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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
FREE INSTRUCTIONS
IN WAR TELEGRAPH Y

Arrangements have been made for
giving at Rapid City free instruction in
telegraphy to those men between the
ages OF 2l and 81 subject to the draft
and who are physically tit, in order that
they may have opportunity, when called
upon, to offer their services for work in
the signal Corps.
The class will meet for organization
on Wednesday evening, November l4th q.
Preliminary arrangements have been
made through Hon, W. W. SOule of Ra-
pid City, a member of the Committee OI
Defense, for the state of South Dakota.
President O'Hara of the School of Mines
will have charge of the correspondence
and incidental arrangements Mr. ii. w.
Hawley OF the Rapid City Business Col
lege Is providing suitable recitation
rooms, the Western Union Telegraph
Company has furnished the instruments
and several Rapid City people proficient
in telegraphy have volunteered their
services. Among these are Mr. u. ii =.
Crary, vice president and general man
ager of the Rapid City, Black Hills and
Western Railway, Mr.. Bernard Jen-
nings, agent of the Chicago Milwaukee
and St Paul Railway, Mr.. A. X. ThOm-
as, cashier of the First National Bank,
Mr.. Fred hnoCkemuss, one of the leading
business men of the city, for several
years train dispatcher in Chicago for the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad,
and Mrs. ;. f. Cooper, who for a num-
Der Of years has had charge of the Rapid
City telegraph Office.
The class will meet for two hours of
instruction three evenings "A week for
period Of ninety days or more or long
enough to give the students proper
training, and it is expected that each
man shall put in as much time as he can
in practice in addition to the stated in
structioD hours.
The United States government through
the Signal Office has emphasized the ur-
gent necessity of having large number
Of men in the army trained in telegraph
and telephone work. 1t is expected that
the major portion of the telegraph in
struction shall be devoted to the actual
practice of sending telegraph messages
in the international Morse code. In
connection with this, some instruction
will be given in the fundamentals of
telegraph and magnetic telephone cir
cults, also something AS to the basic
theories of electricity and magnetism.
This latter work, if thought advisable,
will be given at the State School of
Mines, where with well equipped labo
ratories, the principles eau be adequa-
tely shown.
There are no educational require
ments for entry, but one who has passed
through all of the grades and has at least
something of High School work will
doubtless find some educational equip
ment to his advantage. Any tendency
toward liking for mechanical manipu-
lation will have an added value.
In view of the select character of the
teegraphic work it will doubtless appeal
to considerable number of young men
to take advantage of this opportunity to
better themselves in preparation for the
national service,
Those wishing TO attend should notify
at once President G. c. O'Harra of the
State School of Mines, Rapid City, South
Dakota.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER.

JbSI ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER.
Some one has said that life is one
blank thing after another
But Jimmie says it's one snooze after
another,
Dewey says it's one bluff after another
Glen says it is one day after another
George says it is one stick of gum after
another,
While Prof declares it is one busy day
after another
Miss Berg insists on one long hike
after another,
While Miss Gass takes one Jitney ride
after another
With Inez it is one jolly good day after
another.
To Loretta it is merely one note book
after another.
Gordon is convinced that it is surely
one chaperon after another
While Margaret A. reckons time by
one dance after another.
But Lewie and Dimples agree with the
Botany class that it's one funk after an
other.
With Miss Dickey it is one stack of
examination papers after another
To Miss Adams comes letter one day
after another.
With Miss Keller it is one Choir prac.
tice after another
And last but not least Miss Miller
thinks of the u. s. soldier boys one day
after another.
If the above is not true the author has
promised to write you another.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
SOLDIER BOY WRITES.
Regiment Forest Writes to His
Parents From England.

