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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-10-04
NUMBER As
CORRESPONDENCE
And EXCHANGES
Personal and News Notes From Over
The County
-yAYLAND

Fred .Schrader and Eddie Parmley
are the next two boys to go from
vayland territory with the rest of the
forty per cent to go from the county
this week. There are yet three boys
to go from this community in the first
call.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Cassidy arrived
last Thursday evening from Waterloo,
Iowa, for a visit at the home of his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. II. N. Cassidy.
A niece of Mr.. Cassady's is also visit
ing at her uncie's home.
Miss Stella Garner has been assist
ing Mrs. Byers at the restaurant the
past week.
A. M. Anderson and family, Of
Grand township. Fred Rose and family
and Miss Maude McVay of Miller were
all guests at Mr.. and Mrs. Chris.
Anderson's at Vayland Wednesday
evening in honor of the latter's birth
day anniversary.
The Red Cross Society will meet
with Mrs. N. S. Nelson this week. All
are cordially invited.
Mrs. Grant Byers and Mrs. Harry
Fisher were Huron visitors between
trains Wednesday morning.
Work on the Vayland schoolhouse
has been almost completed and 1t is
reasonably certain that school will
open Monday, October g..
Mr.. and Mrs. w. O. Andrews return
ed Saturday night from their Black
Hills trip. They and children also
autoed to Huron Sunday to attend
the wedding of their brother Ralph
Andrews. Mr.. w. 0. Andrews is feel
ing much better after his trip and
he expects to keep at work providing
he has the necessary help he needs
in the store.
Mrs. Grant Byers Of Vayland attend.
ed the meeting of the M. K, Ladies'
Aid in st. Lawrence at the home OF
Mrs. Shepherd. Mrs. Byers demon
strated her supply Of white sanitary
brushes to the ladies'.
A good sized crowd gathered at the
depot to see the troops train through
last Friday. This train made up the
9Th section of South Dakota Guards
and was on it's way to Chicago where
it was to be joined by the other four
sections. Together the sections were
to go to N. Carolina.
Rev. and Mrs. A. p. Cooper and F.
ID. Greene and family, all of Miller,
autoed to the Il. w. Carr home In
Gilbert township to spend Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. II. w. Combes and two young
err Children returned home Tuesday
noon from Lincoln, Nebraska, after
visiting there a couple of weeks.
Clyde Tanning, who has been work.
ing at Highmore this summer, is here
visiting at the home OF his brother
Jack.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Groves arrived
Sunday noon from Huron and have
gone to the T.. w. Carr farm, where
Mr.. Groves has been employed to
help with the late fall work.
A company of friends and neighbors
gathered at the w. f. Speaker home
on Friday evening to help Mr.. Speak
er celebrate his sixty-fourth birthday
anniversary. A pleasant evening was
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-10-04
Glad to Receive Press

Camp Funston, Kan, Sept. 81
received the papers today. Was
very glad to get them, and passed
them among our fellows. All of them
expressed pleasure and appreciation.
1t sure did seem good to all of ns,
as that vas about the first home news
received, and they all send thanks.
Sincerely Yours
Eyerette G. Butler.
9th Co. 164th Depot Brigade.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-10-04
A BIT OF HISTORY
BEFORE HAND CO.
WAS CIVILIZED
Exciting Life and Adventure of First
Few White Men Who Came
to Washington Hills

