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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-09-30
Public Sale
Clerk.

Having sold my farm | will dispose
of the following personal property
at the farm on Sec. 20-1l1-69 on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 4th 1910
Commencing at 10 O'Clock A. M.
43 HEAD OF HORSES
Consisting l6 heavy brood mares,
a to s years old, all with foal to reg
istered English Shire stallion. 20
head of yearlings, 2 and 8 year olds,
6 sucking colts. l bay pony.
70 HEAD OF CATTLE
Consisting of Is yearlings. Is cows
2 to 6 years old, 13 two year old
steers, 20 spring calves. All high
grade Hereford and Shorthorn stock
Farm Machinery Consisting of
hay bucker, 2 Mccormick mowers,
one ten-ft rake. one bob sleigh,
one corn planter, one SIT disc har-
row, 2 breaking plows, 3 walking
plows. one l4in Emerson gang plow,
one header box, one hav stacker.
one dehornng rack. one end gate
seeder, n spring wagon. one bug
gy. one grind stone, 6 sets harness,
collar and tire setter, hey wagon
nd rack, 400 feet hay rope. cream
separator, barrel churn. Other ar
ticles too numerous to mention.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON.
Terms OF Sale: All Suits 81 SO
and uader cash. On sums over that
amount time will be given to Nov.
/, 1910 by purchaser giving note at
ten per cent interest with approved
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Some chickens, turkeys and ducks.
EAPM ACuIMEPV 2 60,

some chickens, turkeys and ducks.
FARM MACHINERY 7-foot
Deering binder, / l4-in Satley gang
pillow. l eft Deering moving ma
chine, l hay rack, / nearly new hay
loader, | set hay ropes. l pair hay
sings for barn, l pair hobs nearly
new, ! good % c%ultivator, l 26-ft
harrow, l grain tank, / blacksmith
outfit, l stubble walking plow, i
breaking plow, l grind stone, /
Davis cream separator, | set double
britching harness, | set II in har-
ness, 2 saddles, some hay in stack.
and some corn in field. Some
household goods and other articles
too numerous to mention.
MISUNDERSTANDING shop 10
x II shingled roof, cattle shed and
chicken house 16 x "a, corn crib s X
16, hog house, board roof, 16 foot
square, hog house 8 X 10.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Terms of sale--On sums of SO and
under cash. On sums over SIC
time will be given to Oct. / 1910 by
purchaser giving note with approx
ed security at 10 per cent interest.
+. A. PARKHURST,
Geo. Richardson. Clerk. Owner,
Starr q Bloomenshlne Aucts. 43tl
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Wanted- Success Magazine wants

Wanted Success Magazine wants
an energetic and responsible man
or woman in Miller to collect for
renewals and solicit new subscrip-
tons during full or spare time. Ex-
perience unnecessary. Any one can
start among friends and acquaintan-
ces and build no a paying and per-
manent business without capital.
COMPLETE outfit and instructions
free. Address, "Von,' Success
Magazine. Room 103, Success Mag
azine Building, New York City, N.
V
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Closing Out Sale

We will sell at public sale without
reserve or by bidding on section A.
112-70 four miles northwest of Rec
Heights commencing at 10 o'clock a.
m. sharp, the following property on
MONDAY, OCT, a. 1909
81 Horses and Mules Consisting
of the following, 6good brood mares.
Z horses a and 5 yrs old suitable as
heavy drivers or farm horses or
both, Il heavy draft colts mostly
mares, coming l year old. sucking
colt, 3 well mated mare mules, broke.
81 Cattle-Consisting of the fol-
lowing: % Hereford and Durham
steers in excellent condition; weight
from 900 to 1900 lbs; Is Hereford
and Durham steers and heifers COM
ing l yr old: 20 Hereford calves, 20
Hereford cows. young and broke to
milk: 10 fat cows. 5 registered Here
ford cows. 3 registered Here..rd
heifer calves. registered Hereford
buH 3 yrs old. Pedigrees will be
furnished free of charge with the
registered stock.
"a RED SHOAmS
1900 bu oats In bin. 100 blu speltz
in BIN. 100 bu wheat in bin. 80 acres
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Notice to Coal Dealers
d. A. Mccoy

