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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28
FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE in 1882

From Press files OF Dec. 81, 1882
Union Sunday School Christmas
tree and exercises were held in the
Metropolitan Hall Dec. "a. BY 7 p.
m. every seat was taken. The tree
was immense, each twig bending
with presents. c. e. Smith presided,
and Rev. A. S. Foster led in prayer"
Above is a brief description of
Miller's first Christmas tree "a years
ago. How many citizens could an
swer their children's questions about
the Metropolitan Hall? 1t was then
the only public hall in town, and con-
sisted OF the entire second floor of
what is now known as the Sutphen
building, or the front part of 1t. This
building then stood upon Second ST.,
just east of the cement block auto
garage.
The presiding officer mentioned, c..
f.. Smith, was Miller's first jeweler.
He was the father of Ollie Smith,
Logan twp, and the grandfather OF
Clifford Smith, of the Vanderbilt hotel.
Rev. Foster was the first pastor of the
Presbyterian church. Both men
have long since passed to the great
beyond.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28
INDIANS BECOMING
LIKE THE PALE FACE
Government Report Says 30 Per Cent
Now Speak and Write English

Washington, Dec. Determination
of the statistical charts of the report
of Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian
affairs, for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1916, discloses that in 1912 APP
proxiniately 100, 900 Indians lad given
up their typical Indian costumes and
adopted the habiliments of the white
a During the four years ending in
June, 1916, this number had been in
creased 10000.
Whereas in 1912 less than $4,000
Indians could read and write the Eng
lish language, during the past four
years that number has been increased
SO that today very nearly $4,000 In
dams, or 80 per cent of the whole
number, have learned to read and
write the English language.
Mnay Become Christians
That the Indian has shown no in
clination to neglect his religious
duties is shown by the fact that where
in 1912, 10000 were reported as
churchgoers, this number has been
increased to $4,000, or over 40 per
cent in 1916.
The Indians as a class are appar-
emily making substantial financial
progress. Where in 1912 their income
from employment and other sources.
including their farming and stock
raising activities, was $22, 600, 900, in
1916 it was more than $4,000, 900.
Their livestock which in 1912 was
worth about $22, OOO, 1000, in 1916 is
worth $4,000, 900.
35,S23 Are Farmers
The Indian, like his white brother
is going back to the land. In 1913,
29,216 Indians were engaged in farm
ing; in 1916, 1898 have turned to the
tillage of the soil for a livelihood and
are rial farmers.
In 1911 the acreage cultivated by
Indians was S3,O25; in 1916 the In
dams were farming 67S,527 acres.
The Indian is approaching more
and mole the Importance of hospitals
and proper care during sickness. His
original objection to the white mans
medicine and his tendency to turn to
the Indian medicine man to anchor
ate his disease is fast passing away.
OF all the figures given in Commits
Sells report, none show the eff
~fectiveness of>his campaign to i'm
prove health conditions more than the
dropping of the death rate from ap-
80 per 1000 in 1916 to a
over % per 1000 in 1916.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28
HOLIDAY

Mr.. James Burke and Miss Minnie
Halbig were married Thursday at the
Catholic church by the pastor Rev.
FIR. Duffy, and celebrated the event at
the home of the groom's sister Mrs.
d. Walsh, by a wedding supper. The
bride and groom are well known resi-
dents of this city and deserve the best
wishes of their friends for future
happiness and prosperity.
Mr., f.. J. Nelson, deputy treasurer of
Hand county, was married last week
at Scott City, Kansas, to Miss Nellie
Blackmer. The bride is a niece of
VI. c. Blackmer, of st. Lawrence,
where she was at one time a teacher
in the town school. The Press joins
the friends of these happy couples in
wishing them all the joys of welded
life.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28

