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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06
The Time for Slaughter
snow With Us.
o-o-O-o
Out, the Summer
Goods Must Go.
o-o-o
Quick and Com=
plete Clearance
isthe Order Now

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l2le Fancy Lawns fDr......... ............... &c
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Case Elegant yard wide Bleachei Mus
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Coed Size Bleached Sheets...... ......, .9c
10c Dark Percals for. tss
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Bleached Turkish Bath Towels........... lOc
Lot Fancy Lsces yard .... .................. sIc
l2Ic and 15c Embroideries.... NC
Plain and Fancy Kimona Crepes 1Sc
value 81. .''' Il 1N
Sc Chambric GInghs ms for............. :. =" b4c
l21e Voiles, Plain and Fsncv for ..... II,
Ladies Black Mercerize Lisle Hose 25c
Value, Dalr.-...... ..,.....................- IO'
Bleachfd Pillow Eases. ....................... 9a
45 inch White Wash Ch ffol .....".."", 81,
Fine White Irish Dimity, yard... ......... ia
$1.O0 aides Tailor Made Waists...... e. 79c
White Hemstitched Center Pieces...."". l7c
White Do ted Swis'es for Draperies....... 7se
80 White Bed Spreads Zoe Value.......... bsc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06
ST MARY'S ACADEMY.

Aleveniria's Select Boarding and Day
School flr Girls Primary, Grammar Fnd
High School Courses. Commercial Depart
ment equal to any Business College in wash
iuct4n Sl lidents prepared for Office work IN
seven months; complete Business Course, Two
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strumental Music a speciality. Boys under
welve wears imit,ci to Day school: Cal,
orwriie for catalogue. THE SISTERS OF
THE HOLY CROsS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06
STEAMERS.
POTOMAC Il CHESAPEAKE
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
SCHEDULE in EFFECT JrNE H. 1sO'

SCHEDULE in EFFECT JUNE II, 1909.
Steamers Leave Alexandra
SUNDAY. T ESDAY end THURSDAY
at 8 80 a. m. foi landiDgs from Somsr ct
Beach 10 Vir's, including POseys. Brents
and Upper Mechodcc Creek landings sun
day trip to Nomini Creek landings in adii-
tion TO above -
MONDAY AND "WEDNESDAY =, at S,So g
D. m for landings as far as ~ GEWA len n,
and pARHAM'S POINT, including the Up
per Nachod Creek, WicomieO fiysr land
Jog, an those in NomiUi Creek.
SATURDAY at 8 30 lam. for landings ss far
as NOMINI. including Wicomico river lAnd-
ngs. =,
Thursday as far as Smiths; other days, ,ex-
cept Saturday aud Sunday. ss far as Grinders
Schedule subject to tide and weather and 70
change without notlce.
Cameron Street Wharf.
Call phone 30. Jygu
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06

No other medicine for woman's Ills has any
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A booklet Of ingredients. with numerous
suthorative professional endorsements by the
leading medical authorities Of this country,
will be mailed free TO any one sending name
and address with request for same Addrssa
DR. l. V. Pierce. Buffalo. n. y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06

Tho makers Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-"
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06
EDUCATION.
POTOMAC ACADEMY
NO 2I2N WASHINGTON ST.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.
The forty-frst session will commerce Sep
tember Is. 1909. A full classical and mathe-
msti,al course taught. Also French, German
Spani.h, Bookkeeping and Typewriting.
Catalogues giving full particulars sent upon
app ication
JOHN s. BLACKBURN, Principal. Q
anO 90 a
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For
Sale

Terms-$750 cash. bal
ance payable five years
with interest payable semi
annually This is the cheap
est residential property
ever offered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06

The formula Of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scrlption will bear the most critical examina-
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alcohol. narcotics. harmful. or habit-forming
drugs. and no agent enters into it that is NOT
highly recommended by the most advanced
and leading medical teachers and author
tiles OF their several schools Of practico
These authorities recommend the ingredents
OK DT PieTco's FavorIte PTescription for the
cure OF exactly the same ailments for WHICH
Ibis world-fsmed medicine Is advised:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-06
ESTABLISHED 1859.
BURKE & HERBERT
Bankers.

