davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
WATER USERS


Deadwood. Sept. THAT water us
ers on government irrigation projects
cannot sue government officials on
their contract with the government
was laid down here today in the
United States district court by Judge
Elliott in deciding against the Belle
Fourche Valley Water Users associa
ton. The association members Sc
cured a temporary injunction against
the projects officials to restrain them
from shutting off the water for non
payment of water rentals.
The suit involved the right of the
government to dictate the expenditure
of $50. 600, 900 on the thirty-two projects
In this country, aud the contracts were
held binding. but the plaintiffs were
given thirty days In which 10 amend
their complaint in which thew must
show illegal acts bS the officials AS
sistant Attorney General Ward, of
Denver, and United States District At
torney Stewart, o. this city, repre-
sented the government, ii being the
6Ist case for the latter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
BUSINESS FIELD


New York, Sept. = Following is
the review of trade for the past week
by Bradstreet 9 agency:
In some respects trade reports sug-
gest somewhat more irregulaiity.
Western advices indicate conservative
buying. presumably a reflex of reports
of reduced crop yields, but at the
same time they proclaim that trade
Is equal to or in excess Of that done
at this time last year, when opera
tions certainly were growing. On the
other hand the more important eastern
markets.. particularly those having to
do with textiles, display more vim,
house trade has enlarged and mills,
instead of making concessions, are
insisting upon higher prices.
Incidentally there are few dissenting
notes. as the outlook for fall trade and
sdvices as to low stocks are we'll nigh
unanimous. but. % before stated. con-
servatism Is likely TO be prsoticed in
sections where crops fall short OF earli-
or expectations.
Business failures for the week were
269, which compared with 22S in 1919.
Wheat, including -four. exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week aggregate 7,042, $50 bushels.
against 8 ,545. 1874 bushels last year.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
Dakota State Bank


Today was Labor Day, a national
holiday, and the local banks, postofice
and other public offices were closed
Otherwise business proceeded as usual
without observance of the day.
Today has been one of the most dis.
agreeable of the season. Temperature
ranged at 80 with a furnace hot wind
from the southwest. The streets were
filled with dust, blown from roads
outlying the city.
Miss Elsie Won Wald of the Dakots
State bank returned from a month {
vacation, visiting relatives in NORTH
Dakota and at Faribault, Mimi.
Guy E. Hanson was a morning pas.
senger for Sioux City where he will
spend a few days t~iansacting business
and taking in the automobile races
which will take place in that city this
week
G. s. Ashton has sold the Outlook,
IA weekly publication of this city. to
A. J.. Runnestrand, giving possession
today. Mr.. Ashton will rest from
his labors for a time, remaining in
Madison for the present, and plan
ming to spend the winter in the
south.
Col Reedy or Beresfoid who con-
Quoted the auction sale of the former
Albert Budde farm, which was sold to
John G. Coffey at $3.50 per acre, is a
brother in-law of Jshn Murphy of this
city and was a guest at Mr. Murphy's
home, returning TO Beresford yester-
day.
James Geddes and faulty have re-
turned to Madison after a residence
of a year or two at Forestburg, Mr.
Geddes having been employed working
poll tax for the Milwaukee railroad
company. he will now be engaged or
work on the line between Madison and
Wentworth.
Morris Jerlow, a graduate in tn,
June, 1918, class of the State Normal
school. has been elected to the posi-
tion of principal of the schools of BIZ
Stone City at a salary of 500 pei
month. While q student here MI
Jerlow was instr uctor in athletics in
the model department of the Normal
and was also business manager In tn,
issue Of the issue Of The Anemone
year book of the school, and becam,
quite we'll known TO business men o.
the city. Friends will be pleased I,
learn of Mr.. Jerlow's good fortune.
An alarm Of fire was turned in abour
4 O'Clock yestei dav afternoon from G
A. Angles residence In the southeas
portion Of the city. The 6rs wal Ii
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
A JOKER
Pays SIS Fine for Shaping
a Boy

