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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-06

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duc.ed in the Presbyterian church
next Sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Townsan and Mrs.
Herman came from Mitchell Mon
day evening in Mr.. Townsan's au-
to, to spend the Fourth at the
home OF Mr. md Mrs. Haynes.
Mai. and Mrs. Robert Dollard
returned Wednesday morning from
q visit of two weeks spent in Tyn-
dali and Springfield. They spent
the Fourth at the former place
where the Major delivered the ora
ton of the day to a company es-
timated at five thousand people.
A farmer in Day county tells us
that when plover are numerous we
are sure to have a dry season as
the plover, like the Russian thistle,
has an affinity for drouth condi-
%tions. By all means, then, let us
amend our laws so that there shall
be no restrictions on the killing of
plover.
Miss Zelenka, an accomplished
musician and music teacher of
Sioux City, is visiting at the Hutch
ison home. Mrs. Burdick and
Mrs. Moline have been among the
students OF Miss Zelenka and she
accompanied them on their visit
to the home of their parents.
We are informed that Mrs. Min
ME Becker, who has been principal
of the schools at Max, N. D., the
past two years, was married on
the 9th of June to Mr.. John Keel.
ing of Max. Mr.. Keeling is an ex.
t%ensive land owner, having several
thousand acres near Max, and is
a prominent business men of that
place. We join with the Scotland
friends CT Mrs. Keeling in con-
CALCULATIONS and best wishes for a
long and happy welded life.
The National Holiday was cele-
brated in various ways by the PEG.
pie Of Scotland, but the majority
of them spent the day trying to
find a cool place. Quite a number
went to Tyndall, the only town IN
the county where a celebration
was held. About $50 gathered at
Nissen's grove half a mile north
of town and enjoyed a picnic din.
ner, some races and other sports +;
others went to Olivet where a pic
mic was held in Langer's grove,
There was nothing doing in town
until evening when the pent up en-
thusiasm was spent on a display
of fire works. The weather was so
oppressively hot that the most con-
%sspicuous banner unfurled was the
handkerchief which was waved un-
%ceasingly across the brows of the
perspirinp patriots.
Since the 21st of June there have
been eight days that the thermom.
eter has registered 100 or more
1t has been a very trying time for
all kinds of crops, but it is sur
prlsing how well they have with
stood it. Some of the early fields
of wheat and oats have already
been cut and next week will be a
busy one in the harvest fields
The wheat seems to promise a
pretty fair yield, while oats are
very uneven, some fields being fine
while others will hardly be worth
the cutting. On the whole the crop
will probably be as good or better
than last year. Corn is looking
we'll but is at the stage when it
. should have plenty of moisture and
much depends upon the next few
days.
The news of the death of Mr.. Fl.
M. Lund of Newport, Washington
came as a great shock to his
friends and relatives here. His
death was caused by paralysis and
. occurred only a few hours after he
q received the stroke. Mr. I,nnd
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-06

Moved AM seconded that w Ship
man be allowed $1,000 on his Libertin
Ditch contract. Motion carried and
the auditor is hereby instructed to
draw a warrant for the above amount.
On motion Board adjourned to l
O'Clock p. m.
Attest: Jos Wagner
G. e. STODDARD Chairman
Auditor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-06

H G Gum commissioner
salary & mileage Is 80
Chas Dirks commissioner
salary & mileage 20 80
C ] Kelley sheriff attending COM
missioners 3 10
On motion board adjourned sine die.
Attest: JOS. V. WAGNER
G E Stoddard Chairman
Auditor
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-06
Commissioners Proceedings.

