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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
PROSPECTS
NEVER BETTER


Old timers who have travelled over
the county during the past few days
report that crops never looked bet
ter in the middle of July.
The winter rye harvest will start
this week. followed quickly by bar.
ley cutting. These crops are excel
lent.
Early wheat Is all headed out, and
beginning just a shade of turn.
Most of the oats is also headed but
shows only the green color as yet.
Late grains are a good stand. and in
another week will be headed out.
1t looks. at this time. as If the earl
sown grains will give the greatest
yields. These earliest wheat yields
look like 20 to Is bushel yields, and
the oats from 50 to 60 bushels.
Corn is late. but is clean, a good
stand. and growing rapidly during
the past week or two of warm
weather.
The first crop Of alfalfa has been
cut and shows a good yield. Hay
and pastures were never better.
Potatoes and all vegetables are
above the aveIa age.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15

IN SOUTH DAKOTA

Promoters have been working for
some time on a railroad to run from
Huron northeast through Clark and
Dav counties. Clark papers express
dissatisfaction with the methods Of
the promoters, because at first they
wanted no cash bonus. Then after
wards indicated a willingness to
change the route for a cash consid-
GRAFTON of $4,000.
A late news item from Faulkton
says that q party of men recently
travelled along the old Pierre.A ber-
deem grade. and intimated that the
grade would soon be ironed. This
Information is handed out SO often.
however, that it has lost is power
to excite anobody.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
HAND COUNTY
CORRESPONDENCE
Interesting Items From Various
Twps.
SOUTH HAND

Mr. and Mrs Louis Hemmingson
visited Nh and Mrs Thomas Chris
sense last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs George Ruff visited
his parents Mr. John Ruff last Sun
day.
Quite a number of people of this
vicinity attended Terry's big show
in Miller.
1t is getting rather dry for small
grain. The corn is rather backward
but is coming along fine now.
Mr. and Mrs Warren Locke enjoy.
ed a visit from relatives of north of
Miller last Sunday.
Thomas Bonk worked for George
Ruff a few DAYS last week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
Locals Win and Lose

The ball team went to Rec Heights
Friday and captured a rather loose
game, the score running to 1873.
On Sunday the local team went to
Huron for a third game, and lost in
a 7-6 score. They defeated Huron
two out of three games.
1t was very close, and the locals
lost or a fuke in the 9th-two men
running together after a fly ball.
The local team looks about the
best it has for some years. and with
persistent. systematic practice. il
should wiz a majority Of the 1915
games.
The local ball team expect to go t.
Harold for a game on Sunday and
on to Pierre for a game Monday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
NEW CITY HALL
. Is COMPLETED

The work of remodeling the build
ing on corner of End and Arno SITS.
recently purchased for a city hall,
was finished last week and it is now
occupied by the various city de-
partments. The fire equipment
takes up the entire first floor and on
the second floor are the public IL
brary, the council room and the fire.
mems hall. all opening off of a main
entrance hall.
The city council met in the new
quarters Monday evening for the
first time and the city fremen will
hereafter hold their meetings in the
hall furnished for them in the build
ing =.
The need of q city hall is one that
has been realized by the citizens of
Miller for a number of years, and
the present arrangement seems to
satisfactorily supply that need. The
building was erected by Jewett
Bros several years ago and was
purchased by the city last spring
for $2750. The old frame hall has
been sold and will be removed from
its present location, and the city's
property located on Second Street
now consists of the new hall. the
light and power plant, and the city
Jail. all fire proof buildings, and the
steel bell tower.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
JEALOUS FARMER
KILLS HIS WIFE
And Cuts Own Throat With q
Razor

