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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
POSTAL sAVIN Gs SYSTEM

After July lst, every person in the
United States ten years old or over may
open an account in postal savings
bank. Under the plan adopted for open
ing accounts by mail an intending de-
positor residing where there is no postal
savings bank, will apply to his local
postmaster who will see that necessary
identification data is prepared and for
warded to the nearest postofice author.
lied to accept deposits, The depositor
will then be permitted to forward depos-
its by money order or registered letter
to the postmaster at the banking point.
He may withdraw all or any portion OF
his deposits by mail at any time.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
DISPUTED TAXES
Attorney General Rules on the PENNINGTON
Custer County Tax Dispute-Resi-
dents Get Of Easy.

Pierre, May 26. Residents of dis
puted strip of territory along the boun.
dary between Pennington and Gust ter
counties are likely to get off easy on tax
es in an opinion of the attorney general.
The complaint is made by the states at
torney of Custer county that Penning-
ton county has for years been assessing
and collecting taxes on a tract which
belongs to Custer. The holding is that
Custer county has no recovery against
Pennington county, but that the in
dividuals who have been paying such
taxes have the right of recovery, and
that so long as Custer county has not
attempted to secure its rights in the
case, they cannot recover any back taxes
against the individuals, that right com
ing to them only after they make
claim.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
NO42
A SUCCESSFUL RUN.

r. ]. McNish and L. c. Mills have
been successfully running the mill on 10
to 10 tons of tin ore. The mill is doing
excellent work. 1t separates the mica
very nice and very clean from the tin
stone, and this will be handled as a very
remuneratve by product. Pan tailings
have shown no losses in tin stone. MIR.
McNish says the mill works like charm
and tnrns out clean concentrates. The
smelling of these concentrates will also
be done by them. Part of the machin-
cry is here and the balance is on the
way. Owing to the storm and bad roads
no ore could be hauled, which necessi-
tated the shut down.-IIill City News.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
BEAVER VALLEY AND VICINITY,
BY f. z. KING

May "a, 1915.
Harry Milton spent Saturday in Gus
ter on business.
Mrs. A. P. Chambers is spending the
week visiting with relatives in Hot
Springs.
Harry Livingston, formerly of this
community, but now of Rockford, s. D.,
was visiting with relatives here last
week
Dan Larson, who is experimenting
the concrete work at the Wind Cave
Game Preserve, spent Sunday with his
family at Smithwick.
Roy Brazell, the hustling young guide
at the Wind Cave, informs the writer
that business is picking up. They are
making both morning and afternoon
trip now.
Curt Chambers, Of Spokane, Washing
ton, is rounding up his brother Jacks
horses preparatory to selling them.
Jack is now located in Idaho, and will
probably make that place his future
home.
The wiring crew of the Peoples Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co.. of Hot Springs,
are rushing their work to completion,
and when done they will have four
copper wires between Hot Springs and
Pringle.
Frank Olds, in company with man
of the Good Roads Bureau ofthe govern.
ment, spent couple of days in the
vicinity of Wind Cave last week. They
were running preliminary survey pre-
paratory to doing some very needed
improvement.
This vicinity was visited last week by
a snow storm which lasted two days, and
there was probably six inches of snow
fell. 1t was accompanied with some
very cold weather which nipped the |
fruit blossoms. The crop proposition |
here looks good, as the ground is wet
deeper than it has been in years.
Charles Kizer, the efficient wire man
lpulator of "Roosterville," is supervising !
the wire work at the Game Preserve. |
Mr.. kizer is an expert In that line of |
work, and will probably accept a per-
manent position with the government,
although he has not firmly decided yet,
as he has to dispose Of his farming in
terests first.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
PERSONAL MENTION.


