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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
THE COMMUNITY
BANQUET POSTPONED

The entertainment committee for the
Community Banquet, which was to be
held on Monday night, May 8th an
nounce that the banquet will he post.
poned until Friday night, June lst
The condition of the roads are such,
the committee felt that it would be al
most impossible for those out Of town to
attend if the meeting was held on the
date announced at the last banquet, and
when it was learned that Mr.. John X.
Boardman could be secured on June lst,
it was decided to set the meeting ahead
to that date.
Mr. Boardman needs no introduction
to this community and it is hoped every
one will avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to hear him on this night. II is
planned to hold the meeting in the
school house aud after the lecture light
refreshments will be served.
The question of disseminating the
Community banquets until next fall will
be discussed at this meeting The com
mttee wishes to emphasize that this
meeting on June lst will be open to
everyone, especially tie ladies.
Further announcement as to the hour,
the price Of admission, etc, will be
made later.
Since setting up the above notice a
conflict in dates has been discovered
and the committee wishes to state that a
date for the next Community meeting
will be assigned in the very near future.
r. II. MCCULLAGH,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
CUSTER SCHOOL NOTES.

Several students were absent from
High School Friday on account of the
storm
Mrs. Perrin visited the grade rooms
last week.
The sixth grade took part in a geog-
raphy contest Tuesday, the Central
States being the section studied.
The Base Ball game which was to be
played Saturday, will be postponed foi
several weeks,
The Junior class play, Miss Molly
will be given June lst, instead of May
25th
The lower grade rooms dismissed
school Friday noon, on account of the
storm.
The eighth grade Civics class went to
the trial Monday.
Mrs. Neyin visited school one day last
week,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
LEASING OF STATE LANDS.

A the leasing of the State Lands il
the State Forest, held at the Court Hous,
in Custer on Tuesday over 5000 acre
were leased in tracts of from 20 to 6i
acres, at prices ranging from to 23c pc
acre. Those leasing tracts were;
John Lenning, Fajrburn, ll0 acres.
Frank Spring, Fairburn, 50.
II r. burst, Bakerville. 1904 60
G. p. Swint, Baskerville, 96O
Oscar Summerill, Bakervile, 20.
A. c, Roseberry, BakerviIle, 50.
Mrs. F. Spazzi, Bakervlle, 480.
Chas. Miller, Bakerville, 3i6.55.
Fred Shoemaker, Baskerville, GAO
James Erwin, Bakerville, So
Duane McNey, Baskerville, 1918.
Alice Kerr, Bakerville, 1887
Chas. Baker, Baskerville, 100.
Claude Mattox, Bakerville, l29
Joe Korthaus, BakerYille, 434.24.
A. Herbert, Baskerville, 100.
H. Kester, BakerviIle, 100.
Minnie NJ. Dow, Baskerville, Go.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
WEATHER AND CROP
Weather and Crop Conditions in South
Dakota for the Week Ending
May First.

The following report of weather and
crop conditions in South Oak ota for the
week ending May /, 1917, is given by
the weather bureau:
The temperature during the past week
averaged far below the normal, and the
precipitation was considerably in excess
of the normal. Sunshine was decidedly
deficient. Farm work was greatly re.
tarded by rain and wet ground. There
was some planting Of spring wheat, bar
lev and oats, and in a few localities as
far north as the northern tier Of coun-
ties this work wasywell advanced.
termination and growth of sprinl
seeding is very slow Winter wheat,
rye, alfalfa, meadows and pastures also
are growing very slowly.
There has been some plowing for corn
and some planting Of potatoes during
the week, but this work has progressed
slowly. Stock has suffered greatly from
the cold weather with snow and cold
rain, and it is feared that some loss will
result
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
DEATH OF ROBERT E. TALENT.


