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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-14

Percy Trubshaw, editor Of the
Valley City Courier, lost out in his
race for representative, but Chris
Christensen, editor Of the Sioux
County Pioneer, landed in the
county auditors job with both feet
and that helps some.-Bismarck
Palladium.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-14
Want Column

STRAYED-Two mares, one
light bay with colt, face OF colt
marked like mothers, branded
154S and I'D on right shoulder.
One dark bay, branded 1909 and
and I'D on right shoulder Finder
will receive reward. Notify Her.
man W. Knispel, Mcintosh, S. D..
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-14

The Mclaughlin Mistake has an
advertisement about some Minnesota
prairie lands with popular groves.
Groves are not near as popular in
Minnesota as they would be in
South Dakota.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-14

I, A. Colville, auditor of Sioux
county, do hereby certify that the
foregoing list of adulterated food
products is published in accordance
with Section 1887 of the Compiled
Laws of 1918.
"A. Colville,
(SEAL) County Auditor
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-14
FOR SALE-The Southeas

FOR sALE-The Southeast
quarter Of section Z, Township 1873,
Range 50. Located about three and
onc-half miles southwest of Self
ridge. This is one of the finest
quarters in Sioux county and every
foot Of land can be plowed. Price
s2,5OO.OO cash. For particulars
write c. Christensen, Fort Yates.
\. D.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
HANSEL AND GRETEL AT
CARVEL HALL FEB. Is.
Miss Margaret Summer to Give De-
IightfuI Presentation.

If you have not seen Margaret
Summers delightful presentation of
"Hansel and Gretel" you have no idea
how charming and engaging it IS.
This little authenticated girl. with her
vivacity. exquisite dancing and really
delightful voice interprets the whole
opera so alphabetically and winningly
that ii is irresistible.
In New York where she has been
such a success at Bandbox Theatre,
and in private homes in New York,
Boston and Newport she needs 10 ad-
vertising. She and her accompanist,
Erin Ballard, are in the professional
rank The fact that Walter Dsmrosch
and Gatti- Cazzazs are among her most
enthusiastic patrons speaks for itself.
She has sung in various Wagner roles
in the Dresden Opera House. but in
" Hansel and Gretel, the Peter Pan
of Grand Opera, she has perfect
opportunity to reveal her unique
personal charm If you love music or
happiness. or something Just winning
and sweet and fresh don't miss it
For particulars see advertisement.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
NEW TYPE OF BOAT
TO SINK SUBMARINES
Navy VIII Make Effort to Have
Seventy of Them Authorized
by Congress.
LIGHT DRAFT AND VERY FAST.
Poor Target for TOrpedoes, While They
Win Iarry Guns Heavy Enough to
Destroy SubmerslhIes.

An entirely new type Of ship, so far
as the United States Navy is concern
ed, probably viii be included ID the
building program 20 b. authorized Ry
Congress this wear.
The vessels are now being construct
ed By the Naval Anairs Committee OF
The House and Senate are Of light
draft lohg, narrow and extremely fast.
Their entire utility is the detection
and destruction OF submarines.
An effort viii be made 10 authorize
the construction of seventy Of these
vessels The type NEST favored is
about is about seyenty-fve feet in
length The vessels are to be armed
with one or two guns of sufficient
range aud power to destroy subma-
rines probably 3-inch guns.
The fact that these vessels make
poor targets for guns which subma-
rines now larry for torpedoes gives
them an advantage not possessed by
any present American naval vessel.
Their speed and offensive armament
experts declare, viii enable them To
approach and destroy a submarine
sighted on the surface, even at con
siderable distance. before It is able to
5ubmerge. Members of the House Ma
val Affairs Committee have been in
formed that a large number Of vessels
of this type are now in use in the
British Navy.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
M. A. c. ALUMNI
HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET.
Rousiug Address by DIR. Patterson
Members OF Legislature and Others.

