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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Belgian Relief Work

Mrs. Campbell, Of Dell Rapids,
member of the state committee for
Belgian relief, was in the city Mon
day, and held a meeting at the city
Commercial Club room s. The lady
made a very interesting talk upon the
subject, and after remarks by several
local people, an organization was per-
fected to push the work in Hand coun-
ty. Following are the officers select
ed: w. J.. Halloween, president; G.
c. Briggs, Secy; F. e. Saltmarsh,
treas. A city committee was also
selected, consisting of G. H. Carroll,
d. A. Mccoy, #. d. Greene.
The purpose of the county or
gs~nizzzation is to raise a fund of
$500, or about 10 cts per'capita for the
ccunty's population. To distribute ii
equally over the county committees
have been appointed consisting OF
two persons In each township. Be-
fore this was started individual sub
scriptions of 5000 at st. Lawrence
and SIS at Miller were reported. Late
newspaper reports from Washington
state that the government contem-
plates a loan to this stricken country.
but in the meantime her suffering
people need help.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Hand County Women
Organize to Aid War

The Women of Hand County met
at the Opera House Saturday after
noon and organized, 1.-THE Women's
Patriotic Association" of Hand Coun-
ty. It's object is to promote patriot
ism, thrift, and render aid in time of
war.
Eevery loyal and girl of
Hand County may become a member.
The ONE of the several townships
OF the county are urged to cooperate
in this work, and select one among
their number to be present at a meet
ing to be held in the Court room on
Saturday, May 18th at 2 O'Clock.
The following officers were select
ed:
President .......... Mrs, S. ". Christ
vice-President Mrs. L. T. Jarmuth,
st. Lawrence, s. d.
Corresponding Secy. Mrs. VIM.
Schroeder.
Recording Secy. ~. Mrs. Cha3. Gard
ner, Rec Heights.
Treasurer Mira. John F. Wilson,
Greenlesf twp.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
BANDIT HOLDS UP
c. & n. W. TRAIN
Forces Brakeman to Jump OF Train
Going Mt 30 Mile Speed

Sparta, Wis, May "A lone ban
dit held up train No. 412 on the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad at
lis a. m. today, robbed the passen-
gers in the rear coach and escaped.
The bandit concealed himself In
the coach and when Brakeman John
Hockett passed through the coach he
covered him with a gun and ordered
him to walk to the real of the coach.
Upon reaching the rea platform the
bandit forced the brakeman to jump
from the train and then robbed the
passengers in the coach, escaping
from the train as 1t entered the yards
here.
A posse OF men are searching thfs
vicinity for the bandit.
A despatch from Medary at 2 p. IN.
said hat Hockett limped into that
place a short time before, but was
not seriously hurt. The train, &C
cording to the conductors in charge,
was travelling at the rate of moro
than 80 miles an hour when the
brakeman was forced to jump.
No estimate of the amount of mon
ey obtained by the bandit could be
reached by the passengers occupying
the real coach.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
New Depot
in Near Future

Superintendent Dickinson, Of the C..
& N. w. Ry was in Miller Saturday
and talked with a number Of citizens
at the Commercial Club rooms In re-
gard to a new depot for Miller. He
reported the necessity of postponing
the contemplated improvement this
spring, on account of the scarcity of
labor, high cost of material, and the
necessity of using all road power and
equipment for the government.
He had with him detailed reports
of the business done at Miller, and
plans for a depot costing $500,
which, he assured Club members.
would be built as soon as the war
interference had been disposed of.
This, he said, was definitely agreed
upon by the officials. Mr.. Dickinson's
visit was in answer TO efforts of the
Commercial Club railroad committee.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
CORRESPONDENCE
AND EXCHANGES
Personal and News Notes From Over
The County
ALPHA-GREENLEAF

