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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

low with severe attack OF pneumonia
and heart trouble, 10 little better al
the present writing.
Mrs. Steessy OF Elk Point spent few
days here visiting her daughter, Miss
Addie, at the central Office. Miss
Steessy Is our Obligiug hello girl.
The infant child of Chas. Toban died
on Sunday. The funeral was held al
the family home on Monday. Inter
ment was made in the Akron cemetery.
Ed. and Carl Amundson returned,
after 4-weeks' stay In Minneapolis and
Duluth. The boys report a good time.
They say fishing Is la full blast on the
lakes, plenty of work la the pinerles and
mines, IN short-everything is agoing
forward with great strides.
The second commencement OF the
Westfeld high school was held in the
Congregational church ON Wednesday
evening, Jan. 25th. The church was
becomingly decorated in gold and
white, the class motto, mot finished
but just begun" made pretty deco
ration for the front. The doors and
windows were also decorated. Instru-
mental pieces were rendered by mem
bers OF the school and were much en-
jOyed. The students gave orRtiOns on
interesting subjects. The graduates
were Jennie Lilly, Fern, Lilly, Rose
Doyle and Sadie Denison.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

The Sioux Falls Press still finds it to
its liking to charge the stalwarts instead
of The republican platform with the
move to abolish the publication of in
surance statements. The rotten and in
defensible policy of the insurgeat com.
missioner of insurance. parcelling out
these publications as a political graft,
thus making them entirely worthless to
the insured, is the real source of the
movement. We don't deserve it, but
the stalwarts are quite willing to accept
the credit for movement of this
kind
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

IT WAS stroke of real genius on the
part of Pres. Taft to pardon Editor Fred
d. Warren of the Appeal TO Reason.
Warren wanted to be made martyr so
that he would have abundant anti-Social-
ist capital to work upon ia the years to
come. His prison sentence is commuted
to cash fine to be collected by civil
process only,so that he cannot force him
self into prison by refusing to pay his
fine. Now will you be good, Mr.. Warren
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

SOUTH DAKOTA wants free lumber and
pulp from Canada; the latter wants free
grain and stock from South Dakota.
Reciprocity that does not reciprocate is
no reciprocity at all A trade that does
not render value received is no trade but
swindle. We can have reciprocity
with Canada if we reciprocate, but those
Canucks have lived alongside of the
YANKEES too long to have any CONNER
cial shell game worked off onto them.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

TIE Daylight SaloOn' measure yester-
day passed the South Dakota senate 81 to
~, with the emergency clause attached.
This places the law beyond the reach of
the referendum. IL already has passed
the house by good majority, so that it
will receive the governors signature and
be in force before these lines reach our
readers. Senator John Morrissey OF
Union county, we are glad TO state,
voted for the measure. Hereafter all
boozers win have to get their booze be-
fore Q o'clock at night, when the saloons
close up.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
A FAMOUS BOOKSHOP
A Contribution from Washington,
D. C., by Mr.. Ray
Ellis

