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The Seward gateway., 1917-01-02
SPAIN THINKS TT USELESS

MADRID, Dec 31-Replying to the note of Presi- dent Wilson the Spanish government expresses the belief that intervention at this time in behalf of peace is pre- mature and useless.
The Seward gateway., 1917-01-02
BELIEVE CONFERENCE POSSIBLE

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 - Official opinion of the Entente reply cannot be obtained here Unofficial opn- ien however is apparently optimistic that conference between the belligerents is yet possible.
The Seward gateway., 1917-01-02
HARRY LAUDER'S SON KILLED

LONDON, Jan 1. - Captain John Lauder son ot Harry Lauder the famous vaudeville performer has been killed at the front in France
The Seward gateway., 1917-01-02
HAIG MADE FIELD MARSHAL

LONDON Jan. l. - General Sir Douglas Haig has been created field marshal in recognition of his work in connection with the Somme offensive.
The Seward gateway., 1917-01-02
LONDON PLEASED

LONDON, Dec. 31.-The British people are in com pete accord with the reply of the Entente to the German peace proposals The veest satisfaction with the re- ply is expressed by all the newspapers,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
PEEVER COM
PANY CALLED
Federal Officers Will Deter
mine Company's Fitness

Capt. F. b. Kelly received Il
telegram Tuesday from headquar-
ters commanding him to have
eighty five men ready for inspect
tion 10y Federal officers for service
by the earliest possible date.
Co. III of the Fifth Cavalry. the
Pcever company. has muster roll
of 53 men, several more enlist
ments have been made since the
muster roll was closed, bringing
the total strength up to about 60
men.
Twenty five more recruits must
he secured i'm the next few days to
meet the federal demand.
1t is not known where the Fifth
regiment will be stationed, but be-
fore it is put into Federal service
it is expected that training camp
will be established somewhere i'm
the state and the men trained for Il
few months, if necessity permits,
before the regiment is called out
for duty.
The New Fifth regiment was or
ganized last fall as an infantry but
was changed to cavalry a short
time ago bv the war department
as the demand ..was greater for
such am organization than for that
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
Twelve Dollars Will Give That Extra Meal to
One Child for Year

o
If you can't conib that help make
All of ST. 90 wluu be uedged
Belgian child will be
the
the Com
mission Relief in Belgium
o to h
used intended The
the
of
of 10000 Flanders 3 miles
der old fortress of
the beautiful Now it is practically
N n is
u l,ou:i Chairman secy. W.
n
Burke, . iierel EN- ,nes-
Committee
Icry S. Morris Chairman W. rarlierg: secfotlr lry
j Crol n l'ocket. Della
Carl'"r ra: W. L. johnson: Rev. G. NJ. Aavia
L." O Powell Io
set and T. White xxxxxxxxxxx
o. S srickson ltoSolt g. Molandcr
/. and
of INIT
7. Turritn Melvin statvold of Ortey
the
checks o Ack
noweisment will publicly
township whence
THE CAUSE is URGENT IMMEDIATE DESPERATE. DON'T
WAIT. ACT NOW.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

of an infantry.
Nearly every regiment of the
guard has been called oul in the
eastern states. while only Il part
of the fourth regiment has been
called out in this. state The Isl
Minnesota was called back afte,
only being mustered ont 10 days
ago.
The final disposition of the
guard will he made bv Congress
when it meets in extra session neNl
Tuesday.
While ii is hoped that war may
he avoided, the war department is
taking every means to keep order
and protect American lives and
property in the I'm ted States amc
upon the seas.-Peever Pilot.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
one IN five
GET IWINE
Iwine Plant Output Sold
Demand Five Times Supply

