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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-12-03
g. A. r. & w. K. G.
ENTERTAINMENT
Program for Saturday Evening,
December 5th

Following is the program for the
entertainment to be given Saturday
evening at the Pauly building under
the auspices of Candy Post and the
Women's Relief Corps:
Orchestra Selection, Mrs Sweetman's
Orchestra.
Address, Rev. Kearton.
Flag Salute, Primary School.
Recitation, Howard Peck.
Vocal Selection. Paul Pusev.
Recitation. Evelyn Richardson
Selection, Orchestra.
Address, DR.. Mary Moves Farr, Of
Pierre.
Vocal Duet, Genevieve Dunn and
Marian Corcoran.
Recitation, Wayne Fisher.
Piano and Violin Duet, Lucy Common
and Marie Coquillette.
Reading, Miss CAROLYN Waite.
Address, Hon. John Pusey.
Vocal selection, Miss Pearl Helti-
bride.
Recitation, Alice Davis.
Vocal Selection, |. E. Hambly.
Recitation, Robt Cowie.
| Selection, Orchestra.
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What is a kiIowat?

The editor of the Jefferson, Iowa,
Bee explains what a kllowat is by
saying that after diligent inquiry, he
finds that a kilowat is a kilowat.
An editor of an exchange then pro-
ceeds to define it more fully as fol-
lows:
Now let US enlighten you as to
what a kilowat is. A kilowat is a
measure or a weight or a certain
term by which we can find out how
much gasoline it takes to run an en-
CINE, to generate a certain amount
Of electricity, to load an amount of
wire with a certain amount Of ener-
gy sufficient to produce a certain
amount of heat that when forced
| through a certain kind of platinum
wire that is suspended in a certain
| shaped glass bottle will illuminate a
certain amonnt Of space in certain
buildings as in such cases made and
provided.
You find out by certain figures
simple proportion. You multiply the
gas by the conscience of the pro-
prietor of the electric light plant,
divide this by the meter on the wall,
and add whatever you cannot multi
ply. The answer will come In dollars
and cents. Just divide these by the
price you pay per kilowat and null
tiplv again and find out what a kilo-
wat is. 1t is something you cannot
see, something that you pay for ac-
cording to what someone else tells
you who doesn't know what he is
talking about and he proves it by a
meter that runs by guess and by gao
and is attached to the wall by n
hired nan with machine grease on
his nose. You may know just how
many kilowats you have had, what
they cost apiece, but you do not
know how big they are, what they
look like, who made them, or what
shape they are, if all of them are of
the same shape and size. or how old
they are before they are ripe"
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SITUATION
is UNCHANGED
Quiet in Western Battle Area
While Struggle i'm Poland
Continues

From the tangled skeln of official
and unofficial versions of the fighting
in, Russian Poland it still is impossible
to extract the thread of verify, EX-
cept that the Russians and the Ger
mans continue in a great struggle
for supremacy between the Vistula
and Warta rivers, nothing is kno wn.
Petrograd merely claims progress
for the Russians lat certain points
Southwark in Poland and in Cali
cia the Russians assert that they
have won important successes and
captured large numbers Of men and
guns. Vienna declares the situation
in this locality is unchanged and in
this statement is hacked up by the
German official report as regards
southern Poland.
In the west the period of compar-
ative calm, which has existed for
several days, still remains.
In the Servian war zone fighting
continues on nearly all the front"
The Austrians again assert that they
have taken important positions there.
According to Berlin the rebels in
South Africa have seized the police
station at HammanskraaI, Transvaal,
and forced the British to retire with
heavy casualties.
A news dispatch from Copenhagen
says the two lines of cables between
Denmark and Be- lin have been cut
in the Baltic sea, supposedly bv Ger,
man cruisers.
Montevideo, Uruguay, reports 10
British warships in the Atlantic 3OO
miles off that place, while Lima,
Peru, sighted four men.of-w of
unknown nationality steamlng north
off the Chilean coast.
Germany has ordered its subjects
in Portugal to leave the republic.
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Miller Citizens Send Flour

