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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-25

1t isn't half as hard for most people
to find a good dinner as to digest one.
Use Mi-O-na stomach tablets aud never
fear indigestion. SOC; guaranteed by
Anders jacobsen.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-25

After Oct. 1st, this store will close Fridays
at p. M. Open Mondays until 9, Saturdays
until go.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18

PAGES alone without a driver but races
against another horse, Mary Adelaide,
time 2:14 IL, racing a mile heat at
each performance. The following ex-
tract from a letter to the president Of
the air board from an old friend at
Springfield, H., the home Of Joe Jo-
ker, gives something Of his wonderful
feats:
Joe Joker is a perfect beauty. He
PAGES without hopples, niver or sulky
and PAGES a race every time he starts,
always better than 2:25, and has gone
as fast as 2:16 IL. He generally goes
off the first time, but if Mcconnell,
driver of Mary Adelaide; says mo go"
and the bell taps, Joker shows up,
comes back of his own accord and
starts again. When he finishes, no
one has to go out to him, he simply
turns about of his own sweet will and
comes back to the judges stand. He
was the great feature at last years
fair at Springfield, and l think ere
ated more interest than Dan Patch or
any other track entertainment aver
had here"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
WESTERN MEN IN NEW YORK.
Brains Of Mountain and Prairie In Do
mand in the Financial Center.

Ever since the early days, when d.
o. Mills, j.. b. Haggip and James r.
keene "e~migrated" from California to
New York, the metropolis has been
drawing largely on the west and south
for its supply of men who do things"
theodore p. Shonts, both a southerner
and westerner, who has undertaken to
solve New York's great transit prob
lem, is the latest importation in re-
Spouse to the call of the east.
The promptness with which Thos. F.
Ryan, of Virginia, turned the Equit.
able Life Assurance Society over to
its policyholders, who now elect a ma.
jority of its Board Of Directors, and
Invested himself of the control Of the
stock which he bought from Jas. H.
Hyde, and the success of the new
management of the Society under the
direction of President Paul Morton,
have created a demand for the strong
men of the south and west that is
greater than ever before. Under the
Morton management the Equitable has
made a better showing than any other
insurance company in the way Of i'm
proved methods, economies and in
creased returns TO policyholders.
E. II. Gary, head of the greatest cor
poration in the world-the U. S. Steel
Co.-John w. Gates, Henry C. Frick,
Norman 3. Ream, VIM. II. Moore and
Daniel G.. Reid are other westerners
who are among the biggest men in
New York.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
South Dakota a Place Where
Men Make Things Happen


When will the stranger, with mind
all made up to protect his scalp from
hostile Indians, his purse from rob-
bers, and to endure all conceivable
discomforts, cease to stand In open
mouthed surprise and admiration as
he enters for the first time one OF
our pretty South Dakota towns?
He simply can't believe it possible
that civilization, comfort and refine
ment could follow so closely on the
heels Of fresh-turned sod, Indian out
breaks, grasshoppers, drouth and
storm.
He expected energy, push and ambi-
ton, yes; but hardly keen apprecia-
ton of beauty, noble aspirations, and
determination TO have those institu-
lions that make for clean and useful
living and high thinking. Yet here
the institutions are, - libraries,
churches. schools, tasteful homes,
dotting the whole state.
The story of these institutions will
suggest how all have come to be.
Twenty-Five years ago, down in the
southeast corner of the state, on a
hill quite outside of town, reached by
q road bordered with sunfiowers and
ragweed, surrounded by raw prairie,
there rose a beautiful building of
Sioux Falls quartZite. Bleak enough
was the outlook, bare, except for the
grass, the prairie roses, and a double
row Of scrawny cottonwood saplings
back of the building. Here were
were gathered a group of teachers
and pupils. perhaps twenty in all, who
soon united to form a real family as
well as a school. Inside, the key note
has always been, mutual confidence
and Difference with frank comrade-
ship. Outside the effort has been to
make the wilderness conform to the
ideal of beauty and dignity. How
hopefully little trees were set about
the unwatered grounds. How regret
fully did n watch them n by one
grow brown and dead in the summer
sur and the winter frost, though they
were replaced again and again by 9TH
ers even more tenderly watched and
watered. First the box-elders, fine
pioneers among our South Dakota
trees, struck deep root and began to
flourish; then the maple, spruce, &C.
dar, elm and tamarack. To-day the
survivors of that row OF cottonwood
saplings overtop the tall buildings,
and elms and naples Screen the build
ing on all sides from the sun and
wind, concealing, yet revealing the
warm red of the stone, and tempting
the passer-by to sit in their shade on
the smooth green lawn. Wild roses
aa7e given place to their cultivated
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
TALES OF A PHOTOGRAPHER.
Strange Requests Made Of Him by All
Sorts of People.