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the County
Auditor of Hand County, at the
Court House in Miller. S. d. on or
before 2 o'clock P. M. on the 9Th,
dav of October 1909. for furnishing
and delivering at the Court House
and Jail 80 or more tons Of hard
coal, stove size,
The County Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Dated at Miller this 9th. day of
September 1909.
CHAS. l. ODLE,
County Aud. of Hand County S. ID.
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Public Sale


will sell at public auction on my
farm NE 4-1l1-69 on
THURSDAY, OCTOBER ID
commencing at 10 o'clock a. m. the
following described property:
Ia HEAD OF HORSES
consisting of ] good brood mare W.T.
1900. l good brood mare W.T. 1900, 2
mares 8 and Ia yrs W.T. 100 each,
three year old mare W.T. 100. / good
brood mare wire cut W.T. 1850. 1
gelding IL yrs old W.T. 1900. / geld
ing ~ yrs old W.T. 1900. l gelding Z
yrs old VT 100. l gelding 3 years
old VT 100, 3 yearling colts. and |
sucking colt.
35 HEAD OF CATTLE
s<sws oac.frcsh this fan, 1two "
old steers. 3 two year old heifers. 2
one year old steers. 8 one year old
heifers. 4 spring calves and / suck
ling calf.
HOGS-6 shoats. 3 brood sows.
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security.
j. b. Burke, Owner.
b. f. Magnes, Auctioneer,
E. F. Waite, ClerK.
security.
Public Sale

The undersigned will sell at pub
lie auction i miles south of Rec
Heights on the former John O'Brien
farm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 1908
Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m the
following described property:
% HEAD OF HORSES
4 colts, A yearlings, 6 brood mares,
2 family horses broke to everything,
l Percheron yearling, VT. 1000 or
over, 2 matched bay horses, 8 yrs
old. W.T. 1900 or more, 2 matched
black horses, 3 and A yrs old VT 1900
/ three yr old black horse, W.T. 400,
2 three year Odds, / a horse and | a
mare, 2 two-year old horses, black
and bay, 2 horses, A and 5 yrs old,
black and bay, ] three yr old bay
filly.
10 HEAD OF CATTL'i
cows and calves. / two-year old
hesfer, stripper, l registered bull
weighing 1900.
Machinery. Three farm wagons,
two of them new with tight beds, |
buggy, ! road wagon, 3 mowers. 2
cultivators, l disc harrow, | drag
harrow, | corn planter, 2 hav rakes,
hay loader. 2 breaking plows, one
a sod pillow, g sets of double work
harness, 2 sets of double driving har-
ness, 2 grind stones, 2 new saddles,
| side saddle. l corn shelter, 40
tons of hay in stack, 65 acres OF hay
in shock.
Household Goods. II gas stove
with oven. | range, ! hard coal heat
er, | Round Oak heater. S bedsteads,
2 husk ticks. 2 dressers, 2 camp
bottom chairs. z kitchen chairs, 2
rockers. kitchen table, | extension
table. long table to use in thresh-
ing, | set of blue dishes, a lot of
white dishes and many other articles
too numerous to mention.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Terms of Sale: All sums Of $40
and under cash. Over that amount
time will be given to Nov. l.. 1910,
by purchaser giving note with APP
,ppHT'5ved security rcsr m 70 or INT
interest.
S. M. Rhodes, Owner
B. F. Magness, Auctneer.
f. ID. Greene, Clerk.
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Boysl Girls! Columbia Bicycle

Boys! Girls! Columbia Bicycle
Free! Greatest offer out. Get
your friends to subscribe to our
magazine and we will make you a
present of a $4,000 Columbia Bicy-
cle-the best made. Ask for par
ticulars, free outfit. and circular
telling How to Start" Address,
The Bicycle Man." 1881 East 22d
Street, New York City, N. Y.
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Hogs Taken Up.

Four head of hogs. two rcd and
two black, two weigh about It's
each and two so lbs. each, at my
place Sec. 17-113-68. Owner can
have same by paying expenses.
41t3* John Rourke.
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Wanted To rent farm for next
season with everything furnished.
or would take charge of farm. Ad-
dress J. d. care of Press. 40t4*
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If you need a loan to complete the
purchase of that adjoining quarter
call on E. F. Waite, at the Hand Co
State Bank.
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NoTCE-All parties owing me
please settle for | wish to get in all
bills by Oct. l 1909. Leave money
at First Nationtal Bank.
40t4* A. HI. Butte.
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If you are looking for a fam loan
call on Craigo-Leyson Co. and talk
the matter over with them.
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For Sale: -l60 acres of hay in
stack.
*42t2 P. Nelson.
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MES
FIVE N PER LINE

nyou have anything to sell. Or II C do
sire TO buy anything. a three or four line
notice In the PRESS will bring results.
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Elegant line of dress shoes at A.
III. Churchill's. stiff
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Horse Taken Up

