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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-15

The port Of London authority has
gwen oUt its estimate for cat 5 milk
Ter the Year aud an appropriation Of
si9o0 is asked. London keeps its
army of cats to handle the rats among
INC SHIPS that come up the Thames.
hundreds of these cats answer the
whistle cali for feeding and they hold
a record of dead rats which runs into
hundreds of thousands.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-15
DISASTER AT SEA.
Steam Collier Bridgeport Lost with
Crew of - Men.

MONTREAL, Nov. 10. - The steam
collier Bridgeport, sailing from sydney
.Capc Breton. with a crow Of - men
and cargo of 10000 tons of coal, has
been lost. Probably all on board per-
ished, according to the statement today
by the officials Of the Dominion Coal
company, which chartered the vessel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-15
Central Vermont Ry.
Corrected to September 80, 1918.
Trains Leave Brattleboro.


r9oo. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
1,20 a.. m. Except Sunday, For New
London.
9.2oa. m. Except Sunday For New
York.
".25 a. m. Except sunday For South
Londonderry.
1910 m Except Sunday. For New
London.
400 2. m. Except sunday For New
London aud New York Via
the Norwich Line Steamers.
COOP. m. Except sunday. Local for
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-15
Scores of a Year Ago.

The leading games of the East for
today, with the 1912 scores, where the
same colleges were represented, fol
low:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-15
WEST DOVER.
Bridge Again Washed Out.

The severe rainfall Saturday and
sunday caused the water of the Forge
pond to rise, carving out part Of the
dam, also the abutments of the bridge
nearby. This is the third time in a
little more than 4 year that this bridge
mas been washed out by the high wa
ter. Roads were washed and in MANY
piaces slulces were not large enough
TO carry the water, one near the vi
iage giving way. George Davis S horse
as ne was returning home. dropped IN
70 the hole IN such a way as to brea.
Z wagon thilI.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
BEAVER VALLEY.

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Drain Sunday night, Augusta. Mother
and babe are doing well.
j. E. Walters, Albert March and Gene
Drain are fixing up the Strum school
house for the fall term of school which
begins September 1st. Miss Gladys
Swanger will be the teacher.
A. B. Bouton, a special agent from the
6. L. o., was taking in this vicinity last
week. He was after the poor home.
steader, as usual, making sure that he
cultivates every foot of ground that ia
cultivable.
Elmer Drain is building a fine new
house on his ranch he recently pur-
chased from Wakefield. A. P. Cham.
bers has charge of construction, and will
have it ready for occupancy in about
two weeks.
Charles Bourne has been doing a
"land Office business" in the we'll drill
ing vocation in these parts lately. He
has drilled wells for the following gen
tlemen; Olaf Aaberg, Fay Somarin.
dyck, J. B. Violin, and is at present drill.
ing one for Chas. Ottman.
The water occasioned by the big rain
storm of two weeks ago last Sunday,
seemed to have washed all the soil of
the roads and left nothing but the rock,
which, thank the Lord, we still have O
good supply. There is nothing like rock
for foundation.
E.P. KING.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
BUTCHERS MUST BIZ GOOD.

Vermilliop, Sept. l.-Inspectors ofthe
Food and Drug department are keeping
up the campaign against filthy slaughter
houses and two prosecutions have been
made recently. One butcher, who was
prosecuted for this reason few weeks
ago, openly defied the law and continued
to use his slaughter house after paying
the fine for the first offense and receiv-
ing warning not to use the place again.
He has been brought up for a second
offense and the Justice levied fine of
$40 and costs. Another butcher in the
northern part of the state was prosecut-
ed and fined SIS for the first offense:
Large numbers Of butchers feed the offal
from their slaughtering establishments
to their hogs and seem to think this per-
fectly legitimate. However, the evil
dence is against them FOR it has been
shown that many diseases such as
trichinosis and tuberculosis are COM
municated to hogs in this way and Com
missioner Frary has ruled that the feed
ing of slaughter house offal without
previously cooking the same is contrary
to the sanitary law passed last winter,
and will enforce the ruling.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
DECIDES KELLY HAS NO TITLE.

An important decision has been rem
dered by Judge Elliott in the United
States court here in the case of the Gov
ernment against L. N. Kelly of Custer
county. Some years ago Kelly filed on
homestead claim on a piece Of land
which was later included in the Ma.
tional forest and was re-appropriated by
the Government. In lieu of this land
he was given script, which was later
used to purchase land elsewhere on the
public domain. Notwithstanding this
Kelly went ahead and secured patent
to the land which he had originally 10.
Gated and which he had relinqushed to
the Government, on receipt ofthe script.
He then claimed title to this land, but
Judge Elliott decided that his claim was
invalid.
In connection with this proceeding
Attorney Patton, of Keystone, has been
indicted by the federal grand jury for
using the mails in an attempt to defraud.
He undertook to sell the land for Kelly
and in so doing made alleged fraudulent
representations regarding the title
Pioneer-Times
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
CREAMRHY MEHTiN q.

