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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-02-25
SardiS.

Mr. H / Cook, last Wednesday
afternoon, while tearing down an
old smoke house it gave way and
fell on him, breaking his leg.
Mr. Ed Conn and Mrs Tene Coch-
ran have been on the sick list.
Rev w E McCollum filled his
regular appointment here on the
second Saturday and Sunday.
Messrs A G Bartield and J S
Bowles have rented a crop from
Mr. G J Lutz aud, we learn, will
farm this year.
The little five-year-old daughter
of Mr. ard Mrs G o Sewell was
buried here last Saturday after
noon. Quite crowd attended the
funeral. Rev Wells conducted the
funeral services.
Rev Mr. Foster filled his appoint.
ment at Chattahoochee Saturday
and Sunday. Also, Rev Mr. Fow-
Ter preached at Bold Springs Sun
day.
The singing at Sardis Sunday
afternoon was a success-a good
crowd and good singing. Profess
sor and Mrs L F Moon, J o Gaines
and some other good singers were
present with the class. Professor
Moon will sing here again on the
third Sunday afternoon in March,
and we want large crowd out
with all the new books.
Eureka.
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bUNTY NEWS
BY CORRESPONDENTS,
rom other Towns and Lo-
CaIitles.
YORK OF NEWS-FlNDERS.
|, Points Of the County Represented
Rursl News Fresh and Spark
ling for Perusal.
WiIey's.

News is scarce in this section
! week. More rain than any
Married Mr.. Howard Handy
" Rome and Miss Julia Phillips of
tianta were married on the 18th
astant. The wedding occurred IN
1Elapta. The groom is a son of
Il and Mrs D c Handy of this
lace, We wish for them a happy
6urney through life.
AS everything is scarce, it will
.hv the farmers to select and plant
6rly seeds, in order to have some
bing to come in as soon as pos
ible this summer, and plant as
h1lv as the weather will permit.
Remember that Rev. Mr.. Man-
ling of Smyrna will preach at
bold Springs next Sabbath at II
m, Come out and hear him.
Beulah.
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BIackWeIIs.

The neat little sum of $1O.5O
was received for the boxes at Oak
land on last Friday. Owing to
the rainy weather, there were sew
eral who did not attend.
The party given at the home of
Mrs W P Dawson, Saturday night,
was enjoyed by all present.
Miss Jennie Dobbs, of Wood
stock, visited Miss Nellie Dobbs a
few days last week.
Mr. Garrett Dobbs, of Woodstock,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with homefolks here.
Mr. S K Dawson and wife, of
Woodstock, visited relatives here
last Saturday and Sunday.
Little Matte Lou Range is very
sick, we are sorry to state.
Mrs W A Bishop, of Marietta,
spent Friday with her mother,
Mrs w P Dawson.
Miss Clara Jones, of New Hope
spent few days here last week.
Quite crowd attended church
at Ebenezer last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs T Casey, of Atlanta
spent few days here last week.
Mr. Dave Haney and family
spent Sunday with Mrs Haney's
pal tents here.
Everybody should remember the
show at Oakland on Wednesday
night. ABC.
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Due West.

II Mrs David Cash, of Atlanta, Is
visiting his brothers, G A and Wat
Hamilton.
Mr. w F Land and wife of this
place spent last Saturday and
Sunday with relatives and friends
in Paulding county.
Mr. I J Helton and wife and
Mrs Mary Born visited the family
of Post Davenport and Mrs Dick
Syn near Acworth last week.
Mr. Will Clackum of Elizabeth
and Miss Mona Reed of this place
were married OH the 14th by Rev
Akin. -
On last Sunday some parties
from Atlanta started to visit rela-
tives near here when their auto
mobile became unmanageable ard
was LETT at Mr. Asa Darby's. They
proceeded on their way in a wag-
ION.
Some of the oldest persons here
Bay that they never experienced
such a winter as this has been.
Very little frost, no sncw and &C
much rain, and thunder and high
winds and sleet.
Allen" in regard to the farm
Ter, you are right, and it is strange
SO many neglect to have orchards
when they could have fruit from
the earliest to the latest and buy
things they could raise at home.
A peach, cherry or apple is good
at Christmas as in July.
Well, correspondents, how many
of you have been taking the Mari.
eta Journal forty-two years ? ]
have, and have them all stored
away for safe-keeping. Just think
of 2,100 papers ali in pile. 1t il
practically recorded history Of
all the important events of Cobb
county for AZ years. Three cheers
for our old reliable county paper
AMOR.
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casio II z a.
Bears tbs >Ths Kind YOu Have k!xsys Bought
.a's; !; ' GhzZzzM
Nickajack.