Color black, left front foot crook
ed, Brand on left cheek II Brand on
left Hip J S Inquire of H. r. Greeves.
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For good things to eat go to A. H.
Churchill's. stiff
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I. O. o.F

I. q. o. r.
Meets every Saturday night in the
Odd below hall. Members are re-
quested to attend. Visitors are
cofdiaiiy invited: ---.
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Finest stock of clothingin Miller at
A. HI hurchilPs. stiff
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Enthusiastically to cut and
stack q / Of hay one mile and a half
from town.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

path he now enjoys?" are soft queery
make.
"Hon. Serene O'Pain, chairman OF
committee on Mean Ways. U. s. Con.
gress, have got this high & disaxreeable
job" say Arthur. HE will make q
very nice Marter to Tariff Iced tina.
famous drunk from his present sotted
path to who knows what?'
"One way of curing firm drunks Is 10
beat them quiet with big clubs" say
Nogi.
THAT were Hon. Roosevelt's way ia
cure Tariff & it seemed very manly and
full of bumps. But it are not Serene
O'Pain's way. He are not that kind OF
a reformer. He believe a drunken Tar
if can be cured by kindness. He be-
lieve that punishment do not reform
He believe that Hon. TarifH will never
lead better life if it are permitted to
wander around streets in half starved
condition. 1t should be treated with
sympathy. 1t should be invited into
Congress and made to feel that it are
among friends. 1t should Shake hands
with Hon. Senators so that 1t will know
that it are protected. 1t should be took
around in ottomobile to see Washington
Monument & thus learn lesson of how
high a Tariff can go under favorable
conditions. So gradually it will begin 10
Evening star., 1909-04-25

am; he's what you might really call verg-
ing on the stout. Yet he wouldn't admit
1t for long while. But policemen would
come up to him on the street and tell
him If he didn't disperse he'd be ar
rested for forming a crowd and blocking
traffic. And he'd overhear people who
were walking behind him wondering why
people don't wait until night to move
those bank vaults. So now love to go
up to the drive of a morning and watch
him go bounding by on a profile map of
horse, wearing that panied look which
you see on the face Of a serious man who
learned dancing in twenty easy lessons
by mail, and who's waltzing with lady
that he's just been introduced to and
trying to think up something to say and
keep count of the waltz steps at the same
Evening star., 1909-04-25

py Arthur do not need to look happy
because he are a Christian. He have a
mourning mind, addicted to deceased
funerals, Henry James. death-rates &
other publick calamities. So naturally he
prefer to talk about Hon. Tariff rather
than say something cheerful.
Something must be did to Hon. Tariff
to make him look more fresh" say Arthur
with expression of deep glum.
Hon. Tariff do surely need shade" :"
are smart reply for Nogi
Are not them Statesmen who revise
the Tariff working for the interests of
the People?" / require.
Some OF them is wor'-ing 70 the peo-
Pile Of the interests report Nogi.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

up & bloodshed for any Tariff. I am
suspicious about that Tariff. 1t have
a sly & deceptive nature. Who could he
a hero & get killed for Cause what
have got 1900 separate items in it sub
jeckt to duty on a sliding scale?"
"Perhapsly you would get more fe-
vered about Hon. Tariff II you under
stood him more,'' snuggest Arthur.
"Who understands the TARIFF" bat
out Nogi. do you? Did Hon. Nelson
Dingley? Frequent answer is. No! !!
Then why should Japanese patriot make
tag-game with Death midst shoot shell,
explode & rore of Jo-Uncle Cannon,
storming forts & receiving bullets to
forehead for something 1 do not know
nothing about?''
"Many Matters has been boiled for less
causes than Hon. Tariff rebuKe Arthur
sadly.
"When Marters is being cooked 1t is
their privilege to know what they are
stewed for" are next from Nogi. "But
supposing 1 should become a Marter TO
Tariff, would 1 not get confused to
know which one Of them 1000 items on
a sliding scale I was being warmed up
to save? Or supposedly I should go to
warfare for this and receive shot bullet
to lung. Maybe 1 might pass off with
pleasant smile and happy thought I die
supporting my views on item 1432-k,
revised schedule, relating to customs
duties on German peaches picked in
French brandy That would be a noble
thought to die with, because Peaches
is delicate subjeck and French Brandy
not refuse to die for Item 1432-K. But
supposedly done all this heroism and
Epitaph Man come along to write some
thing nice on my tombstone. Carnage
of battle might be so great he would get
duzzled to know what one cf them 1000
Items I was 1arter for. So he might
look up Revised Tariff Schedule and write
on my grave top:
:" Here Lies Cousin Nogi
Who Fought Fearlessly
And Died Defending Item S744-A (revised
schedule)
Designed to protekt American Hog
Bristles.'
. "When I am dead & gone & my Hon.
Ghost are leading my Hon. Ancestors
and their relatives around to see my
handsome tombstone. would 1t. not be
disgusting surprise to know that l got
immortal by defending American hog
bristles? l ask to know!"
Deep breathing for Arthur Kickaha-
jana.
"Howeverly & at any rate" consume
Arthur, "Hon. Tariff must be reformed
very soonly For years he have been a
prominent drunkard too kind to some
persons, less kind to others. And when
at last Hon. Carnegie come forthly &
say, Reform that Tariff" it are too bad,
because Hon. Tariff, even In his widest
debauch. have always treated Hon. Car
negie like gentleman"
What great American have been ap-
point to lead Hon. Tariff from jaggly
Evening star., 1909-04-25

