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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19
Gets Four Years in Pen.

Watertown, S. D., Aug. l5.-After
pleading guilty aud receiving sentence
of four years on the charge Of embezzle-
ment, for City Auditor O. NJ Lane asked
for a stay Of sentence and served notice
of appeal The bond was fixed at So, 600.
and efforts are now being made to get
bondsmen. The appeal is based on the
contention that the Watertown city gov
ernment had no legal organization dur
ing the commission form, therefore
there could have been no embezzlement.
A guilty plea was entered to the specific
charge Of appropriating 81 l,33735 in
warrants paid to the city by the county
from March l to March Is, 1916.
Examination of Watertown's records
by the state public accountant disclosed
that Lane had submitted to the city
commissioners bills for supplies which
had never been ordered or received or
that when payment vas authorized he
drew warrants and had them cashed.
Lane was automatically removed from
office last spring when Watertown
changed from the city commission to the
aldermanic plan of government. He was
Immediately appointed by the federal
government to his post at Rapid City.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19
TROUBLING aRAssHo ePFRs.

Farmers who are having trouble with
grasshoppers in South Dakota may OBJ
tain free information relative to the
construction of grasshopper catching
machine by writing at once to II. c.
Seyerin, State Entomologist, Brookings,
who will also send directions for using
the machine which costs on an average
between nine and eleven dollars With
such machine Professor SEVERN con.
Quoted a grasshOpper demonstration on
the Crew farm at Pierre last week and
caught two bushels Of locust in twenty
minutes. The machine used was twen-
tyfour feet long thirty inches high and
two feet deep and was drawn over the
field with two horses ridden by bows.
Professor SEVERN states that by attend
ing strictly to business two boys and one
man should catch two bushels Of hop
pers every fifteen minutes where these
insects are abundant.
South Dakota is suffering from the in
furious work Of the grasshoppers, which
according to the reports sent to the Of
flee of the State Entomologist, seem to
be abundant in Stanley, Hughes and
Charles Mix counties, especially in
alfalfa fields In Hughes and Stanley
counties, where the State Entomoogist
demonstrated control measures, he found
garden truck, corn, etc, stripped not
only of every leaf but the green parts of
the stems of the plants entirely eaten
away as well.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

D. CARRIGAN, President
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

Sterling silver cups viii he given
for the highest scoring babies in the
annual Better Babies contest conduct
ed by the South Dakota State Fair and
Exposition. Mothers who desire to
enter their babies in the contest at
the state fair should write TO Secre-
tsry c. u. McIlvaine, Huron, for cop
fes of Better Babies advertising and
contest literature The Better Babies
contest as an educational feature with
bearing on the development of man
kind in general is the most important
feature of the state fair. Babies from
one to three years old may be en-
tered In the state fair contest.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

for good-he is too shrewd politician to
show his hand thus early in the game
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

for good-he is too shrewd a politician to
show his hand thus early in the game.
The warmest fight in this quiet cam
paign is between the vets and the drys
on the question Of statewide prohibi.
ton. The South Dakota Anti-Saloon
league is we'll organized and has been
waging an energetic campaign for year
or more. 1t is well supplied with speak
ers, and has most of the newspapers,
daily and weekly, lined up for prohi-
bition. Even some of the papers which
charge Supt. Holsape, of the league,
with being unduly active in politics are
warmly supporting the dry cause for
which he is working,
To fight the drys, the South Dakota
Local Option league has just been or
ganized, with General Mark Sheafe, of
WATERFOWL, veteran politician, at it's
head, and with county vice president
from each county. The local option
league cannot command the newspaper
support nor the speakers, nor the ap-
| peal to the moral sense of the voters
that the drys haYe at their command,
but they will conduct business" cam
paign, claiming local option is more
effective way to control the liquor busi-
ness than statewid ide prohibitions j. G..
| S. in Sioux City Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19
STATE POLITICS
Republican Party in Peace and Harmony.
Warm Fight Between Vets and Drys
on Statewide Prohibition.