Saturdays Pioneer-Times says that
Percy Russell is in receipt Of message
from Sheridan, Wyoming, announcing
the death Of Robert f. Talent at that
place.
Robert f. Talent was the FIRST white
boy to come to the Black Hills, ARRIVING
here with his parents, d. G. and Anna
d. Talent, in October, 1875, coming with
the Russell and Collins party, which
during that winter made camp in a
stockade near Custer City. He was but
nine years of age at the time he came to
the Hills aud with other members of the
party had braved the dangers of the
trail, suffered the hardships Of severe
winter in a camp which was at all times
in danger of attack from hostile Sioux
aud shared with the early settlers of the
country the privations which were theirs
during the first year Of its settlement.
For many years he had made his home
with his parents at Rockford, Hill City,
Pactoa and in other southern Hills
camps, subsequently moving with them
to Rapid City, where he grew TO man
hood, married and raised his family.
Subsequently he moved to Denver,
where he settled, and for number of
years had been travelling out of that city
for one Of its commercial firms. His
wife and two sons survive him. He
was a member in good standing Of the
Society Of Black Hills Pioneers and at
its annual meeting last February took a
prominent part in its proceedings His
mother, Mrs Anna D. Talent, who pre-
ceeded him to the grave a number Of
years ago, was one Of the famous women
Of the Hills, and her book on the Black
Hills was considered standard Of his.
tory Of this section Of South Dakota. 1t
has been but a few weeks since the de-
ceased was in Deadwood and at that
time was arranging for another and a
revised edition of his mothers book to
be published
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
SOME REMARKS FROM AUNTY
Inquiries and Philosophical Reflections
Show Deep Thought Has Been
Given to Them.

A couple of decades hence, should
there by any pedestrians left to dodge
automobiles, they will no doubt have a
string of eyes all around their heads
What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who used to start grind
ing coffee at 3 80 a. IN.
We have looked in vain for the old
gentleman with the goat whiskers,
who used to eat peppermints in church.
A dog is known by the fights he's
been in.
What's become of the old-fashioned
man that used to polish his shoes with
stove blacking just before church on
Sunday morningsf
Keep your credit good with your
grocer-he also sells gasoline.
What's going to become of the livery
stable loafer2 There's no room for
him in the garages.
A gallon in the tank beats two in
the garage.
A writer of an article on how TO
avoid hurry and worry advises us never
to start second task till we have
finished the first. Very helpful to the
farmers wife with six children, for
instance
A large part of the heartache and
disappointment connected with parent
hood comes from regarding child not
as an individual with a right to live
his own life, make his mistakes and
profit by them, but as choice personal
possession, whose chief duty is to IRE.
feet credit" on his parents.
Services done out of hard sense of
duty are not likely to benefit either the
giver or the receiver.-Farm Life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
ARG YLE.

April, II, 1917.
w. X. Angelo and D. F. Flanagan are
loading ties at this siding.
Walter Brandt is spending few days
with his father, j. c. Brandt.
Mr.. Thurston, the Burlington tie in
spector, was attending to official business
at Argyle Tuesday and Wednesday.
Walter Brandt and Louis Collingwood
were over at Fort Meade the forepart of
the week to offer their services to the Y.
s. but both failed to pass the physical
examination.
This region was visited with belated
snow storm Saturday night and all day
Sunday. The wind blew stiff gale pill
ing the snow higher than at any time
during the winter. The sun came out
Monday and a warm rain Monday even
ing melted it entirely away except the
largest drifts. The snow brings us an
abundance Of the much needed moisture
and puts the groun2 in excellent condi'
ton for spring crops.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
pisqah Forest a Sanctuary.

Pisgah federal game preserve-the
first Of its kind east of the Mississippi
river--has been created by proclama-
ton of the president. The Pisgah ma
tional forest, consisting mainly of the
George w. Vanderbilt estate, in the
western part of North Carolina, which
has always been sportsrnan's para
disc, will now become more than that
a sanctuary. Hereafter no hunting will
be allowed within its limits, and a
movement is now on foot to place a
herd of elk and one of buffalo in the
preserve, to be perpetuated in the sane
tuary thus provided for other game
animals, birds and fishes,--Recreation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
pEApwoop,s LOYALTY DAY.

