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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
Leap Year Dance.

What proved to be one of the
most enjoyable social affairs at
tended by the old and young of
this city for some time was the
leap year dance given at the
Opera House Monday evening.
The ball room was beautiful
ly decorated for the occasion in
penants, streamers and flowers,
and each of the sixty one gentle-
men present was presented with
"a white carnation as he was
ushered i'm by his lady
1t goes without saying that all
had thoroughly good time,
without a d u IN III o IN e II t..
Stewards Orchestra furnished
excellant music for dancing
which was enjoyed until twelve
O'Clock, when Il delicious three
course supper was served at
the Palace Cafe. The dance was
then resumed and when the
party finally broke up at about
two O'Clock the Sisseton ladies
were pronounced as royal enter
tainers.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
Eatss Of ssa:tte. Primaries.

The primary i'll Indiana will
open the ball" i'll the primary
states. A list of state primaries to
be held, with dates and number of
delegates accredited to each state in
the Republican national convene
ton, under the call issued Mon.
day, follows:
Indiana. first Tuesday in March,
30 delegates.
Minnesota, second Tuesday i'll
March, "a delegates.
North Dakota, third Tuesday in
March, 10 delegates.
Michigan, first Monday in April,
80 delegates.
Illinois, first Tuesday i'll April,
So delegates.
New York, first Tuesday in
April, 81 delegates.
Wisconsin. first Tuesday ii,
April, 2o delegates.
Iowa, second Monday i'll April
20 delegates.
Massachusetts, last Tuesday i'll
April, S6 delegates.
Nebraska. April, 10 delegates.
MARYLAND, first Monday in May
10 delegates.
Ohio, second Tuesday in May
45 delegates.
Pennsylvania. third Tuesday III
May, # delegates.
New Jersy, fourth Tuesday III
May, Is delegates.
Oregon, forty-fifth day before
first Monday in June, 10 delegates.
South Dakota, first Tuesday il
June, 10 delegates.
West Virginia, first Tuesday ii
June, 10 delegates.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

Aberdeen has arranged to observe
Pay Up Week, February 81 to
20. This is a week which has come
more and more to be observed in
different parts of the country "a
week during which everybody is
supposed to pay up everybody else,
so that, so fan as practicable and
feasible, all accounts may be squar-
ed during the week. This, is argued,
gets the money more freely cir-
culating and everybody is more or
less benefited For in stance, if
everybody mind, we say every
body owing The Sisseton Stand
ard would walk up and plank down
all that was due the paper and a
year in advance, and if everybody
owing on other accounts would do
likewise, The Sisseton Standard
would be able to pay everybody else
whom it owes and have enough left
to go to the moving picture show
at least once. This would greatly,
verv greatly, please its creditors
and tickle the moving picture show
man half to death, for we have a
standing arrangement with him
whereby as soon as we get all ours
debets paid with money i'll the
bank he is to permit us to pay our
way into the show. So Pay Up
Week" is dandy affair il every
body will only pay up!
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
Amund A, Kvestad of Prelate

Amund A. Kvestad of Prelate,
Sasls, Canada, formerly of Sisse-
ton is visiting his cousins Agnes
and Hawkin Larson of this city.
MIR. Kvestad states that wheat
this year yielded from 40 to 60
bushels per acre, flax from 1s to
25. oats from 80 to 100 hu. per
acre.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
For Representative.

hereby announce myself as a
candidate for nomination for the
state legislature from Roberts
county subject to the will of the
republican voters at the primaries
June 9th. Ole Mo,
Summit, S. d.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
Buried Under Pile Of Wheat 3 Hour.

Webster-Buried under a pile
OF wheat FOR over three hours,
With s5ssocsc under foot and the
temperature close to freezing,
George Engebretson of Lynn
township had close call from
death as the result of an acci-
dent while hauling grain to
Holmquist.
Mr.. Engebretson started out
in the morning to haul wheat in
his sleigh, loaded three boxes
high. In difficult part of the
road he was walking by the
sleigh to relieve the horses.
Suddenly his feet sank i'm the
snow, the sleigh turned over
and the box and grain piled on
top of him. The wheat was
heavy as quicksand and it was
almost impossible to get foot
ing as the snow was so soft that
he sank down with every effort.
! Mr.. Engebretson managed to
free himself after three -houl
struggle. He walked to Holm
quist for assistance.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
AT The Unique Theatre.

