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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08

The attendants of the celebra-
tion at Gettysburg report a good
time and big crowd, and the sports
q successful feature, with the Ag-
ency boys making a number of
good scores. il
Hon. R. B. Fisk made a speech
in the forenoon, and an exhibition
and contest Ly the fire department
was feature of the afternoon.
The base ball game, Agency VS..
Pembroke Hoven, vas won by the
former by 8 to 13. In the relay
race Lebanon won first prize and
Agency 2nd. the runners for the
latter being Freddie LaPlant. AL
fred Pretty Voice, Frank Menz and
Cox.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
Always Lead to Better Health.

Serious sicknesses start in dis
orders of the stomach, liver and
kidneys. The best corrective and
preventive is DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. They purify the blood-pre-
vent constipation, keep liver, kid
neys and bowels in healthy condi-
tion, and give you better health
by ridding the system Of ferment-
ing and gassy foods. Effective
and mild. Csc, at your druggist.
Bucklens Arnica Salve for all
hurts.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
E P. THORNE, EDITOR & PRop'R

Entered az second class matter At the Postofhce
at Forest City, S. d.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08

Only 1st prize winners are eligible to
compete for championsh,p p honors
Most perfect boy. y...........s. Ribbon
10 Most perfect girl .... Ribbon
In addition gold medal win be given
to the champion baby and bronze medal
to The baby scoring highest in each divi-
Sion. Certificates of award will be given
to every first prize winner. in all classes,
and small certificates will be given to all
babies enterd in ths contest ahd scored by
scored by the physicians.
For further particulars address Mrs. T /.
M. Luckey. Sup't. Huron. S. Oak.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08

A remarkable official publica-
tion on the Panama Pacific Inter
national Exposition is ready for
circulation, and it is announced
that its distribution thruout the
world will be undertaken oy the
Remington Typewriter Company.
The intrusting of such a function
to private business house is 8
new departure in exposition man
agement. This action has been
decided upon by the committee
having the matter in charge, be-
cause the Remington Typewriter
Organization, with its six hundred
and tiftyeight Offices, covering
every continent and country on
the globe, is the most available
agency thru which to make the
distribution.
The handbook is distributed free
to those interested and a copy may
be had for the asking at any Rem
ington Office.
The booklet is not only valuable
and interesting to every prospect
i've visitor to California and the
Exposition and to every prospect
i've exhibitor, but is also an excep-
tionally beautiful piece of print
ing. 1t is superbly illustrated in
colors reproducing original paint
ings and pictorial maps showing
the arteries of travel the world
over, the Panama canal zone, Cal
ifornia, San Francisco and vicinity
and the Exposition. Its publica-
tion has been arranged for in the
principal languages of the com
mercial world.
In accordance with the arrange
ments made by the Exposition
management, a supply Of these
booklets for free distribution is
now on hand at the Remington
Typewriter Company's Office, St.
Paul, Mimi, and all of our read
ers are invited to call there and
obtain copy.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08

A camp of Royal Neighbors is
being organized in Gettysburg
with some II members. Two of
these are Mrs Stella Reed and Mrs
Emma Collins (Kempf), members
of the camp in Forest City, who
are taking out transfer cards. This
will still leave Is members remain
ing in Sylvan camp.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
Hot Weather Tonic and Health Builder.

Are you run down?-Nervous2-
Tired? Is everything you do an
efforts You are not lazy-you are
sick! Your stomach, liver, kid
neys and whole system need tonic.
A tonic and health builder to drive
out the waste matter-build up G
renew your strength. Nothing
better than Electric Bitters. Start
today. Mrs. Jas. Duncan, Haynes
vile, Me-, writes: ''Completely
cured me after several doctors gave
me up SOC & 81 at your druggist.
Bucklens Arnica Salve for cuts
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
NERO AND MS FIDDLE

