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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
THE BERESFORD BOOSTER CLUB ENTERTAINED THE MEMBERS AND
FRIENDS or NEARBY GOOD ROADS CLUBS
BOOSTERS FOR BERESFORD LIVE ONES
Three Automobile Loads From Here and Jefferson Attend Meeting
Number Of Interesting Addresses
We're Given

We had heard considerable Of the
Beresford Booster Club. but until last
evening we had not had chance TO zee
them work, and SO or course had paid
but little attention to what they we're
doing. However few days ago, Or.
Bushnell, president Of the Elk Point
Good Roads Association. received an in
vitation for the Elk Point crowd to at-
tend a banquet and we we're fortunate
enough to receive an invitation to 40.
company them.
The drive was little cold, but just To
see the enthusiasm shown by that bunch
up there was more than worth all the
discomforts we may have had.
We arrived in Beresford at about 0
o'clock and after getting little OF the
frost out 81 our bodies We proceeded 10
the hall where the meeting was to be
held. Talk about surprised We had
expected 20 find perhaps tifty members
of the club before mentioned, gathered
together and listen TO few good talks
and then get feed and come home.
But we were doomed 70 i pleasant disap-
pointment. Instead Of fifty persons, we
should imagine there was at least 200
present, together with band and i
number Of out Of town speakers. There
was I number from Alcester and others
frcm over IN Clay county. while the
speakets had come All the way from
Sioux Falls.
The addresses Of the evening pertained
in most part To the good roads question
with sprinkiing Of talk on Commercial
clubs and state advertising Ohas. Day
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
SHOULD BE GIVEN
A FAIR TRIAL
0steOpathic Treatments Should Be
Taken With Idea 81 Getting
Good From Them

lBy DIR. r. A. QUICK, Elk Point, s. d.
IN taking up osteepathic treatment do
50 with the idea Or getting all the good
ous Of IL and give the osteopath fair
trial 10 produce results. III you don't
Jon are not giving yourself Or The doctor
Or osteopathy square deal
IG you have been suffering for some
lime don't expect to get an immediate
cure. While IL ii true many ssases have
been cured IA very few treatments he
majority take 4 number ID effect cure.
Don't become impatient II ii sakes
some time for your case may be stub.
born one. and only d very small per cenl
81 diseases are quickly cured You
should understand this when you realize
how long you have suffered ana hou
numerous are THE times many 81 you
have changed doctors and medicines,
The length il treatment depends entire
" ID Tie condition ana long standing i
The aiseAse.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
UNITED STATES FAST COMING UP WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM
THE SHOE BUSINESS
OVER 100000 PAIRS EXPORTED IN 1910
This Article Of Wearing Apparel Goes to Practically Every Country IN
the WOrld.--NIaSSaChuSettS Leads all Other
States in Their Manufacture

Is 1ecial 10 the COURIER

The American shoe manufacturer IS
giving johnnie Bull foot race in the
export trade. having exported over sevss
million pairs Of shoes to the worlds
market IN 1910. and at the present rate
OF speed il is estimated that this country
will send over eight million pairs Of IT'S
shoes abroad in 1911. The United King
dom exported thirteen million pairs or
shoes in 1910, but the percentage Of gain
is small as compared with the United
States. One wonders after a trip
through New England, and particularly
through Broclxton, where the Douglas
and WaIkover factories are II, led aid
10 Lynn, where armies OF men and
women are employed in making women's
shoes, how il is that so many shoes can
be used, but already Milwaukee, st..
Louis, Philadelphia and other sections
are making the Massachusetts, cities
hump to maintain their supremacy. Be-
sides the great domestic supply one
wonders where all the exports go, and
the answer is. everywhere. Our most
productive markets are Japan, Korea
siam, the Dutch East Indies. Egypt,
Portuguese Africa. Liberia. the Belgian
Kongo, AsIatis Russia, Alden, German
Oceanica, British Guiana, Ecuador,
salvador, Costa RIGA, Roumania, Turkey
in Asia. China, British South Africa,
Paraguay, the Straits Settlements. Span
ish Africa, Bulgaria, Honduras. Dutch
West Indies, Haiti. Sauso Domingo,
Seryia, lire Azores. Haderia. TO say
nothing Of the larger importers Of our
boots and shoes -Cnba, Mexico, Eng
land, Canada, Germany and France.
Taft Is at Home
The presidents Tag again floats ever
the White House-it never does when
the executive is out 81 town; and corlse'
quently the people 0f the capitol are taxi
ing official notice that the big trip Of Mr.
Taft has come ID close The president
is giving go3d deal al time 10 the pre-
paration Of his message, and returning
congressman on capitol hill, who are re
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
OLD TIMER
DIES SUDDENLY
Fay Madison, An Old Settler ii
This Community, Drops Dead
Near YanktOn