There will be services at the Mon
cur schoolhouse Sunday, May 6 and
a good attendance is desired by the
pastor as he announced that Sabbath
School would be organized on that
dat.
Mr.. Frank Moore attended church
in Miller Sunday.
Alpha and Grecnleaf farmers are
cooperating with the farmers OF the
Northwest as much as possible tho
through ~unfavorable conditions; faith
err is running his legs Off to see il he
car work in the fields this afternoon;
mother is chasing after those incuba-
tor chicks and to see where that"
turkey hen is going. Every n is
doing their best SO we are in line.
MI. Henry Kuper has a new car
and we just wonder who will be the
next.
Ira Johnson has completed his
course at Mitchell and came home
Monday and is now awaiting sum-
mons to join national guards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Pierce and
family spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Aymar.
Com. j. F. Wilson and wife were
in Miller Monday and Tuesday on
business.
Mrs. G. N. Moncur's father and
uncle were down from Orient sunday
visiting.
The Current Event Club met with
Mrs. Henry Aymar this week, Thurs
day. Quite a few were out. The
afternoon was spent with fancy work
and visiting. Mesdames Chadwick,
Locke and Moneur were welcome
visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Moncur and
family spent the week end in Miller
visiting relatives.
There was a dance Friday evening
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Locke. A jolly good time was had
even II those April showers did@keap
a good many home. There will be
KZZrM
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
GOVERNMENT ROADS
OPEN new MARKETS
Distribution Of Products Greatly Ben
Gifted By System Of Good
Roads

The benefits of good roads are by no
means confined to the pleasure of au-
tomobiling, which is admittedly great.
They will more easily and more rapid
ly distribute the varied products of
this great country from n locality
to the other. The United States is
blessed with about all kinds of soil
and climate. To get the best exchange
and distribution of her great variety
of products she needs everything in
the way of transportation facilities,
railroads, turnpikes, river boats, lake
shipping. etc. Perhaps the greatest
of these would be the railroads. But
certainly next in importance would
come the public highways, call them
turnpikes, auto trails. or what not.
So far as the government was con-
cerned no attention vas paid to road
building since the days Of the old
turnpikes leading from Washington
out through Ohio and Kentucky, before
the Civil war. But last year the Con-
gress did something. The Bankhead-
Shackleford Good Roads bill, SIS, 000,-
900 Of federal funds and a like amount
to come from the various state treas
uries was dedicated to :hc cause OF
better American highways. This
means that for the next five years
s34, 000, 900 will be spent annually in
making the road system of the United
States comparable or superior to the
present fine roads of Europe.
No more splendid tribute to the ed
u~catlonal value of the automobile
could be paid than this action on the
part of Congress. Until the coming
of the motor car, the good roads issue
possessed little vitality. For seventy
five years the government exercised a
passive policy toward building per-
manent highways. Railroads pushed
int virgin territory, cities spraIs up
along the right of way, but the rural
arteries of travel remained in the
same hopeless condition as when the
pioneers ploughed through them afoot
on horseback.
People who have shaken their heads
over the future OF the automobile in
dustry, have failed to appreciate the
magnitude of American wealth. AS
President Wilson said In his address
on Good Roads at indianapolis. you
cannot know what the of
the country are unless the country is
covered over with a network OF roads
which will release all the locked up
riches OF all countrysides."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
$4,000 Greet Teddy
At Chicago Meeting

Chicago, April 28.-Fifty thousand
persons greeted Theodore Roosevelt
tonight as he called the middle west
to war-''to prove that those who are
fit to live are not afraid to die"
Twenty thousand jammed the mon
ster hall which has been the scene Of
SO many Roosevelt triumphs. Thirty
thousands others filled the streets for
blocks around the pavilion.
Roosevelt had hcralded his Chicago
war address as "the speech of his
life." And Chicago-where the west
begins-welcomed her idol as she
never before welcomed a leader.
Streets damned for Blocks
Long before the doors to the paw
lion were opened thousands thronged
the streets. BY the time the doors
opened the jam had increased until
IT was impossible TO penetrate within
a block of the hall.
The hall, inside and out, was buried
underneath the tricolors. red, white
and blue.
Flags. bunting and banners covered
every square inch of a surface and
every n of the 10000 arms was a
living flagstaff.
A o Of bands kept the crowd
constantly on It's feet through the two
hours of waiting that preceded the
arrival Of the speaker. Patriotic airs,
interspersed with civil and Spanish
American battlesongs, found not a
single seatwarmer In the audience.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
What Other Towns DE-

