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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-01-27
SECRETARIES' MEETING
HELD AT RAP


Secretaries of the Black Hills Com
mercial Clubs held a late meeting FRI
day night at Rapid City. The Rapid
City, Lead Spearlish, Hot Springs,
Newell and Deadwood clubs were repre-
sented by their secretaries, Secretary J.
K. Hull, of Rapid City, presiding
Previous to the secretarial meeting,
the visitors attended a meeting Of Rapid
City business men with the Pennington
county legislators, called to adopt eiTec-
tive means of pressing the claims Of the
School of Mines before the legislature.
One of the features of the secretarial
meeting was the announcement that the
Newell club would probably become a
member at the next meeting which was
then placed at that point TO give their
club members better understanding Of
the work being accomplished by the as
ISOLATION
The matter of a folder was discussed
but bids were not opened, as it was de-
cided to enlarge the specifications trfle
and a special committee was appointed
with power to act. The committee will
meet January 27th at Rapid City.
1t was decided to place a map of the
Black Hills on the back Of the uniform
letter heads to be used on Letter Writ
ing Day in April and bids for printing
ten thousand letter heads will be asked.
Resolutions calling upon the state leg
islature for an appropriation for an edu-
cational survey Of the state and for a
sufficient appropriation to enlarge and
maintain the State School of Mines at
Rapid City and the L. = fish hatchery
at Spearfish were adopted
Arrangements were made to have the
association take up the question of the
blocking of the Black and Yellow High,
way at Whitewood and near Piedmont.
K. c. Thorpe, of Lead was elected
treasurer of the association for the ensu-
ing year.
Steps to have national endorsement
by the war department or other Wash
ington official circles of the George
Washington Highway, were taken.
Plans for erecting bilboards adver-
tising the Black Hills, at prominent out
side points, were broached and Secretary
Troth was appointed committee Of one
to investigate and prepare a plan for
such advertising
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-01-27

use for it contained no provision for
granting franchises TO electric light
companies, which they really needed
and wanted
Haafke is asking for further improve
ments at the State School of Mines, in
the way of an appropriation Of $4,000
for new building, and $4,000 for the
equipment of the same.
The Bucholz bill to make more liberal
provisions for the use of the absent
voter provisions of the law has passed
the house, and il enacted by the senate
will prevent any further such trouble as
was found when it was desired % allow
the soldiers on the border to vote last
fall
While not along state legislative lines,
the fact that the final determination of
title to the state forest reserve lands
near Custer has been adiudicated among
the d fferent departments at Washing
ton, and the state department has re-
ceived notice that the Secretary Of the
Interior has signed the order directing
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office to Immediately certify South Da-
kota Forest lieu land selections to the
Department for final action, which
means that the long drawn out negotia-
tions of years to get the state title per-
fected to the lieu land selections near
Custer is at an end, and the state title to
that tract will no longer be questions by
the forest department.
In the list of nurses who came to this
city to secure action on the bill for reg
istration of trained nurses, a large per-
After getting their bill started one from
Deadwood, and one from Redfed re-
mained on the ground, and watched
every move until they had pushed the
bill through both houses and got it to
the Governor for his endorsement as one
of the first laws of the session
Evans, in the senate, presented a bill
to legalize elections in certain counties,
and authorizing their bonding for out
standing Indebtedness, to cover the
situation in some Of the northwest coun
ties OF the state.
When the legislative members left fol
their homes the last of the week, they
carried bales of the new prohibition &C
which has been prepared by the state
anti-saloon league. They said they
wanted them for distribution, and L
get the views of their friends, and they
parent dispute on that issue is whether
any law enacted shall be bone dry" o.
allow limited use of liquor under stric
regulation of its use. There appears t
be decided dispute on this question
A short bill has been presented by Rep
resentatiyes Eggen ard Kaas, which at
tempts to apply the regulations of tn,
Federal government against the takn,
of LIQUOR onto an Indian reservation, t.
the state, and which they insist vii
make the state perfect Sabarah. Tn,
long bill introduced by the anti-salool
league allows any one individual to shil
in one quart of boose, or case of bee
each month, under regulations and re
strictions when would mean NOR
trouble and publicity than the aversg
man would want to 90 through to get
drink, and which puts penalty on al
express agent who delivers shipmen
to topper, and would make any expires
agent rather gun shy" on taking an
chances with shipment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-01-27
Better Service to You