~Sf'S
Portrait taking is not so monotonous
and undressing a calling as one
would suppose. In the course Of a
Gay a photographer meets with unu-
sual adventures and learns remarkable
stories about people.
Recently a well-known photographer
in a large city was visited by a lady
who asked hi INTO photograph more
than 200 miles. These were addressed
to the lady by a man and were Of a
very ardent nature.
After she had secured pictures she
purchased the plates and smashed
them. 1t is presumed the m was
offered a sum for the return of the
letters, but wished to retain her hold
on the man besides getting the money.
On another occasion a photographer
was summoned by a prominent society
man, who directed him to take a pic
ture of a man. whom he described, as
he was leaving a house. The photog-
rapher concealed himself near the
door and snapped the man. He later
saw the picture IN a as
that of a man who figured in a ia
nous divorce suit.
Sometimes photographers are called
upon to take the pictures of two
friends meeting after a long absence.
Many can tell of taking pictures of
dead pets for broken-hearted house.
women. A photographer recently took
a picture Of a dog laid out in a shroud
in a little coffin.
In London a photographer was called
to the house of a wealthy man, whom
he found dressed in the costume of
King Lear. He posed and ordeerd
several pictures to b esent to friends.
Late rthe photographer learned the
man had committed suicide.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
HONOR FOR FORMER BRAVES.
Yankton Sioux Erect Monument to
Commemorate Treaty.


At Yankton agency last week a mon.
ument of much historic interest was
erected by the Yankton tribe of Da-
kota Sioux, who formerly lived on this
townsite, once the home Of Chief
Struck-by-the-Ree and his chiefs and
braves. The inscription, which tells
the story, is as follows:
ITO commemorate the treaty be.
tween the United States of America
and the Yankton tribe of Sioux, or Da-
kota Indians; concluded at Washing.
ton, ID. c., April 10, 1858; ratified by
the senate Feb. Is, 1859"
Around the base runs the line,
'Ihank-tunwan-Y ankton- Dakota Sioux"
Another face reads, "In memory of the
Yankton chiefs who made the treaty
of 1S4S, Struck-by-the-Ree, Black Bear,
Medicine Cow, White Swan, Pretty
Boy, Featherin-the-Ear Crazy Bull,
Frank Deloria." A third side contains
a list of the delegates who signed the
treaty, while the fourth reads, THE
tribal councillors who kept the peace
and saw that the agreements of the
fifty-year treaty all fulfilled
Then followed another list of names,
many of them familiar to those &C
quainted with early Dakota history.
The monument is a twelve-foot gran
ite shaft, and it was only completed
after many months of pow-wows by
the Indians, who were extremely care
full about the lettering and hunted UP
their history with ~painstaking care to
insure that no mistakes were made.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
Cup for Guardsmen.

The members of Company B, Fourth
regiment, South Dakota National
Guard of Sioux Falls, are to partici-
pate in an interesting contest as the
result of the offering of a valuable
cup by Capt. Seth Bullock, United
States marshal for South Dakota. The
cup has been offered as a prize for the
best drilled enlisted man in the com.
pany. The competitive drill for the
cup will take place during the annual
encampment of the South Dakota
National Guard, which is to take place
IN the near future on the permanent
grounds Of the guard at Watertown.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18

children God has already brought
through life's struggles to glory, in
the hope that through their examples
goodness may seem TO those who shall
be educated within the walls of All
Saints school a thing attractive, prac-
ticable, and near at hand,-the word
saints" being used in it's broadest
sense to include all those who have
the lights of the world in their sew
eral OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES statesmen
like Washington and Mckinley, as
well as saints of old whose names APP
pear on the church calendar.
The school closed its twenty-second
year June II, the commencement ex
ercises being a revelation OF the un-
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
LICENSES NOT GRANTED.