Huronite: The people of Miller
have responded splendIdiy to the call
for contributions for the Belgians,
twenty-slX of the men Of that city
subscribing for one sack of Huron
-four. The order arrived today. with
the following names of the donors
attached:
B. F. Magness, FL +. Waite, Glen
M. Waters, John I. McCullen, A. b.
Catalan. f. d Greene, "A II.
Churchill, Edgar Davis, Bohning
Bros, Daniel Healy, Reck. Mont
gomery & Co. }, A. Bushfield, S. w
Murphy, L. d. Leyson, }. w. Coqui
lette. X. r. Greeves, +. NJ. Dunn,
G. II. Carroll, d. A.. Mccoy, Geo. p.
Sexauer & Son, d. H Smith, A. +.
Laverty. FLOYD McCarl, j. L. Red
mond, w. j. Halloween. H. j. Bush,
field, C. M. Carroll, 2. J. Dunn, DR.
McWhorter, S. V. Christ, S. l..
Eaton, Hugh McKelvey. Geo Rich.
ardson, j. Fl. Cole, H. K. Schroeder,
VIM. Schroeder, l.. Dlouhay. G. p,
Ross, A. j. Jameson, c. F. Halbig
Jack Wilson and Thos. Foley.
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Investigate Freight Rates

Washington, Noy. 30.-Investiga-
ton of the railway freight rate sit
uation in western and middle west
ern territory was ordered today
when the interstate commerce
commission suspended new tariffs
filed by western carriers to become
effective tomorrow. Under the
commissions ruling the new sched-
ules and The various regulations and
charges for special services included
in the tariffs cannot become effec-
tive before March 81. 1915, having
been postponed pending hearing
and decision thereon"
In a general way the western car
riers sought to advance rates in
conformity with advances recently
applied for by eastern carriers in
the so-ca!led five per cent advance
rate cases now before the commits
sion on a re-hearing, because of
emergencies said to have arisen from
the European war.
Several tariffs filed by the carriers
would not become effective until
later in the month and it is possible
suspension orders will be issued
against these also.
The commission did not suspend
one-way passenger fare increases in
central freight association territory
effective tomorrow, nor commute,
ton or mileage increases effective
later in the month,
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Il. A. X. and w. K. c. Social

Saturday afternoon and evening.
Dec. 9Th. a program will be given
commencing at 7:3O .. m. At 500
D. No., the basket supper will be
given, all at Pauly building.
The program will consist of
speeches, orations, recitations and
music. vocal and instrumental will
be interspersed throughout.
Owing IT, the immense thinning
out of the membership of the G.. A.
R. Posts by deaths. the per capita
tax levied when the order was insti-
tuted il. insufficient now to support
the state and national departments,
which are in arrears badly, and it is
for the purpose of relieving the de-
icits that the posts of the state have
decided to hold these socials.
COMMITTEES
Programme:--Mrs McCullen, Mrs
Taylor, Mrs Ostrander.
On Baskets Mis- Nav Rudd, Mrs
Bowles, Mrs Henshaw.
On Music:-Mr Hambly, Mrs
Sweetmep.
By order Of: Sweetland,
Rudd.
Clifford,
General Advancement Com
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Sic Transit Gloria Tango!

Last winter, In a period OF rash
ness and inconceivable folly, we took
a few dancing lessons. We learned
to tango and one-step and the hesita-
ton, with all the dips, grape-vines
and lame ducks thereunto appertain-
ing and in such cast made and pro-
vided. We thought we had the
Terpsichore ldShed to the rudder of
a Zeppelin. As we glided about the
hall or rIccocheted from divan TO
davenport, just missing the piano
lamp in our mad flights through
some friendly parlor, we used to feel
sorry tor poor Mr. and Mrs Castle
We were the dancing oemon
of the day. We We're. But last
night we happened to drop IN on
some friends whose Victrola, as we
entered, was tearing off by the
Sea, Bv the Beautiful Sea- We
SDdI forever Ddle lDdI Iuilt, III IL II
inextricably intermingled with the
wreck of our fondest conceit. "e
feared last night that we can't dance.
No more than a rabbit, we can't
dance. There was a Young fellow IN
that parlor who had brought with
him, from the city, a slew Of ne
steps and motions and gestures and
poses and by the time we got there
he had taught young ladies such
delicatessens as the half and half
"the fox trot," 1.-The siIO Slip and
''the Ford flop or some thing like
that. Whv, we didn't even know
the holds any more. Everything VI
did was passe, or Aisne or przemysl
We were Major-general Dub. Last
year if you didn't hesitate well -yoC
needn't come around. This year il
you hesitate you are lost-and nc
reward offered. Elk.
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100000 Blu. Small Grain
Corn and Small Grain