" uSulHS tOu is iuii VI pldCSS vi InLST-
est, many OF which have become his
toric. There are many quaint old
buildings and many more quaint old
people.
AS one was won't to pass out Of the
capitol, down through The terrace and
on past the Peace monument on ones
way down town, one used to see, sitting
in frout of a little old brick building on
the corner of First street and Penusyl-
vania avenue, a very old man, quietly
chewing quid of tobacco and gazing
at each passer-by as If looking for a
prospective customer. This old man
was James Guild, thu proprietor of the
"Old Curiosity Shop" of America, a
small brick building filed with all sorts
and conditions of books, piled high
with the accumulations of years,
heaped In confusing disorder on the
tables, shelves and floors. There are
books, prints, oil paintings, statues and
bric-a-brac, coated with dust, the 10.
SN'AOH ouu hAhd vi Guy pas IISuAoi OHc
of which known only to the genial old
proprietor who has received and en-
tertained host Of visitors, curiosity
hunters and book lovers from almost
every civilized country.
In this old shop are still to be found
thousands of books many OF which it
would be impossible to duplicate from
any collection in the world. Many an
edition dear TO the heart OF the book
lover peeps out from the midst of a
mass of litter or lies buried unsupported
underneath a pill OF magazines and
newspapers. On some of the shelves
are rows upon rows OF books rarely met
with aud bound in the rich Vellum and
leather bindings of a century ago.
Files OF ancient magazines going back
in date to the earliest days of public8-
tiou are there, but so scattered about
as TO escape the notice of anyone but
an ardent lover OF books.
This quaint old comglOmeration,
more famous than many public col
lection in college or library, and its
quaint, genial old proprietor, have
numbered among their patrons, sena-
tors, represe entatives, cabinet members
and judges OF all the courts and many
of them have become warm friends of
the CHEEKY old man, as is attested by
the many cards and autographs he still
keeps and prizes. In his eighty-fOurth
year and almost blind, Mr.. Guild tells
many a story OF his acquaintance with
such men as James G. Blaine, Speaker
Reed, Senator Ingalls,, Senator Spooner
and many other public men back as far
as Judah Benjamin, jeff. Davis and
Lincoln.
The old book shop is known and has
been visited by many members OF the
British Parliament who have ran
sacked it's contents for rare books and
souvenirs for their friends back home
and who said that the historic 'Old
Curiosity Shop" OF Dickens was out
done by this one.
But this famous old place, like its
venerable owner, will soon be no more.
Mr.. Guild has already sold his entire
stock, the site has been purchased
by hotel company and a year from
now the man on the "Rubberneck"
wagon will say, Behold on your left,
ladies' and gentlemen, the spot where
the old Curiosity Shop used to stand.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
METHODIST CHURCH.

METHODIST CHURCH.
1900 a. m.-Class meeting.
l0:30 a. m.-Preaching by the pastor.
ll:45 a. m.--Sabbath school. Glasses
Tor all ages.
$3.50 p. m.-Epworth League.
I:30 D. m.-Union revival services OF
the Congregational, Baptist and
Methodist churches.
Come and bring your friends.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1911
the following property:

2 horses, cows, and IL shoats.
FARM MACHINERY AND HOUSE,
HOLD GOODS:-1 Rock IsIaud disc.
| riding plow, walking plow, / 3-se'-
tion harrow, riding cultivator,
walking cultivstor, / 2-shovel plov
l-rOw stalk cutter, Ohio combined
c1eck roV pI }nter th so rods of wir
| Bachelor hand plsn,er, | end ga.
seeder, l Tiger moving machine, | sell
dump hay rake, hoes, rakes and pitch
forks, farm wagons, 2-sested surrey,
! pr. bobsleds, 2-seated spring wagon,
| single buggy and single harness, 2
light work harnesses, set doublh
buggy harness, / saddle, / 4-horse
evener, 3-horse evener, dump board,
lady's side saddle, l hand corn shel
er, folding bed, wooden bedsteaus
with springs, bureau, 2 wash stands,
/ extension table, center table,
rocklog chair, | couch, incubator,
brooder, Economy separator, round
oak heater, safe, 3-hole coal oil
stove, / washing machine, 2 zinc tubs,
| iron boiler, l 25-gal. iron kettle, 3
churns, | 25-g ]. meat jar, several other
jars, 25 yds. OF bedroom carpet and
other articles too numerous TO mention.
TERMS OF SALE:--On all sums over
Sl0. ten months time will be given at 8
per cent. interest. All sums under S1O,
cash.
Good free lunch served AZ noon.
II. SHIPMAN,
Owner.
n. r. AUTHIER. BovEE a. MURRY,
Clerk. Anoalonaaaa
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
BAPTIST CHURCH

l0:3O a. m.-Pubic worship, with
preaching by the pastor. Subject,
THE Handmald OF EvangelizatiOn. !"
ll:30 a. m.-Bible school.
Union service in The evening at the
M. E. church.
Prayer meeting this week wifi be q
union service at the M. K. church.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
Marriages Licenses

The following marriage licenses wer.
issued during the past week in Union
county:
Michael Z. Bergen and Miss Caroline
e. Delimen, both of Beresford.
Willie p. Keiser and Miss Julia An.
derson, both OF Alcester.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
Government Positions In the Forest
Service

