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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-08-31
IDEAL GROUNDS IDEAL DAY, IDEAL COMMITTEE AND AN deal
CROWD
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE PRESENT
Two Hundred and Fourteen Automobiles Besides Hundreds Of
Other Vehicles, Bring the Immense
Crowds

The Old Settlers Reunion and Pic,
mic, held on the beautiful grounds nesl
Crill's Mill, was, In ell PROBABILITY, the
most complete success known In the
history of the Association. Much nl
this was due to the energy and careful
foresight of Mr.. Grill, LIVERY real need
OF The visitors was satisfied and pro-
vided for, nothing was left 10 hap
hazard chance The grounds, beside
the classic Sioux, are ideal, and so was
the day. There were 2l4 automobiles,
besides hundreds OF carriages, the
woods were full OF them, 1.-THE crowd
was conseryatively estimated al from
1000 to 5000 people. The exercises OF
the day we're "A combination OF the hap
pilv reminiscent and an expression OF
abundant good cheer.
The program as published was sub
stantially carried out, with an occa-
sional extra SANDS dwlchn Rev. Bird
offered the Invocation. The Elk Point
Male Quartette game a number 10 their
usual pleasing way. Mr. Hoffman then.
in behalf Of The excessively busy Mr..
Grill, made everybody feel welcome 10
the Grill grounds. This feIicitous little
speech WAS happily responded 10 b.,
Mr.. Lewis Ranum.
Rev. w |. Beatty, one OF the asaRd
wiches," was called on for remarks,
who after few humorous statemsnts
read an original poem. which will be
found I'M this issue of tiae cobRfER
The formal address of the day was by
Mr.. Oiuf Eden Of Brookings, a former
Union county boy. He referred very
felicitously TO former "reminiscences
aud predicted wondrous things for the
future OF South Dakota, 1.-The garden
spot Of which is Union county. o!
course.
II the afternoon excellent readings
we're given by the county superin-
tendeDt, Miss Kathryn French, snd
Mrs, Art Strobel. A very interesting
paper, written by Mr.. Will Chamber
lain, who could not be present, was read
BY Rev. Blrd. This paper is published
entire in this issue OF this paper. Mr.
Rhodes gave very brief but good al
dress on "Good Morale The principal
address of the afternoon was given by
Rev. Klllgore, Of Akron, Iowa. This
was received by the audience as one OF
the most highly appreciated efforts of
the day.
Among the interesting things were
the reminiscent notes by Mr.. Kent.
The instrumental music furnished,
the boat rides, the ball game, the
boweFy dance afternoon and evening,
were. each considered complete. Al
great big, fat, long, luscious sand
wichn was given Oy Hon. A. Il. Van
Osdel. OF Mission Hil.
The prizes were 40 follows:
Five dollars for the best ten ears OF
corn raised In Union county this year
-Gnst Satter Oh Sphinx.
Two d. liars TO the oldest gentleman
attending picnic John r. Wood Of Elk
Point.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-08-31
DEMOCRATS WHO ARE CONTROL OF THE LOWER HOUSE GET
A LITTLE SATISFACTION.
DEMOCRATIC MEASURES WERE VETOED
Nothing In the Line Of Tariff Legislation Has Been Accomplished E
Cept the Passage of the Canadian Reciprocity Measure
the Purpose for Which Session Was Called
Special to the couREp)

bama, particularly the method by which
legislation has been brought about in
co tgs IS through secret caucnses, has
evidently produced its results, as Under.
wood, who has been the real democratic
power during the session, declared just
before the adjournment Of congress that
be would favor the abolishlng. u star
chamber sessions beginning with the
gular session in December. In an in-
terview Mr.. Underwood declared that he
believes that better legislation would be
promoted and the administration Of laws
more effective il full publicity was given
to the proceedings Of the caucus, and for
these reasons he would court in the next
congress the fullest publicity.
Two Fairs for caiifornia.
Most people never heard that there
was to be an exposition at San Diego.
California. Ia 1915, as well as one in San
Francisco, until resolution asking the
president TO invite Mexico anu South
American countries to participate, was
introduced last week. Republican
leader Mann amended the resolution to
provide that action be taken by the
president for San Diego when The city
has furnished site and has two million
dollars in sight.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-08-31
iour and was easily leading,
Car No. 3 Turns TurtIe

