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b. Swindell married Gertrude Haldane
de Velasco. Sue Guild Swindell married
Claude Larlyle Nuckels. Jane Swindell
married Charles Howard Smith and
Margaret Swindell married Robert
Quincy Blair.
The recorded history of the OuId, Old
or Odds family reaches back to the time
when it's members were Thames of York
shire and who are mentioned in Domes-
day book. The original name Void.
though pronounced Old and there is
village called Old in Huntingdonshire
which was once the property of the
traced back to Roger Void. who was liv-
ing at F'lixtune in Yorkshire in 1889 The
first American Old was Robert. son Of
John Olde and Gatherest of Sher-
bonnie. County Dorset, England. He
was born in England in 1915. and al
lea Is not known he was living in Wind
sor. Conn, in 1867. There he married
first Susannah Hanford. then Dorothy
Granger. and next Joanna Adams. He
was a doctor Of medicine. From him de-
scended four lines, the families of Robert.
Hanford. William and John.
The Old or Ould family is found in
Virginia early in the seventeenth CEN
fury and there is a record in Norfolk
county Of the marriage of Edward Ould
to Miss Tooley in 1880. and that Ed
ward Ould was a son Of Edward Ould of
the same county Edison Baldwin Odds
OF washington is descended from the
family of John. He was born at Mime
apolis Mimi. on February s. 1857, and
came to Washington in 1865. On October
;, 1895, he was married to Mabel Brad
ford, descended from Gov. William Brad
ford and six others of the Mayflower
pilgrims. They live at Silver Spring and
their children are Evelyn Bradford Olds.
Marian Bradford Olds. Edison Baldwin
Odds and Bradford Sargent Olds.
Henry Oldys, whom nearly all Wash
ingtonians know, is also of the Olds
family. The Rambler has been inform
ed that Henry Worthington Olds was
born in Washington in 1859 and in
1891 married May c. Meigs. He adopt
ed the spelling "Oldys" because that
was the spelling used by some of his
ancestors. For many years he has been
connected with the biological survey.
and he became famous as lecturer on
birds and bird music and had been
prominent in the bird protection move
ment. His children are Robert Oldys
Margaret Oldys. Katherine Sargent
Oldys and Mary Meigs Oldys.
There are good many threads to
this story of the Olds and Guilds which
the Rambler means to take up at an
other time, but it is necessary now tC
go across the Eastern branch and Sci
foot on the Beall-Sheriff lands. where
the Rambler left off last Sunday. These
lands, on which Benning, Deanewoot
and numerous other settlements stand
were patented to Ninian Beall, ant
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the airship and accommodations for
the aviators and mechanicians.
1t contemplates regular patrol OF
the coast to report wreck dangers to
navigation. icebergs any other thing
which ought to be promptly reported.
and in case of war to report to the
country ready for duty. The addition
of all these machines and several hum
dred trained fiers would be no small
adjunct to our scanty national supply
The great coastal cities stand most IN
need of aeronautical protection II
such places as New York. Boston. Phil
adelphia. Washington. Charleston. Mo-
bile, Richmond, New Orleans, Los An
geles. San Francisco, Portland tMe.
and Ore.) should be attacked by arr
craft dealing out bombs. nothing but
other aircraft and anti-aircraft guns
could save them from destruction
The distance to London from the
Teutonic base and the fear lest an m
tervening air squadron cut off the at
tackers' return have served in great
measure to preserve the English me
tropolis. To keep hostile aircraft from
Paris the zone of silence became ne
cessity. space three miles wide.
stretching behind the Frerch fighting
line. is preserved from all battle
noises. Ingenious appliances. compris-
phone. detect the sound of the propel-
ler however high the machine may
soar, and fix its location.
Word is telephoned back of the line,
and Immediately many French ma
chimes soar to meet the intruders. Some
of them may fall. but the Germans
rarely get through. Such is the flying
force of the French now, but at. the
outbreak of the war they were but lit
tie further advanced than the army
and navy of the United States now are.
The latter have but few machines and.
combined. not more than a hundred
aviators.
Aeroplanes are scouts on shore and
sea; for sea work they must have a
long flying radius: they are for quick
work and for fighting purposes. Mr..
