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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

ing her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Reeser.
Mrs. Wade went to Woodbine to
see her parents last Thursday.
w. j. Wagner, the pioneer real
estate man of Arion, was in town last
week.
Quite an electrical storm struck
Arion Sunday afternoon. electricity
taking the form of small balls of fire
appeared in different parts of the
town, followed by heavy thunder.
About twenty telephones were burned
out.
l.. G. Butler made business trip
to Missouri last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Kelly came to
see Mr.. and Mrs. Glow last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dodge visited
Arion relatives Sunday.
VIM. Eggers shipped car load of
fat cattle to Omaha Monday.
Jennie Hallowell visited Saturday
at the L. c. Butler home.
DIR. j. M. Talcott of Crofton,
Neb.. who is Representing this district
in the legislature of Nebraska, left
Lincoln Saturday for q short visit
with his mother. Mrs. v. TalcoJt,
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Glow and small
daughter. Katharine, came from Oma
ha to attend the funeral Of Mr.. Phil
lips and visited Arion relatives. re
turning Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Larson and John Barnard O
Ute and Chas. Underhill of Oman,
came to attend the funeral of Mr.
Phillips.
Mrs. G. c. Trip was a Denisol
visitor last Saturday.
Hazel Williamson left Monday TO
her home at Boz, $ sel. S. D.
Prof. Gillasple anu Miss Ada Lisl
of the Dow City schools. entertaine,
the senior and junior classes at tn
home of Mrs. H. C. Stempel las
Friday evening. The students wer,
requested to dress to represent song
Prizes were gwen to Mildred Butter
worth, Fern Butler and Coda Lee
A variety of games and fortune tell
er entertained the guests and an ele
CANT three course supper was served
Quite number attended from Arion
who report q most enjoyable evening
Edward Wigg was Denison caller
last Saturday evening. He wi re
main here as the I. C. agent.
Fred Mari is recovering 1roln
severe attack of grip.
John Mount was an Arion calle
last Friday.
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Grandmother Ehrke, who made her
home with her son, Jake, died Satur-
day. March 9Th, after an illness of
several weeks. Mrs. Ehrke was
eighty flour years old. The funeral
services were held at the house. COM
Quoted by Rev. Amstein and the re-
mains laid at rest in the Lutheran
cemetery beside her husband. Mrs.
Ehrke leaves four sons and a daugh.
ter to mourn her loss-Jake and
Charlie Ehrke of Charter Oak: Chris
Dettman and Mrs. Wilson of ElReno.
Okla. and John Dettman of South
Dakota.
Mrs. Will Schurke came Thursday
to visit relatives in Charter Oak.
Barney Vollertsen came home from
Battle Creek on Monday. Mr.. Vol
lertsen has gone into partnership with
Chris Vollersen. All success to the
hardware firm. "Vollersen & Vollert-
sen''
At the school election on Monday
Johannes Riesen and P. II. Fiene were
chosen as new members of the board.
The members whose term had expired
we're j. Riesen and C. H. Stark.
On Saturday Mrs. G. M. Deter and
children left for their new home at
Jefferson. Iowa. Mr.. and Mrs. Deter
have lived in our community for many
years and We regret to see them leave
us. On Tuesday evening of last week
the Rebekah Lodge of which Mrs.
Deter is member. and holds the
; certificate of P. N. G.. gave recep-
tion to Mr.. and Mrs. Deter in the
lodge rooms. A delicious three
course supper was served by the en-
tertainment committee. Mr.. and
Mrs. Deter and their lodge friends
spent very pleasant evening.
On Tuesday evening of last week
the concert given at the opera house
closed the seasons lecture course.
The program was verv good listened
to by an appreciative audience.
D. M. Purcell of Ute made a tip
to Charter Oak the first of the week.
l. A. Mains. John Rec Sc, Mike
Cops and F. H. Davis were Sioux
City visitors last Friday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10
AR1oN ITEMS.
Mrs. John Anderson is quite sick