SoUrH HAMPTON, Eng, Oct. 4, 1917.
DEAR EoLKs -
Arrived here the second, which ended
quite an exciting trip, that is for awhile,
Tor we may be moved on most any time.
l enjoyed the ocean ride very much,
although | did get real sea sick. i
thought when we first started that /
wouldn't get sick while on board. But
when the ocean got rough, my stomach
did likewise, but the sickness didn't last
long, and ! was feeling fine when we
landed. We now are camped here IN
barracks, but cook our meals over a
camp fire, and it rains about every five
minutes, 50 We sure have some fun wad-
ing out and eating But ! have good
shoes and raincoat, so / enjoy it. Now
If | don't find things any worse from
now on than they have been SO far, III
have no kick coming.
When we were coming over they bad
us watching out for the tin fish, but
now We are looking for the ely" with a
black eagle painted on them. For they
are the most important things we have
to watch for. Yesterday / saw two
aeroplanes go over our camp here, but
they were our own, looking for the Ger.
mans. But today it is so cloudy and
stormy one can't see what is going on in
the air. Then that is alright for the
clouds bother them too. The clear
moonlight nights are when they are out.
Most of the Custer bunch is still to-
gc:aer, and they are all feeling fine.
Bishop and | are bunking in the same
house, so we have not been parted yet
| rather think that we will be together
most of the time, but am not sure for we
don't know inst what each will do when
we get to France.
Now will tell you what | am learning
"Most important" how to count money.
Our money wasn't any good here until
it was changed into English money. So
yesterday we all got some changed, and
then last night il was sure funny to see
the boys trying to find out how much
money they had, and how much they
had spent. Then another thing, here
whenever you meet person in the road
or on the street they turn to the left.
So | have ran into several people al
ready. As | can't tell near all that hap
pens, | am keeping diary, so will tell
all about these things when | get home
Now | don't know how often | will be
able to write, but you folks can write as
often as you want to, for my address will
always be the same. Co. b, 10th Eng-
neers Forestry, American Expedition
AIRY Force, care Postmaster, New YORK
City, n. y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10

Brdella Ayres, third grade pupil is
spending few days with her father in
Deadwood.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
ARMY Y, Nj. &. A,

A big drive is about to commence for
the purpose OF raising $4,000, 900 for the
Army Y. NJ. G. A. work in America and
Europe. The best testimony of the
value of the Army Y. NJ. &. A. work
are the letters that come back from the
soldiers. Gen. Pershing says, America
could make no greater contribution to
France than to extend to her the Y. NJ.
G.. A."
For the purpose of carrying out Gus
ter county's share in this campaign or
ganization was perfected as follows;
Chairman, Rev. J Herbert Spencer,
Secretary, Rev VIM. 5. Harper.
Treasurer, {. A. kneeland.
County Executive Committee, Messrs.
NJ. A. Willis, T. V. Garock and NJ j.
Bailey.
The local committee are, w. I. Han
ley, Robt. McAdam and X. III. McCul.
Tough.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
FARMERS INSTITUTE.

There will be held at Custer today a
short course Farmers Institute There
will be two meetings fol the men, one
in the afternoon and one in the even
ing, and one meeting for the women and
that in the afternoon. The meeting for
the men will convene in the court room
at 1870 p. m. and the ladies at the Red
Cross room al the same time. Evening
meeting at 7:3O p IN. in the court room.
Very prominent aad able speakers will
be furnished by the state without ex-
pense to US. This should be gala day
for Custer and community.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10

Duet was rendered by Miss Wander
Stein, which was up to the standard of
the balance. Altogether it was an en-
joyable time and the visitors enjoyed
the outing immensely. BY rising vote
the audience gave appreciation of their
enjoyment of the singing and Mrs. c. +.
Perrin's splendid accompaniment.
After the program was concluded the
visitors were entertained to a delightful
lunch prepared by Mrs. Bowman and
Miss Emory which was highly appre-
cisted. Rev. and Edward Harper were
Chauffers Of the party. The visitors
came away impressed by the great work
being done by DR., Woodwork not only
in assisting the sick but in ministering
to them in the things that are medicine
indeed All honor the bic State of South
Dakota and to the DR.. and Mrs. Wood
worth who are first assistants.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
For a Weak Stomach.

As general rule all you need to do is
to adopt diet suited to your age and
occupation and to keep your bowels reg
ular. When you feel that you have
eaten too much and when constipated,
take one Of ChambsrIsin's Tablets.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
RED CROSS NOTES.