Kahn, speaking of the German FOX.
ker, says: They are constructed with
small wings, but motor power to give
them terrific speed and mobility: they
are armored and armed, the dread
naughts of the air" In western Eu-
rope they are operating in fleets of
many squadrons and maneuvering with
hundreds of machines in formation.
been the great military factor in world
supremacy. that Greece was saved from
the Persian invasion by the Athenian
fleet at Salamis rather than by sacri-
flee of Leonidas at Thermopylae. but
to hold sea supremacy scouting is In
Admiral Peary say: "a new element,
air supremacy. has been added to naval
warfare, for the side which controls
the air controls the information. with
out which a victory can be won, only
by chance.
And il is the establishment of a pa
troll which will help to make American
air power effective that Admiral Peary
and his fellow workers are striving to
effect.
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EAR ADMIRAL Ro6ffi r.
I'D PEARY has made gigantic
I'M strides toward developing the
q - aerial patrol of the coasts of
continental United States by securing
a notable commission from all sections
of the country, all intensely interested
to secure its success.
To obtain this broad cooperation the
Aero Club of America requested the
admiral TO name A general committee
70 assist in laying out plans for the
patrol system, and the character OF
the men who have rallied about him
to carry out this work forecasts the
accomplishment Of the enormous I'M
dertakirg.
1t is a great undertaking because it
requires the raising of $50o.ooO or more
of funds by private contribution, the
voluntary service Of many men to d"
the preliminary work of investigating
and defining the basic plans Tor Great
ing this corps, and the cooperation or
many young men of education ana MT
ness Of physique and temperament TO
undertake a dangerous service on Ne
half Of their country.
The .plan involves the division of the
5000 miles of coast into fifty sections
of 100 miles each, the procuring OF
suitable seagoing aeroplanes, the con-
struction of hangers. the laying out
of the best course of instruction for
naval aviators and giving to young
men the education and training which
will fit them to get results in case or
war as we'll as TO handle alrcraft ana
make them of use in times of peace.
Admiral Peary's restless mind must
have some object to work upon; that
object must be big. After he had found
the north pole no could not remain
idle, and having been isolated from
most Of the worlds activities for 80
many years. he was free to select the
biggest subject he could find. provided
81 was American. He is very
fion to details. 1t has for several
years been his habit TO spend a half
hour so every morning in scanning
the leading newspapers for events and
IDEAS great or new. II he sees any
thing which appeals to him. he care
fully cuts IL out. puts ii by. reads II
when he has leisure or opportunity
and after he has thought 1t over files Il
for further use or discards IT.
A year or more ago he discussed with
himself very carefully an article or
the practical use of the aeroplane II
carrying the mail over inaccessible
places. and he did not discard the idea
Perhaps his friendship with the Wrigh
brothers and his mountaineering witt
their plans for flying helped him Il
understand things better than man,
others, but, be that as il may, the idea
WAS firmly planted in hts mind.
Last fall, while a guest Of the Rotar.
Club of Portland. Me, he was induced
70 speak upon preparedness. etold tn
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7N that ramble. which treated of
III PIERCE Mill, of Isaac PIERCE and
III Betsy Cloud and their ancestors
q and descendants the Rambler told
of having come upon burial plot on
the highlands northwest of the mill and
north of the geophysical laboratory.
That little cemetery is a somber place,
where SOLDERING thoughts are apt to
come to one. All paths. whether they
be garlanded with flowers or strewn
with thorns and thistles, must lead to
such a place. An old tombstone
breaches impressive sermon 1t
warns against the petty vanities of life
and il urges that the only ambition is
that which bids man live in such a
way that the world is better that he
lived.
1t is true that some persons read
tombstones differently. Even a tomb
stone admits of varying Interpretation.
and perhaps of misinterpretatlon- ana
this should be warning against 700
great positiveness that ones own view
of things is the only righteous view
The Rambler has had much experience
with tombstones. He has found tomb
stones which most persons had Tor
gotten He has come upon them in
lonely woods. He has found them nearly
buried in the mold of the humus of the
forest He has found them in thIckets
Of vines and brambles-a favor1te re-
treat for old tombstones- Wherever he
has found one he has knelt before 1t
and in his notebook has jotted down
the story which its chiseled letters
.1ell The story has gone into PRINT
and memories in many a man have
been stirred by it.
