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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
VIII Ruin Her Shane.

CHICAGO, Nov. 12-American won.
en- will lose their figures and come to
resemble the we'll known potato sack
If they persist in the tango. Mrs
Maude l.. Dunn told convention OF
Chicago corset saleswomen. The tango,
said Mrs. Dunn, develops hip bones ex-
cessively and causes rolls of fat to
form where they were never meant to
form
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12

Miss Clara Mellum of Grand Lake,
MINI. while walking through the
woods found Albert Peterson of Du-
luth up In tree with bear waiting
down below. Miss Mcllum shooed
the bear away with her apron and re.
leased the hunter. He must have
felt pretty cheap.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Cause Of insomnia.

The most common cause Of 10
somnia is disorders OF the stomaci
and constipation, Chemberlain's TAP
tets correct these disorders and en-
able you to sleep. For sale by AZ
dealers. Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12

1t is about as an eastern editor says.
We don't want any other mans land.
but that's no good reason why we
shouldn't jump over the fence and
muss him up bit II he gets too fresh
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
THOUGHT FoR .THE Dan.

Halt the sorrows of women would
be averted If they could repress the
speech they know to be useless-nay
the speech they have resolved not to
utter.-George Eliot.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12

It's pretty tough, of course. as sug.
gested by the Indianapolis News. to
pay an income tax, and, from the
way the treasury officials talk. it ap.
pears that awful things will happen
to one II one makes a false return
or doesn't pay when one ought to
Thus one more is added to the list OF
the comforting thoughts of the unrich
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Missionary ApproprIatlons.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servical
DECATUR, ILL.,, Nov. 12.--0 thu
sIloh0oo appropriated by the forelga
board of the Methodist EpiscopN
church sS93,000 is to be used in TN
foreign field.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12

The Anti-Vice committee created by
the Wisconsin state legislature is
sending out a series of questions to
citizens all over the state. with a
view to uncovering the actual condi-
lions as to commercialized vice on
lines similar to those followed in Ilu-
nois. The purpose is to begin cam
paign Of prevention or of removing
the causes that lead to vice
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Two New campfIres.

At four o'clock this afternoon two
new campfires will be inaugu, ated.
Miss Hazel Ackley has been appoint
ed guardian of the one and Miss Leila
Hayes of the other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Employed Boys.

The employed boys bible class met
at the boys room Of the Y NJ. G. A.
Four new members were received.
The following officers were elected:
Walter Odell, president.
Delmar Thomas. vice president,
Hugh Arend, secretary and treas
urer.
Warren Neil is teacher Of this class.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Y.W.C.A. NOTES.
The Reception for New Members Las
Night was a Most Success
full Event.

There was merry-making, entertain.
ment and good social time enjoyed
at the reception given to new mem
bers at the Young Women's Christ an
Association last evening and the
event proved to be a great success.
About two hundred and thirty mem
beers were present to enjoy the sis
terhood cheer that gave delightful en-
joyment TO everybody present The
affair was very informal and conse-
quently genial mixup among the
guests, as one of the young women
expressed 1t.
The program was most pleasing.
The readings Of Miss Parsons and
Mrs. WILDER Hughes were most heart.
lily appreciated.
The Rose Maiden club delighted the
audience with the excellent numbers,
"A Merry Life" and "Baby's Beat"
The farce given by the employed
force assisted by Miss Leila Hayes,
Miss Olive Williamson and Miss Beat
rice Williamson was pronounced q
bowling success from the standpoint
of fun; from the standpoint of merit. II
was not very professional, as It l.
said, that the actors forming the caste
forgot themselves and even laughed
on the stage. Some OF the old mem
bers are requesting a repetition o!
the play and It may be repeated al
some future date.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Geneva Club Party.

The long postponed party of the
Geneva club will be held in the girls
club room, Thursday evening at s
O'Clock. The debate concerning the
fate OF the split skirt will be given
at this time. Every member Is en-
titled to bring one friend with her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
normal

May Ayres in the American School
Board Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Carey School.

