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Estate of Anton Ostcr, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by !he undcr-
signed eXccutriN of The last will and
testament of Anton Ostcr deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said dcccassh, to
exhibit them, with the necessary Nouch
ers, within six months after The first
publication of this netice, to HE said
ExecutriX at Ethan in the County Of
Dawson, South Dakota.
Dated August 9th, 1917.
Mary Ostcr,
EXecuriX of the Last Will anil TcS
lament of Anton Oster, Deceased.
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summer, is visiting at the home of his
uncle, Maurice Fitzgerald, before re-
turning to Chicago where he will at
tend university.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Mellor, of Park
stOn, who have been touring the state
by auto during a greater part of the
past month are visiting in Mitchell at
The home of Mr..and Mrs. Joseph Low
niger.
Loren Avery, who has been attend
ing Rush Medical institute during the
summer. has arrivcdtin Mitchell for a
months vacation at The home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. z. Avery.
The following South Dakotans have
been granted patents according to the
Tuesday report of the patent Office of
Milton S. Crandall, of Sioux City: Dav-
id Dexter, Canton. display rack: Walter
Kclloniemi, Lead, barn door lock: Jesse
Warringer, Sioux Falls, automatic fan.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Williams have
returned to Mitchell after visit in
Kansas City, where Mr.. Williams at
tended 10 business concerning his
agency of the Kansas City Life insur-
ance company.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of Louisa A.. Potter, Deceas-

Notice is hereby given by the under
signed Executor of the Last Will OF
Louisa A. Potter, deceased 10 the cred,
itors 9f and al persons having claim; Claims
them, with the NECESSARY vouchers,
within four months after the first pub
lication of this notice, to the said Ex-
.ecutor at Mitchell, in the County of
Dawson, South Dakota.
Dated February 10th, 1917.
f. l.. Potter,
Executor Of The Last Will and 'res-
toment of Louisa A. Potter.
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STRAY nvLLEr NEARLY KILLS.

Madison, S. d., Sept. 5.-Whlle MISS
Ma. ,M Waskey, a prominent Young W0o no
INA man Of this city,i was seated at 1he w;
h,rrakfast tablelr a ,221calibre, Duilei,
passed through the screen door anu
I'rc through the ribons she wore III, III
.,l arr hair and then lodged in the plaster 9.
""'os .',1, 81 poLU uaoQ 3Aeu OF p9A3!laq >!
tt",lllll {, oqL 'esnOu aul 10 6l!u!o!A e1l
u! Pleoll srAA 9l0da1 ON .IIeM OUT ~
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WINNER STRUCK
BY HEAVY, WIND

Winner, S. D., Sep. 5.-A sorm. ap-
proaching almos cyclonic proportions
in is intensity last night swept the OUT
skirts of Winner smashing windows
and, causing minor property damage.
No fatalities have lIeen ren6rted ted.sais--'-s-
A tent show which had been eXhib-
iting here was lcvelled. Buildings on
a ranch five miles northeast of here
are reported 10 have been destroyed
in the area swept by the storm are
not available as wire communications
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AN DER MAATEN
IN Y. M. C. A. WORK
JONES DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS
WORK FOR NATIONAL WAR
COUNCIL OF OR0ANlzA.

lev. C. E. van der Maaten, former
tor of the First Presbyterian church
been appointed director of relig-
work for the national war council
the Y. M. C. A.. He will be located
st of the time. during the coming
tier at the reglmental cantonmcnt
Is, 900 Kentucky and Indiana troops
be quartered at Louisville, Kentucky.
S probable that Rev. van der Maaten
so with the soldiers to either
nee or Russia in the spring of 1913.
Rev. Mr.. van der Maaten will be
listed in his work by six secretaries.
louisville, the Y. NJ. G. A. is erect
seven large buildings for the use
the soldiers. The smallest building
II accommodate 5000 people and in
lition to this large auditorium
bablc of seating 10000 men is being
ecled. To gain an idea of the. I'M
Inse amount OF Naterial that Will pc
finished by the Y. NJ. G: A. for the
en in the cantOnments, ReV. van ger
baten says that an order for writing
bterial for the men of the canton
(llion letterheads and IS million en-
Homes. This order will last only four
bnths according to the calculation OF
|e Y. M. @. A, He further says that
|e cantonments are being built sub
hntially, and will when completed De
[replica to some degree OF modern
During the past few months $; Rev; Rev.
II. van der Maaten has spoken in four
len different states under the auspices
i the Christian Endeavor movement.
(e war department, and the natonal
far council Of the Y. M. 9. A. For Two
Lmdays he supplied in the pulpit OF
be First Presbyterian church: OF cary; y;
hd, the pastor of which is the noted
kllpit orator, Rev. John 'fimothy stone o., {,
ID. He also spoke in the Fouflli
Presbyterian church of Chicago;
Rev. Mr.. van der Maaten has return.
b 10 Mitchell to make disposition o. O.,
is household effects and Will least
Thursday or Friday. He will STOP y.
lOckford, ILL.,, where he will confer
eith other workers in the army COLI
A'yi Rev. Van der Maaten is to be con, q n,
ratulatcd upon the newly a,tal1G'' ,,.t fnI
bublic service and carries Win IL
ubstantial remuneration.
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SUMMONS.