With the farmers OF the state
wanting sixteen million pounds of
binding twire and he state
twlne plant at the penitentiary
only able to make three mil
lion pounds, there has been great
lush for the prison twine which
sells for - cents i'll carload lots as
against price of probably 10 cents
by outside manufacturers.
All OF the prison twine has been
sold to l0e farmers elevators in 81
counties i'll the state, i'll which
about $4,000 South Dakota farm
ers are stockholders, except that
about $4,000 pounds is being re.
served for individual orders OF
not more than 500 pounds.
In statement to the public,
Warden Redfeld explains that nc
money could be saved now by un
dertaling to operate the plant OH q
night shift as we'll as "a day, be
cause the present cost of the sisal
would raise the price of the prison
twine above the trust price. The
state Irvine is sold at cost and hence
everybody wants it, through onl,
one in FIVE can be supplied.
AT meeting of the board oi
charities and corrections with the
lwarden, the whole case was gon,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
DEATH OF
MRS. ]. JONES
Dies Saturday Morning After
Lingering Illness of Cancer

A wave OF sadness passed over
the friends OF Mrs. Jones and
family when it was announced
Saturday morning that she had
passed away. She had long been
a patient sufferer from complica-
tion of diseases and while her
death was not unexpected it is a
sad blow to her relatives and
friends who hoped against hope
that their beloved one might rally
and be spared to them, but it was
not to be; death came as kind
messenger and the tired soul passed
to its maker
Frances Elizabeth Arrowsmith
was born in Wigan, England i'll
June 1858, where she grew to wo-
manhood. She was married to
James Jones i'll 1884 and i'll 1889
with her husband and three child
rem came to America and settled
near Pipestone, MINI, where her
parents were living, they having
left England in 1880.
Fourteen years ago the family
moved to Bossko township where
they have since resided.
She was the mother of ten child
ren. two dying in infancy and
Annie, the oldest daughter being
buried from the M. f. Church of
this city eight years ago.
A husband, five sons, to daugh.
tiers, one sister and seven brothers
remain TO mourn her loss, all of
whom were present at the funeral
but two brothers, one residing in
England and one in North Dakota,
Mrs. Jones was faithful wife,
a loving mother and sister and
had always a CHEEKY smile and
helpful word for all who knew
her.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at the M. Il. church at two
o'clock. Rev Ebert officiating,
using as his text. Blessed are
the Dead that Die in the Lord"
Interment was made i'm the Sisse.
ton cemetery. The grief stricken
family have the sympathy of the
entire community.
She has gone, we all shall miss
her,
There will be vacant chair,
But she'll be lovingly remem-
bered.
Tho she's resting over there.
She has gone we'll no more see
her
Till we meet OH that fair shore,
Where all sorrows, tears and heart
aches
Will be gone for ever more.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
Wheat Standards Effective July 1

Washington Official wheat
standards were fixed today by
the department of agriculture
under the grain standard act to
become effective for hard red
winter wheat, soft red winter
comman white wheat and white
club wheatJ uly ,and for all other
wheat Aug. l.
Useo the standards will be re-
quired for wheat shipped from
all points in the interstate or for
eign commerceands sold by grade.
Sale of grain by sample of type.
however, is permitted.
Wheat is divided into six gen-
eral classes and large number
of subclasses. The general clas-
ser are hard red spring. common
and red durum, hard red winter
soft red winter, common white
and white club.
Miss Helen Puder will teach
Pianforte here each Thursday in
the week. Mr.. Eames of Chicago.
Miss Puder's last teacher. vouches
that his pupil will teach in the lat
est approved methods.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

Sather, Ole Hovey, l.. ]. WALL
strom, l.. Riveland, Carl Nilsson,
Chas Thompson and Louis Kuk-
lish. Upon adjournment of the
meeting, the board of directors or
ganized by electing l.. ]. Wallstron
president, l.. Riveland, secretary
and Chas Thompson treasurer.
The board will get the articles of
Incorporation perfected aud sent
in and will also meet to draw up a
constitution and bylaws to be act
ed upon at the first regular stock
holder meeting. MIR. M. r. Mel.
son of Valley City. N. D., repres-
enting the Atwood-I4arson Co.,
commission merchants, was pres
ent, and made some very helpful
suggestions during the meeting =
Ellington Record.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

porous future.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
In the Name of God the Father
Let Us Stop the Slow Starvation Of One Million
BELGIAN Children

irs
FROM A BOY OF EIGHT.
like the little Iselgains
FROM A GRATEFUL LITTLE Girl.
heart
all
wi
o and
VA 10 Noorit
aLui tau,s InlS SLutL. .aLu4i ui.cf4L
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
Farmers Elevator For Ellington

