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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29
HEREDITY AND EUGENiCS

Those Brookings people who heard
Prof. Wiggam's lecture at the chau-
tauqua will be interested in the fol-
lowing comment on this subject from
the Aberdeen News:
Some people simply must have a
fad upon which to enthuse and there
by give exercise to their pent up en-
ergies. Some enthuse owe world
peace, a most desirable thing which
will of course be brought about in
time, and hat time will be materially
advanced because of the enthusiasm
of the pioneers in the movement, just
as the abolition of slavery in the
United States was abolished largely
because of the enthusiasm and the
persistence of the earlier advocates
of abolition. And so it is with the
prohibition movement and other great
reforms. The pioneers in such 10Y
ments may have been overly enthus-
iastic, and too tremendously hopeful,
but their efforts, on the whole have
been good.
And such, no doubt, will be the case
with the movement for ~'eugenic ba-
bies." The extreme advocates of
eugenics are Of course. silly and i'm
practical. They would send Cupid
into Siberian exile. If they would not
execute him altogether, and would
base marriage upon purely scientific
principles. But there is a practical
basis for the ~eugenics movement, and
the Journal of the American Medical
association discusses the practical
versus the theoretical in an article in
which 1t says Of the eugenics move
ment in general:
"The new science Of eugenics has as
its subject-matter the question of race
improvement through heredity. 1t
obviously suggests a number Of topics
which hear an important relation to
practical problems Of everyday life.
The interest In the subject Of eugenics
has served to recall the older discus
sions Of the relative parts played by
heredity and environment IN the modi-
hcation OF the ace. The question Of
mature versus nurture has been raised
anew.
"Only . misguided enthusiast would
venture to make great claims at tia
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

Alexandria Herald: Once more the
Harmony tommyrot is being talked
for the republicans Of this state, but
where the talk originated this paper
does not know. II does know, how.
ever. that the harmony" program of
1914 IL stfIl fresh in the minds OF
thousands OF real republicans who
went into the campaign with sincerity
and belief in the other fellows smooth
talk, only to emerge q few months
later with their backs full Of daggers,
II seems TO be fashionable for some
politicians and % called statesmen Ia
tax harmony during the campaign and
nee the stiIetto 1t the first opportunity
The Herald. Tor one. takes no stock IN
he harmony gabfest. Let the candi
Aa4eo ret out In the open and take
their chances with their opponents
ond the veters win decide the contest
~Hnxmony~ = promulgated by some
Ieou4h Dakota politicians IL only Skin
49,, ~ ~ word has absolutely nc
moaning - thousands Of honest and
IN minls1 rsDublicsns.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

ceipts and expenditures Of Parnell school
District No. ., of Brookings County, south
Dakota, FOR the school year beginning July
LIST. 1914, and ending June goth, 1915, as
ascertained upon settlement with the Treas
urcr Of said School District:
Receipts
Balance on hand July LIST, 1914 .....$295,66
Amount received from district tax. $500
Amount received from apportionment 800
Amount received from all sources.... 1910
Total receipts from all sources. .$73S.06
Expenditures
Amount paid for furniture, apparatus
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

President Wilson's last note TO the
German government is firm and leaves
no opportunity for evasion OF the
issue, as the Germans have done in
to previous notes. 1t indi-
Gates that the President is determined
TO maintain our rights and in this at
titude he will have the almost unani-
nous support Of the country.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

We don't know that the sinking of
the Lusitania by the Germans was any
more criminal than the -carelessness OF
the small group Of men who were re-
sponsible for the Chicago disaster. The
owners of the ship knew she was IN.
safe, yet they did not withdraw her
from service. and We do not see why
they cannot be convicted Of man
slaughter.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

South Dakota farmers are not worry
ing about the corn crop just now, as
they are too busy harvesting what
promises to be about the biggest crop
of small grain ever grown in the state.
The usual hot weather of August and
early September sllcIld bring King
Corn along in time to escape old Jack
Frost.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