Montana, Colorado, and New Mexico.
In Hand county seven people per-
ished. They were J. w. Goslee, st.
Lawrence, Jerry Bowman and son,
Florence twp, Miss Maggie Dunn,
Campbell twp, Alex Thomson. Glen
dale twp, Michael Holtz, Alden, twp,
John Halen, Rose Hill twp.
Miller school children and teachers
were brought to main street by a rope
stretched from the Ross G. Foley cor
ner to the Sunderland house and
thence to the old school house on the
present school grounds. At st. Law
renee the teacher thoughtfully kept
her bell ringing.
Mr.. T. H. Kintigh. of Pleasant Val
ley, was teaching in Mondamin twp.
He tried to get home, but was lost. He
burrowed into a snow drift and re-
NAMED there all night. He was quite
badly frozen.
All sorts OF devices we're adopted
to permit people to safely pass from
their houses to barns. Some used
ropes, and some rang bells.
Hugh Jaynes and w. w. Zaner were
caught out to the slaughter house
northwest Of town. They were lost
two or three times, but finally reach
ed town. Hugh's feet were frozen
somewhat.
Dick Smith rounded up at the same
house two or three times Wednesday
evening. He lays it to the storm!
Trains were suspended from We'd
nesday until the next week.
r. M. Wilson, Greenleaf twp, a y
he kept alive running around a stone
pile several hours before he could
see his house.
Fred Clark, Ohio twp, reports see-
ing a wolf standing erect on all fours
frozen stiff.
j. H. Cole and Joe Wood were
storm bound at Hawarden FIVE days.
1t is a reasonable belief that history
will never repeat itself in such 9
storm"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28
Inaugural Ball
And Reception

Pierre, Jan. 26.-The biennial con-
troversy which has resulted during
the past eight years regarding an in
augural ball and reception has this
year ended in a different elimination
with the result that there will be a
reception at the state house on Tues
day night, January 2 for the newly
elected state officials and members OF
the legislature which entertainment
will be controlled entirely by state
house employees and officials. Or
Wednesday night there will be a free
dance given in the auditorium t.
which everybody. old and young. IL
the state will be invited to attend
without charge for tickets or othel
entertainment including refreshments
Peck's orchestra Of WATERFOWL vii
furnish the music for both occasions.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28
$40 Homestead Bill
Passes Both Houses

Washington, Dec. 23.-The "640
acre" South Dakota homestead bill,
which vas passed by the senate last
Thursday, was passed by the house
before adjournment yesterday and
sent to conference.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28
$4,000, 900 Over 1915
IS State Increase

Pierre, Dec. 26.-The sixteenth an
nual review of the progress of South
Dakota, made public today by Doane
Robinson, of the state department of
history, shows the production Of
South Dakota for 1916 to have been:
Total production 1916 $267,222 900.
Total for 1915, $244, 163, 900.
Increase, $23, 059. 900.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28

Highmore Herald.-Last Friday
night three Polled Hereford bulls wer
shipped from this station to Liano,
Texas. and the express charges on
them was $3.50. These were some
Of the animals purchased at the ]. HI.
Bevington sale and they were mighty
fine animals.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-28

Nearly 200 people lost their lives
In Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Dakota,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-06
BENZ'S FAILURE IN FIELD IS
INJURIOUS TO WHITE SOX
BY Mark Shields

CONSIDER the WINNIE SON. NO L6dIn
in the American league does at the
present time, so we might as well
take up the burden.
RoWland's people have the most
cratic system Of running bases ever
seen on a ball field. Probably this
comes under the head of battling the
opposition, but so far it has not
worked out with good results to the
locals. One moment they are run
ming wild on the bases, laboTing I'M
der the minor league theory that
wild throws are plentiful and will aid .
them in reaching the counting sta
ton.
The next moment they travel on
leaden legs and get nowhere near the
results they should from the hits and
mistakes of the enemy. In the first
inning yesterday John Collins was on
second when Ed Collins slashed a
beauty single through the infeld
John could have scored without tir-
ing himself, but Ed Murphy held him
at third base while the Yanks kicked
the ball around after the THROWN.
'BGCoASC gOllll BLUM " Lllll " oilA
did not bother the Yanks, Ed was
held at first base. If John had been
sent home, as he should have been,
there would have been a play for
him and Eddie could have sneaked
to second, from which station he
would have had a chance to score.
Later the Sox stole-or tried to
steal-at the wrong time, the batters
failed to protect the baserUnneTs, ..
and numerous things were done that
are not good baseball. Eight Hose
batters famed. Joe Jackson pOled
two hits, but when the bases were
filed in the first inning he was called
out on three pitched balls without re-
moving his bat from his shoulder.
One Chicago team won yesterday
and the other lost. The difference
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-06