The Carey school Bible class will
meet tonight at o'clock at the home
OF Leon Hostetter, 1921 Des Moines
street for organization. Ernest 81
| lington will teach the class
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
SOUTH DAKOTA
CROP PROSPECTS


In an effort to size up South Da-
kota's 1913 crops fairly. the Aber.
deem News wrote to banFers in all
the counties in the state for accurate
reports of conditions i, their local.
tiles. Forty counties reported, rep
resenting all sections of the state,
and their reports were on the whole
good.
Twenty-four of these counties give
corn as the principal crop this year,
ele zen give wheat as their big crop.
and two of the western ones give
alfalfa as theirs. Averaging all es.
Inmates, the corr yield will be over
81 bushels to the acre, wheat l3 bu-
shells, OTIS 80 bushels, potatoes lie
bushels, rye Is bushels. barley 2(
bushels and fay9 bushels. These
estimates are averages for the whole
state, and should be fairly correct.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Cool Hogs With Ice

Marshalltown, Iowa. Aug. 22-Ir
order to keep fat hogs from shrink
ing and from dying by crowding,
make the ordinary stock car into 9
refrigerator car. This will do the
business. AT least such is the opin-
ion Of Charles H. Hicks. a stockraiser
living nearthi city.
Hicks sent an assignment of fat
hogs into Chicago the other day,
shipping when the mercury stood
at 95 in the shade. Fearful lest he
should have to take a heavy shrink
age or a possible death rate on 81
cent hogs he improvlsed a refriger-
ator car for his hogs He bought a
half ton of ice. tied it up in fifty ID.
chunks in gunny sacks, and wired
them to the top of the car, allowing
them to hang just above the backs OF
the animals. Not hog died and the
shrinkage was slight.
The ice. labor and all did not cost
over So.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Select Seed Corn

Governor Byrne has appointed
September 10th as the day for select
ing seed corn, and it should be gen,
orally observed.
1t is probable, however, that the
hot weather of this month will push
the corn along so rapidly that it may
be safely selected even before that
time. And after all. the careful,
systematic selection of it is che i'm.
portant feature. South Dakota is
going to be a cor growing state,
and the sooner her people get thor.
oughly into this industry the better.
There is no comparison between the
price Of corn land and wheat land
The government report for August
1st places South Dakota second ir
the list of corn growing states, Sc
that it becomes very important tx
carefully select seed, and as careful
ly perserve it in a proper place.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
HORSE KILLED
PEOPLE ESCAPE
Unaccountable Freaks Performed
By Lightning

Chamberlain. Aug. 25.--To have a
bolt of lightning kill one of their
horses and set fire to the wagon in
which they were riding, without
killing any of them, was the exper-
fence of nine persons residing in
Bennett county. While Frank
Heath's haymakers were hurrying
to the ranch for protection during a
heavy rain and thunder storm light
ming struck and killed one of the
horses. Among the nine persons In
the wagon was a woman and a little
girl. At the time the bolt descend
ed the woman had an umbrella over
her. This was entirely consumed by
the fire caused by the lightning, The
shoe was torn from one of the little
girls feet and all of the nine persons
were more or less burned by the
electricity that enveloped them and
ran owe all the metal parts of the
wagon. 1t was some hours before
they recovered from the shock
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
"FRANKLIN GULLS"
FOLLOW HEADERS
Not Sea Gulls" AS Some
Supposed