4 large Number of the residents oil
this community win be griesed 10 hear
Of the sudden death Of Fay Mattlson, 4
man who helped 10 make the early his
tory Of this Immediate section, near
Yankton Tuesday Of this week
y seems that Mr.. Madison had gone
for an auto ride and had gotten ont 81
the machine TO visit few minutes with
q friend who lives about six miles from
Yankton and had gone into the house.
Ten minutes later he was found dead,
heart failure being given As The immeai-
ate cause
Mr. Madison has been engaged Id The
saw mill business the greater portion Of
his life and help ID erect and operate the
mill built b. pr. Stew In what is now
Civil Bend township.
He leaves 10 mourn his loss d wife ana
three sons, and . host of other friends
and relatives. The funeral was held III
Yankton 1T 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
MUCH INTEREST TAKEN At THE MEETING OF THE GOOD ROADS
ASSOCIATION SATURDAY EVENING
One HALF THOSE PRESENT ARE FARMERS
Considerable Business Was Transacted Principal Part Of Which
Was in Reference to the Locating Of the Highway
Between Here and Sioux Falls

The meeting of the Good Roads Assoc
citation in the court house Saturday eve
ming was the largest that has yet been
gotten together. Fully fifty per cent Of
those present were farmers and they
showed great deal Of interest in the
doings Of the association
After an informal chat OF perhaps a
half an hour the meeting was called 10
order BY the president. DR.. Bushnell,
and the business of the evening was
tackled.
After the reading OF the minutes Of
the previous meeting, and acceptance 81
the same, the committee who had 10
be named to experiment with the road
drag and automobile, made their report
and according TO all that was said the
experiment must have been all that
could have been desired. Ia the north
ern part OF the state there is an associa-
ton That has purchased a second hand
auto and use it for no other purpose than
20 drag roads aud this Is found to be a
very good way TO do the work.
Next on the program was the report
Of the committee sent To Sioux Falls to
attend the meeting Of the various parties
interested Ia the road 10 be run from
Winnipeg, Canada, to the Gulf Of Next
60. They reported an enthusiastic meet.
ing and seemed much impressed with
the work done.
The question OF the ronte.og the road
was then taken up and as the association
Of this place had been asked to lay uat
the nearest and best road from here 20
Spinkas our part of the undertaking. a
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23

route was finally agreed upon Beres-
ford has for their part OF the work. laid
out the road to point two miles directly
west Of Sphinx and the Elk Pointers have
been asked TO make connections with
them by the nearest and best route. AT
first there was three routes considered.
one to leave Elk PoiLt by way Of Main
street and continue along the old Govern
ment road 10 the county line and then
north to a point three miles west Of
sphinx, and thence one mile east to the
point Of intersection with the Beresford
portion. The second road 10 be con-
sidered vas that Of the Middle grade aud
out past the South ST. Paul's Lutheran
church, and thence through Spiak to the
Beresford road The third was by the
EAST grade through R.chland aud then
west 70 the church and on to Sphinx.
The first road mentioned had little
support, although IL would be a road
with the least bends Of any, but is has
the disadvantage Of paralleling the rail-
road almost all the way to the county
line and has TO cross the railroad several
times This first road was soon dropped
and discussion turned to the Middle
grade and the Richland road or East
grade.
Quite a number were in favor OF the
East grade owing 10 the fact that there
Is less traffic over this road and so teams
and heavy hauling are less apt to be met
with. and also has . good many less
bridges TO be crossed, although this is a
minor Item as the township board has
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23