The meeting held at the Wood
man Hall at New Ellington OH
Wednesday afternoon showed good
results. The subscription list at
the end of the meeting showed a
total of $3.50 90 and four solici-
tors for more subscriptions were
appointed, viz: Louis Kuklish, Carl
Nilsson, o. X. Sather and Hans
Grimsrud. These solicitors also
10 get all subscriptions into the
form of notes. The meeting was
organized by electing Ole Hovey
temporary chairman and Morris
Eggen secretary.
A motion was made and adopted
that it was the sense of the meet
ing that the Company should be
organized OH the basis that the
proceeds of the business should be
applied, first to pay operating and
maintenance expenses; second, (if
sufficient profits be realized at the
end of a years business) to pay
interest OH the investment or stock
upto 10 per cent; and, third, any
profit realized above the 10 per
cent, to be distributed OH pro
rata basis to stockholders accord
ing to business done i'll the way
of selling grain or other commodi.
ties from the Company. A per
manent organization was then eff
fected, and articles of incorpora
ton were decided upon and adopt
ed.
The Company will operate unde1
the name of the Farmers Co opera
tive Elevator Company of New
Ellington. The capital stock fNet
at S25,oOO, divided into 1000 share
of SIS eadh. The stockholder
elected to act as directors unit
the first regular meeting are o. K
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

AT the County Convention of the
Nj. w. A. held at White Rock
Wednesday, M. f. Crockett was
elected as delegate to the State
convention from Roberts County
A. j. Erickson was elected alter
nate. Sisseton, Ortley and White
Rock were the only camps repre-
sented. The boys were given a
swell feed i'll the evening to wind
mp the affairs of the day, and all
report fine time at White Rock
but Oh what trip.
Hartwick and Arnold Hagen
returned Monday from Miunea-
polls where they spent the winter
and will work ON their fathers
farm the coming season.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
Married

Miss Agnes Johnson OF Sisseton
and Oscar Sundhei,n OF Sisseton
were united in marriage March 81
at the Lutheran parsonage, Rev.,
X. n. Rudie officiating. The
young compile have a host OF friends
who wish them a happy and pros
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
SEVERAL FIRES
THIS WEEK
Johnson Home and Catholic
Church Scorched

\ small fire AT the home of
+, litor johnson, Wednesday eve
ming, caused no little excitement.
Mrs. johnson after lighting the
lamp dropped the match, thinking
it eNtinguished, near the door
tlraperies, and went into another
room. The draperies We're ahlaze
when she discovered them, and we
want to say right here if it had
not been for her presence of mind
the house would have soon gone
up in smoke. After first discover
ing the blaze she phoned Central
of the fire. placed the baby out of
sloors. then rushed i'm. threw the
burning drapefies out and with a
rug whipped out the blaze.
The firemen and meighbOrs re
sponded promptly but everything
was over, and no water was turned
IN. The damage is about $40.
At noon Thursday, fire was dis
covered in the sacraistly of the
Catholic Church, and this part of
rlle building and the entire con
tents of the room were destroyed,
The fire was not discovered until
it had broken through the win
elows and it was only by the good
work of the firemen the building
was saved. The whole interior of
he church is badly smoked up.
Damages will probably amount to
about $1,000. The origin of the
ire is unknown.
Fire of unknown origin destroy
I'd the Mortoi Nsng Store at New
Ellington Wednesday morning
MIR. Morton rooms up stairs and
Vas awakened by the smashing of
the large front window of the store
caused from the heat. He was
able to get out and give the alarm
but the fire had made such head
way that ii was impossible to save
ANYTHING The entire contents
were DESTROYED and the building is
III such shape that it is beyond
repail.
n, ~ l,rc.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

Parent Teachers Association
Monday, Apr. 9th
Solo Mrs. Cottinghan
Number Grammar Grades
Talk DR.. Robertson
Talk on grammar grades
Miss Atteln
Reading Miss Martha Morris
Refreshments Served
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06
What Will Roberts County Do to Merit
This Gratitude of Belgian Children?

has
import rs her breadstnh
of The
American all testify that
n is
hese million slowly children
4 ada
supplementary meal addition
they pptti
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