1t NAV be that tombstone in the
woods is terrible thing to some men,
The Rambler fancies that he has felt a
shudder, a fear. faintness of the
heart in some persons they have
come upor the grim marks of place
where lies what was once man. He
has a feeling that some men, should
they come al night upon a hoary grave
stone, lonely in deep woods through
which whined and walled a winter
wind, would not stop to touch their
hand upon the tomb and pay the trlb-
ute of thought to the man whose
bones rest there, but whose spirit must
be living still
Not many Sundays ago the Rambler
came upon an old tombstone, or a group
of old tombstOnes, and after copying
their inscriptions and photographlng
them, sat down among them on the mat
of periwinkle which loves the company
of graves 1t had been long march
and the camera had grown heavy Inc
Rambler took a sandwich from mis-
rocket, and, of course, ate II, and then
still resting on the mat of periwinkle
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known throughout the world as one OF
its greatest meteorologists.
The variableneSS of weather conan
tons is one of the stumbling blocks OF
aerial navigation. and comprehensive
study of it's tickle laws is necessary TO
every tiier, but particularly to the one
who must fly over the sea. Hence IL is
easy to see why Admiral Peary wanted
DR.. Frankenfeld on the commission.
John Hays Hammond. jr.. the FIRST
advocate of the aerial coast patrol Tor
all coasts. is young but Wen known
Possibly above all others he has OBJ
wire connection of OBJECTS detached
and distant from the source of the
currents discharge. His boat con-
trolled from the shore without plot
or crew. his aerial torpedo and other
activities are new war factors which
may revolutionize military methods.
Emerson McMillin of New York.
banker. has very practical idea OF
patriotism. He is believer IN the
aerial patrol and has an open offer
through the Aerial Club of America to
add 10 per cent to all amounts raised
for defensive aviation purposes.
The European war has condensed
decades of peaceful development of
aeroplanes into some eighteen months
and has shown that they possess pos
sibiIities of offense and defense which
the most visionary had hardly dared
to dream of. Where scores had peen
IL,
use as cavalry of the air = scouting.
pursuing, attacking communications,
making raids upon cities and fortihca-
tions when able to break through the
lines of opposing aeroplanes.
They are operating in squadrons OF
twelve, four squadrons making divi-
SION and no one bat the contestants
knows how many divisions there are
or how many thousands of machines
are held in reserve. But England.
France, Russia. Italy, Germany, Aus
tria, the United States. the Neither
in the world is turning them out as
fast as human energy and ingenuity
and hard driven machinery can.
x x
Some day the war will be over and
other nations will possess machines and
trained aviators in abundance. Then
what may happen to us?" is the ques-
ton which farseeing, thoughtful and
patriotic men in the country where the
aeroplane was invented are asking one
another, and the commission is organ
izing this aerial patrol to form corps
of men and appliances to assist In hll-
ing the deficiency.
an aerial coast patrol is to procure by
priyate subscription funds for one or
more aeroplane stations along our
hangar, a standard hydro-aeroplane, or
an aeroplane especially designed for
use over the water and SO contrived
that in event of landing upon the sur
face 1t will float on pontoons. the neo-
essary tools for repairs and tuning up
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REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT e. PEARY.
photo by ClinedinstD

AS he had no children, he took his
brothers head for the apple plat
form-and actually split the apple.
Both brothers were ready to try again
when maternal interference. stopped
the performance.
As a member of the Senate commit
tee on military affairs he recognizes
the need of the organization of all re-
sources for defense. and his wide in
formation on these matters will, 1t is
thought, be a source Of strength to
the committee.