A meeting of the farmers of this neigh
borhood was held at the court house
last Saturday to discuss the establish.
ment of Creamery at Custer, but the
attendance was too small to show how
much support might be expected for
such an enterprise and the meeting ad-
journed to meet again Saturday, the
18th, at 2 o'clock p. m, at the court
house, when it is hoped that everyone
interested in the project will attend.
1t is only by active cooperation on
the part of the farmers that such busi-
ness can be started, and those who feel
interested in the matter should attend
the meeting and give their views as to
the best means of establishing one and
to what extent they would furnish cream
for it.
There is no doubt that a creamery
here would be of great benefit in fur
nishing home market for our cream,
and would induce many of the farmers
who have not hitherto given their at
tention to dairying to keep some cows
for that purpose, with the attendant ad-
vantage of deriving a cash income from
them all the year round. Come to the
meeting and talk it over with your
neighbors.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
WORKINGS OF PRIMARY LAW.
Half Dozen Days on the Calendar are
of Supreme Importance to all
Voters In the State.

Pierre, Aug. 29.-As to the time for
putting into actual effect the provisions
of the Richards primary act approaches,
that act carries lot of particular dates
which are of prime importance to the
voters of South Dakota, as it is only
through this law that they can make
primary nominations the coming cam
paign. First in the chronology, the en-
rollment books must be sent from local
officials to the County Auditor on the
first of November. Those who fail to
enroll at their precinct before the first
of October can enroll at the Office of the
County Auditor up to the last day of
December. Anyone not enrolled is pro-
hibited from taking part in the primary
election, or signing independent candi-
date petitions.
The first meeting under the law is the
first Tuesday in December, next, when
county mass meetings at county seats are
to be held to select members of the ma
jority and minority proposal committees
for the state and the counties, this real
ly starting active work under the law.
The meetings of the state majority and
minority proposal committees to select
factional party candidates to be present
ed to the primary will be at the state
capital on the first Monday iu January,
which next year is the 9th ofthe month.
The county proposal committees to meet
at the county seats on the first Wednes-
day in January, the 7th, to propose
county candidates.
The primary election will be the fourth
Tuesday in March, which will be the
Oath of the month.
All independent candidates must have
their petitions filed sixty days before
the date of the primary, which will give
seventeen days after the state proposal
meeting to file state petition, and fif-
teen days after county proposal meet
ing to file county independent nomi-
nation, to get them within the provisions
of the law, the closing date for
filings being January 22nd.
To remember these dates is essential
to working under the new law, as they
are all important factors in the coming
campaign.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
MR.. MACDUFFEH HONOR GUEST.

&c. MacDuffee, State Manager of the
Modern Brotherhood of America, who
is to leave Dallas soon to take a place in
the supreme Office at Des Moines, Iowa,
was rendered dinner by friends yes
terday at noon at the Southland hotel.
The dinner was in the nature of fare
we'll to Mr.. MacDuffee, and was tribute
to the esteem in which he is held.
A six course dinner was served, after
which talks were made by all present
There were no set speeches and nothing
of formal nature was attempted. AT
the dinner, among others, we're: A.
Morgan Duke, of Tyler, State Manager
of the Fraternal Brotherhood A. N.
Rocks, State Manager Of the Modern
Woodmen of America; II. J. Black
man, of Ft. Worth, who is to succeed
Mr.. MacDuffee as State Manager of the
Modern Brotherhood; J. ii. Cullom,
Secretary of the Texas Fraternal Con
gress, and'H. S. Osborn, State Manager
Of the National Protective League
Dallas (Texas) Morning News.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
STATE AND NATIONAL CO.
OPERATION PREVENTS FIRES.

