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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20

kichter's Xmas cigars are tn.
best.
Merle Dean is on the sick list thi.
week.
Thomas Newborn was a enewa
subscriber Wednesday.
DR.. O'Neil and family left this
Wednesday for California.
Miss Osia, a former Canton teacher
Is visiting Miss Lydia Fadner,
Mrs. j. M. Lewis entertained the
Diligent Dozen last Saturday.
Mrs. e. M. Burnside was a new
LEADER subscriber Wednesday.
Miss Gladys Wood entertained the
B. G. C's last Thursday evening.
Now for the town skating rink. 1t
will pay for it's self in a month.
DR.. O'Neil and family have been
guests at the Rudolph the past week.
Engebrit Thomasgaard of Alcestel
was a renewal subscriber Wednesday.
Mrs. M. e. Rudolph entertained a
few friends at dinner Tuesday even
ing.
Frank Minis was a visitor at the
the Poultry Snow at Sioux Falls Mon
day.
Who would appreciate u box OF
Richter's Ell Royal cigars fol
Christmas?
Henry Bradshaw and daughter Of
Worthing we're shopping in Canton
"Wednesday.
Herbert aud Ernest Rudolph ar.
rived home this week for the Christ
mas vacation.
The Band Boys give a Masque Bal
Monday Dec. Both. All come and
have a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Ryan arrived
last Friday for an extended visit with
the Averill'S and Puckett's.
Mrs. Joe Anderson left the middle
of the week for her old home at Clar-
ion. Iowa to spend the holidays.
The B. B. C's Will hold their an.
nual Christmas tree at the home OF
Miss Nora Thompson this Friday
evening.
"Black Beaver the trapper and
hunter gave an interesting talk at
the Congregational Sunday Schoo.
last Sunday.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20
At Toe

Doll Swings made of iron
Doll Tables painted white
Folding Tables vanished
Toy Ironing boards, folding
folding clothes rack
high chairs
flat irons with stands
cracles, white or red
two wheeled carts
dogs, Dummies, horse and
elephants
wheelbarrows
hay carts, red
engines
box cars
" standard oil cars
coal cars
dump carts
{" hose carts
race carts
pop guns
target guns
Santa Claus balls
circus wagons
ice wagons
stoves with kitchen fur
niture
piece set, sugar, cream
err, butter dish and spoon
|" punch set of punch bowl,
and 6 sherbet cups
coffee set, 2 cups and
saucers and a coffee pot
of tin
kitchen set Of 4 pieces OF
tinWare
tea set Of IL pieces Oh
china
wash boards
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20
Baptist Church Notes.

The Baptist Parsonage was recently
the scene of a pleasant surprise. One
OF the thoughtful women of the church
had suggested that as the PASTORS
family had come from away New
Jersey it vas not probable they had
brought a large supply Of fruit. A
word to the willing was sufficient and
without ceremony the ladies of the
church with their husbands and
friends appeared at the parsonage and
with them came quite a shower of
fruits, jellies and pickles. The merry
crowd resolved its self into a ssget
acquainted" social spending the even
ing in conversation, and music and
games. The pastors wife surprised
her guests with coffee and waters, and
all went hcme feeling that the even
ing had been a very satisfactory one.
! A very essential part of a Baptist
church building the baptistry is being
put in the Baptist church and the
ordinance Of baptism will be admins
tered In the nea future to a number
of candidates.
Uncle Sans breakfast
food, WE-1O-ET is a pure
and delicious breakfast food.
Pure whole Wheat, Graham
and Buckwheat Flour. Irish
and Sweet Potatoes, Hub
bard Squash at SAM THOR
SONS Flour andIFeed Store.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20

Christmas Program at M. E. Church
Tuesday Evening at Eight O'clock.
Professional The Three Wise Men
Childrens Chorus with orchestra.
Prayer Rev. Hunt
Merry Christmas, Maurrie Hvisten-
dahl
Welcome Mildred Robinson
St Nicholas Marjorie Hoffman
When We Are Grown Paul Baker,
and Edwin futile.
Trio Silent Night, Young Ladies
When Santa was a Lad, Merrill
A Present for Santa, leila Bremen
Ring Christmas Bells Alberta Ferris
Duet, won't you be My Little
Girl" Lila Knowlton and Donald
Fitch Santa claus
How Santa Gets his Christmas News
Gerald Hammitt
The Turkeys Lament, Leila Wilkinson
Aunty's Christmas Shopping LaValle
Byrnes
Song, Mending Little Stockings
Little Grandmothers
Song and Drill Shine out 0 Xmas
Two Stockings Harold Wilkinson
A Letter from Santa Lila Wilkinson
The Christmas Message, Roy Robinson
Going to Grandmas, Now Don't You
Tell, Six Little Girls.
Kris Kringle, Leroy Nicholson
Shoe or Stocking, Althea Larson
Suntiower Drill, Glass of Boys
Superintendent's Address. Mr.. CIeve-
land.
Angel Choirs Childrens Chorus with
Orchestra.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20

