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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-11

With hes support of the loyal chmmso OF tBvi vicinity, The Fourth Regiment Band of this city, will
carry out Hea largest advertising campaign for the city of WATERFOWL and Conghn county that has
ever been atempe in this state
We wlc cover more twor, bring the name of Wamnwnb dre more people, leave better i'm
preston do our city md count more 1 and do ttrh less money than would takeb carry na any
other form of successful heing
In 1918 we went to heP afc coast Wei played concerts. apuh won first prize at Los Angeles
at the Es Natonal Convention in competition with the best bands the United Stsw wen to San
Diego and duplicated our success by winning first prize at the Moose rationale Convention, and we won
apam and the most fNohen newspapers comment and advehing for our city in the leading pa
grsave cities the United States are paying newspapers and periodicals. thousands of dollars for
each and every year
This year we are gongo the Atlantic coast W will play at the Eks Nahnl Conventions
BOSTON and will play concerts nroue in the principal eastern cities of eU ned States w e exet
to be gone about thirty days and play mnrs in twenty dhwmGh cities
We kmwt that we have a better bad ts.y year that we had in 195 And we feel that we can
gain Just as much recognition for ouwav@ and the city we represents in the east as we did in the
west We VANITY your supports toward making tRtn trip possible ..##.
"ew want from any ctzmo this locality isl heir patronage w are gm to put on a series of five
concerts and five military balls. These concerts and balls are 50 timed Ao not cnhct with ayhmg
tina sboohdm Td city at the present time. Our concerts will be better han any others you have
ever ever heard this band put on Wen we say hatthe entire band will furnish music. for telm military
balls it's unnecessary to make further comment Our d nnmbnngH thirty fw ns will be as
sedY aoSs and you will my the whole program.
Ort ticket to the cmrs6 for he ene season will cost you 1880 each. A tickle admitting a
gentleman and lady to FIVE concerts and FIVE military balls will cost $1,000 ThNB an average cost
of fifty EI per In to each aurhon
may not able call upon you ak you personally to buy these tickets 50 soon as we
would like mtw feel sure that you will eventually join the happy crowd and boost so why not
drop IN at Krdsrs before you area asked and make. your rsayahorsw whitley you can gdg good seats
Because fhmheda floors pace tickets to thu: military basw will be sold only with two concert tick
cts The frtt VIC hundred people who buy two concert tickets for the season will have the privilege
of buying hem military ball season ticket @
HE FOURTH REGIMEN BAND.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-11

kAMPESkA AND HIGHLAND.
This and That.

|
This and That.
In n of our last McClure's mag,
azines we ran onto the following lit
tie poem from the pen of Berton Bra
ley.
We used to think Mr.. Braley was
just a mere rhymester with a lucky
stroke to his name once in a while.
He wrote for some time for the Min
neapolis Daily News and had some
verse or rhyme in almost daily. Well,
Of course, in this he was at a disad-
vantage, at least, in these contribu-
e or of which I knew at that
time), because scarcely any man can
write real verse, and turn out n a
day, however brief. OF course, some
splendid verse has been composed, as
well as some fine music, in a very
brief period of time, in a day or less,
but it is not the rule.
Be that as it may eve are no critic)
Mr.. Braley has written some good
verse, very good indeed, and any, one
that can write like the following lines
surely has ability.
The poem:
An Ideal.
/ wish | were as trig a man.
AS big a man
AS bright a man,
| wish were as right a man in all this
earthly show,
As broad and high and long a man
AS strong a man
As fine a man
AS pretty nea divine a man as onel
| used to know.
! wish ] were as grave a man
AS brave a man
As keen a man,
AS learned and serene a man. as fair
to friend and foe,
! wish | owned s-agaciousness
And ~graciousness
As should a man
Who hopes to be as good a man as one
I used to know.
I'd be a creature glorious
Victorious
A wonder-man,
Not iust--as nova blunder man
whose ways and thoughts are
slow.
II | could only be the man.
One half of one degree he man
| used to think my father was. when i
& was ten or SO!
am not prepared to state. i may
pc mistaken. it may be that England
has not done her best fighting, that
she is still unprepared rather than
on the verge of exhaustion. but the
latter has appealed to me. / do not
especially sympathize with Germany
However, clearly, Germany is rsaping
the rewards of thorough preparation,
Of alertness.
This war appears to me a little
ike this: II a man in business has al
dig, Well established business, every.
thing has come his way for i long
time, he has been a leader and IN
stead Of living up to his place. onpor.
tunities and possibilities, not alive
and up to the minute, active and
awake. has allowed himself to become
largely Indifferent and n~eglectfnl 81
NJ business and along came 4 man Ia
IKE line cf business 81 interests. i
fslluw Who put brains and the fullest
NJ md activity Into his business. rs
old established man would soon wake
uD to the fact that something war
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-11