Reports of forest fires from the states
with which the Federal government is
co operating show that there has been a
general lack of unusual fire danger this
year. This is not taken to mean that
there have not been great many fires,
but that an efficient fre-fghting force
has been adequate. Only two states,
Massachusetts and Maine, have thus far
found it necessary, because of extra
serious fire hazards, to call upon the
emergency provisions of their agree
ments with the Federal government.
Maine has found it necessary to en-
ploy extra men over and above the nor
NAL allowance provided in it's agree.
ment This any state may do under the
terms of the agreement up to certain
fixed maximum, on the initiative of the
state officer in charge of forest protec-
ton. He must, however, satisfactorily
establish the existence of unusual haz-
ard before the extra men will be paid.
The Forester at Washington has the fur
ther right under a serious emergency to
waive this maximum provision, within
the limits of the funds available, and
authorize the state to employ any mum.
ber of additional men that may seem
necessary.
In Massachusetts this emergency has
been of somewhat different sort. Nor
NAL conditions of fire hazard, upon
which are based all the agreements OF
the Federal government with the states,
in Massachusetts, call for a distinct dry
spring and fall fire season. Fire protec-
ton work may thus largely be discon-
tinued during the midsummer months.
However, because of long drouths, there
has been practically no let.up in the
fire danger to the present. A shortage
of funds was imminent, but relief was
secured by an amendment to the agree
ment, approved by the Secretary of
Agriculture, by which the Federal gov
ernment expends $500 more and the
state 81, 900 more. Under any condi-
tions, the law requires the state to spend
as much money as the Federal govern
ment. In the usual summer, the state
spends on an average three dollars to
the Federal governments one; New
York will expend at least ten dollars.
The Government, however, will not
necessarily adhere to the ratio establish
ed with state confronted by an excep-
tional fire menace. fnsuch emergencies
it will help as far as its funds 60 in ac-
cordance with the needs of the situa-
ton.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
LooKIN UP TIN PROSPECTS.

w. T. Mole, who has been in the Tin
ton district for some time past examin-
ing tin properties ipr an English syndi-
cate, left for England last week in
response to cablegram calling him
home. 1t is not known yet what report
he will make to his English syndicate as
regards the possible purchase of linton
mineral properties, but those who pro
fess to be good guessers predict that hii
report will be favorable. Should the
English syndicate decide to take ovel
the ground which has been grouped to
gether with view to making sale, Il
will doubtless result in an immenst
amount of work in that district in th'
near future.--Spearfsh Mail.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
AssEssMENT FOR STATE.

The total assessment figures for the
state this year will be approximately
81 zoo, 100000. This will be an increase
of $353,0OO,OO0 over that of last year.
The general state levy will be mill this
year last year it was mills.
The levy on express companies, tele-
graph, telephone and sleeping car COM
panies' properties has been reduced from
% mills to mills this year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
STATE FAIR NOTES.

South Dakota sportsmen will be in
terested to learn that the State Game
Commission will exhibit at the State
Fair next week the seventeen hundred
Chinese pheasants which il recently
purchased for distribution and propoga-
ton in this state. s. Evans, of Oak
Park, ILL.,, from whom the birds were
bought, will also exhibit about thirty
other varieties of land and waterfowl.
Applications for the pheasants may be
made at the exhibit, for this will be the
distributing point. Game Warden H.
s. Hedrick desires the people of the
state to become interested in the propo-
CATION of game birds and this exhibit
will do much to accomplish that end.
~
A special call has been issued for a
meeting of South Dakota Cooperative
Farmers Grain Dealers in Huron on
September 9th. This is during State
Fair week, and an attendance of $500
delegates is expected. H. L. Loucks, OF
the State Grange, is desirous of a repre-
sentative attendance and assures an un-
usually strong program.
~
The State Fair grounds at Huron con
tain sixty more acres of display grounds
than last year. On this new space are
erected the new Machinery and Dairy
buildings, the Press building and the
Secretary's Office. The Machinery and
Dairy buildings are built of brick, con-
crete and steel and are the finest in the
Northwest and they are ready for ex.
hibits. All the buildings, race track
and displays are in readiness for the
greatest fair in the history of South
Oak ota.
| ~
The infield of the race track on the
State Fair grounds is being made ready
for the magnificent Pain Twentieth Cen,
tury fireworks display and the great
historic spectacle, "South Dakota Pho
neer Days" Practically the entire space
will be needed for this great pageant
Thousands of dollars in fireworks will
60 up in smoke every night of the Fair
This is the same fireworks display which
was presented at the Worlds Fairs o.
Chicago, San Francisco, Buffalo, St
Louis and Seattle; at the inauguration
of all the presidents from Cleveland tt
Taft; at the Hudson-Fulton Centennia
in New York, and at ten National G. A
r. encampments. 1t is especially ar
ranged for the South Dakota State Fail
and will be presented in its entirity.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06

The total amount of the county levy
for 1912, was Is mills. Therefore the
levy this year is one half of what it was
last.
The state tax commission fixed the
state levy at mill, as against mills
last year. The total valuation Of the
state this year is 81, ,2OO, 600, 900, as against
$353, ,O00, 900 last year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
TAX LEVY FOR YEAR.
The County Levy for 1913 Placed at
Eight Mills and the State Gets
One Mill.

The board Of county commissioners
met Tuesday and determined upon the
amount that will be required to meet
the expenses of the county government
during the coming year, and fixed the
levy at eight mills, made up of the fol-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06

Some of our exchanges are already
predicting a warm winter because Gov
ernor Byrne, r. o. Richards and g. w.
Egan are to make the race for Governor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-09-06
Total l------------.-.$ 80, ,740 90

On the total assessed valuation of the
county as returned by the state tax CON-
mission, which includes the railroads,
telephone, telegraph, sleeping car and
express companies, which is S., ,265, ,672,
1t will be necessary to make the follow
ing levy. in order to raise these various
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-16
BY LILLIAN LAUFERTY.

