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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
TORNADO HEWS
PATH OF DEATH
TOLL OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED
DEAD AND OVER THOUSAND
INJURED BY WlNDSToRMS.
Millions Of Dollars Damage Done in
Six States Visited by Storm, Be-
sides the Heavy Toll of Life
in Devastated Section.

ST. Louis.-More than $50 persons
were killed, thousand or more in
iured and millions of dollars worth of
property destroyed by tornadoes which
swept through Kansas on Friday iii
nois and Indiana on Saturday and
parts Of Tennessee, Arkansas Ken
lucky and southern Illinois Sunday.
Reports indicate that a large amount
of farm implements. needed to produce
the bumper crop desired this year,
was ruined although the spasmodic
wind struck only here and there in
it's frightful play through the rural re-
giOns. Crop damage is said to be not
heavy in general.
The heaviest toll of life was taken
at Mattoon, Ill.,, city of 10000 popula-
ton, in the broom corn country of cen.
trail Illinois, where fifty-four are known
to be dead and 500 injured, with prop
erty loss of $2,000,000.
Charleston, Ill., ten miles east of
Nation, was also partly wrecked Sat
urday evening with loss of thirty
eight lives and $50 injured The prop
erty loss there is $1000,000.
The next most serious loss was at
Andale, Kan, where twenty-six Were
killed and score injured on Friday.
Dublin, KY, suffered three dead and
seventeen injured Saturday. South by
ersburg, Tenn, was reported Sunday
to have lost two killed and fifteen in
jured in tornado that swept Dyer
county Sunday. Near Blytheville
Ark, nine persons We're reported killed
and a dozen hurt.
Reports from Indiana show at least
seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts
and other places. and the death list
may reach twenty. More than 200 were
injured in the Indiana territory swept
by the storm.
Smaller towns in Illinois lost dozen
dead ON Saturday with two score in.
jured, while in the southern part of
Illinois windstorms killed half-dozen
and injured score.
Summary of tornado dead and in
iurp6
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
Blot in Peace Meeting.

Chicago.-A riot broke out in
peace meeting in Grant park Sunday
afternoon, resulting in the arrest of
eight speakers who had denounced
President Wilson. The crowd was
composed of persons unable to gain
admittance to meeting in the Au-
ditorium theater, where 5000 persons
demanded that the government set
forth in simple language the terms
upon which it would make peace with
Germany
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
People Behind Liberty Loan.

Washington. - Secretary McAdoo,
home from a speaking tour of the
middle and western cities in the in
terest of the Liberty loan, declared in
statement Sunday that the people
were behind the administrations pro-
gram of raising approximately 1,600,-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
Earthauake in california;.

Los Angeles.-A severe earthQuage
was experienced Sunday night through
out southern California. At the town
of Brawley the quake rocked school,
where exercises We're being held, so
sharply that several women and chill
1ren tainted and panic was narrowly
lverted.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
New Chinese Premier.

Pekin.-By a vote of 1888 to seventy
Ave, the house of representatives on
May ~ approved the nomination Of
Lo ChingH si, the minister of finance,
Is premier in succession to Tuan Chi
Jul, who was dismissed by President
Ii Yuan-Hung May %.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01

The British admiralty in it's weekly
report showed big increases in the ar
rivals and sailings and decrease in the
number of vessels sunk by submarines,
and gave ample credit TO the American
destroyers for this gratifying showing.
Following closely on the admiralty
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
Want to pethrone Kaiser.

New York.-Germans here have
formed an organization called the
Friends of the German Republic
whose object is the reinforcement of
Kaiser Wilhelm and the establishment
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
Wireless Station Guard Attacked.

Norfolk, Va.-Frederick ROUGH,
guard at the Virginia beach wireless
station, was slightly wounded Satur-
day in an exchange of shots with two
men who were apparently attacking
the net around the station.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
Hostile Airships Brouqht Down.

London.-Three hostile airplanes, re-
turning from Friday nights raid on
England, We're brought down by Brit
ish air forces in the English chan
mel and off the Belgian coast, the adj
miralty announced.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-01
Spanish Shin Sunk.