The local branch of the Red Cross
Society is still growing and interest is
being maintained as witness the number
of ladies who 20 on Tuesday and THUS
day afternoons TO work, beside taking
home with them a large amount of sew
ing and knitting
Great praise is due to Mrs. Z. II.
Helm, the chairman of supplies, who
engineers the work so well that things
are really being done.
Last Saturday box of finished gar
ments was packed and shipped to Buffalo
Gap, the mother chapter, and contained
goods as follows "A pairs paiamas, Is
hospital bed shirts, Il sweaters, l9 muf-
hers, ] doz. tray cloths, q pair wristets,
10 pairs of sox, 3 bath robes and frac-
ture pillows. This is an exceedingly
good showing for young society like
Custer, which has only been organized
two months.
A movement is on foot to become a
Chapter instead of branch Chapter
because of geographic reasons. The
executive think that such move would
make for efficiency.
The following subscriptions have been
received Mrs f. A. Gira $1,000 Mr..
Ferd Roetzel $780, Mr.. Spencer Bond
$500, and memberships have been en-
rolled as follows Spencer Bond, Mrs
Cooper, Mrs. Spencer Bond, Mrs. r. p.
Harris Mrs. NJ. Bellemare, Mrs. NJ. j.
Kelly, Mrs. Tibtets, also the following
from Ward at the Sanatorium Car-
ence Voorhees,, Odes Cole, Adam Big
noski, Homer Turmark, Harry Stewart,
Ira +. White, and the following from
Dewey Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Hey
wood, Mr.. Piper, Mrs. w +. Woods,
Mrs Lambert, Mrs. Il. +. Garrett, Mr..
and Mrs. f, Starkweather, Mrs. Stearns,
+. +. Ruddock, Mrs. Sarah Clark, Mrs
7. 5. Slider, Ernest Holberger, c. w.
Smith
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
Mrs. p. o. Stuchell Tells How She Cured
Her SON of a Cold,

when my son Ellis was sick with
cold last winter | gave him Chamber
ain's Cough Remedy. 1t helped him at
once and quickly broke up his cold, "
writes Mrs. p, .. Stuchell Homer City,
Pa, This remedy has been In use for
many years. Its good qualities have
been fully proven by many thousands
of people 1t is pleasant and safe to
take,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10

Stanton Jessup and Irene Leming ART
new pupils in the third grade.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-10
CUSTER SCHOOL NOTES.

Evelyn Fisk and Clarkson Jessup
have started to school in the primary
room.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27
TAYLOR ADVANCES
 IN TENNIS MEETS

New York, Dec. 27.-HArold Taylor, holder of the metropolitan junior ten- nis championship, advanced to the semi-fnaI round of the national junior indoor championship on the Seventh reximent courts yesterday. He was the only one Of the juniors to advance through a fourth h-round match. In the national boys championship four players reached the semi-ffna1 round brackets They were Abraham Bass ford 3d and I. Cohen in the upper half of the draw and Cecil Donaldson and F. T. Osgood in the lower half. The 5unior doubles event was started yes terday with a big entry in the counpett- ton. All but two of the first round matches were completed and four teams made their way through the second round.
 Taylor, who has all along been con- sidered one of the most formidable players in the event, experienced little opposition in making his advance yes- terday. His opponent was F. M.Lough- man, a proficient wielder of the racquet, whose slxill, however. was moi great enough against the whirlwind game played by Taylor. The metro politan champion played well from the deep court, and when he advanced to the barrier smashed and volleyed with such surprising speed and accuracy that LouenmRn was unable to inter pose anything like an adequate de- fense Taylor ran off a love set at the opening of hostilities and took the sec ond ct 6-4.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27