State of South Dakota, Fourth. Judi
cial circuit, SIS.
In Circuit court in and for Dawson
Benjamin II. Hardman, Plaintiff, VS..
Grace Hardman, defendant.
The State of South Dakota SENDS
10 the above named defendant.
You are hereby summoned ailo ie-
aeiion, which will be filed in iliG office
of thc Clerk of the Courts in the ,i;sy
of Mitchell, Dawson County, soulll Nj
Kota, a copy Of which is herewith sery
ed upon you, and to serve copy OF OF
YOUR answer upon the subscrl!1er az
His his office on Main Street in the SAID
City of MITCHELL South Dakni@ wlimn INN
Thirty days after the service ol ms ,ls
daV of such service, and if you fall
10 answer this complaint within liiat :I
lime th the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in salo
'o1I5 Dated at Mitchell, Dayison. COUNTY
sonth Dakota this 22nd day of August
1917. u,,o,son
Attorney for nlaintiff
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The game between Company F and
Troop e played at the Hanson county
Fair at Alexandria Wednesday resulted
in victory for the infantry boys with
a score of 10 to 12. The Company "
team held substantial lead during
The greater part Of the contest. Heavy
ylnst OF the time.
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n DR.. A. G. Solberg, who is now in
Minneapolis. has been delayed there
and will not be abb to rturn to Mitch
II bfore September 6 as he previously
announced. He expects to be in his Of
flee again by September 10.
A bad smashup on the Mt. Vernon
road Wednesday caused hy the coll
lision of the car with buggy broke
1me eg radaor afer ol Of e eusgs sas he
car, had just passed another whose
lights carried no DINNERS, IL is claim
ed. 1t crashed into the rear end of the
buggy throwing it into the ditch al
the side. The injured mans name is
withheld by request.
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BALL TROOP
WINS AND TIES
VICTORY OVER TROOP E sY
MAR0AlN AND BATTLES
(MPANY F UNTIL DARK
STOPS GAME.

b L of Kimball at The ball
at Hitchcock park OH Labor
In one game over the f Troop
/ battled to tie with the team
hpany + who challenged the
of the Troop game. The L
team with Marquard, a White
itcher in the box, nOsed out tie
ayalry club with a score OF 8
The tail end Of the double
played with Company F result
a deadlock of Z to Z in eight
The game was called on ac-
Eof darkness.
he first game, E took the lead
g first six innings but damaging
swung the break to the /
md punched hits when 1t count
Troop Il scored two in each Of
Est, third and fifth innings and
he score in the seventh. Loca.
6laim that Troop E should have
Ehe break having registered 12
fo Nimball's seven.
battery for Troop l. was Mar
and Means. The local troop
Fup: Wright, 9; OFT, IS; Collier,
Turns, If; CLARK, IF; Glennon, p;
b, ib; Nolan, CT. H. G. Scharn-
umpire.
Ecompany F Holds To Tie. :.
|op L fresh from close victory
Ethe E men started out with a
after the Company + boys in the
Innings by piling up four scores.
1.-THE Tightening up Of tile defense
food pitching by Doane, the in
Il boys held the visitors TO a
the end of the Ifth where the
had been scheduled to Stop.
an agreement between The two
the game was continued until
on account Of darkness. With
slump that the l. troopers took
E latter parts of the game chances
he winning easily We're wiped out.
e infantry boys lined: Kelley,
Irampton, 1b; Rogers, 2b; Glitch
81: Smith, RI; p. Kelly, p.; CALI
If; Jones, CT.
oop Il and Company F will play
during the Hanson
BY fair held there this week.
p q also hopes to schedule a
for next Sunday.
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MITCHELL PLAYS
MARION II TIE
,AmE IS CALLED BECAUSE OF
DARKNESS AFTER 13 INNINGS.
- SOLDIERS GOLSTER TEAM.