We don't want you to think of the First National Bank
just place to deposit your money although of
glad to have you keep large balance with
as is possible
1t is desire to render patrons every service and
accommodation that reasonably be expected of
The Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine, which have
just added to equipment makes possible for to
better service than before in the handling
OF your account
By the machine method your account is kept in balance
all the time. IT, sometimes happens you want state
ment of your balance in hurry, give it to you
including todays checks and deposits in less than five
minutes.
neatly printed statement made out the Burroughs
goes each deposor every month The shows
all checks and deposits and gives the balance of your
count to date taking the place of the tedious and unsats
factory plan of calling in and balancing pass books
The machine affords absolute protection against
in figure handling. 1t can't make mistake. You can
always be that your machne-gured balance is
rect.
The increased speed accuracy and protection of this
mechanical bookkeeping system, added to thorough
knowledge of good, consistent banking and business
methods, makes possible for offer you mprov
ed service that equal that furnished by the countrys
most progressive banks.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
FALLING HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Of DanderIne Right Now-AIso
Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence of a neglected
scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing SO destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
of Its luster, Its strength and its very
life; eventually producing u feverish-
ness and itching of the scalp, which
If not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a 25 cent bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life, luster and luxuriance
which is SO beautiful. 1t will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear
ance Of abundance; an Incompatible
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after Just a
few weeks use, when you will actual
ly see lot Of fine, downy hair-new
hair-growing all over tho scalp. Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
CANADA'S BONUS
TO FARM LABORERS
Offering 160 Acres to Farm
Hands.

Canada today, with the great do
mand that Is made upon 1t for food
stuffs, finds itself almost in the throes
Of labor famine. A novel means Of
solving the problem has been evolved
by the Canadian Government at Ottawa
on Wednesday last, when it was de-
cided to practically bonus every farm
hand going to Canada, by giving him
100 acres free as homestead, and to
allow the time he would be working out
for. the good wages offered, to count as
residence duties on the homestead.
Western Canada has been big pro-
ducer of grain and it is estimated that
there is shortage Of over thirty thou
sand men, necessary to produce an av-
erage crop in 1917. This shortage has
been caused by so many young men
having left the farms to go to war, and
1t Is essential to make an unprecedent-
ed offer Of this kind, to fill their places
on the land at once.
It has been required in the past to
do three years duties on homesteads
to get title, but an additional induce
ment has been offered by practically
reducing this term to two years. As
explained by an official Of the Canadi-
an Government, Canada's need for
farm laborers is intense, and excep-
tional inducements are being offered
to get the needed farm workers at
once. A farmland will make his en-
try for one Of the 160-acre farms, sat
isfy the Government that he is work
ipy FOR a formar and that time will an.
ply as residence on the land filed for,
Just the same as If he was actually
living on it.-Advertisement.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

ls little chapel on the mountain top.
But 1t Is SO small that few can find q
place therein, and most kneel outside.
The sermons preached are In Gaelic,
and the masses continue from day.
break until noon.
st. Patrick is on record as having
visited The Reek in A. D. AL and
spent forty days on its summit, hid
den from the world by the mists hang
ing about the lower portion Of the
mountain. The legend says that he
was assailed by huge black birds,
which only took to flight when he
rang his bell against them. The bell
rolled down the mountain, but an an
gel came and restored it to the saint.
All the men Of Erin heard this ring
ing of the bell, and it Is stated now
that 1t Is often heard again.
Afterward st. Patrick was visited by
angels, and from their leader he wrest-
ed the following pledges: That as
many souls should be saved as could
ill the horizon which he looked upon !;
that on every Thursday seven souls
and on every Saturday twelve souls
should be freed from purgatory; that
whoever recited the last verse Of his
hymn constantly should suffer no tor
ments In the next world, and that on
the last day he should be appointed to
sit In judgment on the sins Of Gael.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
ERIN'S HOLY PLACE
For Fifteen Centuries The Reek
Has Played Important Part
in Country's History.

IT IS in the month July that the
great annual pilgrimage Of The
Reek takes place.
The Reek, sometimes known as
Croagh Patrick, is the Mount Zion Of
the Emerald isle. For on its summit
st. Patrick is said to have wrung from
the angel many promises for the SAL
walton Of the people he had made his
own.
For fifteen centuries this mountain
has played an important part In the re-
ligious history Of Ireland, and year
by year people journey by the thou
sands up the mountain, which is about
5000 feet high. It is steep and diff
ficult ascent, occupying the best part
of three hours, and most Of the pill
grims make it in the evening, so as to
hold their vigil on the summit. There
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
WHY THE SHAMROCK is WORN
Custom Not Only In Honor Of the Saint
but In Remembrance Of Days
Of Famine.

