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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
THE ELECTRIC MELONS.

IF
to be true one, yet 1t is not an I'M
possible one One who could do all
the work himself would not find it
very expensive.
About the first thing I heard after
moving into Sedgewick was that no
body could raise melons. This wasn't
because Of any popularity Of the soil
or condition Of climate, but because
the young men Of the place had sworn
to raid any melon patch that dared
raise it's head in the confines of their
learn, they had for many seasons
kept their word.
The conditions were brought to my
notice during a conversation had
with a neighboring farmer relative to
preparing my ground for the spring
planting. Having no stock I engaged
him to do my blowing. Among other
things [ mentioned the fact that [
intended to put in half an acre of
melons. He looked at me in astonish-
ment.
"Me1ons," said he, "why young man,
yeW can't raise any melons in this
taown. It's eout NV the question"
Then he told me why. I thought it
over a good deal, and the longer I
worked it over in my mind the strong
er grew my determination to grow
melon patch. I said nothing about it
to anyone except she who shared my
burdens and got my meals. Neighbor
Williams plowed my ground and har-
rowed it, after which Our condolences
ceased. He had two nearly full-grOwn
boys Of his own. could readily un-
derstand why he sought to discourage
me on the question of raising melons.
And neighbOr Williams had been
boy himself not SO very many years
before.
Everything was against me from the
start. I was the product of city life.
TALL thin, white and ailing. Shop
life had nearly run me out. My doc
tor, though 10th to lose a good pa
t1ent, told me that but two or three
years waited me in the city. Life in
the country, he thought, would patch
on several years to my existence. 1t
was the thing had always wanted, so
at the age of twenty-four, with a little
pocket and willing wife by my side,
l entered the town of Sedgewick and
purchased a rundown farm Elec-
tricity had been my profession, but I
was not fortunate enough to be a road
man, my field being in the construc-
ton department Of electrical mach1n-
cry. This was all indoor work and
very confining. I was but two years
out Of school and the two thousand
dollars testified to the excellence Of
my position, as we'll as to my saving
prOpenslt1es.
For years | had been collecting
electrical apparatus. Some of it was
useful while much of it was foolish
and cumbersome Still I brought
everything with me, thinking to enjoy
a rainy day now and then amongst
my paraphernalia. AS an apprentice
in the shop, and later during my
student days, l had rugged up all
sorts Of contrivances such as lights,
burglar alarms, fire alarms and not
a few amusing Electrical tricks" on
my chums. [ possessed some very
large and strong batteries as we'll as
an abundance of wire. All this l
brought along, with many additions
Although | was to become farmer
my heart still lay with the lightning
producers.
In pondering over the melon rails
ing problem it occurred to me that [
could wire the patch and thus set an
alarm, which scheme, when the melons
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
SEEDING COMMENCED IN
WESTERN CANADA.
The Prospects for a Large Acreage to
Be SoWn in Wheat.

ST. Paul, April "a, 1907.-Word has
been received at the office of the
Canadian Government in st. Paul that
seeding has commenced at various
points throughout Manitoba, Saskatch-
evan and Alberta.
The heavy snowfall during the past
winter has left the ground in splendid
shape for successful seeding opera
lions. The fine weather of the past
few days has taken much of the frost
u of the ground and during next
week there will scarcely be a district
in which the seeder is not being oper-
ated. The most optimistic conditions
exist and in all districts the farmers
are busy getting things in shape.
There will be a very large acreage
sown in spring wheat, oats and barley.
At many points throughout the three
provinces the newcomers are busy I'M
loading their stool and effects, work.
ing night and day in order to get On
their farms and become active agen-
cies in the effort to make the year
1907 the banner year in grain produc-
ing in Western Canada. As compared
with districts many hundred miles
further south than this. it will be seen
that Western Canada ranks amongst
the first in the line of seeding opera
lions for the present year. 1t is safe
10 say that farmers WHO get iii their
crop before the Goth or oath of May,
will receive magnificent returns. A
number of those coming in this spring,
who had not their land prepared last
fall, will break up enough land to get
in a crop of oats and barley and prob
ably some fax. This, together with
the vegetables they will plant, will
give them ample God for themselves
and stock during the coming summer
and winter. These early seeding oper-
ations are not confined to II district.
but are spread over a country 900
miles long by 400 miles in width.
The agents of the Canadian Govern
ment, located at different points
throughout the United States, are
busy giving information regarding the
many new districts hat are being
made available for settlers. Low rail-
way rates, information and literature
ere given on application to the agent.
whose name appears in advertisement
elsewhere in this paper.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
WEDDING LONG IN DARK.
Lawyer and Woman Dentist Married
in 1905 Keep 1t Secret.