California is represented on the COM
mission by Julius Kahn OF San Fran
cisco, a member of long experience of
the House committee on military at
fairs and for several years strong
supporter of military aviation. His ex-
animation of Col. Reber. chief of the
army aviation division. shows that he
keeps himself we'll informed on avia-
ton subjects. He is a firm believer in
an aerial patrol and knows that it will
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add hundreds-it will not be in vain.
am heartily in it's favor, but ! want
to see il over the whole country
X i:
Texas is represented on the commits
sion by Senator Morris Sheppard, who.
born in 1875. is one of the young men
in the Senate. He is graduate of the
University of Texas law and academic,
and of the Yale Law School He in
herits his inclination for public ONCE,
for his father was congressman
when he died and the son was chosen
to fill out his fathers unexpired term.
IL is said that as boy he was so
enthused over the story Of William
Tells shooting the apple from his sons
ing on his own account. AS he could
not use a bow. he took his Flobert.
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II. C. FRANkENFIELD,
Professor of meteorOlogy, United States
weather bureau.

Weatnef bureau
Copyright by Harris & EwingD
met with a prompt response on the
Pacific coast.
1t was quite fitting that Byron r.
Newton, assistant secretary Of the
Treasury and in charge of the coast
guard, should be a member Of this
commission. When only twelve years
old, the Wright brothers made their
first aerial flight at Kittyhawk. The
only person with them, Newton, be-
came inoculated and has never been
willing to let "aviationitis' get out
Of his system. He Is member Of the
national army and navy aviation board
of aeronautics and knows every prob
lem which the service has to meet. He
is practical, realizes the value and the
requisites Of a war patrol and Is a
great believer in it's effectiveness as
an adjunct to a complete coast patrol:
r. Lester Jones. superintendent OF
the coast and geodetic survey, is one
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July u, 1894. and died in Baltimore
April "a, 1903 He married Mary Su-
sannah Swift. who was born in 1882
and died in 1901. Their child. Margaret
Alkaline, born in 1857. married in 1877
Walter B. Swindell. AS the Rambler
has already told. they live at Roland
Park. near Baltimore. OF their chill
dren the Rambler knows that Walter
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OF Aero
II CnruonPlan Involves the
Division and the Procuring of
! Aeropans.
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of the statute, under which conditions
it is his duty to enforce the regula.
lions.
When the order set aside by the
supreme court was issued by the state
bank examiner a number of national
banks Of South Dakota, together with
a group of state banks. held a meeting
ut Mitchell to make protest. A COM
mittee was appointed to employ attor-
neys and fight the order in the courts.
Iii the circuit court in Minnehaha
county an application of these bankers
for a temporary injunction restraining
the Banking department from enforc-
ing the order was granted. Appeal by
the hank examiner to the supreme
court resulted automatically in a stay
of enforcement of the injunction of
the circuit court, and then the st.
Charles State Bank, representing the
opposition among banks, applied for a
writ of prohibition against the enforce
ment of the bank examiners order
which was then about to be begun.
This stayed the order pending the ad-
Indication of the issues which was
reached last week.
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BANK ORDER HELD VOID

According to a Pierre dispatch, the
supreme court last week handed down
a decision in which the order of Bank
Examiner Wingfield, requiring state
banks to deposit so per cen of their
legal reserves in state banks within
the state, is set aside.
In the granting of the writ of pro-
hibition asked by the st. Charles State
Rank, directed to State Bank Examiner
J. L. Wingfield to stay the effect of the
recent order of the examiner which re-
Quired state banks to deposit so per
cen of their legal reserves in state
banks within the state. the practical
effect Of the holding of the court is
that the order is of a kind which none
but the legislature could enact. Any
effort On their part to grant such right
to an executive or ministerial officer
would be an unwarranted delegation of
power, and in violation of the constitu-
ton. the court says.
The court does not pass upon the
power of the legislature to act upon
such matters. but holds that the ex-
aminer cannot possibly have such
powers, The decision, the court holds,
is not to be considered as in any way
attempting to limit the action of the
public examiner within the provisions
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during the day time after leaving Nash
vile and | would not trade one acre Of
good old Brookings county land for a
whole section of the best | saw on the
trip. The climate here at this time of
the year to a northern man is actually
worth $4,000 per acre; it is simply
immense. This morning a. nine o'clock
the mercury stood at rs. with a nice
soft wind blowing off the bay and our
sons house stands back about forty
ieet and fifteen feet above it. 1t has
ralned twice since we came but there
Is no mud for the soil is a pure white
sand. Christmas was rather cool and
we needed an overcoat to ride in.