L. b. Dow was up from Bakervill
Monday.
Joe Korthaus was up from Bakervill
Wednesday.
F. L. Parkins, of Pringle, was in tn
f city Tuesday.
Chas. Anderson returned Friday from
a business trip east.
II. d. Raver was a Burlington passen
ger to Denver Tuesday.
Miss Meta Rayer spent Sunday visit
ing friends in Hot Springs.
W. r. Milham was among the visitors
here Tuesday from Hill City.
VIM. Lovett and A. L. Foye were visi
tors in Deadwood on Saturday.
c. d. Mattox was up from his home.
stead near Bakervile, Monday.
Mike MalIon was attending to business
matters in Rapid City Saturday.
Mrs. W. II. Mcclellan was in town
Monday from Pringle, shopping.
c. II. Kamman, Of Hill City, was a
business visitor in Custer Monday.
Sheriff Godsey went to Rushville,
Neb., Thursday on official business.
j. II. Westover of French creek was
a business visitor in Custer Wednesday.
Forest Ranger Theo. Shoemaker. of
Keystone, was in the city Monday on
business.
George Anderson has gone to Sidney
Montana, to Join his father who is in
business there.
w. j. Thoruby, Mark Hirsch and r.
r. Hartford, of Deadwood, were business
visitors in Custer last Saturday.
j. c. NeR, the piano tuner of Dead
wood, had business for few days in
Custer the forepart of the week.
Ralph Cowles arrived Thursday from
Mitchell, where he has been attending
Wesleyan university the past year.
Morse Griffis came up from his Chey-
enne river ranch Sunday and remained
until Tuesday, on business matters.
Geo. E. Mahaffy and wife, of Huron,
S. D, were visitors in the city Sunday
and Monday, guests at the Kleemann.
Miss Gladys Ainsie arrived Friday
from Lincoln, where she has been at
tending Wesleyan University the past
year
Mrs. I. Moore, of the Kleemann
House, made a trip to Rushville, Neb.,
Friday of last week. She returned sun
day evening.
r. il. McCullagh was Burlington
passenger to Rockford Thursday From
there he went to the Limestone TO look
after his ranch.
Mrs. |. Withrow went to Hot Springs
Saturday evening to be with her hus-
band who is taking treatment in the
State Soldiers Home hospital.
Mrs. Theodore Reder, who has been
visiting here for some time with her
sister, Mrs. NJ. A. Shoemaker, departed
for her home near Rapid City Sunday.
John X. DAILY, of Rapid City, was a
guest of his brother, Mat DAILY, from
Sunday until Wednesday. He was en- |
route home from trip to the Pacific
coast.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Howard Wheeler, of the Deadwood
High School and Miss Lenore Markham
OF the Lead High School won first
honors in their respective classes at the
oratorical and dramatic contest partici-
pated in May Goth at Brookings, by
representatives of numerous High
Schools throughout the state. They
were the representatives of the Black
Hills, selected at district contest held
at Speartish several weeks ago in which
Eugene Meeker and Miss Stella Rayer
OF the Custer High School participated.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

The rains during the past week have
been heavier in the outside districts
than in Custer and vicinity. They have
extended far to the north and west of
the Hills, as well as to the east and
south. In the vicinity of fFairburn Tues
day night there was a terrific down.
pour, which caused washout of a
northwestern bridge and delayed the
train for several hours.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the Black Hills
Ranchers and Stock Growers Associa-
ton will be held Wednesday, June 9th,
10 a. M. at the Simkins school house.
Bring the ladies as joint program will
be followed at this meeting, and all who
are interested ia our future welfare are
most cordially invited.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Mrs. Alice o. Reder, of the Golden
Gables Alfalfa Ranch near Bakeryi!le,
was business visitor in town Monday
She was accompanied by her cousin,
Bert Boyden, of Wentworth, s. d., ason
of Clair Boyden and grand son of the
late j. A. Boyden, former resident of
this place who will be remembered by
many. The young man arrived at the
Reder home for a visit on May 18th, and
treated his aunt to a genuine surprise.
The Boyden family recently removed
from Minnesota to Wentworth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
PROGRAM.
WEEKLY FORECAST.