Car No. 3, big Pope Hartford
driven by Dave Buck and Jacobs as his
mechanism had continued tire trouble
He had stopped and changed tires six.
teen times and had decided TO make
lap No. 2S, his last round-and Ii was.
A front tire exploded on the Pope
Hartford car while il WAS hurdling
down the course toward "Hairpiu'
turn at seventy miles an hour. The
car plunged into the ditch and turned
turtle. Bu3k and Jacobs, the mechan-
iclan, we're buried beneath the car.
Jacobs was almost Instantly killed,
dying within few moments after his
senseless body had been lifted from the
wreckage.
Buck was taken to the hospital where
he died at seven o'clock in the even
ing.
The Result TabuIated
Zangel driving National car crossed
the tape at 4:22 O'Clock, winner of the
National Trophy The cheering soon
died out in the big grand stand for IL
Was only a few minutes before that a
messenger had rode quickly in front 81
the crowd and called for MRS. Dave
Buck" The people knew then that
her husband, the favorite driver on the
track, had met with an accident and a
minute after theyoung wife had been
led by ushers to an auto to go TO her
husband the official starter cried out
through his big magaphone that Dave
Buck had been fatally injured and
Jacobs was already dead
The winner, Zengel.
The winners time 1859.
Average speed per hour, 66;05.
Second, Grant.
Fastest lap Muliord, time 1913.
Dead Dave Buck, driver 0. Pope
Hartford. Sam Jacobs, mechanician
for Buck.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-08-31
Social Events.

The Y. w. C. A. girls entertained
Misses Caroline Barlholcmew and May
Miller Saturday afternoon at picnic
supper ia Hoffman's Grove. About
twenty young ladies' were present and
everyone had very pleasant time.
Mrs. VIM. Starr an daughter Mable,
and Dir. and Mrs. / Tucker and child
rem, enjoyed Il picnic dinner Tuesday
on Mrs G. Chambers lawn.
The o O. B. gave p'cnic today at
CDmptons Lake in honor Of Miss
Bartholomew.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-08-31
zENCEL WAS WINNER OF THE BIG CUP
Murd Goes Eight and One-a Miles in Seven MnueS and Thi
teen Seconds and zengel Sixy-Eght Miles an Hour
For Three Hundred and Five Miles
Especial to the CoURIER),

Last Friday and Saturday the big
gest automobile races ever held In
America were pulled off at Elgin, I'll.
The track was a public road which
had been prepared for the meet and
was eight and one-half miles around.
About sixty thousand people gathered
10 see the racing on the first day and
nearly twice that number found their
way to the course on Saturday. $4,000
automobiles were lined up around the
course.
The Events CT Friday
Illinois Trophy-24 laps, 203. 80 miles
Won by Donald Herr in National;
time, hours, 5 minutes, 55 seconds.
Charles Merz in National, second;
time, 3:06:O4. Herr's speed, 1854
miles per hour.
Kane County Trophy20 laps, l69.46
miles Won by hugh Hughes in Mer-
Ger; time, 2:37:2l. w. r. Barnes in
Mercer, second; time, 2:3e:55. w. H.
Pearce in Colby, third; time, 2:4b:ll.
Hughes speed, e3 miles an hour.
Aarora Trophy-l6 laps, 1857 miles
Won by Mortimer Roberts in Abbott
Detroit; time, 2:3l:ll. Frank Kulick
In Ford, second; time, 2:39:ll A. Nj.
Robbins In Abbott Detroit, third; time,
2:48:58. Robertss speed. 535 miles an
hour.
saturdays Meet
The race op Saturday. known as the
s'Naiional Race. = commenced as the
day before, az eleven o'clock. About
10000 people had climbed % seats in
the big grand stand, the starter had
given The signal and ten drivers were
sending the big cars around the track
at 10 miles an hour when crash was
heard and part of the grand stand
had collapsed and sixty people were in
jured.
The drivers we're signaled to stop
while the Injured we're removed 70 the
hospitals of The city aud cared for In
every possible manner.
No Cheers When Race - Resumed
There were no cheers when the race
started the second time. The frequent
trips OF the ambuiances past the grand
stand seemed to have taken the ardor
out Of the spectators. Even the driy-
ers and their mechanicians had lost
their smiles when the cars drew up TO
the line.
The only noise WAS q faint ovation
from the people Ia the eastern section
or The grand stand as Mulford flew By a
few hundred feet from the tape.
Great Speed Made
Ralph :,lulford went around the
course the first lap in minutes aud n
seconds, from standing start. A
prize o. 5000 had been offered for the
fastest lap, which was won by Mulford
in his seventh rouGd, time T:13. The
big crowd WAS disappointed when Null
ford was forced oul Of tbs race on ac-
connt Of engine trouble in the tenth
lap. His average time was 10 miles al
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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-08-31