This year a number of farmers in
Hand county report corn yielding
Grom Is to 80 bushels per acre. That
is not a large Weld, and yet, it Days
very well, for every acre in corn one
year becomes good ground for some
thing else next year. And this alter
mating of crops every year is some
thing that cannot be done in some
other very much doomed localities.
The boosters of Canadian lands, and
even some of u own Northwestern
states. where they claim such big
wheat yields. don't say much about
the land laying idle every other year,
while at the same time it is worked
1he same as if it were to be scwn to
crop.
In South Dakota, land will produce
every year, and even at the moderate
rate Of % bushels of corn this year
and the average bushels Of small
grain next year we get returns of
say about S22 to S24 per acre for the
two years, which is equal to summer
fallowed land.
The one point about which the
people of South Dakota are growing
suspicious, is these reports of crop
yields i'm other states. Talk to an
Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, or Kansas
man for instance, and they will
hardly entertain a suggestion of
ANYTHING below 50 bushels of corn
per acre. Then along comes Uncle
Sans official report from the agrl-
cultural department, and we see
that Illinois Urn averaged about 80
to SO bushels, Iowa % to SO bushels,
and possibly South Dakota about
"a to % bushels. What's the ans
wer2
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Fine Fall Weather

Unusual fall weather still contln-
ues which has been a many fold
blessing to all farmers with a large
amount of fall work to be done.
The November weather summary
issued by the Huron Office states
there we're II clear days and Is
partly cloudy, the average temper
ature for the month being 40 de-
greeS above.
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Special Church Service

President Gage, of Huron College,
at the PRESBYTERIAN church next
SUNDAY in two addresses.
1890 a. m President Gage will
give a special address to young peo-
Pile. All young people specially in
vited to hear him.
7.30 p. m. The annual praise
meeting of missionary society.
President Gage will give the an
nual praise address. Come and
bring a thank offering as God has
prOspered you.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-12-03
Thirty Fourth Year.
CORN MARKET
OPEN AT MILLER
First Year of Open Market Will
Bring IS, 900 Bushels

Cribs of corn about the Atlas
elevator are attracting considerable
attention this fall. This may seem
strange, but as a matter of fact
there has never been a regular corn
market opened here before this fail,
when agent d. H. Smith, of the At
las Co, advised his company to pur-
chase corn as well as small gram.
The company told him to go ahead
If he thought he could fill a crib.
He has already filled eight or ten Of
the round cribs doubled, and he says
the total receipts of corn this first
year at this market will be close to
rs, 900 bushels.
Heretofore corn has either been
sold from farmer to feeder, or &C.
OCCASIONALLY a a or two shipped
from here west. But as a rule the
corn raised here has been fed upon
the farm to cattle or hogs.
800, 900 Blu. Small Grain
The grain men of the city estimate
that they will handle 300,O 900 bushels
of small grain this season, which is
considerable above the receipts Of
the past three years The bulk of
this small grain is wheat, of course
but a considerable amount of oats,
speltz and barley have been market,
ed.
This marketing OF feed stuff in,
dicates a surplus over and above
what farmers need for their own
feeding.
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Eifty-two Hunters Dead

Milwaukee, Noy. 80 During the
big game hunting season IN the
north woods, which ends at mid
night tonight, fiftv-two hunters were
killed. The dead list numbered
twenty four in Wisconsin, sixteen in
Michigan and twelve in Minnesota.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-12-03
State BUYS Buffalo

Robinson Brothers, of FIT. Pierre.
representing the Scotty Philip es-
tate have sold to the state of South
Dakota, twentv-four head of buffalo
that will be placed on the state game
preserve in the Hills.
The sum of $250.00 a head was
the amount received for each animal
sold,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-12-03
Through Daily Sleeping Car Ser
vice to California via Chicago
and North yNectern iua