Mrs. John Anderson is quite sick
at present.
R. o. Clark has moved into the
house vacated by E. F. Wigg.
Mrs. VIM. Wingrove and a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Wingrove
both of whom have been very sick.
are recovering.
Mrs. Flint of Manila stopped to
see her niece. Bertha Lewis, last
Friday.
Chas. E. Meier and E. N. Maxfield
and families of Woodbine and Walter
S. Meier of Des Moines were all
guests at the C. A. Meier home last
Saturday. leaving Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. C. Purdy of Manila is visit
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Miss Ruth Robb returned from an
extended visit to Sioux City on Thurs
day evening. She was accompanied
by her cousin. Miss Ollie Tucker.
Rev. Acheson and Mr.. Stuart Noble
returned to Wall Lake on Saturday.
Rev. Acheson gained many friends
during his short stay in Charter Oak.
He is cousin of Mrs. Chas. Stark
and came to assist Rev. Barkley DUR
ing the last week of the revival meet
ings. Mr.. Noble who is member
of Rev. Acheson's chruch and assisted
in the singing while here.
Mrs. e. c. Jacobsen of Mapleton
and little daughter spent the first part
of last week visiting in the parental
home in the Oak.
Mrs. Tkeo. Drake is spending this
week with her daughter, Mrs. A. C..
Wickwire.
We hear that in the near future we
can count Mr.. C. T. Marshall and
family among our number. We will
be glad to welcome them. Gust
Peters, Mr.. Marshall's son-in-alw,
has moved to the home place north of
town and will take charge of the
farm.
Rev. Miller of the Presbyterian
church was unable to fill his appoint
ment last Sunday on account of sick
ness. He sent Rev. Orr to take hi
place. who preached two very goo,
sermons.
Sllas Smith. who has been visitin.
F. H. Davis and family and otne
. friends and relatives in Crawfor
county. left for his home at Daver
port. WASH, last week.
Rev. A. j. Barley was called t
Ute Saturday to preach the funera
sermon of George Shipley.
]. H. McGrath is at the hospita
taking treatment under the care o
Doctors McWilliams and Hill.
Rev. Barkley was called to tn
} Willow last Thursday to conduct tn
funeral services of the infant son o
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Cries of Shelb
, county. The remains were brough
here and interment was made at tn
Center cemetery.
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WHERE We BUTT IN.

LATE Young pulled the string when
he asked his subscribers to tell what
was the matter with the Capital.
While the doughty Colonel got a few
of the compliments for which he was
fishing he also captured some home
truths which must have gotten clear
through the hide. The cosmopolitan
journals have much fun with their
country brethren at times. They are
won't to criticise US for saying that
Tom Jones was sin our midst" and
for mentioning the smiling counte-
nance of Jacob Brown. Therefore
we feel that we have something COM
ing.
We may mention the fact that our
neighbor is putting new shingles on
an old barn. but we DO not make a
half column out of the fact that some
body's wife got scared because hubby
stayed too late at the lodge and tele-
phoned the police about it. We do
not go around sticking our nose into
every rotten mess we can find and
feature it in black headlines for the
edification of our readers. We do
not. for the sake ST an item with
"heart interest,"" publish some pitt
full. silly. little story about a school
girl that might wreck her life.
While we are in the Pharisee business
we might add that we do not publish
columns of pictures O. actresses in the
semi nude, and columns of gossip
about the queens of the footlights and
then print drowsy editorials on "Why
Young Girls Leave Good Homes for
the Glamour of the Stage" We
do not devote columns to the demi-
monde as the Capital did some time
ago.
The Whiskey ads. Of which some
of the Capitals subscribers complain
are entirely innocuous beside these
other demoralizing features for which
there il not even the excuse that
they pay. Fortunately the press OF
Des Moines is the rottenest in Iowa
1t ia fairly representative of the city,
however. and perhaps should not be
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Query: Who are the biggest
fools. The fool women of Des Moines
who took flowers to Junken. the muir
derer; the fool women of Ottumwa
who paid enough attention to the fool
women of Des Moines to resolute
against them, or the fool newspapers
who honored the fool women of Ottum-
wa and the fool women of Des Moines
with columns of space and pictures
and scare heads?
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10
THE vEXED SCHOOL QUESTION.

