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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
DAKOTA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER %, 1911.
OBITUARY.

MRS. RUGGLEs WooD.-After lingering
and painful illness, Mrs. Rugglei
Wood died last Wednesday, December
18th, 1911, at her home northeast o.
town.
The funeral was held Friday at IL g.
m. and was attended by a number oi
sympathizing friends and neighbors.
Rev. K. w. Powell officiated.
Mrs. Ellen Shultz Wood was born in
Pennsylvania July 10Th, 1S4S. The fam
lily moved to Iowa in 1866. She was
married at Waverly, Iowa, September
llth, 1857, to Ruggles Wood. To them
we're born seven children. They came
to Dakota in 1891, and have lived in this
vicinity ever since.
Mrs. Wood had many friends who ap-
preciated the sterling worth of her char
acter. She was thoughtful, unselfsh
christian woman, q loving and devoted
wife and mother, kind nsighbor, a
good friend.
Her husband and three children, two
sons and one daughter, Mrs. Chas. Cor
don, survive to mourn her loss. All,
with several grand children, were with
her during her illness.
The heartfelt sympathy of their many
friends 90 with them in their sorrow.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
NAaaINa HoMEsTEADERs.

The following sent out from Washing
ton under date of Dec, 4, will interest
homesteaders in the Black Hills.
There is real roar going up from the
Western Congressman against the over
doing of the conservation business by
the general land office, and while there
are no Members of Congress but who
favor the honest enforcement of the
laws in reference to the public domain,
yet there is strong feeling among the
Representatives who come from States
where there is large amount of home
stead land that the obstacles being put
in the way of honest homesteaders have
resulted in great many cases almost to
persecution.
The South 'Dakota delegation in both
Houses are hot-foot after the evil, and
Congressman Burke declares that "all
these isms under the head of conserva.
ton, resulting in the wholesale with
drawing of lands, on account of their
alleged mineral value, as for instance, in
the Lennon district, and in the policy
of the land department in haggng
homesteader settlers by the filing oi
protests against their entries, and inter
fering with their just rights, has been car
ried to such an extent as to amount tc
nothing short of outrageous"
Congressman Martin from the same
State, believes that the subject of fraud
has been greatly over-worked and thai
as result the field force of the land
Office has become timid in even doinl
Justice to honest homesteaders, for feal
of criticism, resulting in the visciou'
custom of charges being filed agains
homesteaders, whether there is any
basis for it or not. Mr.. Martin intro
duced bill late in the special session
which will be pressed at an early date
to facilitate prompt action on final proc
| on homestead entries either upon pro
tests or any other good and suficien
reason. The bill provides that hearing
shall be given the homesteades Within
three months, and that within 80 day
after suspension he shall be served will
notice stating the grounds thereof.
Representatives from other States ar,
quite as emphatic as the South Dakots
delegation, who are by no means anon
the principal sufferers. One Membe
| spoke of the matter as eastern senti
ment promoted by theorists and feature'
by muck. rakers in the name of conser
vation-but far apart from the name,
as being at the bottom of all the home
steaders troubles being felt in 30 man
Western States.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
THEORY AND PRACTICE.

He wrote cheer up poem,
This light and airy bard,
To fill gap maybe
A quarter of yard
All cluttered up with sunshine
And knocking gloom and hate,
And then he raised the rafters
Because his meal was late.
Oh, there were smiles abundant,
In every word and line,
A strong and helpful message
In setting sweet and fine!
He stopped it in the making
To throw pot of ink
At cats beneath the window
Who wouldn't let him think.
How great was the annoyance,
How bitter was the cup,
He pleasantly requested
Each reader to cheer up.
And then his youngest daughter
Came sliding through the door,
And at the interruption
He raised an awful roar.
1t cannot be expected,
Though it is served on ice,
That men who write the message
Will take their own advice.
They may have good intentions,
But when it comes to act,
Like every other mortal,
They bump into fact.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
Land Filings at Rapid City.

