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Mexico Missouri message., 1911-03-16
AUDRAIN S SCHOOLS.
New Heating Plants, New
Libraries and Other I'M
provements.

''"ho VI Ihe NOullN oupcIlllltnu-
ent This is only partial list.
More to follow:
District No. 81, Prairie Lea.
perhaps made the greatest
change, where new. modern
school house has been erected. II
is well lighted and has heating
and ventilating plant installed.
District No. 36, Friendship.
Heating and ventilating plant in
stalled Encyclopedia and sew
eral volumes added to the library
Also good case of maps.
District No. 81, Naylor. Heat
ing and ventilating plant in
stalled. New library of several
volumes started.
District No. 80, Goodwater
House painted inside and out.
Heating plant installed. New
outhouse built.
District No. 80, Strother. Heat
ing and ventilating plant install
ed.
District No. "a, Excelsior.
School house repaired. New floor
and chimney. Heating and venti-
lating plant installed. Twenty
two dollars worth of books added
to the library.
District 80, Burnham. Heating
and ventilating plant installed.
District No. AZ, Macedonia.
Heating and ventilating plant in
stalled.
District No. %, Duly. Set of
apparatus for teaching Agri-
culture purchased Stove moved
to rear and iacketed. School an,
proved as a school of the First
Rank.
District No. 70, Black. House
repaired. New desk bought
Stove moved and jao&eted. Sew
eral volumes added to the library
School approved as school Of
the First Rank.
District No. 65. Walker. Set OF
apparatus for teaching Agricul
ture purchased. Ten dollars
worth of books added to the
library. Some repairing done OF
the school house. New porch las
season.
District No. ga. Cauthorn. Som,
new desks. A teachers desk anC
chair. New porch last year.
District No. 5, Prairie Mound
, School house repaired. New
floor and paper. Also new stove
District No. 6, East Lick
House papered and decorated.
District No. II, West Lick
House papered and decorated
2 Several volumes added to tn
library.
District No. II, Bolts. Som
work done on house. New out
buildings.
q District No. 1S, Bean Creel
/. New encyclopedia and severi
.. dollars worth of books added t
e the library.
y District No. 10. Dye. New stoy
= and blackboard.
n District No. "a, Bryan. Hous
f painted on inside. New outbuilC
ings built and screened
District No. 2S, Central. Twely
dollars worth of books added t
}, library.
=. District No. 46, Daniel
9 Twenty-nine dollars worth {
e books added to the library
i District No. "a, Hurdle. Hon,
:. papered. Several dollars wort
e of books added to the library.
# District No. 81 Sims. Some /
= pair work ON school house al
- outbuildings.
r. District No. 5S, Jesse. Ne
case of maps. Several dollar
worth of books added to Il
.e library.
d District No. 60, Lawder, Hou
'r repaired and papered. Sever
Dl dollars worth of books added
,e library. Shed built for horses.
u District No. SO, Erisman. Sh'
r, built for horses. Several volum
added to library
District No. 73. House reseat'
is with new seats.
r. District No. "a, Pleasant PlaiT
~ House repaired and papered. Se
nv - .,.l,,,,,,.. oJ1oJ IA library
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-03-16

A. V. Doerries will move here
from Fulton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-03-16

j. r. kilgore, constable Wilson
township, bond examined and APP
proved.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
Rattlesnakes Help Cupid.