Some people have an idea that
a newspaper especially one like
the Forest City Press, for in
stance, should give strict atten-
tion to printing nothing but the
local news. But the present force
s'behind the gum cant quite see it
that way. It seems to US that if
we should do SO, ~we would practi.
cally be in the same position as the
Nero of history who played on his
fiddle while Rome was burning.
If The Press adopted the course
suggested it would be ssfiddling''
while the rains and foods washed
the bank of the river away on
which our town stands.
After Good Roads, if our town
remains where it is at present, we
simply have got to heve
SOMEBODY do something to pro-
tect our river bank from going into
the nav of the Old Muddy; either
that, or we will have to move
back up into the hills, before long.
1t is the most foolish thing in the
world to ask or expect our county
commissioners to do this kind of
work for us. If they were finan-
cially able to do so, we would new
err say word against the PROPOSE
tion. We want and need good
stretch Of road between Forest
City and Gettysburg: if the Com
missioners give us this, it is all we
have a right to ask of them.
To wait, before doing anything,
till the Chicago & North Western,
or some other good road comes
and expect that they will help out
is another most foolish proposition
equivalent to Nero's fddling
while Rome was burning. The
right thing for the people of For
est City to do is to get together
IMMEDIATELY Y and decide as to
what can and ought to be done.
The Press is satisfied that there
is q way for the people nov living
here to at least start a movement
that will be the means of saving
what is an Invaluable asset to this
township, viz: our river front,
which IS unique, so far as we are
aware, among all the cities Of So.
Dakota.
The Press has not got any pet
scheme to foist on to our tax pay
ers and voters, by which this much
needed work can be accomplished,
excepting, possibly, the organize
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
LIKE A woMAN-ANp A MAN.

Husband-My love, we must get
rid of that cook. Did you ever, see
worse-looking chop than the one I've
just put ON my plate?
Wife-Yes, dear; the one you've
put ON mine Judge.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
We DON'T DOUBT 1T.

S'Why have you saved these Christ
mas cigars SO long?"
Mother wants them to sprinkle
among the clothes. She says they
are better than camphor for keeping
away moths.''
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
ON THE LINKS.

Sympathetic Voice Gin the dis
tance)-How are you getting on, old
man?
sanguine Beginner-First rate.
Just made three perfect puts on tbs
last green.-London Punch.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT.

''Your mother baked the best
bread in this town. Can you say as
much ?"
'Maybe not, dad. But I play a
pretty fair game of bridge
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
BABY HEALTH
CONTEST
AT South Dakota State Fair

A total OF s12o 90 in premiums is hung
up for the Babies Health Contest of the
South Dakota State Fair and according
to Mrs Lucky, superintendent. only the
first 1875 babies to enter will be examined
Hence all mothers who wish TO enter their
babies should send for entry blanks at
once. However, entries may be made up
to Wed. room Sept 16 the Sd day of the
Fair. Examinations will begin at 8 a. m
Mon. Sep. II and premiums will be awar-
ded at ] p. M Fri Sep. IS.
The following is the age schedule for
Scoring and prizes offered:
LOT l-Rural:s 1st 3nd Sd 4th 5th
L Boy 12 months and
under "a months s. 81 So s. 81
2 Boy "a mo. & under &c., i
3 Girl 12 mo. & under24. g. . /
Girl "a 8 '' So 5 4 3 /
LOT City
5 Boy II & under "a, 5 4 /
6 Boy "a 8 50 36 5 ! i
5 Girl "a :s " IS 5 ; !
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
PROPOSED AMENDMENT (l9th)

To the Constitution Of the
United States of America:
The right OF the Congress to construct,
own or maintain interstate and interna-
tional railways shall not be denied or
abridged; bot the United States shall not
become common carrier by the owner
ship or operation of any trolling stock"
this provision may be suspended by the
Congress for and during time of war only
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08

ton of a municipality. Several
reasons occur to us why it is wiser
to make this municipality a town
ship organization than to wait till
we are big enough to incorporate
as city.
Well wait, most probably, as
Nero Fiddled While Rome Was
Burning!
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
Building $50 Feet High.