Tyndall, S. D., June 30, 1911
Board of County Commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment Present,
Jos. V. Wagner, Chairman, Philip
He'll, c. N. McCollum, H. G. Gum,
Chas. Dirks, c. E. Stoddard County
Auditor and c. ]. Kelley sheriff.
Moved and seconded that the follow
ing wholesale and retail liquor bonds
be accepted and approved. Motion car.
ried:
Frank ssiiss!!ary Wholesale Tyyndan, S. D,
Jno. Gund Brwg Co. do
Jno. w Taplett do
c. IL j. Michael Brwg Co. do
Frank Zolnowsky wholesale Scotland
Matthias Reidinger Jr, retail, Tyndall,
Frank Black
August J Zolnowsky
Frank Sisler
Frank McKenna
Hoff Bros Avon
Jno. Y. Pritzkau
Peter Mootz Scotland
Frank Iolnowsky
Karl Schmidt
Hruska & Trunec Tabor
NJ B Welt
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-06

The news of the death of MI. FL.
! M. Lund of Newport, Washington,
came as a great shock to his
friends and relatives here. His
death was caused by paralysis and
occurred only a few hours after he
received the stroke. Mr.. Lund
was a very successful hardware
merchant and was we'll known in
Sioux City, Scotland. Lesteryille
and Newport where he has been
successfully located during the
past twenty years. He was pre-
pairing to take a years rest which
he expected to spend in California
and in Wisconsin, his old home.
Mi. Hiundi was a generous, atfabIe
soul who leaves many friends aud
widow to mourn his early and
sudden close to an active life.
Mrs. Lund is a sister of Mrs. Rob.
ert Dollard and has many friends
n this locality who are grieyed
over her loss and extend their sym.
pathy in this hour of trial.
FsaEGIEE EEHg4lME-M A
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-23

What did our Puritan ancestors dine on at
their first Thanksgiving feast? Surely they
did not set the standard which Is being fol-
lowed today on the Thanksgiving dinner
menus.
We know that some things were lacking That
they must have greatly missed. There could
have been no butter, cream, milk, cheese, or
any dish that is principally made with milk,
because there were no cows In New England
until 1928 when John Winthrop, later their
worshipful governor. brought over four COWS
from England. The butter and cheese that
they took with them on the Mayfower were
long since consumed. | hardly think they had
chicken pie for the feast. for the fowls were
served as a rare delicacy for the sick. They
could have had eggs for their pies and pud-
dings. Since they raised pumpkins they might
have had pumpkin pies. if they made them
with water
In the ocean there was great abundance OF
fish, oysters, and other shellfsh. Of course,
there was none of their national dish. prime
roast beef, no veal. lamb. mutton or pork.
There was plenty of deer. which would be
good substitute in vension. But they had one
thing that we like better than anything else
on Thanksgiving day. Wild turkeys were very
abundant in the woods and fields about Ply
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Menu of First Thanksgiving Feast

