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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25
From Rapid City
High School.

The following extract taken from
an account of the High School grad
49,. .... -; aAo:-A.-S. li-e.d..at -napirt City
recently, appeared in the Rapid City
Daily journal of the 5th inst, and is
of interest to the people of this com
munity and especially so to the In
dians. Miss Nancy Schmidt is the
daughter of our George Schmidt who
lives in the Pure Water District west
of Wood, and he is one of our most
industrious Indian farmers and is
making success as a tiller of the
soil. He has nice family and is
giving his children every educational
advantage that lies within his power.
1t gives us much pleasure to note the
advancement that his daughter Nancy
has made in educational lines, and
we are informed she mas secured a
position as teacher at Rapid City.
ne journal says:
"A feature of special interest In con,
nectiou with this class is the fact that
two Original Americans" James La.
Pointe,r an Indian young man from
Pine Ridge, and Nancy Schmidt, a
Rosebud Reservation Indian, are
among the graduates. These young
people, are, 80 far as known, the first
Indians to graduate from regular
High school. Many have graduated
from the eighth grade in their govern
ment Indian schools where they have
done excellent work Mr.. LaPointe
intended to study law, and Miss
Schmidt is to further fit herself for a
teacher,
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25

There are quite number of people
locating in the county this spring,
every week people come in looking
for locations and make filings. Twe
filings were received at this office this
week. Others are tmoyipg in with
cattle, horses, household goods and
families.
The scenic highway between hers
and White River has been cut up con
siderable this spring owing to wet
weather, by the automobiles and
homeseekers, who are moving into
the country with loads of household
goods and cattle. Many of the new
fills have been soft and few mach.
ines had to be pulled out, but they
are getting much better and can now
be travelled without much difficulty.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25

Office of Tax Commission,
Pierre, $. ID.
Tax payers should attend the meet
ing OF the local Board OF Review al
the Office of the township clerk OF
city auditor on June 2Sth, or OF the
County Board of Equalization on>July
9th. Property over-valued or omitted
discrimination by the assessor, OF
clerical errors, all require the presence
of tax payers at this meeting. Ere.
quently persons are listed for pol
taxes when not subject to them at all
To wait until taxes have been paid
and then apply to the County Com
missioners for relief will not bring
the desired results. They do not
have the right to allow rebates or re-
funds, except in few cases.
Appeal can be taken from the ac
tion of the local Board to the County
Board of Equalization, and if neces.
Sary, from there to the Circuit Court
or Tax Commission. The County
Board meets on July 9Th, and appeal
If made, must be taken within 20 days
All appeals should be in writing and
all Boards should enter their action
in each case in their official record OF
proceedings. !, u5y
II you don't like the way the assess
ment is made, go and tell the loca
Board about it. You pay them tc
help the assessor give you and youl
nefghbors square deal. If you ex.
pect results, you must do your part
Take aniinterest in your taxes be.
fore theyaye due and while you can
get the books corrected! Mark it on
your calendar Be there. The fourth
Monday in June-June 2Sth, for the
local Board Of organized townships
and towns. The first, Tuesday in
July-July 9TH, for the County Board
Of Equalization
(Signed.) TAX CONFESSION.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25
That Bridge Across The
Big White River.