Effective Dec. LIST. Pullman STAN
dard sleeping car will run through
from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Los
Angeles, Calf.
Trains from stations in Minnesota.
South Dakota and western Iowa
make connection with this through
service at Mankato. Mimi. Alton,
la, and Sioux City, Ia. arriving at
Los Angeles 4:30 p. m, third day.
Full particulars on application to
ticket agents Chicago and North
Western Ry. lt2
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st. AIMS Church

Services on lst, 3rd, and 9Th Sun.
days.
Masses at $50 and 1890 a. m.
Evening services 1880 p. m. sun
days.
Week days, Mass at s o'clock.
Holy Days, Masses at 6 and $50
a.. m.
Confessions, Saturday evening at
z p. m.
Those desiring instruction in the
Catholic Doctrine will call at Priests
residence on Monday and Thursday
evenings. Father Duguay, Pastor.
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Christian Church

Lords Day School at 10 o'clock a.
m
Communion service at IL o'clock
a, m.
Christian Endeavor at $50 p. m.
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Methodist Church Services.

Preaching next Sunday, by the
pastor at HOO a. m.
S. S. at 1000.
Epworth League devotional meet.
ing at TOO p. m.
Evening service at 800 D m
Prayer meeting every Thursday
evening
Ali are invited TO attend.
j. III. Kearton, Pastor.
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CITY CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRESBYTERIAN Church

A. p. Cooper, pastor
1920 4 m. Sermon:
1l;45 a m Sabbath school
The lessons are interesting. come
and join a class.
8:00P M sermon.
We want you to come.
We aim to begin all services at
the minute appointed. Be on time
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-12-03

General Arrangement Com.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-28

gloats. But Johns girl worms out of
the lawyer the story of the agree
ment, and suggests to her sweetheart
a line of conduct which drives Nettle-
ton frantic, and speedily brings about
the dissolution of the contract.
Hale Hamilton, who made an in
ternational reputation as Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford, is equally good
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v =
BY LIVY S. RICHARD. z
Sometimes the greatest value in a
church is found in what the church
enables its minister to do outside.
The other day, in Melrose, Mass,
a suburb of Boston, of whose $4,000
inhabitants most of the grown-ups
work in Boston, a $4,000 soldiers
and sailors memorial was dedicated.
Instead of a useless shaft of stone,
it was in the form of a fine town hall,
with seats for 1000 persons.
On Sunday afternoons this hall is
thronged by folks who go to hear
some phase of the great social prob
lem set forth by a speaker of note.
When the speaker gets through, the
folks ask questions. Louis d.
Brandeis has spoken there and Lin
coin Steffens and Walter Rauschen-
busch.
Before the talking begins the folks
sing hymns of democracy and hear
a prayer and a poem or some bit of
pertinent prose. There is no the
ology, no sectarianism, no religion
in the churchly sense; but the whole
meeting is intensely religious in the
social sense, for it is instinct with the
spirit of democracy and brotherhood.
1t is a getting together of human be-
ings on an equal footing to think of
their mutual relations.
The effect upon the community is
shown in more liberal thinking and in
the growth of the cooperative spirit.
Misunderstanding are not so COM
mon as they were. Shams are not
so successful. The tone of the neigh
borhood is becoming less SNUG. Peo-
pie are learning their relations to So
ciety.
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This has, chiefly come about
through the guidance of one man,
Harold Marshall, a minister.
He is a radical. Years ago, when
he was trying to round up his de-
nomination-the Universalists- a
bolder front toward the great in
justices of society, he was looked
upon by many worthy churchmen as
dangerous. ooh, yes Marshall that
demagogue, they used to call him.
Today he is the accepted leader of
the state convention of his denom-
nation, the chairman of its social
service commission and one of the
live wires of New England.
He started the civic forum in his
own church, using an annex building.
He had to fight a goodly element in
his flock, too, for Melrose was origin
ally a stronghold of standpatters.
The fighting wasn't exactly bloody;
but his critics couldn't quite see what
such mixing into secular concerns
had to do with the job for which they
were paying him a salary. Some of
them don't see it yet. Luckily, the
great majority do; and are proud to
have a minister serve the community
as well as a little group in it.
Today, Melrose is progressive. It
has progressive senator in the state
house. The old public service cor
peration machine has lost control of
it. The town is on the way to be-
come really democratic.
One man didn't do it all, but Pas
tor Marshall, the radical, has helped
lot.
Women in Denver would not mind
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-28

as Johns. Ann Murdoch is his fiap-
Gee. Mr.. and Mrs. Nettleton are play
ed by George Parsons and Ivy Trout
man.
In the part of a cockney servant
girl who makes love to Johns, Maude
Eburne gives Characterization that
has made her famous on Broadway
over night.
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Women in Denver would not mind
the duty of serving as grand jurors
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-05-08
ARREST pirrsFiElo vAvos