Dispatches from the east indicate
Italian Joe Cans is making good
He'll soon get a match with the
Polish Sam McVey.
There's nothing like a winning
streak for publicity unless it's a los
ing streak.
Mr.. Marcel Peacean Del Sar of Ar
gentina, S. A, is behind the boxing
movement in South America. Peacan,
Pecan? Oh, yes!
McVey, Jeanette and Wills are
leaving for South America, which just
about leaves Battling Jim Johnson in
possession of the exclusive rights to
San Langford.
Isn't it high time someone created
a few new women's tennis titles for
MolIa Bjurstedt to acquire?
"Hippodrome Show Will Go on
Tour Next Season. Headline.
Sounds like an advance. notice of a
wrestling troupe.
Those Pittsburgh Pirates still con-
tend that Sisler belongs to 'em, but
Fielder Jones argues possession is
still nine-tenths of the law.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-06
BAsEBALL-sPoRTs OF ALL SORTS BOXING
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
American League

w. L. Pct. w. L. Pct.
CIevI'd. 81 Is .6OOIDetroit. q % AT
N.York 2417 1856 Chicago 10 % .452
Wash'n 2419.558St.Louis Is 25 .419
Boston % 20 .535IPhiIa. e. Is &c 1856
National League
w. L. Pct. w. L. Pct
Br'klyn % Is sos Boston. 10 21 AIS
NYork 2217 1854 Chicago u "a ACT
Phila. % Is .561I PittsB'h 10 % ASP
Cinc'ti. p "a AIS IStLOUis 10 % APP
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-06
YESTERDAYS RESULTS

American League. - New York 8,
Chicago 2; Detroit 8, Washington 2;
Boston 5, Cleveland O.
National LeagUe.-Chicago 1, Bos-
ton 0; Brooklyn 8, Pittsburgh 2; Gin
cinnati 3, New York 2; Philadelphia
6, st. Louis 5.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-01


Dolly saw what was wrong She had
been taken up to the sixth story
stead of the seventh!
She got into the elevator, and, as
it shot up she perceived the stranger
making for the stairs. With a dread
full fear that he was going to try to
cut off her flight she fairly ran along
the corridor of the story above. She
burst into the room.
"Darling!" she heard a manly voice
exclaim to a girl who was just enter
ing the room. And looking up she
was Mortified to see Jim folding an
other girl in his arms.
Dolly screamed, but her scream
was not so loud as that Of the other
girl She wriggled out of Jim's arms
and confronted him Indignantly.
= 'How dare you! How dare your
she cried in fury, while her face grew
scarlet. And what are you doing
in my apartment"
'T-I-I-" Jim began to STAN
mer; and then he caught sight of
Dolly.
How dare you invite that woman
in here and kiss her?" Dolly demand
ed, crying passionately.
ct was a mistake. It"
ct wasn't a mistake!" Dolly main
tanned. You got me to go to the
wrong room so that you could kiss
this
How dare you speak to me like
that" demanded the other girl. Get
out of here, both of you, or 1 shall
telephone for the police. 1 never
heard of such a thing"
ct is our apartment" declared Jim
holly. 81 thought you were my wife
and when you came in l naturally
threw my arms around you"
The girl stared about her in bewiI-
derment, and, just as Dolly had felt,
so she began to feel as the realiza-
ton dawned on her that she was in
the wrong room. The hat on the ia
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-01

will! Will! Helpw the girl began
to scream.
AS if in immediate answer the
burst into the room. He seemed to
size up the situation instantly. He
caught the first thing handy, which
was a hair brush and flung it at Jim.
jim went topping backward then he
snatChed up the first thing he could
find, which happened to be the soap,
and flung it at his opponent. It
struck him in the mouth. The man
dashed for Jim and the two clinched,
while the girls screamed.
Shouts were heard outside and the
hotel clerk appeared. IT'S my mis-
take" he painted. 81 got the rooms
mixed up. Observation-Disclosures
The gentlemen paused in the
midst of their battle and, realizing
what had happened, looked sheepish.
Suddenly light broke out upon each
face.
IT'S Jim Vance"
IT'S Will LennOx."
You scoundreI! Why didn't you
answer my invitation to be my best
man."
How in thunder could 1 be a best
man when I was getting married the
same day."
Pm sorry, Will I gUessI got a lit
tie excited on my wedding day."
Same here, Jim, old man"
The clerk retired, grinning and
relieved. The ladies adjusted their
hair, and suddenly all four were
wreathed in smiles. Then there were
mutual handshakes and the ladies
embraced. Will turned to jim with a
grin.
Say, old man, I've put one over on
you, anyway" he said. Il kissed
your wife"
Same here" said jim.
You did notw declared Mrs. Len
nox, flushed scarlet, you tried to,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
COPPER miners WIN
GOVERNOR WAS DECENT