The story, originating at Miller.
that sea gulls we're very plentiful
about the grain fields, attracted the
attention of our old friend. W. F.
Bancroft, former state game warden.
He is now an assistant in the game
preservation. Department of Agri-
culture. Washington. ID. c. He
writes as follows concerning these
birds:
Washington. August 10, 1913.
Editor Bushfield:--M My attention was
called to a dispathh appearing in the
South Dakota dailies under a Miller
date line, in reference to a large
number of Sea gulls appearing in
your section. following up the head
ers and eating grasshoppers, etc.
These birds seem to be increasing IN
So. OAK, at least during my travels
over the state in my capacity as
State Game Warden | noticed an ap-
parert increase in their number.
But what | wish to call your partlcu-
lar attention to is this: You are
mistaken in calling them sea gulls
for they are not, but what is com
monty known as the Franklin gull
Qarus frankln). According to well
known authorities in the adult bird
IN summer, the hood is dark, mantle
lighter than the last species; prim.
aries gray with black ends broadly
tipped with; u%nderparts rosy; bill
and feet red. the former dark to-
wards the tip, and more slender
than that of the laughing gull. lr
the winter the plumage changes the
same as the last but the color Of the
primaries and the shape of the bill
will always identify this species
These gulls are strictly Birds of the
Interior nesting on low marshy Is.
lands in ponds or sloughs often in
company with grebes. On whose eggs
they subsist to a great extent. The
range of these birds is in the interior
of North America, breeding from
Iowa and the Dakotas north to Mid.
die Canada; winter from the gull
states southwark.
Under the game laws of the State
of South Dakota it is unlawful t.
kill these birds at any time of thi
year.
lam merely giving you this infor
nation for the reason that if you SEE
fit you may use what is of interst t
your readers in order to correct the
impression that the birds are SEA
gulls, which they are not.
With kind personal regards to my
friends in your lively little city
| am,
Very truly yours.
W.T., Bancroft.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Voters Register

City Auditor Hellmuth has opened
books at the city hall for registration
of city voters. All persons who
want to vote at next years primary
elections must go themselves and
register tteir names, otherwise they
cannot vote at the primaries. Now
this don't mean the old method of
somebody putting your name on a
list. 1t means that you must do it
yourself, or you can't vote. This is
required by the new primary law.
Every voter in the county must dc
the same thing in his township, OF
lose his primary vote. Better at.
tend to it,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Carnival. Night

The attractions offered at the
Carnival at the court park tonight
will be a midway. several thrilling
sideshows, five cents each, and the
Court Theatre, presenting the Bing-
ham Beauty Chorus, the Mother
Goose family, and the Gar Ham
Minstrels, price of adults % cents,
children under fifteen 10 cents. At
ter the entertainment. everyone
will want to eat in the Dutch booth
and the Palace Of Sweets, prices five
and ten cents.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
COUNTY NEWS
BY CORRESPONDENTS
Locals and Personal Items From Various
Townships.

c. Callsen for a team Of horses.
l.. Morrison has again rented the
grass land on the We. of II of B.
Banning.
On the night of the Goth inst, this
vicinity was visited by a rain ard
wind storm. Ben Banning reports
that his only cow was killed by light
ming at that time.
Master Horace Milne was on the
sick list several DAYS last week
Mrs Burlingame visited Plumdale
Friday.
Mrs VIM. Bahr. OF Howell, was an
overnight visitor at Stenders Friday.
Tom Croll and William Schubring
each have bot a corn binder. Ben
Jeffres, j. E. Fisher and B. A. Coy
Ike also have new corn biEders.
Thursda, Avis and Ira Bailey Wis.
tied Master Edwin TanDerWert and
Friday Ora Wharton,
Thursday Hon. and Mrs F. S. Tell
er accompanied by their aunt, Mrs
Ferree visited with Miller relatives,
AL Smith is again working for Mr.
Ferree.
VIM and Harold Bartlett will at
tend Redield College again. Geneva
Croll goes to Miller and Agnes Whar-
ton to st. Lawrence to school and
there are others who will go away to
school soon.
The Stork left a girl baby with MIR
and Mrs Tyler recently. Mrs Tyler
was formerly Mrs Geo. Mccarthy.
Tuesday morning a son was born
to MIR and Mrs Leland Harris.
Imp. dealers report many sales of
corn BINDERS and Irvine.
Cutting hay and corn and thresh-
ing is the program now with farmers.
Henry Biddle done a good job Of
grading on the York twp road that
he worked on.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
COLORADO
IL the cool shadows of the pockies