The commercial club report for
1916 will be found in this issue of the
Journal. The club collected from it's
members $55S.50 and spent for road
work ~$11S5.9S.. Through the efforts
of the road committee of the club the
south road was graded and graveled
v er its worst portion and as a re-
suit 1t is passable this spring instead
of being in. its usual condition. The
club is now interested in an effort to
make the west road passable and In
the construction Of a system OF county
roads linking every town by improved
highways which will be in condition
to carry travel at all times of the
year.-Marshall Co. Journal.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
WEST HAND
From Rec Heights Review

The new Rec Heights cemetery is to
be a go" Over 1920 has been rafs-
ed for a permanent endowment fund,
and there is an opportunity right now
for all who wish to help swell this
fund, to get into the game. r. r.
Gardner has charge of the raising OF
this fund, and 1t is hoped to increase
1t to at least s $1,000. This endowment
fund is to be invested, and the inter-
est will be used to keep the cemetery
In repair and make improvements.
Anton Ruzickor is a new. settler in
the big country north Of here. He
halls from Nebraska, and has been
owner of a section of Campbell town
ship land for ten years. With his
family, which arrived on Monday, he
will live on the old Joe Kindle farm
in Alden, and will spend the season
building and improving his place.
The artesian well outfit that has
been at Aaron Burgess will be sent to
Miller, to drill a well q the Raniamin
land north Of that city, where Robt.
Mickey will live.
We understand that Julius Branden-
berg will erect a set OF farm build
ings on his quarters, southeast OF
John Fawcett, this spring.
Glen Wlilett and Case Van Wyn-
garden went out near Albert Ber-
quist's, Friday evening, and dug a den
of seven young coyotes.
John Myers and Pete DeGeest were
called to Huron, Monday night, for
inspection by a regular army officer.
Irving Crawford, a brother Of Mrs. G..
G. Spiers, is captain of the troop.
Aaron Burge has an artesian well,
flowing about FIVE gallons per minute.
The water is soft.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Miller and Pierre
Winners I'm Contest

The high school defamation con-
test between the schools of this dis
trict occurred at the NJ. K. church in
this city Friday evening. The district
comprises the high schools of Pierre,
Ft. Pierre, Highmore and Miller, and
with the exception of FIT. Pierre each
school was represented by two con-
testants.
In the declamatory class the speak
ers were Freida Kindley, Pierre, Coryl
Combs, Highmore, Ruth Stephenson,
TT Pierre and Marriott Tarleton, Miller.
The winners in this class being Miller
first, and Pierre, second,
The speakers in the o~ratorical class
were Ernest Stephans, Pierre, Frank
Livingston, Highmore, and George
Clarity, Miller, the decision of the
judges awarding first prize to Step
hans, of Pierre, and second to Clarity
of Miller. The orations were all we'll
delivered, showing careful prepare
ton and training by the contestants
and the marks of the judges were
close.
Musical numbers were furnished by
Miss May Saltmarsh, r. c. GotthOld,
H. H. Campbell and Miss Mary Mcvey
of Highmore. The winners in each
class will compete in the state contest
to be held at Aberdeen May 18th.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
SELECTTVE DRAFT
PASSES CONGRESS
Overwhelming Majority in Both
Houses For Administration
Measure

Washington, April 2S.-By over-
whelming majorities both the senate
and house passed late tonight the ad-
ministration bill to raise a war army
by selective draft.
The final roll calls brought into line
behind the bill many senators and re-
representatives. who had fought for the
volunteer system until routed by de-
cisive defeat Of volunteer amendments
earlier in the day in both houses. The
senate, which had voted down the
volunteer plan, SO to Is, passed the
bill by a vote Of 81 to s. In the house
the vote against the volunteer plan
vas 313 to 119 and that by which the
bill itself was passed was 397 to "a.
AS passed by the senate, the meas
ure provides for the draft of men be-
tween the ages Of 81 and q years,
while in the house measure the age
limits are fixed at 81 and 40. This
and lesser discrepancies will be set
led in conference early next week SO
that the bill may be in the hands Of
the president as quickly as possible.
The war department already has COM
pleted plans for carrying 1t into effect.
Both senate and house adopted bills
just before the final roll call which
would greatly increase the pay of en-
listed men during the war. The house
provision would make their pay $50
a month, and that approved by the
senate would fix it at S29 a month.
The present pay is only SIS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
SCHOOL LAND SOLD
AT $3.50 AVERAGE
$40 Acres Of Cheapest Laud Offered
Bought by Farmers