WATERFOWL. Sept. l Yesterday af-
ternoon one John Oeniger was com
PEELED to pay a ine for an apparently
inexcusable assault on a youth of
about seventeen years of age. The
Young mans name was Edgar wight,
son of Fred Wight. The parties in
volved in the affair were working in a
harvest field a few miles from the
city and near 6 o'clock young Wight
approached Deniger and said that the
men would not pitch bundles in the
field any more, according to Deniger's
own story. Deniger told Wight to
go back to the field and when the
boy refused he struck him squarely
in the face. In telling Of the affair be-
fore Judge Myers. Deniger said that
he considered il a joke. but as the
judge failed to see the point Of Mr..
Deniger's Joke he fined him the
sum of $15. The defen liant paid the
fine aud will probably remember to
think twice before he cracks any
more Of his brilliant Jokes"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
LOCAL NEWS.

- NEWS.
New advertisement today Lake
county fair.
For Sale. Nine room house. j. A.
Donnelly.
Choice California Elberts peaches
$1.10 a crate, at the Sugar Bowl.
Miss Mabel Smith returned from q
few days visit with friends in Sioux
Falls.
Mrs. A e. Pond of Winfred was
in the city today looking after business
affairs.
Wanted. Work at haying or plough
ing. Call or address $40 Twelfth
street.
For Sale. Three vacant lots close
in. suitable for residence purposes. "A.
M. Penn.
For Sale. Ons small steam washer
with tub holder.-R. M. Hardman,
1905 Josephine Ave.
Mrs. J.. j. Dahl departed for Lanes
boro. Mimi, to visit a son and will
later visit relatives in Lacrosse, Wis.
Mrs. E. Il. Haig principal of the
high school at Browns Valley, Mimi,
lie a guest at the Presbyterian parson-
age.
Ii you have any furniture repairing
or upholstering to do, take it to A..
q. Hallenbeck's undertaking parlor.
Phone EOS red.
Miss Clara Heis of the high school
faculty was an arrival from Sioux
Falls yesterday, ready for the opening
Of school today.
Miss Bessie Soper who spent Sunday
with her father. F. L. Soper and at the
home of her relatives. Mr.. and Mrs.
Rowland, returned to Sioux Falls by
the morning train.
Mrs. A. j. Cornelysen was a morn
ing departure for st. Paul on a visit
with relatives and will also visit rela
tives in Lacrosse before she returns.
Dan Bowden. q former resident, nov
Of Gregory. with wife and son. spenr
Sunday in the city, travelling by auto
mobile. departing on their return hom,
his morning.
Quite n number of relatives o.
German people of this city who at
tended the conference last week ant
remained ovsr Sunday visiting. de-
Parted for their homes this morning.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01

Work Of the Normal will begin Sept.
9th and 10th. Model school will open
Tuesday a. m. the 9th; Normal work
Wednesday a. IN, the 10th. Normal
registration Tuesday the 9th. Model
school will contain the first four grades
as usual. Above this there will be one
ungraded room organized. This will
be known as the uneraded room and
will he in chang of Miss Ellen Mo
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01

Keen. Those who wish to enter this
ungrsded class should make written
application to the President of Normal
school. Applications by phone can not
be received.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
We Have 1t At Last-Dr. Hess
Fly Chaser.

Absolutely guaranteed to keep flies
off stock for six bours. That means
that horses sprayed three times a day
will not be bothered at all. and
cattle, morning and evening will not
be bothered but little ia the late after
noon. The only fly stuff ON the market
that will keep flies off more than 80
minutes. Satisfaction or money back.
--Osborn's Drug Store.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01

Nj. q. Drake, at his new location.
VsnEps avenue and Fourth t Ieet, ID
giving a ten per cent discount ON all
woven wire fencing.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
THE CITY.


Cloudy and cooler tonight; Tuesday
fair; brisk south winds.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-09-01
Suffered Eczema Fifty Years-Now
Well.