South Dakota politics? Really there
is no such thing this year, or at least
this time of the year, if the present is to
be compared with past political cam
paigns in South Dakota. The primary
campaign was not very lively, for while
George W. Egan and r. o. Richards in
jected little pep" into the contest for
the nomination for Governor, the know
ing ones predicted Peter Norbeck's nom
ination from the start For Norbeck is
lieutenant governor, and in South Da-
kota it has been the custom, broken at
intervals, however, to regard the lieu
tenant governor as heir apparent to the
governorship.
OF course, there are two full-fedged
political party tickets in the field, and a
dozen or so issues are pending in the
form of initiated or referred laws or
amendments to the state constitution,
upon which the "people"-meaning that
portion Of the qualified electorate who
take the trouble to 60 to the polls on
November 7th-will pass upon.
But 20 South Dakotans who passed
through the time when the late James
Ii. Kyle was first elected United States
senator, or when Coe l. Crawford beat
Sam EIrod for governor and two years
later defeated A. B. Kittredge for The
senate; or the time, four years ago,
when Robert }. Gamb e, after a success
ful political career Of over twenty years,
was defeated for the senate, or even two
years ago, when State Auditor Ander-
son made Governor Byrne unhappy for
a time by trying to defeat the governor
for a nomination for a second term, the
primary campaign Of last spring and the
present prediction campaign bears no
more resemblance to a real South Dakota
political fight than the skirmish at Nit
chell with the l. W. w. resembles the
battle of Nerdun.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19
LANE SENT TO PEN
South Dakotan is Given Four Years in
Prison. Stay of Sentence
is Asked.

Rapid City Journal: 0. NJ. Lane, reg
lister of the land Office in this city, and
former auditor of the city Of Watertown,
left Sunday night for Watertown. On
the same train Deputy Sheriff Ed. Pow
erly, of Codington county, travelled He
is the man who left Watertown on Tues
day night, according to reports from that
end, with a warrant for Lanes arrest
Mrs, Lane did not accompany her hus-
band.
The local sheriff's office had nothing
to do with serving a warrant here on
Lane and as such a warrant could not
have been served without their knowl-
edge it is safe to assume that the former
auditor was not arrested here. 1t is
presumed that the deputy offered the
accused man chance to go without sub
mitting to arrest and that the former
auditor took the chance.
More details have been learned re-
garding the alleged shortage in the ac-
counts kept by Mr.. Lane while acting as
city auditor of Watertown. Reports
from Watertown stated that City Audi
tor Harry Wood exhibited an auditors
warrant book used by Mr.. Lane which
the stubs for the warrants between num-
bers 1901 and 1916 had never been filed
out.
The latest report from Watertown
states that Mr. Lampy is stil, engaged
in the examination Of the records and
when he finishes this he via make a re-
port to the city council, showing in de-
tail how fraudulent or bogus warrants
were issued.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

While coming toward the Hills in his
auto, Asa Gardner, a wealthy business
man of New England, n. D., was in.
stantly killed near Beulah, Wyo., Aug.
10, when his car overturned pinning
him underneath,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19
To Break in New Pipes.

An electric carbonizer for inserting
In the bowls of new briar pipes and SO
:harring the inside that the smoker
will be saved the trouble of breaking
n his new pipe, is described BY the
Scientific American.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

Itis true there are a few heart burn
ings in the democratic ranks-but that
is contest for prestige and power,
rather than for the state offices In the
democratic party the organization con
troIled by Senator +. 5. Johnson and
James Cofey, collector of internal rev.
enue "beat to a frazzle" in the party
primary, the faction of which former
State Chairman Rock is the head But
the Rock faction managed to put across
the polls, as a winner, Orville V Rine-
hart, of Rapid City, for governor, the
most coveted place on the ticket, though
the Johnson-Cofey faction bad picked
Ed. Morcom, Of Sioux Falls, for the
place 1t is stated ION the highest au-
thority" that Johnson and Coffey do rot
intend seeing their right to rule treated
SO lightly by the democratic voters and
therefore, they will endeavor to see
that Mr. Rinehart, who everyone ad-
mits is a fine man personally, is defeat
ed Dy tue largest vote ever gwen an
opponent of democratic candidate in
the history of South Dakota-and the
state has returned some pretty heavy
anti democratic majorties at divers
times.
On the other hand, the Rock adher-
ents will work vigorously to make a
showing against johnson and Coffey by
rolling up big vote for Rinehart. Meth
er faction cares particularly about Rine-
harts political success, but both want to
make showing that will increase their
standing with the national administra-
ton in Washington, provided Wilson is
reelected.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