A considerable crowd gathered at
the court house Saturday, where Com
missioner knight offered several
tracts of Hand county school lands
for sale.
These lands were in sections 16 and
36 in variols townships of the county.
They were appraised at 81 per acre,
to $43 per acre, according to the con-
ditions which regulate prices. The
land from $11 to $40 per acre was
considered to be rough grazing land.
From $50 to $43 it vas rated as good
farm land. The lowest price was bid
for rough land in the Rec Hills, the
highest price paid was $40 per acre
for farm land in Pearl twp.
The total number of acres sold was
1910, all bought by Hand county farm
ers. This land was sold on terms of
one-fourth cash and the balance on
long time, and the money goes into
the states permanent school fund.
This fund, nov amounting to several
millions of dollars, is loaned out in
the state and the interest received is
divided among the counties for school
purposes. Only the interest is to be
used, rs the school fund itself is a
permanent state fund.
Lease Of Lands
On Monday another large CROWD
gathered at the court house when the
unsold school lands were offered for
lease by County Auditor Sweetland.
In some cases the bidding was lively
and tracts were leased at 81, Sc, and
sc cents per acre. In other localities
they were leased at the minimum
price placed upon them by state OFF,
cials, running from 20 to 80 cents
per acre for hay land and pasture.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Home Baked Beans Again

Sioux City Journal:-There is some
dispute as to the quality of pies that
used to be produced in the maternal
kitchen. But the temerarious indi-
viduai is yet to rise vino will decry
the quality and the taste and the all
around superiority Of the kind oil
baked ~beans-maybe she called them
Boston baked and maybe she didn't
that mother used to turn out with
the cooperation of the old, familiar
cookstove.
Everybody remembers the flavor.
II was something like the taste OF
meat that had been smoked long and
expertly yer a slow hickory fire in
the little smokehouse to the right as
you stepped out of the kitchen door.
It was something like sweet sorg-
hum molasses when that was at its
home made best. But in general it's
taste was so ineffable and superior
as to be unlike anything that ever
was on land or sea.
Well, the dear old dish is coming
back, folks say. There is to be a
renaissance OF gustatcrial delight.
The palate is to be restored from
atrOphy. All the insidiOus modern
hints directed against the cooking
and cookery of times past are to be
COMPOUNDED. Beans, home baked, are
coming in again. That is to say II
any beans are raised this year..
The occasion, of course, Is govern
mental need. BY agreement with the
producers Of can, the administration
at Washington has provided that tin
containers shall be supplied only to
those canning establishments that
promise OF put up perishable vege-
tables alone. Beans. OF course, can
30 kept ncst satisfactorily 2 the IN
cooked state. Therefore beans are
barred.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
April Cold end Wet

The monthly weather report issued
by the Huron Office shows the past
month to have been the coolest April
for ten years, the average ts,npera-
ture being Al, which is several de-
grees below normal for April. The
total rainfall amounted to 500 inches
the normal Cor April being about
5.25 inches. Frosts were recorded on
the 4th. 18th and ssth.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Wheat Seeding Backward

A considerable acreage Of small
grain was put In last week by Hand
county farmers, Notwithstanding the
wet weather and mud. The Carroll
farm in Miller township, reported 400
acres OF wheat in up to Saturday
night, which completes their wheat
seeding. On many farms. however
more seeding will run over into May
than has occurred here for several
years. This means a later corn sea-
son, and the necessity of planting
only the quickest maturing varities.
This does not discourage many
farmers who report that they have
raised some Of their very best corr
from June planting.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03