Seems q long time to endure the aw-
full burning, itching, smarting, skin
disease known ~ ''tetter"-another
name for Eczema. Seems good TO
realize, also, that DIR. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment has proven Z perfect cure.
ALI druggists. ADJ
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

The Mesaba Ore takes q rap IL laichig gan street,
Duluth the place where arbittrary prices On pro
duce are fixed to the detriment Of the agricultural
and all other interests of this section. Michigan
street is problem that Duluth ought to solve
for herself very soon. Range merchants could
tame Michigan street in short order if they pre-
scented united front and bought goods in Mime
apolis and St. Paul for about month. Every
householder on the Mesaba range who sat down
to Thanksgiving dinner yesterday paid tribute
to Michigan street. a good stiff one too. It con-
trolls large share Of the food supplies for all
of northern Minnesota and it's tactics are gradual
ly giving Duluth reputation that is hurting it's
trade and benefting the produce dealers and food
supply men of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Duluth
has endured Michigan street and it's sharp and
unfair business methods too long for her own
good.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28
INTERN NATIONAL FALLS
BUSINESS MAN HERE

Frank Green, former Virginia
resident, now engaged in bust
ness and very successful at Interna-
tional Falls, was a Virginia visitor
Tuesday. Mr.. Green was called to
Ray Tuesday to prepare the remains
of AL Trenblay, killed in a hunting
accident Sunday for shipment to Du-
auth. The body passed through this
city on the Canadian Northern Tiles
day morning. Tremblay was hunting
wearing khaki coat and a pair of
white mittens were partially thrust
into his coat pocket. Dick Kinney,
a resident Of Ray, saw the drab coat
and mittens and mistook the latter
for deer's flag" He fired and the
bullet pierced Tremblay's abdomen.
He lived but a short time. Both men
lived at Ray and had families. Kin
ney was in Jail at International Falls
charged with manslaughter Tuesday.
Mr.. Green and the editor of the
Enterprise were tillicums of rs years
ago and used to 60 to little red
school house together, play baseball
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

The salaries paid to ministers Of the gospel are
receiving good deal of attention in the news
papers and the Duluth News Tribune suggests
that the preachers should have union. That
the servant is worthy of his hire is Biblical
injunction that too many congregations appear
to have forgotten. There is no more pitiable
spectacle than the minister forced to exc out an
existence and maintain the degree Of respecta-
bity necessary to his calling the salaries paid
by the average church in this section. Preaching
is the hardest kind of work, but it is very neces-
sary That it is poorly paid is sad commentary
on the consistency of those who profess to sup
port the churches. No doubt it is also RESPONSE
BILE for the fact that more able men are not in
the pulpits> and that it is seldom necessary to
hang out the standing room only sign at any
church gathering.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

The Duluth police force has been getting upper
right first page positions in the Duluth News
Tribune this week, and if the stories printed about
it are true it is woefuy inefficient organization
that deserves all the publicity it is receiving.
However, it is probably no better or no worse
than the average police force in cities of that size
despite all that has been said and done about it
and to it. The average police force is dominated
by politics nowadays in Duluth and everywhere
else That is the chief reason there are so many
inefficient police forces
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

In the last analysis the people are the ones TO
blame for the extravaganza in the conduct of the
business of the state of Minnesota They elect
the legislature and they have never yet gone on
record as favoring curtailing of the extrava-
gance which has hitherto prevailed in Minnesota.
But the people are being Weakened and if the
Weakening is sufficient to give the state something
better than a travesty in it's next legislature
there is hope that the administration of state
affairs can be brought down to the basis of good
business and economy that is just now being so
much discussed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

~ out hqolIay
from school just q boys sonstines
DO even q this a. Ind not met met.
for ten years until Nj. Green's visit
here Tuesday They had ! very IN IL.
teresting visit, but it. wasn't half
long enough 70 80 over al the old
days and the little incidents that men
hold in memory dear. 1. 25 !. s.S >5.$
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH VIRGINIA.