Modernly equipped for banking in its Vari
ous brsncses. s;.L,
Collections made on all points. -.
High-grade investment securities Ooush'
M Letters tiers of Credit ard Foreign Exchange
furnished.
safe Deposit Boxes for rent, :.
A Savings Department in which interest Is
allowed on deposits,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
REE HEIGHTS

Miss Emma Puffer is assisting in
the ice cream room at the post office
building.
Robt. Wareing and wife are spend
ing the week at Fred Sieman's.
Will Speirs and family started last
Friday for weeks outing at Lake
Byron.
ID. d. Whltcomb and daughter,
Eva, and Miss Helen Shepherd were
in town Monday. Miss Eva was
exhibiting the ''fireless cooker"
They are certainly great improve
ment over the cook stove, especially
these warm days
The heavy rain of Friday night
and Saturday was a great help TO
corn and flax. but those who had
finished cutting wheat looked some
what blue.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
SIX INCH RAIN
IN TWELVE HOURS
General Over Large Part of the
State

The rain of last Friday was one of
the heaviest that has eve, visited
this section of the country, six
inches falling from 8 o'clock Friday
night until 8 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. The rainfall continued more
or less Till noon Saturday.
The large "a inch sewer proved to
be too small to carry off the over
abundance of water and as a result
most of the cellars and Easements
of the city were filled with from
one to three feet of water. Har-
vest work was somewhat interfered
with for a few days, but most of the
grain had been cut. There may be
a slight loss by shelling in finishing
up the last fields, but the benefit to
corn, late flax and millet from this
heavy ram more than offset any
loss.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

Mr. Craig. wife and daughter and
husband are here from Wisconsin
for a brief stay.
A new building was moved here
from Highmore onto lots south of
the hotel and is occupied by the
Buell. Harper Land Co. Mr. j. b.
Sommers has charge of it.
Mrs Moneys brother, Mr. Krebs,
arrived lately from Ohio. He is an
expert painter and decorator.
Miss Francis Vigneron left Mon
day for her old horne in New York,
where she will spend the rest of her
vacation She is employed as a
teacher at the mission school.
Nels Hansen, wife and children,
from Huron spent a couple of weeks
with Grandma Laccoss and other
relatives.
Mrs Starr left Tuesday for Iowa
for medical treatment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Old Settlers Picnic

The South Hand Co. Old Settlers
Association will hold their annual
picnic at KeIly's grove in Pleasant
Valley twp. Thursday Sept. 2 1900.
The following program will be
carried out:
Opening Song by the audience
America.
Prayer by Rev. E. z. Whitton.
Address Of welcome Thos. Cawood
Response by F. f. Saltmarsh.
Music.
Recitations by the young people
Picnic Dinner.
Afternoon.
Music
Address by II. J. Bushfield and
others.
Managers of Sports, J. II. Yost,
II w. Penwell, w. S. Bell, A. Ste
yens, committee.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
LOW Rates EAST

Via the North Western Line
Excursion tickets to New York City,
Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec,
Niagara Falls. Atlantic City and the
mountain and seashore resorts of
the East. The Best of Everything
enroute. For full particulars, ap-
ply to any ticket agent, The North
Western Line. 36t2
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
NEW BUILDINGS
AT STATE FAIR
Several Needed improvements
Are Being Made