Few who put sprig of shamrock
in their buttonhole on the 18th of
March realize that these little green
from death in dire famine times.
In 1896 the poet Spenser declares
that the war had brought the miser-
able Inhabitants of Munster to a point
where they "fock to plot Of water
crosses or shamrocks as to feast"
In his "view of Ireland" he describes
this as the depth of ruin to which a
land formerly having abundant corn
and cattle had been plunged.
The troublous times continued and
the shamrock Is mentioned as an ar
ticle of food again and again. Fynes
Morrison, in 1898, writes that the herb
is still "being snatched out of the
bitches for food"
Withers in ABUSES Stript and
Whipt" (1613) sings:
And for my clothing in a mantle 60
And feed on shamrocks as the Irish doc.
Not until later was the shamrock
used as the national emblem of Erin.
Nathaniel COlgan, member of the
Royal Irish academy, says the earliest
record of the wearing O. the green
Is contained in the diary Of Thomas
Dinely, who wrote in 1887:
"17th day Of March yearly is st.
Patrick. an immovable feast, when the
Irish Of all stations and conditions
wear crosses in their hats, some of
pins. some Of green ribbon, and the
vulgar superstitiously wear sham
rogues, three-leaved grass, which they
likewise eat (they say to cause a
sweet breath). The common people
and servants also demand their Pat
rick's groat of their masters, which
they go expressly to town, though half
a dozen miles off, to spend, where
sometimes 1t amounts to a piece of
eight or a cobb apiece, and very few
of the Jealous are found sober at
night"
A later reference to the wearing of
the shamrock appears in the works of
DR.. Caleb Threlkeld, botanist of the
early eighteenth century. He says
The people wear the plant in their
mats In commemoration of st. Patrick,
believing that st. Patrick used the
three-lobed leaf to explain the Chris
tian Trinity. This belief is generally
said by antiquarians to have arisen
In the fourteenth century, almost n
thousand years after the time of Pa
tritius," who died in A. d. 493.
In that year, says the Annale of
Ulster, "Patritius, the arch-apostle Of
the Scott Qrish) rested on the 10th
day Of the calends Of April March
Id In the one hundred and twentieth
year Of his life, the sixtleth year after
he had come to Ireland to baptize the
Scott"
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
SSS$S e
All Of His Own Race.

One enthusiastic writer tells us that
"in New York today an Irishman may
rise In the morning and bathe in the
water from Croton dam, built by Irish
James Coleman; breakfast on Cudahy
bacon, then take the subway, planned
by John Mcdonald, past the College
of the City Of New York, built by
Thomas Dwyer, to his office in a sky
scraper built by John d. Crimmins.
Arrived at his office, he may cable to
Alaska over telegraph line laid by
David Lynch, order certain freight
sent by James ]. Hills Great North
ern railway, and then may rest and
read William Laffins New York Sun,
delivered by the American News COM
pany. founded by Patrick Farrelly.
Then, If 1t happens to be springtime,
he may lean from his window and toss
a coin to the hurdy-gurdy man who
plays st. Patrick's Day."
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK ''CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get n 1O-cent box.


Sick headache. biliousness, dixsi-
ness. coated tongue. foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food In the
bowels or sour. gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the In
testines. instead Of being cast out
Of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue 1t causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing. sick.
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach. remove the sour. undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent boz
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

1T WAS the foundation of st. Pat
rick's greatness that his renova-
ton Of Ireland was not a revolu-
ton. He left old institutions and
traditions untouched, wherever they
could be purged Of a taint of super
stition. There were septs and clans,
laws and judges, bards and kings be-
fore him, and they continued after
him. He built his church carefully.
To disarm political opposition he ap-
pealed straight to the heads Of the
clans. He aimed at the creation of
a native clergy. He tried to give ev-
cry community place Of worship. At
his death 365 churches lay along the
routes his journeys had taken; 365
bishops were distributed throughout
the land, 5000 priests ministered to
the spiritual wants Of the nation. He
attempted to throw into the church
thus suddenly created strong element
of stability by systematizing it on the
models of the canons and making &C.
clesiastical law effective In every de-
partment.
he did not believe in sanctity un-
associated with education. Under him
religion created great monasteries, and
monasteries created great schools. By
those schools st. Patrick is factor
in the history of Europe. Even be-
fore he went to Ireland he had seen the
days when Ostrogoths established
themselves in Pannonia and Thrace,
when the Visigoths sacked the Italian
peninsula from end to end and carved
out Spanish kingdom within the do
mains Of great Rome, when the Huns
rode their blazing course up the Dan
ube and the Rhine almost to the
ocean; when the Vandals terrorized
Spain and crushed the power Of the
empire in northern Africa, when the
Salian Franks took firm grip Of north
ern Gaul. His long life stretches over
a period during which the whirlwind
Of barbaric invasions swept away all
but a remnant of the ancient learn
ings. But now the world went to
school to Ireland, and the Irish brought
their school to the world. Religion,
the ancient classics, law, history, nat
ural science, agriculture, manual
training, the use of implements and
the forge, all came within the scope
Of these intense and practical schol-
ars.
Not without reason has the name of
st. Patrick been held in veneration
through these many generations.
There Is nowhere teacher whose
services for learning exerted so wide
an influence in time so critical for
all culture. There is nowhere states
man whose activity so completely re-
formed the character Of any people.
There is nowhere such national hero
whose fame is sounded across fifteen
centuries and can still stir emotions
Of enthusiasm far beyond his nations
shores. There Is nowhere a saint
whose teachings are blended like his
with the destinles of his nation.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil. calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them. how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's. different.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup Of Figs" Its
action Is positive. but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take It; that 1t never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves q sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for a 5o.cent bottle
Of California Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
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-Four or Flve.Leaved shamroeI