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH V1nOANA@A'
.What's the Matter With Virginia" is proposed
as a round table discussion for the next session
of the Virginia Commercial club, Thursday even
ing of next week, when it is said there is to be
something doing
One of the things that is the matter with Vir-
ginia is that it is too prosperous today to think
of tomorrow, too busy to worry about anything
but present day problems, too preoccupied by far
to nav attentions to the things affecting it's well
fare that it should.
During all the time that Virginia has been busy
some of it's less busy and less pretentious neigh
bors have been doing things for themselves. They
have hammered away about good roads and as
a result they have secured some things in that
line, while Virginia has secured nothing except
what she has been driven to build herself The
system of highways leading to this city is at
present the poorest Of any town on the iron
range That is Virginia's fault to a large extent.
Virginia has been too busy to worry about roads.
There have been spasmodic calls to arms in the
good roads matter, but they haven't passed
the desultory and Ineffective stage.
Then there is the county division matter. It
is just now receiving some attention in range
newspapers and there is some attempt here to
revive it as an issue to the extent at least that
the legislative delegation to the next Minnesota
legislature be instructed to work for revision of
the present state law which will make it more
easily possible.
Virginia ought to be more interested than any
of it's neighbors in county division, but it isn't
Virginia is too busy. The biggest men in Vir-
gina are too busy of truth to interest them
selves in the welfare Of the town. They are just
loyal to it and just as patriotic as the business
men of any town, but they have an idea they are
too busy to take an interest in affairs of this
kind They are not, however, and about the first
time somebody attempts to put one over on them
they will discover that they are not.
That will be the greatest day ever in this town.
1t will mark new epoch in the history of the
biggest little city in all the northwest It will
be the beginning of an era of Development along
all lines that will surprise those who are now of
the belief that Virginia has great future Vir-
gnia is going to be the big town of the iron range
It is today the only town on the iron range that
can afford to be Independent of our very good
neighbor, Duluth, if it wants to be- It is stand
ing today on the threshold of much greater
development than at any time in the past and
when that realization comes to Virginans and they
begin to help themselves to the good things that
are rightfully theirs they are going to be better
off all around.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

The Hibbing Mesaba Ore calls on the people of
the town to wake and protest over the fact that
there is every prospect Hbbing will soon lose the
through train on the Missabe and stub run he
put on between that city and Wolf Also it is
feared that the Steel corporation will move the
Hull-Rust mine to Virginia. Things have been
coming Virginias way in hacks all right but we
will give Hibbing the Hull-Rust as soon as the
Mlnnewas is developed. It will be one of the
biggest on the range and a considerable asset to
this city.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Aurora News: County division is
coming to life again. The ranges will
have representation in the next legis-
lature and if they are not tied to the
interests they will be able to secure
a law permitting fair election with
out the aid of the big cities. The
ranges have been used as football
for years and now is the time to send
men to St. Paul who can play the
game to fare-you-well.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