Two hundred and nifty Deuel. county
folks spent last Friday as guests Of
the State College, and the day previous
there were about sixty Grant county
people here. These excursions TO
South Dakota's greatest educational in
|stitution are getting to be popular and
they are mutually profitable.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the friends and neighbors
for their sympathy and assistance dur.
ing the last illness and at time of the
death of our husband and father.
Mrs. VIM. Spicer and Children.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29

and fixtures ....... ~
Amount paid for teachers wages'...' 4fo.oo
Amount raid for officers salaries..... 1900
Amount paid for incidental expenses. 1880
Total expenditures during year s5o44O
Thts haIanra ON hand, S233,6 IS, is deposited
In Aurora bank.
Bank located at Aurora, South Dakota.
Dated this 18th day Of July. 1915.
J. II. SMITH,
Chairman Of District School Board.
ORA HUSKA,
Clerk of District School Board.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29
STATEMENT

State of South Dakota,
County of Brookings SIS.
Parnell School District No. 6.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The following is a statement of the re
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
SAFE WITHDRAWAL
OF RUSS ASSURED
Resistance by Wings of Grand
Dukes Army Lends Some
Encouragement
AUSTRIAN FORCES REPULSED
Three Persons, Including One Wo-
man, Drowned When Steamer
Is Sunk

Latest reports from the war Offices
of the belligerents give rise to the be-
lief in the capitals of the entente al
lies that the safe withdrawal of the
main parts of Russian forces from the
Warsaw salient is assured through the
stout resistance which is being offered
by the wings of the Grand Duke Mich
olas' army.
The Italian war Office reports thes
complete repulse by Alpine troops of
simultaneous attacks by the Austrians
through two mountain passes 10000
feet or more high in the Furva valley
zone. No movements of importance
elsewhere are mentioned. The most
recent Austrian statement reports the
repulse of Italian attacks on the Do
berdo plateau and near Zagora.
The sinking of the British steamer
Jacona, 5000 ton vessel: two other
British craft, the steamers Osprey and
SummernelI, and the Norwegian
steamer Aura, presumably through at
tacks by German submarines, is an
nounced. Three persons, including
one woman, were drowned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
APPEAL MAY REACH
MEXICO TOMORROW
State Official Completing Ar
rangements For Forwarding
1t Within "a Hours
SIGNED BY SEVEN DIPLOMATS
Authorities Take Measures to Sup
press Lawlessness Along
Border
By Associated Press

Washington, Aug. Estate officials
to-day were completing arrangements
for the dispatch OF the Pan-American
appeal to the Mexican ractional lead
ers calling upon them to end Mexico's
civil strife and assemble a peace con-
ference. The communication. signed
by Secretary Lansing and six Pan
American diplomats and approved by
President Wilson probably will go for
ward late to-day or tomorrow. 1t will
be addressed to Mexican public off,
cials and military leaders.
The delay in forwarding the appeal
is due to the fact that officials want
it to have the widest publicity
throughout Mexico and to that end are
determined, If possible, 10 see that no
one to whom it should be sent is
omitted from list that is being pre-
pared.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
lrate Father Shoots
the District Attorney
of Forest County

Warren, Pa, Aug. 1s.-Marion
Carringer, district attorney of Forest
county. was shot and probably fatally
injured in his office at Tionesta to-day.
Bereno schectino. charged with firing
the shots, was overpowered after he
had menaced a crowd of citizens and
police with his revolver. Threats of
lynching were made. but the police
succeeded in landing the man in Jail
unharmed.
Carringer was taken to the Tonesta
Hospital where 1t was said he prob
ably would die.
Several shots were fired through the
closed door of Carringer's office and
one took effect in the official's left
lung and the others in his back.
Schectino, whose 15-year-old daugh-
ter figured in a sensational case here
a year ago. accused the district attor-
ney of neglect of duty in connection
with the case.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
THOMAS B. SMITH TO
BE COMMISSIONER
Philadelphia's Former Postmaster
and RumOred Mayoralty Candi-
date Is Appointed