In talking with one of our merch-
ants this week he informed us that
with that new bridge in south Of
! VIVIAN across the Big White the
merchants here would be able to pay
at least three cents per pound more
for cream. The cream industry is
growing by leaps and bounds and the
additional Sc per pound for cream
would mean big increase IN the
amount this product would bring S""1P
the course of year Then there is
another product that would bring in
several thousand dollars if it were
harvested and marketed. We have
one of the largest and best hay crops
this year that ever grew on the Rose
bud, and it is Of the famous salt grass
that makes the very best hay in the
world. Because we are handicapped
on transportation facilities, we allow
thousands of dollars to go to waste
every year. If this new bridge is
built across the Big White, SO as to
give us better road to the Milwau-
kee and give us competitive railroad
rates, we believe that arrangements
should be made to cut every ounce of
hay it is possible to cat this year, and
get it ready to market. Then if the
railroad does not extend, perhaps we
coeld make arrangements for motor
truck freight service between here and
the Milwaukee, and by making the
service daily, we could build up a
good hay market here in Wood. The
trucks could be loaded with freight
each way, taking hay, hogs, grain,
cream and eggs, to the railroad as
outgoing freight and return with coal
and other supplies. By being able TO
carry loads each way the overland
freight should be cut in two, and
with this sort OF an arrangement we
could be content until such time as
the spirit might move the Northwest
ern officials to extend the Winner
branch. The sentiment for this new
river bridge is gaining in strength in
this end of the county. Tt will be a
great factor in helping to develop
this end OF the county. The Lyman
county commissioners we are told
stand ready at any time to- do their
part, the Milwaukee, we are informed.
is ready to do the right thing to help
bear portion of the cost of construc
tion, Vivian has signihed it's intention
to sweeten the building pot, and Mel
lette county should not stand back,
and we believe that when our Board
of County Commissioners take the
matter up officially they will see the
need of this bridge and will see to it
that it is built without delay. Lets
all pull for that bridge across the Big
White, we need it in our business.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25
The citizens of White River are q

The citizens of White River are dis
playing the proper spirit in insuring
good streets for their town. They
are all donating their time, and the
County is furnishing the road tools
to grade the main streets. Long cul-
verts are being put at the intersec-
tions, and when finished the town
will have some fine dry streets that
will not be mud holes after every rain.
Harry Llggett, street commissioners
of Dallas is experimenting the work,
and at the end of the day the ladies'
of the town will furnish a fine free
supper for the workers. Wood would
do we'll to follow the example of the
county seat. The work would only
take short time and the benefit
would be lasting. Why not get Mr..
Liggett to take ctasge of the work
while he is in the locality, let the cit
izens donate the work, and let the
women do the rest,
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4"ol VIZ "uHoh, ol:- dITlNeu mere
Saturday to spend few days on his
ranch south OF town.
Another hail and rain storm last
Tuesday evening. 80 inches Of pre-
cipitation was registered.
DR.. Meyers, V. S, who mas been
one for two monts doing veterinary
work returned Tuesday after visiting
practically all Of the towns in the
Rosebud.
John Hauer left Monday morning
for his home in st. Lucas, Iowa, aft
er few days visit with friends here.
John says he is coming back to Mel
lette county to stay as soon as he pos
sibly can.
The recent heavy rains have kept
the roads in bad shape and freighting
has been next TO impossible. Tie
merchants are low in many lines of
their stock and there was no ker osene
in town for several days.
At the school election of the Berk-
ley district last week, Chas. Bigler
was elected clerk to fill the vacancy
caused by George Daacon moving to
Wood. James Orr was elected treas
urer to tske the place of Alice Moses
whose term expires Julyl.
The homesteaders in the north
western part of the County report
that they are about out of provisions
on account of the Big White being on
a rampage for so long. Petitions are
now being circulated to lay before the
Board Of County Commissioners ask
ing for bridge south of Stamford,
in township 45-3l, near the junction
of Lyman, Stanley and Mellette
counties, to give tie homesteaders of
the northwestern part of this county
an outlet to the railroad. 1t is stated
that Lyman and Stanley counties
have already signified their willing
ness to donate part of the cost of
this bridge, and while the Milwaukee
has not given any definite answer, it
is understood that there will not be
much difficulty in getting them to
bear part of the cost, as it would be
gressly to their benefit.
At the last meeting of the County
Commissioners the question of the
bridge across the Big White south of
Vivian was brought up, and while no
official action was taken, yet the
majority of the Board are in favor of
it, and it is very probable that the
matter will be taken up by them in
the near future, as soon as it can be
ascertained how much of the cost the
Milwaukee, Lyman county, and the
town of Vivian will'bear. This road
will shorten the distance from Wood
to the railroad eight miles, besides
being much better road for large
portion of the way. 1t seemed to be.
the geneaal opinion last year and
early this spring that the Northwest
ern would build into Mellette county
from Winner, and there were even
statements that the contract had
been let as far as Carter, but there
has been no movement on the part of
the railroad people to bear out such
rumors, and it is time that the people
OF Mel!ette county should have some
outlet for their products, and if the
railroad does not come to them they
propose to 60 to the railroad by the
nearest route, and that will be by
way of these two proposed bridges.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Neutrality is bully-for the other
/ fellow.
Still another week and no war for
us. Zip,
What is prettier than a pretty girl?
A prettier one, of course.
An hour in the garden is worth a
week on the street corners.
The only good thing about the war
is that it is on the other side of the
Atlantic.
MeXicans have no use for Ameri-
cans but they are keen after our gold
and our grub.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, while others are
never great at all.
Speaking of extremes, aeroplanes
over in Europe have been named
hornets cflheaven."
Even the town bum serves a good
purpose. He is solemn warming to
the rising generation.
The man who knows he isn't man
is more'of. man than the man who
prateS that he is man.
OF course the man who struts is
strutter, but a strutter is just a
strutter and is never man.
Many man carries load of true
greatness bottled up in his heart ahd
never thinks to pull the cork.
If there's . man hereabouts who
can lick US, that's the fellow of whom
we are going to steer clear.
President Wilson stands ready to
mediate whenever the European ma
tions want peace. Sc do we.
Keep both eyes on the man who ad
vertises. His goods are worth adver-
tising, and hence worth buying.
That dollar you are carrying around
i'm your pocket looks mighty big to us
If it is, due on subscription.
This world is full of good people,
but the best Of all are those who sub
scribe fortthis paper and pay before
taking.
The real test of manhood comes in
lending money to a fellow when you
are morally certain you will never see
it again.
Some people loudly proclaim their
readiness to apologize when found to
be in the wrong. The only trouble is
the find is never found.
i, They say Mexican money is the
icheapest thing i'm the country. If
it's any worse than the darned coun-
try itself 1t is worse than cheap.
The Atchison KANSAS Champion is
responsible for advice to girls to be-
ware Of candy kids because when hus-
bands they likely will be lemon drops.
A poor simp who owes us dollar
aud half stopped us the other day
and inquired why we are SO anxious
for a return of prosperity. We told
bin.
For the girls to answer: Why is 1t
young fellow will tear around by
the hour IN ball game and then
howl like kicked hound because his
mother asks him to carry i'm an arm
fnl of woodp
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25
y. S. Weather Bureau Report
For Week Ending Juno 23