After two years and half upper and neither mill
of the Belgian people and themselves facing new per
IL the slow starvation of than million children
The meager that have barely suffced for adults have
proved insufficient for growing children There oOoo OF
or gee IN ea The e
has been able supply about twohrds that supplied
keep body together adult 1t enough
'Sas OF costs six @
One Million Belgian Children Must Have an
Extra Ration Each Day or They are Going
to Die of Slow Starvation
ss 5 "a. sss; SS %s S s ss e; ss$
s,issfu 5 among
How small is but much
One Dollar Month Will Supply This Extra
Ration and Save Child
appeal the United States furnish that
and these children from Herbert Hoover Cham
heads Of churches American Physicians CDR Lu
of the University of CALIFORNIA; is of them who have
appeal that from the mosstresed nation earth the
wealthest nation the sun evershone upon
How In Gods Name Can Such An Appeal Be
Disregarded?
2 in n has r @ vs a a % s o . s
@ the United Stat 81 less than
I
seisia sne people
%a @ a9fe9 as after
ss & f @ e. % states ss" sTs q % s 81.
sDsHs ssDss asa % Ss'S % S" %
n9 eappo '1' sy hs omt sa"%s" p'us
Read These letters from Children Of Bel
gium in the Light Of the Fact just
Presented
of The The ds% Sf % are printed s hasf " h1s '%' % SS sn ss
FROM BOY OF NINE
eS sSsnk rSe e brave OF people % had % @ % write Sp @ ss
tel you 'ha' Sn EppM pras M 1TI % y M GPT M nF M TtW ~ you
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

Touch, technic, hand cultulture
and Interpretation according to the
latest methods are guaranteed in
Miss Puder's piano lessons. In
Sisseton every Thursday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-27
THE REAPER.

In his diary under date of Dec. 6
1888, Henry w. Longfellow wrote: "A
beautiful, holy morning within me,
was softly excited, knew not why
and wrote with peace in my heart and
not without tears in my eyes. The
Reaper and the Sewers, a Psalm OF
Death have had an idea of this kind
in my mind for long time, without
finding any expression for 1t in words
This morning 1t seemed to crystalline
at once without any effort Of my own
This psalm was printed in the Knick-
erbocker for January, 1889, with the
subtitle, "A Psalm of Death"
There is a reaper whose name Is death
And with his sickle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath
And the flowers that grow between.
Shall have not that is fair?" said he,
Have naught but the bearded grain
Though the breath OF these flowers is
sweet to me,
i will give them back again."
He gazed at the flowers with fearful
eyes,
He kissed their dropping leaves;
It was for the Lord OF Paradise,
He bound them in his sheaves.
my lord hath need OF these fiowerets
gay
The reaper said and smiled:
''Dear tokens of the earth are they,
When he was once a child.
They shall all bloom in fields OF light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear"
And the mother gave, In tears and
pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she would find them all
again
In the fields of light above.
Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-27
AMERICA IN ARMS.

We have not willed this war.
Nor heaped for man this monstrous
But We have striven on helrs wide
To quench the horrible -fre:
| For this was wilIed to be
BY one who 'sprang on q world
And now his taIons out Of the sea
Have drawn us in to the deep:
In to the deep ana the dark
Where his blood Is drunk with the
splendor OF ships.
AS ne lies in lair with steel-gray
The mad foam on his lips.
No more. then, now no more
Tis ours to watch by the burning
But ours. thank God. to wage this war,
Thank God-for freedoms sake
Till freedom shall be strong
Through hell her heavenly work to
For force is neither right nor wrong
But the use we put IL to.
SO this is the pledge we plight:
That we can fight, who do not hate,
In the yenomed teeth of fate.
Grid, then, our hearts to blaze
Once more through battles black
alarms, s.
God OF our fathers, and upraise
America In arTnsi
So her free soul may live,
Then ours-to win Thy grail or
Are an hundred million lives to give.
But only one to save.
Percy Mackaye Of the Vigilantes
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-27
COAL and IRON
GET RIGHT OF WAY