The annual banquet OF the Maryland
Agricultural College Alumni Associ-
alton was held Saturday night at the
Emerson Hotel, Baltimore A rousine
address by DR. II. J. Patterson w w.
for the appropriation bin and new
charter now before the Legislature, ie9
to the spontaneous adoption Of REQ
luton calling upon the Legislature to
act fayorably upon the measure.
The resolution, written by Henry
kefauyer,upon the back OF @ post card
and introduced at the end Of Mr. skin
ner's address, is as follows
"Res0bed, That we, members OF the
Maryland Agricultural College Alum
nj Association representing all sec
lions Of the State, most earnestly urge
the passage OF the bin providing for
the organization Of the college as pro-
poser by the city and county organiz1-
tions, and for the appropriation OF
funds asked for by the president aud
endorsed b. those organizations"
Mr.. skinner told Of the tireless worl
of the legislative committee of the
Association for the bills and it's con
ferences with Governor Harrington
and the agricultural committees Of the
Honse of Delegates and the Senate
led TO the adoption OF the resolution.
President Patterson advanced plan
for training soldiers at the land grant
colleges, which would serve the tn zee
fold purpose of giving to the country
an efficient regular and reserve army
large number of men well equipped
for leadership in professions. and
placing a college education within
reach OF young men who now lack o,
opportunity. He would have them en-
list FOR six years. during which they
would be located 10y the United States
Government at q land grant college
devoting part of each day to the col
lege course an0 part TO military train.
mug Vacations would be a round Of
camps and marches and each student
would receive the equivalent of two
years military training and four years
of college work.
Mr. Holzaffel said his visits to An
napolis had convinced him that this
Legislature was far more interested in
the welfare Of the college than some
past legislatures. He found boil Sem
stors and Delegates studying the bills
for appropriations and charter, and il
their desks was statistical information
about the college work.
+. b. Bombergers' address on M. A
C's Contribution to State and Govern
ment Service" was replete with cita-
ton of instances where graduates of
tho college had done valuable work as
entomologists. engineers, directors Of
great irrigation projects and the like
Among the other speakers were G.
s. Richardson. who responded to the
toast "The Faculty; r. S. Choates
who spoke on THE lnseparable Units.
Agricultural and Mechat ical Arts:
Il. u. Waters, M A. c. Boys In the
Engineering Field and W. p Cole, Jr,
Athletics" r. NJ Pinden. Jr, presi-
dent Of the Association. was toast
master
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
(CommunIcatedl.


To the Editor of the Evening Capital /:
Taking advantage of your request
to the people of Annapolis TO express
themselves upon the proposition Of
municipal ownership f Gas and Elec-
trio plants, would like to say that hav.
ing some practical knowledge and ex-
perience of the cost and methods of
these public utilities / am convinced;
/. That the prices for these services
now exacted by the private owners Of
the systems upon which the public de-
ponds for light, heat AID power are
above the actual cost of production and
transmission.
g That these prices are to be ex-
pected because of the operation of
these public utilities by private own.
ers for the benefit of the capital in
vested in them, and no relief is to be
looked for.
3. That plants can be made to give
better service for the same rates IN
der City ownership and management
and could be maintained, and improved
and PAID FOR in a comparatively
few years out of the money collected
for the service at no additional expense
to the tax payers.
4. Another point of view, and an
important one, for the people to take,
is this: Under municipal ownership
much of the out go for wages. etc, ,
would be received by citizens and resi-
dents of Annapolis if we owned and
m mayed our public utilities, and our
people would be given employment. in
stead of our money paid for gas and
electricity being arg ey iost to the
community it would 60 to home work
man and home industries; every dollar
thus turning itself over and over
among our workers, merchants and
others. Let's look i@to it,
Respectfully yours.
EDW. T. BEAVIN.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
NO Cure Tor ,sclpne.

There is no use worrying about the
weather. about the war about unpleas-
ant neighbors, about pressing necessi-
ties and about everything. but one
Go out and get the grippe. When you
get that all your other troubles viii
be trivial The doctors tell of many
ways to prevent the grippe but not
one has discovered a cure. Put sui
phur in your shoes, advises one ply,
stefan, as a preventive. Another says
tie some asafetida around your neck,
that will keep the grippe germs away
and your friends also third sug.
gests eating Saline crackers and go
ing to bed, while another says soap
is a hereditary enemy of Ia grippe
Lather yourself with it and then go to
bed. a Brooklyn physician advises
grippe patients 10 waltz into some hos
pital and have that sinister thyroid
gland cut away from it's lair. Then
you viii be immune. Don't smoke,
don't drink, don indulge in kissing,
and above all taboo eating as much
as possible" says the health depart
ment, then you escape the ka-choo.
The foregoing are only a few ways
to prevent grippe, If you carefully
follow all these instructions what is
left of you will not have the grippe.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
Metals and Munitions

