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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05
STICK TO THE
Home MILL
One Industry that Should be
Patronized.

The past month all Illinois mill
cut its local price of flour one dol
lar barrel in single day. The
mill has a reputation and is located
in prosperous community. 1t
has had only third of the local
trade and processes that it would
be satisfied with two-thirds, tho we
fail to see why it shouldn't have
practically all of it. There can
hardly be reason i'll the quality
of the local article, for the outside
flour sold there is practically all
from distant states.
The most vociferous beefers
about mail order houses are the
local merchants in just such towns
as the one where the mill is situ-
ated. They expect their fellow
citizens to support home merchants
and not send their money away to
distant cities. They claim patron
age on the score of local spirit,
even if they often fail to make
good the assertion that they sell
as cheaply as the mail order hous-
es. Yet these local merchants are
doing exactly the thing they urge
others not to do; and they are
doing it in wholesale fashion. And
they haven't the excuse of lower
prices which the mail order house
patron can claim. Very likely
they pay the miller in distant
state more than the local miller
W o II | d ask. 1t would serve
every one of the local merchants
who import flour exactly right if
he shosld lose his f1onr trade ant
the mail order houses get the trade
inetceteras; for it is rank hypo
crisy to teach one thing and practice
its contrary.
The mill in question is notonl,
local institution and deserving of
local patronage OH general princi
pals, but it brings farmers to towr
and makes market for their grain
1t is a fixture and cannot pull uI
stakes and HE awao to osher scenes
aa the average merchant can.
For that reason the boycott o
the home mill is about the meanes
thing a community can do; ant
the town that does it is a goot
place 20 keep away from. Nor,
than one town has taken its frs
step towards extinction in boycott
ting its local mill.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05
State Banks.

The state banks of South Dako-
Ia show an increase of FIVE and
half million dollars in deposits
from the time of the call of condi
tions in November 1915, to March
1916. the total deposits for the
March call being $6S. 77s,O76.22
as against $o3, 229, ,226.S9 for the
November call. These figures
with the National bank deposits
estimated at about the same proper
tion as they usually hold to the
state bank deposits would show
practically one hundred ten mill
lion dollars as the deposits of the
people of the state for March LIST.
The cash reserves of the state
banks for the same dates show an
increase approximately the same as
/ that of the deposits, going from
$lS, SAL ,93l at the time of the
November call. up to S23.722 ,OoA
for the March call.
One item of special interest to
deposltors in state banks in the
state is that of the depositors
guaranty fund, which makes its
appearance for the first time in
the report of the banking depart
,nent, which at the time of the
March call amounted to $139, ,2l1.-
81, which would be Immediately
available, i'll case of failure of
state bank, to meet the amount
due the depositors in such bank,
with the matter of waiting for
settlement of the accounts being OF
interest to the guaranty fund, and
not TO the dcpositors.
N. T.. Wilcox. an old school-day
chum of B. l.. Opsal, spent Tues
day afternoon in the city, renew.
ing the latter's acquaintance and.
reviving scenes back not SO very
long ago when we were couple
of kids. " MIR. Wilcox has been
located in Canada for ten years.
: He says the war has taken the pro-
fit out of business in that country
and as he had nothing in particu-
lar against the states has decided
to return and engage in business
here. He was accompanied BY
his business associate, MIR. John
Dures. Wilmot Republican.
johnson 4 Sonstegard are
building a new office at their
elevator
Wanted who desire to
earn over SIPS. 90 per month write
us today for position as salesman;
every opportunity for advancement
| CENTRAL PETROLEUM CO.,
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05
What Was 1t?

The charge of foolishly vast.
ing electric current i'm throwing
the beam of an electric light
across the skies last Thursday
night has been lifted from the
shoulders of Rudolph Stotfregen
of the Electric Light Company.
He didn't do it. AT least it he
did he put so much Juice" into
it that it aroused comment clear
in the Twin Cities.
Doubt was thrown ON the
searchlight, Zeppelinand milleni-
al dawn theories when Sisseton
men were discovered who saw
the white rainbow setting in the
north very late at night, whereas
the newspaper men saw it at
the zenith at the proper hour of
IL p. IN.
r. p. Leavenworth, professor
of astronomy of the University
of Minnesota offers three expla-
nations i'm the st. Paul Dispatch.
1T might have been an ordinary
cloud" he srys, "but that is not
reasonable. Its appearance re-
sembled the train of big me-
teor that had gone across the
heavens, but this is scarcely
credible, i'm view of the fact that
no meteor was seen before and
the train would hardly have re-
manned visible for so long a
period as the phenomenon last
night. 1t probably was part OF
an auroral display"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05

