacific and Burke avenue,
Holly Beach.
Services every Sunday preaching by
the pastor, at 1890. Sunday-School at
$50. Preaching by the pastor 1901
Rev. Walter Bennett, acting pastor
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening, at 7.30 o'clock.
PROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Holly Beach ave-, below Leaning,
Holly Beach.
Rev. E. A. Mitchell, pastor in charge.
Service on the Lords Day:
Preaching 1890 am. and 7.30 pm.
Children's Service, 2.30 pm.
=
WILDWOOD LUTHERAN CHURCH
Wildwood Borough Hall.
Rev. w. j. Nelson, pastor in charge.
Evening service 7.3O p. M.
Sunday-school $50.
A cordial invitation extended to all.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23

An old English gentleman, a school.
teacher, who some years ago resided In
one Of the small towns of Ohio, was
an agreeable teller of stories, but
deemed 1t beyond his reputation as a
raconteur to tell one that did not sur
pass any that had preceded 1t. A farm
or, having come to the village, re-,
marked In the presence of his friends
that he had been plowlng all the week
with four horses, breaking up new
ground, and dwelt upon 1t as being a
very big thing.
"Pshaw!" said the old Engllshman.
"That's nothing. have seen In Eng
land fifty yoke of oxen hltched to one
plow,'
The remark seemed to occasion gen
eral surprise.
"And," continued he, "the funniest
part OF the whole thing was that while
The plow was on the top of the hill the
leading yoke of oxen was on top OF
another hill, and the forty-nlne be-
tween the plow and the leaders were
suspended between the two hills. And
there was another matter connected
with II rather strange In the course
Of the day the plowman becoming
rather careless about driving his team,
ran into and split big oak stump.
The plow passed safely through the
split. but before tha-'S2wgan got en-.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23
NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT.

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN, THAT
the Common Council Of the City Of
Astoria has declared It's determination
and intention 10 improve the intersec-
tion or crossing OF Bond street and 9th
street. Said improvement shall be made
by grading said crossing to the estab.
lished grade and outside Of the sidewalk
area TO IL incehs below the established
grade, a construction of sidewalk cor
ners, the sidewalk corners on the east
side to be cement and on the west side
wooden corners. and the street shall be
filed In and macadamized to the depth
OF IL inches with crushed rock when
thoroughly rolled and the portion Of the
crossing occupied by the tracks Of the
Astoria Electric Co.'s street car tract
and one foot on each side Of the rails
thereof shall be macadamized by it at
the same time. In matters of detail
said improvement shall be constructed
according to the plans and specifications
therefor to be prepared by the City
Surveyor as hereinafter provided and
general ordinance No. 1901 and any
matter OF construction and drainage
found necessary to make the improve.
ment safe or substantial shall be done
by the contractor whether specified or
not, without extra charge.
That the costs and expenses Of con-
structiag said Improvement shall be
betrayed by special assessment upon the
lots, lands and premises benefited by the
same which said lots. lands and premises
are included in the special assessment
district including all lots, lands and pre-
misses 50 benefited to-wit; Lots 7 and
s in block IL, lots 5 and in block II,
lots and 2 in block % and lots 8 and 4
in block 2l, all in that part Of the city
OF Astoria laid out and recorded by
John Mcclure and extended by Cyrus
0lney, in Clatsop County, Oregon.
oLoF ANDERSON.
Auditor and Police Judge Of the City
of Astoria.
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DRY FARMING.
Explanation of the Principles Of tins
Campbell System.

Explanation of tho Principles ef tins
Campbell system.
What western people have become
accustomed 10 call the Campbell sys-
TEN OF dry farming" consists simply In
the exercise OF intelligence, care, pa
tience and tlrelcss industry. II differs
In detail from the good farming meth.
ods practiccd and taught al the various
agricultural experiment stations, but
the underlying principles are the same.
These principles are two In number:
First, 10 keep the surface Of the land
under cultivation loose and finely pull
verified. This forms a soil mulch that
permits the rains and melting SHOWS to
pcrcolate readily through to the com.
pacted soil beneath and that at the
same time prevents the moisture stored
In the ground from being brought to
the surface by capillary attraction. TO
be- absorbed by the hot, dry air, Tie
second IL 10 keep the subsoil finely pal
verified and firmly compacted. increas.
Ing It's water holding capacity and its
capillary attraction and placing II In
the best possible physical condition for
tho termination Of seed and the devel-
opment Of plant roots. The dry farm
or thus stores water not In dams and
artificial reservoirs. but right where II
can be reached by the roots Of growing
crops.
Through these principles a rainfall Of
twelve inches can be conserved 90 Of
fcctively that II viii produce bcttor re-
suits than are usually expected Of an
annual precipitation Of twenty-four
!aches In humid America. The discov.
erer and demonstrators Of these prin-
ciples deserves TO rank among the
greatest OF national benefactors. He
hns not merely made .-so blades Of
grass grow where only one grew before.
but he has made II possible to cSycr
with wheat and corn, alfalfa and other
useful crops tens Of thousands OF square
miles OF fertile land on which nothing
but sagebrush. cacti. Kansas sunfow-
ers and bunch grass are now found
John l.. Cowan In Century Magazine.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT
Special Assessment Roll No. 1876, made
for the purpose Of defraying the costs
and expenses Of improving Irving Ave-
nue. from the east line OF Eighteenth
street TO the West line Of Adair's As
toria, has been made by the Board Of
Assessors and filed with the Auditor and
Police Judge and marked and numbered
Special Assessment Roll No. 1866" AMI
that the committee on Streets and Pub
lie Ways Of the Common Council has
been appointed a special committee OF
the Council to sit with the Board OF
Assessors as board Of equalization to
consider review, equalize and correct
said assessment roll and that the 9Th
day Of September, 1906, at the hour Of
2 o'clock p. m, in the Council Chambers
in the City Hall has been fixed as the
time and place Of said meeting Of said
board OF equalization. at which time all
objections TO said roll win be consid-
cred.
OLAF ANDERSON,
Auditor and Police Judge Of the City
of Astoria
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23
The ChanEelesn Moon,