Some remarkable facts about the
metal required to fill the orders for
shrapnel and her shells that Europe
has placed in the United States were
given recently by the Mining and En-
cheering World. A British 3.3-inch
shrapnel shell requires 6 pounds 15A
ounces of steel, and pounds 9s
ounces of brass that contains from Sc
to 20 per cent OF copper, or about ga
pounds; and round the shell is small
copper band that weighs Az ounces.
A shell of that size requires 1877
pounds of spelter. It's contents con-
sist of 7s2 pounds of bullets, COM
posed of seven parts of lead and one
part of anthony Now, Europe has
ordered not less than 100000 shells
OF all kinds. To make them will use
up 1o1,000.00O pounds OF copper, 49,
10000 pounds of spelter and liz, 2bO.-
600 pounds of lead
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
HE'S PosSUM OF SNAKE TRIBE
Spreading Adder Seeks TO Terrify, but
Really is Nothing More Than q
Big Bluff.

He's sly creature. this snake. When
he's discovered and trapped hen make
such a huliabaloo about It, with his
kissing and contortions, that if you're
not wise to the fact that he's only
blufing you're. sure to be frightened.
says the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can. II you're acquainted with him.
however, and refuse TO run, he'll give
one final twist and roll over on his
back, just as though he. had made IN
his mind to die and save you the trou-
BILE Of killing him But don't be fooled
He's only playing possum. He's the
spreading adder.
His tricks have resulted Ia All sorts
of wild stories about him. Many peo.
pie believe he's poisonous, because
he spreads his head out nat and Kisses
when he's disturbed AS a matter Of
fact he couldn't hurt you if you
picked him up by the head. He's only
blufling when he Kisses.
Then there's another story about the
spreading adder 10 the effect that he
viii bite himself and fan over dead
This belief comes from his habit of
playing possum when he sees he's cor.
nered and can't escape.
The spreading adder is about thirty
inches long, reddish-brown and
blotched and spotted He lives in dry
woods and on sandy hillsides, and eats
toads and insects. He's also called
the blowing viper or the hognosed ad-
der.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
his COFFIN WON'T FIT. But
THE OWNER KEEPS RELIC
Gfuesome Find In An Old Shop ON The
City Dock While Overhaul
Ing end Milking Need
ed Repairs.

In an old shed on the City Dock
used for many years to store boats. and
Quilt. so they say. more than half a
century age by Martin Collins, there
vas q Few days ago, a gruesome find.
The shed has recently been turned
over by the city TO Mr.. w ~ French,
agent for the Studebaker Automobile
Company In making repairs to the
building. the rafters were torn away
md worKmen were shocked at having
3 coffin fall from the rafters They
cd from the building with visions Of
corpse in the coffin, but upon in
ostigation i was found TO be empty
Mr.. Collins who owned and occupied
he building, was consulted as to the
meaning of the empty coffin. He ac-
'mowledged having constructed it for
himself when he was quite young
nan Having grown to such height
he coffin is Of no use 10 bury him in
now. and his measure will have to be
AIKEN al over again.
Loathe TO part With The gruesome
relic Of his early manhood days. Mr.
Collins had the coffin stored in a
blacksmith shop nearby. Somebody
may fit it and it may come in use some
day, but 1t never win do to bury tall
Mr. Collins. unless his legs be sawn
off or his body cut asunder.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
Personal MENTION.
Those Who Come and Those WHO Co
Our Floating Population.

Miss Virginia Perkins. of Norfolk,
has been visiting Ensign Max De
Mott, IT, S. N and Mrs. De Mott.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Ethelbert
Talbot, of Bethlehem Pa, who will
preach on sunday morning at the
Naval Academy Chapel, will be
entertained over the week end by
Superintendent and Mrs Eberle.
Paymsster General MCGOWAN, u.
) N, was the guest for the week
end of Captain and Mrs Eberle, at the
Superintendent Quarters.
Mrs c. M. Eyester, of Baltimore is
the guest Of Mrs. James Howard
CT, msln, and will attend the
MINISTRIES by the Severn Boat Club
tonight
Miss Elizabeth Hutchinson, of
Woodbury., N. j., is visiting Miss
Julia DOW
Miss Mararet breckenridge. of
Washington. daughter of Brig der
General Breckenridge. u. ). A.
came over for the opening of the
roller skating season at the Naval
Academy and was the guest of her
brother in-law and sister Commander
and Mr.. John Fore Hines
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
JUST GOVERNMENT LEAGUE
HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING.
Nebraska Woman 80 Years Young"
Sends Message.