Would II interest our readers,th those
3of them Who did not notice 81 Is NV
Ithat ! m. q q. Rodrigpes Il liyin9,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-19
MIR. and Mrs. A. Tharp Celebrate
Golden Wedding.

The following account OF the cele-
bration of the golden wedding annl-
versary Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Iharp,
former well known residents of Leon,
but for number OF years residents
of Grand Island, Neb., is taken from
of July 5th:
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Tharp, 324 North Walnut street, was
the scene of fitting celebration yes
terday, when this venerable old cou-
pie celebrated their fiftieth or golden
wedding anniversary, in the circle OF
large number of relatives. All OF
the children with the exception OF
their Oldest daughter who resides in
Washington were in attendance and
assisted in making the event one to
be long remembered by all present.
The home throughout was very tas-
tily decorated with the national col
ors together with golden, flowers suit.
able to the occasion. A feature OF
the celebration was>an elegant dinner
which was served the guests. The
wedding party had the distinction Of
eating from the same table that they
did fifty years ago, which had been
made from cherry tree cut by MI,
Vharp over Sky years since. 2
Mr.. and Mrs. Tharp were the reclp-
tents of many useful and valuable
gifts in memory of the occasion, and
among them being a gold pin from
two lady friends in Iowa who were
in attendance at their marriage. Out
of the number Of sixty-seven who at
tended the wedding ceremony half a
century ago, only fourteen are stilE
living.
At the close of the dinner Rev.
Shick made very appropriate speech
presenting each of the children with
an envelope containing a five dollar
gold piece as a token of remembrance
from their parents. After the dinner
Russell Albert Frederick Tharp, in
FAINT son Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. f; Iharp,
and grandson of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Tharp, was christened by the Kew.
John Grant Shicl, who used the. r1tu-
al of the Methodist Eposcopal chufch
for baptising infants.
The honored couple are today re-
ceiving the congratulations from a
host of friends for many years OF
continued happiness and prosperity:
Those in attendance We're: Mr.. and
Mrs. A. S. Tharp, son Bryan and
daughter Miss Beulah, of Elm Creek,
Neb.; Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. johnson
and. son Ralph of Alliance, Neb.; Mr..
and\ Mrs. Fred Tharp, son Russell
and daughter Mildred of Missoula,
Mont, Mrs. M. O'Brien of Blunt, s.
D.; Floyd Tharp of Gillette, Wyo.;.
Mrs. E. R. Potts and daughter Mar
win of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Mr.. Makever
and daughter of Stromberg, Neb.;.
Rev. and Mrs. j. G. Shick and Mrs.
Kramer
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-19
Weather and Crop Bulletin.
For the week ending July II, 10.

For the week ending July II, 1917.
Des Moines, Iowa.
Though the average temperature.
was somewhat below the normal, yet,
there was sufficient warmth and sun
shine during the week to maintain
erately cool and dry weather prevail
ing since the first of the month has
been especially favorable for small
grain, which is now almost free from
rust. The straw is, however, rather
short, but the heads are filling we'll
and promise good yields. Early oats,
rye, barley and winter wheat harvest
and will begin in central districts the
coming week. Haying is progressing
in all districts under satisfactory con-
ditions generally, but the crop is
light with little or no clover in the
southern counties. Although corn,
made rapid growth, it is still small
for the middle of July. However, the
the crop as whole is very promising.
Early potatoes are being harvested:
but the tubers are mostly small and
the yield is not quite up to eXpecta-
tons. A good soaking rain is needed
for potatoes and pastures and would
benefit corn. Considerable damage
was done by hail in several localities,
especially in Washington and north
ern Scott counties.
Following is the estimated crop
acreage for this year: Corn 1O,242,-
900 acres, oats 5,23S,500, winter
wheat 33, 900, spring wheat l 70, 500.
barley 258,S00, rye 1929, flax y
400, potatoes $3.50, hay 100000,
alfalfa 1925, pastures 1895, 800.
township assessors, was as follows:
Corn 8 ,479,OOO, oats 5,199,269, win
ter wheat 296,220, spring wheat
|172,421, barley 265.04S, rye 1885,.
flax 1858, potatoes 1891, hay s.
702,S55, alfalfa 1927 pastures g.
461, $50.
Geo. M. Chapel,
DirnnfOr
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-19