, Mitchell baseball artists took a spurt'
n their ball record al the Hanson
county fair Thursday when they went
o tic with The fast Marion team in
i3 innings with a scoe of I to I. The
game was called on account of dark
ess.
A good crowd of Mitchell people at
ended the fair during The day and We're
we'll represented at the ball ground.
Mitchell started the game with a
core on forced run after The bases
lad been filled by the Marion pitcher.
The remainder of the struggle was
close with the elge a little in favor of
Mitchell. In the ninth inning Marion
lied the score and held The Corn Pal
ace boys runless until the end OF the
ame.
Mitchell registered ~ hits: while
The Marion team made only 10. Cay
lor on the mound for Mitchell pitched
a steady game, giving The Marion hit
lers little chance at the path.
Mitchell lined up with mixture Of
civilians and ball players of Troop Z
and Company +. They were: Zard,
S.; Doane, rf; Tuffort, ib; Haggerty,
3b; Gitchell, CT; Caylir, p; Corner, II;
Yahne, C, and OFT, 2b.
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TAX LEVY SET
AT 4.19 MILLS
BASIS is REDUCTION FROM 1e1e
FIGURE OF 4,30 MILLs.-TorAL
IS $117,B65.

Levies based on 4.f9 mills will be
the tax basis of the 49i7 assessment
for Dawson county, resultant ofinc-
tions of the meeting of county board
OF commissioners now in session. In
1916 The rate was i.30 mills.
The board worked yesterday after,
noon and the complete levy was sub
mitted to the county auditor this
morning who will make Tie following
rate Of assessments on county prop
crly for the following purposes:
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County Gen. fund sga,os5a i.oi uni mills
Bridge ...i...... 30I7O i.OS mills
insane 900; 5,02S rs mills
fund go. 10,005 sc mills
Salary ........... i3,9G7 .48 mills
Mothers pensions l,l9O .i5mills
The total assessment for 1917 is
s11I,35o for county tax on all prop
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The board of commissioners was
busy. during The forenoon today allow
ing bills. This afternoon bids will
be opened on farm tractors which viii
be used on the county road WORK.
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LOCAL NOTES
From Wednesdays Daily

]. L. Duncan, managing secretary,
and M. S. Goodyear, superintendent Of
organizers of the South Dakota Nom
partisan League of Sioux Falls, were
callers at the Mitchell Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday while attending the
conference of the Nonpartisan League
and the Farmers Union. Mr.. Duncan
said that he wished TO thank the Cham
ber of Commerce and the citizens of
Mitchell for the interest that they
showed in arranging for the last meet
ing of the Nonpartisan League which
was held in the Corn Palace.
Mrs. w. S. Christy and Jack Chrisly
returned to Mitchell yesterday after
spending a few days in Omaha with
friends.
The five district superintendents of
the Methodist Episcopal church von-
vened in Mitchell today to consider
matters concerning the South Dakota
conference. The principal work of the
superintendents will he calculation OF
the number of ministers needed in the
conference this year and the tenta-
tive selection before the annual con-
meeting were DR.. G. w. Rosenberg
of the Sioux Falls district. Rev. p. o..
Bunt, of the Aberdeen district, Rev.
G.. E. Mattison, of the Black Hills dis
trict with headquarters at Rapid City,
Rev. w. S. Shepherd, of the WaterLown
district and Rev. j. S. Hardness, of the
Mitchell district
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
On Gloom