The Invitation Committee of Dead
woods Loyalty Day demonstration has
issued the following invitation
"We desire to extend to you most
cordial invitation to be present and par
ticipate in the demonstration and parade
of Deadwoods Loyalty Day, May 10th.
The committee will be pleased to have
you attend in a body and show your
patriotism and devotion to the purposes
for which the day is set apart to be cele-
brated "
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
OUR BAPTISM OF FIRE
AND TION A

The awful days from '6l to the end OF
the terrible reconstruction period in the
South has been reproduced and taken in
living photograph by modern wizard,
d. w. Griffith, in his twelve reel spec
tacle, ''The Birth of a Nation" and is
being shown throughout the land with
all its accompanying battle shots; its
signing and whispering music; its darky
reality in the snowy cotton fields before
the war-its loves and its passions, its
glories and its hatreds, and every citizen
ot the Republic should see it and realize
thereby what Lincolns deeds and Amer
lean history truly and really mean.
A nation may have been conceived
with Washington's triumpbs-but it was
Born out of the better understanding be-
tween the North and the South, which
only came after long heart aches and
struggles.
At Opera House, Custer, Saturday
night and Sunday matinee, May II l3.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05

Insurance Commissioner VanCamp,
as state fire marshal, has issued a
proclamation setting the first week in
May as "Clean Up Week" in the state;
this as part of a national campaign of
fire prevention and conservation of
property from fire and waste. He asks
every city board and council to CO.
operate in the work, and to issue a local
proclamation calling upon their citizens,
to get into the movement to do as much
as possible to reduce fire risks through
the accumulation of rubbish, which is
likely to be the cause of starting many
| fires throughout the country, and con-
tribute largely to the fire hazards of
America.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
A NERVOUS JUDGE.

Our courts are not without their comic
side. Tuesday in the court room at Hot
Springs an elderly gentleman who is
quite deaf, stepped up TO Judge McGee
and asked to be excused from jury duty
on account of his being deaf When he
pulled his ear trumpet, the Judge threw
up his hands and told him that when
prospective jurors approached him with
gun, there would be no argument,
they would be excused Then the
crowd exploded, -Edgemont Express
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-05-05
April 30. 1917.

April 80, 1917.
Martin Rasmussen was Custer visi-
tor Monday.
James Page, Hugh Page, Peter Zeimet,
w. l.. Lewis and +. l.. Lewis, were at
tending court at Hot Springs Tuesday.
The snow that started Thursday was
far the heaviest fall of the year and may
it be the last of its kind for the spring
season.
Guy L. Simkins and family, formerly
of Hill City, who has been visiting
friends here for a few days, departed for
Worland, Wyo., Sunday evening where
they expect to make their future home.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
COUNTY need NOT
PAY WONAN'S BOARD

According 10 Frank l.. Speakman,
attorney for the Levy Court, that body
has no legal right TO appropriate 40
cents day to the Florence Crittenden
Home for the period Of one year from
March s, 1917, in payment for board
for a woman who was committed 20
the homo by Judge Boyce in General
Sessions Court The opinion of Mr..
Speakman relates In the absence OF
any legislative authority, the Levy
Court has not the right 10 appropriate
any OF the county's money to any pri-
vate corporation or association. ire
spective OF whether il was organized
for charitable or other purposes
In my opinion the Levy Court has
not the authority to make the appro-
priation."
The clerk was instructed to write
Mrs. Theodore w. Francis, by whom
the request for financial assistance re-
ceived at last weeks meeting was
signed, informing the Crittenden Home
of the courts inability to allow the
money requested.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
SENATE PAYS HIGH
TRIBUTE TO french
BY Tho United Press.