course, would display Walter Johnson at least once in each series.
 There seems no doubt that the proposition would be beneficial to ooth Washington and the Western clubs. inasmuch as visiting teams 1T, recent years have not been able to make enough in Washington to pay their board bills. The only thing which the Washington club is uneasy about is that once the team goes to Toronto for a brief stay many dif11~, culties regarding their Washington franchise will arise.
 Discussing the proposal made to the Washington club. President Solmon of Toronto has the following to say:
 "The experience of the Chicago Na> tionals, Detroit. Cleveland, St. Louis and New York Americans in Toronto last summer has caused the club to be deluged with applications for ex~ hibition games at the Island Stadium next year.
 Should the International league de- eide on February F not to operate next season it is our proposition to bring the Washington team to To> ronto for an entire series with each Western team in the American league. The proposal is that IS American league games be played and the To- ronto and Washington clubs are now negotiating to this end"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27
400 Basketball Teams in Army Camps To Date

pr. Joseph B. Raycroft of Prince ton, who is chairman of the Joint Basketball Rules Committee and also director of athletic activities in the army camps, announced to a gather ing Of basketball men at the Hotel Astor last night that basketball would be more extensively played this winter than ever before. He stated that already more than 400 teams were playing in the camps, and soon this number would be greatly increased. It has also been taken up at the naval camps and bids fair, he said, to be the most popular pastime and exercise for the men in the government service.
 This interpretation meeting of the Joint Committee on Basketball Rules attracted a large number of coaches, athletic directors and officials, and the latest changes in the code were discussed and explained. The princi- pal change in the rules this season is an extension of the playing court in the territory behind the baskets. It has been the observation and ex- perience of the committee that player is frequently deprived of a well-earned field goal by what might be properly termed the technicality of being out of bounds. Accordingly the rules ecomittee has added an ex- tension to the court to the end boun- dary line, in the form of an arc, with an expansion of two feet at its great est width, directly back of the basket Thus the entire back board is within bounds, and on the floor the player has an additional leeway of two feet under the basket.
 The change is an experiment, and although there was a great deal of opposition to it by some of the off, cials, last night, it will be tried this year wherever the facilities of the court make it practicable. Where the end boundary line is a wall, this extension does not apply, and the end line must be straight line, as here tofore. Other changes in the rules provide for eight-minute quarters for teams representing secondary sch ools, while six-minute quarters are suggested for school boys under 16 years of age. The members of the joint committee e@A Os LII. OOoCpn IscyCTO1I, 1I1HC0- ton, chairman; George T. Hepbron, | representing the A. A. U.. secretary; Ralph Morgan, L. W. St. John, pr. James Naismith, representing the Y. M. c. A.; Bayard H. Christy, pr. John Brown, Dr. James B. Modesitt, William H. Ball, Charles A. Dean, Eugene c. Gibney, and Harry D. Henschel, representing the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
 It was reported that the intercol- legiate schedule would soon be an- l nounced. There will be 30 games | played by the six teams in the league, which includes Cornell, Columbia, | Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. The season will open on Jan. 6, with Columbia at Pennsylva- nia. Other opening games will be: Jan. ', Dartmouth at Princeton; Jan. | il, Cornell at Columbia, and Jan. 12, Yale at Dartmouth and Princeton at Pennsylvania.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27
COLLEGE COACHES
 GIVE FREE HELP

Biting comment that was spent on professional college coaches less than a year ago may now be gracefully withdrawn in view of their voluntary efforts of the past season. Most of the topliners in coachdom who were under fat contracts in time of peace have shown an unexpected willing ness to teach football and other sports to soldiers and sailors since the forces were mobilized. and their zeal is now a credit to the craft.
 The professional coach was the cleaning object of attack for the up- filters. who wanted extravagances in college sport cut down. The money that was squandered by big colleges for football training topped all the other items. and the ITO coaches led the payroll procession. It was even intimated that the professionals could do 100 yards in 10 seconds flat when it came to pursuing the dollar bill.
 When thousands of young men as- sembled at cantonments and training camps early last fall there came the opportunity for the coaches to prove groundless the libel that they were OdC TUT 'l11C 4AAOAAOJ OAOANSoANSAJ e~A4SA solely. And the coaches, losing no speed, went more than half way to meet the opportunity.
 Percy GIaughton. who normally gathered $7,5OO or $8,0O0 for telling the youth of Harvard how to beat Yale, directed football affairs at Aver for not one cent. He cut himself loose from other pressing business affairs to train lot of soldiers. Leo Leary did the same thing. Instead of talk ing charge of the Harvard informals as he was sought to do for a substan- tial stipend. he turned to the right and assumed control of the navy eleven. without pay.
 At Yale, Tad Jones cheerfully ab- rogated his coaching contract, which called for heavy salary, and left in the early weeks of the season to en- gage in war work. And Billy Bull who occupies in Yale gridiron affairs niche similar to Leo Leary's al Harvard. turned aside the call to New Haven and went to work with the Newport naval reserves free o1 charge. Out in Worcester, Frank Cavanaugh could have earned a good sea$on's pay by coaching Holy Cross but he chose to go into the army ant
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27