Some say the four-leaf shamrock is
The shamrock Of luck, and others that
t Is the five leaved one that holds the
magic touch. This latter Is rare and
prized and is said to grow from de-
,aylng body, as the nettle Is said to
spring from buried human remains.
The shamrock Of luck must be found
without searching, without seeking"
When thus discovered, It should be
cherished and preserved as an in
yincible talisman.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
Indians at the Front.

According to an official report, 1,200
indians from the Canadian reserves
have enlisted for active service in the
war. Indians at the front, 1t Is said,
have proved themselves excellent rifle
men and possessed Of great powers Of
endurance. Last year Indians contrib
uted over $1,000 to war funds. and In
dian women have been noteworthy con-
tributors Of knitted socks, mufflers and
other comforts for the soldiers.-Out-
took
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
s00THEs ITCHING scALPs
And Prevents Falling Hair Do cutIeur1
Soap and Ointment

On retiring, gently rub spots Of dan
druff and itching with Cutcura Oint-
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water using
plenty Of Soap. Cultivate the use Of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment for every.
day toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
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Presidents Of Irish Parent;

Presidents of Irish parentage were
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew jackson.
James Polk, james Buchanan, Ches-
:er A. Arthur and William Mckinley.
Calhoun, also Irish, said, "War may
make us great, but peace alone can
make US both great and free"
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
In Education and Sports.

Among the Irish educators in Amer
lea may be mentioned Horace Greeley.
William Rainey Harper and William
II. Maxwell. The Olympic games Of a
few years ago were planned by Sulli-
van. Halpin and Mike Murphy. Mar
tin Sheridan, the great aH-around ath-
lete. is Irish, and the national game
origin,
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
The Skye Terrier.

The two British sailors had secured
tickets for the dog show and were gaz-
Ing at the skye terrier which had so
much hair that it looked more like q
woolen rug than dog.
(which end Is is 'ead, Bill" asked
one.
''Blowed If I know" was the reply.
'But ERE, I'll stick pin in i'm, and
you look which end barks."
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
NYHsese
Irish Leaders In American HIstor

irish Leaders In American History.
The Declaration of Independence
has twelve Irish names. Matthew
Thornton, James Smith and George
Taylor were born In Ireland; John
Hancock, William Whipple, Robert
Treat Paine. George Read, Thomas Nc
Kean, Edward Nelson and Thomas
Lynch were Of Irish parentage. The
secretary Of congress who prepared the
immortal document from the rough
draft of Thomas Jefferson was Charles
Thompson, a native of Derry, while
Captain Dunlop, still another Irish
man. printed 1t and published 1t to the
world. Captain Dunlop was the found
er Of the first daily paper In Phlladel-
phia.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
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River Shannon

The Shannon is the longest river In
ireland and the United Kingdom. Be-
low Limerick 1t widens into an estuary
SO miles long and two to ten miles
wide. Many Irish ballads have been
written about this river.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

Doubts the Saying.
II don't believe that time is money,
do youY"
mo; usually have time to spare"
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
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lrIshmen Given Credit

The roster Of the Revolutionary war
is bright with Irish names. General
Montgomery was native of Donegal.
Lord MountJoy In n speech before the
house of commons declared, "You have
lost America through the IRISH"
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15
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IreIand's Towers.

The towers, which are numerous
throughout Ireland, have been the SUBJ
ject Of much controversy among an
hquarians. They are thought to have
been used as a means Of defense.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

contraries Meeting.
II found Mrs. Smith in when her
maid said she was not at home"
$50 you found her out"
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

Toronto Is to have street names
painted on the corner lamps.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig.
nal little liver pills put up 40 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

Differs, From Bartlett.
Bix-Say, what's the rest Of that
quotation beginning truth is mighty
Dix-"Scarce," I guess.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

One of the principal ingredients In
n good time Is your Imagination.
Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

The first glass factory in the United
states was built in 1850.