London.-Forty-eigh passengers and
eighty-five members of the crew of
the Spanish steamship C. de Eizag-
uirre are believed to have persisted as
a result of the sinking of the steamer.
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
COMMISSIONERS MEETING.

Last night the commissioners met in
regular session and transacted routine
business.
One petitioner asked for privilege
Of erecting an addition to house to
install bath room, which was granted.
Street work occupied the attention
Of the board and the question Of get
ting proper equipment, since that
bought had not come to hand, was dis
cussed, this being the time when work
could be done if equipment was at
! hand.
It was finally decided that Mr.. G..
FL. johnson, one of the street commit
tee, make a trip to the other end Of
the county and try to rent, or borrow,
road machine, in which event the
road work will go at once and continue
until the streets Of the town are in
much better shape.
There were several other matters OF
minor Importance brought before the
board and disposed Of.
Two new ordinances were proposed
and laid over until the next regular
meeting. One was to require all avn
ings in front Of stores to be of a regu-
lation height from the sidewalk The
other was to require, within a specified
and reasonable time, all gates and doors
that open on the sidewalk to open in
wards and not out over the street.
The board are satisfied with the
new arrangement Of having a town Of
flee in the mayor IS office, open every
day through the business hours for the
payment of water, electric light and
power, and also for the payment of
taxes. It is thought that this is 4
step in the right direction Of systema
tizing the affairs Of the town, and a
convenience to the people. In this of
flee is kept, at all times, electric light
globes and fuses, which saves the peo-
pie from going down to the power plant
to obtain same, as formerly.
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
HOW THIN PEOPLE OBTAIN A
PLTNP, STRONG, ROBUST
RGEy

Before ! took tonoline people used
70 caI ne skinny bat now my name
is changed. Ny whole body IS stout.
Have gained Is lbs. and am gaining yet
lock like new man, declared F. P.
Smith, Pittsburg, Pa, who had just fin
ished the tonoline treatment.
Would you, too, like to quickly pu5
from 10 to so lbs. Of good, solid, "stay-
there' flesh, fat and muscular tissue
between your skin and bones?
Don't say it can t be done. Try it
Let us send you free soc package OF
tonoline and prove what it can do fol
you.
e. T. Whitehead Co., is dispensing .
great deal Of tonoline.
More than half a million thin me1
and women have gladly made this test
and that tonoline does succeed, does
make thin folks fat even where all elst
has failed, is best proved by the tremen
dous business we have done. No dras
tic diet, flesh creams, massage, oils O.
emulsions, but a simple, harmless hom
treatment. Cut out the coupon ant
send for this free package today.
Take tonoline with your meals an,
watch it work. This test will tell tn
story.
- SOC BOX FREE
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
GILL; FENNER CAME TO TOWN

The home grown (Halifax county,
boy who has made a success Of tobacco
lwarehouseing and selling the weed for
money that attracts his patrons year af-
ter year, was visitor in town today,
and there has not been a man here who
has been better greeted than "Bill' -
Fenner, Of Rocky Mount.
There s a reason: but easily answer
ed, for it takes but little knowledge
Of Mr. W. E. Fenner to find out that
he is a diamond in the rough. Quick
spoken, and to the point, but, and
here's the reason, he means what he
says and can be relied upon.
Friends he has in hundreds, and year
after year these same friends amble
back to "Bill 50 warehouse, and are
satisfied.
We are glad that Mr.. Fenner came to
town, we feel the brighter for his visit,
and that is the sentiment that others
are expressing about him today.
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
HOMELESS NORTH CAROLIN
IANS.
IAf!S,
Friday