The Just Government League of
Anne Arundel county meets every
Monday afternoon in their room in the
Advertiser Republican Building, and
yesterday were discussed very earnest
and interesting questions.
Mrs Ness. tht president. read a enc
letter from a woman Of Nebraska so
years yourg" surely since she is liv-
ing un 10 the level Of the present life
She wrote. urging the women of MARY
ANA 20 work for their acknowledgements
at an early day sac was from Fred
~rick Did and has not lost her interest
IN fss State OF its problems.
Letters from the Congressional Union
were read requesting women 70 write
- congressman urging consideration
of tae Susan 3. anthony amendment.
After the usual business OF the League
was finished. there was an address BY
3Irs NarReld. of Baltimore, She is one
of those unseiGsh souls who responded
to Or, kellys cali thirty years ago and
again in the present time 10 women 10
interest themselves in the urfol tunate
women VINO are being swept from ille-
ultimate and unhaliowed surroundings.
could not find their places in the great
world again without the aid Of gener-
Gus and uplifting hands
The first call for meeting in Dr.
Kelly's home thirty years $50 brought
"A number OF womt so very small Mrs
W@fteld felt ashamed 10 say, but thirty
years brought growth and light and a
great clearing of the vision. and at the
next call the rooms were filled to over
flowing. Mrs. Warfields was q great
message 10 the great-hearted end 1t is
t. BE wished that ali women who lead
the life OF contentment that God is in
His Heaven, all's weI with the world
might have heard His message from
the lips OF an earnest worker in His
vineyard God is in His Heaven, but
oil is not righc with the worldand the
wonderful era in which we are living
demands the best thoughts and work
OF the women
Women Of Annapolis and the Naval
Academy there is need for your help
and your presence at the Just Govern
ment League OF Anne Arundel county
meeting every Monday Afternoon. and
they extend TO YOU the Macedonian cly
FOR help in the most important work
now heforc he world. They are work
ing for applied Christianity for a new
earth IL which dwelleth righteousness
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
MUST HAVE BEEN FILLED uF
And Yet Receptacle Was Just an Or
binary Handbag Same IS They
All Garry

you say that you left your small
handbag on the train, madam, said
the polite young man at the counter
in the department OF the railroad sta
ton in which articles left on trains
were to be found, if found az all writes
Morris Wade in Judge "Will you
please describe the bag and its con
tents?"
Well. it was q small handbag Of
black glazed leather about seven or
eight inches long and FIVE or six
inches wide. am not sure that l can
describe all of the contents, but know
that there was in the bag q handker-
chief with a narrow lace edge, a-couple
Of matinee tickets, three samples Of
ribbon, sample of taffeta silk pale
blue; a door key and two little keys;
laundry list, a pair OF white kid gloves,
q receipt for a skirt / had left to be
dyed, two spools of thread, card of
hooks and eyes, a newspaper recipe
for a fruit salad, a little newspaper
poem l had taken fancy to, a small
bali of darning cotton, yard and
half of Hamburg insertion, a manicure
brush, hat PIN 20 trading stamps. a
card of tiny pearl buttons, a shoe but
tonhook, a little bottle Of smelling
salts and a bottle eff camphor tablets
Yes, and a little pearl and gold vanity
box and a short lead pencil and O shop
ping list and little silver glove but
toner and a part OF a paper of pins
and a calendar printed on a little cell
luloid card and-lt seems to me that
was about all AS say. it was a very
small bag and ] think l have named
the greater part OF its contents"
The greater part Of its contents,
said the clerk as he went to look up
the bag. "Cee-whizzi If she could put
all that into 1--WE by. seveninch hand
bag, she could put the contents of
seven-room fat into a suitcase"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22

The Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot,
bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal Dio.
cese of Western Pennsylvania. will
preach at the Naval Academy next Sun
day morning at the regular chapel SER
vice. At night he will deliver an ad
dress before the members of the Mid
shipments Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION.
Bishop Talbot has often been heard
in Annapolis and is always welcomed
by those who have once been fortunate
enough to hear one of his sermons.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
WItnesaed stlrrlnn sInhts-