Manager Miller of the Unique
Theatre has made arrangements
to put ON a first class vaudeville
every Thursday evening. The
first will be put on Feb. 3rd.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
For Sale or Rent.

The house formerly occupied
by L. S. Babcock including good
barn. Easy terms. Inquire of
H. L. Spackman.
Farmers State Bank of Hammer,
(32-33] Owner.
Andrew N. Volstad of Mime
sofa township returned from
Minneapolis Wednesday.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
Dye Getting Scarce.

Have you noticed the color of
the paper used by most of the city
daily papers of late? Instead of be.
ing whiteit has yellow tinge. This
is due to the scarcity of dye materi-
ais and is what we are all coming
to i'll the near fueure. Colored print
paper used i'll the average shop for
bill work, ect., is getting scarcer
every day and it is only question
of time when it cannot be obtained
at all. The colors at present are de-
cidedly dim and ii looks as though
the printer was cutting down OH
expenses and getting an inferior of
paper. Such is not the case, how
ever. as the poor colored stock of
today cost the printer more then
the gaudy colors of yesterday.
Fox Lake (Wis. } Representative.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

Only meteor known 10 hit a human
being Ia reported from Japan. where
one struck . twelve-year-old boy on
the head.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

Rev. S. S. Heghin of Wilmot
preached a wonderful sermon at
the Installation Service Tuesday
nightat the Presbyterian church.
Mr.. Heghin is an Armenian. He
has not heard from his people
since last July and he believes
they we're all massacred by the
Kourds.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
May HAVE
EXTRA SESSION
to Meet to Ar
range for Delegates.

range for Delegates.
Sioux Falls = The difficulty
which for some weeks has COM
fronted the Republicans of South
Dakota as to how best to provide
for the selection of Delegates to
represent the Republicans of
the state at the Republican ma
tional convention in Chicago is
about to be solved. A special
session of the legislature will
furnish the solution.
The ditficalty has been due to
the fact that the regular primary
election will not be held in South
Dakota until June 4, as now pro-
vided by law, while the Repub-
lican national convention is
called to meet June 9TH, this not
giving time, under the date fixed
in the primary election law at
present, for the selection of
delegates if the date for the
primary election law is left un-
changed.
In some quarters it has been
suggested that special pri-
mary for the selection of dele.
gates to the national convention
be held i'm April, but this plan
virtually has been abandoned
because of the great expense,
which it is estimated would not
be less than $4,000. Others
have proposed that a state cen
vention of Republicans be called
for the purpose of selecting
delegates to represent the Re.
l1publlcans of the state at the
Chicago convention, delegates to
the proposed state convention to
be selected at regular caucuses
the same as were held before
the state had any primary cleo
tion law at all. There is opposi
tion to this plan because itwould
i'm a WAY be an abandonment, for
the time being at least, of the
Drimary election principle
There is no doubt that during
the past few days sentiment i'm
favor of the calling of special
session of the state legislature
for the purpose of amending the
primary election law of South
Dakota by fixing an earlier date
for the primary election has
been growing, and it now is
practically assured that Cover
nor Byrne will in the neai
future call such Il special ses-
sion.
1t is proposed to change the
date of the primary election
from June & to some date in
April or May, and Provide fol
holding just one primary cleo
tion throughout South Dakota
at which the different parties
can elect their delegates to tho
national conventions and selec'
their nominees for congressional
state and county Offices. The
cost OF Il special session OF the
legislature would he only abou
$4,000, which would cost the
residents of South Dakota only
about one cent each. Owing tt
!, the minimum expense, specia
session of the legislatu re now il
believed to be the only solution
of the primary election difficulty
Eel. caught TWO years ago at Por
Jervis. y. ". that knocked over lam
and escaped with body partly in chin
ney has been rccapturcd still incase
in the lamp chimney.
A mans home Is where his wife /,
White Plains a. Y, court decides
.. case of man who spent six days 1
Manhattan at business and the othe
day with wife at White Plains.
Complaint that pet cats and dog
:. were missing In Bridgeport, Conn.,, le
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
CLOSE CALL FROM BIG FIRE.