Copied from the Daily Journal.
Homestead
026SS7-Lawrence V. Anderson, Buff
falogap, WI nwf Sec. II, e4 ne Sec. Is,
t rs, R 7e.
Isolated Tract
026S96-Mona Brickley, Hermosa, set
net nj set Sec. 32, T. Is, R Sc.
Desert Land Entry
O26Ssl-Irene Nolan, Buffalogap, lots
8, 4, set sw4 Sec. 10, T Is, R Sc, et set
Sec. "a, T 6s, R. 7e.
O2692O-Walter G. Coulter, Hermosa,
nj net Sec. 2S, n4 nwt Sec. 81, 7 2s
r 9e.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
DR.. H. J. JAMES,
Physician and Surgeon.
EYES TESTED.
First Bsnh Safip9ni Building, Custer, S. D.

One of thA things the Observer would
like to see The next Legislature do would
be to pass a law making it necessary for
all companies selling stocks Of any kind
in the State to produce sufficient evil
dence to prove their legality and honesty
and safety. Doubtless the people of this
State are actually swindled out Of tens
of thousands of dollars year by wild
cat companies and smooth agents repre-
senting them. The people have no pro-
lection against these highway robbers
who go over the State selling all kinds
of chances in South America and Mexico
plantations and ranches, and mines in
the west that exist only in the fertile
and wicked imaginations of few prince
fakirs and grafters. Until law was
passed in the State of Kansas a few
years ago compelling such companies to
produce evidence of their honesty and
financial rating before doing any bust.
ness, from three to FIVE millions of dol.
lars were stolen from the pockets of the
people of that State by these swindlers.
When the agent of mining company
offers to sell stock to man that will
pay 80 or 40 per cent a year, or the agent
of South American fruit company
offers proposition that will pay hun
dred per cent on the investment they
can both be put down as grafters of the
first magnitude, and the lave of the
State should prohibit them from doing
business among an innocent people
Don't worry. The Observer has never
been bitten by any Of these sharks
though he has had many chances, but
many of his friends have, and more will
be If they do not read this column anG
take warning. Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
HOW GOLD PENS ARE MADE.
Product Of American Factories Distri-
butte Ink Around the World.

The tiny tip Of white metal seen on
the under side of the point of gold pen
may be of platinum, but it is more like
ly to be iridium. Iridium Is a very
hard metal and it is expensive; it costs
about four times as much az gold. Tho
purpose of the iridium tip is, of course,
to give the pen more durable point.
The gold pen maker buys his gold at
the assay Office in bars of pure twenty
four karat gold, which he melts and al.
loys with silver and copper to the de-
gree of fineness required. Gold of four
teen karats is used in the manufacture
of the best American gold pens, that be-
ing the degree of fneness deemed most
suitable for pom use; but good pens made
in this country for sale in France are
made of eighteen karsts, the French
government requiring that all articles
exposed for sale in that country as made
of gold shall be of not less than eighteen
karats.
The gold from which the pens are to
be made is rolled and rerolled until what
was originally thick, heavy bar of gold
has been rolled into thin gold ribbon
about three feet in length by four inch
es wide. Then this gold ribbon is put
into a machine which stamps out of it
pen shapes, all still fat. Then on the
tip of each ofthese pen shapes is fused
the iridium point, and then the shapes
60 to a Sitting machine, which cuts the
slit in the pen. From the Sitting ma
chine the pens 60 through another,
which gives them their rounded, fam
iliar pen form, and then the pens are
ground and polished and finished ready
for use.
American gold pens in fountain pens
or as dip pens are sold in every country
in Europe in competition with pens Of
British or German manufacture, and un-
der the same competition they are sold
throughout the world, in South America,
Africa, Japan, China, wherever pens are
used.-New York Sun.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
Taft Republican Convention.

The Republican Taft Club, of Huron,
extends this invitation and issues this
call to the Republicans of South Dakota
who favor the denomination and election
of William II. Taft as President of the
United States to meet in mass convention
in the opera house in the city of Huron
on Friday morning, January 5th, 1912
at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of organic
ing state Republican Club, for the pass
ing of appropriate resolutions, and for
the transaction of such other business as
may be necessary to promote the pur'
pose of said meeting.
E. L. ABEL, President.
B. B. M'CLASKY, Secretary.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
The Electric Lights.

The dynamo for the Custer Electric
Light, Heat & Power Company, is ex-
pected to arrive today. In the mean
time force of men are wiring the busi-
ness houses and residences and pushing
the work as fast as possible. The COM
pany hope to turn on the lights New
Years night.
Rates: Business houses zoe per kilo-
wat an hour with a minimum charge OF
$500 per month. Residence l5c per
kilowat an hour with minimum charge
of ST so per month. Lights for single
room will be $l.O0 per light per month,
$l.50 for two.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
OFFICERS ELECTED.