ceiving fragmentary information as to
shat the message will Contain, are fore
casting their attitude upon the big cues
tions that are TO come up, and the Demo.
cratic leaders who have been assembling
to take charge OF their endless fields 81
investigations, are proclaiming that they
won't do ii, applying their threats to
mostly any old suggestion that comes
from the White House.
ON the Iucrease
One Of the most popular crops re-
ported by the Census Bureau in these
days when politicians are kicking on
every phase Of the great national scheme,
is shown to be mules--the long-eared,
four legged kind that Champ Clark
promised to drive down Washington S
principal avenue ii lie ever became
speaker Mr. Clark WEIGHED but the
multiplication Of the crop Is going on.
and il is earned that the member oil
mature mules Increased from 2.753, 4Se
III 1900 10 s.764. S42 in 1910, and the
average value per head increased from
s04 IA III 1900 10 slsI54 in 1910.
Am Interesting Exhibit
The whole front show place OF one Of
WashingtQn's principal photograph gal
leries is filed with pictures Of Senator
LaFollette The senator has beer
caught in every pose and position,
with and without smiles, reading. sic
Ting. standing, scowling and apparently
Iscolding. In some Of the photographs
IAN Of which are the best specimens 81
The art, the senator looks MS though ht
was carrying all The burdens OF all tht
people Oh his shoulders, while othei
pastures leave him entirely care free. /
Els about the most marvellous display D.
exprsssions ever fastened onto single
individual outside Of the .smovin's.
Everyone stops to look, and most D
them say: What the deuce did he &c
20 many taken fors' And As the senate
never explains II is not likely that tn
curiosity 81 the capitol will be gratifie'
with All answer.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23

OF the Argus Leader og Sioux Falls, gave
very interesting address. Is did also
Mr.. Dodson Of the sioux Falls Press and
Chas. LaBay, secretary 81 the Winnipeg
70 the gulf road ASSOCIATION.
Addresses were also given by various
members Of the Beresford club md
number Of the visitors were also called
on.
AZ the close Of the speech making, We
we're invited TO partake Of what WAS
called i Dutch Lunch. served by lie
young men Of the organization. Ne
started hame bout u o,elocl
The Beresfora Boosters are sure Two
bunch, and We people Of Elk Point could
do FAR worse than 70 pattern after them.
Rerestord has i privately owned elect.
rio lighting plant and II Is pleasure TO
see she lights shining out when We were
miles from town. This alone il an "a,
yertisement that is worth untold sums u
q city.
The COURIER thinks that ii is high
time that the people of Elk Point were
waking ap TO the fact that our town can
stand boosting, and then get together
and BOOST.
rs booster Tor Elk Point and better
roads.
Those who attended the meeting from
here we're Or. BushneIl. Ds. Mcdonald.
DIR. Hendrix, Chester MaiE. Thomas
GnndeFs0n. John Clemen1son. Lee wal
tiers, Or. Grange, Jay Wilmarth ana
Ora g Frazlne: also Dr. PinaFd and o.
n. johnson Of Jefferson.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
c. II. DILLON
OF YANKTON
Pays Us q Pleasant Call at Our
ONCE. lis Out For Congress
From This District

G. H. Dillon Of Yankton, paid us q
very pleasant cell at our Office this after
noon. Mr. Dillon is > candidate for con-
gresham from this ilrst CONCESSIONS
district, and seems 70 be man Of good
principal
He has progressive ideas ard will 20
doubs inforce them Il be 4 given The
Office. MI. Dillon has SER W III various
public Offices on different a. ssions and
we have not the slIghtfnl doubt but
what he would ill The oeata lie seeks
with equal satisfaction.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
TRAIN WRECKED
NEAR BURBANK
One Car Of q Freight Train Jumps
the Rails and Tears up 100
Feet Of the Track

Monday evening at about o'clock, an
extra east bound freight train had one OF
its cars jump The track at point about
three quarters Of d mile east of Burbank,
tearing up about 100 feet Of the track
and the passenger trains going west were
delayed about four hours on It's account.
No one was hurt
Roadmaster Carlson went from here tic
the scene Of the accident and oversaw
the job 81 again getting the track il
shape.
The wreck was caused BY the dropping
OF u break beam.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
Entert ainIneIlt 3 Success

Z. Marion Crawford, - irnpersonator
from SalIna, Kansas, gave : very To-
teresting entertainment under the
auspices Of the Christian Endeavor
society on last friday evening ii me
Congregational church.
A fairly good crowd WAS Ii attend
ance and The entertainment seemed III
be much appreciated by All who heard
y. NJ. Crawford il ! good talker and
seema 10 know hie business.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
SENATOR GAMBLE
PAYS us A CALL
The Senator Is Making q Flying
Trip Through This Part Of
the State