BY Tho United Press
WASHINGTON. May The United
States senate today paid spectacular
tribute to Rene Niviani. Marshal JoiTro
and Admiral Chocheprat.
Time aud again the historic chamber.
where demonstrations always are ta-
boood, fairly shook with cheers and
hand clapping
Shouts of "Joffre. Jofrre," brought
the famous soldier of the Marine to his
feet 10 respond in thndorous voice.
give les o'tate mis-
And again in ringing tone Niviani,
former premier of tho French Republic,
predicted a magnificent victory for de-
m0fracy with the help of the glorious
country in which You live.'
One hundred years ago General Iaf-
ayette visited the American Senate. but
the records tell no such story as that
enacted there today.
From the time Rene Viviani. on the
arm OF Senator Hitchcock, entered the
chamber. followed by Marshal Joffre.
accompanied by Senator Lodge, the
applause was continuous and at times
deafening
One OF the first TO begin and the
last TO stop was Senator La Toilette,
| Wisconsin. chief opponent OF the en-
trance by the United States into the
great war Vice President Marshal
welcomed the Frenchmen. 1.-THE SEN
ate OF the United States has the pleas
ure and honor Of receiving and wei
coming these distinguished visitors to
the republic
The Senate arose and with the gal
leries doomed out applause lmmedi-
ately afterward the Senate recessed
and Senators, congressman and pages
filed by the visitors, shaking their
hands.
VlwanL speaking i'm French. which
few understood, but whose Oratory
was so impressive that frequently he
was interrupted by applause. paid a
| great, glowing tribute to the country
/ which has Joined the other demccra-
I cies OF the world-Hnd spoke of the
! duties before it,
When Vivian concluded the ap
+ plause was deafening Deeply moved
! he shifted from foot TO foot and his
hands turned white as he gripped thu
edge of the Vice Presidents table.
The VicePresident arose to bid the
visitors goodbye
AS we said Hail. so now We say
| farewell and yet again praise God
hail.
Then the real storm broke Screams
and cries in the galleries minglei
with the tremendous applause of TIT
Senators and Representatives VIII,
packed the floor.
And above the noise rose TIT
shouts OF Joffre. Joffre, Joffre.
The great soldier rose. his fac
flushed with emotion.
Somewhat excitediy he did sa.
something no had not done here be
fore He spoke English
Brokenly he said
81 do not speak the English" ant
then with a shout
"Vive les etates 'unis." whicl
started the pandemonium all owe
again.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
CONSUMPTION at Last

April %, 1917. will be remembered
as the day on which the United States
renounced for good and all a funda-
mental error in its military policy.
The votes last Saturday in the two
houses OF Congress make Il certain
mat we shall not depend again for
the recruitment OF armies on the an
tair, haphazard. unscientifc and ex-
tremely costly system OF volunteer
ing We shall make military service
an obligation of citizenship and shall
mobilize by conscription the man
power at our command, thus getting
the best results not only in the field
nut IN the industries by which our
population must be fed and our ar.
mics supplied and equipped.
II has taken an uphill fight 10 over.
come the tradition OF voluntaryism.
The idea that one may serve the state
or not as he pleases, had taken deep
root in our easy-going American in.
dividualism II fitted In with the loose
structure OF our national orgaDiza.
ton and with our frontiersman habits
OF thought. In young and sparsely set
tled countries volunteering Is i'm har-
mony with the popular temper. That
rs why Canada and Australia have
stuck to It In this war. But i'm a coun.
try which has attained, or Is attain.
ing its growth. where economic and
industrial conditions are complex.
volunteering handicaps efficiency. II
hampers national effort because II
prevents unihcation and scientific Sc
lection 1t Is a policy OF muddling and
waste
Ancient prejudices die very hard. In
spite OF the warnings of military ex-
perts, in spite Of the failure of volun.
teering in Great Britain and the vim.
dieation OF conscription I'm the Con.
tinenta countries. our people we're
slow 10 learn their lesson Congress
shut It's eyes 10 the facts. II has re-
fused for three years past to make
any genuine military preparation. II
scoffed at conscription. At the last
session it was impossible to get ac-
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
QUICK Relief FROM
CONSTIPATION
SCI Dr. Edwards' Olive rabies

That is the joyful cry of thousands
since DIR. Edwards produced Olive Tab
lets, the substitute for Calomel.
DR.. Edwards, a practicing physician
for II years and calomers old-time en-
envy, discovered the formula for Olive
Tablets while treating patients for
chronic constipation and torpid livers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel. but a healing, sooth-
ing vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the keynote" of these
little sugar-coated. olive-colored tablets.
They cause the bowels and liver 10 act
normally. They never force them to
unnatural action.
II you have a dark brown mouth"
now and then-a bad breath-a dull,
tired feeling - sick headache - torpid
liver and are constipated, you'll find
quick, sure and only pleasant results
from one or two little DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every
night Just to keep right Try then
Zoe and sc per box. All druggists.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01