months the latter refused to make
any concession to redress grievances
which athe governments investigators
had proved to be real and serious.
They insisted that the strikers first
go back to work But with copper at
26 cents and with organized labor all
over the country ra1lying to the min
ers' support, the mine owners desire
for big profits gradually overcame
their oppoition to giving their en-
ployes voice in determining the con
ditions of employment.
Substantial wage Increases were
granted. Laborers are to be paid $3.50
| a day instead of $1J62, and miners will
| receive, at, the present. price OF cop
per, $3l4A a day, in accordance with
a sliding scale. Carpenters will be
paid SIS per day, machinists and boil
ermakers $5.31. )
The settlement followed widespread
| publication Of the facts of the strike
| by the Committee on Industrial Rels
l.tions, including publication of articles
| in the New York Call and in the New
Republic, a weekly journal, which
| brought the arbitrary conduct Of the
companies home to their New York
directors including William Church
Osborn and Cleveland H. Dodge. OF
Phelps, Dodge & Company.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10

Some facts, too frequently ignored,
were urged upon the Conference on
Social Hygiene at Chicago on Octo-
Der 26, by DR.. William j. Hickson of
the municipal psychopathic laboratory
Dr. Hickson plainly told the delegates
that they were wasting time in con-
sidering conventional methods of deal
ing with vice. imprisonment, fines,
reformation, parole, religion-all have
been of no avail in curbing the social
evil" said the doctor and then added,
"any well regulated business long ago
would have discarded such fruitless
methods and struck DOT into new
fields.
Having heard this much, the dele
| gates waited for the doctor to point
out the new field. They waited in
vain. He had nothing to suggest
other than the creation Of a commit
tee "to study the question"-just as
/ though the question had not already
been studied by committees very
many times.
DR.. Hickson must have foreseen the
suggestion that if jobs were made
plentiful enough, no one would be
compelled to resort to vicious meth
DDS of getting living, for in an ap.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
(From George P. West, Committee on
Industrial .Relations) 4

(From George P. West, Committee on
Industrial aRelations)
Washington, Feb. g The Arizona
copper strikers have won their<nght.
With copper at the highest price Tor
nine years and Governor George W..
P. Hunt refusing them the use OF
armed guards, gunner and strike
breakers, the copper magnates OF
New York, Boston and Arizona at last
gave UP their attempt to starve 5000
miners and their families into sub
mission.
The strikers returned to work on
Monday, january 81, under an agree
ment by which the companies agree
to pay higher wages and to meet once
month with a grievance committee
selected by the men.
Th victory marks a triumph for la
Dor of the greatest importance, de
monstrating as it does that labor can
win its battles for industrial democra,
cy when the government does it's duty
and protects the workers against hir-
ed thugs and professional strike
breakers.
| Mediators Davies and Myers OF the
United States Department of Labor
deserve much of the credit for making
the mine owners see the light. Fol-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10


lion dollar company recently formed
to exploit the natural resources and
cheap labor of foreign lands, are back
ing preparedness because they want
a huge army and navy to back up
their campaign of economic imperial
ism.
But the Committee never expected
that F. A. Vanderlip, President OF the
Rockefeller National City Bank, and
organizer of the new corporation,
would admit as much. But he has
done substantially that very thing.
In a speech at a dinner to the For
eign Trade Convention in New Or
leans on January %, Mr.. Vanderlip
attacked the present. administration
bitterly for policies that he said handl-
cap foreign trade Referring to Mexi-
CO, VanderIip said, c'with some force"
according to the New Orleans Times
Picayune,):
eve still have the handicap OF a
government so devoted to peace that
Justice to its citizens in foreign coun-
tries weighs but scantly in the bal
ance against the advantage of peace
for its people at home, while even
less than its interest in its citizens
abroad is its interest in the capital
of its investors abroad"
loft with the head of such gov
eminent" says Wall Street.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
Clipped Comment
THE BALANCE. or POWER