IL the cool shadows OF the Rockies,
Low Round Trip Fares in effect
every day until September 30th tc
Denver. Colorado Springs, Pueblo.
ENJOY the bracing Colorado air,
the balmy days and cool delightful
nights the many one day mountain
excursions by rail and auto, where
you can see the snow in summer
without the attendant cold Of win
ter--Mountain peaks, where the
clouds float below instead of above
you-trips in the canyons by car
riage. burro or afoot-choice of side
trips for every day of your vacation
Take the only route that is double
tracked all the way to Colorado; that
is protected by automatic electric
block safety signals the entire dis
lance. Chicago. Union Pacific and
Northwestern line. Two splendid
through trains daily.
For further particulars as to spe-
cific fares from your home station,
train service. etc., call on Ticket
Agent Chicago and Northwestern
Railway. 38t2
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
HOWELL

Chas. AIbertson and Chas. Moore
have threshed.
Conrad Shaefers had a very sick
girl but she is better at this writing.
A trained nurse from Aberdeen has
been caring for her.
Mrs Chas. Moore is on the sick list.
DR.. Mitchell of Orient was called
Friday.
Making hay seems to be the order
Of the day.
A number of farmers in this vicin-
ity have been vaccinating their cattle
for black leg.
Mr. and Mrs Joseph Struif and two.
little sons and Albert Hennesey and
Miss Alice Srruif spent last Sunday
at Chas. Moore's.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Weighed SD Pounds

Clark. Aug. 25. Information has
reached here of the death at his new
home at Christoval, Tex, of Cation
Hobilt. who for many years was a
resident of Clark county. and who
during his residence here enjoyed the
distinction of being the largest man
in South Dakota, tipping the scales
at 5l2 pounds. About a year ago a
report reached South Dakota that ne
had been shot and killed in Texas by
a Mexican. but this proved unfound-
ed
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
MONDAMEN

Lots OF hay going into the stack
now days.
School begins in schoolhouse No. /
Sept. / with Miss Lucin PenwelI as
teacher.
Miss Mary Paddock of Washington
Spr. came over Sunday for a visit
with the home folks.
l.. r Wheeler come up from Gam
Valley Friday to finish putting up
hay here.
Dallas Deliver was in Miller last
Friday.
w. Paddock autoed to Washington
Spr. Saturday returning home Sum
day.
Fred seiman is making hay on
sec. 80.
Nelson Bros. attended the dance
out near B~uttonville Saturday even
ing.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
THE VALUE OF
GOOD HIGHWAYS
Berefit OF Good Roads As Seen By
State Highway Commission