Especially worthy of mention is
the stock Pavilion l24 feet square,
roomv, airy and well ventilated.
With its double curved roof sur
mounted by spacious cupola and
intersected by handsome dormer
windows, this building GO feet in
central elevation, is a prominent and
handsome feature of the Fair
Ground view 1t is traversed by a
broad driveway crossed bv a ven-
tilating avenue midway of It's length.
On either side of the driveway rise
in ampitheatre fashion tier up tier
seats which will readily accommo-
date fifteen hundred people. Be-
hind these seats on either side are
the stalls, thirty-six on side, wide,
airy and well shaded.
The stately and commodlous build
ing is to be used by the Judges when
prouounclng upon the merits of
prize cattle submitted to their in
spection, and it would be difficult to
suggest an Improvement in the con-
venience anu sufficiency of its ar
rangements.
Near the Pavilion are three cattle
barns l44x4S feet in extent. with rs
double stalls in each, giving COM
Portable and perfectly ventilated
quarters for $50 head of stock, with
ample space for their inspection by
the visitors on the grounds. There
is also an Individual horse barn
containing l05 stalls, and in addi-
ton, three speed barns for the use
of racing stock.
Sheep and swine will be housed in
eight barns having capacity of "a
pens each and all these building are
not only in perfect form and condi-
tion but so well adapted to their re-
spective purposes as TO make the
use Of them a pleasure.
Other than these may be mention
ed the former "Woman's Building"
which will be remodeled and equipped
for the exhibition of poultry; the
present poultry house being convert
ed into a dairy building. Taken all
in all it will be freely conceded that
for ample equipment, convenience
Of arrangement and general beauty
of plan the State Fair grounds pre-
sent this year such strong proof of
State interest and appreciation as to
win the equal interest and apprecla-
to all visitors. Our farmers are
made to feel that they are not mere
ly tolerated and pushed into tumble
down shacks in out of the way loca-
tions but that their labors and re-
suits are valuable to us all and
worthy of the highest honor and
encouragement. Hence these Ella
borate provisions for their conven-
fence and the comfort and well being
of their stock to say nothing Of the
friends and patrons who may visit
them during the fair.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Presbyterian Church

Rev. C. Howard CRUDE. Pastor.
Services Sunday at Miller HOO 4.
m. and in st. Lawrence at 1915 p. m.
Sunday Bible School at 1t:3Qin St
Lawrence and at 12:l5 m. In Miller.
Christian Endeavor each place
every Sunday evening at $40.
Evening service will remain 1t
500 on alternate Sunday evenings.
Church prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at Miller at 800
The Wonen's Home and Foreign
Missionary society meets the last
Wednesday Of each month at 300
All are cordially invited to attend
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Public Sale

FuO1IC SdIc
/ will sell at public auction at my
livery barn in Miller, S. D., without
reservation on
SATURDAY. AUGUST q
at 2 O. clock p. m, the following de-
scribed property:
25 HEAD OF HORSES
Consisting of drivers and work hors-
es, all well broken.
25 HEAD BLACK CATTLE
Consisting of cows and calves, steers
and heifers. All good Polled Angus
strain.
10 CARRIAGES AND BUGGiES
will also be sold.
Several sets of double and single
harness to be sold, all in good con-
dition.
Terms of sale:-Time will be given
to Nov. 1st. 1909 or Nov. LIST. 1910,
at option OF buyer, on approved
security at 10 per cent interest.
B. F. TORREY.
B. +. Magness, Auct. Owner.
F. d. Greene. Clerk. S6t2
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
DRY FARMING
IN THE WEST
Semi-Arid Region Can Be Re-
claimed By The Process