'If Hon. Tariff are not repaired with
immediate quickness everything must be-
come dire cor-ode Arthur. "Pittsburg
will rise up in bayonets, Idaho will be
Joined by Texas ane this entire kingdom
will be plunged in state of uncivil war"
My soul stand endwise for fear of this
remark
"Why do persons go i, ,.:r?" request
Nogi calmly.
'They - Or sense of Duty" revoke
Arthur Kickahajama lofty.
There are more Duty than sense in
Hon. Tariff" bounce-back Nog. with
Carnegie voice. Therefore, if Hon.
America must go to war about Tariff,
1 shall be somewheres else looking for
job
'.Yet tariff are important a-d it have
arrived I say for Senator Beverage ex-
preston. There comes time in the af-
fairs of nations when every great Ques-
tion. no matter how dull, must be set
tied. Are it not sweet &. glorious to die
for shining Cause
Evening star., 1909-04-25

times when he slides down over the man
sard and almost loses his strangle hold
on the flues Of Gray Gables, which Is my
pet name for his horse, you can hear me
gloating all over the place. Once or twice
the cops have threatened to arrest me II
didn't do my gieating moro under my
breath, They said it was soaring the
squirrels out of the park"
"Well, amt your friend taken of any
fesh?" asked the House Detective.
"No, but / think he's taken off con-
siderable skin," said the Hotel Clerk. II
notice that he uses more care in sitting
down than he used to. You don't catch
him hurting himself around in a care
free, abandoned manner when he's back
ing up for landing. He reminds me Of
a black and red hen that we used to own
when I was boy. think she must
have been q combination Of q black
Wyandette and an Irish setter. for she
certainly was 3 great one for families.
The way she used to settle herself on
batch Of hopefully inclined eggs about
three days before the happy date was
very much like the way this friend Of
mine takes q seat since he turned eques-
trian. He's quit calling on one Of his
friends who hasn't any chairs in his par
lor except those hard finished mission
kind, without cushions. He certainly Is
the mattress kid. And he seems some-
how to have lost most of the love he once
had for mans noblest dumb friend.
"Meanin' the hoss?" said the House
Detective.
Certainly" said the Hotel Clerk.
when a horse gets scared at q scrap of
paper and runs eight miles across coun-
try and lands In the front window Of an
all-n.ght drug store 1t seems to me he $
about the dad blamedest, dumbest friend
we've got in the whole animal kingdom.
dumber than a caterpillar and twice as
dumb as q guinea pig. But this friend Of
mine sticks to it. because he has an idea
that he's reducing. He alternates be-
tween the stable and the bride path,
the armchair with the eiderdown pillow
in the seat and the scales where he
weighs himself. The only trouble with
him seems to be that riding gives him
such an appetite that he eats twice as
much az he formerly did and he's putting
on layers from the inside faster than he
can wear 'em OF on a saddle from the
outside.
$50 I've decided, Larry. that the horse
back thing is not for dearie me. ] can
Evening star., 1909-04-25