Total precipitation from January
lst, 1915, to date, 1868
Total precipitation for 1913 1876
Total precipitation for 1914, 1857.
FRED G.. KIRCH, Observer.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25
Notice to Tax Payers

Office of Tax Commission,
Pierre, s. ID.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-06-25

Martin Juzek, Sr.. arrived here
Saturday to spend a few days on his
ranch south OF town.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-18

Should be built on big and better
grounds.
Senate subcommittee met at the
Hotel LaSalle and has decided to
present home rule bill which city
prefers.
Estate of Edward TiIden, filed in
probate yesterday, exceeds $8,O00,-
900.
Mayor Thompson will abolish eff
cheney bureau of civil service COM
mission. Was Illegally created.
Kurt Won Budon, 456 S. State, ar
rested for annoying women. Says he
is German army officer on way to join
reserves.
Chas. Francis, appointed city atty
to succeed N. L. Piotrowski today
Bernard CorIin wants his marriage
annUlled. Says wife wooed him for
his pay check.
Arthur Willard, president of Chicago
Masonic employment bureau, says
employment has been obtained for
1000 persons.
John Borden, millionaire sports
man, speeding to Chicago with war
pictures to show at fete at his estate
next Friday.
Four 9-year-old robbers sentenced
to go back to school when they con-
fessed to robbing aims box of Croa-
ton church, 217 w 26th, of 43 cents.
City club to send delegation to
Springfield to lobby for classification
of real estate as well as personal
property in revenue amendment now
before legislature.
Memorial service heId'in St. PauI's
chapel over death of Mr.. and Mrs.
Montagu Grant, Lusitania victims
who lived in Hyde Park.
Could turn out 10000 trained sail
ors year, says Commander William
Moffet of Lake Bluff training station.
w. F. .EngeI, head of Woodlawn
Storage Co. at 1864 E. 63d, suicided
L. n IL.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-18