n HS" ISllSlOil Has Sio"H up III
the west. It's devotees are to the
practice of saving rain.
You think this joke? Well, if
YOU do. Just read the proceedings
Of the National Dry Farmer con-
gress, that completed its deibera-
tiOnS at Cheyenne, Wyo. 1t was
devoted, not to war or conquest,
or any Of the usual modes Of enlarg
ing bOundricS, and yet, if the new
religion Of moisture conversation
once wins full acceptance from the
farmers of the nation, it may give
US two acres of tillable land where
we now have one.
West of the Missouri far enough
west-therc begins the old "shOrt
grass" range where first the buffalo
and then the herds of the cattle
barons, lived on the herbage cured
on the ground in the dry summers.
1t is fine range land, but the pres
sure for farms. coupled with the
recurrence of rainy periods, draws
the farmers out on the plains, and
they have broken the range up, and
are determined to make farms
of it.
But the dry summers that used to
cure the grass a, it stood they are
likely to rccur and make farming
precariOus. You say yes; but here
the dry farming comes in and brings
hope to all the semi-arid west.
And dry farming IS nothing but
the saving Of the rain that falls from
either running off or evaporating.
a man named II. w. Campbell,
who now lives at Lincoln. Neb., has
been preaching it to the west for
years. He had the supreme nerve
Is years ago to tell the farmers who
were burned out by the drouth that
it was their own fault.
There was plenty of rain, he said,
but in ran off the hard baked field,
and evaporated from the crusted
earth and did the crops no good.
No founder Of a superstition ever
worked harder for proselytes than
did Campbell for believers in his
sane and simple religion of making
crops grow where nothing grew
before.
He taught them how to plow deep.
pack the bottom of the furroW slice,
and leave the top loose. This let the
rain soak in easily instead of running
off, and the loose mulch cut
the moisture off from the
wind and sun, and kept it from eva
porating Then he showed how to
harrow it whenever it got cruSted
on the top, and save rain from sea
son to season, so that even with the
dry years, the ground kept getting
moister year by year
Nobody paid him to do it except
by subscribing for the various pap
ers he founded, and by asking him
to lecture sometimes, and purchas-
ing the cheap manuals he wrote and
sold. 1t never amounted to much.
Any successful ward heeler in any
big city can make more money in
year than Campbell can in 10.
But the feeling that Truth must
be told makes the telling of its own
reward The recent dry farming
congress is proof that the Campbell
method has won And the world
will profit by the knowledge that by
proper tillage little rain can be
made to go a long way. South
Africa, western Canada, the Siber-
ian steppes, Australia, and arid
South America, will learn how to
utilize their scantv rainfall, and the
growing populations viii be fed.
The waste of rain is one of the
most ruinous of wastes. Minnea-
polls News.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Methodist Church Services.

Preaching next Sunday, by the
pastor at 1l:00 m.
S. S. at 1900.
Epworth League devotional meet.
ing at 700 p. m.
Preaching at st. Lawrence at 800
p. m.
BY an exchange of pulpits it is ex-
pected that H. X. Wallis, of High
more will conduct the services here
next Sunday.
All are invited to attend.
o. w. Butterfield. Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

(; A reward of $4,000 will pe paid
to any person causing the arrest and
conviction of any person or persons
found guilty of shooting or having
in their possession any prairie chick
ems or grouse shot in Hand county.
S. ID. during the closed season. This
reward shall be in effect until June
lst, 1910. G. M. Dwyer,
Game Warden.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
FREE TRIP TO SEATTLE
AND RETURN

The PRESS will give a round trip
ticket to Seattle to the resident of Hand
county who receives the most votes
from PRESS patrons.
Here is a chance for some one to get
free trip to the Exposition, and have
choice of routes going and returning.
This contest will begin Monday, Aug
ust 10th, and close Saturday, September
25tt, 1900, Any resident of Hand
county has the privilege of entering the
race.
The votes will be received at the
PRESS office, placed in a ballot box
and counted by three county officials
on Saturday, September 18th. The
person receiving the greatest number
of votes will be given round trip
ticket to Seattle, good during the
month of October. 81
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Notice To Contractors and Build

eTS
The school board of Springlake
school district, Hand county, S. d.
viii receive sealed bids until three
O'Clock p. m, Sept. 10, for the
building of frame school house to
be erected on S f / 26-l09-67 in ac-
cordance with plans and specifica-
tions that may be seen either at the
Citizens Bank at Miller, S. d.. the
clerks office of said twp., or the
office of the architect, Geo. Issen-
huth of Huron, S. ID. Board re-
serving right to reject any or all
bids. By order school dist. board.
36t5 j. N. Winsell clerk.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Christian Church

On next Lords Day:
Sunday School at 10:OO.A. M.
Morning Service at 11:00 a. m.
Christian Endeavor at 700 p. m.
Evening Sermon at 500 p. m.
Prayer meeting on Thursday even
ing.
You are cordially invited to attend
these services.
Ira c. Smith. Minister.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Christian Scientists

The Christian Scientists of this
city hold regular Sunday and mid
week services at their Reading room
in the Masonic Temple. Sundays at
HOO a. M, Wednesdays 7:3Op. m.
All are cordially invited.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

