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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
Good Roads the Paramount Issue.

Next to good crops nothing is of more
value to community than good roads.
The cost of good roads is nothing when
compared with the colossal sum that
has been wasted in the last 80 years in
the building of punk bridges and ap-
proaches for the summer freshets to
have fun with in connection with the
bridge-builders' trust Farmers lose
more every year on account of bad roads,
by considerable sum, than the amount
it would cost them in taxes to secure
such roads as they have in the eastern
States-roads as solid and safe in wet
weather as in dry. And what pleasure
it is to drive over good, wide thorough
fares, with plenty Of room for autos to
turn out without going into the ditch.
Hurrah for the highways made hard, wide and
level,
To drive on by night and by day.
Secure, so that torrents that flow like the-ms-
chief
Won't wash all the bridges away;
Where horses may trot though the wagons are
loaded,
And oxen don't have to be prodded and goaded,
And men do not say, "Now just see what the
snow did
To make this old mud-hoie say"
Hurrah for the road where the ruts and the
ridges
From all its wide surface are missed:
No culvertS half-sunken, no rickety bridges
For grafters to add to their list.
The farmer will smile as he husbands his forces,
No rigs in the mud, and no wind broken horses
His wealth will increase, and Of all the rich
sources
Good roads will rank first, insist
The fact is now clear, and with this understand
ing
Success is as certain as fate,
II all honest people persist in demanding
Good roads at the earliest date.
To let the work languish would be great pity,
So you Of the country and we Of the city
Let each man consider himself committee
To work at it early and late.
Some issues can wait, but good roads are too
urgent
To brook any needless delay;
Let sordid stand-patter and rugged insurgent
Get on the band wagon today.
Too long for the fat things of earth we've been
striving,
Now let's not be foolish because we are thriving;
We need better highways for walking. and
driving
The paramount issue l say. Blk.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
HILL CITY.
CUSTER.
ARGYLE AGATE ES.
BY OBSERVER

BY OBSERVER.
Mrs. Cora Pond returned to Elk Point
Monday.
F. Pencil has gone to Elk Point to work
at his trade.
Mrs. Guy Simkins returned to Ore.
vile Sunday.
A. D. Hale is working for F. J.. Lewis
on his ranch this week.
Ethel Pond and son, Louis, are both
working for NJ. Zeimet.
Seeding is getting pretty well along
now, showing large increase in acreage
sown.
r. C. Flutter finished seeding last
week and went to the lime kiln to work
Monday.
Mr.. Snyder, brother of Chas. Snyder
returned home Saturday after brieI
visit here.
A free candy pull will be given by the
Social Club next Saturday night, Apri
SOth. A good time expected and a full
house desired.
Mr.. George Gumm has bought the i'm
provements on the homestead Of J. Z
Gorrel at lS-mile place. Consideration
in the transaction was $4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

1t is indeed gratifying to note the
trend of political sentiment in this vicin-
ity for denomination and the election
of Congressman Martin and Burke. The
new settlers have many reasons to be
thankful to these gentlemen for nation
al legislation in their behalf and only
awaited an opportunity to show their
appreciation and good will, as was evil
denced the past week, when a petition
was being circulated for Eben w. Mar
tin and Chas. Fl. Burke for reelection
to congress on the republican ticket, met
no opposition, and no voter to whom
said petition was presented (save three
or four lone democrats) refused to sign
and promise their loyal support, and
even the three or four gentlemen spoke en-
of expressed admiration for our congress
men and their course in congress-
Farmingdale Gimlet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
THE BALL GAME AT HILL CITY.

1.-THE BALL GAME AT HILL CITY.
On Sunday, April oath, the Custer ball
team accompanied by fifty loyal fans,
took the train for Hill City. The game
was exciting from the moment Everest
Palmer called play until the last man
was retired. Custer used two young
pitchers against the veteran batters and
found the score to z at the end of the
eighth but by whirlwind finish the
game was won as our boys piled up five
clean hits, one for two bases by Alsire,
his catching the last four innings was
one of the features of the game. We
were assisted by loose playing on Hill
City's part after the balloon went up.
We have the girls to thank for their en-
thusiastic roofing and loyalty.
Sunday the home team plays at the
New York mine and on May 8th, Hill
City will seek revenge on our diamond.
A good game can be looked for as both
teams are practicing hard. One feature
that has marred the games in past years
will be done away with. There will be
no fighting or wrangling between the
rival teams. The Custer players and
fans have only praise for the treatment
and hospitality shown them. The fol-
lowing is the score.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
ALMOST A CIRCUS TRAIN.