Custer, Sept. l9.-That rattlesnakes,
although they are often troublesome to
country school teachers, can also serve
romantic purposes for the same indivi-
duals, is attested by Charles Pringle, of
Fringle, this county, and Miss Macy
Clark, of Custer. Thanks TO the pres
ence of too many rattlsrs near Pringle,
Miss Clark has just become Mrs. Pringle.
Miss Clark and Pringle were fast
friends before the rattlesnakes put in
an appearance. In fact, Pringle had
been ardently pressing his suit with the
pretty school teacher and was not max.
ing all the progress be desired when the
incident occurred. Miss Clark and hel
small scholars were suddenly driven out
of the school house one day last July
when two big rattlers took possession o.
the building.
The school teacher at once refused tc
return to the building and when tht
school board insisted that she carry ou
her contract, she resigned. New schools
were not at once available and youni
Pringle seizing the opportunity, urgec
protection which proved 80 irrisistibl,
that Miss Clark agreed that the rattlerl
had decided the question for her, ant
the elimination of their romance cam,
this week with their marriage in Dead
wood. The Pringles will reside at Prin
gle where the town is named after tn
groom's father-Lead Call.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
OMAHA MARKET LETTER.
UNION SToCK YARDS,
So. Omaha, Sept. 16, 1911.
CATTLE.

Corn-fed cattle have constituted but q
small percentage of the receipts this
week and while the desirable grades
have been in active demand and quot
ably strong all week, there has been q
rather dull and irregular market for the
short-fed and warmed-up kinds that
came in competition with the western
rangers. Western grass beef has ruled
steady most of the time and is quotably
stronger on the close. Competition
from feeder buyers has been very fair
most of the time and anything good
enough to attract competition has sold
readily and well. Best rangers brought
$3.50, but the fair to good grass beeves
are selling largely around $4.S5 to $3.50.
Cows and heifers have found free out
let right along at firm figures and closing
quotations are all of dime better than
they were last week Veal calves are
stronger and so are bulls, stays, ETC.
Business in stockers and feeders has
been the largest of the season and al
though there has been very little change
in prices from day to day, the market is
decidedly stronger on the close and a
very good clearance has been made.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
The Owens Case.

The dismissal of the case against John
Owens, who was charged with murder,
for the shooting of Davis at Cambria
several months ago, was one of the
principal features of the present term
of court.
The motion to dismiss the case was
made by Judge Metz, one of the attor-
neys for the prosecution, who stated that
the attorneys for the prosecution had
thoroughly investigated the evidence in
the case, the conditions existing in the
county relative thereto and the proba-
bility of securing an impartial jury for
the trial. The motion set forth that
after full investigation of the evidence,
and consultation with the commission
ers, the attorneys for the prosecution
were of the opinion that verdict OF
guilty could not in all probability be
obtained, that said action should be
nolled and that the court was asked to
approve of the nolle pros of the case.
In granting the dismissal the order OF
Judge Parmelee stated that-"the court
being fully advised in the premises and
having made full investigation of the
matters involved in said suit, the court
hereby approves the action taken by the
attorneys for the prosecution in the
nolle pros of said action, and the same is
hereby received and accepted by the
court as full and sufficient reason for the
dismissal of said action, and the court
hereby approves of said dismissal
While there will be more or less criti
cism for the dismissal of the case, there
would undoubtedly have been greater
criticism had the com missioners insisted
on an expensive trial in the face Of fact!
and conditions as set forth in the fore
going motion and approved by the court
Newcastle (Wyo.) News.Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
Fine Exhibits at Omaha Land Show

With reports of extraordinary crops
coming in from all sections of the terri
tory embraced by the Western Develop.
ment Association, the Second Annual
Omaha Land Show, October 10th to
2Sth, will be the greatest exhibition of
it's kind ever attempted. Its magnitude
will surpass other Shows as the Omaha
Coliseum, in which the exhibits will be
shown, has more floor space than any
other exposition hall.
The exhibits will include every grain
and fruit that is grown in the West, as
we'll as the minerals and oils that are
taken from the earth. Besides their fine
grain and fruit, Colorado and Montana
will have fine displays of minerals.
Idaho and Oregon will have novel dis
plays of native timbers and woods and
Idaho has planned to have her display
cases made of highly polished native
woods, showing the great horticulture
resources of that state with a setting
showing her forest resources.
Machinery Hall will be something ex-
traordinary in connection with the Land
Show proper. In former years the ma
chinery department was one of the feat
ures Of the Corn Expositions in Omaha,
and it was greatly missed at the last
Land Show. The management there
fore fastened to add this feature, and
also to make it the most complete of it's
kind that could be arranged. Machin-
cry of every description will be shown,
from small hand tools to the big tractor.
There will be practical field demonstra,
tions with the tractors and also of corn
shredding.
The interior scene of the big coliseum,
when the doors are thrown open to the
throngs on October 10Th, will be one o
dazzling magnitude. Many thousandt
of electric lights will be employed ant
the spectacle will be grand. One of tn,
spectacular features will be the panor
annie reproduction, showing "the devel
opment of the West" from the glacia
period down to the present time. 1
fine program will be given every after
noon and evening.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
Frost in this state has held of until