Progress toward the realization Of
the scheme to erect the Pan-Ameri-
can building, the nearest approach to
the 1,000-foot structure has been so
favorable that Robert Lee Dunn, Sec
retary of the Pan-American States
association, declares that the project
is a certainty, says The New York
Evening Post Financial matters, he
said, and other, essentials are being
satisfactorily adjusted and the plans,
preliminaries of which were recently
submitted to the department Of build
ings, will be shortly filed in. final
shape and it is expected that within
two weeks they will be in the hands
of contractors for estimates.
Francis H. Kimball, the architect,
has provided new plans to fit the
block bounded by Broadway, Eighth
avenue, Fifty-seventh and Fifty
eighth streets, upon which an option
is held which expires next May.
The new plans reveal an interest
ing innovation in that to obviate the
acute angle formed by the intersec-
ton of Broadway and Fifty-seventh
street, it is proposed to set the build
ing back 40 feet from the building
line in order to create circular
facade at this point from which the
building will be carried in straight
front to Fifty-eighth street and to
Eighth avenue.
Besides creating a plaza approach
for the proposed structure, the set
back will also afford a suitable place
for subway station, and it is cal,
culated by the architect that the &C
tual material, in cubic area, that will
be saved in this setback will be suf-
ficient to add five additional stories
to the original plan.
The revised drawings will provide
for a much higher structure than
originally contemplated. 1t will reach
height Of S89 feet. divided into
about Sc floors, with ceiling heights
ranging from Is to 80 feet. The
Woolworth building has 55 stories
and is $50 feet in height, the Metro
politan Tower 693 feet, and the
Singer building 612 feet.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
CARPETING MISSISSIPPI.
Heroic Measures to Prevent Rivers
Deserving of Memphis.

The bottom of the Mississippi riv-
er near Memphis is being supplied
with a carpet of willow mats. These
mats are constructed in sections on
the surface of the river and then
sunk into place.
For several years the river has
been cutting a new channel, which
threatened to leave the city high
and dry a mile away. A score OF
towns have already been deserted in
this manner. 1t would be most
serious matter for Memphis, because
her costly harbor facilities would be
utterly useless.
The threatened danger was first
noted by government engineers about
a year ago and preparations were
Immediately started to avert it. The
willow mats, they believe, will be ef-
fective. Some of these mats are a
mile long and 200 feet wide. AS fast
as a section is completed it is weight
ed with rocks and sunk and then
pinned to the bottom with piles
Memphis (Tenn.) Dispatch to Phila-
delphia Record.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
EX-Slave Makes Fortune.

Clyde A. Mann, a well-knoWn news
paper writer, contributes to the cur
rent issue of Farm and Fireside an
article entitled "Studying Fertilizers
Without Books" in which he tells
the remarkable story of methods of
soil enrichment worked out in the
south by an ex-slave named John
Benson. Of course new methods of
agriculture can accomplish the same
results in fraction of the time re-
quired by the negro's plan, but the
story of what he has dcne is inter-
esting and an extract follows:
From 16O acres of depleted land
in Alabama, on which white men
had not been able to elie out liv-
ing, a former slave has produced
fortune by following his own system
of soil enrichment. For four miles
up and down the Kowaliga creek in
Elmore county, the fields and the
standing long-leaf pine timber near
ly all are his. But beside there are
blooded cattle and horses, cotton gin
and sawmill, and probably other as
sets elsewhere.
THE land which would produce
no more than a fifth of bale of cot
ton to the acre has, under his meth
DDS, yielded year after year increas-
ing crops of cotton and to-day pro-
duces on his big acreage from one to
one and half bales. Long before
the practice of burning the cotton
seed ceased through the south, years
before the value of cottonseed meal
for fertilizer had been discovered and
heralded by the government and
every experiment station, John Ben
son was following systematic use
of cotton seed to bring up his land.
He used the cotton seed with other
vegetable matter, including leaves
from the woods and barnyard man
ure, for making compost which in
the fall he put in trenches in the.
field and covered with soil. Buried
there it heated and decayed, the
steam being notice to neighbors
that Benson's fertilizers were at work
during the winter, manufacturing
ammonia for boosting the crop yield
of that field yet another fraction of
bale beyond the best of the year
before.
There has been system and order
in his operations, and a degree of
honesty that has made his word as
acceptable as his bond. These have
brought degree of success that is
the most remarkable in the fact that
it was won despite the general race
prejudice against the colored man
which was nowhere more pronounc-
ed than in Elmore county, Alabama.
Moreover, what he has done and the
way he has done it has abated in the
measure that very prejudice"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
WOULD MARK RUM "POISON."
Bill to Be Offered Calling for Skull
and Crossbones Label.