In the republican party. this year all
is peace and harmony. If there is any
strife within the party it does not APP
pea: upon the surface, though it is in
teresting TO note that most of the boost
ing that has been done for the state
ticket SO far has been by the progress
siye papers, the old time stalwart papers
contenting themselves quite generally
with printing the party ticket and say
ing good word for Hughes and the re-
publican congressional candidates.
This peaceful condition of affairs is
largely due to the action of the stalwart
leaders, who, firing of the prolonged
strife within the party, placed no ticket
in the field in the primary campaign,
and united with the progressives in sup
porting Peter Norbeck for the guberna-
torial nomination.
The stalwart action was largely brought
about by the advice of former Congress-
man Charles Ii. Burke, who refused all
/ suggestions that he lead the stalwarts
into action by becoming candidate for
national committeeman or some other
place. This attitude of Mr.. Burkes had
good effect upon both progressiyes and
stalwarts, and the party this year is Civ
ing closer imitation of harmony than
at any time since Crawford first came
out with the determination to defeat
Kittredge for the senate.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-08-19

Some enthusiastic admirers of Mr..
Burke have started boom for him for
a cabinet position should Hughes be
elected. 1t is probable Burke's closest
friends are not very enthusiastic over
that suggestion, coming at this time, and
that Mr.. Burke himself will seek to dis
courage the boom. For one reason, it
is still twelve weeks until the presiden-
tial election. Then should Hughes win,
he will have three months in which to
select his cabinet Should Burke really
desire place-which is doubtful, for be
is sincere in his desire to quit politics
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
Notice for Re-Publication.

Department of the Interior. U. s. LAND OFFICE at Little Rock Ark, March 24. 1916.
 Notice is hereby given that Marion Casey, of Cecil, Ark. who. on Septem- Der 4, 1912, made homestead entry No. 08793 for WIZ NEl-4, Sec. 2s, Twp. N., Range 27 w., 5th principle meri. dian. has filed notice of intention to make three year proof, to establish claim to the land above described. be- ore A. N Hill, Clerk of the Probate Clerk, at Ozark, Ark. on the 18th day of June 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses:
 G. l.. Adams, of Cecil, Ark, Thos. Casey. John Lane. Jim Wilmington, fo Webb City, Ark.
 Jno. w. Allen, Register.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
Notice for Re-Publication.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERI,

DEPARTMENT OF INFERIOR, U. s. Land Office at Little Rock. Ark. March 24, 1916.
 Notice is hereby given that William C. Ford. of Cass. Ark. who. on Octo- Der 1. 1912, made homestead entry No. 0SS4S. for WIZ SEl-4 SW1-4 NE1-4, SEl-4 NW1-4. section F, township 12 N.. Range 27 w., 9th principle meri- dian, has filed notice of intention to make three-year proof. to establish claim to the land above described. be- fore Clerk of the Probate Court. at Ozark. Ark, on the 18th day of June 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses:
 Johnnie Parker, Billie Bowden, Cass, Ark, Vess Gabbard. St. Paul. Ark. J. w. Peionion, of Cass. Ark.
 Jno. w. Allen. Register.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
Notice for Re-Publication.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR U. s. Land Office at Little Rock, Ark, March 24th, 1916.
 Notice is hereby given that William T. Casey. of Cecil. Ark, who, on August 9, 1912. made ho nestead entry No. 0S709. for SEl-4 NW1-4, Ni-2 SW 1-4 NW14, SE1-4. Sec. 19, Twp 9 N., range 27 w.. 9th principle merid- ian. has filed notice of intention to make three year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before A. N. Hill, clerk of the probate court, at Ozark, Ark. on the 18th day of June, 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses:
 Marion Casey. Lewis Adams, Cecil. Ark; Jas. Wilmington, Lee Whiting ton. Webb City. Ark.
 Jno. w. Allen, Register.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
MANY KINDS OF RHEU- MAT|SM, ONE SURE
 MODE 0F TREATMENT