1t has just come to light that Will
lam f. Button, a prominent lawyer,
mining man, and broker of Lead, and
Miss Jennie Hines, an attractive young
Dentist We're married a year and a
half ago at Omaha. The young couple
have kept their secret remarkably
we'll, and the truth eve was not sus-
pected until a day or two ago when it
was confided to some of the most in
innate friends of the couple.
The reason for the silence was that
Mrs. Dutton was successful in her pro-
fession and was not yet ready to give
it up. 1t was only after Mr.. button
had decided to move to Denver that
the couple made the matter public.
In 1905, Mrs. Dutton, then Miss
Hines, went to Minnesota to visit rel
atives; on her return to Omaha she
by her iance and the mar
rage ceremony was performed in that
city on Sept. %, 1905. Mr.. and Mrs.
Dutton have both been residents of
Lead for a number of years. and are
not only We'll thought OF iii their pro
fcssions, but are highly esteemed So
cially. They will leave next week for
Denver, where they win make their
future home.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
State News of Interest
SCHOOL BOARD TO BE CUT DOWN.
State Superintendent lnterprets New
Law,

H. A. Ustrud, state superintendent
of public instruction, while in Sioux
Falls on business took occasion to
give an outline of the changes which
the last legislature made in the school
laws regarding boards of education,
and thus correct a wrong impression
which appears to have prevailed
throughout the state as tt just what
the changes We're.
That a change was made in the
law was generally known, but it was
thought by many that the change was
in connection with the Galveston plan
Of city government, I'M would not be
operated unless the Galveston plan
was adopted. The state superinten-
dent states that this is an incorrect
impression. He points out that the
schoo board clause was eliminated
from the Galveston plan as adopted by
the legislature, but that an amend
ment to the school laws of the state
provides that after July i next the
membership of boards of education,
like the board in Sioux Falls, which
consists of thirteen members, viii be
reduced to five members, who, instead
of being elected by wards and dis
%tricts, as under the old or present law,
will be elected at large.
Next year, in other words, the en-
tire thirteen members of the board
of education will retire from office,
and in their places will be elected the
Ave members who, under the new law,
will constitute the board. The mem
bers of the present boards of educa-
cation in Sioux Falls and elsewhere
in the state will hold Office until the
third Tuesday in June of next year,
when the boards of five members will
be elected.
1t is further stated by State Super
intendent Ustrud that the changing Of
the date for holding the school board
elections from April to June was for
two purposes. First, 1t was thought
best to separate the school elections,
which are held in April, and, second,
there has been considerable discus
sion and friction on the different
boards regarding which board, the old
or the new, had the right to select
teachers for the ensuing school year.
With the elections held in June. a
number of weeks after the regular
municipal elections, it will develop
upon the old board to C ur the teach
ers for the next school year.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
TO HAVE "eYM" in CHURCH.
M~etnodists Will Build an Up-to-Date
$4,000 Edjfice,

The First Methodist Episcopal con-
gregation of Aberdeen has accepted
plans of architects for a new church to
cost $4,000. Excavation work on the
property secured in the heart of the
best residence portion of the city will
begin on May Is. The church will be
90X110 feet and will have an elevation
to the top of the dome of 100 feet. Its
seating capacity will be 1900 and it
will be equipped in the basement with
a gymnasium furnished with a plunge,
shower and spray baths. 1t will be
built of stone and brick and will be
patterned after the old Spanish mis-
sions of Southern California.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
HEAD OFF "slck" TRAIN.
Aberdeen Fears Milwaukee Extension
EMPLOYEES Have SMALLPOX,