When the Omaha business men ar
rive in Custer, May 2lst, they will come
in solid steel train of Pullman cars,
having on board an electric lighting out
fit, moving picture show, Omaha mill
tary band, thirty thousand sheep bells
10 "Ring for Omaha" and give away
many tons of advertising matter and
souvenirs; barber shop, press bureau,
corps of stenographers and the whole
connected by a telephone system of
forty instrume nts and real central"
That makes almost circus train:
Then there will be "free parade" I"
the Omaha business men preferring to
do things in order and not in haphaz-
ard way. When they arrive at the de-
pot here they will not break ranks and
scatter, but march behind their band up
from the depot to the main street and
principal street intersection. From
there they will go direct to the stores,
Offices, banks and places of business
they desire to visit. They are on the
investigate all the time, and displays of
farm products, live stock and other re-
sources of the country through which
they pass are always of interest.
Every member of the party will carry
a bright colored sun-shade and wear
white hat.
1t was Omaha which originated such
trips-away back in 1SS3-and parties
have been going out every year since.
The telephone system on board is an
Omaha idea. When the train pulls into
depot where a telephone connection
can be made, the train is always con-
nected up and the visitors talk from
their train up and down the line, advis-
ing other towns when they will arrive
and where the train spends an evening,
it is connected with Omaha and the visi-
tors talk to their folks at home. The
carrying of moving picture show is
also an Omaha stunt and wherever the
train is in the evening, a show is given
either in the open air or in hall.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
Climbed Harney Peak.

Rev. George S. Keller, accompanied
by Rev. Mr.. Cross of Sturgis, returned
from a trip to Hill City yesterday after
noon. The journey was made on horse
back and the clergymen were accompa-
MED by Miss Woodard and Miss Mans
field of this city, Miss Moody of Sturgis,
and Mrs. Jackson, of Pierre. At Hill
City the party was joined by Mrs. G. G.
Grim and Thursday they all rode to
Sylvan Lake and climbed Harney Peak,
returning to Hill City the same evening.
In many places the trail leading to the
summit was blocked by wind falls. The
party lunched on the summit near a
spring, which gushes forth from a
grassy pocket. The day was clear and
the air bracing, while the view from the
summit of Harvey is described as moth
ing less than maghifcent.-Rapid City
Journal
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
For Benefit of Athletic Association.

The Custer Athletic Association is well
to the front at present, with two benefit
entertainments appealing to the public
for patronage. "As You Like TIP will
be played tonight at the Garlock opera
house, the Association to reap the bene-
ft of its financial success and home tai
ent entertainment is being planned for
the near future.
Now, what is this Association-past,
present and future?
The past is quickly told, for its history
is brief. 1t had its origin in wave of
moral enthusiasm for the young people
of our town, which eliminated in the
"parents meeting" held sometime since,
at which a committe of citizens was ap-
pointed with the view of initiating some
organization for the benefit of the young
people. This committee in turn invited
some of the young men to organize an
Athletic Association promising them the
support of the committee and the citi-
zens of Custer. The Athletic Associa.
tion is the direct outcome of that move
ment. So much for the past.
At present the Association has paid
up membership of so. A board of
directors whose names command the
confidence and respect of our people,
and a small, but good athletic equip
ment. The wonder is that so much has
been done in so short time.
Now, as to the future. This is the
important phase of the situation. 1t is
the aim of the directors to conduct the
Association as near as possible along
Y. NJ. G. A. lines. The Sunday baseball
features to be run independently. The
future success of their plans; the reali.
cation of this idea; depends upon the
people of Custer. This institution can
be made the best thing the town has
ever had. 1t can grow into just what
We make it, Let US all unite with en-.
thusiasm and support this young Asso-
citation. Let our criticisms be con-
structive and helpful-not adverse.
The Association needs money and
friends an increasing membership and
more adequate equipment. Let us boost
this laudable enterprise with might and
main. t. T.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
Card of Thanks.

Through the CHRONICLE we wish to
express our sincere thanks to those
friends and neighbors, both in Edge
mont and Custer, who with words of
encouragement and acts of kindness
materially assisted US in carrying our
burden of sorrow during the illness,
death and interment of our husband
and father; also for floral offerings, and
especially to the army veterans who
consigned his body to the tomb.
Mrs. FRANK PHILLIPS,
EDGAR PHILLIPS AND FAMILY,
GEORGIA PHILLIPS.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

When you pull down the town in
which is your home, your business, you
are pulling down yourself, and when
you build up your own town, you build
up yourself and your neighbor. Try and
Danish from your mind the mistaken
idea that the good things are away off
in some other locality. Give your town
all the praise it can legitimately bear.
1t will certainly do you no harm, and
will cost you nothing, and above all, pat
ronize home institutions. Be booster
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

The difference in the explosion OF
compounds and powder is that in the
former the whole charge explodes sim
ultaneously by conclusion, while with
powder the fuse sets fire to and explodes
the grains nearest to it, these communi-
cate the fire to those touching them, and
so on, until the whole charge is fred
Mining Science,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