Under existing condltlons-and the
conditions have existed on the surface
OF the moon for perhaps millions Of
years-lt Is physical lmposslbllity
that the face OF the moon should
change one iota. There are neither
outside nor inside influences that can
be brought to bear to make a change
In the contiguratlon of "our silvery sis.
ter world" Her internal fires have
long since died out, and there Is an
utter absence OF both air and water.
Existing under such conditions, It Is
utterly impossible that the face Of the
moon should undergo change or dis.
integration even In the course Of a
hundred million years.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23
NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT
the Common Council OF the City Of
Astoria has declared its determination
and intention to improve Harrison Ave-
nue. from the West line of that part of
of the City of Astoria laid, out and re-
corded by John NJ. Shiyely to the center
line of 10th stret. Said improvement
shall be made by grading said street to
the full width thereof to the estab-
lished grade thereof.
In matters of detail said improvement
shall be constructed according to the
plans and specifications therefor to be
prepared by the City Surveyor as here
matter provided and general ordinance
No. 1901 and any matter of construction
and drainage found necessary to make
the improvement safe or substantial
shall be done by the contractor whether
specified or not, without extra charge,
That the costs and expenses of con-
structing said improvement shall be de-
frayed by special assessment upon the
lots, lands and premises benefited by
the same which said lots, lands and
premises are included in the special as
sessment district including all lots, lands
and premises so benefited to-wit: Lots
s, Q, and s. in block 80, lots
s, 0, 10, IL, IL, Is and IA in
block 81, lots 8, 6 and in block num-
ber sixty-nine (69) lots |, 2, and in
block 92, lots numbered |, 2, 8, 4. 5, 0
and Z, in block 90; and lots |, q 3,
and in block 94 all in the part of
the City Of Astoria laid out and re-
corded by John Mcclure and extended
by Cyrus olney in Clatsop county, State
of Oregon.
OL0F ANDERSON,
Auditor and Police Judge Of the City
of Astoria. s-22-9t.
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Pronunciation,

There Is a story that Tennyson, hear
ing at a dinner party somebody pro
nounclng knowledge with long o
jumped up from the table. rushed al
his fellow guest and shook hands with
him. Among the falthless faithful, her
he exclaimed, and he proceeded to de-
nounce In vehement terms the lnquitoas
mispronunciatlon Of the English Ian
guage. II is remembered that greater
English poet-Byron. to wit-did not
agree WITH him, as couplet In "Don
Juan" shows:
No, no. I'd send him out betimes to col.
lege,
For there It was picked up my own
knowledge
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23

the West line Of Sixth street, has been
made by the Board Of Assessors and
filed with the Auditor and Police Judge
aud marked and numbered Especial As.
sessment Roll No. i27;e and that the
Committee on Streets and Public Ways
Of the Common Council has been APP
pointed special committee 81 the Coun-
oil to alt with the Board of Assessors as
a board Of equalization to consider,
review, equaIize and correct said ass
sessment roll and that the Sth day of
September, 1905, at the hour OF o'clock
p. M, in the Council Chambers in the
City Hall has been fixed as the time ami
place Of said meeting of said board Of
equalization.
OLAF ANDERSON,
Auditor and Police Judge Of the City
Of Astoria
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.LIghtnIng Finishes.

A four inch black disk, marked will
white cross and rotating fifty to sixty
times second, has been used by d
German at night for studying lightning
flashes. Some flashes caused the cross
to appear once, others brought it out
several times, and repeated observa
tlons confirmed the view that the dis,
charge is very variable The duration
of some seemed to be about the one,
thousandth part of a second. Others
were shorter, and some were evidently
not more than thirty-five thousandtE
part Of Il second.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-23

NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.

The B~ard Of Equalization Of Clatsop
County, Oregon, will attend at the Office
Of the County Clerk Of Clstsop County,
Oregon, on Monday, August 27, 1906,
and daily thereafter until and including
Saturday. September /, 1905, to public
ly examine the assessment roll for the
year 1906, and correct all errors In
valuation, description or equalities Of
land, lots or other properties and 10
shall be the duty Of all parties inter-
ested to appear at that time and place
for the purpose Of correcting any errors
that may appear in said assessment
roll.
T. s. CORNELIUS,
Assessor, CIatsop County. Oregon.
Astoria. Oregon, August 0, 1905.
s-5-2st. Cd. & WI