The Review has taken no part in
the discussion of the proposed school
law, because it has net felt sufficient
ly acquainted with the rural school
situation to express valid opinion.
One of the strongest arguments we
have heard in favor of the new law
is the fact that julie Richards. notori-
GUS rs LOBBYIST, is against it. julie
represents the text book trust in this
instance and it must be that the trust
thinks it is easier to bamboozle the
schools under the present law.
The drift Of the age is towarsd con-
cen.ratinn and it may be that it
would be good thing in the case Of
the schools. Of course it would be
unpleasant for the men who were
legislated out of Office. but we do not
see how it would be any greater in
fringement upon popular government
than is found in the management of
our county affairs by a board of super.
visors. Poor teachers would certainly
suffer as the employing agent being
the same they would find it difficult
to get another school should they fail
to make good. The selection of the
county superintendent as q non-part.
isan matter would certainly benefit the
schools.
Certainly the discussion has been q
good thing as it will place the town.
ship. directors on their mettle ant
make them do their best to provide
good schools should the pill fail o.
passage.
Teachers, like lawyers and doctors
and dentists and veterinarians should
be licensed to practice their profes
sion and once having received full
license to teach they should not b.
harassed by further examinations.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10
CHARTER OAK ITEMS.

Dan McGrath came up from Apsin-
wall to visit the home folks over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Robb of Spencer
came Saturday night for few days.
visit at her home.
=. S. Probasco made a business
trip to Denison Monday night.
Sheriff Cummings stopped in Chart
er Oak Monday on his way from Ute
to Kenwocd.
On Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Benningsdorf we're called upon to
part with their infant daughter,
Clara. The baby was about two
weeks old and died with spasms.
The funeral services were held Mon
day at the home and the little one
laid at rest in Lutheran cemetery
north of town.
Alice DERRICK and Gladys Tucker
spent Sunday in Sioux City. They
returned to their schools Tuesday
morning.
c. P. Wilson and daughters, Goldie
and Sylvia. who have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Eckerc returned to
their home at Extra last Wednesday.
Mrs. Eckert is Mr.. Wilson's daugh-
ter.
r. A. Rawlins went to Galva on
business trip last Thursday.
John M. Wilson and family left for
Spencer, S. D.. last week. They
have rented their farm on the Willow
to c. o. Wilson and will make thier
future home in Dakota. They were
accompanied by the son, Henry and
his wife.
VIM. Neubaum has sold his resi-
dence property on Main street to Mrs.
Hinkell. Now its up to Clate to find
another house in this 'houseless'
town.
Mr.. Gus Rabe was q Sioux City Wis
itor Wednesday Of last week.
R. R. Weed returned from Chicago
on Wednesday, where he had been
marketing his stock.
Chris Dettman and sister, Mrs.
Wilson, who have been visiting their
mother, returned Wednesday to their
home in Ell Reno, Okla.
W. ]. SERVER was over from Deni-
son one day last week. He went to
Sioux City the next day on business
trip.
Carl Borchert and son, Herman,
transacted business in Denison on
Wednesday.
August Lii was Ute visitor be.
tween trains last Thursday.
Hans Carstens has moved from the
Willow to his fine property just NORTH
of town. His children will now have
the benefit of the public schools O
Charter Oak.
James Wickwire and family lef
Thursday evening for Boulder. Col.
where they will make their future
home. A. C. Wickwire has moved
to the home farm on the Willow.
Miss Stella Robb went to Nal
vern Wednesday morning for {
short visit with an aunt.
| Frank Reidesel has purchased thu
Ansel Fish property which will be oc
cupied by Herman Riedesel and fami
ly. Bert Wright will move into thu
house now occupied by Herman Riede
sell.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

The Press dispatches record that
Elk President Roosevelt passed up a
chance to get into a scrap. This is
untrue on the face of it and will re-
quire strong corroborative evid ence
before it is believed by anyone.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Farmers institute at Boyer on
Tuesday. March 18th. and Domestic
Science course at Denison on Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday of the same
week. II we only had an oats
special and good ro-Oh, drat the
roads.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