Duane. Kelley and Richard six
Doris, Margaret and Wilma; two
grandsons-in- law-Alfred w. Hulmes
and Harlow Frederick; and one
great grandson-Ma Master Alfred w.
Hulmes jr., just two ~ears old.-La--
mOni Chronicles
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-19
Special Eighth Grade Examination.

A special eighth grade examina.
ton will be held at the High School
building Thursday and Friday, July
26fh and 9th. Pupils who have
earned some passing grades Will pc
ton at this time.
Mabel Horner,
County Superintendent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-19

Do you get up at night: Sanol is
surely the best for all kidney or
bladder troubles. Sanol gives relief
in "a hours from all backache and
bladder troubles. Sanol is guar
antaed remedy 35c and 81 bot
tie at the rug store. 38-18
Its my observation, though, that
the woman who fishes for husband
doesn't often catch anything worth
WHILE" says Dad Burnt.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-19

Those present at the family reun-
ion were: Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. Ander-
son; five sons-Andrew, Daniel, Ben
jamin, Oscar and David; two daugh-
ters-Mrs. Anna Dancer, and MISS
Nellie Anderson; five daughters-in-
law-Mrs. Andrew, Mrs. David, Mrs.
Oscar, Mrs. B. M. and Mrs. David; six
grandsons-Scott, Howard, Dean,
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
German Soldiers Destroy Munitions For Metal Prizes

A scandal in the German army is revealed in official documents taken from recently captured prisoners, showing that the occasional intuition crisis and shortages from which Ger many is known to suffer are in part due to the munitions wasted and stol- en and demonstrating the seriousness of the metal shortage which Germany is facing.
 That not a single ounce of metal be wasted, premiums were offered by the minister of war to the soldiers for returning all used cartridges, shells and bits of metal with which every battlefield is covered. The premiums offered were so attractive that the sol diers hit upon the idea of taking the shells. cartridges and munitions ser we'd them, mutiliating or otherwise destroying them and then returning the broken bits as so much metal picked up in the trenches and on the battlefields.
 Full details of the graft and scandal are contained in the following official circular of the German minister of war:
 Tt has come to the knowledge of the minister of war that on many Oc- casiols the military authorities chars- ed with the supplying of munitions have not delivered integrally to the respective units the quantities receiv- ed at the shipping depot, but have had recourse to various expedients in or der to secure for themselves the pre- mium offered for the salvage of munitions
 Gases of cartridges have been brok- en open, the steel torn out, the powder burned and the empty cartridges re. turned as having been found and burned by the troops.
 "The bands about certain project lies. that were perfectly usable, have been torn of. the fuses unscrewed, the shell thrown away and the cop per bands and fuses returned as hay ing been found by the troops.
 "Other projectiles thoroughly in tact have been thrown away in order to permit accomplices to find them and return them for the recOmpense given for the salvage of munitions.
 Copies of this circular furnished to troops at the front must be destroyed immediately after being read"
 Because this last paragraph was not obeyed a number of these circulars have come into the hands Of the French military authorities from pris- oners.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

NEW YORK, Sept. Amy notion which might have been floating around that Tabor" in America is looking for peace at any price move ment was dissipated when official word was handed out at the head quarters of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 2S0 Broadway of which Samuel Gompers is chair man-that representatives of 100000 or more laboring men are going to hold conference on labor and dem ocracy" at Minneapolis in September. during which labor will perfect plans to fight the great war to a finish.
 The coming conference has the backing also of the Big Four"-lo- comotive engineers, railroad firemen, trainmen and conductors-in the idea that American labor should give its entire support to licking Germany to a frazzle; to fight it out until there's nothing left between the Rhine and Russia but a big hole into which the North sea is to be dumped some pleas ant day.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
TO THE FIGHTING DAY
By Frank L. Stanton