Whether your trouble Is Sciatica. Lumbsgo or the dreaded Articular Rheumatism. the answer Is the same. You must treat it through the blood. That Is the only way to rid the system of uric acid. purify the blood and revi- tslize the nerves If the blood is freed from impurities Rheumatism must go. This in short. Is the knowledge gained by the laboratories of the =. s. & Co. These tests have been made for fifty years They know what Rheumatism is They know that <. ;. S, the remarkable blood tonic which they originated. will relieve you of Rheumatism. The recov- cry of thousands of sufferers by the use of :. $. s Is proof that you can be re- lieVed. S $, $. Is & blood tonic-a puri- fer that restores the blood. and makes il pure as it was before it became pol soned with impurities. s. s S. gives it strength to drive out these impurities and with them the Rheumatism. Get S $ $. at your druggists. If you need spe- cial advice. write Swift Specific Co. At lanta, Ga.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
Notice of Publication.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, U. s. Land Office, Little Rock, Ark, May 4, 1916.
 Notice is hereby given that William l.. Bowden, of Bedding, Ark. who, on August 26, 1912. made homestead entry No. 08764, for SIP NEl-4. SIP NWl-4. section 20, township 12 N., range 26 w, 9th principle meridian, has filed notice of intention to make three-year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before A. N. Hill. county clerk, at Ozark, Ark, 7, on the l4th day of June 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses: J.A. Smith, Allen Johnson, of Bedding, Ark. J. Keller, Cass, Ark; ]. V. Cab bard. Bedding, Ark
 John w. Allen, May 9-l6-23-3O-Ju 6. Register.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23

Booster Tobacco, ' twists for 9 cts. Ozark Variety Go.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23

rates September 1st. Scholar ships purchased before that date, good for any time, may be secur- ed at the present exceptionally low prices. As there is no sum- mer vacation and students may enter any day, many will enter during the summer.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23

eioss ng6ins2 Mins are ai.Oays % dry. And V male the baass thn they fau. Ho.s do yoa do a>"
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
WANT ADS

Farmers who are subscribers to The Spectator may have any advertisement desired inserted in this column two weeks free of charge. To all others the rate is } cent per word per insertion.
 Money to loan on valley and bottom farms in sums of $500 or more. Easy terms, long time to pay back. If you need money to improve your farm call and see me at the Denning postofflce.
 Vim. A. Walker.
 WANTED-a quantity of clean, cotton rags. Get correct weight before bringing to this office. Highest price paid for limited amount. The Spectator.
 STRAYED-One Scotch Collie dog, one year old, yellowish color, with white ring around his neck and tip of tail white. Suitable reward for his where abouts. Leave information at this office or with owner, Vestus Jetfers-Phone E255.
 FARMERS You are cordially invited to take advantage of our free offer phone, mail or bring your ad to this office. The Spec tator, Telephone l3.
 If you will subscribe for The pectator or renew your sub scription during this month. we will send you the Progressive Farmer six months free. The Progressive Farmer IS a mighty good farm paper and it's regular inscription price IS $l a year.
 The Springfield Business Col lege will increase the tuition
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
.C BAKING POWDER

is really blend of two baking powders of which starts to raise as soon as moisture is added. Tho other is inactive until heat is applied. This sustains the raise until your mullins, biscuits cake is done.
 K c Baking Powder costs less than the old fashioned quick acting kinds. yet you need uss no more and it is superior to them in every way.
 . Try can at our risk end be e0svinced :
The Spectator., 1916-05-23

Experienced driller and tool dresser wants position. Will be ready July 18th. Must have minimum wages. J. F. Crocker, Mulberry, Arkansas, Route 4.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
Delinquent Land List For The Year 1916.