This is the week to add to the gal.
ETY. of things in general by kicking
because the rural carrier doesn't get
around.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Let US hope that safe and sane re.
publicanism will not meet the same
cropper that befell safe and sane
democracy once upon a time.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

criticised for not rising higher than
its source. The Sioux City Journal
is the cleanest daily in Iowa. 1t pub
fishes the police news, gives the facts,
but does not gloat over them. The
best newspaper men in Iowa have
graduated from the George d. q
School of Journalism and if we were
to give the sun-burst Colonel any
concrete advice it would be to read q
file of the Sioux City Journal and
then 60 and do likewise.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Now if the legislature would ad-
journ. Prosperity would have q
good chance to return.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Some day the Coolest inhabitant'
will be reminding his friends O
1900. the year of billiards."
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

We had just as soon jump nto
snow drift as linger in the lap o
spring this week.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Judge Lands and Judge Anderson
will both gain fame out of the Stand
ard Oil Case, but oh. how different.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Is the Inaugural tlashback' re.
lated to the election roorbacks?"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-03-10

Well, of all the nerve: Advert,s
ing Spring Millinery Openings.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-08-27
PHONE WISES
The Il Il FARMER A'.|| |
He Can Keep Posted on the
Markets and Give the Eastern
Choppers" a Bum Steer.
The Recent Drop in the Prices Of
Grain Will Not Scare the
Farmers Worth a Cent.

The farmer as seen in the eyes
of the city bred man is we'll known
type. But here is a new one. This
middle western wheat raiser isn't
the hayseed of the conventional
comic weekly sort. A paragraph.
that appeared in a recent issue of
the Few York Post, tucked away
among the financial notes, had this
to say:
Putting down his Haviland
breakfast coffee cup and folding
his linen napkin the farmer takes
up the telephone extension and
calls his neighBor. is that you,
John?.... We'll, John, in the pit
gossip of your Chicago paper you
will see that the croppers, have
started this way again. Yes, Pat
tens man and two others. One of
them ought to be in this morning.
I'll run over to the station in my
car and see if | can pick him up,
I'll bring him back thru the mea-
dow road so that he can see that
poor wheat over there on Henry s
place. Then I'll turn him over
to you. Show him the worst
wheat you've got, understand ?.
Yes, that's it. Pass him on to
Jackson. He hasn't any wheat
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-08-27
81 30 PER AR

the farmers ID the mid la west is3
shown BY q comparison Of the 1907
figures With the total for thesna
|tion. The entire group of north
central states which ncludes the
wheat and corn region, had 49. 81
per cent Of its farms equipped with!
telephones when the census was;
taken. Ohio had as 8, indiana
53.7 Minnesota 81. 4, Iowa ..773. .99,i
Missouri Az South Dakota rs. !,
Nebraska 58.5 and Kansas 58.7. I.
The rest Of the wheat belt states
are ia proportion.
II would seem, taking the tele-1
phone as a basis for comparison,
that the real I .hayseed is to be-
found in the east or south, and
not in the west, the nat tion' II
|granary. For III Connecticut but
I.6 of farms have phones. and
in Louisiana Il. There Is no
need to- dwell on the good d teie-
phone does the owner Of i farm.
Rather let the results tell the
story. And the result is the up
|to-date, educated farmer who chats
over the phone with his neigh
bors, tells them Of his new high
speed motor car and lays plans to-
fool the representative Of the COR
1er in wheat Candy Herald. "
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-08-27
Was One Of Codington County's S
Early Pioneers and Popular
Hotel Men. -
Had Been Ill With Bright's Dis.
ease for the Past Two Years
and Death was Expected. a

Charles M. Chur rch, one of the
oldest settlers and best known
men in Codington county died at
his home in Watertown Sunday
afternoon after lingering ill
ness. The deceased was aged So
years at the time of his death and
has conducted the Northwestern
Hotel in Watertown for many
years, and was we'll known by al
most every man in this part Of
the state.
Charles M. Church was born
in the state of New York, 1846.
His life up to young manhood
was spent in the east, but just
after he was of age. the spirit of
the west attracted him to Wiscon-
sin.
He served first as head driver
in the, First Wisconsin cavalry,
volunteers, for over two years dur
ing the civil war, and after re-
'ceiving an honorable discharge
took up his home at Racine, Wis,
where he met and married Miss
Alvira Simmons on March %, 1866.
He and his young wife lived at
several Of the larger cities Of
Wisconsin before coming to South
Dakota.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-08-27