HpGFCGSU FEdTS NiitWdukSG G&lSfSlCn
Employees Have Smallpox.
Smallpox patients arriving from 9TH
er points have caused local cases to
develop until there are now in Aber-
deem and vicinity three. cases, one in
the pesthouse, and four more in Gem
township, just outside of the city. To
add to the troubles of the health Off
GERS, it is reported that a "sick' train
from Mobridge, on the western extern
sion, is headed this way. 1t is believed
that these men, of whom there are
eighty, have smallpox, and an assistant
health inspector has been sent out to
inspect the train and to try to head it
off. The local authorities have made
a demand on the Milwaukee road to
cease making Aberdeen a dumping
ground for sick employees from the
western extension work. If this de-
mand is not obeyed, the authorities as
sert they will stop the bringing of men
here ever if they have to hold up
every train when it arrives and quar-
antine the passengers in the cars.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
PLANS FAIR
State Board Also Chooses superinten.
dents for Departments.

Among items of business transacted
by the state board of agriculture at its
meeting at Huron was the ASSIGNING of
contracts for the erection OF a number
of buildings on the state fair grounds
at Huron.
These buildings include ap agricul-
tural hall, 150Nl50 feet, after the form
of a Greek cross; a woman's building,
4SXS0 feet: two horse barns, 40X120
feet; four swine barns. 26x9o feet, and
two sheds 26N96s feet. The track will
be moved to another part of the
grounds and nearly all of the present
stand, will be changed in position.
Two thousand dollars was a%ppropria-
ted for advertising purposes.
Mrs. P. A. Zelma of Alexandria was
chosen superintendent of the woman's
department; H. G. Warner of Forest
burg, superintendent of horticulture;
w. G. Faulkner of Berkener, superin-
tendent of agriculture, and MIR. Scallin
of Mitchell. superintendent of poultry.
Hugh Smith OF Mitchell will be in
charge of speed events. The appoint
ment of a superintendent for dairy
and apiary departments was left with
the treasurer. The office of treasurer
was filled by the election of j. e. Platt
OF Clarke.
During the session the members
visited the grounds, accompanied by
Prof. Hanson of the state agricultural
college, and a thorough inspection of
buildings was made. Mr.. Hanson will
prepare a map of the grounds at once
and the improvements contemplated
will begin.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
TO CLOSE LAND OFFICE.
Work in Huron District is Nearly at
an End.

Work in Huron District is Nearly at
an End.
The business of the Huron land dis
trict has been about closed up, after
an existence of a quarter of a century
in which a large amount of govern
ment land was disposed Of through
that office. and within a short time it
will be consolidated with the Pierre
district. The report of hat office to
the state auditor shows 313 final
proofs for the last year, of which more
than 200 We're in the southern part of
Hand and Hyde counties, where The
Grow Creek reservation country was
filed upon about two years Ago., and
the last rush of proofs" have gone in.
The others We're scattered over a
large extent of country, only a few in
each of the other counties of the dis
trict. The largest additions to taxa
BILE real estate through final proofs
probably will be shown in the Cham
berlain district with the Pierre district
second,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
MARK OLD SCHOOL SITE.

Plans are now about to be realized
for the erection at the old town of
Bon Homme, situated in Bon Homme
county, of a monument to mark the
site Of the first school building erected
in Dakota Territory. The first school
house erected in either of the Dakotas
was constructed at the old town of
Bon Homme in 1860. The movement
to erect the monument with funds Sc
cured by popular subscription was in
a%ugurated last year by the Pioneers
Association of Bon Homme county.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
NO SUMMER SCHOOL THIS YEAR.
Institution of Sanitary System Blocks
Other Work at VermiIlion.