Washington. April g. Orders
directing the country's railroads to
give coal and iron ore preference over
an other trafnc were issued yesterday
by the general railroad board OF the
council OF national defense. formed
here two weeks ago by railroad heads
10 operate American lines as one
continental system during the war.
In announcing its first Important
move the board declared the welfare
and safety OF the nation depend on
adequate supplies OF coal and iron and
that evasion OF the order would call
for the strictest disciplinary measures.
Railroad presidents win be charged
personally with responsibility for
/ carrying the order into effect
New emergency car service rules.
drawn by the American Railway assO-
ciations car service commission and
made public yesterdayein connectionwith
| the board order require that coal and
ore cars when emptied must be sent
loaded or empty either directly to or
in the general direction OF home roads.
/ Foreign box cars also must be sent,
loaded il practicable. in the direction
| OF home roads.
The general railroad board. or execu-
i've committee. comprises i've mem
bers with Fairfax Harrison, president
OF the Southern railway at its head.
the other members are Howard Elliott
or the New Haven't Hale Holden OF
the Burlington; Julius Kruttschnitt OF
the Southern Pacific and Samuel Rea
Of the PENNSYLVANIA.
Serving as exofficfo members are
Daniel Willard president OF the Balti-
more and Ohio and q member OF the
defense councils advisory commission
and Z. E. Clark. OF the interstate com
merce commission.
In Its order to the railroads the
board says it has investigated the
situation carefully and adds:
The facts ascertained by the execu-
tive committee have established the
conclusion that the national situation
and the welfare OF the country make ii
imperative that every energy OF the
railroads must now be continuously
exerted to move daily the maximum OF
coal and iron ore in distinct preference
to all other commodities.
The board viii and does look to
the president of each road personally
to see to 1t as in a special charge up-
on the good faith of himself and his
railroad, that this rule is not evaoei
nor abused but is applied to accom-
plish daily the purpose intended This
order must be brought to the personal
attention OF all shippers using gondola
and hopper cars so that no abuse nor
evasion Of the rule governing the use
and movement Of such cars will oc-
cur.
If failure occurs this committee
VIII take prompt and effective steps
to correct all such cases by disciplin-
airy measures, including the publica-
ton, where deemed necessary, of the
names of officers and railroads refus-
ing or failing to respond to this APP
peal"
The car service commissions new
rules governing car returns provide
that any dispute that arises shall be
settled by the commission. After ex-
planning how this Is to be done the
commission offers this advice:
In all cases keep cars moving and
settle differences OF opinion after
wards"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-27
AMERICA UNITED.

There has been no serious internal
dissension in the United States since
the dark days of the SOS. We have
had political differences, 1t is true;
there have been labor disputes; agi-
tAtors have endeavored to stir up class
hatred and breed trouble; the political
orator has denounced the party that
was in or the party that was out, but
for all that America has been, since
the civil war. the most thoroughly
united nation on earth, despite the
fact that Its citizenship is made up Of
the peoples of all nations.
To-day, however. we stand together
in new and unique way. Today all
the little differences OF the past have
been melted in the white heat Of our
patriotism. Today we face an enemy
and there is a unity OF purpose and an
inhexible determination OF national
will that BODIES i'll for our opponent.
Says The New York Times:
I'm his fine patriotic speech at the
dinner Of the Dwight Alumni associa-
ton, Mr.. Hughes expressed his pride
in being an American citizen when
the American people are prepared to
do their part to the end that we shall
be governed by law, by agreement, by
coneeption Of right, and not brute
ferce," his purpose to follow Mr.. Will
son, whose leadership has been most
npbly declared He rejoiced in united
america, ready to die for the prin-
cples Of liberty There is no partisan
ship when It is a question OF fighting
for your country
'What heartening and splendid
thing 1t is to see Charles Evans
Hughes, Elihu Root, Theodore Roose-
Welt, William Howard Taft, standing
With Woodrow Wilson. The rivalries
and the bitterness of 1915 are forgot
TN. Not as Republicans or Democrats,
but as Americans, they are one on the
Common platform Of love of country.
md infinitely more splendid and
heartening is the visible substantial
unity OF the American people. Only in
war do these high and rare times Of
national solidarity come"