Service
The COURIER Is advised that a new
government position is disclosed by the
announcement by the y. S. Civil Ser
vice Commission of an examination
which will be held February % and "a
to find three grazing examiners for the
Forest Service. The positions will pay
a salary OF 81 200 year at entrance.
The announcement specifies that the
applicants mast be men, al least twenty
years old, and possessed OF at least one
seasons experience In handling range
stock, together with at least one year
of technical training in specified
botanical studies.
Anyone In this Congressional District
wishing to take this examination may
obtain full particulars by enquiring al
this Office. It is pleasant, permanent
position, requiring outdoor service
and is open to advancement as soon ae
merit Is shown 1t ought not to be
difficult TO find large numbers OF young
men in this district with all the ex-
perience required in handling range
stock; the technical training In botany,
however, would be more limited.
There should be many students at the
state agricultural college who could
easily meet these requirements and
some whose home work and study
would well qualify them. Look this
matter up and take this examination II
possible.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

Senator Lafe Young was 70, the sub
sidy act; which is not surprising when
his Stand-pat procivities are remem-
bered.-IanktOn Press and Dakotan.
EXPIRES. Roosevelt was also for the sub
Sidy act; does the Press and Dakotan
understand this to be also an outbreak
ing of Stand-p proclivitieS?
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

THE democratic caucus has decided to
support Pres. Taft's Canadian reciprocity
measure, on the ground that half loaf is
better than no bread. Blu are our dem
ocratic friends sure of the half loaf?
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

The appearance Of the Lorlmer issue
is real relief to the grand stand polite
ianS who have grown stale and stiff
pounding the corpse of Cannon.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09

J. ADAM BEDE. one of the Minnesota
lame ducks" was asked when he was
in Washington recently what was an in
surgent republican. Taking pad and
a pencil he Immediately wrote:
something rough
Somewhat tough
Very much blough.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
For Sale

Three span Of well matched males
and several young horses.
DAN RYAN,
Phone cat, to rfngs on 100
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
Official County Paper

Now that the o'clock closing measure
for the saloons has become law, what's
the matter with renewing the curfew or
dinance in Elk Point?
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
Births

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G.
Johnson OF Hawarden,o on Jan. 81, son.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Allard
Jefferson, on February 5, q son.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
westfieId
Too late for last week)

Miss Jennie Moe came up from Elk
Point Sunday to spend the afternoon
at home.
Mrs. Bogenrief and Mrs. Geo. HALEY
are recovering from severe case OF
pneumonia.
Mr.. w. B. Martin, who has been very
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
Auction sale

| will sell at public auction, on my
farm i miles south of McCook, mile
west of the Big Siux bridge and s
miles west OF Sioux City, 10 Union
county, on
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
Sunday Notices

CONGREG ATIONAL CHURCH
1890 a. m.-Preaching by the pastor.
ll:45 a. m.-Sabbath school.
800 o. m.--Junior Endeavor.
$3.50 p. m.-Christisn EndeavOr.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-02-09
THE COURIER
Published Every Thursday
BY CHAS. II. BRUCE
Subscription Price, per year........"SI.sO

TO subscribers In Canada and Foreign
Countries, and to those whose subscriptions
are in arrears more than one year, the sub
Ecription is invariably 50 per year.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10

on sheet of paper, show it. to your
nelghbOrs and get their names and
addresses signed to it and mail to
me. Many are writing me they find
this easy, the people are anxious for
such paper.
l have many fine letters from our
ablest men, North and South, bid
ding the enterprise God-speed; and I
am assured to the very best help in
preparing matter for the paper. I
propose to make it the very best of
It's class and am sure it will please
every lover of light and liberty. The
ladies too are sending their names
and working for it. That is fine,
and we thank them for it.
Remember, to publish a 16 page
weekly paper at $1.00 per year, re-
qu1res lot of money, and we must
have a large subscription list to pay
expenses, so let's roll up big list
right quick. If the readers of The
Jeffs will just take hold and help
right quick we can do the thing in
80 days all right. Will you help?
we propose to give the people a
paper in which they can speak, one
not ruled by bosses, and to tell the
truth all along the line about mat
ters affecting the common good. And
as for Rome's prosecutions, better
men than this scribe have died for
the truth, and if Rome wants to kill
us for telling the truth, we would
as soon die in the cause of truth as
in any other. We will just stand for
God and truth and Right as long as
we live, and leave results with God.
Yours sincerely, j. A. SCARBORO.
Send all names to Magnolia, Ark.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10
That Veyv Paper