ton even on a universal military train
ing bill.
But necessity is a great educator.
What Congress would never have
dreamed of doing two months ago it
has done now II has put our military
system at last on a stable basis. II
has now voted conscription by over.
whelming maioritles in both houses.
not because the members like con
scription any better than they did last
winter but because they have sud
denly realized that without It there
Is no hope for us in a military sense.
There was a rush OF Congressman
on Saturday 10 get under cover. The
once formidable antLconscription ca
bal melted away The anti-prepared-
ness machine, built up with so much
care, went to smash. The Military
Affairs Committee of the House, the
chief agency there OF mossbackism,
had voted in favor Of volunteering by
l3 TO 8. IL was the decision of a
packed court. The case for volunteer
ing rested on cheap sentimentalism.
IL could not stand the test Of argu-
ment. There could be no repetition
OF the exhibition OF folly which passed
the Hay law. Tn the House the volun-
teer scheme was therefore rejected
! on first vote by 279 10 IS and on a
second by 313 20 100. u was a crush.
ing reputation OF the Military Affairs
Committee clique It ought to end the
mischievous activities of that clique
to which the country owes so largely
its present desperate condition OF un
| preparedness
Despite that pacifst and anti-pre
paredness cabal and despite the apa
thy which so large a part OF the pub
lie has shown toward rational mill
! tary preparation, we are now headed
toward the creation OF a real army
That is the cheering thing about Sat
urday's vote We have been late in
repenting- but not too late. We shall
now build up an adequate military
system not only for this crisis but fol
the future.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
FIELD MARSHAL JOFFRE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
SAIUTE YOUi

m HE people and government OF the United States
i are honorlng themselves when they honor the Brit
sh and French commissioners who are in Wash
ington.
These men tho official representatives Of the two
great European that for nearly three years
have been battling for the worlds freedom,
Conspicuous among. these statesmen and soldiers
who have come to America to take part in the mo-
mentous conferences is Field Marshal Jonre Of
France.
Il was his patriotism, courage and genius which
stopped the German drive on Paris and won the battle
Of the Marine But for that victory the German plans
which were fifty years in the making TO force France
TO mako peace hurl her military machine against Rus
sia defeating her before she could prepare meet the
onslaught and then have Great Britain at her mercy.
would probably have successfully carried out long
before this.
When consider what this would have meant to
America we well may shudder.
The great war has developed millions OF heroes;
will develop millions
But the story of Jonre tic head Of the armies Of
FKance hurting back the Germanic hordes attho Marne
saving France and the world will thrl future genera
ons when many, other incidents Of the have been
Forgotten
"rhey shall not passl' This was the French battle
cry at that supreme crisis
And they did not pass!
France was saved Britain was saved America was
saved-the world was saved
Field Marshal Jonre the American people salute
youl
You have achieved for France and for yourself i'm
perishablo glory.
But you do not belong to France alone.
You belong to the world and claim our share Of
you.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Thus We never live but we hope TO live; and always
disposing ourselves 10 be happy, Il is inevitable that
We never become so-Pascal
.-.-.-.
One ought to seek our virtue for its sake, with
being Influenced by fear hope by any exter-
nal influence Moreover, iuLthat does happiness con-
sist.-Diogenes Laertius.
Men are like pots-none perfect. IL YOU look close
enough for perfection is denied all made OF earth But
millions Of men and pots perfect enough to full
III their purpose and define work and be beautiful or
useful both. Our bemshes need not spot us, and
though speaking as Christion we're ell damaged
goods by the nature Of things yet is worthless
and faulty piece may often be lifted a very noble
purpose.-Ed. Philpotts.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-01
Spirit of the Delmarvia Press

acter and intelligence. successful in
bu.ness. interested in public matters
and qualified for good public service.
The Governor could not possibly
have made happier selection from
his own county. No man in the State
.Of Delaware stands higher along all
lines than Joseph Il. Holland. In char
acter and in attachments, he measures
up TO the highest standard. and he
would I'll with credit the best place
the State could confer
Tue Governor himself Is a member,
ex otiicio, and his knowledge will be
of great value. The people Of the State
are justified, we believe, in expecting
excellent results from the work OF
this commission.