CLOUDY tonight and tomorrow; con-
tinued cold" was our portion so long that
gloom almost became a habit. Some days
the clouds dropped rain. Some times they
did not. But the dour, chill look of things
never quit. Eleven ball games postponed
in the National League. thirteen in the
American-how could "a livelier iris APP
Lear on anything in the face of such I'M
mitigated disaster?
We could hear Pollyanna eXclaim upon
the bright side to all this tragedy. 1t gave
us a chance to exercise our will-to-be-
happy. A really bright spring at such
solemn hour would be incOngruous and
make us the more gloomy. Also it offered
some compensation to the amateur farm
ers who were behindhand in their plant
ing. Also we might live in England-or
Glasgow. Let those who can thus hit
themselves by their own bootstraps by all
means do So For plain mortals there was
nothing to do but plod along in rubbers and
mackintoshes and try not to beat their
wives or murder their mothers-m-law.
And now that a few rays of sun have
filtered through and blue sky has been re-
ported by the optimists and flair and
warmer" appears on the front page, we
think the common method is more than
justified. Polyanna can take no proper
iov in this resurrection. Her perpetually
silver-plated clouds can know neither
blacks nor gold. Contrast which alone
makes life interesting she has deliberately
thrown out the window. Poor, unthinking
humans who gave themselves wholeheart-
edly to gloom and despair can now feel all
the thrill of the convict reprieved at the
nallows. Poor. dull. unioYful Pollyanna.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
Squeezing the Tenants

Against the protests of the Tenement
House Commissioner, the Health Commits
sioner, the Fire Commissioner and social
and housing experts. the Legislature has
passed Senator Lawson's bill breaking
down the tenement laws safeguards for
three-family houses. This action was lam
entably unwise, and unless il is checked
by veto is bound to introduce here condi-
tons detrimental to the health and safety
Of large numbers of tenants.
The worst feature of this measure is
that it is unnecessary. Its primary pur-
pose is to enable owners or those who hold
mortgages on old singe-family three story
houses to reconstruct them to compete
with the modern tenement structures. To
reconstruct them according to the present
law would be costly enough TO render the
project of dubious profit. II is entirely
possible so TO reconstruct them. however.
This bill lets down, the law enough so that
the cost of reconstruction would be les
sened and these properties so be made
profitable. That is, the tenants must lose
certain safeguards over life and health in
order to yield some profit, or a larger
profit, TO the owners Of property at present
practically drug in the market
Nobody objects TO the reconstruction of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
The Call Of the Hour

Open the gates TO Roosevelt; make way for
his marching throng
From East and West they are coming,
thousands on thousands strong.
This is no time to look askance, to palter or
deny;
Give heed, for we are the People, and we are
asking army?
Open the gates to Roosevelt; each hour is
precious now;
We are bound to the strife for freedom by an
old unchanging vow.
The strong await your ruling; will you frown
and pass them by?
While the deep call rings about US, and the
world is asking why?
Open the gates to Roosevelt; we'll fight with
France again!
She calls through the battles thunder, For
Gods sake give us mem"
gift is ours for the giving that none may
dare deny
Take heed. for we are the People, and we
shall ask you why
We know the men and the leaders,-they come
with hearts ahame;
The swift and brave to-day must save world
from death or shame;
Then open the gates 10 Roosevelt; haste, lest
the great Cause die,
And the voice Of mighty People in wrath
shall ask you why.
MARION COUTHOUY SMITH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10

these old houses into fathouses. Nobody
would raise a single protest If they were
rebuilt in accordance with the terms OF
the existing law But when under the
euise of lessening congestion and OF keep
ing down the number of big tenement
structures the law is to be invaded merely
to save property owners few hundred
dollars in cost of reconstruction WORK the
affair takes on pretty sordid, grasplhg
aspect And that is all that can be maze
of this bill-it is a bill to relax the laws
and penalze prospective tenants IN order
to save a few hundred dollars for land
lords who fear compliance with the state
present statute for protecting tenants
would leave them no profit.
Such bill ought never to have passed
the Legislature. Having had sufficient
financial and political backing to get by
the complaisant lawmakers. it, neverthe-
less. deserves a prompt veto.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
An Ill-Conceived Dement,