The university will be unable to
carry out its plans for a summer
school this year. An appropriation was
made by the last legislature for a
complete sanitary system, and to in
stall this in time for the opening of
the fall term the work must begin as
soon as the school closes, June 20.
The improvement affects all of the
four buildings OF the campus, making
their public use during the summer
practically impossible. The annex to
the young ladies' dormitory will also
be completed this summer.
The appointment of DR.. Francis M.
Hamilton of Columbia college, New
York, as professor of the department
of education will relieve somewhat
the work crowded on other members
of the faculty. DR.. Hamilton has had
practical experience in normal schools
and universities.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
NAB ALLEGED sWlNDLER.
Man Is Charged With Borrowing on
Cattle Net Belonging to Him.

Man is Charged With Borrowing on
Cattle Net Belonging to Him.
An allegtd loan secured from a
bank on a mortgage on cattle which, it
is charged, he did not own has result
ed in the arrest by the Aurora county
authorities of John o. Rourke.
Rourke waived his preliminary hear
ing, and will be tried at the next term
of state circuit court in Aurora coun-
ty, next October. 1t is charged that
he went to the Commercial bank at
Plankinton, and upon the representa-
ton that he was financially interest
ed in a herd of cattle owned by Ned
Madden, a we'll known Jerauld county
stockman, secured a loan of $25, Civ
ing as security a mortgage on forty
two head of cattle belonging to Mad
len. The cashitr of the bank, 1T is
alleged. found that Rourke did not
have a cents interest in the Madden
cattle.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
FRIENDS HELP
st. Paul Park Incident.

after drinking coffee for breakfast
I always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in about an hour or so q
weak, nervous arrangement of the
heart and stomach would come over
me with such force l would frequently
have to lie down.
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and digestion so impaired that I
had serious chronic dyspepsia and con-
stipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the w. C. 7. u,
told me she had been greatly bene-
flied by quitting coffee and using
Postum Food Coffee; she was trou-
bled for years with asthma. She said
it was no cross to quit coffee when
She found she could have as delicious
an article as Postum.
Another lady, who had been trou-
Die with chronic dyspepsia for years,
found Immediate relief on ceasing COT
fee and beginning Postum twice a day.
She was wholly cured. Still another
friend told me that Postum Food Cof-
fee was a Godsend to her, her heart
trouble having been relieved after
leaving off coffee and taking Postum.
so many such cases came to my
notice that l concluded coffee was the
cause of my trouble and l quit and
took up Postum. l am more than
pleased to say that my days of trou.
BILE have disappeared. l am well and
happy" There's a Reason" Read
THE Road to Wellville." in pkgs.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
LONDON CLUB LIFE.
The Tendency in Regard to convivlaI.
ty and Gambling.

ty and Gambling.
is ~a.tendency toward a more moderate
c~onviviality, while a chastened effect
is to be observed in regard to gam
bling. Yet clubland has not lost al
together it's old time characteristics,
says a writer in the Fortnightly Re-
view.
There are cakes and ale still, even
if we become virtuous; bohemian
clubs still prosper and greatly Increase
in favor. Some remain true to the
conditions under which they were
created and are still ragged but
%iovial. as %unspoiled as the potatoes in
their Jackets that flank the smoking
chops and foaming f1agons. the buck
rabbits, the cold pork and port wins
that are among their favorite viands.
Others have taken to dress suits
and the entertainment Of persons OF
the incest consideration. We can
never forget one old haunt of royster-
ing character nor the story of the de-
mure country parson who, arriving by
a night train, appeared seeking break
fast and was told by a sleepy waiter
that no suppers were served after 6
a. m.
1t is of the same club that another
story is told of a member who dropped
aG5 note on the floor in the writing
room and hurrying back when he dis
covered his loss found a waiter had
picked it up and restored it. remarking
se~ntentiously: Lucky one of the
members did not see it."
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
NABs ALLEGED "PIeGER."

Deputy United States Marshal Jerry
Carleton has returned to Sioux Falls
from a business trip to Parker, having
in custody Ivan Hargrove of that
place, who was arrested on the
charge of selling Intoxicating liquor at
Parker without having first procured
the necessary government license. He
was taken before d. ]. Conway, United
States commissioner in Sioux Falls,
for his preliminary hearing, which re-
suited in his being bound over for APP
pearance before the next United
States grand jury, which will convene
at Pierre on June IL.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
A FIFTH PIER.
Railway Bridge at Pierre Is Nearly
Half Built.