In the final certificates Of citizen
ship, there were 122 N~orwegians. II
Germans, 50 Danes, 81 Swedes, 50
Russians, with all other nations re-
presented in smaller numbers.
Out of the $40 divorces, 22S we're
for desertion; las cruelty; 95 non
support; rs intemperance; "a for
adultery.
In the death list OF 4,737, 1,194 were
children under 5 years of age. OF
adults, from most common diseases
there were 3S1 from pneumonia; 81
heart troubles; 267 from tuberculo-
sis; 277 from cancer; and 22O from
old age. Among deaths from diseases
which show an increase over the
previous year are appendicitis.
Brights' disease, bronchitis. cancer,
enteritis, nifantile paralysis, measles,
scarlet fever ana whooping cough.
In the violent deaths 94sportsd for
the year there were As from crushing
by motor vehicle or other vehicle
accidents; % railway deaths; z from
injuries from animals; 8 from ex-
cessive cold; Sc accidental drowning;
IA from gases; Is from burns; 10
from sconflagrations; 20 from fire
arms; = 33from falls; s in mines and
quarries; 6 by machinery; Is from
tightening; 1 from electricity; s from
fractures, and Is. from other external
violence.
There were just half as many hon.
icides in the state for 1916 al for 1918,
the figures being s to II, and suicides
decreased from So to 81.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Miller Leads State
On Number Phones

Manager Hunt, of the Dakota Cen
trail, has received a statement from
the head Office at Aberdeen showing
the number of phones in use in towns
and counties, according to popula-
ton. Miller is placed at the top with
rs phones to- the 100, Aberdeen. has
% per hundred, and Huron 20. On
the country lines Miller is second In
the state with 331 to Aberdeen's Alb,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Local Railroad Receipts Increase

The receipts for last year at. the O.
& N. w. station in this city show the
very creditable total of $~154,479.SS,
divided rs follows: freight. s139, 206,-
90; passenger $12,7o5.OO; milk ST.
1880.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Governor Selects
Council of Defense

Pierre, April 30.--Governor Nor
beck has appointed a state council
of defense to have charge of all ac-
~tivities of food conservation and 9TH
err matters in relation to war meas
ures in South Dakota. The board
consists of a dozen prominent citizens
scattered over the state.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03

Yesterdays papers report that pot
atoe prices have started to break in
many plsces Aberdeen REPORTS
$1.50 price, Mitchell t2.76, and Minne-
apolis . drop Of IS cents per bushsl.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03

Highmore, April 30.-The patriotic
people Of Hyde county are now en-
gAged in recruiting q cavalry troop,
In which many OF the old Highmore
Infantry Company men have enlisted.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
Claims Rust Proof Wheat

Lorenzo Falzone, IN Italian OF
Haakon county. this state claims
that he has developed a rust proof
wheat. He has a fortune in sight,
II he can prove it.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03
VITAL STATISTICS
OF STATE FOR 1916
Summary Of State Births, Deaths.
Marriages, Divorces, Citizen.
ship. Etc.

Pierre, April 24.-The vital static
teal summary Of the state for the
year ending December 81 shows for
the year 1915 and 1916 in the state:
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-03

The regular annual meeting Of the
shareholders Of the Miller Building
Company for the election OF Directors
will be held on Tuesday. May 3, 1917
at eight O'Clock p. N. IN ths Com
msrciaI Club rooms.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-18
A FOOLISH DISPUTE SETTLED

At last the annoying dispute the building of a
bridge connecting Marion and Polk counties at this point
has been settled 1t has been settled right too for the
county court of Polk county has consented to Polk
tys paying her share of the BILL This ends all litigation
and makes possible to get to work on the bridge in the
near future The position taken by the Polk county court
was unenabe and so far the average man could see
had nothing back of it unless it animosity toward
Marion county However it is well enough to let the dead
past bury its dead and all concerned get busy the
bridge 1t only fair say that the Polk county court
also agrees to pay its share of the expense of operating
the ferry and maintaining the bridge. Outside of the
bridges Portland that at this point is the most import
ant in the state being travelled far than any other
1t will also prove of great value to Polk county outside OF
its local use that it is necessary part of the puposed
loop road from Portland up the west sde the river
here and back to Portland this side 1t will be one Of
the most popular drives in the state and will bring an IN
come to points in Polk county that alone would justify
the building of the bridge Salem of course deeply in
erested because there is rich territory adjacent to her
in Polk county, the trade of which naturally comes to
Salem and large section of Polk county is anxious to
have the bridge for this