When Long John Silver and his
more or less merry companions used
to roar the refrain "Yo! Ho! Ho.,
and a bottle of rum," the Jolly Roger
flew from the main truck, but even
the most hardened pirate had not
thought of putting the skull and
crossbones emblem on the bottle.
Now comes William H. Anderson
no pirate at all, but the fighting
State superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League-who plans to do that
cry thing.
Mr.. Anderson left last night for
Albany, carrying with him copies
If bill which he said would be in
troduced in the assembly to-day. The
bill requires that the skull and cross
bones and a poison notice be placed
upon every container in which an
alcoholic beverage is sold.
Mr.. Anderson said that he was
quite serious about this new plan OF
campaign in the anti-saloon war and
that he would not be surprised to see
manifestations of public sentiment
which will force the State leglsla-
ture to regard the bill seriously"
Mr.. Anderson's bill is an amend
ment to the Penal Law, relating to
selling poison without label and pro-
vides that it shall be unlawful to sell
at wholesale Or retail any contalner
holding any preparation commonly
used for beverage purposes" which
contains more than two per cent By
weight of alcohol, unless the contain
er bears the skull and crossbones
printed in red and the following in
scription:
This preparation contains alcohol
which is a habit forming, irritant,
narcotic poison.
The words "alcohor' and poison"
are to be printed ''in heavy bold face
capitals and the skull and cross
bones must be mot less than one-half
an inch high"
Mr.. Anderson says that his bill is
neither a joke nor freak and that
he will keep on introducing it until
it is enacted into law.
The temperance people of Ameri-
ca are tired of standing on the de-
fensive,' he said, ''and will give spec
,ial backing to any proposition to car
ry the liquor war into the rum de-
mons own camp
The New York Methodist Preach
ers' Meeting, in session yesterday at
$50 Fifth avenue, passed resolu-
tions saying that it favored the skull
and crossbones bill, although it
would prefer to witness the triumph
of absolute prohibition of the liquor
traffic. THE New York Sun.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
UNION LAD SHOT.
Gun Falls From Wall and is Dis
charged.

Union, Jan. 31.-Harold the 4
year-old son of Joe Adams, was
seriously shot yesterday afternoon at
5 o'clock. The little boy was sitting
on the front porch, while several
other children were playing in the ad-
joining room. While they were play
ing shotgun which was hanging on
nails driven in the wall was dislodg-
ed and, falling to the floor, was dis
charged, the load of shot passing
through the walls and striking the
child on the outside in the fore
head, fracturing the skull and pro-
badly putting out both eyes. Physi-
clans were quickly summoned, and
the child is still living, but his re-
covery is doubtful.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
WORLD'S GREATEST HORSE.
Prince Palatine Ranked Foremost on
British Turf.

Even if horse racing in the coun-
trv is at present under a cloud, the
fact that it is still recognized as the
snort of kings across the Atlantic
was attested recently in London
when J. B. Joel, the South African
SPORTSMAN, purchased Prince Palatlne
from T. Pilkington for s25O,Ooo, the
highest price ever paid for a thor
oughbred horse. The previous mark
was held by Flying Fox, which chang
ed hands for s196,S75. Prince
Palatine is ranked with the great
est horses of the English turf. He
ran only a few times last year, and
has won the Coronation cup at Ep-
som and the Ascot gold cup. You
probably remember that in the lat
ter race August Belmont's Tracery
was leading quarter of mile from
home, when a man rushed on the
track and caused the animal to fall.
Competent critics have expressed the
opinion that Tracery would have
beaten Prince Palatine but for this
outrage. Mr.. Pilkington bought the
horse as a yearling for $4,000 and
since then it has earned foremost
place in the racing world. Although
not finally decided, Prince Pala-
tine may be raced another year be-
fore being retired to the stud
Ipclia's
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
An Obliging Clerk.