mouth and the Indians went out and shot
large number of them, and made them their
contribution to the feast Governor Bradford
says in his history that they were delicious
to eat How fitting it is that the bird that is
the browning glory of our Thanksgiving board
should have been the favorite meat OF that MIS-
toric first Thanksgiving dinner!
There WERE doubtless, onions, beets, pars-
nips, cabbage or coewort, squash, and perhaps
other vegetables, for a good variety OF SEEDS
were brought over from Holland Perhaps
there was succotash. and the Indians must
have made it, for it was something that the
Pilgrim cooks had never heard of before. and
we know that they learned later from the IN
dams how to make it. Now, what did they
have for dessert / wonder? l think they may
have had some sort of pudding with buckle
berries for plums. l doubt if they had much
sweetening for their pudding and pumpkin
pies, as their stock of sugar and molasses was
very limited. Perhaps they had substitute
There were fine wild grapes in the woods. and
they had doubtless dried store OF wild straw
berries cherries and plums. They surely did
not have any mince pies. since the Pilgrims
thought mince pies we're very wicked, and
savored of Romanism So they condemned
those who afterward made and ate them
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ARE for the November holiday have been
greatly increased in number or variety Your
hearty diner demands on Thanksgiving the es-
sentlals such as turkey and celery and cram
perry sauce and pumpkin pie, which were the
stand-bys of the feast in the days of his father
and his grandfather before him. The point is
that some of the eatables are unquestionably
more havory than were their counterparts of
several decades ago, and-with all due respect
to the kind that mother used to make-some
Of the modern recipes seem to put it all over
the old-timers in garnishes and the prepare
ton of buildings and pastry, etc.
And speaking of the changes that have
come about, take the case of the toothsome
turkey, headliner of the whole holiday menu.
It would be futile to try to convince the high
liver of the twentieth century who revels in
his milk-fed or chestnut-fed turkey from Rhode
island the middle west that his forefathers
ever enjoyed anything so delicious. Certainly
turkeys have increased in size too judging
by the average weight those that find their
way to market. However. this latter develop
ment is clearly traceable to the tendency of
turkey raisers to devote themselves almost
exclusively to the Bronze the largest Of the
six standard varieties of turkeys.
However, there are two sides to this turkey
story and the housewives who preside over
small families are the ones who have had
brought home to them the disadvantageous
side of this boom in the size of turkeys. With
the big bronze birds weighing from 16 to SO
pounds apiece-and usually nearer the latter
than the former figure-crowding the market
it is becoming every year more difficult for
the buyer of a family of two or three people
To find a satisfactory six seven eight pound
turkey 1t really begins to look as though the
small families would be driven to hotels on
Thanksgiving or else be compelled to take In
hoarders or entertain all their friends at the
holiday dinner.
Turkey buying, too, is the phase of the
THANKSGIVING marketing where the increased
cost of living most severely pinches the man
with the stationary income. A dweller in any
of our large cities may consider himself de-
cidedly in luck these days If he succeeds in
getting tender turkey at Thanksgiving for
rs cents per pound and he is much more likely
to be asked any figure up to IS or 40 cents per
pound. which prices have prevailed every
Thanksgiving in recent years in the New York
and Boston markets for the choicest birds
The people OF the central west have an adj
vantage over eastern turkey eaters because
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duck or goose for the regulation InankssiVins
fowl The cost is much less and the SAUSAGE
ton equally great-once a nousenoiuel 10"
freed himself from the tradition that lnahks-
giving without turkey would not De lnanks-
giving. Then too the increasing NUMBER u
vegetarians and persons who have adopteo
diet of nuts or other meat substitutes naVe
devised some very ingenious proxies Tor the
Thanksgiving dinner--non-meat dlsnes Ihat
even simulate the appearance of turkey.
However these newfangled dishes can scarce
ly be recommended as cheap, owing to the
amounts of nuts and the number OF eggs the
recipes call for.
In the face of soaring prices in so many
food lines it is gratifying to note one Thanks
giving Indispensable, the cost of which re-
mains virtually unchanged. This is our old
friend, the pumpkin, dear to youth and old
age alike, in the form of the pumpkin pie. No
person has ever attempted to corner" the
pumpkin crop, and probably person ever
will undertake such miracle. The fact that
the great golden globes with their luscious
"illin'" can be raised in every section of the
United States, and that, too, without any
trouble once the vines are planted, is doubt
less responsible for the moderate prices that
always prevail. Probably there is no town or
city in the country where a good-sized pump
kin cannot be purchased for so cents, and in
most American markets one may buy small
pumpkin-an orb of joy with ammunition SUI
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learn that Texas leads all the otner sla.es
the Union in the number of turkeys prouuo -
Proximity of the market to the rulai u-
trict whence 1t draws it's supply OF hollua.
fowls is highly important consideration ~"
adays, because the mistress of city nonno
can no longer purchase her Thanksgiving tur-
key from farmer who drives up to ner uoo,
marketing the products of his own farm. al
the turkeys are handled nowadays through conl-
mission merchants, which means, OF course,
that there is a middleman's profit to be palo
by the ultimate consumer. Another secret Oh
the present high prices of turkeys Is 1ounu
in the fact that the live birds are shipped long
distances If they are transported by express
the expense is considerable, and If they make
the journey by freight the trip is nearly as
costly, inasmuch as the live birds are sent
by freight only in carload lots, which involves
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THANKSGIVING