Washington, May 26. Weekly wealth
er forecast for the week beginning We'd
nesday, May 20, 1915, for the plains
states and upper Mississippi Valley
Generally fair weather will prevail with
seasonably temperature.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Mrs. G.. Gundlach arrived in the city
from her ranch near Teepe, s. d., Wed.
nesday evening for the purpose of visit
ing her mother, Mrs. L. II. Rogers, who
sustained some painful injuries in a fall
several months ago from which she
never fully recovered. Her condition is
such that Mrs. Gundach deemed it best
to take her mother home with her.
They left Friday morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Mrs. George Tubbs and children, who
have been spending the past two weeks
in this vicinity with relatives aud friends
returned to her home at Custer Tuesday
morning, regardless of the fact that a
regular blizzard of snow storm was
raging. This popular young matron has
many warm friends here who are always
glad to welcome her on her rare visits
to the Gateway of the Black Hills
Edgemont Express.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

G. w. Bush, of Orient, Iowa, arrived
in Custer Thursday. He expects to re-
main a month or two to look after min
ing property west Of town in which he
is interested.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Following an illness extending over
several months, Mrs. VIM. Lafferty pass.
ed away at the family home about six
miles northeast of Custer, of diabetes,
Sunday morning, May 23rd. She is sur.
vived by her husband and four daugh-
ters. The family moved from Keystone
to Custer several years ago and have
since made their home in this vicinity.
Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning from the Catholic
church, Rev. NJ. Schwaebe officiating.
lnterment was made in the Custer
cemetery.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
RED CROSS REPORT.

The Red Cross Seal Commission OF
South Dakota has made it's annual re.
port for the year ending March 81, 1915.
! The report shows the sales of Red Cross
seals for every county in the state,
| Lawrence county ranks second, being
surpassed by Minnehaha, which sold
4G,5G2 seals, netting $465 90, while Law
renee sold 1924, netting Sl7924. The
! total sales in the state amount to
! 50, 1850. The report which was dated
May 8th, states that "at the beginning
Of the campaign last fall it was announc.
/ ed by the Commission that all counties
in the state, selling ten thousand seals
or more, would receive the services of a
J Red Cross Visiting Nurse for one month
| free of charge. The successful counties
| IN the order in which they reported are
as follows; Union, Lawrence, Mime.
haha, Brown, Clay, Dawson, Douglas
Codington, Beadle, Charles Mix and
Sphinx. With a little extra effort several
other counties might have secured the
services Of the Red Cross Nurse. AtI
this date the nurse has visited the coun-
ties OF Douglas, Minnehaha and Dawson
and is now in Lawrence. After visit
ing Lawrence and one other county she
will take months vacation during the
hot season visiting the remaining coun- |
ties after the schools open in the fall"
Fourth-Class Postmaster Examination. |
Saturday, June 26th, 1915.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that on the date
named above an examination will be
held at Hot Springs, S. d., as a result of |
which it is expected to make certifica-
ton to fill contemplated vacancy in
the position Of fourth-class postmaster
at Pringle, s. D., and other vacancies as
they may occur at that office, unless it
shall be decided in the interest of the
service to fill the vacancy by reinstate.
ment. The compensation of the post
master at this office was $274.O0 for the
last fiscal year.
Age limit, 2l years and over on the
date of the examination, with the ex-
ception that in State where women are
declared by statute to be of full age for
all purposes at is years, women IS years
OF age on the date Of the examination
will be admitted.
Applicants must reside within the ter
ritory supplied by the postoffice for which
the examination is announced.
The examination is open to all citizens
Of the United States who can comply
with the requirements.
Application forms and full information
the requirements of the ex.
animation can be secured from the post
master at Pringle, S. D., or from the
United States Civil Service Commission.
d. G.
Applications should be properly exc
cuted and filed with the Commission at
Washington at least seven days before 6
The date of the examination, otherwise 8
It may be impracticable to examine the I,
applicants.
U. s. Civil SERVICE COMMISSION.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
The Freshmen state that they were
delightfully."- entertained by Miss Ida
Book at her home Monday night.

School closed Friday last 1t is evil
dent by the expressions on the faces of
the pupils that they although glad for
vacation dislike very much leaving their
schoolmates and teachers. We know
also that the hard and faithful work of
the teachers is much appreciated. But
vacation has come and we must greet it,
as school work would never seem so
dear if it lasted all the year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Last Sunday night Rev. Davis deliver
ed the Baccalaureate sermon. The
graduates met at the parsonage and ar
ranged for the Senior march. About
eight o'clock they, together with their
teachers entered the church, marching
forward as the choir sang The sermon
was entitled, DESTINY as we Shape it. ="
1t is thought that Mr.. Days gave a re-
markabIy good sermon on the subject
While the sermon was deep from all
points of view, it was touched here and
there with humor, which frightened
and made more emphatic the phase un-
der discussion. The music was furnish
ed by joint choir of the two churches.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
SCHOOL NOTES.