Governor Brumbaugh has taken
Thomas B. Smith, former postmaster
of Philadelphia and former member OF
the House of representatives, out of
the running for the Republican mayor
atty nomination and made him a
public service commissioner. Mr..
Smith last night announced In Phila-
delphia that he had accepted the ap-
pointment, the first intimation any
body had that he had even been con-
sidered by the Governor. Mr.. Smith
gets the place Edgar R. Kiess de-
clined.
1t is understood that Mr.. Smith will
come here within few days to take
the oath of office and assume his share
of the, burdens which are upon the
commissioners in the way of un-
decided cases and hearings. He is
well known to quite rev people here,
having served in the legislature and
been in Harrisburg for gatherings of
various kinds.
One of the odd things about the
Smith appointment is that up until
noon today there had been no record
of 1t in any of the departments. No
one seemed to know anything about
1t and the correspondence as made
public in Philadelphia last night was
accepted as final. The Governors
office force had nothing to say. The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
HARD COAL PRICES
MAY BE REDUCED
Sweeping Cuts in Freight Rates
Should Bring Lower
Prices
LOCAL DEALERS NOT SURE
Possibility of Mine Trouble Next
April Has Coalmen
Worried
LOCAL DEALERS NOT SURE

Washington, D. c.. Aug. 13.-Ulti-
mate reductions in hard coal prices
we're seen to-day by dealers who have
kept in close touch with anthracite
production in the Interstate Commerce
Commissions decision making sweep
lug cuts in freight rates on the prod
uct They explained that the decision
was expected to put independents on
the same footing as companies con-
trolled by the hard coal carrying roads.
The decision affects freight rates on
anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania
coal fields. Generally lower rates
called reasonable are prescribed and
the roads required to establish through
routes and publish through rates to be
paid by all shippers.
The reductions ordered am cunt to
15 cents a ton on shipments Of the
so-called prepared sizes. such as stove.
chestnut and egg coal, from the mines
to tidewater. and 10 cents a ton on
the small sizes of coal. These rates
will now be S1.45 and s1.35 a ton.
Cuts to interior points range all the
the way from l to so cents a ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
Body Of Drowned Boy
Recovered Here Today

The body of 5-year-old Richard
Filler, who was drowned near Clark s
Ferry Dam Wednesday evening, was
recovered opposite this city shortly be-
fore noon to-day
Two boys. Wilbur Neck, 800 Forster
street, and Ray Houseal, 407 Forster
street, who were out boating, dis
covered the body floating down stream
near the Island, opposite South street
They brought the body to rne shore
and notified Coroner JACOB Eckinger.
The body was identified by a blue
shirt and dark trousers, worn when
he was drowned.
On instructions from Coroner Eek
niger the body was turned over to
Undertaken S. S. Speese. 1t will be
shipped TO Clark's Ferry this eve
ming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
Part of FLOATING Gang" Or
dered Out Early to Make
Repairs; Evidently Did
Not Hear FOreman's
Whistle; Bits Of Flesh,
Particles Of Clothing and
Shoes Taken From Bloody
Pilot Here

keystone Express, eastbound'
due in Harrisburg at S.38 this
morning, ploughed into gang of
track repairnen one mile east OF
Mount Union at 6.z3 this morn
ing. Seven trackmen were in
stantly killed. Another was fatal
Iy injured.
Forty-five trackmen from Hunting
don, under Foreman Harry B. Mills,
were at work on the tracks mile
west of Mount Union, according to a
Huntingdon dispatch. They were
standing between two passing trains
when a third, the fast express. bore
down on the middle track, catching
them like rats in trap.
A heavy fog which hung low over
the tracks at the time is believed to
have prevented the engineer, ]. H.
Trout, of the Mehring Apartments,
Sixth and Cumberland streets, this
city, from seeing the predicament of
the workmen in time to apply the
emergency brakes.
The dead trackmen are:
Ralph A. Rittenhouse, 81 years
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
Warden Osborne Loses
Case Against Mcdonald

Ossining, N. Y, Aug. 13. - A jury
at 1850 o'clock this morning found
Patrick Mcdonald agent of John b.
Riley, State superintendent of Prisons,
not guilty on a charge of assault pre-
ferred by Thomas Mott Osborne, war
den of Sing Sing prison.
The case is the outcome or an en-
counter between the men when Nc
Donald was sent to Sing Sing prison
on July 30 and obtained possession of
some of the prison papers. Warden
Osborne overlook Mcdonald after a
struggle in which he alleges Mcdonald
assaulted him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
To GET SENTIMENT ON
NONPART|SAN BOARD
Republican City Committee Creates
Committee of Three to Canvass
For School Board Proposal