Following article is one of series
of articles, authorized by the state
highway commission. written by
Chairman +. G. Issenhuth Of the
commission:
Everybody has heard the historic
expression "Ail roads lead to Rome
meaning public highways. as there
was then no means Of travel except
on foot, driving or riding. She was
wise and great and believed by build
ing roads it would build up a COM
mercial supremacy which it did. We
know much Rome didn't know, but
she knew more than we do now in
realizing the value of roads. She
built them far out into lands now be-
longing to other nations.
The writer travelled in England on
a road from London TO Exeter built
by Julius Caesar more than two
thousand years ago and found it still
in perfect condition.
BY building highways in commun.
tiles, we become state builders. be-
cause they attract others, help our.
selves, and are an asset to the State
and Nation.
Also good roads cheaper the farm.
er's transportation because he should
figure same. not from his railway
station to the markets of the world
but from his granary and kitchen
door to said markets of the world
in hauling his products Of the world
and the articles he needs from The
markets tor his home and farm use
The road between the countr,
home and the market town is no bet
ter bar its weakest link-for the
size Of the load must he governed
by the deepest mud hole or steepes'
hill on the way, On the old road hi
could haul about thirty bushels o.
wheat on one trip; on properly
graded roads he can haul ninet,
bushels on the same trip. At {
probable cost of five dollars per triI
for man and team, the sum of ter
dollars is saved in getting ninety bu
shells to market.
The additional value on the lane
adjoining a completed highway is nj
small item. Sufficient to say that il
is several times more than the cos
of building the highways along. the
land. In Madison County, Tennessee
the land value increased from ar
eight dollar value standing still al
that. to twenty. five dollars and {
demand for it. This can easily
be proven bv writing to some ole
friends in a state which is investing
millions of dollars as Pennsylvania
New York and California are doing
We, in South Dakota, belong t.
the five lowest states in the recorC
of appropriating funds for the pur
pose of building highways to the
class of Alabama, Mississippi anC
Georgia. Almost all states have APP
propriated state aid. This can bt
done when a new constitution j!
adopted for our state.
We are passing the talking stage
in this state-and are catering thu
constructive stage. of actually build
ing roads. Give your support, goot
citizen, by favoring a road levy fol
1914. This should be done by the
Board of County Commissioners o.
each county at their meeting
September End. next. If your county
proposes to do road building mex
year.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
School Days,-Their Value

1-J|
The old school bell will ring the
knell to vacation days Monday morn
ing and the school books which have
grown dusty in the last three months
will be taken out again. While per-
haps the average American youths
search for knowledge is not as active
as his search for fun, n seldom
finds a child who is not glad when
school days begin again. The secret
of childhood happiness as in mature
life, is the right admixture of work
and play, not in the same proportion
of course. best balanced to the period
of life. School furnishes this work
during a large part of the young
persons lite, and when you find a
youth who dishkes school he is either
lazy or there is something wrong in
the way his school work is being
presented. The chances ale in favor
of the former condition, and such a
boy or girls fate is already written.
If the spirit of material contentment
could be expressed in one word. it
would be work. Take work out
of the life of boy or girl. man or wo-
man, and that persons existence
will become a blank. The school
Whit teaches industry. along with
its history and mathematics, is giving
its pupil a sure road to success
in fact, the only road to success.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
/ announcement

Voters. register as republicans, be-
fore Sept. 10th. Why not vote for
yourself and self government by
supporting NJ. A. Shuster for pro.
posal committeeman. and a place on
the state ticket? He proposes as a
harmony motto: Lincoln Democ-
racv. Sincere Self Government. and
Civic Centers." (See page s., last La
Follette's magazine.J
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Money In Dairying

Draper. S. D.. Aug. 22.-Wesley
Taylor, a hcmesteader living near
here is making a great success of the
dairy business. He milks sixteen
and his monthly income ranges
from $72 to $S3 from the sale of
cream.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
NORTH HAND

Mr. ALI. Sebring. d former Park
twp. bov. has been here for a dav or
two. He spent FRIDAY evening with
his father and brother Burt. and
Saturday dined at the Dienslake
home Orient and visited with his
aunt from Salt Lake City. HI msde
a call at the Elder Davis home. He
is visiting all the agencies Of the
Manchester Biscuit Company, of
Sioux Falls. anu pushing the business
Continued to last page.)
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Thank You'll

Speaking of the visit of the Huron
boosters at Miller, the Huronlte says:
miller has the finest commercial
club rooms of any town of its size any
where, and they put at the dis
posal of the Huronlans, all of whom
will always remember the hospitality
extended them at Miller and the
cour tesy of the citizens of that
place."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-08-28
Early Threshing Returns

Washington Times. Enterprise
Sievers and Carstens report an aver
age yield of wheat of about ten bush
els throughout in which they have
been threshing. The quality is uni
versallv good
st. Lawrence News. A. LOOMS
wheat yield is reported at CT bushels
per acre.