The Hitchcock News reports that
Robert Swaney. a farmer living in
Beadle county, a few miles east of
Burdette. killed his wife and him.
self with a razor last week. The
News says:
"Mr and Mrs Sv'aney returned
Tuesday night from d trip to Mis-.
souri,. where they had been for a
visit with relatives, and were taken
to their home in an automobile.
Wednesday morning the family
rose as usual. Nh Swaney going to
the field where he started cultivat.
ing corn.
1t is thought that he must have
worked until about 10 o'clock when
he went to the house and, unhitch-
ing his horses, went into the house.
Sending the children out to the mail
box, a distance of about 40 rods, and
taking his hat. coat and shoes off, ne
went UPSTAIRS and it is supposed, laid
down upon the bed. 1t is thought
that he either called to his wife or
she went up to the room to see what
wss the matter. Immediately upon
her entering the room, he must have
sprang to the door and nailed it
shut, as the children were unable to
open it upon their return and the
door had to be broken in.
When the children returned from
the mail box and were unable to find
their parents they Immediately sum-
moned their uncle, who was work.
ing in a field nearby, telling him at
the same time that blood was run.
ming out from under the door of
their mothers room.
Their uncle went at once to the
house and. breaking down the door.
found them both dead. their throats
being cut. Mrs Swaney, was living
on her back on the floor, both arms
being stretched out as though she
had been held. Swaney had evil
IDENTIFY sat down upon the foot of
the bed and cut his own throat after
making sure that his wife was dead.
After cutting his throat, he must
have fallen upon the floor as he
nearly decapItated body was found
lying face downward in a pool OF
blood.
There has been rumors that Mi
and Mrs Swaney were having
trouble owning to the fact, it is said
that Swaney was jealous of his wife
and by some that this is what
prompted the crime.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
HOUDEk
Did you celebrate?

DIu YOU
Are having good weather for the
small grain which is heading out.
Most of our people celebrated at
the Kopecky Hall. July 3.
Mrs S. S. Mitchell. has a sister
visiting her from Illinois.
A special school meeting was held
at the Wiesener school July 6 where
they voted 10 move the school
houses.
The men are busy working the
roads near aulstick s.
We hear there is to be a picnic at
the Kopecky Hall Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs s. S. Mitchell we're in
Rec Heights Tuesday.
(Too late for last week.
Howard Turping, of Belle Plain
Iowa, is visiting his cousin. S. S.
MlCcneIl INK FAMILY.
Chas. Moore and family were in
Rec Heights FRIDAY.
Dan Slack has been shearing his
sheep. Mr. Slack has about 400
sheep.
S. S. Mitchell recently replastered
his house and fixed the chimney.
Farmers look on your oat blades
for the capital letter. B. 1t is there
in plain sight this year,
Antoine Vollmer has been hauling
out manure for Chas. Moore the
past three weeks, and has his job
about COMPLETED.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
CITY LIBRARY IN
NEW QUARTERS
Has Permanent Location on Sec
Floor of New City Hall

Sity LII al iuH WISE Nldty INCu-
mond, assisted by members Of the
library board, has been busy the
past week getting the city's public
library installed in its permanent
location in the new city hall, which
is practically completed and ready
for use by the various departments
of city affairs.
The library occupies the front
rooms OH the second floor of the
building. which consists Of a large.
we'll lighted and airy reading room,
and a commodious book room ad
joining it. The rooms have been
neatly decorated and with the new
furniture and additional book cases
this public institution of the CITY,
now assumes the appearance of a
real library.
The Miller library was founded
about fifteen wears ago by the ladies
of the Jackson Club. The beginning
was necessarily small and through
many years It's only support was the
fund received from subscriptions at
one dollar a year. During this time
the library had no permanent home
and was located at different times
in some of the stores. There was
40 librarians salary paid and the
fund from subscriptions was immed-
lately turned into new books. And
the enterprise has now grown to
such proportions that it is a genuine
benefactor to the whole community,
for a variety of literature, which
can suit everyone, is kept upon its
shelves. 1t was taken over by the
city about three wears ago and is
now maintained the same as any
public library. With the exception
Of the latest fiction, which is kept
on a paw shelf the same as in all
large libraries. the books are free to
all residents of the city. Subscrip-
tons are charged those living out.
of town and during the winter
months these subscribers make good
use of the books.
There is now a total of 1873 books
and the list includes standard novels
history, late fiction, religious works
and juvenile stories. There are sc
volumes of Harvard classics. 10 vol.
Of Junior classics, 20 vol. of Encvl.
clopedia, 6 vol. of Standard Refer.
ence Works. and IL vol. of Woman
Citizens Library. Two daily papers,
the Minneapolis Journal and the
Christian Science Monitor, and seven
of the best periodicals are received
for use in the reading room. A con.
signment of new books are received
quarterly and thus the patrons OF
Miller's Public Library have access
to the latest books.
The members of the library board
who at present have charge of its
affairs are Mrs H. w. Woodruff,
Pres. Mrs w. H. Waters, Vice Pres.
e. F. Waite. Treas, and Miss Mary
Redmond. Secy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
HELD WHEAT
AND LOST MONEY
Kansas Farmers Held for 81
New Crop Less