At the annual election of the Chey-
enne River Telephone company, held at
Buffalogap on Saturday, December 10th,
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
Pres.-George Havens.
Vice Pres.-H. H. Streeter.
Secy.-N. B. Streeter.
Treas.-A. W. Miller.
Directors-Thos Wilson, j. w. Dal-
hey, A. Rasmussen, B. Korthaus, T. B.
wilkins, Jos. Kubler.
An assessment of So 90 was levied for
the year 1912.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
Notice of stockholders Meeting.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of Custer County Bank will
be held at the Office of said Corporation
in Custer City, S. D., on Tuesday, Janu-
ary 9th, 1912, for the purpose of electing
Board of Directors for the ensuing
year and the transaction of any other
business that may lawfully come before
said meeting.
T. W. DELICATE, President.
Attest:
c. E. PERRIN, Cashier.
Custer City, Dec. IA, 1911.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
With the Coming of Middle Age

There is letting down in the physical
forces shown in annoying and painful
kidney and bladder ailments and urinary
Irregularities. Foley Kidney Pills are a
splendid regulating and Strengthening
medicine at such a time. Try them.
A. J. Jones.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
Gard of Thanks.

We wish to extend to our friends and
neighbors our sincere thanks for the
kind words and expressions of sympathy
which were extended during the sick
ness and death of our wife and mother.
RuaaLEs WooD AND FAMILY.
Custer, s. D., Dec. 20, 1911.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
A Terrible Blunder

to neglect liver trouble. Never do it.
Take DR.. Kings New Life Pills on the
first sign of constipation, biliousness OF
inactive bowels and prevent virulent in
digestion, jaundice or gall stones. They
regulate liver, stomach and bowels and
build up your health. Only 25c at All
Druggists.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
Pringle Camp M. w. Of A.

Pringle Camp No. S4l7 NJ. W. of A.
have elected the following officers for en-
suing year:
P. C.-Chas. Pringle.
V. C-R. ]. Turner.
Advisor-J. Z. Conlon.
Banker-Chas. Smith.
Escort-W. E. Broadhead.
Watchman-William Young.
Secretary-Peter Cairo.
Managers-Pringle and Smith.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23

The December semi-annual appor.
tionment of the income fund to the
schools of the state has been made and
amounts to $l49,677 "a or So cents for
each school child in the state. Custer
county receives 81, ,04662.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23

The National headquarters of the
Socialist party announces that the next
National convention will be held in
Oklahoma City, May 18th, 1912.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
10 PER CENT OFF FOR CASH.

Beginning Saturday, December End,
up to January /, 1912, we will give 10
per cent off on everything for Cash, in
Guiding Groceries, Hardware, Boots and
Shoes, Gents Furnishing goods, Flour,
Feed, Hay and Grain.
This is done in order to reduce stock
prior to taking our annual inventory.
Now is the time for you to take ad-
vantage of these extremely low prices
and stock up for the winter.
Yours truly,
T. ". GARLOCK.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23
Attention, Eastern Star Members.

Attentlon, Eastern btar Members.
Our next regular meeting coming the
night after Christmas, it is deemed ad-
visable not to have meeting that date.
The following regular meeting will be
Tuesday evening, January 9th, 1912.
BERTHA MILLER, Sec.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23

Some remarkable changes have oc-
Cured of late in our foreign trade in tin
plates. Exports of these products in
October were l2 times those of imports.
The quantity exported in the month Of
October, 1911, was 1894 1893 pounds,
valued at $533,997, and the imports for
the same month aggregated l,2S6,877
pounds, valued at $4S, S,284.-Bradstreet
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-12-23

For the first time in over quarter of
a century, that is, to be more precise,
since 1883, there was a surplus instead
of deficit in the Post Office Department
in the fiscal year ending June 80. The
revenues for the year amounted to $237, :
S79,8 1928 go, and the expenditures $237,
660 705 So, leaving surplus of $2l9,-
1882. This presents marked change
as compared with the fiscal year 1909,
when a deficit of over $l7,4O0,O00 was
recorded The deficit appears to have
been wiped out without any curtailment
of postal facilities, for 3,744 new post
Offices have been established, delivery
carrier has been provided in 1856 addi-
tional cities, 2,5l6 new rural routes ag-
gregating 60, 679 miles have been author
lied, and the force of postal employed
have been increased by over 5000 pei
ns.-Bradstreet's
The Washington times., 1911-05-14
Coarse and Unfeminine