Mr. and Mrs Watson entertain.
ed a large number of friends at
their new home on Saturday eve
ming. Interesting games were
played after which delicious re.
freshments we're served.
Mr. Ollie Dodgen visited friends
at Powder Springs last week.
Mrs F A Mitchell, of Atlanta
has been the guest of her parents
Mr. and Mrs H G Mitchell recent.
ly at this place.
Mr. Frank Medlin is home for 9
while from Atlanta.
Mr. Lindley of Lithia Springs il
visiting at Mr. G NJ Anderson's.
Jack.
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A New RELATIONSHIPS.

Tommy's mother had married
again, and, though Tommy didn't
in the least object to his new ia.
ther, he was somewhat puzzled as tc
their relationship.
"Mamma," he said, 'Eis this man
my step-papa?'
"Yes, dear; he is your step-papa.'
"Weh, mamma, pursued thought.
full Thomas, ''you call me your little
lad, don't your"
eyes, dearie; you are mammals
little lad"
"Then, mamma" concluded
Thomas, Il suppose I must be my
step-papa's little stepladder."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-02-25
HUMAN SCARECR0WS.
They Are Quite Common In the Vii
lagos of England.

iaSes OF England.
Human beings as scarecrows?
Why not? 1t may seem queer and
brutal to an American, but in Eng
land the human scarecrow is com
mon.
As he stands ont there in the
middle of the fiat Suffolk field there
Is little to show he is not the or
binary nanimate scarecrow. He
stands motionleSs for five minutes
at time, and only when bird is
tempted by the fresh corn just ap-
Pearing above the ground does he
show any sign of life.
From the road outside the field
he looks exactly like the conven-
hoRal collection of old clothes
PFepPed upon stick. Even the
crews are contemptuous of the fig
urs, and every now and then num-
Der Of them appear leisurely above
the hedge and settle on the field.
But then it is that the scarecrow
moves. He hits an old tin can with
the rusty handle of q shovel and
frightens the birds and makes them
fly quickly out of sight.
So he spends his day, this old,
bent man, and at the end he is paid
SO cents. He is the village scare
crow.
Whatever the weather may be, he
is expected to be there. In rain he
may shelter under the nearest
hedge, but he must watch his fields,
and if the birds take advantage of
his absence he must 60 out into the
open and scare them from the corn.
For this old man knows well that
he is competing for his living
against the clothes propped upon a
stick or the dead crows scattered
about the field, and it is necessary
that he should take certain pride
in his profession.
Unless he can show the farmer
that he is more effective than the
conventional scarecrows he cannot
make a living in the few months
between the sowing of the seed and
the appearance of the corn.
While the boys of the village are
in school he can earn enough in
these few months of the year to
keep him from the workhouse. He
is still capable of soaring birds.
His very clothes are a quahfca-
ton. He looks exactly like a scare
crow, and he has the advantage of
being able to hit an old tin can
with the rusty handle of shovel.
At l o'clock he has his dinner of
bread and cheese by the side of the
hedge, but every now and then he
gets up and looks around to see
that the fields are free from birds.
Sometimes when the day is cold
er than usual his granddaughter
from the cottage a mile away
brings him hot dinner in basin
covered with a cloth, and while he
eats she talks to him about her
school and if bird appears runs
carefully on to the field and claps
her hands and frightens it.
And then the old man-this
shabby guardian of the fields-is
left alone. The only suggestion of
life is a collection of old clothes
propped upon a stick in the field
mile away.
And when the old man looks at
this silent competitor of his he is
filed with new energy and strides
off to the field, making a great
noise with his old tin can.-Balti-
more Sun.
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FISHING SUPERSTITI0NS.
Various Queer Notions Exist All Over
the World.