The Land Lots and Parts of Lots returned Delinquent in the Ozark District of Franklin County Arkansas for the 195
 together with the Taxes Penalty and Costs charged thereon ably contained and described following ow
The Spectator., 1916-05-23
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Cop ONLY KNOWS WHERE
 THE DEAD ARE.

as lie mas revealed It Tn HIS written word. Now reader, after writing two letters of honest inquiry through The Spectator without getting satisfactory answer, 1 will write again and will give the reader the benefit of my research for the truth, and will ask the reader not to hold the editor of The Spectator responsible in any way for what write. but if l am mistaken in my views you have the same space to reply y to my views that 1 take to express them.
 1. l find that purgatory was not created for a thousand years after the crucifiction of Christ and that it exists only in the minds of those who have been deceived into believing in it. In other words, there is no such place. It came from a Pagan myth like great many other doctrines that we pay our priests and preachers for preaching to us.
 2. 1 find Paradise a place or country that once had an exist ence on this earth, but was lost through the sin of Adam and Eve, and through the sin of Adam the death penalty was passed upon the whole human race, and had 1t not been for the redemption through the death of Christ this death would have been eternal and man would have been no more. But Christ came as the promised seed of Abraham and by his death on the cross he has promised to redeem man from death and give him eternal life on certain conditions which of course is obedience. Christ has also promised to restore Paradise to to be the eternal home of the saved, and this Paradise will not be located in the skies. There is nothing to this skies Paradise theory-it is only a substitute purgatory. The only promised land that God ever promised to any one is the land that he prom ised to Abraham and to his seed, which was Christ, and this land was on this earth and not in the skies. See Gen. 1914 IS, Gal. 3:16, Heb. Ills 9. Now, one of those texts says, By faith Abraham sojourned in the promised land as in a strange country, dwelling in the taber- nacles with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God" Now the Bible teaches that this city is the place that Jesus went to prepare and that will be the city of the new Jeru- salem which John saw coming down from God out of Heaven to rest on this very same promis- ed land, after the curse of sin and sinners has been removed and the earth has been made new. Rev. PIP, Isa. 65:17, feCeF 0.lO.
 3. find that man is still under the death sentence and will be till Christ comes the second time to raise the dead, judge the world, reward the righteous, punish the wicked with the second death and estab- fish his everlasting kingdom in the promised land. 2 Cor. 1:9. l Cor. 15, Rev. 22:17.
 5. ] find that the dead are really dead and that both the good and bad are in their graves and they will remain there until Jesus comes again and gives them a resurrection. Read Gen.
The Spectator., 1916-05-23

J. D. McIroy, sheriff and ex-ofco collector within and the County Franklin and State of Arkansas hereby that the above and foregoing the lands lots and of lots the Ozark District ty against which extended for am unable to collect. J. D. MCIIRoY,
 Sheriff and Ex- Ofco Collector of Franklin Co., Ark Sworn and subscribed before this Sth day
 (sEAL) A. N. HILL. County Clerk. Filed on this Sth day of May. 1916.
 A. N. HILL, County Clerk. And notice hereby that the Tracts Lots and of Lots much thereof be penalty and hereon will sold Collector at the house door the of Ozark the said the 18th day of June unless the penalty and cost be paid before that time and continue from day day until all tracts parts have been sold
 Witness hand and seal of office this 11h of May (SEAL) A. N HILL, County Clerk
The Spectator., 1916-05-23

LOST $25- two $10 bills and one S5 bill, when lost was tied up in large handkerchief. Package also contained receipt given Mrs. Blanscet. Finder bring to this office or return to owner. J. A. Blanscet, Ozark, Route 1.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-15
N, Y. TO CHICAGO
MAIL SERVICE BY
AIR PROPOSED
Postofice Authorities Consider
ing Regular Plan as Prac-
ticable

Washington, Dec. I.-Regular airplane
mail service between New York and chi
cago is being considered by the postohce
depa rtment. Announe cment was made to-
day that the plan is regarded practlcaple
and might be established with part OF the
proposed 100000 postal appropriation for
experimental aerial service. Department
officials estimate the fight of 12O miles
could be made in from six to II hours,
with an average time of eight hours ana
a load OF from 500 to 1000 pounds of mail.
Flying would be at night, a plane leav-
ing each city at P. NJ, alighting at
three regular stations in the vicinity of
Williamsport, Pa. Niles and Napoleon.
Ohio, where extra machines; fuel and
equipment wart would be maintained. AT
Niles a second machine would be taken OF,
relay. Eventually emergency al:ght.ns
stations might be established every %
miles, each equipped with powerful guild
ing lights.
Postal authorities suggest that letters
dispatched before s O'Clock at either New
York or Chicago would be delivered nor
mallv before O'Clock the following morn
ing. but under best conditions and with
special messenger service might be deliv-
cred soon after midnight.