Last Saturday evening, St.
Philips Catholic church at Han
kinson escaped destruction by fire
with very narrow margin. The
usual Saturday evening devctions
were held, and the afternoon and
evening being very cold, a spe-
cial effort was made to have the
church comfortably warm. AT
ter the congregation was dismissed,
by mere chance, smoke was dis
covered to be filing the church
rapidly. A hurried investigation
proved that from an overheated
steam pipe above the boiler, the
asbestos packing covering the steam
pipes was on fire which was
quickly communicated to the floor
of the church.
Prompt and hurried work OH the
part of the priests, and hurried
response by the i1e department
extinguished the fire in a short
time. Within seven minutes after
the fire boys were called they were
on the ground and busy.
Had the fire been discovered ten
minutes later, only a few bare
walls would have told the tale,
were once stood one of the most
beautiful church edifces in our
state. st. Philips church was dedi.
Gated in June, 1909, after an outlay
of nearly 100000 and its.destruc.
tion would have been anirreparable
loss not only to St. Philips con
gregation but to the City OF Han
kinson.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
and HE WANTS
TO Be GOVERNOR
One Raw Deal Egan Could
Not Get By With.

Judgement was entered in Cir
cult court in favor of Jacob Hat
land through his guardian, Thos.
Gangsness, which requires that
G. w. Egan restore money and
other considerations amounting
in all to 81 ,275 claimed to have
been wrongfully acquired by
Egan while acting as attorney
for Jacob Hatland.
Hatland is insane and it was
charged in the suiJ that Egan
knew the man was incompetent
when he obtained from him
mortgage-secured note for
81 900 and S275 in cash; and that
in return for cash and note,
Egan gave Hatland no profes-
siOnal services.
1t is claimed that Hatland i'm
agined detectives were after
him, that people were talking
about him, that he went to Egan
to get him to relieve his distress
and that Egan took advantage of
Hatland' $ obviously incompetent
condition to ootain the money
and note.
Hatland's friends became
aware of the transaction and
'Thos. Wangsness; a we'll known
banker of Garretson was appoint
ed guardian. In February, last
year, Hatland was judged insane
and in March summons and
complaint We're served on Egan
by r. w. Parliman, as attorney
for Mr.. Wangsness, demanding
that Egan return the insane
mans property. Egan sought
to have the complaint made more
specific, and was overruled by
Judge j. w. Jones. He then de-
INJURED, which was also over
ruled, and he was given five days
in which to answer. Egan ap-
pealed the demurrer to the state
supreme court, where he again
met defeat, and the case was
ordered to be tried.
The case did not go to trial,
Egan not having flied his ans
wer. Upon affidavit of Mr..
Parliman that Egan was in de-
fault, Judge Jones so held yes
terday and entered judgement
against Egan. The judgement
including costs which were as.
sessed against Egan, amounts il.
all to 81, 10000
The court held that HatIand
i was insane and Incompetent tt
transact business when ON Jan.
rary % and 30, 1915, Egan in
duced him to tnrn over the casl
and note and that Egan had per
formed no service to Hatland il
return for the property he hae
4 procured.
This case is one of the count.
4 called against Egan in the dis
barmenet action now pending il
e the state supreme court. Egan.
dealings with the Insane MAJ
II were exhaustively explored b.
the committee of lawyers APP
IL pointed by the supreme cour
to hear the charges during thei
sessions at the court house her
!, last summer.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28
Kenney-Keeney.