Seeding is little slow in South
Dakota this spring, but the soil is
III such condition that the crops,
once i'll the ground will have a
good start. The newspapers,
practically every one of them
reaching the Standard exchange
table, daily or weekly, contain in
teresting news items concerning
new buildings that are going up.
South Dakotans are doing a lot of
building this year. Many new
school houses are going up, and a
loe of new churches, some of them
IN country ighborhoods, indicat-
ing that the country church is not
yet a thing of the past i'll South
Dakota. Many business buildings
are being constructed this year
too, i'll all parts of the state. and
as for homes there isn't town
in South Dakota in which new
homes are not being erected. All
lthese things make for prosperity,
and are All indication of prosperity.
1t is a good year in South Dakota.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05
Good Roads Everywhere.

This Office is i'll receipt of set
of maps setting forth a national
highway system also circular
descriptive of road photo contest
in which $4,000 in cash prizes will
be given away. These prizes are
offered by the National Highway
Association with headquarters at
Washington, d. c. The slogan of
the association is Good Roads
EVERYWHERE. - The prizes offered
will be given for photographs talk
ell of roads within the borders of
the United States, either of good
roads or poor roads, the idea being
to show up road conditions in every
part of the United States and thus
arouse all interest porsible in road
building. The photographs will
be used in circulars and sent out
from time to time by the associa-
tion campaign for good roads
Everywhere. /" The maps re-
ceived show proposed system or
location of different routes over
the country and every part of the
United States is receiving consider
alton. Under the proposed system
South Dakota would come in for
252O miles of good road under ma
tional supervision without one cent
of extra cost to the state, county or
township. Whatever road tax
voted by state, county or township
can be used ON the other roads as
heretofore. The proposed system
gives South Dakota four routes
across the state east and west and
four north and south.
No village, town or city ever Vet
lost anything by making judicious
improvements. Money sossexpend.
ed has been money we'll and wisely
spent. This is progressive age
and the town that shows an enter
prising spirit, and makes improve.
ments as fast as possible, is the
town that is going to draw new
residents and make steady anc
permanent growth. Good town.
do not just happen. TO be gooe
towns. They are not caused to be
progressive by some magician
waving his hand over them
Neither are they the result of some
specially favorable act of provi.
dence- The good towns are
made good by their citizens. II
the citizens of any town are no,
progressive, and are content to live
tortoise-like, withintheir shell, yo,
might as we'll hang crepe on every
door knob and start drilling the
choir for the funeral chant.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05

The Standard is anxious to co.
operate with the citizens of Sisse-
ton and vicinity in everything that
will tend to the up-build aud adj
vancement Of the "best;little town"
in the noath west. Are you inter-
ested?
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05

Misses Nora and Mabel Tallak.
son left for Minneapolis yester.
day, where Miss Nora will enter
q conservatory of music and
Mabelwill visit friends.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05
IS
CLAIMED DEAD
Leaves Large Estate and An
Odd Will.