In the event the International league does not take the field next season Toronto may be given a brief tryout as a major league city. An effort is being made by the owners of the Toronto club to have the Washington team play a Is game stretch at Island Stadium. the Toronto ball park, next summer. The Senators. if the plan is successful. will play each of the four Western American league teams-the Chicago White Sox. the Detroit Ti~ gers. the Cleveland Indians and the St. Louis lrowns-in four game se- ries.
 President Solomon Solmon of the Toronto club is carrying on negotia- tions with Clark Griffith, manager and part owner of the Washington club, according to a high official of the International league. The idea is td transfer 16 of the home games of the Washington team to Toronto, so that the fans there will have an op- portunity to look over the crack play CTS from the States. In the event ma jor league baseball is we'll received the Washington franchise may be shifted to Toronto for the period of the war.
 Each of the four teams would dis play one of the big stars of the game Detroit, Cobb: Chicago, Ed Collins; Cleveland. Speaker. and St. Louis, Sisler. The Washington club, Of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27
Bob Fitzsimmon's' Last Battle.

Bill Lang knocked out Bob Fitz- simmons in the 18th round in Austra- lia on Dec. 27, 1909, just eight years ago today. This was Ruby Roberts last battle, his defeat by the third rate fighter, Lang, finally convinced him that he was "all in" as a boxer. Bob was AT when he returned to the land where he had first won fame as a pugilist to make, his inglorious exit from the game in which he had 90 long been supreme. Prior to that he had been whipped by Jack Jonnson and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, as well as by Jeffries. Bob fought his first professional ring battle in 1881 in New Zealand, and a few years later went to Australia He came to Ameri- ca in 1890. He won the worlds mid dleweight title a year later by defeat ing Dempsey and annexed the heavy weight championship in 1897 by whip ping Corbett.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-27
FIRST OF COLLEGE
 MEETINGS TONIGHT

New York, Dec. 27.-The first of several important intercollegiate meet 1ngs to take place here this week will be held at the Hotel Astor tonight, when the executive committee of the National Collegiate Athletic asgocia- tfon will convene and arrange for the anual meeting of the organization to- morrow. What this organization does vii have an important bearing on in- tercollegiate competition next season.
 Lieut.. Col. Palmer E. Pierce, presi- dent of the national body, will pre- side at the committee meeting to- night. The other members of the committee are Professor Frank w. Nicolson, Wesleyan; Professor C. L.. Maxcy. Williams: Professor Erastus Palmer. c. c. N. T.: R. T. Albercrom- bic, Johns Hopkins; Professor H. E.. Buchanan. Tennessee: Professor c. D.. Coons, Denison; Professor George w. and M: President H. c. Parmelee, Colorado School of Mines. and Pro- lessor A. D. Browne. Oregon State.
 The meeting will have the unusual importance because President Pierce will bring from the officials at Wash ington any suggestion which the gov ernment may care to make on it's at titude about college sports for next season. It was at the suggestion of Secretary of War Baker that the or ganiZation so strongly advocated in- tercollegiate football last season, a suggestion which was followed by practically all the colleges except Harvard Yale. and Princeton. At these institutions Varsity football was dropped for military training, and it is very likely that these three universities will pursue the same course next season.