She came into the telegraph Office
and raped on the counter. The
clerk remembered that she had been
there about ten minutes before as he
came forward to meet her. He won
dered what she wanted this time.
"Oh," she said, 'let me have that
telegram l wrote just now. I forgot
something very important. I wanted
to underscore perfectly lovely in ac-
knowledging the receipt of that
bracelet. Will it cost anything ex-
tra?"
mo, ma am" said the accommo-
dating clerk, as he handed her the
message.
The young woman drew two heavy
lines beneath the words and said:
It's awfully good of you to let me
do that. 1t will please Arthur ever
so much
Don't mention it," said the clerk.
IF you would like it l will put few
drops of violet extract on the tele-
gram at the same rates"
"Oh, thank you, sir. You don t
know how much I would appreciate
it. I'm going to send all my tele-
grams through this office. You are
so obliging."
And the smile she gave him would
have done anyone good, with the
possible exception of Arthur.-The
Pathfinder.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
Lived 25 Years With Broken Neck.

Mount Holly, n. j., Jan. 2S.-Wil-
liam NJ. Shemeley, aged AZ years,
whose funeral was held here yester-
day. lived twenty-five years with a
broken neck. When a schoolbOy he
fell from a tree and Gislocated his
neck between the first and second
vertebra and split another vertebra.
Thereafter he was physically helpless.
but retained his powe" of speech.
Shemeley had worn specially made
harness" since the accident.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
Married Men Barred.

Can a married man keep a secret
from his wife? Some people think
not, and among them are the heads
of the firm who are building the
wonderful new racing yacht with
which Sir Thomas Upton is going
to make one more attempt to recap
ture the America Cup.
There is always a dell of secrecy
about the design of new racing
yacht, and particularly about the
shape of the keel The keel of
Shamrock w. was cast at Messrs.
Camper G. Nicholson's yard at Cos
port on November 26 last, and not
one married man was among the
men employed, nor took part in the
construction of the hull.
There are others besides yacht
builders who have similar distrust
of married men. During all those
years that Lord Kitchener was busy
perfecting his plans for his swoop
upon the Mahdi he would not have a
Benedict upon his staff. If one of
the staff wanted to get married, why,
he had to find another job-that was
all.
AS matter of fact, there were
singularly few desertions for this
cause. The Sirdar gave his men pre-
cious little leisure for love making.
In businesses which depend for
their success on secret formulas,
married men are sometimes refused
employment.
One such has for more than a CEN
tury past been manufacturing GER
tain popular sauce. The firm has
two large factories and employs a
ing scores of women. There are
-pnIouI 'spueq 10 leqmnu eSIeI AI9A
plenty of married men II the works,
but the actual mixing is IN the hands
of a few highly-paid and much
trusted men, not one of whom is
married.
The plan seems to have worked
we'll, for in spite of many attempts at
bribery, the secret has remained in
! violate for 120 years.
One might also quote the case or
the well-known liquer, Chartreuse,
the formula for which remained a
secret among its monkish manufac-
turers for over 200 years.
Some industries there are in which
the element of danger is so great that
employers prefer bachelors to mar
ried men. There is a powder factory
in Kent where the posts of danger in
the mixing houses are held only by
unmarried men.
And in the Dupont factory at Will
mington, Del, which is the Oldest
established dynamite factory in the
United States, similar regulation is
in force.
The danger of ventur!ng aloft in
aeroplanes is, happily, diminishing
month by month, but even so, flying
is still one of the riskiest pursuits in
which man engages. 1t is for this
reason that the authorities who con-
troll the Royal Flying Corps prefer
to employ unmarried officers and
men.