Wichita, kan.,-lt cost Sergwick
county farmers 5000 900 to hold
their wheat since March |, this year
according to figures of the county
assessor. The farmers guessed the
market wrong and counted on wheat
going to So per bushel. But it wenC
the other way and it cost the farm
ers about 80 cents for every bushel
they held in granaries and elevators.
1t wouldn't be so bad the farmers
say, if they hadn't turned the wheat
in to the assessors. 1t was valued
at 81. rs a bushel and now it can't be
sold OH the local market for more
than S1.05. The taxes on $780, 900
worth of wheat amounted to over
S15, 900.
What happened in Sedgwick
county occurred all over the great
Kansas wheat belt. 1t is estimated
that about 80, 200, 900 bushels of
wheat vas held in the state. With
a loss of &c cents a bushel it cost
Kansas farmers over SO, 200, 900 to
hold their wheat crop,
Three weeks ago it looked bad for
the wheat which was being held
That was before the chinch bug.
hail and water and the army worms
had PLAYED havoc with the growing
crop and cut down the yeIld 10,000,-
600 or 5000. 600 bushels. Every
day has been adding to the loss of
wheat. During the last ten days
Kansas has been the theatre in which
the elements have staged a rough
and ready game of hide and seek.
Cyclones have leveled houses and
barns in several sections, hail has
swept paths half way across the state
in the western section, and along
every river valley flood waters have
covered wheat with mud and fiat.
tened it out as though a steam roll
er had passed over it.
The loss has been enormous and
an estimatr of Is, 600. 900 bushels is
conservative. So with the 1915
wheat weld shrinking steadily the
farmers are again seeing visions of
soaring prices and the prediction can
be heard in every town that wheat
will sell for even more than So a
bushel before the winter is over.
Market manipulators who are
forcing down the price will be balk-
ed if the farmers have ANYTHING to
do with it. There will be little put
on the market when threshing be-
gins. because the farmers are going
to put it in the granaries and hold it
for higher prices. They still have
enough money from their last years
crop to finance them through the
winter and they will not be forced
to sell to meet expenses. Coopera-
tive elevators are being built all over
the state. Carpenters report that
their contracts for building granar.
les have never been so numerous.
The men who watch crop conditions
in the state carefully estimate that
three-fourths of the wheat yield will
be held this season.
NOTE-Such wheat reports must
be taken with a grain of salt, be.
cause the public cannot know fol-
certain whether it Is a correct news
report. or is put out with some
hold your wheat scheme in view.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
Homeseekers' Rates

The Minneapolis & st. Louis road
has established the homeseekers' ex-
cursion rates so popular a few years
ago. They will be run everv Tues
day. Every railroad IN the state
could profit by adopting a similar
rule and wildly advertising it,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
Methodist Church Services.

Methodist Church Services.
Preaching next Sunday. by the
pastor at 11:00 a. m.
s. S. at 1000.
Epworth League devotional meet.
ing at 700 p. m.
Evening service at 800 D m
Prayer meeting every Thursday
evening
All are invited to attend.
j. Fl. Kearton, Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
County Taxes

The county commissioners are in
session this week, equalizing taxes.
They have employed experts to fer
ret out mortgage records, and they
are going into the work carefully
and fully. The results will be inter-
esting to a number of citizens.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
CITY CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRESBYTERIAN Church

A. P. Cooper. pastor
1890 a m. Sermon:
HAS a m Sabbath school
The lessons are interesting. come
and join a class.
$50 p. M. Christian Endeayor.
7:30P M sermon.
We want you to come.
VIZ aim to begin all services at
the minute appointed. Be on time
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
BeadIe County Land 500