I thank thee, Life. for many, many gifts;
For wealth of bloom and tender song that lift
NV life the heated highways path above;
But most of all thank thee. Life, for Love!
thank thee for the body's health: for friends
The daily bread thy kindly bounty sends;
For all the goodly things that are or were;
But most of all thank thee Life. for Her!
For Her count of good thine utter store
That surfeits avarice. Thou hast no more,
No boon to win one covert sigh from me
When | have that whose giving beggars thee
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other commodities in Manchester fell
one-half
The success of this canal started
the duke to build one which would
connect Manchester with Liverpool.
To procure the funds he reduced his
personal expenses to s400 a year.
So straitened was he at times that
the London bankers hesitated to dis
count his note for $500. Sometimes.
when "nard up" he would send his
steward upon a collecting tour among
the tenantry of the ducal estates. The
steward would ride from tenant to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-23
The Cats Thanks
giving Soliloquy

I'm just about tired of waiting
For my Thanksgiving treat;
| see them about the table,
And they eat, and eat, and eat.
They do not think of poor pussy,
Who has had so long to wait;
Why doesn't some one remember
That it's growing very late.
And haven't smelt that turkey
Since into the oven 1t went?
If they'd give just one drumstick,
Why, then I'd be content.
But no, they sit there talking
And laughing aloud with gleo;
l wish that some one among them
Would throw down a bone to me.
There's sA&t greedy little Teddy,
Three tfNes he's passed his plate;
And that turkeys growing smaller
At very rapM rate.
And see Jacks facet IT'S shining
With gravy up to his eyes.
l wonder they take no notice
When they hear my hungry cries.
Oh, dear! There's dessert to follow,
The buildings and pumpkin pies
And the fruits and nuts and candy.
And oh, how fast times flies!
All, there's gentle little Ethel,
She's so loving and so kind,
She's bringing me some turkey bones
And a grateful cat she'll find.
FRANK H. SWEET.
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Disappointed in marrying the most

Disappointed in marrying the most
beautiful woman in England, he de-
termined to unite by means OF canal
his coal fields with Manchester, then
beginning its career as a manufac-
turing town In those days good roads
were the exception, bad roads the
rule. The cottons of Manchester and
the woolens of Leeds were conveyed
from place to place on pack horses.
With logged along in single file. The
freight charge rom Leeds to LonGon
was S63 a ton When the dukes canal
was finished the prices of coal and
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ries is quickly reflected in the price however
cranberries are never so very much or an ex'
travagance because it requires sucn mooes'
r1or+ion r. make I'D batch of cranberry sauce.
When cranberries are plentiful they sell whole
sale as low as 81 per barrel, but few years
ago when there was cranberry famine. the
price went as high as $40 per barrel.
The business side of the problem of supplying
a Thanksgiving dinner for the American people
is by no means the least interesting plase OF
this subject. The city of Chicago alone re-
ceives during the week ten days before
Thanksgiving as many half million turkeys,
valued in the aggregate, at wholesale prices. at
much more than millions dollars. From Cape
Cod Mass the greatest cranberry growing dis
trict, there are shipped each autumn more than
onethird of million loads of cranberries,
and the major portion of this harvest finds its
way to Thanksgiving dinner tables Many car
loads of celery from Michigan and other states
swell the total cost of our Thanksgiving dinner
to millions.
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he dinner is decidedly the most important fea-
EGEe of the program, for, of course, there is no
football game and matinee such many
Americans rely upon for Thanksgiving diversion
and in the case of many of the exiles who OBJ
serve Thanksgiving overseas there is not even
Thanksgiving religious service such as is uni
versaI at home
1t is not merely either that the officers and
men of our army and navy have introduced the
Yankee Thanksgiving dinner to benighted lands
long In ignorance of it's delights. To be sure the
epicurean bluejackets and the lads in khaki
have been responsible for much of this CASTRO
nomic missionary work." but it is also fact
that American diplomatic and consular officials,
and indeed all classes of Americans resident
abroad, have done their share to preserve all
the traditions of the Thanksgiving dinner as
reality In every transplanted home. Especially,
where there is little american colony" in an
alien environment, is the Thanksgiving dinner
right jealousy guarded
But whereas the American Thanksgiving din
ner has been winning it's way around the world
u has likewise come to enjoy more and more
prestige at home The one Earring note in any
present-day eulogy of the Thanksgiving dinner is
to be found in its greatly increased cost over
the expense involved for corresponding menu
3 lew years since. No person who grasped the
import OF the high cost of living" issue in the
recent political campaign can fail to realize
that the matter is q very grave one to the aver
age housekeeper, and especially when it OBJ
trudes itself In connection with a holiday repast
which ought to be occasion for care-free feast
ing instead of domestic perpIexities
The one consolation, If not compensation in
THIS situation is to be found In the knowledge
that our Thanksgiving dinners in this day and
generation are vastly better than the like holi
day spread of years gone by. 1t is not go much
mat the dishes that go to make up the bill of
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Tilted, Builds Many Canals