A stenographer in the Board of Health
Department of Boston resigned her job
for the reason that male members of the
Board insist in promoting the health of
the women by hugging them. AS the
latter exercise had no perceptible effect
on her pay check she passed up the hugs
and the Job.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

With agreements signed by the unions
and the master builders prospects are
for season of peace in the building
trades. The plasterers, bricklayers and
carpenters are now under agreements
which will hold one year. The contract
closed by the carpenters with the Build
ers' exchange places the schedule at 80
cents an hour. The plasterers are work
ing at 75 cents an hour and the brick
layers at 70 cents an hour.-0maha Bee.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Veteran Craftsman Crosses the Divide.
CHARLES LOUIS PHILLIPS was born in
Milford, Jefferson county, Wisconsin,
August IL, l848. Died in Custer, S. D. !,
at IL o'clock a. M, April %, 1910 !;
aged 81 years, 8 months and IL days.
Mr.. Phillips married Miss Frank
Hovey, May IL, 1872. Unto them three
children were born, two of them still
living. He was quiet, unassuming cit
izen, devoted to his family. Always
fond of reading he kept in touch with
the worlds events.
He enlisted in Company 'I", 10th
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving
in that regiment during the Civil War.
On account of poor health he came to
the Black Hills in 1890, locating at
Edgemont. He came to Custer in the
Spring of 1896.
He learned the printers trade when
small boy and followed that vocation
through life, having published several
newspapers during his lifetime. As q
craftsman he was careful and painstak
ing in his work. In his young days
holding commercial cases" in various
cities and was always proud to be called
member of the craft. But Father
Time has finished his copy; the grim
pressman Death has "locked his form"
the Foreman of the Universe has taken
the "last proof" of his page in the Vol.
ume of Life, and the Silent Messenger
conveyed his Spirit to the "Sanctum
Above, for its final reward and repose
Brief services were held at the resi-.
dence Sunday afternoon, by Rev. K. W.
Powell. His body was conveyed to the
cemetery and laid to rest by army vet
Grams.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Wrought-iron pipes have the advan-
tage over cast-iroh in pliability, light
ness and toughness. They are easier to
handle and cheaper per foot notwith-
standing that their cost per ton is about
25 per cent greater. Also they may be
made in lengths of from 15 feet to IS
feet, instead of l2 feet, making fewer
Joints per mile, and possess the addi-
tional advantage that they may be bent
through angles up to % degrees.-Min-
ing Science.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Pierre, S. D., April 22.-The special
call of state taxes secured in the March
collections, which was sent out to a num-
ber of counties in the state, has brought
to the treasury over 100000, which
means that cash will be paid for sew
eral weeks longer and that it will be
some time before warrants are again
renisterad
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
A recent report of the Bureau of Sta

A recent report of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, Department of Commerce and
Labor shows that in 1909 over 81, 600, 900
worth of copper was imported into the
United States from Canada. The table
of exports, however, shows that the
United States sent to Canada $ll, 200, 900
in machinery, 80, 500, 900 in various cop
per manufactures and 81, ,5O0 900 in elec-
trical instruments.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
Fifty Years Experience of an Old Nurse

Fifty Years Experience of an Old Nurse.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is the
prescription of one of the best female
physicians and nurses in the United
States, and has been used for fifty years
with never-faiing success by millions OF
mothers for their children. 1t relieves
the child from pain, cures diarrhea,
gripping in the bowels, and wind collie.
BY giving health to the child, it rests
the mother. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

The tendency among mining engineers
and others who are interested directly
or indirectly in mining, to exhibit in
their oa1ces mineral specimens, suggests
the growing importance of the study of
mineralogy. Scientific and technical
schools, as we'll as museums, are adding
to their collections of minerals, because
the public show an increasing interest
in the product of the mine.-Mining
World,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

In estimating the first cost of a stamp
mill, the cost of the battery may be
placed at $500 per stamp, not including
cost of transportation. The foundations
will cost sos per stamp. Roughly 81 900
per stamp will pay for fully equipped
mill, ready to start.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

1t has been proved experimentalIy
that, as a rule, the length of the charge
of explosive to be placed in the blasting
hole, should not exceed 8 to - times
the diameter, for single holes. That is,
a l-inch hole should never have more
than IL inches of explosives placed in
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Officers of the National Republican
League have issued call for the bien-
nial convention of the organization in
New York, June 26. The session will
last three days and delegates from every
section of the country will be in attend
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Five millions of gold was shipped to
Europe last week from New York and
III millions the week before. But as
our mines are turning out about 100
millions of gold per year, the export of
gold hardly calls for passing comment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
s u. Coz,
Elk Mountain Precinct.
REGISTER OF DEEDS.

hereby announce myself as can
didate for denomination to the office OF
Register of Deeds of Custer county, 5.
D., subject to the decision of the Repub-
Iican voters at the primary election to
be held June 9TH, 1910.
w. w. OLDs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
Mules, Mules, Mules for Sale.