County Board Abides by Legal opin-
ion on Unorganized Towns.
With the opinion of Attorney Gen.
eral Clark before them in regard to
the present state liquor law being In
effect a prohibitory law in towns and
townships of the state where there is
no civil organization, In which a ia
vorable vote for license has been Sc
cured, the commissioners of Lyman
county are Withholding licenses asked
for the new towns In the western part
OF the county where no organizations
have been perfected. In the past the
commissioners of that county have
granted licenses in such places, but
now are ~hesitating, while the thirsty of
those towns are demanding action.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
We Sympathetic Friend.

Friend-Got a cold, | see.
Jinks-Yes, a little one.
you ought to be mighty careful
That cough needs attention"
Think SOP"
at has a regular graveyard sound"
Good gracious!"
awful dangerous time for people
with colds-grip, pneumonia and quick
consumption everywhere"
"Eh?"
Eyes. A friend of mine took a cold,
not half so bad as yours, last week,
and in three days he was dead"
my stars!"
Fact. The doctor said my friend
might have pulled through if he hadn't
worried so much. Take my advice and
try not to think about it,"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18

cousins; rows Of mulberry, lilac and
peony have taken the place Of sun
flower and ragweed. Cement walks
past well kept homes, border the once
weedy road, and replace the unsteady
board walks Of early days.
AS the soil responded to the effort
to make it yield its best, so the people
of the state responded and showed
their appreciation by demanding in
creased accommodation for their
daughters. Two additions have more
than doubled the capacity Of the orig
inal building without marring it's
symmetery. With 1t a gymnasium
and rest house form an attractive
group on the hills crest. And here
gather, during nine months of the
year. q happy family whose chief bust
ness is the education Of body, head
and heart,-the body, by active play
and light gymnastics, for useful
work; the head, by diligent study and
thorough instruction, for high think
ing; the heart, by inspiring services
In the chapel, by precept and example
OF the bishop and teachers, by the
daily interchange Of courtesies and
kindnesses, for right feeling and liv-
ing. The beauty if the school attracts
the eye of the passer-by; its worth as
a school makes it the pride of the
town; its beautiful home life makes
It dear to its many daughters; and
all these together make All Saints
school, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, an
embodiment of the noblest hopes and
purposes Of the people Of South Da-
kota-
The school was named "All Saints"
In a deep sense of how many of His
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
TELL PROSPERITY STORY.
Increase In Bank Stock Shares for Tar
Lists Are Enormous.

Increase In Bank Stock Shares for Tax
Lists Are Enormous.
Some remarkable changes we're
made in the equalization of taxes by
the county commissioners of Brown
county, and the increases, particular
ly in the item classified as shares OF
bank stock, give a startling demon
stration of the growth and prosperity
of this section of the county. Among
the increases made were the follow
ing: First State Bank of Ferney,
LOO per cent; First State Bank OF
Hecla, 1913 per cent; First State Bank
Of Stratford, 100 per cent; Farmers
State Bank Of Frederick, so per cent;
First National Bank of Groton, Sc per
cent. Stock of several banks are
boosted from 20 to 35 per cent In
equalized value.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
A SMALL
Couldn't Understand the Taste Of
His Customers.