just after he had attained his major
ity. A dispute arising between the
couple, the match was broken OF
The dukes oFagrin csanged the course
of his life. He gave his first and last
ball to the London world of fashion
and then buried himself among his
coal fields at Worsley. Eschewing
tie society of women. he refused even
to employ them as servants in his
manor house.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-23
Adam Bede on PIttsburc.

Pittsburg patriots twisted their
faces awry at Smoketown pun de-
'livered by former Congressman Bede
Of Minnesota.
Bede put it over in the climax of
a sparkling speech at a chamber of
commerce banquet.
After telling how dearly he loved
old Pittsburg and her fine old peo-
pie. her rich people and her toilers,
he said:
81 like Pittsburg, because if l ever
get tired of the town can wash it
or"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-23
Inland Navigation of Great Britain
Had Its Inception by Disastrous
Love Affair of Duke.

The British system of artificial In
land navigation, which includes sew
eral thousand miles of canal. may be
said to have had its origin in mat
rimonial disappointment. The duke
of Bridgewater. the originator of the
system. was engaged to be married
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tenant, getting G5 here and Gfe
there. When he had collected money
enough he would return and pay the
canal laborers their weekly wages. In
few years, however, the dukes can
ais paid him an annual revenue OF
10000.
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the rental of a special
type of car for the jour-
ney and pay for the
services of a man who is
sent along to feed the
birds en- route.
Owing to the mount
ing prices of turkey and
an occasional shortage
of supply - although
there is no prospect OF
a turkey famine this
year-has induced an in
creasing number of fam
lilies all over the coun-
- c,,hctitI1fp chicken.
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Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio and
other states
a | O n g t b g
backbone of
the country
are the great
centers of the
turkey indus
try, although
it will doubt
less surprise
some of our
IL - G. n
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Lose Their Freedom.

"All men are born free and equal.
said the philosopher.
Il know" said the mRtter-offac
person. BIT 8pRe of am get fTsryt@
afterward.s
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-23

'Ts Mr.. Biffit believer in the up
lift?"
Cant say for certain, but l notice
that he wears his cigar at a dizzy
angle"
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TEADILY growing in signif1-
canoe year by year and in the
fame of it's appe.izing attri-
butes the American Thanks
giving dinner has become
very much of an institution.
1t might almost be said that
1t has become more of an in
stitution than the American
Thanksgiving, itself. At least
If the feast does not over
shadow the holiday at home
it does in foreign parts. For,
be is known, the American
Thanksgiving dinner is now
eaten around the world"
and in these detached realms
- A y,o1,.;1o~ coil ~ con want
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-17
DETECTIVES
SAY WOMAN IS
THE BURGLAR
UNITED pRrss LnAanp wIRn.l

San Francisco, Nov. 17.-Known
among circus people as the woman
of mystery" Mrs. Ara Case, leap
to death" wire performer, was ar
rested here today as the suspected
perpetrator of score of mysterious
burglaries, which for the past week
have puzzled the police. Mrs. Cases
arrest followed an alleged attempt to
'lift' an $50 cloak from down
town clothing store with a confeder-
ate, George Upton, who is also in
custody.
The police declare their belief
that a series OF daring burglarles
followed by escapes of the offenders
have found their solution in the ar
rest Of the performer and Upton. 1t
is alleged that, while Upton stood on
the roof of the house chosen for the
burglary, the woman, dressed in male
attire, was lowered to a chosen win
dow by means of sling, to be
drawn Immediately back to the root
at the slightest alarm.