Three span, also one wagon, one set
work harness and one team horses.
GEO. B. HITCH.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

A 6-inch grade is one commonly used
in sluices. This means 6 inches to the
box, 12 feet long, or about per cent
GRADE
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Canon City, Colo, April 25.-Two
convicts were instantly killed and three
others were fatally wounded while at
tempting to escape from the state peni-
tentiary here tonight.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
REPRESENTATIVE.

I hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for Representative of the 45th Dis
trict (Custer county,, South Dakota,
subject to the decision of the Republi-
can voters at the primary election to be
held in June.
JOHN c. HAYES.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
COUNTY AUDITOR.

/ hereby announce myself as candi
date for Auditor of Custer county, S. D.,
subject to the decision of the Republican
voters at the primary election to be held
in June. -
Custer, s. D., March %, 1910.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30
COUNTY AUDITOR.

1 hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for the Office of County Auditor for
Custer county, S. D., subject to the deci-
sion of Republican voters at the June
primaries.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

The smelling point of gold is from
1900 to 2, 300 degrees Fahrenheit.-Min-
ing Science.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-04-30

Custer, s. D., April 25, 1910.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-23
FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER %. 1910.


OTIS HE Board of Education, with general public approval, con
coded the just request by a very large and increasing ee
ment of the cHys population that the sessions IN three large
night schools be held on Wednesday night, instead of Friday night,
because on Friday night begins the Jewish Sabbath \ lew ar
row-minded individuals conceived that this step was inImleal TO the
welfare of the public schools and they set about TO get signatures
to petitions TO the board to rescind its action. Nothing is easier
to get than II signature to a petition, and it, may be affirmed with
truth that two.thirds of the persons who signed these petitions are
perfectly Indifferent to their object. But at least nneteentweh.
tieths of the people of Newark approve of the change made by the
board. n change that is not an inconvenience TO any night school
pupil and is "A just and necessary right for hundreds, many oil whom
would otherwise be excluded from the benefits OF the night schools.
Public education is to be adapted to the needs oil, the population
Newark is cosmopolitan and her population needs are quite different
from those OF IL small interior town, where the population is homo,
upneous. II would be Il perversion of the States educational pollcN
to maintain, and unnecessarily, school hours to exclude Il large
class from equal advantages of education. The Board of Education
will. of course, make permanent the necessary change it has made
in three schools.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-23
Night school ~F,.plise~.

To the Editor of the Evening Star.
Last year l attended one atthe night
schools here in Newark. ina, while
these Institutions deserve all the credit
that ear be given them I wish to pro-
test against a matter which existed in
the school I attended. once a week tie
pupils would assemble While tho
principal delivered a lectura, fol-
lowed BY a few operas from a phono-
gEaph.s Some evenings these sessions
would last half an hour. others an hour
or more. Some weeks two evenings
would be taken up for this sort Of edit
cation. The majority of the pupils who
were in my class were very much
averse to giving mp their evening and
spending them in this manner The
lectures were not particularly instruc-
tive. as most OF them had for their
theme the LOYALTY due 10 the school,
As the entire evening session lasts
only onu hour it is very unjust TO have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-23
PUBLIC DENTISTRY 4 PUBLIC ECONOMY

oTa HE Wild prevalence of stomach troubles and of diseases that
have their origin in the causes thereof is now known TO he
due largely to defective teeth. The great majority of people
take no proper care of the teeth and mulntudes never use a tooth
brush. One of the essential duties of parents is to train their
children to care for their teeth, but Il canvass of the public schools
will show comparatively few children who receive such training.
Amongfhe poor the cost of dental care is usually prohibinve, and
the childs teeth are left to rot. Obviously, the State has a duty to
perform in this respect. Decay of the teeth means impaired health,
loss of vigor and usefulness, and therefore the question is an
economic one. The future public value of the child is lessened or
destroyed, and in too many cases an expense is put upon the State.
The conclusion is inevitable that the State should, for the best
economic reasons, provide a means for caring for the teeth of chill
dren and of teaching them by example the vital necessity of ceanli-
ness of the mouth To their credit it may be said the dentists of
Newark have unsefHshly given themselves to efforts to establish a
system of public dentistry, especially among school children, and
they have set a shining example by conducting free clinics for chill
,iren. Public interest in the question has now been we'll aroused,
and We believe the outcome at an early day will be free dental
service for the poor in manner the same as they now receive dis
trict medical service