The Mesaba Railway company this week suf
fered heavy loss in the fire which destroyed it's
car barns and general Offices. The service was
not in the slightest degree impaired, fact that
was much appreciated by the public and reflects
the high degree of efficiency of it's working or
ganization The range couldn't get along with
out the electric line any more.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Aurora News: A fellow didn't get
his deer wants the season to open
later so as to be sure to have tracking
snow. Shucks, a fellow who can't
get his moneys worth from a week
in the woods in such fine weather as
we have been having never will be
satisfied. The man with red blood in
his veins, clear eye and a good dis
position never did measure the sue
cess of his hunting trip by the pounds
of venison he could bring home. That
man ought to hunt deer in fly time
when he can kill them as they run
to the water. All he wants is meat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Many man who is trying to save at the spigot
will discover he is losing at the bung before his
wife is half through with the Christmas shopping.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Father John Ryan of St. Paus seminary, st.
Paul, is notable exception among the anti-so-
calists. Father Ryan frankly admits many of
the evils that the doctrine of Socialism is intended
to correct. The broad ground he has taken in
his debate with Morris Hillquitt, the New York
socialist in Everybody's Magazine, wins him uni
Versal respect. Men like Father Ryan will get
much farther in stemming the advance of Social
ism than will those carping critics who revile So
clallsts and socialism on every OCCASION The lat
ter are the real bone and sinew of the Socialist
movement. Most men are socialists in that thew
freely admit many of the wrongs at which the
doctrine of socialism is aimed Father RYAN be-
heves Socialism is wrong. He is one of the few
men able to successfully defend his position with
sane facts and dispassionate reason. In the ranks
OF Socialism today are of the brightest minds
and keenest thinkers of the century. Their pro-
poganda is advancing. Father Ryan is the first
OF the anti-socialists to make a real impression
with thinkers. Briefly he advocates applied
Christianity. It may be argued that that is So
claisn'' OF course, but his viewpoint is original
sincere and is commanding much respect and
while it cannot here be reviewed at length it is
the best argument interposed to date against
the so-called "cause of the people,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

We see by the papers that nearly everybody
who goes hunting comes back with "big buck"
What lot of them there must be in the woods
and why is it nobody ever gets small one?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Yesterdays Thanksgiving dinner set new
record for cost. Practically everything that en-
tered into the Thanksgiving menu was purchased
at a price increase over year ago and the end is
not yet However, the cost of living has gone
about the limit and that's one thing to be thank
full for.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Virginia has city campaign going in full
swing. So far beyond personal ambition it is
painfully lacking in issues. The fact that some
body wants to serve on the council or be mayor
of the city is not of SURPRISING interest The
people are really more interested in what the
various candidates stand for than who they are
The issues will decide the campaign not the per-
sonality of the candidates. That is at best an
unimportant asset for every one of them so far
announced is dandy. Of course there will be
issues That is the real basis upon which the
choice of the city's next set of servants should
be made. Virginia is becoming too much of city
for the great mass of it's voters to be swayed by
petty personalities. The set of candidates who
offer the people the most progressive scheme of
city government is the one that is going over on
February g. The campaign should be- fair fight,
free from personalities and in such campaign it
will be honor for any man to win or lose.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28

Biwabik Times: "What's become
of the county division club?" asks
the Hibbing Mesaba Ore. Blamed if
we know. We have a faint recollec-
ton that some years ago the writer
was made a member of a general
committee, authorized by a mass
meeting in Virginia, and for time
was the recipient of anxious and
patronizing attention from certain
big ones in Duluth. Somehow that
committee failed to pull across the
deal and was superseded by another
self-constituted body of men, who
continued the battle at the last ses-
sion of the legislature. Following
which the issue lapsed into that famed
innocuos desuetude made famous by
one Grover Cleveland. This is not
answering a serious question, how
ever. Biwabik don't know. Ask
Virginia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-11-28


The News Tribune suglIgests that
preachers need union, 40 less than
5000 of them are getting less than
$500 per year for their labor. The
suggestion is timely Five hundred
dollars . year is not living wage.
it is less than IS paid to lumberjack,
or the farm laborer and, about on ..
parallel with the cheapest imported
foreign factory worker. Nice" peo-
pie go to church for reasons best
known to themselves; perhaps to
show off their. gew-gaws; it cannot
be to worship with Christlike spirit,
knowing withinsthe miserable hearts
that their stinginess is the cause of
the impoverishment of the servant of
God whose sermon they are listening
to with an outward show of Christian
ity while within burns the spirit of
the miser and hypocrite. The preach
er should go on strike as a protest
against unfair treatment and to show
the world how much empty pretense
runs rampant.
But what Of their congregations,
their employers? What of the Chris
tan pretensions of those who will
accept such service at such a price?
How many of them practice denial
while accepting denial, and just what
would be the judgment of savage as
to the grade of religion which holds
the hymn book open but the purse
shut?