Frost in this state has held OF until
the corn crop has been matured. Prac-
tically all of it is now beyond the dan
ger of frost, which means that the state
has this year produced another fine corn
crop-a better one this year than Iowa.
Thus, with an ample crop of fax, pota.
toes, and forage, and with good bit in
the way of small grain and a fair crop of
hay, South Dakota is coming out of the
general drought rather better than many
other states. The seventeen inches of
rainfall since the first of July has put the
soil in the best of condition for going in
to winter quarters, and gives promise OF
a good start for the crop next year.
Argus-L Leader
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
Apples and alfalfa are permanent an

Apples and alfalfa are permanent and
abiding. Gold exhausts, it has but one
crop, it plants no seed. Civilization de.
pends upon reproduction, therefore gold
cannot be its prophet and saviour. The
gold that Solomon mined litters the bot
tom of the seas. the very mines from
which it came are lost. but the seed from
the apple that played it's part in the
drama of Eden finds its progeny in the
bud and blossom and fruit that glorify
the orchards of the twentieth century.
For 200 generations the apple has blessed
the race, almost making amends for be-
ing the cause of mans expulsion from
Eden. Alfalfa goes back to the infancy
of the world. God made it on the third
day of creation. 1t has ever been good
for man and beast. 1t was alfalfa salad
upon which Nebuchadnezzar fed, its
foraging in the fields with the brutes
was physical and moral tonic, for the
Bible says that after seven years ol
browsing in alfalfa pastures, he became
a greater king with the glory of his
kingdom and brightness restored.-Alva
Adams at National Farm Congress.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
MAN-WHAT Is hep

He's only purse to pay her bills
Pay for her hats and frocks and frills;
An escort to take her to and fro
Wherever she thinks she wants to 70.
To call for her when the bridge games
done;
To sympathize with her grief or fun.
A something to tell her troubles to;
To chirk her up when she thinks she's
blue.
To take, but never to give her advice.
To tell her her horrors of hats look nice
To post her letters and wind the clock
And hook up the back of her modish
frock,
To strap her suit case and fnd hel
gloves;
And listen to tales of her old-time loves
In fact to do all she may say or ask;
And he's such fool that he loves the
task.
Life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE.
Purport of a New Enactment in the
State Of Washington.