Frankly, we prefer Killem-au Ted
dy to the timid apotogists Tor Pre-
paredness for adequate defense.
We would rather be told by q ruff
fan in the plainest AngloSaxon to
go to hell than to be, unsuspectingly
showed down the stirs by the soft
gfoved hands of q Judas. I
The militarists of the Roosevelt
type make no foul excuses. They
want CONSUMPTION and universal mill
tary service in order to be ready for
the bloody struggle which they are
determined to precipitate.
But the 1ady-like preparationists
hide themselves behind adequate de-
TENSE" though every school boy
knows that "adeQua teness" means
keeping step with the almost unImit-
ed and ever-increasing arnaments OF
the great European powers 1t means
turning this country into a.yast mIli-
tary camp like Russia or Germanys
But neither the blood hirsty fndli-
tarist nor the hJpocni tical prepaFa-
ZIONIST is really dangerous They will
do nothing but shout.
The real danger is In Labor. What
win Labor do? That Isl the only I'M
portant question The issue is In the.
hands of the workers, IIstleirs alone.
They are the real mower that VIII ulti-
mateiy decide. Without taaPvu2 mt a
wheel can be turned. not 4 hlllet east.
~ Up 70 you, workers The HAST,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
VICE AND The LABOR QUESTION

parent effort to forestall it, he said
that SO many Of the women hailed into
the morals court are so mentally de-
fective that there is no legitimate
way open TO. them to earn a living"
Admitting this to be true-though
there is expert evidence to the con-
trary-it does not follow that under
proper conditions, legitimate ways
would not be open. AS long as there
are more workers than jobs, it is quite
probable that the defective workers.
being less efficient, should be rejected
to make room FOR more intelligent
ons. But if there were sufficient in
crease in jobs to make room for all,
there would be opportunities even for
detectives. To say, as DR.. Hickson
says, that these detectives have only
| the mentality of children, does not
alter the case, when one considers
that there is so great a demand today
for child labor that stringent laws are
being passed against it.
There may be mo legitimate way
to earn a living open to these alleged
detectives today since opportunities
are denied to many who are not de-
fectives. But let opportunities be
opened, and there may be a different
/ tale to tell. ~
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
Ggarmakers'
Union Election

All union cigar makers in the
United States, Canada. Porto Rico and
Cuba will vote for officers on Febru-
airy 10Th.
G. w. Perkins, of Chicago, and H.
c. Palmer, of Philadelphia, are the
only candidates for President.
In the last election the change OF
less than 1000 votes. in a poll of 81 )
343, would have elected Parker.
Four delegates to the A. f. OF L.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10

are to be elected and twenty-six can
didates are in the field. The leading
candidates, standing For Effective
Trades Union" and against Civic Fed
Grafton Affiliations, are P H. Mueller,
st. Louis; j. Mahlon Barnes, Phila-
delphia; j. J. BALKAN, Boston, and
Wallace Pinder, Key West, Florida.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10
CAR men WIN
WAGE INCREASE

Mt. Vernon, N. Y, Feb. 9-Street
car mems division, No. 1913, has raised
wages l cent an hour. The rates are
now Is cents for the first year and %
cents thereafter.
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 9-Street Car
Mems union has presented new wage
scale to the local company. 1t pro-
vides for So cents an hour the first
year and 40 cents an hour thereafter.
Better working conditions are also in
cluded.
Springfield, Mo-, Feb. 9-Motormen
and conductors employed by the
Springfield Traction company have
again organized after several years OF
non-union conditions.
! SAYS WORKERS MUST UNITE.
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 5-"Every man
who works in the ranks of labor owes
it to himself and to every other man
that he be a part and parcel Of this
movement" said Judge Jeffries, before
large meeting of organized street
car workers in this city.
1.-THE labor movement comprehends
and means everything" he said. ut
means the uplift and betterment Of
mankind. It is civilizing movement.
whether you realize it or not, the
men of organized labor have made
more substantial progress than
through any other channel.
"The strength of your union, as you
know, Is the strength of the other I'M
ions. II would be impossible for
your union to succeed without the
aid Of those who struggled for years
and years and who have devoted their
time to organized labor.
Gwen Mr.. Rockefeller himself, the
arch-captain Of indutry, has at last &C
knowledged the right of men to or
ganize."