They think it is coarse and un-
feminine, But she lights her cigarette
with as much grace as II she were
arranging roses. She tits her head
backward and they watch, fasci-
natedly, as the small, fleecy puff of
white smoke issues from her pretty
lips. She is not coarse and she is not
masculine. She is pre-eminently dainty
and exquisitely feminine. And a lot
of the foundational structure of pref
udice is swept from under their op-
position to women smoking.
Men, who are not so given to phil
osophizing superficially as women,
draw smoking lines. They say it Is
all right as Mrs. So-and-So does It.
But there is a reserva tion III the con-
cession that irritates a girls curiosity
If she says. But you don't really
think 1t is right for a woman to
smoker" a man will answer, "Oh,
guess it's a matter of individual taste"
Perhaps he could not say anything
The Washington times., 1911-05-14
SHE HOLDS 1T UP TO THE
Girl Who Smokes

to smoke But 1 would not want my
sweetheart to do It. At least. she
would not be my sweetheart If she
did"
You mean you would give up a
girl you loved II she smoked?" I ex-
claimed Indignantly. just ready to ask
how he thought women managed to
overlook the fault in men.
mo, I never would get far enough
along the love route to have to give
her UP. If knew she smoked. l
just could not love her"
He saw my amazed disapproval.
It's Rather Companionable
She might take it up after we
were married. It's rather companion
able. But the girl you love has got
to be the-well, the Glove, pinks
and white lilies of life to you! A man
likes to think he is loving his dream
woman, his ideal. I don't fancy ap
preaching the summit Of happiness.
Just ready to kiss my sweetheart's
lips-to smell cigarette"'
That Is the best reason I ever heard
for not smoking. It's a deep, deep
reason, too, a reason with Its roots
in a mans heart. We women have
taken men, smoke and all. And it's too
late to go back on a habit We have
condoned in them. But l should hate
to miss the love of man who wanted
me to be his ideal, to help him keep
alive the Illusions that life tries so
hard TO kill, just for a nasty little
paper cigar!
The Washington times., 1911-05-14
Reddy Smith On
a Woman'S Fight

Did yu motto de wun dat jes passed?
Sorter sad lookin. wild big hollow
eyes? She's purity. Jimmie, mighty
purity. an dey all knows it. too. But
dem hollow eyes an de sad express
sion. dat's what I'm glttin' at. Course.
if 1t wusn't dat l knows hur rum
cumin' thru de square, dey might
mean sumpin' different tu me fram
what dey do. but bein' as l knows hur
dat's all de explanation yu needs.
Dem hollow eyes an de sad ex-
preston, Jimmie, is de outcome NV
uh good woman's fight tn be straight.
Dere de outcome Nv de odds that are
uh-gainst hur, de fight tn live on 80
per week She wurks in uh store up
de street, bein' nice tu cranky women
from seven till five thirty, an gifts
fur hur gruelin' task de large an
magnifercent sum Nv paltry dol
lars. She's got tn pay two fur uh
four by six room, an de rest goes IN
eats. When yu figure 1t up, Jimmie,
1T all goes, an dere amt nuthtn left
fur uh rainy day ur uh doctor casn
she got sick Den, yu knows how uh
good woman. II she's purity. tracts all
de men? Well, dey Jes flock thru de
store, offer hur diamons an clothes
an money an she has tu fight dat
temptation back an starve tn do 1t.
/ tells yu, Jimmie, it's uh shame, dat
uh good woman like dat has such uh
struggle-but it's always de way, de
good feel it de hardest!
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

Thus, in the inscrutable wisdom OF
Providence, r. l., are children the un-
conscious little agents for different
things.
Hah! What's this? What's what? The
boy has stopped stock still before a
lighted window. His eyes distend, his
lower Jaw drops, and he stares, stares-
A regular pair of stares.
Suddenly scream after scream bursts
silently from his boyish lips. In a
moment the street, once so quiet, was
now so excited! A motley throng,
thrilled, thronged through the thor
oughfare. As one throng they asked
Petrach Pfiff what was up.
Look commanded the lad, pointing
in at the window. Man brushing his
teethr'
With a low cry of impotent despair.
the crowd dispersed.
The Washington times., 1911-05-14
Loretta's Looking Glass