Huron papers report the sale last
week of a farm of 800 acres several
miles out from Huron at $50 per
acre. 1t will probably make the
purchaser a $40 to $40 per acre raise
inside of five years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
Card of Thanks

We desire to express u appre-
citation to friends and lodge workers
for the kindness and sympathy
shown US during the sickness and
burial of our loved one.
Mrs F. j. Hellmuth and family
Mrs Geo. Sargent.
Mrs Maria Noding.
Mr. and Mrs Edwin Hanks.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
ST.. AIMS Church

Services on LIST. 3rd. and 5th Sum
days.
Masses at $50 and 1890 a. m.
Evening services 1880 p. m. sun.
days.
Week days, Mass at 8 o'clock.
Holy Days. Masses at 6 and $50
a. m.
Confessions, Saturday evening at
z p. m.
Those desiring instruction in the
Catholic Doctrine will call at Priests
residence on Monday and Thursday
evenings. Father Duguay, Pastor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
Christian Church

Lords Day School at 10 o'clock Ia.
m.
HOO a. m. Sermon.
Communion service at HAS o'clock
a, m.
Christian Endeavor at Gas pm.
800 p. m. Sermon.
Your presence desired.
l.. w. Thompson,
Minister.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
Poisoned BY Minced Ham

Pollock. S. Dive children liv.
ing on the Whalen farm, seventeen
miles north of Pollock, had a close
call from death by ptomaine poison
ing. caused by eating some minced
ham,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
Learn a Little Every Day.

Last year the income of the Gov
eminent, cities, towns and countries
from liquor licenses amounted to
$3.50, 100000.
Every year more lives are lost by
accident and preventable deaths than
have been destroyed in this country
in all our wars since the Declaration
of Independence.
Saffron is obtained from the dried
flowers of the saffron crocus. 1t is
used as a coloring matter for some
articles of food and medicine. The
earlier Romans and Greeks used it
both as, a dye for cloth and per-
fume,, In the time of the Caesars
there was a Roman law which made
it a crime punishable by death 10
adulterate saffron. The pant is nov
cultivated in Persia, Afghanastan'
Southern Europe and England.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
IT'S 4 LONG ROAD.

Peace on earth, good will to men,
is not an idea that has faded from
the EARTH, except temporarily in d
number of what were formerly call
ed the most enlightened nations.
How these countries, once resenting
any thought of defective civilization,
can go into another Christmas sea-
son and feel comfortable, could not
easily be comprehended. One way
exists, but the Christian peoples,
armed to the teeth and lunging
fericiously at each other, grant it
scant notice. Their days are given
to slaughter, and their nights to
planning destruction. No doubt it
is true that in The present stage of
the worlds development a millen-
NAL peace is but a vision of the dim
future, but at the end of fifteen
months of war the fighting along
CONFERENCE.-THE lines is still wholly
inconclusive. The sword is not cut
ting the knots. Tens of thousands
are slain monthly, treasure runs to
waste by billions, and the end
seems no nearer than it was last
Christmas, that passed in sad
eclipse. Problems exist, fact denied
by nobody. But the frightful means
chosen to settle them make no head
way.
The combatants are unable or un-
willing to say clearly what they
want. Originally, they thought to
overpower each other, to eXtort a
cry of final defeat and surrender. 1t
was a miscalculation. Not one Of
the nations engaged is out of men or
money. None is suffering for food
or employment. Yet bloodshed and
devastation darllen many lands. 1t
is a blind struggle, though the most
colossal in history. AS another
Christmas draws near, these salient
truths should not be denied the
rights of a still small voice. Our
planet, though enc of the least that
circles round the sun, is yet much
too large to be the plaything of d
conqueror, or single nation or race.
Dreams of ruthless conquest have
never been anything but a miasma
fatal to those who yield to the spell
A few days ago in dealing with
the subject of religions the Japanese
cabinet declined to broaden the
place assigned to Christianity among
other faiths. Is it to be wondered
crat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
COSTS OF SCHOOL LIFE.
Nowadays Silks Are Made up 'Simp.
ly and Inexpensively.