Mr.. Ray NJ. Keeney of Corona
S. d., and Miss Lulu B. Kenney,
of this city, were united in mar
riage ut the Presbyterian parson
age on Tuesday evening. January
Is. Rev. c. r.. Fulton spoke the
words which united them for the
balance of life's journey.
The bride is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Kenney who
reside just south of Wheaton.
She has been very successful in
her work as school teacher and
is a young lady whose friends
are numbered by her acquaint-
ances. The groom is a success
full young farmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keeney depart
ed Tuesday evening for Corona
S. Oak. where they will make
their future home. Wheaton
Gazette Reporter.
Have you awakened to the fact
that this is leap year and that
it behooves you TO get busy, for
time is moving ON Il flying ma
chine now days. If you see a
Young man looking disconsolate,
and kind of frayed out at the
edges, lust nab onto him, trim
him up and make him look like a
birthday present, and before
you are through with the job he
will forget himself long enough
to say the words that will snare
him for life. Don't waste your
time ON such old fossils as we
are, for it's no go. We are
still tangled up with the girl
that throwed sand in our eyes
over thirty years ago, and she
keeps watchful eye on us all
the time. just the same, we
hate to see lot of nice girls
wasting their sweetness on the
desert air.-Ex.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

MIR. w. P. O'Heron last week
disposed of his cigar factory in
this city to his brother, James
O Heron who will continue the
business and supply his patrons
with high class OF cigars. For two
OF three years past MIR. O'Heron
has been i'll partnership with MIR.
J. J. Nelson i'll the management of
the opera house. i'll addition to his
cigar business, but relinquished his
interest in that business the first of
the year. Mr.. O'Herou has been IN
Milbank for eight years and has
made a host OF friends who will
wish him success in any new ven-
ture he may undertake. He will
continue to make Milbank his home
for the present, and while he is
considering two or three very pro-
missing business propositions has
madeno definite plans for the future.
Milbank News.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

Eel. caught TWO years ago ut Port
Jervis. y. ", that knocked over lamp
and escaped with body partly i'll chin
ney has been recapturcd still incased
in the lamp chimney.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

Complaint that pet cats and dogs
were missing In Bridgeport, Conn.,. led
to disc0very Of six cat skins back Of
restaurant In which rabbit stew has
been fayorite dish Of police patrons.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-01-28

A mans home Is where his wife is,
White Plains lN. y, court decides in
case of man who spent six days iu
Manhattan at business and the other
day with wife at White Plains.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Belle Klinefelter, has
been duly appointed Administratrix
OF the Estate OF J. Burton Buchanan.
deceased, by an order of the County
Court OF Malheur County, Oregon.
Any and all creditors are hereby re-
quested TO present their claims duly
verified as by law required. to. the
undersigned at the ONCE OF r. w.
swagler, Ontario, Oregon, on or be-
fore six months after the first pub
llcation OF this notice.
Belle Klinefelter.
Administrators OF the Estate of
j, Burton buchanan, Deceased.
r. w. Swagler.
Attorney for Administrative.
First publication February 3, 1916,
Last publication March 2, 1915.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03

The people of the United States
will be richer by several millions on
Tuesday. February 90, because OF
the extra day added to the month
during this present leap year. Peo-
pie throughout the country are plan.
ming to have the day nationally OBJ.
served as prosperity day. Il would
not be simply day Of mere rejoicing
but patriotic day in which the true
spirit of Americanism would be
duly dwelt upon.
From n circular Just received. the
following Is taken. referring TO Feb
ruary 20:
You viii receive on this day an ex-
ira days revenue, as will millions of
Others In the United States In view
of these fact Il seems appropriate
that Tuesday. February 20. should be
known as prosperity day" through
out the United States.
Lot the wage Garner open or In
crease his bank account by putting
his wages for this extra day into the
bank.
Let the stores have their prosperity
day sales.
Let the newspaper and orators cell
ebrate the occasion by explaining TO
tho public how and why the United
states is the most favored nation In
the world.
Let the associations OF commerce |
and the farmers organizations hold
upon this day get-together prosperity
For twenty-four hours through
out this whole extra day OF tlme-lot
every man, woman and child In this
forget the trying times
through which the world has passed
md talk, think and feel prosperity!
Let us remember on this day that
he prosperity OF the nation Is regu-
ated by the prosperity OF the indlyld-
lals that compose it-that America is
\merica because It's citizens as a
Whole have prospered.
In short, on this day, let's all of us
ny aside our hammers. forget our
ersonal worries and boost with ey-
ry ounce OF energy In us for the con- 7
Inuation OF this great new era OF
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03