Among the club studies held
recently at the University the
one On the question Of the home
less of the state is most interest
ing reading.
Rome fell into decay wrote
Pliny, because Of latifundia; that
is, lapd ownership by the few and
land orphanage by the many, and
this is true today as it was then; !;
and with us in the south the farm
tenacy is a white man S problem.
According to the 1910 census
eleven hundred and eighty thous-
and people in North Carolina, in
town and country regions, are
landl8ss and homeless, which rep
resented at that time ffty-two
per cent Of the population.
Scotland county ranks SO,
which is last, in the list Of coun-
ties with greatest proportion Of it's
people who own no lands or homes
a2d the percentage Of Scotland
county is 77.6. Edgecombe comes
next lowest with 74.1, Greene with
III alld Halifax fourth from the
last with CTS per cent of it's peo-
pie who own little or nothing in
the way oe property.
The tenants IN o;.r farm reg
ions, are soiourners, s::ran gers and
pilgrims Oh the earth. They have
no stake in the land. They are
tethered to no locality by the ties
Of ownership. They are forever
seeking new fields and pastures
green. Upon an average a little
more than half Of our farm ten
ants in the south move every
year. Their children change
schools and teachers SO often that
they soon drop out altogether.
Farm tenacy and illiteracy are
twin-born social menaces. They
are twins at birth and boon com
panions through :;fe, and neither
can be cured Without curing the
other.
Another thing is equally true
High ratios of farm tenancy mean
low ratios Of church membership
For instance in q Of our cotton
and tobacco counties we find ex
cessive tenancy and undue illit
eracy; and in these 21 counties arr
massed more than one fourth o1
all the non-church members Of tn,
entire State-171,4 ,427, all told
These figures cover only the peo
pie who are ten years old an6
over. The non-church member
ship range from q per cent Of al
people Of responsible age il
Vance county to II per cent il
Edgecombe.
An effective remedy lies in
progressive land tax. It tool
twenty years to get such a tax OF
the law books and in force in New
Zealand; and it will take ever
longer in America unless Chris
tlon consciences are willing t.
consider Isaiah S proposition com
petently and to stand for tn
remedy courageously.
The progressive land tax ant
its results are treated at lengtl
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
PIANO TUNING.

For years I have been Tuning Pianos
some Of the very best, and some Of the
most worthless in the State. If you
have a Plane and IKE to pay what
its worth to tune it, you may send yssl
order to
G.. T.LANDES,
Box 174, Scotland Neck, n. G
Special Factory representative
THOMAS COOK AND SONS
and
WIDDIFIEID PIANOS,
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
FREE TONOLINE COUPON

This coupon, with 10c in silver to
help pay postage, packing, ETC., and
to show good faith entities holder to
one SOC package Of Tonoline Free.
Address the American Proprietary
Co., Boston, Mass. :,
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24
NOTICE..

Would like to rent a good to-
bacco and cotton farm next year,
1913 for half share only. Will
give good references if required in
Halifax or Martin counties.
j. F. DRAPER.
|8-4 If. Scotland Neck, N. c..
The commonwealth., 1917-08-24

in Henry Demorest Lloyd S "New-
est England Frank Parsons
"story Of New Zealand" and the
official year book Of New Zealand.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04
THE NEW HAPsHuRe, RuL-
ER or AusTRiA.HuNeARY

A new Hapsburg. a young man, ID
emperor of Austria and king Of Hun.
gary. He car make or re-make the
policy Of the dual monarchy, If he
chooses. The late Francis Joseph
usually let others shape the policy,
and that policy OF late years has been
defined BY Berlin. Under war condi
tions Germany has so far dominated
AustriarHungary as virtually to have
annexed II. Indeed, the Middle Eu
rope project, born 81 this nal, con
templates q centralized direction from
the Baltic to the Bosphorus.
But the Emperor Charles is q new
factor. and may have . win Of hi
own. Pr1ssianization Of his realm
may not suit his taste. He is i youra
man. but 80 was Kaiser william wher
he dismissed Bismarck. and It woult
~ poetdc retrtbutio0 for that migrate
M nessns1nauce vera 4 lose nov
by of another wslful younss,
hJRtsd mt f.s new smperol
peace tor Austr4a-fIunsary 1,
S1on Z po6slbIes that he q ~ X
~
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04

means willing to go down in a last
ditch fight with Germany, or to per-
sist in the sacrifice of his people to
the u of Prussia. 1t is even hint
ed that, unless Germany can get a
peace speedy, Austria-Hungary will
ask a separate peace. That there is
some compelling motive behind Ger
many's insistence upon peace, looks
more and more probable, and it is
not 80 likely that Germany has reach
ed the limit OF her as that
the young emperor-king demands
peace.
The Hapsburg is the Oldest and
proudest house in Europe and the
HohenzolleTn is an upstart to he
HaDsburg eye. There always has been
in the dual monarchy a powerful
party opposed to the Prussian influ-
ence, and although latterly it has been
in allegiance, recent events have Inn
parted to it new authority. The new
emperor and that party, no doubt.
consider retention Of the dual mon.
archy's integrity more important than
the triumph Of their aIly.-Minneap.
oils Journal.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04