A friend who attended one of the
High School dances in neighbor-
ing city, was a good deal scandalized
by what seemed to him the eXtrava-
CANT dressing of the girls. He came
home telling how nearly all these
young women wore silk gowns. It
looked to him as if a working man
must pay many extravagant cos,s TO
put a girl through a High School,
unless she was to be made socially
uncomfortable.
Several women who heard these
observations, remarked that, the
costs of school life were not quite in
the direction that he seemed to
think. A silk dress used to be con-
sidered a sign of luxury. Nowadays
silks are made up simply and mex
pensiyely. If used only as party
dresses, they don't have to stand
much wear, and may last for some
years. 1t was the guess of these
women that few Of the dresses this
man saw cost over $1,000.
1t is of course a tax on mechanic
to provide his daughters with $1,000
dresses for school parties. But one
of these frOcks may last through a
High School course. Meanwhile his
boys, who are playing football, grub
bling in the dirt, sliding to bases on
the seats of their trousers, will need
new pairs of shoes and trousers ev-
cry month or two.
Parents who visit schools consider
ably are surprised at the neat APP
pearance made by the average child.
Ragged clothes are almost unknown,
The youngsters are needless in the
care of their garments, which must
mean incessant renewal.
The mechanic on wages running
from 5000 to $1,000 year, with
three or four children to put through
school, has problem on the clothes
question. Every new suit usually
means that the old folks have dug
some of their own discarded gar
merits out of the Closets The spruce
should appreciate lu the
shabbiness that the old folks have
endured on their behalf, vasr H. !
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

There was time in Iowa when
the raw sod of the prairies was turn
ed over and flax planted as a profit
able crop. Later other crops less
wearing on the soil were substitute
ed, for even in an early day there
was some thought of conserving the
richness of Iowa land. Then the eX-
elusive grain farmers had their day,
and still have it in some parts of the
state. In the progress of years it was
demonstrated that the most profit
able way to market grain, as a rule,
was on the hoof, and the combina-
ton grain and stock farm became
the standard of efficiency. 1t was
not only that the immediate profits
were better, rightly handled, but the
fertility of the soil was increased ra-
Their than diminished, by the use of
the home fertilizer. Then dairying
increased with the slow development
VI Tic .buoihDoo' ~ iAehu VIZ
of stock raising in coll
serving the fertility Of the soil, and
added one more product to be sold
from the average farm, without re-
ducing its capacity proportionately
In other directions.
Now that the era of high priced
land has come, the solution for farm
owners and farm renters is more
intensive farming, making one acre
produce what two or more produced
n the older time. In the solution or
his problem the dairy business con
tributes an important factor. 1t adds
mother valuable product to enlarge
he .%iGiGi's bank account, and IN
he end greatly increases the value
If his acres as wealth producers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
DENTISTRY CHANGING FAST.
New Discoveries Come So Rapidly
That Man Who Has Not Read
Has Fallen Far Behind.

The dentist who has not kept up
with the progress of his science dur
ing the last two years through con-
slant reading of good dental jour
nails is now hopelessly behind, ac-
cording to DR.. F. T. Breene, dean Of
the college of dentistry at the State
University of Iowa.
The science of dentistry is chang
ing so rapidly, Dean Breene says,
that many things regarded as true a
few months ago are now known to
be wrong and methods thought I'M
til recently to be correct are being
discarded.
For example, Dean Breene cites
the fact that the time hOnOred prac-
tice Of killing nerves in teeth anu
filling them carefully will probably
have to be abandoned because it has
been found that this process makes
the treated tooth a point OF low re-
sistance in the system where nj
crobes in the circulation will be de-
posted and cause infection.
1t is now believed that abcesses in
teeth whose nerves have been deVi-
talized are due, not to improper fill
ing, but to this, lowering of resis-
lance to microbes in the system. If
experiments establish this fact be-
yond a doubt, dentists will have TO
abandon the plan of killing the nerve
and devise some other method of
treatment which will not destroy the
vitality Of the tooth.