An mpetuous correspondent, who IN ms
anger forgets to give US his address or
even his name, asks testify whether there
is no one in any of the newspaper Offices
of France, Britain or the United States
with a smattering of German. Referring
to the controversy over the kGdGreyTer-
rerttndsansfoh as related in The Tribune
of Monday last, he imparts the useful in
formation that LeichnGm is the proper
word to describe a human body and that
never, never does KadGrer mean anything
but the carcass of beast.
If our anonymous censor had only taken
the pains to read through what he under
takes so magisterially to correct he would
have seen that his interesting discovery IN
the German language is not new. but was
plainly set forth in the course of the mar
rative. The "Lokalanzeiger,' in which the
story of this curious establishment orig
inally appeared, was the first to describe
the English Interpretation as the acme of
stupidity" and the German wireless mes
sage denouncing "the loathsome and equal
ly ridiculous report that the German au-
thorities use the bodies Of dead soldiers
for industrial purposes" was duly pub
lshed in the English and French papers.
As to the propriety Of using human
bodies in the manufacture of lubricants,
fertilizer and fodder for swine there may
possibly be difference of opinion, but it is
unfortunate, since the Germans chose to be
shocked at the suggestion. that they did
not simply deny it. As it is, many will
agree that the thing is "loathsome" with
out accepting as a corollary the impossi
bility Of such thing in Germany.
The attempt to limit the use of the word
hadarer is unfortunate, because, as it has
been pointed out. the German dictionaries
are all opposed to it. And though il is
true that Leichnam is the usual word for
human body, any medical student could
probably tell our correspondent that the
word Kddarer is not unknown even IN
German deadhouses. The subject is not
an agreeable one to dwell upon, but if the
foreigners were mistaken in their interpre-
tation, or if they wilfully equivocated, as
the Germans insist. it is a pity that the
Germans could think of nothing better
than equvocation to counter with.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
Seafaring Vermont
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Many papers and people seem to
think it strange that the inland State of Yer
mont has produced and still is furnishing
both leaders and followers in naval circles.
glance at the map shows noble stretch
of water of over one hundred miles in length
on its western border, Lake Champlain. Is it
to be supposed that the youth of Vermont
have failed to take advantage of the proxim-
ity Of this eXpanse for active exploitation, or
that they can have forgotten the historic
encounters fought upon its waters? No!
Their environment suggests larger efforts on
the great ocean. and they respond nobly 10
the nations call. A state which produced
Dewey, and has now offered Mayo, will yet
give US heroes from admiral to gunner's
mate. JAS. OGILVIE, Jr.
Attleboro Mass. May 8, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
Troops for Francel
Send Fighting Men as Speedily as
Possible, Is the Plea
FROM The Philadelphia inquirer

FROM The Phiddenhtp lhqhNf'.'
Twelve thousand men are 20 be sent to
France Immediately They are expert rail-
way workers. They are TO be used in laying
down rails. in repairing railroad beds, IN
opening up communication. Supplies for the
armies at the front must be forwarded with
out a hitch. These Americans are going 70
undertake a most important and a most val
liable task.
This is precisely what we should do. But
France needs something more than these
mechanical and electrical engineers. 1t needs
men in the trenches bearing aloft the Stars
End Stripes Of the United States OF America.
The railroad men will be useful, will be
invaluable But they will be scattered.
France will know that thew are accomplish
ing great things But the troops Will not
see them And the Germans will not. And
it is the moral effect OF an actual fighting
force, no matter how small at first, that IS so
desirable.
To France. then, with men for the trenches
Let every French soldier be cheered by the
knowledge that help is at hand: that the
first expedition is visible promise OF what
is to come. And let the news be spread
throughout the German ranks that the
United States is in this war in deadly earnest.
Time is an object a very great object
II we can send engineers we can send fght-
ing men. Send and be quick about II.
Or as General Joffre would say, vite, vte,
vite'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
Deliberate Malice
New York, May S, 1917.
DR. of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A war conducted for the best inter
ests of the world and the United States would
never mean the Punishment of the acknowl-
edged ablest major general in the United
States service from the most important de-
fensive point in the United States to the
swampy area Of Atlanta Ga. Also. war
conducted for civilization and the releasing
Of the world from Prussian military bar
barism would call for the immediate release
OF the two weakest Cabinet members Mr.
Daniels and Mr.. Baker. Practically everybody
who has had business relations with them
bears me out in this statement. To thus trans
fer General Wood looks like deliberate
malice, and not an ordinary mistake Of judg-
ment BEACON HILL.
Boston, Mass. May s. 1917.