- rs a very vital question-this to
smoke or not to smoke! But, for
all its quarrel stimulating power,
l have never heard a good sound rea-
son advanced against 1t. OF course,
the health reason, but that applies to
pastry-absorbing as we'll as smoke
consuming. Lots of women illuminate
against it. Some men do, too. Then
they go some place and are suddenly
confronted with a smoking woman
who appears to upset all of their
theories
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

cent meal is to that tramp leaning
against the pole outside.
Bravery. That was the password
to my latest attempt to make a hit.
I'd like to have the guy that said all
girls fall for bravery behind this
counter for about a York minute. Any
how, l tried 1t. What are girls most
afraid Of? l figured. Mice came the
answer. Mice.
So l gave the errand boy a dime
to hook mouse out of one Of TIA
traps, sic 1t on Juliet and then yen
Rats" Well, up to the yelling
everything was smooth. 1 was over
the counter ready to do or die, when
Juliet leans out of the cage and
heaves the inkwell at the animal. The
mouse got the well, all right, but I
got the ink. Lordy, but looked fool
ish! Kick me in the shin. will your
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

Confound 1t, he sed.
And awl that bizness about the but
ton was wat set Franklin inventin'
agen. It's rediculus. he sed. people
herting thare nuckels awl the time. I'll
invent elecktrisity. that's wat I'll do. he
sed, and then we can have electrick
bells and make awl the naybors jelus.
And that's wat he went and done, rite
out of the klouds, ony not peeing a
meen kid buy eny meens, he let the
naybors in on it. to. or else awl Of
us mite still be herting our nuckels the
way his father dun.
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

in the morning, until his father got
kind OF soar at him, invenshun in
them days not beeing thot so mutch
OF as it is now, espeshlly in Bostin,
ware Franklin lived, on akkount Of awl
the people beeing to bizy citing beens
to be bothiring thare heds about it.
You want to cut that out. his father
sed, inventing all erround the place
like that. 1 don't notice you inventing
enything to eet yure meels for you or
to save up awl the nickels I'm awl the
time giving you, he said.
SO Franklin did cut it out for vile,
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

else with a cigarette between his own
lips Still, it Is not an answer.
1t Is aggravating not to be able to
get a real expression of opinion. At
least thought so. And I made kind
of crafty canvass.
A man whose life has been lived in
the heart of great cities, but whose
ideals and tendencies were formed in
the village where he was born and
spent his childhood. epitomized the
whole question.
Yes. I think it's all right for women
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

should especially direct appointments
at this time.
Large herds Of beef cattle now oc-
cupy and Craze in the grounds Of the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington,
according to Alexandria dispatches,
and are destroying the beautiful young
trees. Northern troops, 1t is stated.
continue to arrive in Washington in
numbers varying from 1000 to 5000 day
Thirteen members Of the Rhode Island
regiment are reported TO have been sent
home in command of Major Slocum as
a punishment for intoxication and dis
orderly conduct
At the st. Louis arsenal, says
newspaper Of that city, deserters from
the service are punished by mounting
them on a tall hobby horse. nine to ten
feet high, coming to a point at the top
The Washington times., 1911-05-14

magnificent entertainment tonight at
which will be attended by the presi-
dent and his cabinet, General SCOTT
and staff, the diplomatic corps and
all the prominent army officers now
stationed at Washington.
Major Rucker, the chief assistant
quartermaster of the military district
OF Washington. 10 organizing a large
wagon train for the transportation of
supplies to the camp from the ware
houses on the Georgetown wharves,
where they are stored. The wagons
are made by Henry Simons. of Phil
adelpnia, and will be drawn by four
horses.
II is reliably reported that Hon. ].
{. Faulkner and D. T. G. Holland,
commissioners from the confederacy,
The Washington times., 1911-05-14
The Southern View
May IL, 1881 (Tuesday)

Colonel William Malone (of Crater
fame), president of the Norfolk and
Petersburg Railroad, has been ap-
pointed to command of the Craney
Island forces. according to advices
from Norfolk. Some of Governor
Letcher's appointments. It is declared,
have been received in that vicinity
with much indignation. 1t is com
planned that, true to his old instincts,
he Is elevating to places of trust the
first and rankest of former submis-
sionists. Fair dealing. 1t is asserted,