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 30, l9ll.-
Congress has adjourned, and the coun-
try hreathes easier. The democrats
who controlled the lower house of con-
gress had the satisfaction OF getting up
several measures, which, very much to
their surprise, passed the senate as we'll
as the lower house. They knew in ad-
vance that these bills would be vetoed
by the president and the net results of
the session are, so far as tariff legislation
IL concerned, that the Canadian reci-
procity measure, advocated by the presi-
dent, which was the reason assigned for
the calling of congress, is the sum total
of this kind Of legislation hat becomes a
statute No measure which has not
met the approval Of President Taft has
become law, and even in the matter Of
statehood for Arizona, Mr. Taft was able
to carry out his views by eliminating the
recall of judges from the constitution.
Uphold President Taft.
La the lower house both members from
South Dakota were on hand to help up
hold the position Of President Taft Of
the republican administration during
the period that tests OF power were exer-
cised in the closing hours 0; congress,
growing out OF the veto measures COM
ing from the White House. Mr.. Burke's
position on the investigating committee
of expenditures in the interior depart
ment is one entailing large burden of
work and quite likely great deal Of his
time during the recess of congress will
be taken up in matters of this kind.
Both he and Mr.. Martin have left for
South Dakota.
Bryaa's Attacks Produce Results.
William Jennings Bryan's attacks
upon Representative Underwood of Ala
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17