NEY YORK, July 16-There are two
reasons for going to Coney-to enjoy
yourself, or to find out what others
can manage to enjoy down at the rs
land" | found myself in the latter cat
egory one typical mid summer and
blazingly blatant July day last week
and, whisper! never, oh never again
will | be found in the group of enjoy
ers."
For COney is delusion and a snare,
as far as it is the Coney of comic sup
plements and country cousins dreams.
and all the little widely separated,
fenced in beaches are so triumphantly
jammed with humans that the sands
of the shore are, if not outnumbered,
at least concealed. However, as the old
, Indian said, ct is we'll we don't all
think alike, or everyone would want
my squaw." And as the smiling pic
tured ladies show, l am in the great
minority in my failure to appreciate
that old established purveyor of sum-
mer pleasures, Coney Island.
They tell us that at Newport, the
women of fashion are wearing bath
ing suits consisting mostly of slit, and
beach dresses of the proper Partisan
diaphanOus material. At Coney
CLOTHES is clothes''-and so they
clOthe.
The chief costume in the order of
the day as you walk along the great
easterly and westerly principal thor
oughfare, is the perennially useful
Observation-Disclosures Fads in costumes
may come and go, but the white waist
with a skirt marked down to four nine
ty-eight holds its own wherever democ-
racy gathers. But let us leave sun and
artificial glitter and embark on a tour
of the beaches where just-above- the
knee bathing suits and just-below-the
collarbone tlminess enjoy sun and
shore and admiring chances.
Perched on a high bulkhead is a
white eponge skirt topped by a little
coatee of swallOwtail fashion and rob-
! ms egg blue cOlOrfulness.
Your Fifth avenue tailor will turn
out one just like it for eighty-five dol
lars; your exclusive upper Broadway
shop has something along the same
lines al thirty-seven-ffty but the Co
ney Island girl knows "a little place
on the East Side" or a bargain base
ment in Brooklyn where you can do
just as well for six-ninety-eigh
THE WHAT-IS-IT? COSTUME.
Marching down the beach in the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-16

would happen if she got 'em wet
cried bold eyed youth. She's the
gal that goes in bathing walking on
her hands!" But those kings blue
silk stockings may have meant that
Sally-in-Our-Alley walked to work
through weeks of July sunlight in
order that the requisite dollar-"the
cheapest we have them in that bea-
yutiful shade. madam'-might be
saved.
Under a big white sun umbrella
sits a Whitehead, ruddy-locked girl,
a Panama lies by her side, and her
white blouse and trim white skirt and
newly "Blancoed" boots make her one
of the coolest and most refreshing bits
of landscape and girl-scape at all
COney. If. all the little girls who
have just limited amount to spend
for the summer wardrobe would buy
the simple, plain colored skirts,
blouses and sailor hats they pass
scornfully by for frills and furbelows,
the beauty admiring world would not
pass them so scornfully by.
But Coney offered me one fashion
hint that | mean to take. Above a
pair of big blue eyes was a little
rubber cap that becomingly confined
all but few flying locks of copper
hair. 1t fitted tightly with a little
fiuted band of the rubber to hold it
in place, and perkily arranged over
each ear was a fascinating little ro-
settle ONLY rubber" And the most
fascinating little head-dress was
achieved by the graceful manipulation
of it.
A big black hat that shades the eyes
and tips up gracefully at the back be
meath a big bunch of black aigrettes
was in earnest conversation with the
little blue cap-and peeking under it
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-16

on which to feast thine eyes, for be-
hold there is the Metropolitan Mu-
scum and the St. Patrick's Cathedral,
and the Public Library in New York,
as well as the Great White Way and
the Chinatown, and when thou trav-
ellest abroad wear not upon thy
breast flag to proclaim thy national
ity, for thy voice shouteth that from
afar, SO that none can mistake thee.
9-Look not upon the picture postal
card where it flaunteth itself in the
hotel lobby, for it catcheth up thy time
and thy money, as doth a consuming
fire, and thy friends at home arise and
curse thee when it cumbereth up their
morning mail
10-Aboye all, oh, my daughter,
when thou travellest, have not a Yale
lock upon thy pocket book, nor lift
thy voice in bowls of rage before the
hotel clerk and him that robbeth thee
in the restaurant, because of the good
money from which thou art separated.
for, behold! the Summer vacation land
is land wherein there is no place for
the piker. If thou hast the price, pay
it gladly, and If thou hast not the price,
remain under thine own vine and fig
tree.
Selah.