At a meeting of the city committee
of the Republican party last night E.
resolution was passed calling for the
to canvass the city in an effort to as
certain popular opinion concerning the
proposal to put a nonpartisan ticket
for the School Board into the field this
Fall.
At the meeting last night City Chair
man Owes read the letter of Demo-
cratic City Chairman Morganthaler
making the proposal that the Repub-
lican, Democratic and Washington
parties each put up one man for the
board so that there would be no con-
tests. Mr.. Owes also read his reply,
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
WOMAN GETS HER
FIRST RIDE IN AN AUTOMOBILE
Hmmeown Aged Folk Guests of Lodgemen of Town Trip
Hershey Park ...-

at the Hummelstown park at o'clock
and headed by Homer Hummel Strick-
Ter, pace-maker proceeded to Her
shey, through the Hershey Park sys-
tenn and back to Hummelstown Park
by $50 where special exercises we're
held. r. w. Strunk presided at these
exercises, and addresses were made
by Harry NJ. Horst, Paul NJ. Hummel
and Paul A Strickler. The Hummels-
town Band furnished the music, and in
spite OF the damp evening a large
number of citizens of the town gath
cred at the park. About two hundred
and twenty-five persons, OF whom a
large portion were children, enjoyed
the outing. -.- r
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13

An automobile outing for the aged.
town. last evening. under the direction
of Derry Council. No. 40, Junior Order
United American Mechanics, afforded
Mrs. Shetlow, SO years old, of Hum
melstown, her first opportunity to ride
in an automobile.
Mrs. Shetlow, however, was not the
only aged guest of the lodgemen, who
had her first ride in a "buzz-wagon."
There were quite a number of both
men and women who got their first
rides, who have seen 20 years and
more.
Twenty-nine automobiles assembled
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
Russia Wants to Create
Market For Lace Here
BY Associated Press

San Francisco, Aug. 1S. - Russia
is seeking to create a market in the
United States for Russian koustar or
lace, handwork of the peasants, with
a view to providing employment for
her manned and crippled soldiers, ac-
cording to an announcement made to-
day by Theodore Kryshtofovich, spe-
cial commissioner from Russia to the
United States who has arrived here
from Petrograd. via Japan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
Representations Made
by Allies Are Doomed

Amsterdam, Aug. 13, via London
representations made by the entente
powers can be regarded as doomed to
failure, declares the Frankfurter
zeitung, in discussing the Balkan
situation.
Regarding the same subject, the
Vossische Zeitung says:
THE agreement between Bulgaria
and Turkey now Is so complete that it
cannot be disturbed The active
fabrication of notes suddenly begun
by the entente is more inrended to
throw sand in the eyes of the world as
the entente powers know only too well
how the situation stands regarding
Bulgaria They know also that the
Continued on Page ST.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
DEALER FINED S1OD
FOR SELLING BAD MILK
City Health Department Halls Pen
brook Dairyman Before
Alderman

Charged with selling milk and cream
below the legal standard, Charles A
Hoax. dairyman of Penbrook, with
many customers in this city, was fined
one hundred dollars and costs at a
hearing before Alderman Hoverter
this morning.
The prosecution, instigated by Dr..
]. M. ]. Raunick, city health officer.
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
6 Killed in Zeppelin
Raid on East England;
One Raider Damaged

London, Aug. 13, p. m.-Oficial an
nounccment was made to-day on an
airship raid last night on the east
coast of England.
Six persons were killed. One
Zeppelin, the announcement says,
probably was damaged, but escaped.
The official announcement says that
six persons were killed, twenty three
were injured and fourteen houses
were damaged seriously by bombs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
tContinued on Page 81
GERMANS RELEASE
AMERICAN STEAMER
BY Associated Press

Washington, D. c., Aug. 13.-The
American oil steamer Wico, taken by
German warships to Swinemunde, has
been released and facilities have been
given for repairs to damage when the
ship was being brought into port by
the German prize crew. Her cargo
also was released.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
IContinued on Page 1O.1
200 Harrisburgers Went
to Exposition in z Months