In British Columbia the Indians
tremendously went to meet the
first salmon and in fattering voices
tried to win their favor by calling
them all chiefs.
Every spring in California the
Karaks used to dance for salmon.
Meanwhile one of their number Sc
Guided himself in the mountains
and tasted for ten days. Upon his
return he solemnly approached the
river, took the first salmon of the
catch, ate some of it and with the
remainder lighted a sacrifcial fire.
The same Indians laboriously
climbed to the mountain top after
the poles for the soearing booth,
being convinced that if they were
gathered where the salmon were
watching no fish would be caught.
Very widespread, in fact, is this
native belief of the necessity of
caution whenever Adam is on fish
ing bent.
In Japan among the primitive
race of the Amos even the women
left at home are not allowed to
talk, lest the fish may hear and
disapprove, while the first fish is
always brought in through a win
dow instead of door SO the other
fish may not see.
The Eskimo women of Alaska
never sew while the men are fish
ing, and should any mending be i'm
perative they do it shut up in little
tents out of sight of the sea.
Under no circumstance on the
northeast coast of Scotland will a
fisherman at sea mention certain
objects on land, such as minister"
"kirk," swine" 'dog" etc., and
the line win surely be lost if pig
is seen while batting it. AS on
the land chickens must not be
counted until they are Matched, SO
at sea fish must not be counted I'M
til they are caught. 1t is good luck
to find mice nibbling among the
nets. A horseshoe nailed to the
mast viii help, and a herring
caught and sailed down will pro-
duce wonders.
In the Shetland islands a cat
must not be mentioned before q
man batting his line, and among
the Magyars of Hungary a fisher
man will turn back and wait over q
tide if he meets a woman wearing
white apron.
Every year the natives of the
Duke of York island decorate a ca
noe with flowers and fern, fill it
with shell money and cast it adrift
'to compensate the fish for their
fellows caught and eaten
1t was always the custom of the
Maoris, the primitive inhabitants
Of New Zealand, to put the first
fish that they caught back into the
sea with a prayer that it might
tempt other fish to come and be
caught"
If the fish did not come soon
enough in British Columbia the In
diars used to employ a wizard, who
made an image of a swimming fish
and put it in the water to attract
live fish to the bait.-Los Angeles
| Times.
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Just a Slip of the Pen.

Summer Boarder-You wrote me
that mosquitoes were nowhere in
this neighborhood.
Farmer reck'n there's some
mistake, pardner. [ must O writ
that mosquitoes were now here in
the neighborhood.- -Judge.
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PNEUMONIA Fol

PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS LA GRIPPE
Pneumonia often follows Ia grippe but
never follows the use of Foley's Honey
and Tar, for la grippe, coughs and deep
seated colds. Refuse any but the genu-
inc the yellow package. CM Crosby &
Go.
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CLuB.-The Marietta Journal and the
Atlanta SEMI Weekly Journal. $50.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
Creamery Industry

The creamery interestso of South
Dakota will boom this year as
never before. During the winter
a great deal of agitation has been
going on for the formation of
new creamery associations, re-
sulting in the purchase of ma
chinery for several creameries
already located. The butter in
dustry is spreading all over the
state, indicating the rapid devel-
opment Of the dairy industry and
the departure from the habit of
depending upon grain culture en-
tirely.
Sisseton has a hrst-class cream
cry, and the farmers should pat
ronize it and help to make it a
financial success. Mr.. John
Gordon is the manager and Carl
Bomholtz is the butternaker,
and both are working hard to
make the cramery successful.
The Sisseton creamery is equip
ped with up-to-date machinery.
A very few years ago it would
have been madness to 1Int:ertai, 1
the maintainace of a cremery
here for the reason that there
were not nearly enough COWS to
to supply such an institution, but
the trend Of the farmer has
steadily been towards diversified
farming, and to-day there is
hardly a community in Roberts
county which could not maintain
a creamery, so great has been
the increase in the development
Of the cattle industry. tits to be
noted, also, in passing, that as
the number of live stock has in
the grade has risen, and
to-day the quality of South Da-
kota cattle, whether designed
for milk or meat production, will
compare favorably with that of
Iowa and Southern Minnesota.
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adaptability to the environments
in which they are being trained,
We're highly entertaining, and
it was with deep regret that
we found that the limited time
forbade our accepting the hospit-
able Invitation stay to dinner, and
to witness the base ball game in
the afternoon.
From the Government School
we drove to the Sisseton Agency,
which under Major Aliens ad-
ministration has been vastly i'm
proved, and at present looks like
a prosperous sumner resort. The
buildings hav" just been rebuilt
throughout, the old siding re.
moved and new siding put on.
Tie buildings have been newly
painted, and only one building
remains to remind one Of the
the condition of the buildings be-
fore Major Aliens accession to
office. This building is an old
Ishop, standing some distance
from the other buildings, and
fol which, Mr.. Allen Informed
US, he expected soon to receive
authority to move and rebuild.
At the Age cy we had the pleas
ure of meeting James Ross, who
has charge of the commisary
Idepartmel and found his store
looking as neat as a housewives
kitchen.
Regarding the surrounding
country, we found good roads
and promising CROPS, and we are
sill firmly convinced that Rob.
erts has the best farms, raises
the largest crops, the finest stock
and the prettiest women of any
place on earth.
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Eddy Echoes.