to a successful result. The sponge OF
commerce is merely the skeleton of the
living animal. whose life is given up only
after days of exposure to the air. This
animal mutilation counts for but little if
the living tissues are kept in sea water.
and with that point in view the practical
bility of growing round, perfect specimens
from small cuts of mature sponges was
proven. These cuts are placed on up
right wires attached to a cement base or
directly to the base itself, and I'm less
than three years attain a marketable size
of nve or inches in diameter.
To the sponge grower the initial cost is
small. the only enemies to be watched are
those of his own class anxious to profit
by his labor and while there is no reason
why artificial growing should not be prac-
ticed on small scale, at least one con-
Germ has gone into ii extensively. with
set-out cuttings of 10000. While the
bureau is well satisfied with the results of
the experiments, it recognizes that not
until several years have elapsed and the
work has been conducted on a commercial
scale can it be accepted as an established
industry.
If present prospects are confirmed. the
work viii 90 trward relieving anxiety
of a possible sponge famine when the in
evitable depletion of the natural beds.
despite all possible protection, is thing
accomplished
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changed for rum or ''aggerdent'' the pro-
visions and supplies furnished them by
the owners of the vessels. This Illicit
trade was always the source of idleness
and dissipation, and not infrequently led
to violence and murder. The vigilance of
the revenue cutters, however, and the
severe punishment melted out to the
smugglers who were caught has almost
completely extirpated this practice.
To best conserve the fishery, federal
legislation has decided on closed season,
and the requirement that all sponges
taken from the sea be at least four inches
in diameter. and to enforce these laws a
revenue cutter has recently been dis
patched to the sponging grounds. The
task of supervising a large tract of water
is difficult for one boat. in spite of the
moral influence exerted by it's presence
and the future of the natural beds is a
matter of more or less grave concern.
Within a few days the question of the
constitutionalty of this law. which pre-
sents some novel legal aspects, will be
argued before the Supreme Court.
Realizing that the time was probably
coming when the natural sponge beds
would be totally inadequate, because OF
their depletion, to supply the demand, and
that the livelihood of thousands of per-
sons was involved, DR.. Moore some years
since commenced the experiments with
artificial growing which he has carried
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ployed in the fishery nearly 5000 people,
and the value of the product had grown
to over half million dollars.
At first the sponges were obtained by
men and boys wading in the shallow
water close to the shore, but as these
readily accessible fields became ex-
hausted the method of longing, allied to
the harpooning of the Mediterranean, was
of three-tined fork attached to pole
by which the sponge in the deeper water
can be reached and torn from its bed.
Naturally with this change in methods
the site of the fishery was extended
farther and farther from Key West until
it covered the entire region OF the coast
from Cape Saule to Bay Biscayne, and
later large area in the Gulf of Mexico
north to Tampa bay.
A young sponge is a small free-swim-
ming organism, possibly carried far by
currents and growing successfully only
when attached to some hard, clean sur
face. 1t has few enemies save man, but
he is most destructive. With the in
creased demand for sponGes, which are
despite the ingenuity of inventors no
satisfactory substitute has been found,
the tendency to take those small and
young regardless of their slight COM
mercial value, was so strong that the bot
toms within hooking reach were rapidly
depleted, largely for lack of breeding
sponges. 1t became apparent that inn
proved methods were required and ex-
periments with diving boats were made
at Tarpon Springs, now the center of the
sponging industry in Florida.
This first venture, by Greek employe
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No Dinner for Him.

D EAR ADMIRAL OSTERHAUS, at a
N luncheon in New York. said OF a
naval disappointment:
1T was as disappointing as absent.
minded Ibson's Christmas dinner.
'Ibson, you know. ran absent-mindedly
one Christmas night into the restaurant
of railway station and asked:
Look here, waiter. did you say I had
twenty minutes to wait or that IL was
twenty minutes to eight
1.-The Tipperary waiter stopped carving
a turkey long enough to reply:
~ said nayther. 1 said We had twen-
ty minutes to ate but that was nineteen
minutes ago. There's yer thrain whist.
lin fur We now"
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shore. and far beyond the limits which
International law recognizes as national
domain. The assumption OF the French
is merely an extension of the rights pre-
viously asserted by the Old beylical gov
eminent of Tunisia, which received quasi
recognition from number of nations
represented by consular officers in the
country of the hey.
The Greeks have acceded tacitly if not
in terms, to the claim of the regency. and
the Italians, while considering that the
extent claimed is excessive, have recog-
niZed the principle of control beyond the
ordinary limits of territorial jurisdiction
The regency government. too is adopting
the policy of quiet suppression of the
"scaphander," while increasing the use of
the dredge. a policy which from the bio
logical and economic point of view, leav-
ing out of consideration all question of
hygiene, appears to be a grievous mis-
take: the diving machine is not an unduly
destructive engine, while the dredge is,
pairment of their productiveness yield
obtained by the former method under
which they would show marked depletion
II 1t were obtained by the latter.
*
The history of sponsing in America as
compared with that of the Mediterranean
is brief, the first sponges being sent to
the market from Key West hardly more
than sixty years ago. A few years earlier
it was discovered that the Bahama
Islands produced sponge of some COM
mercial value and small quantities had
been sent from Nassau to London. Even
before this spongeS torn from their sea
beds by storms and thrown up on the
beach had been utilized TO a small extent
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To Wrap Christmas Presents

age. To make the wrapping attractive
care should be taken i'm combining the
colors of paper and fastening. White
paper and green passe-partout, red bound
with gold and green with silver are good.
AS the passe-partout cannot be actually
tied, il is held in place with the ustle
Christmas pastors, on which are printed
tiny wreaths, pine trees, sleigh bells RED
poinsettias, and sprays of holly and mis-
tietoe.
Gold and silver cord can be bought by
the SPOOL and may be used to tie up
articles too small for the wide passe-
partout. Christmas tags should be fas-
tened to each package, SO that there Will
be no doubt for whom the package is
meant.
Gifts that can be rolled over tube,
such music, linens fancy work.
should be wrapped in white tissue paper
and tied around the middle with red rib
bon and sealed with red wax.
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The C0nnoiSSeur.