By Frank L. Stanton The boy with the regimentals And the bright light in his eye, And the folks-they wait At the old home-gate For to see him marching by. And it's March away To the fighting-day,
 March-march awayI" So soon from the Place of Playing, Where the sweet home-roses stay Where his brightest skies Were a Mothers eyes To march as Man, away! To march away
 To the fighting day,
 March-march away, So soon from the hearts that held
 them
 As little children then; But the Country's call Rang clear to all And it made them leap to Men!- To march away To the fighting day,
 March-march away! The boy in his regimentals, And awayi-till the battles won And the Mothers pride At her soldiers side: He is the Country's son," And they march away To the battle-day
 They march-march awayi
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
TOilerS Goal Not Gold Alone

Writes Jenrey Farnol in the London Chronical:
 At an uncomfortable hour I arrived at a certain bleak railway platform. and in due season. stepping into a train was whirled away northward. And as I journeyed. hearkening to the talk of my companions. men much travelled and of many nationalities. my mind was agog for the marvels and wonders I was to see in the work shops of Great Britain. Marvels and wonders I was prepared for, and yet for once how far short of fact were all my fancies,
 Britain has done great things in the past; she will, pray. do even greater in the future; but surely never have mortal eyes looked on an effort so stI- pendous and determined as she is sus- aiming and will sustain until this most bloody of wars is ended.
 The deathless glory of our troops, their blood and agony and scorn of death have been made pegs on which to hang much in different writing and more bad verse-there have been let ters also. sheaves of them, in many of which effusions one may discover a wondering surprise that our men can actually and really fight that Britain is still the Britain of Drake and Fro hichar aud CrapVfifa of Nofsop and Blake and COchrane. and that the
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
WHAT THOU ART

Firstly, O son, thou hast to fear God, for in the fearing Him is wis dom, and, being wise, thou canst err in nothing.
 Secondly, thou hast to set thine eyes on what thou art, endeavoring to know myself, which is the most diff ficult knowledge that can be con ceived. From knowing myself will follow the not swelling myself, like the frog who would be equal with the OK, for if thou dost this the remem- brance of having kept hogs in thine own country will come like the pea cocks ugly feet to the tail of thy folly.
 Mind, Sancoh, if thou take virtue for thy means, and prize myself on doing virtuous acts, thou wilt have no reason to envy those who have princes and lords for their fathers Cervantes.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

there comes so much music from the town? 1 seem to hear a hundred trumpets, all calling in chorus
 Tt would be strange else, seeing that all the great lords of England and of Gascony are within the walls, and each would have his trumpeter blow as loud as his neighbor, lest it might be thought that his dignity had been abated. Ma foi. They make as much louster as a Scotch army, where every man fills himself with griddle-cakes and sits up all night to blow upon the tootle-pipe. See all along the banks how the pages water the horses, and there beyond the town how they gallop them over the plain, For every horse you see a belted knight hath herbergage in the town, for. as I learn. the men-atarms and archers have already gone forward to Dax"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
LUCKY TO GET DIME.

Bishop Wilberforce of Omaha said recently in Y. NJ. C. A. address: Too many of the stories about the boyhood of our millionaires are just stories of selfshuess and meanness. taking advantage of others generos- ity-the sandwich yarn. in fact:
 "A hungry traveller put his head out of a window as his train pulled up al a small station. and said to a boy:
 Here. boy, take this dime and get me a sandwich. will you? And, by the way, here's another dime. Get a sandwich for yourself. too.
 Thanks. boss'-and the boy darted away. He returned, munching a big. fine sandwich. just as the train was starting off lie ran to the tarvele-, handed him dime. and said:
 Here syer dime back boss. They only had one sandwich left. Wash ington Star
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