HEARST HITS KELLEY WHILE
PLAYING WITH ROCKEFELLER
Tie Chicago newspaper game is
touched on in a letter by Ivy L. Lee,
the 1,000-a-month press agent of
the Rockefeller family, to John D.
Rockefeller. Jr., under date of June
10, 1914. The letter is among those
made public by Chairman Frank P.
Walsh, U. S. industrial relations COM
mission yesterday. Lee wrote Rookie
teller, Jr.:
81 am enclosing some correspon-
dence from the Chicago Examiner,
which is directly aimed at the new
management of the combined Chica-
go Inter Ocean and Record-Herald.
AS l understand it, this paper has
been financed by about $1,500,000 of
money supplied by the leading finan-
cial interests of Chicago. You will
see the kind of criticism which it has
Immediately called forth"
The slippery double-cross tricks of
William Randolph Hearst now get
the spotlight. Here was Andy Law
renee sending out letter trying to
torpedo Jim Keeley's new paper, the
Herald, by showing its Big Business
connections. At the same time at the
other end of the Hearst submarine
was little Art Brisbane, the 100000
a-year editorial writer. How Bris- i
bane earned the everlasting gratitude
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., sticks out.
And it shows the Hearst crowd as
straight as the elegant shape of
dogs hind leg.
At the time organized labor was 7
calling young Rockefeller a red-hand-
ed murderer, when The Masses pub =
Iished a cartoon showing John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., trying to wash blood
off his hands, young John D. wrote ?
Ivy L. Lee letters containing these 4
passages:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-08

Wheat hay. s140l5; clover.
$16@17; alfalfa, $14015: corn.
sac; cracked, $36; wheat, $51s
shorts. s34: bran, $50; oats. SAL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-08

met townsman, couple of years
before, in some sailor boarding
house in Chile, SO that he knew
his mother to be still alive.
she must be a pretty old wom-
an now he said, staring medita-
lively into the pinnacle and then
jerking a sharp glance at Harri-
son, who was steering a point off
the course.
When did yo~ last write to
herr"
He performed his mental arith-
metic aloud. "Eighty-one; no.
eighty-two. Ell? no--eighty-three
Yes, eighty-three. Ten years ago.
From some little port in NADIA
gascar. was trading.
You geo. he went on, as
though addressing his neglected
mother across half the girth of
the EARTH" each year ] was go
ing home. So what was the good
to write? 1t was only year. And
each year something happened,
and | did not go. But am mate,
now, and when / pay off at FRS
co, maybe with five hundred dol
lars, l will ship myself on a
wind-jammer round the Horn to
Liverpool, which will give me
more money; and then | will pay
my passage from there home.
Then she will not do any more
work"
But does she work? now ?
How old is she?"
About seventy he answered
And then, boastingly, I'VE work
from the time we are born until
we die, in my country. That's
why we live so long. | will live
to a hundred"
shall never forget this con-
versation. The words were the
last ] ever heard him utter. Per-
haps they were the last he did ut
ter, too. For going down into
the cabin to turn in, | decided
that it was too stuffy to sleep be-
low. 1t was calm night. We
we're out of the Trades, and the
Ghost was forging ahead barely
knot an hour. SO l tucked a
blanket and pillow under my arm
and went up on deck.
AS ] passed between Harrison
and the pinnacle, which was built
into the top of the cabin, ! no.
ticed that he was this time fully
three points. off. Thinking that
he was asleep, and wishing hin
to escape reprimand or worse,
spoke to him. But he was not
asleep. His eyes were wide and
staring. He seemed greatly per.
turbed, unable to reply to me.
What's the matter?" | asked
Are you sick?"
He shook his head, and with 9
deep sigh, as of awakening
caught his breath.
You'd better get on your
course, then" chided.
Continued Tomorrow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-08
cokney's comment, as he gazed
with lustreless, hopeless eyes into
mine.
CHAPTER XIV.