According to the Minneapolis
Journal the courts have been asked
to declare legally dead Daniel c.
Sullivan, we'll known lumberman,
who mysteriously dropped out of
sight in downtown Minneapolis in
broad daylight seven years ago.
This move started Monday i'll the
Hennepin county probate court
was made to pave the way for pro-
batting Mi. Sullivan's will, one of
the most unusual documents of the
kind i'll the records of the court.
These are some of it's features:
Danniel Eldred Sullivan, nephew
and the ultimate sole heir, now ten
years old, must wait 40 years be-
fore he comes into his Inheritance.
The estate is to be held i'll trust
for him until he is so years old.
Mrs. Alice O'Leary, Superior,
Wis, niece, who was to receive
all inheritance of S25 week, for.
feited this when she married. The
will provides annuities for seven
priests for the next 40 years. for
masses to be said during that time
for the repose of the decedent's
soul.
The estate is estimated at be-
tween 100000 and $1,000 1t is
expected that there will be opposi
tion TO some of its provisions.
Daniel G. Sullivan dropped out
of sight the afternoon of March 27,
1909. He left the office of the
Wallace Ballord Lumber company
i'll the Lumber exchange, Fifth
street and Hennepin avenue, pre-
sumably to return to the offices of
/
the Sullivan Lumber company
Chamber of Commerce. He was
never seen again in Minneapolis.
Sullivan had OH his person at
the time considerable sum of
money. a diamond pin, diamond
ring and a diamond studded watch.
The police were never able to solve
the mystery
ID. {. Sullivan was resident of
Sisseton a short time before his
disappearance. Among the priests
mentioned in his will to receive
bequests was Father Kettler of
this city.
w. A. Erkenbrack, who has
been connected with the Case
Threshing Machine Co., for the
past seven and one.half years, has
severed his connection with that
company to take up a position
with the Hanten Machine Co. of
Watertown and will be engaged in
demonstrating and selling REQ
automobiles. He will continue to
make Webster his head quarters.
Webster Reporter and Farmer.
A nelghboring paper commented
upon the resignation of a certain
young lady school teacher with
many kind words for the excell-
ent reputation for teaching she
bears. y When last seen the editor
was doing mile minute clip,
ljust two jumps ahead of the irate
young lady who screamingly in
formed him that she never taught a
she bear in her life and if she ever
caught him she'd teach him some
thing about writing news.
|
1t was reported here this week
that MIR. Bruin had sold Bonanza
Springs resort to syndicate of
Minneapolis doctors who will at an
early date build large sanatar,um
at the springs and make great
health resort of it. The price paid
for the property is said to be s25,
oooand MIR. Bruin retains sl2, 900
stock inthe company. The syndi-
cate is also heavily interested i'll
1.-THE CAGE Electric line and if this
deal is certainty it looks as if
There would be some hip develnn.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-05-05

We wish to call the attention Of
parents to the new school law that
requires all children under sixteen
years of age who have not complet
ed the eighth grade to attend
school for the full nine months.
This means that boys and girls i'm
the grades can not be taken out of
school and kept OH the farm dur
ing the spring period of the school
year.
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
ADVANCEMENT
FOR ONE WEEK
MONTANA'S PAYROLLS PLACING
Ut ON MAP AS ONE OF GREAT
STATES OF THE UNION.
IMPROVEMENTS FROM ALL PARTS
BoHcman Chamber of Commerce has
organized an industrial bureau.

BoHcman Chamber of Commerce has
organized an industrial bureau.
Montana conference of municipali-
ties could agree on one proposition
to demand more money from the tax.
payers.
Culbcrtson S2a 600 hotel 10 he
built AZ once
Great Falls Montana farmer ON the
Shonkm receives $97 40 an acre in
two years from land costing Sl1 per
acre
ElliSton 2a,0ooacre bird and game
refuge to be established near here.
Stovensville Forcing sewer prob,
lem to final action
Wilsall Wheat shipments from here
increase from $1,000 bushels in 1910
to 50a 600 tcs,imatc) in 1916.
Monda Doyle A. Bontmnn shin
weeks
Butte Large number of lots sold
since arrival OF cold weather promise
building boom for next spring
Poison Mission Range Power com.
pany ut Hell Roaring creek starts op.
crat tionS.
Montana has ~ breWcrleS employ
ing 800 hands that win now be turned
into other industries.
Sidney is to have Il livestock mar.
ket
Townsend liroadMator county Just
voted bonds for $40 600 for il high
school, $3O,o bonds for roads.
Anaconda stock selling AZ lO2
makes new high record for Montana
stocks
llavrc Chamber OF Commerce is
working FOR tlaX industry
Dillon Drillors strike oil in sheep
Creek basin.
Troy lets contract for $4,000 water
system, -..
Butte ranks twelfth IN postal sav.
ings deposits OF cities in T. S
Mercantile reports show nnprc.
ccdcntcd growth IN Montana business
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30

Too. they have been confronted with
the shortage OF labor. and have been
compelled to raise the price of coal
at the mine. claiming the advanced
cost of explosives and other mining
materials have made the increase nee
essary. These increases have pre-.
vailed throughout the state and we
have had to advance the prices nc.
cordingIy.
Every available means is being cN.
crted to get the mines to accept our
orders, and the railroads to facilitate
handling. hut the situation has be.
come SO serious that should we have
eight to ten days of severely cold
weather great suffering would re
suit We will continue to endeavor
to supply our trade with small deliv.
cries as il is received, but we also
wish to impress them with the serious,
ness Of the situation and the urgent
necessity of the economical use of
fuel"
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
MOCCASIN.