Two men were discussing the var.
ious food products now being supplied
In such variety and abundance.
One, a grocer. said, 81 frequently try
a package or so OF any certain article
before offering 1t to my trade, and in
that way sometimes form a different
idea than my customers have.
For instance, I thought I would try
some Postum Food Coffee, to see what
reason there was for such a call for 1t.
At breakfast l didn't like 1t and supper
proved the same, so l naturally con-
from that of the customers who bought
1t right along.
"a day or two after, I waited on a
lady who was buying a Csc package
and told her / couldn't understand how
one could fancy the taste Of Postum.
az know just what is the matter
she said, you put the coffee boiler on
the stove for just fifteen minutes, and
ten minutes OF that time 1t simmered,
and perhaps five minutes II boiled;
now IL you will have 1t left to boil full
fifteen minutes after it men to
boil, you will find a delicious Java-like
beverage, rich in food value Of gluten
and p~hosphates, SO choice that you
will never abandon 1t, particularly
when you see the great gain in health
Well, l took another trial and sure
enough I Joined the Postum army for
good. and life seems worth living since
l have gotten rid OF my old time stom.
ach and kidney troubles" /,
Postum is M sort of medicine, but
pure liquid food. and this, together
with a relief from coffee worked the
change. There's a Reason"
Read The Road to MELVILLE" In
pk9n.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18

usual and admirable results of the art
advantages, as well as the educational
opportunities offered by All Saints.
The students in the commencement
exercises, both in vocal and instru-
mental music, and in elocution, and
the effective, artistic Interpretation
Of literature, were especially notable,
and, in the judgment of competent
critics, unsurpassed by students in the
Eastern schools.
The character Of the teachers may
be judged from the institutions where
they have been prepared, such as the
Universities of Chicago and Minneso-
ia, the Teachers college, Wellesley,
Radcliffe college, Bryn Maw-, Boston
Normal School of Gymnastics. Chi
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
The Building as It Now Appears.
Proceeds Are LARGE,

The income law of the state has
not brought any great surplus into the
treasury for the last fiscal year, the
total amount collected having been
~$2,7sS.73, of which s73O.14 has been
RENTED to the state treasury. The
rest is held by the counties in which
1t was collected for various reasons in
regard to incomplete settlement of es-
tates.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
PLANS HARVEST FESTIVAL.
viii Gather Exhibits for Fair and
Corn Palace.

The people of Pierre have organized
for a harvest festival the LIST Of Sep
TENDER, and intend to use their prod.
ucts gathered for that event in ex
hibiting Stanley county prosperity at
the state fair at Huron, and Gas Belt
exposition at Pierre and at the Corn
palace at Mitchell. They have strong
faith in their part Of the country, and
are willing to back 1t with the proofs.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18

operating In the town, and neither tho
city council nor the county commits
sioners of Stanley county would say
which Of them should withdraw. All
reapplied for licenses, and all were
granted their authority to do business
regardless of the provisions Of chap
ter ia of the Laws of 1907.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
FORCE MARSHAL TO PROBE.

r. A. Craft, the head OF the newly
organized fire marshal department in
the state insurance department, has
completed sending out blanks required
to be sent In by local officers, and
started out on his first work as a
sleuth to look into complaints that
there have been suspicious circum-
stances connected with fres. He will
attempt to find whether the circum-
stances have any actual foundation Of
TACT
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
TO HAVE PACKING PLANT.
Armour to Spend 100000 on Enter
prise at Aberdeen.

Definite announcement has been
made that a large stock yards and
packing plant will be established in
Aberdeen. The enterprise will be
launched before the close of the sum-
mer. 1t is planned to control the
stock trade of an immense territory
and the railroad facilities there was
the determining factor In selecting
Aberdeen. The plant will be built on
a tract of about 200 acres owned by
the Armour interests just outside the
city limits and, it is understood, will
involve an outlay of about $500, 900.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
TO ERECT FAIR BUILDING.
Gas Belt Exposition Company Is Or
ganized.

ganized.
The Gas Belt exposition has been
placed upon a business footing bp the
fling Of articles of incorporation at
Pierre for the Gas Belt Auditorium
company. with a capital of $4,000.
The incorporators are John l.. Lock
hart, John /. Newell and Charles H.
Anderson. The purposes of the cor,
poration are to construct a building
for exposition and convention pur,
poses and to maintain an exposition.
The North-W Western road has given the
exposition company a favorable lease
on a half-block of ground near the
business center of the city, and states
that a one-fare rate will be given to
this city during the time Of the expo.
sition, the third week n September.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
BY Water to Kansas city.