Toys
Crying Dolls in a rickshaw
10c
Large wicker doll cradle
Moving doll in a beautiful
basket cab. Price
Silk dressed clowns riding a
sheep
Csc.
Man and performing bear for
45c
Magic lantern with colored
slides. Price
Csc
Steam engines of different
kinds. Price
S1.00 and S1.50
Sewing machines that can
sew, just the thing for the
girl to learn on. Price
SOC to 81
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20

SANTA CLAUS Is HAPPY, BECAUSE he
is MAKING OTHERS HAPPY WITH CHRISTMAS
GIFTS. YOU CAN BE As HAPPY As SANTA
CHRISTMAS TINE. We HAVE At OUR STORE
BEAUTIFUL AND PLEASING ARTICLES FOR
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR YOU TO SELECT
FROM. OUR STOCK is EXCEPTIONALLY FULL
TO MEET THE DEMANDS or THE HOLIDAY
SEASON. YOU WILL FIND OUR PRICES so
LOW THAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO BUY Ali
THE PRESENTS YOU WISH TO GIVE AWAY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
Trick by Which Sailor Pays Debt to
MerciIess Member of the
Finny Tribe.

The sharks jaws are pried open to
the fullest extent; a stout eight-foot
spar of tough timber. four inches by
four in cross-measur is fixed
transversely far back in the angle OF
the Jaw, the ends projecting on either
side. A strong rope leading from the
ends of the spar is drawn close and
frightened with a clove-hitch round
the fsh's tail, behind the wide tail
fukes. 1t is thus the sailor harnesses
his enemy.
The clamp of the cruel jaws drives
the two-inch long teeth deep into the
tough spar. The tight line holds it in
place. and, struggle as he may. the
shark fails to move the spar an inch
from it's position. AS a finishing
touch, the sailor drew his knife-blade
across the sharks eyeballs and let
him go.
Bitted and bridled, blinded, with
laws wide-gaping, he swan through a
Ifnoitless sea in never-ending fatuous
circles. The queer furnishings he
bore scared away others of his kind.
Lonely and silent he passed like Cain
among the fishes till starvation and
sheer misery ended his existence.
Cruel? Of course it was. But sure
", like the venomous snake, the shark
has long put himself beyond the pale
Of human mercy. Soft-hearted as he
usually is. the sailor-man has a long
memory. The shark has followed for
weeks in the shadow of his ship, and
has watched each man of the crew
with greedy maleyolent eye. There
is heavy debt against all the shark
tribe for many a lost mariner, and,
when the chance comes to settle old
scores, the sailor pays it to the full
Besides the thing has the sanction OF
fmmemorial custom. 1t was some old
Phoenician, trading out of Tyre to the
far Cassitorides, who, probably, first
put the trick in practice.-Wide World
Me- gaZine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