Ralph has a big proposition down
here, 425 men to look after and these
scattered for 40 miles from the timber
to the mill. The turpentine plant, log
glng camp and the saw and planning
mill is each a different part of the
biz plant. Bay Harbor is all owned
by the company, ever the store. About
1900 people, black and white, are sup
ported by the business. Almost all the
labor is black. and thoroughly black at
that. You can't see a mixed blood
among them and only about one in
fifteen of the blacks can read and
write.
| might say there is nothing raised
here to speak of, only a little garden
stuff. There is a fair pine tree growth
but very little underbrush as the soil is
too thin. The only thing that can make
this land valuable is to plant out a big
lot of northern land boomers and land
will jump to big values.
Yours respectfully,
Frank Sherwin.
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Buy advertised goods. Always
the best. They have reputation
behind them. You get good
value for your money.
DR.. j. r. Jackson, Osteopath.

DR.. j. r. Jackson, Osteopath.
We buy flax straw. Flax Fibre Co,
Watertown, S. ID.
E. E. Hyde, pia no tuner, car be
found at residence. Phone K-41.
Miss Agnes Collins went to Water
town last Friday evening and spent
New Years with her sister, Miss Estel-
la Collins.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Lehner and
daughter, Miss Mae, went up to Estel-
line last Friday evening for a visit at
the home of their daughter and sister,
Mrs. Jesse Swift. They returned home
Monday morning.
Brookings is proving herself to be
reverential and patriotic in the matter
of observing holidays. Thanksgiving
Day was observed with puritanical
faithfulness and scarcely any ripple of
excitement disturbed the rural village
quietude. Christmas Day found the
city's business at a standstill with only
the churches and the playhouses re-
ceiving the public, and last Saturday,
New Years Day, solitude, stiffness and
solemnity settled down upon the city
in appalling density. Banks, county
Offices and almost all the business
houses were closed all day, some of
the stores remaining open in the morn
ing and the barber shops all day. The
only activity was among the many CO
who were madly rushing about trying
to get into the stores to pay up their
1915 bills. 1916 was ushered in with
out any demonstration of such enthus-
iasm as to require addition to the po-
lice force and 1915 slipped back into
history without a bobble and gave
place to the new year. A few attend
ed dances in the surrounding towns,
small house parties, ETC., but the ma
jority of the residents peacefully
slumbered as Father Time passed
through. The water wagon, which is
supposed to make it's rounds at mil
night, must have picked up it's load
early in the evening for there was not
even a strictly genteel sosh cropping
about for the reform cart.
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centers in the powerful story until the
final climax, when the audience gasps
as a fully equipped express train load
ed with it's human freight crashes
through the timbers of a trestle and
sinks from sight in the waters.
1t is claimed that the Vitagraph
company spent over $4,000 on this
n scene, conceded to be the most
complete picture wreck yet shown on
the screen. That it was a bona-fide
wreck is attested by the fact that an
engine, tender and three passenger
coaches We're completely destroyed,
the scene being witnessed by over r.
600 persons.
At The Fad, Wednesday, January
18th.
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WRITES OF TRIP TO FLORIDA

Climatical and other conditions in
the south at present are interestingly
described in the following letter from
Frank Sherwin of Brookings, who with
his wife is spending some time with
their son, r. l.. Sherwin at Bay Harbor.
Florida. The latter is secretary and
treasurer of the Moore Timber Co.
Editor Register:
This seems to be an opportune time
to drop you a line. We had a very
good trip coming down, although Mrs.
Sherwin has been suffering somewhat
from a hard cold.
1t took us forty-five hours to come
from Chicago to Bay Harbor. We rode
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PIANO AT A BARGAIN

Customer neal B~rookings is unable
to finish payments on piano contract.
We will turn piano over to first salts
factory party who will pay balance
either cash or five dollars per month.
Write Schneider & Mueller Piano Co..
Omaha, Nebr.
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