.s.T i )
In 1884 he came to South Dako-
ia, living for. a short time at Good
win and then moving to the old
Church farm two miles north Of
the city. After living on the
farm for a number Of years, he
moved to the city and started busi-
ness in the Northwestern hotel
which has been under his direction
until two years ago, when he be-
came feeble. Since that time, un-
til very recently, Mrs. Church has
been looking after the business.
Deceased was the father Of six
children, five Of whom are living.
He leaves his wife, four sons
John of this city, George of st.
Paul, Will of Minneapolis, and
Frank of Lennon, and daughter,
Mrs. Alice Abred of Minneapolis.
His other daughter was Mrs. Char
les Wilkins who died a little over
a year ago.
The funeral was held Tuesday
and a large concourse of friends
followed the remains to their last
resting place at Mount Hope GEM
etery.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-08-27

graph that is most true to life
and that tells the interesting
story. For the telephone, extend
ing thruout all the rich farming
sections Of the country, has organ
lied the rural residents as no 9TH
er agency could have done. Time
was when farmers had no mode Of
exchanging visits and conversation
save BY journeys over miles Of
muddy roads. In those times lone-
illness and backwardness were the
bug gbear Of every tiller Of the soil.
Then along came the free deliyrey
now developed into q sort Of
agency for general distribution Of
gossip and news as we'll as mail.
The good roads movement grew
5apace, and as the demands Of the
farmers began more and more to
be met life in the country came to
be better worth living.
And then the rural telephone.
Because that little instrument in
creased with such tremendous
leaps and bounds, especially III
the middle west, its development
is ever interesting.
Some figures from the latest
telephone census tell the whole
story In the United States at
the close Of the year 1902 there
were 266, ,966 rural telephone sta
lions, 4.8 per cent Of all the farms
being equipped with Bell's inven-,
tion. Five years later, December
31st, 1907 to be exact, there were
A ,464, ,773 Of these rural phones in
the countryside percentage had
jumped to 26.5 and the percentage
of increase was 449. There has
been no official enumeration Of the
farm telephones il the past3year
and half, but it is estimated that
the percentage Of increase since
last census date has been even
greater than before. The state
ment is made by the Western
Electric Company, the largest
manufacturer of telephones and
equipment in the world that 80, 900
of its newest type Of rural phones
have been sold in the past six
months.
just how strongly organized are
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-08-27
worth looking at. Telephone on
down the line. Good dbye Oh say,

worth looking at. Telephone on
down the line. Goodbye Oh say,
John. That one cylinder car
told you about is a marvel. /. Oh,
forty miles. Be as pessimistic AZ
you can. There's a cropper out
from New York who represents
a bear house. He III coming to
find the wheat. I'll look for him
at this end. Goodbye. z
This conception Of the country
man, SO vastly different from the
generally bewhiskered Rube, comes
as somewhat Of a ashock to the coun-
try's readers east and west. For
here is a farmer with his fast mo-
tor car, bent on fooling the wise
men of the wheat pit, with a tele-
phone at his elbow and on his
breakfast table luxuries only a
few Of his city neighbors can en-
joy. "a
And if this concept is at all
true to life perhaps there is some-
thing in the generality accepted
distrust of the governments So
called short crop report which was
back Of the Patten wheat corner.
Who knows but it might have been
the worst wheat on each farm that
the federal forecaster was shown.
This financial editOr's views differ
materially from the old time
gold brick stories, for here the
operation is reversed, and the
farmer is selling the brick that
was ioisIed upon him on the mo-
mentous occasion of his first visit
to New York.
But whatever the merits of the
financier's picture Of the wheat
grower, it has attracted a deal to
attention. And it is true to life
in that particular in which if
draws attention to the organized
state Of middle west farmers.
Telephone on down the line" "
was the speakers instruction to
John. 1t is presumed that John
communicated with all of his
neighbors by the same method and
all were apprised of the coming
of the "croppers" in a very few
minutes.
This is the part Of the para
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