hut, indeed he could not have seen It
for the corral was almost directly be-
meath it, but If it had been in full view
he would not have looked back, he
could not trust himself to, every in
stinct, every impulse in his soul would
fam drag him back to that hut and to
the woman. 1t was only his will and,
did he but know it, her viii that made
him carry out his purpose.
He would have saved perhaps half
mile on his journey if he had gone
straight across the lake to the mouth
Of the canon. We are creatures OF
habit. He had always gone around
the lake on the familiar trail and IN
consciously he followed that trail that
morning. He was thinking of her as
he plodded on in a mechanical way
while the trail followed the border of
the lake for time, plunged into the
woods, wound among the pines, at least
reaching that narrow rift in the en-
circling wall through which the river
flowed. He had passed along the trail
oblivious TO all his surroundings, but
as he came to the entrance he could
not fail to notice what he suddenly
saw in the snow.
Robinson Crusoe when he discov-
cred the famous footprint of Man Fri
day in the sand was not more aston
ished at what met his vision than
Newbold on that winter morning. For
there, in the virgin whiteness, were
the tracks OF a mani
He stopped dead with a sudden con-
traction of the heart Humanity 9TH
er than he and she in that wilderness?
1t could not be! For a moment he
doubted the evidence Of his own sen
1ses. He shook his pack loose from his
shoulders and bent down to examine
the tracks to read if he could their
indications. He could see that some
one had come up the canon, that some
one had leaned against the wall, that
some one had gone on. Where had
he gone?
To follow the new trail was child's
play for him. He ran by the side of
it until he reached the knoll. The
stranger had stopped again, he had
shifted from one foot to another, evil
IDENTIFY he had been looking about him
seeking some one, only Enid Matt
land of course. The trail ran forward
to the edge of the frozen lake. there
the man had put on his snow shoes,
there he had sped across the lake like
an arrow, and like an arrow himself
although he had left behind his own
snow shoes, Newbold ran upon his
track. Fortunately the snow crust up
bore him. The trail ran straight to
the foot of the rocky stairs The new
conner had easily found his way there
With beating heart and throbbing
pulse, Newbold himself bounded up
the activity after the stranger, mark
ing as he did so evidences of the 9TH
eF's prior ascent. Reaching the top
like him he ran down the narrow path
and in his turn laid his hand upon the
door.
He was not mistaken, he heard
voices within. He listened a second
and then flung it open, and as the 9th
er had done, he entered.
Way back on the trail, old Kirkby
and Robert Maitland, the storm having
ceased, were rapidly climbing up the
canon. Fate was bringing all the &C
tors OF the little drama within the
shadow of her hand
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

balance of the Sixteenth was formed
in line of battle thirty or forty rods in
advance of the camp it had maintained
for several days. 1t is said by those
who witnessed it that these young fell
lows, fresh from farms, shops, stores
and pineries, went through the move
ment of changing front on Tenth COM
pany, under fire, with as much cool
ness as a veteran regiment Of regulars
would have done. Colonel Allen was
wounded and had two horses shot I'M
der him, and Lieutenant Colonel Fair
child was severely wounded in the
thigh.
Shiloh was the first experience Of
real war that the Sixteenth had. 1t
was a sorrowful experience. On the
field 76 of its dead heroes told Of the
sacrifices they had made for an en-
dangered country and it's insulted
flag, and 149 more or less severely
wounded told another story Of pain
and sacrifice.
The Sixteenth held an exposed posi-
ton at the battle Of Corinth, and
showed it's mettle by keeping the enc
my back Here it lost ten killed and
twenty-seven wounded The regiment
did large amount of guard duty,
marching and counter marching dur
ing the following year, and was en-
gagged in several actions Of impor-
lance. It re-enlisted in March, 1864,
and spent a month in Wisconsin,
leaving for the front again on April
IS. In the meantime, Lieutenant Col
oneI Fairchild had been made colonel,
REYNOLDS lieutenant colonel ard Capt.
w. F. Dawes major. The regiment
reached General Shermans army
about a month after it had begun the
great campaign from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, having Travelled on foot dis
lance Of $50 miles. 1t was assigned to
the army of the Tennessee, and began
fighting at Kenesaw mountain on the
fifteenth. From then until the fall Of
Atlanta the regiment was in constant
and active service. The battle Of Bald
Hill was one Of the fercest fought in
that great campaign, if not in the war.
The hill was taken and retaken sew
eraI times, with frightful slaughter,
the men OF DOIn SUES clubbing LHelI
muskets and fighting like demons. \
The Sixteenth led in one of these
charges. It had for it's nearest neigh
Dor another Wisconsin regiment. the
Twelfth.
It was in one Of the engagements
near Atlanta that Lieut. Col. Tom
Reynolds received a bad wound in the
fbiOb from which he never f11lIv re-
covered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