not until the advent to the throne oil
Jagello, the founder of the famous
Jagellon dynasty, in the middle of the
fourteenth century, that the country
began to be itself again. The Jagel
lon period which lasted until the end
of the s%ixteenth century, was the
golden age of Polyish history. About
that time the frontiers of the kingdom
stretched from Riga to Danzig, from
Danzig to Posen, from Posen, south.
west to the foot of the Carpathians;
whilst on the west her border passed
into Russia as far almost as Smo-
lensk. Lithuania, Ukraine, Galicia,
Rutbenia, eastern and some parts of
western Prussia, all. in those days,
wehe parts of Poland.
Poland. however, harbored within
herself the forces which were ulti-
mately to bring about her own IN
doing. Her mobiles belonged, in a pc
culiarly narrow ense. to a military
caste, and, although the condition Gre
ated by their continued quarrels
amongst themselves was, for a time,
concealed and, to a certain extent,
was redeemed by a succession of
powerful kings, it eventually showed
itself as a great national weakness.
In the middle of the seventeenth cen
fury, hordes of Russians, Swedes, Cos
sacks, and Brandenburgers overran
Poland, and, although they were, by a
supreme effort, repealed, it was an
effort that could not be repeated, and
Poland came under the influence of
Russia. So matters drifted on from
bad to worse, until at last Frederick
the Great OF Prussia devied and pro.
pounded to Austria and Russia his
notorious scheme for partition. The
first partition took place in ITO. The
second came in 1898, and the third
and last, in 1895. In this last named
year, the ancient Polish kingdom
definitely came to an end.-Christian
Science Monitor.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Default has been made in the con-
| ditions of a mortgage made by Sarah
/ ]. Hoff, a widow, mortgagor, to Hen
! ~ A. Hanten, of Watertown, South
Dakota, mortgage, dated December
10Th, 1913, describing the West Sew
enty-Hve (75) feet of Lots Six (s) and
seven ca in Block Six (6), Brooks
Addition to the town Of Watertown,
South Dakota, recorded on the 26th
day of February, 1914, at 1929 O'Clock
P. NJ, Book 1O6 Of Mortgages, page
46s, office OK the Register OF Deeds
OF Codington County, South Dakota,
securing a note of Two Thousand
Dollars 49, 900. e0) of even date
herewith. That there is now due and
unpaid said principal Of Two Thousand
Dollars ($2, 900. OO, and One Hundred
Forty-two and 72-100 Dollars t$142.72)
interest, making a total sum due and
unpaid on this date of Two Thousand
One Hundred Forty-two and 72-100
! Dollars C$2,142.7 2), and said mortgage
| containing proper power OF sale by
advertisement, said mortgage having
elected to declare all Of said sum due
under the terms OF said mortgage,
notice is hereby given that said mort
gage will be foreclosed by the sale OF
said described premises at public auc-
ton by the Sheriff of Codington Coun-
ty, South Dakota, at the front door OF
the Court House at Watertown, Cod
ington County, South Dakota, on the
10th day of February, A. D. 1917, at
two o'clock P. M, to pay said mort
gage debt and interest, together with
statutory attorneys fees, and costs
and disbursements allowed by law.
Dated at Watertown, 8. D., this
goth day of December, A. D. 1915.
Henry A. Hanten,
Mortgage.
Ed. T. Elkins,
Sheriff of Codington County,
South Dakota.
Loucks, Hasche L Foley,
Attorneys for Mortgage,
WATERFOWL, South Dakota.
First pub. Dec. %, last pub. Feb. 81
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04
HIDES N FURS.
Ship to the Old Reliable.