We acknowledge very pleasant cal
from Senator Gamble of Yankton ON
Wednesday afternoon OF this week.
This Ii our FIRST meeting with the
senator and we found him very agree
able gentleman. senator Gamble ii
making sort Of hurried "trip through
this portion Of the state, and says he
finds things In first class shape. and al.
though he does not underestimate Mr.
sterling's strength, he seems very hope.
ful rs 70 the result Of the primaries next
June.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23
Wedding in LosAneeIes

a wedding offuterest 70 many people
ia Sioux City took place Monday iD
LosAngeiea, when Miss Lou Ella
Comfy. daughter o. Or. and Mrs. James
Gritiin Comfy, Who sre we'll known 10
Sioux City, having bean residents Of
Eli Point S. p, for many years. and
WI. James Al. Keeney we're united IN
marriage Alter December lst Mr..
and Mrs Keeney viii hs 81 home II
1878 LaSalle avenue, LosAnRelesG
The bride Is an authorizes q some
talent Sioux City Journal
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-11-23

Con sinued on Page 3.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
WATAUGA NEWS ITEMS.

Watauga, Tenn, March O.
Geo. A. Reese, Of Chicago, arriv-
ed here Wednesday morning to
attend the funeral of his brother,
w. E. Reese, but upon arriving
here found that his brother had
been buried the day before his
arrival in the Highland cemetery
at Elizabethton, but on Thursday
he and his only living sister went
to Elizabethton to see where the
dead Of the family had been laid
to rest and to visit relatives.
Mrs. G. L. Scott apG her four
children, who had been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Winnie Newton.
at Chattanooga. arrived here the
last of the week to join her hus-
band and visit relatives and is
now visiting relatives at Piuey
Flats.
Mrs. ]. f. Dunlap left Monday
for Nashville to represent the
Eastern Star of this place at the
grand lodge.
H. B. Houston left for Nashville
Tuesday to represent the Mason
&c lodge of this place at the meet
ing of the grand lodge.
DR.. J. w. Wallace is in Knox
Vile to visit his mother and other
relatives.
Buford Lorimer, who has been
visiting his uncle, E, w. Lorimer,
and other relatives, returned to
his home at Jonesboro Tuesday,
]. H. Woodby, of Erwin, who
has been visiting in our neigh
borhood returned home yesterday.
w. 7. Scott, of Marion, Va,
made his regular weekly visit to
our place in the interest of Hunts
man Bros.
Thomas Gibson, who has been
working near Limestone, is visit
ing homefolks.
Elkanah Shell and wife, an
aged couple, are confined to their
home on account of illness.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
IS 99 YEARS OLD AND
HALE AND HEART Y

Lewisburg, Tenn, March TO-
Squire Robert ]. Orr, of Belfast,
one of Marshall county's most high
ly esteemed citizens, has just entered
upon his ninety-ninth year, being
the Oldest citizen of the county. He
retains his mental vigor and his
physical strength to a remarkable
degree for one of his advanced years,
and the indications are quite favor
e.. that he viii live to round out a
full century, which is earnestly hoped
By all who know him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
WHY LINCOLN GREW A BEARD
Amusing and Pretty Little Story of a
Wee Miss Who First Suggested
1t to Him.

There are thousands of authentic
portraits and pictures of Abraham
Lincoln in existence today. When he
was young lawyer in Illinois, rid
ing the circuit" in the country dis
tricts of that state, he was photo
graphed by local photographers hun.
dreds of times, and gradually, as he
became famous In politics, his picture
was taken many more times by expe-
rienced and skillful photographers in
the larger cities, each one of them at
tempting to excel the other in the
best likeness, of the man who was
occupying so much attention through
out America and Europe, says writer
in Pittsburg Dispatch. Naturally, too,
during mis- administration, and as
successful close, he was not only
snapped, but caricatured at every pos
sible phase-from the sublime to the
ridiculonS.
During Lincoln's presidential cam.
paign he received a letter from a GER
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
POWERS GENTRY SAVED
FROM DEATH SENTENCE

Nashville, March Io.-Governor
Hooper, after a personal investiga.
ton of the mental conditions of
Powers Gentry, of Monroe county,
now in the Davidson county jail un-
der sentence to hang next Monday,
has announced that the mans SEN
tence would be committed to life
imprisonment. Gentry is an imbe-
Gle. 1t was found that the man
could not tell who his lawyer was, or
anything about the trial.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
KNOXVILLE MAY
BE HEADQUAR TIERS

Washington March 10.-Knoxville
may be made the headquarters of the
National Conservation Commission
which is to, spend $11,0O0,00O in &C
quiring forests reserves i'll tbs Appa-
lachian White Mountains. Represen
tative Austin has urged Knoxville as
the headquarters Of the commission 10
the Chairman, Secretary of War Dick
inson and all other members. No de-
cision will be reached for some weeks.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
4 Guaranteed Article.