About twenty pupils are absent from
the Primary room this last week. Meas
les seems to have been the cause.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

Being honor students the entire year,
Eugene Meeker and Hazel Parker es-
capped all examinations.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29
d. CARRIGAN, President
l., CARRIGAN, Cashier
REPORT OF CONDITION Oh
Of Custer City, South Dakota,

At tho Close Of business Oct :sI, 1911
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-05-29

The Second intermediate room has
had no cases of tardiness the past week.
The examinations have been taken in
the several rooms and it was stated that
the percentage of failures is very low.
RnIrn.r Lnrn.rr - /. 4.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-06-17

spring company than the fellowship
OF the giant intellects that constructed
this marvellous industry and a tourney
along the pathway of its development
Illuminated at every mile-post of its
progress by the Iightning-fashes OF
brilliant minds. will be taken at a very
early date.
brief statistical review of the in
dustry brings out its growth and mag
nitude in a most convincing and un-
forgetable manner
The telephone service of the Tinted
States Is the most popular and efficient
and its rates are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest takers on earth
We send 60 per cent of our commun1.
cations over the telephone. The world
has about 100000 telephones and NJ
this number the United States has an
proximately $4,000. Europe 4.o2O. 600
and other countries 100000 Accord.
ing to the latest world telephone CEN
sus, the total telephone investment ia
$1,906. 100000 and of this amount 81
O95.OOO,OOO was credited to the United
States, s636,o00.00O in Europe and
S175,OOO,OO0 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24,600, 100000 divided as follows; Unit.
ed States 15.600.oOO.OOO; Europe 500
100000, and other countries 1900. 600.
OOO- The total world wire telephone
mileage is 1926. 900 miles divided as
follows: United States 2O24S, 900. Eu-
rope 10,335.000. and other countries
2,679,O00. About six per cent of
the worlds population and sixty-one
per cent OF the telephone wire mile
age Ia In the United States.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-06-17

bar of iron and bent II into
a reaper and with one sweep of
his magic mind broke the shackles
that enslaved labor OF generations yet
unborn, and gave mankind freedom
from drudgery. ano lifted the human
race into higher zone of life.
AS Nelson organized the English navy
and made England mistress of the sea.
enabling the British Isles to plant her
flag upon every continent washed by
the oceans waves, and to make foot
stools of the Islands of every water.
Morgan organized a banking system
that has made America master of the
worlds finances, brought Kings to our
cashiers windows. the nations OF the
earth 10 our discount desks and placed
under the industries OF this nation a
financial system as solid as the Rock
of Gibraltar
There is no study quite so interest
ing as progress; no sound so magic
as the roar of industry and no sight
so inspiring as civilization in action.
A full realization of Americas part in
the great events of the world past.
present and future will thrill every
human heart with pride. patriotism
and faith in Republican institutions.
Through the courtesy of the Agri-
cultural and Commercial Press Ser
vice, the readers of this paper will be
permitted to study America. her ag-
ricultural. manufacturing and min
eral development. mercantile. bank
ing and transportation systems which
are the wonder of the world. The
first article OF the series Will deal
with trans portation and will appear
at an early date.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-06-17
KNOW THY COUNTRY
II-RdilrOadS