Patrick J Noorr tl. afiorrer. rr1
dence Piftsfsil IL ihs derurarrn Fl
the police court tioffsr. a. rrruIi ~
the misforiunes of ne mayur Ell Tie
Heart ~ tie Rerkslires.T 40 rait
Springfield a visit WEDNESDAY rIElf
The rest 90 the story on fhe tafifr
gives the charge as drunkennrss ed
the single sord. released feIr ne
disposition az the ease
once Daniel 2. Mccarthy $40
during the hours oi outs of a. o.
squad watches over fhat psrt of Mar
street around Nor hinrion ffrerl.
vas the one Who made fhe arrest
that landed the distinguished visitor
Oh the police station. MAYOR Moofe
vas taken into custody AZ me c-ur.
OF Main and Worihlnrf0r streets
shortly after O'Clock and soon rref
being taken 20 the police s'afion aal
released on bail Yesterday morninr
he vas released without the neCcssi-
~ OF appearing before the cou-f. al
Is usually the case with the frsf ar
rest OF this charge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-05-08
settled the Question.

In Regensburg, in the middle ages,
the headsman died and three appli-
cants presented themselves for the
post. a test OF their skill would set
tie the matter. Accordingly three
criminals were brought forth for
slaughter.
The first headsman made with his
sword tiny nick in the first criminals
neck. III lop him off just there, =
he said, and, swinging his sword round
with great swishing sound, 10! he did
as he had said he would.
The second headsman tied a string
round his criminals neck. "I'll cut
off his head and bisect the string" he
said. And he did as he had promised.
These two first headsmen now began
to study and ponder the neck Of the
third criminal, asking what proof of
skill the third headsman should under
take, when the latter with one vast
and splendid sword sweep cut off all
three heads. thus finishing the crimi-
nal and his rivals together and win
ming the craftsmanship Of Regensburg
amid the applause of all.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-05-08
BECKER WILL TESTIFY
viii Take Advice o. His Wife ana
Face the Jury

New York May 7.-Charles Becker
means 70 risk the greatest Of al haI
ards In his case. meeting the eyes Of
twelve jurymen while he tesufes IN
his own defense and endures the dis
trict attorneys seyerest attack
This news. transpiring ~ the close
OF the second day OF the trial a prof
itiess day. since there vas a net gain
OF only one juror in an the dragging
hours. overshadowed minor occurenc
- and borrowed attention from an In
vestigation directed az ". Bourks
Cochran.
Becker believes his failure 10 face
the Jury in the former trial made an
irremediably bad impression upon
that jury: and although he knows
that the district attorney viii take up
graft aud the matter OF where he &C
quired so much money on a police
lieutenant's' salary. he feels his com.
ting out in the open. and thereby per
hitting Mr.. Whitman 20 bare his
past. is a lesser peril than lingering
NJ his counsel table when the eyes OF
the jurymen turn questioningly upon
him.
Mrs. Becker wants her husband 10
stand up himself and say 20 the jury
that Rose. Weber. WALTON and
Schepps are liars. and Becker him
self has swayed 20 her advice. But
he has a personal. definite reason for
testifying In his own behalf lie said
10 a friend.
Il am on trial for murder. not for
grating. Why should | hang back
and endanger my murder case be
cause Of a fear that the district attor
ney will hammer me about graft and
bank accounts?'
The information that Mr.. Cochran
who so ably bombarded the court ON
Wednesday with accusations that the
district attorney had committed con
tempt OF court in giving out state
ments tending 10 prejudice the com
munity against the accused man, was
himself under investigation for con
tempt, astonished the lawyers in the
case.