We pay highest Cash prices for your
Hides and Furs. We charge no com
mission, and make prompt ~treurns.
Wrie today for our Free illustrated
Trap Book and Catalog, Shipping Tags
and Price List No. 1874 One trial
shipment win prove we do as we adj
y]ertise. We n paying the following
prices today:
No. l G. S. Hides 24c per lb.-Green
or Frozen Hides &c per lb.-No. l Veal
Calf. G S. 40c per ID. No. / G. S. Veal
Kip 80 per ID Horse Hides SIS to SIS as
o size. and more if the market adj
Tances, Furs are also bringing High
Prices.
NORTHWESTERN HIDE G. FUR co,
Established 1890 Minneapolis, MINI.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04
ONS

oo vi mONS.
State Of South Dakota, County of
Codington, So.
In Circuit Court, Third Judicial Cir
cult.
Mary Belle Harper, Plaintiff, VS.. j. A.
Kelsey, Mrs. J. A. Kelsey, George
B.. Kemp as Executor of the last
Will and Testament of John E..
Kemp, deceased; John Kemp,
George B. Kemp, Emogene Dewey,
Fred M. Hoyt, heirs at law, and
next of kin of John %. Kemp, de-
ceased; Frank e. Kemp as admins
traitor Of the estate Of Oscar p.
Kemp, deceased; Elva M. Kemp,
Frank E. Kemp, Oscap P. Kemp,
Monroe J.. Kemp, Clara Kemp,
Genevieve Kemp Schwartz, Caroline
Kemp McPhail, jack TX Paul
Kemp, Willard Kemp, Marion
Kemp, Imogene Kemp; Lee Slower,
as Trusee under the last Will and
Testament Of Otis e. Dewey, de-
ceased, Defendants.
The State Of South Dakota to the
above named Defendants, Greetings:
You r hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the complaint of the
plaintiff which was filed in the office
of the Clerk of this Court at Water
town, Codington County, South Dako-
ia, on the 30th day of June, 1915, and
which prayed for a judgment quieting
the title to and the determination of
all adverse claims against the prem
ises described in the complaint, sit
uate in said County, to-wit:
Lot Twenty-four in Block Number
Ten, Kemp Bros. Addition to the City
of Watertown, WATERFOWL, Codington
County, South Dakota,
and to serve a copy of,ayonr answer
to the said Complaint on the under.
signed at their offices in the City of
Watertown, South Dakota, withis
thirty days after the completed SER
vice of this m upon you ex-
elusive OF the day of such service.
And if you fail to answer said COM
plant within that time, the plaintiff
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated at Watertown, S. D., this 29th
day of June, 1916.
Mather & Slower,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
(Ffrst pub. Dec. Z. last pub. Jan 1s)
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-04
NOTICE OF

NOIICE OF
State of South Dakota, County of
Codington, IS.
In County Court.
In the matter of the application of
William McKool to sell homestead
property, used and occupied by said
William McKool and Mary McKoo1,
husband and wife, as a homestead
before the commitment of said
Mary McKool to the South Dakota
Hospital for the Insane at Yankton,
South Dakota.
Notice is hereby given that William
McKool has filed in this Court a petit
ton praying for an order to be per-
mitted to sell and transfer property
used and occupied by said William Nc
kool n Mary McKool, husband and
wife, as a family homestead before the
commitment Of the said Mary McKool
TO the South Dakota Hospital for the
Insane at Yankton, South Dakota, and
Whereas, the said Mary McKool is
at this time incompetent and insane,
now therefore,
Noice is hereby given that said pc
tition will be heard by the County
Court OF the County OF Codington and
the State of South Dakota, and the
Judge thereof, at the once OF the
County Judge in the Lamm Block in
the City of WATERFOWL. Codington
County. South Dakota. on Thursday
the 18th day OF January. 1917, at 10:Ob
O'clock in the forenoon 81 that day,
when and where any person may ap-
pear and show cause, II any there be,
Why said petition and the prayer
therein contained should not Is grant.
sd, and that said petition and the
Order Of Hearing is 81 reference made
= part hereof.
Dated at Watertown, South Dakota,
this 18th day OF December. 1914.
BY the Court
John Nicholson
Judge.
RaInh H. Horswiu.
CLERK.
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