For a long time Clawson has been thirsting to tell Blodkins that he and George Washington had nothing in common, but had never found an oE- portunity. One day, however, they met at the academy, and stood to- gether gazing at lovely little statue. Clawson turned to his catalogue.
 An" he said, 'this is 'Truth'!' Waving hand towards the statue, he said: Truth. allow me to present my friend MT. Blodkinsi I feel sure you two have never met before!"-Ans- wers, London.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

which waited to his ears the long drawn stirring bugle calls which sounded from the ancient ramparts.
 One of Enelands Famous Bowmen
 'Hola, mon petiti" said Awkward, coming up to where he stood. Thou art squire now, and like enough to win the golden spurs, while am still the master bowman, and master-bow- man I shall bide. I dare scarce wag my tongue so freely with you as when we tramped together past Wilverley Chase, else l might be your guide now, for indeed l know every house in Bor- deaux as a friar knows the beads of his rosary"
 May, Awkward" said Alleyne, lay ing his hand upon the sleeve of his companions frayed jerkin, You can not think me so thrall as to throw aside an old friend because I have had some small share of good for tune. l take it unkind that you should have thought such evil of me"
 Nay. mon gar. Twas but a flight shot to see if the wind blew steady, though I were a rogue to doubt it."
 Why. had not met you. Awkward, at the Lynhurst Inn, who can say where I had now been, Certes, had not gone to Twynham Castle, nor be- come squire to Sir Nigel, nor met -" He paused abruptly and flushed to his hair, but the bowman was too busy with his own thoughts. to notice his young companions embarrassment.
 A Bowmanis Loves
 ''It was a good hostel, that of the
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

same deathless spirit of heroic deter minat.on animates her still.
 Tonight, as I pen these lines, our army is locked in desperate battle. odr guns are laundering upon the Somme. but like an echo to their roar. from mile upon mile of workshops and fac tories and shipyards is rising the ans wering roar of machinery. the thund- erous crash of titanic hammers, the hellish rattle of riveters. the whining droning, shriekins of myriOd wheels where another vast army is engaged night and day. as indomitable. as fierce of purpose as the army beyond the narrow seas.
 have beheld miles of workshops that stand where grass grew two short years ago. wherein are bright eyed English girls. Irish colleens and Scots lassies by the ten thousand. whose dextrous fingers flash nimbly to and fro. slender fingers, yet fingers contriving death. have wandered through a wilderness of whirring driv- ing belts and humming wheels. where men and women. with the same fev- erish activity. bend above machines whose very hum sang to me of death. while have watched a cartridge grow from disc of metal to the hellish contrivance it is
 And as l watched the busy scene al thing that womens hands should be busted thus, fashioning means for the maiming and destruction of life-until. in a remote corner I paused to watch woman whose dextrous fingers were fitting finished cartridges into clips with wonderful celerity. A middle aged woman this, tall white-haired. who. at my remark. looked up with a bright smile. but with eyes somber and weary.
 Yes sir" she answered above the roar of machinery. T had two boys at the front but-they're a-lying out there somewhere-killed by the same shell. I've got photograph of their srayes-very neat they look. though bare. and I'll never be able to go and tend 'em. y'see-nor lay few flowers on 'em. So I'm dOin' this instead-to te.p the other lads. Yes. sir. my boys did their bit and now they're gone the,r mothers tryin' to do hers
 Thus stood and talked with this sad-eyed. white-haired woman. who had ces, off selfish grief to aid the empire, and in her saluted the spirit of noble motherhood ere turned and went my way.
 rsmbled on between long alleys of olattering machines. which in their many functions seemed in themselves almost human. until a kindly works manager found me and led me uner- ringly through that riotous jungle of machinery.
 He brought me by devious ways Co a place he called holy ground"
 fEnptiuuad nu paua Seven
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

Pied Merlin, he remarked. By my ten finger bones, When I hang bow on nail and change my brigandine for a tunic I might do worse than take over the dame and her business"
 q thought" said Alleyne. that you church?'
 'To three," Awkward answered moodily, ito three. l fear l may not go back to Christchurch. I might chance to see hotter service in Hamp- shire than l have ever done in Gas cony. But mark you now wonder. lofty turret in the center, which stands back from the river and hath a broad banner upon the summit. See the rising sun flashes full upon it and parkles on the golden lions. 'Tis the royal banner of England, crossed by the princes label There he dwells in the Abbey of St. Andrew, where he hath kept his court these years back. Beside it is the minister of the same saint, who hath the town under his very special care"
 And how of yon gray turret on the left?"
 "'Tis the fane of St. Michael, as that upon the right is of St. Remi. There. too, above the poor of wonder nief. you see the towers of Saint Croix and of Pey Berland. Mark also the mighty ramparts which are pierced by the three water gates and 16 others to the hardware side"
 Trumpet of the English Knights
 And how is it, good Awkward, that