The last of the women who went to
the Crimea with the Highland regi-
ments died recently in Dundee, Scot
land. Her husband was q sergeant.
She possessed a remarkable memory.
and could give vivid description Of
her experiences She kept the hut in
which Sir Colin Campbell resided.
From a distance she witnessed the
storming Of the heights Of Alma on
2oth Of September. 1864, and was pres
ent at Balaklava with two other wom-
en belonging &c the regiment. They
were little behind the spot occupied
hy Sir Colin Campbell and his stat.
aud IL front OF them was the famous
thin red line She could recall
the pleasure with which the soldiers
regarded the coming of Miss Florence
Nightingale and her nurses, and was
herself for time engaged in tending
tie wounded.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
More for Use Than ornanaert

Mrs. g., new to the neighborhood
where she lives, received her first i'm
yitation to an important social event.
and for the occasion arrayed herself
with becoming daintiness. It was one
OF those murky evenings, not so very
far back, and to protect her feet on
the way from the door to her auto she
drew over her Cinderella party slip
pers pair of storm rubbers-the kind
that look twice as big, because Of the
shield that comes up over the instep.
when time came to put on her wraps
10 go home, she was Mortified to find
that she had been revealing to the
public gaze all evening combination
OF party slippers, siIken hosiery and
gum shoes She had forgotten TO re-
move her weather protectors.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
Grifdth,s Masterpiece.

1t was an inspiration for me. said
ID. w. Griffith, who produced 1.-THE
Avenging CONSCIENCE. = ITO read again
the works of Edgar Allen Poe and t.
find them SO fecund in suggestion for
motion pictures. | do not believe there
is another American author who in
spires me in such q way and when I
made The Avenging Conscience out
Of material ! found in the poem,
Annasel Lee and The Tell Tale
Heart.
1.-THE Avenging Conscience will be
seen here az the Palace on Saturday
Feb. 26th.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
Cabaret Dinner.


With the younger officers at the Ma
val Academy and q few citizens as
hosts. cabaret dinner dance was
given last night at Carvel Hall. Music
was furnished by an orchestra from
Baltimore.
The subscribers included Lieutena nts
Lucas, Van Hook, de Mott, Hoey.
Rankin. Gillette. Gill. Berry. Boards
all, Fletcher, Calhoun. Cole, Cults.
w. T. Smith, Dickerson. Symington.
Davis. Piatt. Mr.. Handy and Mr.. En-
nails Wsggaman.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
Live To BE ! Hundred

Photographs and stories Of G dozen
men and women who have reached the
century milestcne-and how they did
Il Sec his doeble-page spread in the
Snnay Magazine of The Washington
aiday Star. February -.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22

wednesday at Colonial-'tA Price
LOT FOLLY. remarkable iye-part
photodrama. aav .. f91
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-22
A CHANCE TO SAVE MONEY
AN OPPORTUNITY WE ALL
LOOK FORWARD TO

If you don't need the goods now we will hold
them for you and deliver whenever you say. saw
ing of from Is to 35 per cent. all merchandise
Everything in store is reduced
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-14
WELL KNOWN IN
CIVIL WAR DAYS
MRS. B. w. HOXSEY PASSES
AWAY AT THE AGE OF
SEVENTY-SEVEN.

ATLANTA, July 13.-Funeral ser
vices over the body of the late Mrs.
B. w. HoXsey, seventy-seven years
old. were conducted yesterday from
All Saints church, followed by inter
ment in the mausoleum at North View.
Mrs. HoXsey was the daughter of
John Minor Bolts statesman of the
Virginia commonwealth in ante-bel-
lum days and prominent in the service
of the Southern Confederacy. During
the course of the Civil war, Miss Bolts
who continued to live in Virginia, met
Major B. w. MoXsey, Of Atlanta, who
is treasurer of the Southern Bell Tele-
phone company.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-14
WEEDS USED IN MEDICINE"

Is the title Of a very interesting
pamphlet recently circulated by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1t
illustrates and describes the medicin-
al qualities of roots, leaves and flow
ers OF our most common weeds, which
are natures remedies for disease.
From the roots and herbs of the field
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was originated more than forty
years ago, and the demand for it
has increased until it is now recog
nized as the standard remedy for
female ills.