The bridge company again has COM
pleted the pile bridge out to Pier No.
S at Pierre, and will begin sinking the
caisson on that pier this week. With
that completed the bridge work can go
on without interruption, as the only
other pier to be sunk is the breaker"
above the round pier on which the
draw will swing. The steel now is be-
ing laid on the draw span and when
that is completed the bridge will be
practically half completed, as it
reaches to pier 4, swinging on 8. The
railway company will not use the pres
ent pile bridge. and no trains will be
crossed until after the permanent
bridge is completed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
TO BUILD NEW CHURCHES.
Three Societies Plan Edifices to Cost
Ageregating $4,000.

There is every prospect of three of
the church organizations of Sioux
Falls expanding the aggregate sum OF
about $4,000 10 for new church build.
ings before the close of the present
year. 1t is now an assured fact that
the first congregational and the First
Baptist church organizations this year
will erect new churches costing about
$780, 600 each. If the present plans of
the members of the English Lutheran
church society of Sioux Falls material.
ize, that organization also will erect a
new church building costing about
$50, 600. The church society has just
purchased ground at a cost of $4,000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
KEEPS WHITE FOR C. o. P.

Chairman Cook of the Republican
state central committee gets into the
field early with his choice of color of
official ballots under the primary cleo
ton law, selecting white as the color
of that party. The same color was Sc
lected under the old law two years
ago and will be retained by the new
filing.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
Sets Price on Sugar Beets.

Menomonie, Wis, May Z. = Tie
American Society Of Equity of Dunn
county, including about 700 farmers,
has voted not to contract to raise sug-
ar beets for less than Sc per ton. The
price of sweet corn. wool and other
articles are under consideration.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
STOCKHOLDERS MUST PAY.
Assessment Of 100 Per Cent Is Or.
dered in Bank OF Scotland Case.

Assessment Of TOO Per Cent Is OF
dered in Bank OF Scotland Case.
An assessment of 100 per cent on all
the stockholders of the First National
Bank of Scotland, which closed its
doors early in February, has been or
dered by the controller of the curren.
CIV at Washington. Charles G. King,
who recently was arrested in Chicago
and taken to Sioux Falls and is held
on a serious charge preferred by the
government in connection with the
failure of the bank, was president of
the First National Bank OF Scotland.
The capital stock of the defunct bank
was $4,000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
COLLEGE "DRYs" MEET.
Prohibition Association Holds Session
in Mitchell.

in Mitchell.
The state convention of the I%ntercol-
legiate Prohibition association has
been in session at Mitchell and was
attended by four leading Prohibition
party men, who delivered addresses.
They were Quincy Lee Morrow. chair
mar of the state party, of Bookings;
Rev. Mr.. Andrews of Washington
Springs; II. S. Warner, general secre-
tary, of Chicago, and Daniel S. Polling
of Canton, Ohio. An oratorical con-
test was held in the evening for col
lege students who are members of the
intercollegiate Prohibition association
and was won by Ralph Jewell of the
Dakota Wesleyan university.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
PROBE woMEN's DEATHS.
South Dakota Authorities to lnvesti-
cate Railroad Accident.

Investigation of the deaths of Mrs.
Joseph Wilson and Mrs. f. NJ. Bittrick,
who we're killed while riding on a
handcar near Edgemont, will be made
by the coroner. Mrs. Bittrick was the
wife of a Burlington section foreman,
and she and the other woman started
to go from Marietta, their home, to
Edgemont. on a hand car. When half
way to Edgemont they were overtak-
en- by Freight Train No. As and both
we're killed. Mrs. Wilson is said to
have been deserted by her husband
about two months ago. She had five
children dependent on her.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
HAS LAw-AgIplNe RECORD.

No Suit in Logan Township in Twenty.
Four Years.
The residents of Logan Township,
Hughes county, claim the record OF
any precinct in the state for law-abid-
ing citizenship, stating that for twenty
four years there has not been a law
suit in the township, nor n in which
residents of the township were princi.
pals. They want to know If any other
township of the state can show such 8
record.