risk it even, remember that it is
mine" she had urged.
And just as simply as she had en-
joined 1t upon him he had promised.
He had given his word that he would
not send help back to her but that he
would bring it back, and she had con-
fdence in that word A confidence
that had he been inclined to break his
promise would have made it absolute
~ impossible. There had been a long
clasp of the hands, a long look in the
eyes, long breath in the breast, a
long throb in the heart and then
farewell. They dared no more.
Once before he had left her and she
had stood upon the plateau and fol-
lowed his vanishing figure with anxi-
GUS troubled thought until it had been
lost in the depths of the forest below.
She had controlled herself in this
second parting for his sake as well as
her own. Under the ashes of his
grim repression she realized the pres
ence of live Goals which a breath would
have famed into fame She dared
nothing while he was there. but when
he shut the door behind him the ne
cessity for self-control was removed.
She had laid her arms on the table
and bowed her head upon them and
shook and quivered with emotions un-
relieved by single tear-weepfng
was for lighter hearts and less severe
demands!
His position after all was the easier
of the two. AS of old it was the man
who went forth to the battlefield while
the woman could only wait passively
the issue of the fight. Although he
was half blinded with emotions he had
to give some thought to his progress.
and there was yet one task to be done
before he could set forth upon his
journey toward civilization and res
cue.
1t was fortunate, as it turned out,
that this obligation detained him. He
was that type Of a merciful man whose
mercies extended to his beasts. The
poor little burros must be attended to
and their safety assured so far as it
could be, for it would be impossible
for Enid Maitland to care for them.
Indeed he had already exacted a prom
Use from her that she would not
leave the plateau and risk her life on
the icy stairs with which she was so
unfamiliar.
He had gone to the corral and shak-
en- down food enough for them which
if it had been doled out to them day
by day would have lasted longer than
the week he intended to be absent; of
course he realized that they would eat
it up in half that time, but even so
they would probably suffer not too
great discomfort before he got back.
Ali these preparations took some lit
tie time. It had grown somewhat late
in the morning before he started
There had been a fierce storm raging
when he first looked out and at her
earnest solicitation he had delayed his
departure until it had subsidized
His tasks at the corral were at last
completed; he had done what he could
for them both, nothing now remained
but to make the quickest and safest
way to the settlement Shouldering
the pack containing his axe and gun
and sleeping bag and such provision
as would serve to tide him over IN
til he reached human habitations, he
set forth. He did not look up to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
American Girl Sunrenne.

The women seen in the German res
taurants, while better groomed and
better looking than the average Eng
Iish women, do not look anything like
as chic as they do in America. Their
clothes do not fit as well, and they
seem to not possess the air of conf
dence or the vivacity and merriment
Of the American Women-they appear
to not be sure of themselves, not
wholly accustomed to the new life
This contrast is very noticeable in
Berlin, and much more so in other
German cities. This is why a pretty
up-to-date New York or Chicago girl
never fails to become the center of
attraction in Germany, and immediate
" she enters a restaurant she is the
cynosure Of all eyes-National Food
Magazine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
SYNOPSIS.

Enid Maitland, q frank, free and IN
spoiled young Philadelphia girl IS taken
70 the Colorado mountains by her uncle,
Robert Maitland. James Armstrong,
lis persistent WoOing thrills the girl, but
she hesItatss, and Armstrong goes east
On business without a definite answer
EMO heaTs the story Of q mining ensl-
hesE5 NeWbold, whose wife fell on a CHI
ana was so seriously hurt that he was
competed to shoot her to prevent her Pc
ing eaten BY wolves while ne went LOT
help. Rirkby, the old guide who tells the
story, gives Enid a package Of letters
"IIch ne says were found on the deaG
Woman's body. She reads the letters ana
at Kirkby's request keeps them. While
DaLHing in mountain stream Enid IS II
lacked by bear which IL mysterlously
sAoL. a storm adds to the girl lefLo error.
a sudden deluge transforms brook !Jllo
raging torrent which sweeps Enid lhto
gorge where she is rescued by a noun
tam hermit after a thrilling experience.
campers In great confusion upon discoV-
ing Ends absence when the storm
breaks. Maitland and Old Ktrkby go IN
search of the girl. Enid discovers that
ner ankle is sprained and that she IS I'M
able to walk Her mysterious rescuer
carries her to his camp. Enid goes 10
steep IN the strange mans bunk. MINER
COOKS breakfast for Enid, after WnlCA
they 20 on tour Of inspection. The her
mt tells Enid Of his unsuccessful attempt
70 IND the Maitland campers. He ADMITS
that he is also from Philadelphia The
hermit falls in love with Enid. The man
comes to realization Of his love for her.
but naturally In that strange solitude the
relations Of the girl and her rescuer be-
come unnatural and strained Inc sLraLlg-
er tells Of q wife he had who IS dead
and says he has sworn to ever cherish
her memory by living In solitude. He and
Enid however, confess their love Tor
each other She learns that he Is the
man who killed his wife IN the mountain
Enid discovers the writer Of the letters
to EeWbOld's wife to have been James
Armstrong NeWb0ld decides to start 10
the settlement for help. The man is
racked by the belief that he is unfaithful
e his Wife's memory, and Enid IS tempt
cd to tell him of the letters in her pos
session. Armstrong, accompanied by
KirkDy and Robert Maitland, find note
that EswbOld had left In the deserted
keeping. Fate brings all the actors to-
UatI or
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
How Shark Is FIarnessed