A large gasoline launch will soon
be finished in Belle Fourche, and
when completed p. E. Slater and
brother will go down the Belle
Fourche river to the Missouri river.
thence to Kansas City. 1t is expected
that the trip will take about six
days.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
cago Art Institute. Leipsic Conserva.
tory of Music.
COUNCIL IGNORES LAW.

Grants Four Licenses for Saloons
Though Legal Limits Is Two.
A law without a penalty does not
carry any terrors as a usual thing,
and the n which attempts to limit
the number of saloons in towns of less
than 1000 population is in that class.
1t has been expected that a test case
would be made under the restrictions
of that law, but if the test is brought,
SO far as Fort Pierre is concerned, it
will have to be on the part of the
state. Under the last census that city
showed a population of sos, which
would entitle 1t to two saloons under
the law. Four such places have been
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
PAGES WITHOUT DRIVER AT FAIR
Wonderful Little Horse VIII Be Draw.
inc Gard at State Exposition.

Pacing a mile in better than 2:25,
without topples, driver of sulky, Joe
Joker, liking of harness. horses, is
bound to prove a big attraction at the
state fair in Huron next September,
from the 9th to the 18th. The state
fair management has secured this
wonderful little horse at considerable
expense, believing that he will be a
drawing card. Joe Joker not only
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
GET FUND.
Gas Belt Fair Probably Will Be Held
in September.

in September.
At a meeting Of the board Of trade
at Pierre it was announced that the
city had secured a lease from the
Northwestern railroad for a half
block of ground near the business Sec
ton. and that enough funds were on
Land to assure the Gas Eelt exposi.
ton this fall. An organization of the
stockholders is to be formed as soou
as the articles of incorporation have
been filed, and in the meantime the
members Of the executive committee
OF the board of trade act as temporary
officers of the exposition corporation
to allow the beginning of work, as it
is expected to hold the exposition the
middle of September.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
Peerless.

"Yonder is our peerless young socie
ty leader"
Peerless?
Yes; Tilted by a duke, you know
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18
Forgery L. CHARGED.

Fargo. N. D., July t6.-Roy Lowry
aged twenty-five years. who says his
home is in St Paul. Is under arrest
In Moorhead on the charge Of forgery
of two checks.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-18

II a boy named Algernon lives 1t
down and makes good with the boys
they will ind another name for him.
Cañon City record., 1907-04-04

The city election on Tuesday was
Waterloo for the saloon forces. I'm
PEELED by that confidence and enthusi-
asm which is all but irresistible, the
Reform people routed the enemy,
horse. foot and Dragons. In addition
To electing the mayor. clerk and treas
urer. they swept the Second. Third
and Fourth wards by majorities that
were hardly less surprising to them
selves than to their opponents. Hav-
ing captured everything except two al
dermen in the First ward. whom the
Taxpayers party were able to save out
of the wreckage like brand from the
burning, the anti-license element has
ample cause for rejoicing and jubila-
ton. They demonstrated more en-
phaticaily than ever before that Canon
City is a temperance community. and
that It is opposed to the liquor busi-
ness as a moral and as business
proposition.
Tho Reform ticket was strong one
and. backed as II was by principles
Cañon City record., 1907-04-04

that appealed to the soberer judgment
of the voters OF the city. 1t WAS fore
gone conclusion that II would win.
The party was splendidly organized
and Its triumph is due in some meas
ure, at least, to the skillful manage
ment os the campaign by Its leaders.
Out of total registration OF some
thing more than 1900 voters, 1.943 of
them took part in Tuesdays election.
OF which 1t is safe to say that three
eighths we're women. The largest vote
obtained by any man on the ticket was
given to DR.. T. D. Moore for city treas
urer. who shares with Alderman U. 8.
Okey OF the Second ward, the distinc-
ton OF being reelected by an increased
majority over that given him two years
ago. The vote this year exceeded that
Of 1905 by nearly 500, showing a ma
terlai growth In tho population Of the
town since that time.
Both parties in the late Campaign
we're committed to the proposition of
\ better water supply and to municlpa,
Improvement, and the voting OF the
water bonds cannot be claimed as a
victory by either side. Undet the pro-
visions Of the statutes only those who
paid a property tax last year we're en-