The mammoth new barn on the Val
entlne ranch, south of Benchland, is
now enclosed. The structure is 4OX6O
feet with circular roof and without
doubt will be the largest and best
equipped barn in that section of the
country.
a deal was made last week between
Joe Wagner and L. S. Harrison where
by the latter becomes the owner of
the Wagner ranch, one and half
miles southwest of town. The con-
sideration was $75 per acre. Since
purchasing the ranch about two years
ago, Mr.. Wagner has improved the
place with good set OF farm build
inBs, and his only reason for selling
is that he wishes to develop a stock
ranch i'll the southeastern part of this
state, where he has a claim and has
the opportunity of purchasing a con-
siderable acreage adjoining, - Dis
patch
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
PAGE THREE:

Lewistown Cumberland mine sends
$1,000 bar Of gold to mint.
Deer Lodge 700 acres in Powell
county sell Tor 100000.
Great Falls The Chotenu- A gawan
branc? ?h Of the G., NJ q st p. viii
soon be in operation hauling coal and
freight
Conrad Local farmers flax goes
~ bushels To the acre.
Poison $4,000 machinery order is
placed for laundry here.
Circle Work starts on the Catholic
church
billings Work progressing RAPIDLY
on sl50,00o meat packing plant here.
Troy let's contract for $4,000 for
watcrworks.
Butte Montana Power company re.
placing aluminium power line with
copper. After rs years of experiment.
ing copper is found to be the best.
Helena Plant to develop low grade
ores to be built here and means much
to this mining field.
Troy development work is being
rushed on Snowstorm Consolidated
with GOO men.
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
WiNIFREp.

The local Moose lodge held initia.
ton meeting in Polzean hall last eve,
ming, which was followed by grand
banquet
John Moseley has set apart 10 acres
OF his l60-acre tract adjoining the or
iginal townsite of Winifred on the
west and is having it plated in one
acre lots. The land being plated lies
lust west of the school grounds and
will make an ideal residence section,
as the land is level and good well
water is easily obtained.
Chances for the Winifred country
becoming an oil-producing region ap.
pears to be much more than possi-
bility. Last summer a Mr.. Gould, who
is noted geologist OF Kansas, trav-
eled over this state extensively for the
purpose of locating an oil field. He
found three places in the state which
he pronounced oil territory and one
OF them was near Winifred, where he
spent two weeks. Mr. Gould is the
leading specialist III the United States
in the work OF locating oil territory
and bears the reputation of having
never failed yet in locating producing
wells. The test will. be made next
spring and if Oil is found here, as we
all hope and many expect it will be,
our town and country will experience
much faster growth and develop.
ment than it has yet seen.-Times.
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
WILSON 5 VOTE|N
TREASURE STATE

HELENA, Nov. 23 out OF lT7,272
votes east for president In Montana
Nov. z. President Wilson received
lOl.075. according to complete unotfi.
cial returns received here. Wilson'S
plurality was "a ,335
Returns of president senator, con.
Ercssmen and governor follow:
Wilson, l0l .076; Hughes, 66.740.
Benson, a.ibI; Myers. S5.573; Pray.
12,i21, LnI'cau. 9.337 Evans. S4.5Ot;
Mitchell, 70,bS3. Farr. 66.972. Rankin,
76,a32; Stewart S5.677, Edwards. &C.,
554. Duncan 1881.
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
LANE TALKS ON
COAL SHORTAGE
STRIKE ON AT ROUNDUP. BUT AN
EARLY ADJUSTMENT is
NOW EXPECTED,
DISTRIBUTING C0MPANY's TASK