Names are fairly pouring in for
Scarboro's new paper, and increasing
with every mail, as The Jeffs reach
the people.
Let me- say this: Please write
names and post Offices very plainly.
Use postal CARDS and just say: II
want that new paper you propose to
publish write your name and post
office very plainly and mail to me.
Another thing: Many are sending
long lists of names. Just take the
Prospectus with the blank for names
as it appears in The Jeffs, paste it
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10
THE JEFFERSONIAN

their law makers, and why are they not in
telIlgent enough to select their judges?
1t requires as much judgment to send a
good man to originate ideas upon which to
base good laws as it does to select a man TO
interpret the law after it is made.
1t the people are capable of selecting the
one, why are they incapable of selecting the
other?
No one will deny that the courts are grad
ually usurplng power that the Constitution
does not give them, and expressly states that
they shall not have.
1t the present Supreme Courts decision in
the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases goes un-
checked, where will the court stop next time?
In the Standard Oil case the court not onlv
adds words that were not in the statute, but
words that Congress had positively said
should not be put in them-a clear case of a
court making law and usurping power.
Worse than that-it made law expressly
contrary to what the lawmaking power. Con-
gress, had said it should be.
If some halt isn't called on the courts. what
power will Congress have?
The first thing. we know we will be livino
under government ruled by the Supreme
Court-a Supreme Court of Aristocracv-
with the people having no say as to what laws
they shall live under.
A striking example of the way our courts
deal out justice was furnished in New York
City few weeks ago in connection with GUS
toms frauds that have been unearthed there
On the same day there came before judge
Archibald, Of the United States Circuit Court
two criminals to be punished-one a consump-
tive who had swindled the government out of
$500 on imports of dates, figs and cheese,
the other rich importer of millinery goods,
silks and dresses who had bel ped swindle the
government out of hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
To the rich importer of millinery goods,
silks and dresses, the Judge gave a fine of
$4,000, and to the consumptive who had
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10
PAGE THIRTEEN

sW1ndled the government out of $4,000 the
Judge gave three months prison sentence.
The $4,000 fine levied on the importer was
only small per cent Of what he had robbed
the government of; the three months prison
sentence to the little fellow was practically
the sentence of death, for the certificate of a
reputable physician presented to the court
stated that he was suffering form tuberculosis
arc fh"f . sentence of confinement would
mean death.
lie 1t 70 the ccredit of the prosecuting at
torney, District Attorney WISE that he ex-
pressed his feeling of outrage when Judge
Archibald was passing the sentence. but il did
40 good-Judge Archibald sarcastical1v re-
marking that he would assume the RESPONSE
bility.
This isn't the only sample of Justice that
Judge Archibald has dealt out-there are other
cases Of where criminals who have stolen more
than million have received comparatively
trlt1mg fines and small criminals sent to Jail.
Another example of Judge Archibald was
given In the Wire Trust case.
Recently elghty-three prominent Young mil
llonalres were indicted by the Federal Grand
Jury in New York as officials of different
concerns making what is known as the Wire
Irust-another subsidiary of the Steel Trust.
District Attorney Wise had evidence suf-
ficient to convict, but against the protests of
Wise, Judge Archbold accepted a plea of
"nolo contendere" and has fined those who,
have entered that plea $1,000
80 open is. this crowds contempt for law
that they call themselves the Indictment Club
one who hasn't been honored with an indict-
ment Us not eligible to membership
laugh and joke over the fact that they are, or
have been, indicted.
The court just as we'll have fined them one
dollar as one thousand-the one thousand
didn't hurt a bit more
1t will be charged up to the Trusts inciden-
tai account and the illegal profits that the
Trust has robbed the people of will be only a
little bit less.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10