the accepted distance from the earth
to the moon. We had in 1911. the
last year in which figures for all
countries are available, on the
earth's surface 639,9S1 miles of rail-
way divided as follows: United States
241,199. Europe 2O7,432 and other
countries 191,350. The United States
has SO per cent of the worlds mileage,
seven per cent of the estimated pop
ulation and about five per cent of the
area. The total capital invested in the
railways of the world is 10000 OOU,-
900, divided as follows: United States
$4,000, 100000 Europe s25.650 900. 900
and other countries S11 $50, zoo, 900.
Reduced to a mileage basis the cap
italization is as follows: The world
$4,000. United States $4,000. Europe
Sl24,OOO. and other countries SIS. 600
A comparison of rates is equally as
interesting and the United States
takes the lead in economy and serv-
ice. The average rate per ton per
hundred mile haul is as follows:
United States 76c, Great Britain 50 So
France s1.44. Germany s1.44, Russia
92c, Austria Hungary s1.3O, Italy $3.50
and Switzerland $2S2
The average yearly pay of all rail-
road employees in the principal coun-
tries is as follows: United States
1857, Germany 1892. Italy s345. Aus
tria 1922, Great Britain s279. France
$3.50 and Russia S2O4
About 80 per cent. or 1880 miles.
of the railways of the world are
government owned. About half the
railway mileage of Europe is govern
ment owned.
comparison OF the economy. In
time and money and the convenience
in travel, will be made in a later
article
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-06-17
THE NATIONS DINNER TABLE

When the dinner bell OF this nation
rings there have been slaughtered for
the repast $4,000 beeves. $1,000 hogs.
$500 sheep. 1000 hundredweight OF
poultry and other meats. and there
have been 100000 bushels OF cereals
and 540.000.000 pounds OF vegetables
prepared for the feast. Multiply these
quantities by one thousand. repre-
senting approximately the number OF
meals per annum and we have the
annual contents OF the nations larder.
hut with all our immense quantity.
superb quality ana wide range of pro
ducts. the American housewife Ike
the wife OF King Nebuchadnezzar.
longs for variety and she goes market
ing In foreign lands. She buys abroad
$2OO,OOO.O00 per anuum OF farm pro-
ducts that can and should be produced
In the United States.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-06-17
KNOW THY COUNTRY


know America" Is slogan that
should ring out from every school
room, office. farm and shop in this ma
ton. No man can aspire to a higher
honor than to become a capable citi-
zen. and no one can merit so dis
tinguished title until he is we'll in
formed OF the resources, possibilities
and achievements of our country.
This is a commercial age and civ
ilization is bearing it's most golden
fruit in America. We are noted for
our industrial achievements as Egypt
was noted for her pyramids; Jerusa-
lem for her religion; Greece for her
art; Phoenicia for her fleets; Chaldea
for her astronomy and Rome for her
laws. Likewise we have men who will
go down in the worlds history as pow
erful products of their age. For, stand
ing at the source of every gigantic
movement that sways civilization is a
great man. The greatest minds travel
in the greatest direction and the COM
mercial geniuses of this age would
have been the sculptors. poets, phil
osophers, architects. and artists of
earlier civilizations.
AS Michael Angelo took a rock and
with a chisel hewed it into the image
OF an angel that ever beckons man
kind upward and onward. Hill took
the desert of the Northwest and with
bands of steel made it blossom like q
rose. dotted the valleys with happy
homes and built cities in waste places.
AS Gutenberg took blocks of wood
and whitfield them into an alphabet
and made a printing press that
flashed education across the con-
tinent like a ray OF light upon
a new born world, Mccormick took
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-06-17

In discussing the commercial
achievements OF this great age. we
shall approach the subject as the
historian chronicling events. This Sc
ries will endeavor to record In writ
ing the supremacy OF American men
and Industries In the worlds affairs
and perptuate an appreciation OF our
marvellous industrial achievements by
presenting simple facts. figures and
comparisons that are overpowering in
their convictions.
America holds her proud place
among the nations of the earth today
on account of her supremacy in trans
portation facilities. The mighty minds
of the age are engaged in the prob
lens OF transportation, and the great
est men in the history of the worlds
commerce are at the head of the
transportation systems of the United
States.
In the discussion of trans portation
let US consider separately our Rail-
ways. Telegraph and Telephones, Ex-
press. Public Highways, Steamships,
Street Railways. Interurban and other
forms of trans portation. and this ar
ticle will deal with railways.
The United States has the largest
mileage. the best service, the cheap
est rates. pays labor the highest
wages, and we have the most efficient
iy managed of the railways of the
world. They stand as a monument to
the native genius of our marvellous
builders, and most of the railroads in
foreign countries have been built
under American orders.
The railroads represent a larger in
vestment of capital than any other
branch of human activity. The mile
age in the United States exceeds