Many things are advertised and many
promises are made, but it is not always that
these promises are made in good faith nor
can they always be kept. With laxative
remedy like Dir. CadweIl's Syrup Pepsin,
il is different. This remedy will cure con-
siipation, indigestion, liver trouble, Aatu-
lency, heartburn, sour stomach and all other
diseases of the stomach, liver or bowels, in
old or young. A rich company is behind
every statement made.
1t is absolutely guaranteed to do what is
claimed for it, and if you want to try it be-
fore buying, send your address for free
sample bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co. II9 Cald-
we'll Bldg, Monticello, H. 1t is sold by
all dealers at soc and 81 bottle.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
"You See, Grace, I've Let My WhIs-
kers Grow"

tain small Miss" expressing very
frankly the opinion that she thought
he would look much nicer with "whis-
kers." The child's naive simplicity
evidently appealed to him, for he at
once began to cultivate" them.
Several years after Mr. Lincoln'e
death, the incident by many people
considered a myth, became known in
detail, and was found to have an ex-
ceedingly substantial basis. The lit
tie girl in question was Grace Bedell.
who lived in Westfield, Chautauqua
County, New York. Her father, who
was a stanch Republican, was great
admirer of his party's choice for pres
ident in 1860, and one day carried a
big campaign poster home with him.
On the poster was a picture of Lin.
coin and Hamlin, around whose faces
was an appropriate border of rail
fences. Little Grace examined the
picture carefully, and then exclaimed:
"Mr. Lincoln would be twice as good
looking If he had whiskers like you,
papa"-over which opinion the family
had a hearty laugh.
But the child was mortified at their
nirth and at the fact that her remark
was being made joke of when she
was in dead earnest about the matter.
In the privacy of her room she deter.
mined to write to Mr.. Lincoln herself,
feeling sure that he would not mis-.
understand her, even though her OVID
family had.
Imagine her establishment, when, in
the latter part of October, letter
came to the village postoffice for
Grace Bedell, with signature which
said, Your very sincere well-wisher,
A. Lincoln" The letter was as fol.
lows:
My Dear Little Miss--Your agree
able letter of the 18th is received. ]
regret the necessity of saying that /
have no daughter. / have three sons;
one II, one and one years of age.
They, with their mother, constitute my
whole family. As to the whiskers,
never having worn any, do you not
think people would call it piece of
silly affection if | began wearing them
now?
Your very sincere well-wisher,
A. LINCOLN.
The letter didn't exactly promise he
would follow her suggestion, but ap-
parently he took it to heart and acted
on 1t shortly afterward He evidently
kept the girl in mind all the time, too,
for when he arrived in Westfield on
his campaign tour he asked from the
platform whether there was small
miss in the audience named Grace
Bedell. When the surprised girl was
brought forward Mr.. Lincoln climbed
down off the platform, took her up
in his arms and, kissing her, said:
You see, Grace, I've let my whis- |
xers grow for you"
And thus it has gone down in history
hat it was on account of a child's re-
quest that Mr. Lincoln grew whis-
xers." The little girl, Grace Bedell, !
Who brought about this change mar /
led before she was IAN old maid" and
vent to live in Delphos, Kan.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, IS.

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, IS,
LUCAS COUNTY
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner of the firm Of F. j. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the City Of Toledo county and state
aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum
of ONE HUNERD DOLLARS for each and eve
ry case of Catarrah that cannot be cured by
the use of Halls Catarrh Cure FRANK j
CHENEY.
Sworn to before me md subscribed in my pres
ence this 9th day of December. A. D 1888
lCn., A w. GLEASON,
ioNAAp NTARY PUBLIC
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surface
of the system. Send for testimonials free.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
hiuh eulldinns In Old Romr.

II is a curious fact that the Romans
IN the time of the Caesars experienced
much trouble with high buildings. A
law was passed restricting the heigh.
70 60 feet
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-03-16
Nature AZ Ea,nt7

The steamer duck of South America
loses its power of tight as II natures
The reason is that It's wings do not
grow as the rest of its body develops