Harrisburg is contributing literally
to the Panama-Pacific Exposition
crowds. A. E. Buchanan, Division
Passenger Agent TO rthe Pennsylvania
Railroad, is booking exposition visitors
every day.
During June and July, 200 through
tickets were sold from Harrisburg to
San Francisco. August sales to date
include the names of "a Harrisburg
ers. .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
CONTINUED on Page Al
PAYS TRIBUTE TO RUSSIANS

London. Aug. 13. - Reviewing the
situation in Russia the military cor
respondent of the Times first pays an
enthusiastic tribute to the mastery
retreat of the Russian armies. He said
the stand made by the wings protect
ing the army falling back from War
saw was magnificent and undoubtedly
was entirely successful as the Warsaw
army now is assured Of ample time to
fall back to a prepared position.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinityi Fair
tonight and Saturdays not much
change in temperature.
For Eastern Pennsylvania Fair
Tonight and Saturdays gentle
west winds.
The Susguehanna river and it's
principal tributaries will
fall slowly. a stage of about
so feet is indicated for HARRIS
urg, Saturday morning.
General Conditions
The pressure has Increased and In
now relatively high over the
southeasIern part of the country,
The disturbance from the South
west that was central over South
ern Michigan, Thursday morning,
has continued to move slowly
nOrtheastward and Is now central
near Georgian bay. 1t has caused
showers In the last twenty-fOur
hours generally over the terri
tory south and east of the Great
Lakes.
It is twelve degrees cooler in north
srn New England and in the ex-
treme Northwest. Elsewhere tenn
slight.
Temperatures 8 n. M, ~.
sp"' Rises, bt15 n. m; sets, 7,O5
NJ New moon, first quarter,
August II, 9i17 p. m.
River Stages So feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, "a.
Lowest temperature, 81.
Mean temperature, 10.
Normal temperature, 73.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
\. ". COUCH To Be
CANDIDATE AGAIN
Will Follow Movement of Fellow
Officers Who Are in Doubt as
to the 4-Year Term

County Controller Henry ". Cough
declared to-day that he will file a
petition for the Republican nomination
for that same Office again ana will be
a candidate this Fall.
The controller reached this decision
as a result of the conference con-
trollers and solicitors of several other
counties who met in his Office yester-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
CONTINUED on Page Al
DIME TICKET WORTH s., 100
Picnic Purchase Brings Youth
full Owner High Price
Special to The Telegraph

Ambridge. Pa. Aug. 13.-During the
orphans picnic of Allegheny county,
held at Kennywood Park. July Is and
Is, ticket costing 10 cents and call
ing for ten shares of Bethlehem Steel
Company stock was won by Thomas
McCroy, a 2-year-old boy. The stock
was given to the picnic by James ].
Mulvihill. a Pittsburgh brewer
A few days ago the stock certificate
was sold in this city to a banker for
$1,000 at the rate of 1910 a share.
The money was to-day placed on in
tereHt in the boys name
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
TO GET HOT

Temperature Rising Throughout the
United States
More hot weather for Harrisburg, is
the best the local weather man prom
ises for tomorrow. The rain is about
all down for the present. Indica-
tions point to at least one more day
of dry weather.
To-day's map shows the tempera-
ture on the rise throughout the United
States. Harrisburg may not get much
change before tomorrow, but it looks
like a hot Saturday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
400 woRKMEN QUIT
By Associated Press

Hopewell, Va, Aug. 13.-Four hum
dred electrical workers at the Dupont
Powder plant here walked out yester-
day. 1t was said they demand a wage
increase and also objected to employ
ment of nonunion men. 1t was said
last night that the carpenters, brick
leyers and steam filters may go out to-
day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
OIL MEN GET INCREASE
In .4ttocinted Prctr

Baton Rouge, La, Aug. 1S. II Me-
chanics and laborers employed by the
Standard Oil Company at its refinery
here will be granted a ten per cent
wage increase effective September list.
1t was announced to-day. About 1900
men are affected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-13
11-CENT STAMP ISSUED

Washington, D. c., Aug. 13. - An
eleven-cent stamp, the first of this de-
nomination to be issued. was author
lied by Postmaster General Burleson,
TO meet the parcel post demand.
The new stamp Is dark green and
bears the profile head of Benjamin
Franklin.