II was dawned upon me that
have never placed a proper valua-
tion upon womankind. For that
matter, though not amative to
any considerable degree SO far
as | have discovered, was never
outside the atmosphere of women
until now. My mother and sister
were always about me, and | was
always trying to escape them; for
they worried me to distraction
with their solocitude for my
health and with their periodic in
roads on my den, when my order
ly confusion, upon which l prided
myself, was turned into worse
confusion and less order, though
II looked neat enough to the eye.
/ never could find anything when
they had departed. But now,
alas, how welcome would have
been the feel of their presence,
the frou-frou and swish-swish of
their skirts which / had so cor
daily detested! / am sure, IL /
ever get home, that l shall never
be irritable with them again. They
may dose me and doctor ME morn
ing, noon and night, and dust and
sweep and put my den to rights
every minute of the day, and |
shall only lean back and survey
1t all and be thankful in that !
am possessed of a mother and
some several sisters.
All of which has set me Won
dering. Where are the mothers
OF these twenty and odd men on
the Ghost? 1t strikes me as I'M
natural and unhealthful that men
should be totally separated from
women and herd through the
world by themselves. Coarseness
and savagery are the inevitable
results. These men about me
should have wives, and sisters,
and daughters; then would they
be capable of softness, and ten
derness, and sympathy. AS it is,
not one of them Is married. In
years and years not one of them
has been In contact with good
woman, or within the influence,
or redemption, which irresistibly
radiates from such creature.
There is no balance in their lives.
Their Insecurity, which In itself
Is of the brute, has been override
veloped. The other and spiritual
side of their natures has been
dwarfed---atrophied, in fact.
They are a company of cell
bates, grinding harshly against
one another and growing daily
more calloused from the grind
Ing. 1t seems to me impossible
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-08
''Stay Fat; Secret OF Youth
Cheer Up, You Plump Women

Moreover, she's happy, ascribing
that also to her avoirdupois.
Pm not joking now" said
Trixie here recently. 'and | want
to tell all the women that the
game of getting thin is not worth
the candle!
Keep fat and you'll keep
young and good looking. Try to
force yourself to thinness when
you were meant to be fat and
you'll soon look about 20 years
older than oyu are
Trixie Friganza believes 50
thoroughly in this advice that shs
worried considerably not long ago
when her weight began to de.
crease of its own accord. What
did size do?
Went on a diet--To GET FAT
AGAIN.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-08

Belle Mitchell, leading woman
i'm Al II. Woods production OF
"The Yellow Ticket" Mt the Ia.
coma theater tonight.
The status of the Jew in mod
ern Russia is dwelt upon in the
new play, THE Yellow Ticket,
at the Tacoma theater tonight.
Michael Morton, author of the
play, spent year in st. Peters
burg studying local conditions for
the drama. The Russian police
oppression of fallen women, de-
noted by the yellow ticket" that
is forced upon them as a license
of their often unwelcome voca-
ton, forms a keynote of the story.
An all-star cast has been sent to
the west with the play, headed by
Belle Mitchell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-08
BY JACK LONDON.
fContinued FROM Yesterday

",Tis the hand of God, I'm tell
In you," is the way Louis sees It..
" Ills visitation for It's Lack
lea, I'd deeds, ana there's more
behind and comm, or else"
"Or else," prompted.
God is noddin' and not dom
his duty, though it's me as
shouldn't say it."
was mistaken when l said that
I was in the good graces OF all.
Not only does Thomas Mugridge
continue to hate me, but he has
discovered a new reason for hat
ing me. 1t took me no little
while to puzzle it out, but ] final
ly discovered that it was because
] was more luckily born than he
gentleman born" he put 1t.
"And still no more dead men,
l twitted Louis, when Smoke and
Henderson, side by side, in friend
ly conversation. took their first
exercise on deck.
Louis surveyed me with his
shrewd gray eyes and shook his
head portentously. shes a-com-
In, | tell you, and it'll be sheets
and halyards, stand by all hands,
when she begins to howl. I've had
the feel Nv 1t this long time, and
i can feel 1t now as plainly as l
feel the rigging iv dark night.
She's close, she's close"
"Who goes first?" l queried.
mot old fat Louis, l promise
you," he laughed. For tits in
the bones iv me l know that come
this time next year I'll be gain
In the old mothers eyes. weary
with watchin' iv the sea for the
five sons she gave it,"
"Wot's e been sym to yer?'
Thomas Mugridge demanded a
moment later.
"That he's going home some
day to see his mother" l an
swered automatically.
II never 'ad none," was the