;, Cratlclslng the courts, the speaker said that
the fourteenth amendment, intended to pro-
Uect the negro, has been twisted from it's mr.
pose to protect the trusts and monopolies in
imposing long hours of labor upon EMPLOYEES
on the absurd theory that to deny the empiove
the right to work long hours is denial of his
constitutional privileges"
The speaker dealt upon the declaration of
the supreme Court of the United States that
the income tax law of some sixteen years ago
was unconstitutional
:, The decision in this case" said the Senator
"by the change of the vote of one iudge-of
one lawyer III this court, appointed at whose
instance we do not know-has cost the poorer
people OF the United States $1OO,OOOOOO
year Tor over sixteen years, 81 ,00O 100000 in
all, and relieved those best able to bear the tax
OF like amount. What better evidence could
De afforded of the patience, forbearance and
conservatism of the people that they have so
long borne patiently with such decision?"
10 those who have denounced the recall of
Judges as wild or mad theory, we can point
to state that has had the recall of Judges
IN force for ten years-Oregon adopted it fen
years ago-yet during all this time there has
been only one petition presented for a recall
vote, and that recently.
AS Senator Owen points out, our old idea
that Judge is infallible is disproved bv the
fact that it is very seldom that all Of the
Judges agree on any decision-there is nearly
always dissenting opinion.
The same theory that reasons that Judge
IS infallible reasons that the King can do no
Wvrong-they are obsolete they belong to the
time when the Kings authority was supposed
to be God-glven, to come direct from heaven.
But we all know better in this day and time.
We have long since dropped the idea that
priestly gown and a cumbersome WIG add
wisdom to light head-that a Supreme
Court judgeship makes Justice Field any
thing else than champion of wealth, one
who believes just income tax an assault on
wealth.
The people are intelligent enough to elect
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-10

II you want real enjoyment, send
ten cents for a copy of Humorist.
Address Publisher Humorist, st.
Louis, Mo. In ordering your read
ing matter. don't fail to include the
Humorist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
BRYAN RECORD USED
As Basis for Argument in Harvester
Trust Case.

Jefferson City, Mo, March 25-In
its brief filed in the supreme court to-
day in the case brought by the gov
ernment to GUST it from the state of
Missouri, the International Harvester
company complained that while Spe-
cial Commissioner Braces report
showed the company had done no in
furious acts in the state. he neverthe-
less held it an illegal combination
Theodore Brace is special commission
er appointed to investigate the affairs
of the company. The brief stated that
Brace reported the company had not
charged unfair prices, nor restricted
dealers. yet he decided the company's
form of organization is Illegal.
In the brief, the company presented
evidence from seventy-three Missouri
retailers to prove that competition in
it's line of business has not been re-
strained. The company further de-
manded credit for having invited the
fullest investigation.
William J. Bryan's trust speech as
delivered to a phonograph for use in
the presidential campaign Of 1908 was
made the basis of an argument. I'm
this speech the brief said, 'Mr
Bryan said the irresistible tendency of
trusts is to raise selling prices, lower
the prices of raw material, reduce the
quality OF manufactured products and
lessen wages. None of these results,
Mr.. Brace finds. followed the organiza-
tion of the International Harvester
company"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
GAYNOR is RELEASED.
He Takes Pauper's Oath to Escape
Payment of Fine.

Atlanta, Ga, March 25.-Broken in
health, John F. Gaynor, who, with
Benjamin D. Greene, was convicted
of embezzlement from the government
in connection with harbor improve
ments at Savannah, took the pauper's
oath and walked out free man.
The oath released Gaynor, as it did
Greene, from any obligations to pay
the $575,000 fine imposed on them in
connection with their prison sentences
1t also marked the end of the Greene
Gaynor litigation in the United States
courts, which has lasted more than IL
years.
AS Gaynor turned to leave the stand
his attorney, T. B. Fielder, asked him
where he was going.
ITO get something to eat" was Gay
nor's laconic answer. He spent the
night at a hotel and will depart for
his home at Syracuse, N. Y, today.