roSEPH E. WIDENER, being con-
graduated in New York on the excel
lence of his fathers pictures, smiled ano
said: ,..
Eyes, my father has been discreet
oo,,ector He is not like the New YORK
millionaire whom Sargent visited.
Sargent was taken by this millionaire
through huge gallery of dubious Rem-
brandts, Titians. Raphaels and Murii-
los. .
".Mr Sargent the millionaire said.
,.vine nompously at the long lines of
East. dingy canvases, L have decided TO
leave my pictures to some pubic lnstitu-
Ie e What institution would you sug-
gest" c,. .. ;c
stitution for the blind.
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On Himself.

A n actor at the Players Club in New
"A York said the other day:
II heard in London a good one on Joe
Coyne, the American idol Of the British
stage. Coyne, you know, can't sing Q
note
sian dancer, wrote in the visitors book
at the Peacock Inn in Rowsley:
L dance because must-Anna Paw
Iowa
"Coyne. on a week end trip to Haddon
Hall, put up at the Peacock Inn him.
self. In looking over the visitors book
he saw. Pavlova's pretty autograph. and
took up a pen and wrote:
1T sing because CAN'T. ceyne.~
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Lame Defense.

REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN W. LIT
X TIETON. discussing the Sherman
law with a Pittsburgh reporter. said:
You can't defend this law. Its defense
is as lame as that of the man who de-
Tended the widow.
"A widow of very overbearing temper
was about to marry again. A man said
of her at lodge meeting:
Dear me, that termagant! shouldn't
want to be her second husband, would
you?
'"Then the widows defender answered
lamely:
"'Well, I'd rather be her second hus-
band than her first
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supply is depleted. and thereby afford
pleasure for anglers. The commercial
side of the matter is generally overlooked.
and there is failure to realize that the
anglers interest in the bureau is far less
vital than that OF thousands of persons
whose livelihood and not their mere
pleasure is largely dependent on the work
which centers in the ugly brick build
Ing on the Mall.
The better informed know in a some
what hay way that the government each
year matches several billion of lowly
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A GREEK DIVING BOAT.

in domestic service in Key West, but
that community was isolated from the
rest of the country. it was then popu-
lated by persons more Interested in
wrecking than in production, and it does
not seem to have occurred to any one
that nature for the asking was ready
to provide a means of livelihood to a
population greater than at that time was
to be found upon the entire chain of
keys.
The first shipment to New York was
made at a venture and barely escaped
dire failure. Fortunately just as the en-
tire consignment was about to be thrown
away as worthless it was purchased for
a song by merchant who only par
TALLY recognized its value. The fact
that this hitherto unutilized product of
the sea could be sold at all. however,
served as q stimulus and before long the
merchants of Key West were accepting
sponges in barter for the necessities Of
life which they dispensed to the dwellers
on the keys. In 1908 there were en-
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of sponge house in the little gulf town.
proved so successful that diving boats
We're ordered from New York, New Or
leans and other distant points. some
even being brought from Greece, and
soon over 100 people were employed. and
the Greeks themselves fiocked TO the
place in large numbers. At the present
writing there is established at Tarpon
Springs what is practically separate
Greek community of 2,0o0 people. which
has its own stores, it's coffee houses and
places of amusement, and imports from
the native land many articles of food
These people are quiet and orderly, far
better citizens than the "conchs," as
the original spongers from the Bahamas
We're called, and despite the apparently
typical stage villain whom one sometimes
sees among them, cases of law breaking
are SO rare as to be negligible.
In the old days the spongers were an
unruly set of men and sustained intimate
relations with the Cuban fishermen ire
quenting the coast. with whom they ex-