PoETICKAL CONVERSATION WITH
THE ANGEL OF FARMING ABOUT
THE TARIFF.
One sweetish Symmetry afternoon,
Near Village Of Mahoosicka Falls. Ore
gon,
While taking health walk
For lonesome company.
/ seen something
Very slightly.
l seen Angel
Perching up upon fence post
Picking q goldy harp
With q corn straw.
And with immediate auickness l recog-
nise 1t was
The Angel of Farming.
"Teli me to know,
Q Angel of Farming"
I say with song,
What make sky so blue,
Zefir SO sweet blow,
Perfumery from fields.
Bibbling brook,
Salad-colored grass eyerywheres
& all Nature.
Looking natural?"
Hon. Ruril Angel
Shake pin feathers from wings
And reply-back,
"Hon. Tariff do It,"
'Tell me to know,
Angel of AgEie Culture,
Evening star., 1909-04-25

'I don't think I'd ever learn to care
deeply for polo, that being a game in
which you encounter almost constant op-
position from somebody on the other side.
about my bearing on horseback that
might initiate against my being selected
as a model for equestrian monuments to
any of our great generals So what's
the use?
"If I ever really feel the need of
banting. I'll bant the same way woman
does. That's nice. comfortable, salts
flying way. It's hard to convince q
woman that she's taking on flesh, but
when you do convince her there's moth
ing to 1t. AS long as the cook, the par
lor maid and the upstairs girl, by their
last pair of corsets she bought, she's
perfectly satisfied that she's not a mite
heavier, even if the strings are drawn
tight enough to play a guitar solo on
and her head has the appearance of just
bursting through. feather tick But
the sad day comes when they can't jam
her in, even with the breathing suspended
and then she realizes that she's fieshen-
ing up bit. just trife, and she goes
on a very strict diet, this way.
"She takes Turkish bath for break
fast, hardtack cracker and q sip Of
mineral water for lunch. and at dinner
she orders everything on the menu ex-
cept the date line and the proprietor's
name. not because she wants that much
Evening star., 1909-04-25

RTHUR KICkAHA
JAM, missionary
boy. make walk-in
to my room yester-
day e!e while me
& Nogi was setting
there by o i ! e d
stove heating our
hands in the kero-
sene & attempting
to look nearly hap
Evening star., 1909-04-25
THE LETTERS OF A JAPANESE SC4OOLBOY

reform itself, yet never quite arrives
there. BY eech New Year he arc persuad-
ed to sign plej by Tariff Temperance
League No more shall cursed Dingley
liquor pass his moustache. High think
ing & low Tariff for him. No more secret
tipples from sugar beets. cowhide. whale
bone. rough lumber. crude hemp. sd
valoriums, soap & oil paintings. United
we stand. protected We fall. Up with the
Republik. down with Rates.
do he immejutly begin new life?" 1
ask It,
''What-say Hon. Shakespeare. great
bookmaker?' Arthur require. "He-say,
Rates crushed to earth shall rise again.
And they do. Hon. Tariff begin New
Year by feeling almost reformed. BY
February he begin to enjoy a relapse
Melancholy for him. BY March he may
be seen by Sneekret Service Agents shyly
stealing into rearwards entrance of Gus
tom House Saloon. And there he meet
considerable colledge friends doing the
same. Songs followed by something more.
SooHly Hon. Tariff feel very protective,
lose memory & go sleep standing up-he
are back among the Boys"
ut would be great surprise to America
il Hon. Serene oPain axually did re-
form the Tariff commute Cousin Nogi.
ut would be great surprise to Hon
Serene OPain," are brite answer for
japanese Schoolboy.
So Nogi & Arthur dep4rt-off for soda
water drunk and leave me satting by bed
sted for lonesome company to paint fol-
never see, thank you, If possible to avoid
it:
Evening star., 1909-04-25

it on to keep your stoma ch from shown
it off agin," said the candid House De-
tective. IVY don't you try horseback
ridin'?''
Don't tempt me- said the Hotel
Clerk, pray don't tempt me. Just when
a man reaches the size where he fills a
hanson cab comfortably, if they leave
the door open, he quits riding in one
and hires a horse. You can see them
any morning on the bride path--agonized
male parties that go bobbing up and
down mile after mile. vainly imagining
that they're really riding English style,
which, take it, was invented by a
nervous man who hated the thought of
staying long in one place. And the rest
of the day the victim is as stiff as a hat
rack and sore as mashed thuIab. He
Evening star., 1909-04-25
By Irwin S. Cobb.

~ NE Seltlll LOU
fat - said the
House Detective,
critically. "You
oughter exercise"
II am not get
ting fat said the
Hotel Clerk of the
st. r e TX ! 9 . q,
warmly, land I
positively refuse