For SALE-An eight room house
nice location. near business center
of town. good barn. two lots nice
shady lawn, garden plat. a snap.
see w. T. Raffety. 36t2
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

Mrs l.. B. lie Viness and daugh-
ter, Freda, of Highmore, are visiting
in the city, with her son Mr. Fred
Everts and wife.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
CITY CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Evangelical Church
Services next Sunday as follows
Sunday school at 10
Preaching at Glendale at IL A. M.
Preaching at Pearl at $3.50 P. M.
Prayer meeting every Wen'sday
evening at So
Every one cordially invited.
j. ID. Musser. Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Additional Local

Mrs William Koontz and two sons
are the guests Of Mrs Ed. Dunn in
the city this week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
w. 6. 7. u. HOLDS
CONVENTION
At Miller in The PRESBYTERIAN
Church August 1S, 10, 20

The following is the program of
the ninth annual convention Of the
7th district of the w. C. T. u.
Wednesday afternoon
Opening of convention by PrcSi-
dent.
Praise service Our Blessings, "
Pierre delegate
Song, "We'll make the map all
white"
Appointment of committees.
Report of officers.
Parliamentary drill, Mrs Ramsey.
Mercy work, Mrs Maud Carter.
Pierre.
Wednesday evening
Music.
Devotionals, Highmorc Delegate.
Music.
~ Address of Welcome by Rev.
CRUDE.
Response.
Music
Address, Mrs L. A. Ramsey, state
president.
Freewill offering
Music.
Thursday Morning
Devotionals, Lacy delegate.
Reading of minutes.
Contest work, Lucia KirleI.
Report of delegates.
Scientific temperance instruction,
Mrs Summerside, Pierre.
Discussion
Contest on state and national MN
uteS.
Question box
Noontide prayer
Thursday Afternoon
Devotionals, Miller delegate.
How may we keep up interest in
w. c. +. U. work. Mrs Estella Lacy,
Lacy.
Discussion.
Legislation and franchise, Mrs
johnson, Highmore.
Plan of work for next year.
Model Mothers meeting, Mrs L.
A. Ramsey.
L. T. L. Work. Mrs L. Bangs,
Pierre.
School savings bank, Mrs lone
Russel, Pierre.
Thursday Evening
Music
Devotionals, Sedgwlck Y delegate.
Music
Grand gold medal contest
Shall franchise be denied women,
o. w. Butterfield
Awarding of medal.
Friday Morning
Devotionals, Mrs l.. A. Ramsey.
Reading of minutes
Mercy work, Mrs Maude Carter,
Pierre.
Report of committees
Invitation for next years conven-
tion
Election of officers
Unfinished business
Adjournment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

EsTRAYED-One bay horse, IL
years old, from Geo. Livingston's
pasture in Miller. Finder please
notify G. M. Dwyer at Miller, SO
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
HOW to- l VOTES

Any person residing in Hand county is
eligible. The one receiving the most votes
gets the ticket
The price OF Subscription to the PRESS
is Sl.OO per year, and 200 votes will be al
lowed for new subscribers, $50 for renewals
by old subscribers, and so votes for each
SI.OO paid on job printing and advertising
Thus: VOTES
New Subscribers One year 200
Two years $50
Five years 1900
Old One year $50
Job Printing for each $1O0 so
Advertising So s. so
Each coupon cut from PRESS 10
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12
Roman Catholic

Mass at $3.50 a. m. and at 1890 4.
m. first Sunday of every month. and
at 1890 a. m. third Sunday. Sum
day school at 300 p. m. every
Sunday.
Rev. Father Fox, Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

For Sale-Two lots. so x 25O.
IT, Bob Corbett.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-12

For RENT-5 good rooms to rent.
Inquire of
36tf 0. H. Collins.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-20
Chanule Growing.

The recent census shows Chanute
has a population of o,I9o an in
crease of I S32 the past year. This
gives Chanute 18th place among the
cities of Kansas, putting her ahead
of lola, Emporia, and SaAha.
There is nothing in the way of
another good growth this year.
The signs of the times indicate a
prosperous year for this country
and local conditions are very favor
ably for our beautiful little city.