: )ecial Correspondence.
Dr.. Nygaard was around or
his professional visits.
This spring is like a lumber
wagon, it has no spring.
County Commissioner Moe was
on a business visit Saturday.
Even a mortgage on a place
don't seem to hold the dirt these
days.
Otto Kenneberg of Staples,
Mimi. is working for the Eddy
merchant.
The young people of this
vicinity organized adopted rules
and constitution as a branch OF
the Luther League of the United
church with 20 chartered mem.
bers, with Gustave Nepstad as
president and Hazel Gleason
secretary. Will meet every
other Sunday night.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
Government School.

Spe ial Correspondence.
I.le Ladies are busy house
s,@2iling.
The industrial teacher has
greatly improved the appearance
Of the campus.
The farmer and his boys have
finished seeding except corn.
The school will have about 100
acres of crop.
Five more weeks of school, and
the teachers and children are
very busy preparing the program
for the closing day.
The sewing room girls have
Just finished the new spring uni.
form dresses. Their going home
dresses are ready and they are
now making three new house
aprons for each girl.
The employees of this school
with number Of guests from
the Agency and Mission, were
pleasantly entertsined by our
boys matron, Miss Shank, on
Wednesday evening of last week.
Games, music and a taffy pull
were the features of the evening.
The match game of base ball
between the Mission and the
Government school. The game
took place on the Mission
grounds. Most of the boys and
girls from both schools were pre-
sent and much enthusiasm was
manifested en- both sides. A
return game is promised for the
near future.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
esting musical and literary pro-
gram was rendered.
Ellington.

special correspondence
Matte LunGe spent Sunday at
home.
Mrs. Sherwin is not expected
to live.
N. G. Beito is sick with the
pink eye.
Mrs. Sidney Fisher is expected
home this week.
They expect to move into the
new central Office next week.
Miss Bessie Arneson spent
Sunday with Miss Grinder at
Pete Dahl's.
School closes Friday and a
social time is being prepared for
the afternoon.
Misses Clara and Enga Huseth
will leave for their home in
Elbow Lake, Mimi, next Monday.
Mrs. Barnett's daughter and
daughter-in-law and families
from Oklahoma, are visiting her.
Martha Prigan is keeping house
for Gus while he is working on
the Oien farm northeast of town.
Jim McGee came up to see us
again last week. That smiling
countenance is always welcome,
Ernest Barnett answered the
ad that was in last weeks paper
and is now working at Charlie
McGee's.
Misses Matte Lunde, Bessie
Arneson, Augusta Stordalen
Clara Huseth and Lizzie Sher.
win visited school last Friday.
Ivar Stadstad and VIM. Swed.
lund were in the city last Friday
night. They stopped to repair
their auto which by all appear.
ance the wind had blown off the
track.
A party of our young people
went out riding last SUNDAY
night, but after getting about
three miles out in the country
they decided walking wasn't SC
crowded so left the buggy and
walked back. The blacksmith
has been busy every since.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
The Agency and Good Will.

Located in a fertile country,
with it's vast fields and herds of
cattle, once the home of the
buffalo and the savage, are the
institutions that have perhaps
done more than any other age ICY
toward the uplifting of a mighty
race oil people, whose story
forms a thread of crimson
throughout the early pages of
American history. 1t was to
this place, with its scars telling
Of the battles of time and it's air
Of legend and folklore, that a
representative of the STANDARD
found his way last Saturday.
The buildings of the mission
stand in the midst of a large
worked farm. And here, the
children of The savage have, for
several decades, been taught the
ways of civilization and to be-
come useful citizens Of the land
over which their fathers roamed
in it's primitive environment. The
work at Good Will is in charge
Of Mr.. Flack, who assisted by
MIR. Lockwood and q corps of
teachers, are working with their
hearts in every effort to train
the Indian children up through a
system Of industrial education,
and fitting them to enter the
more advanced schools and COL
leges elsewhere.
Mr.. Flack spoke very highly of
of the progress made by the
children, and is enthusiastic over
their prospects for the future.
! At the Government School We
were welcomed by Mr.. Tyler and
Mr.. Owens, who are, by long ex-
perience, eminently qualified for
responsibilities entrusted them,
and who are putting forth every
effort for the advancement and
elevation of their charges. Mr..
Tyler's description of the work,
and his remarks regarding the
] Indian characteristics and their
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
Civilization In the West