The miners employed by the
Roundup Coal Mining company this
morning failed to go on shift as usual.
1t being rumored that they are dis
satisfied with conditions at the wash
house and declare that they will not
return to work until these conditions
are remedied At the mine office ig.
norance as to the cause OF the dis
satisfaction of the miners was pro.
fessed. Roundup Record
IN commenting on the fuel situa.
ton yesterday, J. e. Lane, president
OF the Montana Lumber company.
stated: Our company today received
Il communication from the Roundup
mines informing us of the labor
trouble they We're experiencing, but
the company is hopeful of an early
adjustment"
with further reference to the coal
shortage, Mr.. Lane said: The ques-
ton that confronts us on every turn
and possibly the most perpleXing we
have to contend with, is the shortage
OF coal. In past years it has been a
comparatively easy matter to supply
our trade with good coal at this sea.
son of the year. but at this time we
are experiencing the most serious
stringency in the history of our com
pany. This situation prevails not
alone in l.ewistown, but throughout
the entire United States, and may be
attributed to the following causes:
THE high wages being paid in the
factories in the east is diverting min.
ers into lines OF work other than coal
mining.
"'rhe shortage of railroad cars has
affected, very materially, transporta,
ton facilities. Also the congested con.
ditiOn of the railroad lines due to the
enormous amount of other freight. and
the fact their motor power cannot
withstand the demands made upon il
enter as factors.
I'm the state. two tipples in Car
bon county were destroyed by fire
which decreased the output, and on
the other hand, the big increase in
the population made Il larger demand
and increased the consumption.
Those. with many minor matters.
confront the coal dealers OF the coun.
try but, of course. almost every line
is Il victim OF the car shortage.
1T is constant fight to procure
the one Or two cars OF coal we re.
ceive each day. Then the question of
distributing the seventy-five to eighty
tens i'll such Il way as to keep all our
patrons supplied stands before us.
This amount is usually distributed
within an hour in half ton and ton
lots, which adds to the delivery
charges since il is a much easier mat.
ter to dispose OF the coal in loads. We
have always advocated filling the bins
early in the fall and some of our Gus
toners have avoided the present diff.
Guilty by. so doing. We have. how.
ever, been prevailing upon all our
customers to conserve their fuel as
much as possible and be just as econ.
omical in the use Of coal as their de-
mands will permit.
Local mines have been disposing
of the major portion of their output
to the railroad contractors. This re-
duces the available supply perceptibly.
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30

i'll LeWiStOWn on a visit, has been
quite i'll while there and her many
friends are glad indeed to hear that
she is improving quite rapidly and
will soon be her usual self again.
There was a large and enthusiastic
crowd at the roller skating rink last
Friday evening and from all appear
ances the crowd was all enjoying
themselves to the fullest extent,
There were two prizes given by the
managers of the rink and the first
was captured by the Jack of Diamonds
and the other by a. r. Thompson
Herald.
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
WlNO OHAM.

The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Len
J. Davis will rejoice to learn that they
are SO pleasantly situated in Lewis
town. Mr.. Davis holds very re-
sponsible position in the Bank of Fer
gus County, and he is getting along
nicely.
George Goesch, who came here a
few months ago from Geneva, Neb..
met with an accident on Tuesday of
this week. George is working on the
Walter Waite ranch recently pur-
chased by Lyons & Eckley. and last
Tuesday while tightening a screw on
a rifle it was discharged. the ball
striking him in the leg near the sroi.
and ranging downward. Dr.. Grouse,
who was at the sale was summoned
and with Tommy Greer, brought the
wounded man to town.
A. f. Roberts. chief clerk of the
Cottonwood Coal company, was in
Windham Tuesday attending to bust
the coal washer at the mines has
ness. Mr.. Roberts informs us that
the coal washer at the mines has
been completed and that Mr.. Mueller.
chief clerk of the Roberts-Schaeffer
company of Chicago, the firm which
Fergus County Democrat., 1916-11-30
Around theCountu
HOBSON.

II. w. Sadler assumed his duties as
cashier of the First National bank on
last Monday morning. Mr.. Sadler is
a native of Illinois and before coming
to Montana worked i'll the general OF.
fices of the Burlington railway. In
1909 he came west and entered the
First National bank at Billings, and
in 1909 he went to the First National
bank at Lewistown, where his promo
ton was rapid. When L. A. Smith re-
signed from the local bank Mr.. Sad
Ter was offered the vacancy and ac-
cepted because he realized the bene-
Tits OF the small town and country
bank--Star.