The State of Washington has law
that becomes effective October lst mex
and is intended to be a protective and
remedial measure for both employer
and employe.
The gst of the new law may be ex.
pressed in these words: "The welfare
of the State depends on its industries
and even more upon the welfare of its
wage-earners.
According to the new enactment, each
industry in the State is to contribute q
definite percentage of its payroll to a
common accident fund out of which
various sums will be paid for working
mems compensation, whether it be par
tial or total disability, or death. The
State pays the expense of looking after
the fund.
No injured workman, or his family,
can receive damages by process of law,
except when it is proved that the en-
ployer's intent was to blame for the
accident. In this case additional dam
ages may be claimed besides what the
law allows for financial compensation.
If a workman is injured because the
employer neglected to provide the safe
guards required by law, the latter must
pay so per cent more than the amount
provided by the new law. If the work.
man injured himself Intentionally, he
gets nothing.
All the industries of the State, facto-
ries of any kind, railroads, numbering,
breweries, street cars, electrical and
other concerns are included in the law
and each is classified under a special
head which means that accidents hap
pening to a given employe fall under
that particular industry whose fund be-
comes responsible for it only.
The employees will pay three months
premiums on or before October 1st; and
after that date, they will pay the assess
ment monthly. If an employer refuses to
pay his dues, the workman, can sue
him, if injured, and the usual pleas OF
"contributory negligence" or "assump-
ton of risk" will have no standing in
court.
In the event of death, $75 is paid for
burial expenses. The widow or invalid
widower will receive 500 a month while
unmarried, and $240 on remarriage oi
widow will 60 to her.
Each surviving child under l6 years
Of age will receive S. a month, the
monthly amount to be limited to $35.
If no widow or widower survives, each
child under l6 years of age will get $40
month with the same limit of $35.
Other provisions are made for disa biity
through the loss of limb, etc.
A State commission is empowered to
take charge of and administer the acci-
dent fund and see that the law is COM
piled with. To that end, Sl50,0O0 has
been appropriated, and it is the purpose
of it's promoters to give the law fair
and full trial.-Sioux Falls Argus
Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
CORN PALACE AT MITCHELL
Open Next Week--Resources of State
to be Advertised.

Next Monday the Corn Palace will be
thrown open to the public, and one of
the greatest events of the Northwest
will be on. The Corn Palace is the last
big thing for the people to 60 to and
they have always reserved Mitchell's
good show with which to wind up the
season. The indications point to a sue.
cessful week, and the only thing to
operate against it is the weather propo-
sition.
The main object of the Corn Palace is
to advertise and show forth the resources
of South Dakota, and in this there is
going to be no departure from former
years. At least dozen counties have
signified their intention to be represent
ed at the big show, and the promoters
of the exhibits realize that there is an
opportunity for some generous advertis
ing for their section of the State. 1t has
gone forth and been heralded all over
the country that South Dakota has had
an unsuccessful year in the line Of agri-
cultural products, and it will be the sole
business of the Corn Palace enterprise
to show up the erroneous part of the
story. South Dakota has suffered no
more than any other State in central or
western sections when it comes to crop
shortage. True, wheat has been effected
to some extent, and likewise oats, and
80 have the other States which are en-
gagged in raising the same grains. But
that is not all there is to South Oak ota
Its diversified grain raising has taken a
high standard, and what might be lack
ing in the production of these grains
mentioned is more than being made up
in the corn crop which the State will
harvest this season.
Despite the assertion that has been
made with reference to the crop short.
age the Corn Palace will display corn
crop which will put to the blush the
things which have been said without
foundation. The corn crop in the earlier
part of the season was far in advance OF
any previous year within the last six or
eight, and it had the strength to weather
through what was injurious to the wheat
and oat crop.
Mitchell extends hearty invitation
to the people of the Northwest to come
during the week and enjoy the hospital.
ity and the good things which will be
offered for entertainment and for the
advertising of South Dakota. Argus
Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
A Great Advantage to Working Men.
Forced to Leave Home.

Every year a large number of poor
sufferers, whose lungs are sore and rack
ed with coughs, are urged to 60 to an
other climate. But this is costly and
not always sure. There's better way.
Let DR.. Kings New Discovery cure you
at home. "It cured me of lung trou-
be," writes w. r. Nelson of Calamine,
Ark, "when all else failed and gained
AZ pounds in weight. Its surely the
king of all cough and lung cures"
Thousands owe their lives and health
to it. It's positively guaranteed for
coughs, colds, la grippe, asthma, Group
all throat and lung troubles. DOC and
$l.OO. Trial bottle free at All Drug
gists.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
James Doughty, who is remarrying in

James Doughty, who is remarrying in
his 93d year, should feel thankful that
he is not subject to the Gar. Accord
ing to Russian law no person more than
so years of age can enter the bonds of
matrimony. All civilized countries fix
a minimum age for marriage, but now-a-
days apparently only in Russia is maxi
mum age laid down. The law in ancient
Rome was strict on this point, no man
moro than 60 or woman more than 80
being allowed to marry.-London Chron-
icla
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