Prone upon the ground lay an animal
of some kind. A dear old lady hap
pened along. She saw the little knot
of people and put up her glasses to
observe the cause. Then she saw the
brown fur of the thing on the icy as
phalt
Poor creature poor creaturei" said
she aloud in her compassion. ''Is it's
leg broken?" She pushed close to
the PROSTATE figure in the brown fur.
1t moved. The dear old lady took
closer look. Then she made a sound
approximating a ladylike snort. 1t
was the chauffeur of one of the taxi
cabs, clad in his brown fuzzy coat. in
the usual attitude of fairness, tinker
ing the under part Of his machine with
monkey wrench.
The dear old lady, all her sympathy
curdled, hurried on.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
AROUND THE
CAMPO IA
STORIES OF 10TH WISCONSIN
Major Reynolds, While Under Arrest,
Leads Regiment Calamity at
Battle of Shiloh.

The sixteenth Wisconsin would have
done credit to aEy army It is seldom
mentioned without recalling to some
one the first major, Tom Reynolds,
who became lieutenant colonel before
the war closed.
The Sixteenth Joined General Grants
army near Pittsburg Landing, March
20, 1862. Major Reynolds said some
thing that was not agreeable to one of
his superiors, not of the regiment, was
placed in arrest and his sword taken,
writes Lieut.. Col. ]. A Watrous, in the
Milwaukee Sentinel. He was still
without sword when the great battle
OF Shiloh began, April 6, 1852, but he
went in with the regiment. When Col
Benjamin Allen and Lieut.. Col. Cas-
sius F'airchild were wounded Major
Reynolds borrowed a sword and COM
mandeo the regiment CALAMITY until
the close of the two days fight.
Word was sent to General Grant
that the officer Of the Sixteenth. who
had been placed in arrest had gone in
to the fight, and when his superior Of
hcers were wounded had taken COM
mand, contrary to military discipline.
General Grant sent an aid for an exact
report as to what Major Reynolds had
done. The report was promptly re-
turned. General Grant sent word to
Major Reynolds, informing him that
he was released from arrest, returning
his sword, and thanked him for the
courage and good judgment he had
displayed.
Four companies of the Sixteenth are
entitled to the honor of having been
with the force of pickets the morning
Of the battle who were the first troops
fired upon by Johnson's army. 1t was
IN this skirmish that Captain SAKE Of
Company A, a Waushara county citi-
zen Of prominence, was killed. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
To operate Canal by Electricity.

The Panama canal win be operated
almost exclusively by electric power
approximately seven per cent of the
minimum water supply will be di.
veTted for hydro-electric development
and this will be the excess which is
not required for lockages, evaporation,
and leakage. The hydro-electric sta.
ton will be located adjacent to the
north wall of the Gatun spillway and
the plant will have a capacity of 5000
kilowatts. The average hydraulic head
throughout the year will be about rs
feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

the postmaster. said he had not sold
a single stamp in five weeks nor had
he received any incoming or outgoing
mails. The people explain that they
have no friends to write to and that
they are all too busy to write any
how.
There has not been an idle man in
Ironsport since 1903. The mines are
running full time and every miner
owns his own home Some time ago
the police department disbanded, the
chief declaring there had been no ar
rests made within six months and that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
HRaisinoO ts=n Rent.

Two soldiers who stayed in Wash
ington after the grand review in hopes
Of getting government jobs were soon
without funds. To make matters
worse, the 1andIady said she would be
obliged to raise" their rent.
I'm glad she's going to raise it,
I don't see how we can" said one Of
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
Involved,

Pop, is patience virtue?"
Yes, my SON."
'And virtue is it's own rewards"
SO We are told"
"And do all things come to thoss
who know how to waltz"
See here, my son, never attempt
to monkey with the proVerbiaI buzz
s2WI PUCK
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
Worked Both WAYS.

A young staff officer went to Gen
eral Hoke of North Carolina in great
perturbation and exclaimed:
The enemy is very near you yon-
der, general"
Yes, but look how near am to
him." said Hoke, smiling.