There is no Out West now, yet
! can remember when there was.
1t was at Dodge City. A man
came into the dining room, and
when the waiter girl pulled back
his chair, says the Philistine, he
took out his handkerchief and
busted the seat. Then he pulled
up his trousers daintily and sat
down. Next he proceeded to
polish his knife and fork with a
a napkin.
The girl looked on amazed, and
finally without even smile she
proceeded to place one arm around
the neck of the fastidlous man.
then she wiped his mouth with a
napkin and gave him a Hobson
kiss you could have heard block.
1t sounded like a steers foot be-
ing pulled out of damp buffalo
wallow.
Then the girl took the gentle
mans order which was very
light. He ate fast and got out
quickly.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
County Commissioners.

The county commissioners met
Tues day and completed their
labors Wednesday. There was
the usual grist of bills allowed.
Among other business the con-
tract was awarded the Huet
Bridge Co. for building the two
steel bridges across the Whet-
stone river in Geneseo and Gar
field townships for 81, 400 for the
two bridges. Sheriff John
Swar son was recommended as
gam g warden. Spring Grove
township was allowed S10O for
road purposes and two wooden
bridges. The proceedings in
full will appear in the STANDARD
next week.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14

For SALE A few very fine
yearling Aberdeen Angus Bulls
J. A. RlcKERT. {.f)
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14

Friday with her mother, Mrs. r.
Wilbur.
Miss Manda Lindquist is stay
ing with Mrs. John Shugren.
The Bethel church has some
fine new furniture made by Mr-
John Isrealson.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. O. Johnsura
and family were Sunday guests
of Hon. and Mrs. |. j. Johnson
Hon. |. j. johnson and father.
Mr.. John Isrealson went to Sis
seton Tuesday with cattle and
potatoes.
Mr.. X. X. Bue was at Sisseto1g
Tuesday to meet the student who
will conduct the Norwegian
school.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14

A pup is as friendly as a pols
tician two days before election.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14

The Dixie .Quintette at the
Opera house, Sisseton. May 22
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
Long Hollow.

Special Correspondence.
Last Friday evening there was
a box social at the Long Hollow
school house where Miss Maud
Shank is teaching, and it was
pronounced a social and financial
success by all who attended. The
proceeds were $63. An inter
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14

quaintance asked young man
whose aunt had just died. You
never appeared to care much fox.
the poor lady.
II didn't" said the youth dole
fully; but ! was the means of
keeping her in a lunatic asylum
during the last five years of her
life. She left me all her money,
and now have got to prove that.
she was of sound mind.
Just Wants to Know
What is politics?" asks a
youthful subscriber. Politics,
my boy, is where we get it =
sometimes in the neck, some
times in the region of the solar
plexus.
Then" !" he asks, what is a
politician?"
A politician is the reason we
have so much politics.
Still thirsting for information,
he inquiries: What is a states
man?''
A statesman is politician.
gone to seed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14
Peever.

pcc,al Core Spon.!emce:
Alfred Nelson was Sissetoga
visitor Saturday.
Carl Schmidt transacted busl--
ness in Sisseton Monday.
Alec Murray and S. H. Rens-
vile drove over to Waubay anal
returned last Saturday.
Sheriff Swanson was down
from Sisseton Saturday and sofd
a string Of horses at sherif'ss
sale.
The 18th of May will be cel--
ebrated in Peever and a grand
time 10 promised all who attend
There will be races and games
Come one, come all.
Peever, Roberts County, SouSSa
Dakota, May LIST, 1909. Law
abiding citizens of Roberts cou11-
ty, S. Dak., are respectfully
asked to lay their guns away
until Sept. lst 1909, as the sea
son is now closed under the
present game law. Yours
respectfully, j. B. MURRAY.
game and fish warden.
't,C
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-05-14

Mems suits C cane d and
pressed for 75c and up at the
City Tailor Shop.