The farmers of the middle west
have been fairly prosperous and will
be anxious and prepared to make a
change in location, to get away from
the 5000 and $3.50 land, to a country
where land values are still low, such
as we have in the Snake river val
ley. II you have any friends in the
East write and tell them of this
country and of the great opportuni-
ties that are here for the industrious
farmers who know how. The people
of western Oregon did their letter
writing last week Now Is the time
for the people OF the Snake river val
ley to get busy.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03

II is high time that this extreme east
ern and prosperous section of Oregon
should have representation with a
state Office of some sort at Salem.
We tried Will II. King for gov
ernor, we tried Charley Johns for
governor, we tried John II. Aitkin
for state treasurer, all we're defeat
ed-and then It seems that everybody
in this section lost their political as
pirations.
Let's break the ice this year and
In May nominate and in November
elect J. w. McCulloch OF Ontario,
public service commissioner, who be-
longs to no clique or faction, and
show the people of oregon that we
are on the map, Notwithstanding we
are 500 miles from Portland, and
then we will no more hear the re-
mark that the only representation
eastern oregon has at Salem is at
the penitentiary.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03

Hylen II, Corey, candidate for
public service commissioner for this
district, at present secretary of the
commission, in a personal letter to
the editor, says;
"As you well know, the Office of
public service commissioner is not
public sinecure, and public utility
questions, Mr.. Editor, are very diff
fcult of solution, and delicate to ad-
minister, and this work sIould be
performed by experienced and train
ed men,"
We thank you Mr., Corey, for your
Information concering the duties,
but we are personally supporting j.
w, McCulloch for the office TO which
you aspire-a gentleman thoroughly
qualified to solve the delicate" ques-
tions that come before the commits
sion.
And in this connection, we think
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03
ONTARIO-VALE
DEBATING CONTEST

Last Friday the debating teams OF
the Vale High school and the on
tario High school clashed I'm the first
debating contest in Malheur county,
and resulted in UNANIMOUS decision
in favor of the ontario team. which
was composed of Ephriam Herriot
and Robert Bender.
The contest was held at Vale and
about a hundred and fifty spectators
witnessed the defeat of the home
team and from the applause that
greeted the decision they quite
agreed with the judges.
The debate was very interesting TO
the audience and brought to light
many facts hitherto unknown to all
but those who had studied closely the
details OF the great question RE
solved that the United States should
adopt the essential features OF the
Swiss Military training and service
system" The Ontario team upheld
the negative side of the question and
Vale was slowly but surely forced
down the ladder by the clear state
monts, thought-out arguments and
fact-proyen assertions OF the former.
After the final rebuttal the decis-
Ion OF the judges enclosed In envel-
opes was taken TO the chairman. who
bidding the leaders OF the respective
sides stand up near his desk pro-
ceeded 10 open the epistles. One could
have heard n pin drop among the
audience In the intense silence which
followed A close observer might
nave seen n look OF disappointment
IN the face OF David Ellis. the lead
'r OF the Vale side, and a proportion
gte look OF Joy on the countenance
II ontario's leader Ephr.am Herrio'
Is one by one the statements OF the
Judges came TO view.
Slowly the chairman read the re.
ults and when the last vas finished
he silence that had prevailed was
thing OF the past. the audience ris-
ng as one and going forward 10 J
hake hands with the victors. The I
Judges were Professors Neifert
rom Weissr, Clitfoi OF Caldwell and
weedy OF Payette. /
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of the Sta

In the County Court of the State
of Oregon, for Malheur County.
IN THE MATTER OF THE Es-
TATE OF ELLA FLEMING, Deceas-
ed.
The undersigned having been ap-
pointed by the County Court OF the
State of Oregon, for Malheur Coun-
ty, Executor of the estate of Ella
Fleming, deceased. and having quail
ihed' notice is hereby given to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against said deceased, to pre-
sent them verified as required by
law, within six months after the
first publication of this notice to
said j. C. Fleming at his residence.
Ontario, Oregon, II. F. d.
j. C. Fleming,
Executor of the estate of Ella
Fleming, deceased.
Dated February 1, 1916.
first publication February 8, 1916
asst publication, March 2, 1916,