1t will jar some of the slanderers of
South Dakota to learn that the State
Fair, just ended, far surpassed any pre-.
vious State Fair in attractions, in exhib-
its, and attendance. On the big day
over $4,000 people were on the grounds
and on the next day nearly as many.
No state of the population of South Da.
kota could have offered better fair, or
made bigger success of it. The sue
cess of the fair proves two things; that
South Dakota is prosperous; and that
her people are beginning to believe in
supporting their own institutions. Ar
gus-Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

Talk is cheap and from the reports
circulated in other States one might
think all the homesteaders west of the
Missouri river were leaving their claims
and that said homesteads could be
bought for song but this is far from
the truth. A travelling man in Arling-
ton this week who had just come from a
trip west of the river and who said he
went out to pick up some of these snaps,
found none could be bought. He says
the few that want to sell, hold their land
at good price-at the figure it is really
worth. He found the homesteaders
hanging to their land.-Arlington Sun.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
Thirty-six Years in the Postal Service

Herbert H. Alden, the Deadwood-
Edgemont route agent, is serving his
thirty-sixth year in the postal service.
On November 9Th, 1875, he was COM
missioned postmaster at Greenwood,
Nebraska. On March 14th, 1882, he was
appointed to the mail service and has
been in the service continuously up to
the present time. July 23rd, 1905, he
was transferred to the Deadwood-Edge-
mont run, though he had been on that
run before.
Mr.. Alden is one of the most careful
and conscientious men in the service,
and stands we'll with his superiors and
the department. No matter what the
rush he has always done bis work right.
He and Mr.. Butler, the chief clerk OF
division have long been intimate friends
and have become warmly attached
Pioneer-Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

The mixing of sawdust with cement
made of a solution of magnesium chlor-
ide containing pulverized magnesia has
been found to make very durable and
inexpensive flooring. 1t possesses many
of the qualities of both wood and stone
and has been extensively used in Ger
many. Attention is being given to the
method in America. Science.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

Whatever may be said concerning
the mining industry by those disinclined
to believe the truth concerning present
conditions, the fact remains that there
is more work going on in the various
mining regions today than has been true
in long time. This is not confined to
one State or one region, but is general
wherever mines have been opened.
Old mines are being re-opened and new
ones have started producing. This work
is along business lines. 1t is actual ad-
vancement which may he noted in every
district. PIoneer-Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

Property loss approximating a hall
million dollars was caused by cloud
burst at Pittsburg, Pa, last Saturday.
The food tore through some of the
buildings of the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company and the
Westinghouse Air Brake company, com.
pelling a suspension of work, while a
number of factories at Glenshaw were
shut down. Railway tracks were torn
up by the rushing water and cars loaded
with steel and coke were rolled along
like logs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

Last Monday four persons were killed
and 20 injured by wind storm which
struck Chicago. Electric wires and trees
in all parts of the city were blown down
and many buildings damaged to the ex-
tent of half million dollars. One
building occupied by 81 families was
dostroyed
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

A health idealism, especially when
based upon religious faith, is the best
safeguard of personal morals, but it
needs the support of well-formed habits
and trained practical judgment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

The Argus-Leader says the State fair
was easily the best ever held in the
State, and the people of South Dakota
attended it in greater numbers than
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

In the United States the principal
production of asphaltum comes from
Oklahoma, where it occurs principally
as impregnation of rock.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

Titanium is finding rapidly growing
use in steel rail manufacture. The effect
of titanium on the rail is to make them
tougher and to greatly increase their
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23
A Homesteader,s Account.

W. R. Mitchell, homesteader living
Just out of town, has kept track Of profit
and loss during the year and gives an
account of his ups and downs for the
past IL months as follows:
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-09-23

The ultimate object of school govern
ment is self-government Principle
should supersede rule and precept as
early as possible.