Jake and Levi Hams and Willie
Nicholson and his mother and some
younger children arrived here last
Saturday, having driven overland in a
prairie schooner from Wyoming. They
have leased one of the Wiser houses.
1t was % years ago hat the family
left here. Levi Hams, the elder, was
n of the historic characters of this
log cabin at Washington Springs. Just
before the settlement came he moved
TO the country southwest of town.
Living at various places, on the place
now occupied by Elmer KTauter, in
the Sand Creek gulch and finally up
on the hills where Will Rowen now
lives. He al a typical pioneer and
couldn't stand crowding and soon
after the country settled up he pulled
up stakes and sought wider range in
the west.-Wessington Times.
Levi Hams, ST., and his son-in-law,
VIM. Nicholson, ST., were with the
first half dozen white men who came
to the Washington Hills in southeas-
tern Hand county before land was
opened by the government for settle
ment. Levi was a fmiliar character
to the first land s~ettlels here IN the
early eighties. We believe he died
a few years ago in the west. These
men knew and associated more or
less with the lawless characters of
that day who drifted beyond the
frontier of civilization. Among others
who joined in the wild Indian border
life were Jake and Bill VanHorn and
Chas. Williams. Their experiences
would make an interesting story of
the one-time picturesque life pursued
by people who lived between the line
of positive law and civilization on the
one side, and the Indian hunting
grounds IN the other.
The younger folks perhaps know
very little about the exciting life of
those few early settlers, the details of
which would make valuable matter
for the historian. The connecting
links between then and now are very
few, but there are two or three per-
sons still living in this neighborhood
who know that moonshine liquor was
manufactured in a gulch of the Wess-
ington Hills; that one of the men was
shot at washington Springs; that an
other a was picked up on the
prairie by Indians after a terrible
experience in a blizzard, with both
feet frozen; that a raid of Federal
officers was foiled by burying the
copper still in a hole in Sand Creek,
where is was found some years later
by Mr.. Wash McNiel, an early day
farmer Of that locality, and father
of Editor McNiel from whose paper
the above clipping was taken. Stolen
horses were traced to the Washington
Hills gulches by VIM. LaFollette. at
that time sheriff of Aurora county,
and a brother of Senator Robert NJ.
LaFollette of Wisconsin. The early
settlers and Indians had many clashes
with cattle rustlers.
And the n element necessary to
complete an interesting book of prim-
tive life was also present in the
romance of a western girl and a
young man whose character fitted the
time and place. 1t is doubtful if the
full story of those days is ever written
unless one of two or three persons
consent to make the details public.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06

Following ire the lowest ,ecOrd"r for this year and lusi on tho JaN> r,'Fnalod. The minus sign h ror pumbor moans below zero
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06

deeds of trust and mortgages are rN- cmpt from stamp tax.
 Deeds to burial sites which do mot convey title to Llnds but only a right to scpulcher to erect monuments etc are exempt Deeds issued to cover a gift of property from husband to wife or from parents to children or from ony individual to a municipality or other political subdivision wherein the con sidcration namcd is "Naturll love and affection and one dollar. desire to pro mote public welfare and one dollar" or one dollar and other valuable consid- erations" are not taxable
 Contract for the sale of real estate providing for the future Issu" of deed upon the fulfilment of certain con ditions is not subject to tax. Deeds issucd on and after Dcc,'' h, T. i, 1917, pursuant to such contract; nr. taxable on the basis of entire conS!d- cIsluOn pttlu TOT tue property. I'''lS'S oil leases. leases of mining property. ! long term mining leases, etc.. WNi"' in themselves convey not title to or interest in real property are exempt from stamp tax. No tax is imposed upon notaral certificates aclnow- Judgements, or other certificates OF up- on jurats or anidavits. stamps must be cancelled when aniXed by writing or stamping thereon the date md i initials of the taxpayer.
 Respectfully
 DAVID ]. WILLIAMS
 Collector of Internal Rovcnuc. Tacoma, Washington
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
WAR STAMP TAX
 ACT OF OCT. 3, 1917

lated and delivered prior to December
 1917, although filed for record on or subsequent to that date are not tax
 able. Deeds dated prior to December
 l. l9l7 but acknowledged before No
 tary Public and delivered on or subsc-
 quent to that da.e arc taxable. Deeds
 in escrow are subject to tax if final
 delivery is made m or subsequent to
 December. l, 1917, the taxable consider
 ation will be the actual consideration
 or such value of interest or property
 conveyed less the amount of such in-
 cumbancc if any as remained upon
 the property at the time of sale. In
 computing taxable consideration no al-
 lowance for purchase money mortgages
 will be made. In case of exchange of
 properties the deeds transferring tile
 10 each are subject to tax. the tax will
 in cash such case be reckoned on the
 value of the interest or property convey cd with allowance for the existing In umbrance thereon if any. Sheriff or ref erecs deeds to cover transfer of prop erty sold under a foreclosure or cxcCu- ton are subject to tax; the stamp tax to be computed upon the amount bid for :he property plus the costs if paid by the purchaser Quit claim deed given for no or merely nominal con sidearton for the purpose of correct ing flaws in title are not subject to tax. Deed to mortgagee in satisfaction of mortgage is subjcct to tax 10 be com puted on the full amount of the mort gage and the amount paid for the equity if any. Deeds of release and
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
ENTENTE coRDiALE"
Spec,al Correspondence A. p

Special Correspondence A. p.
 Most readers understand the mean
 tng of the words "entente Cordialc." <"
 but it is rather difficult to make a translation that expresses the cXac. meaning of the original French. Prince
 Bismarck gave the following explana- ton when his daughter asked him what the entente cordiale really was:
 Well" he said, it is not so easy to define exactly. 1t means a cordial understanding, but it also has little different significance. For example, you were in the courtyard this morning
 when came from the garden with Nero: Diana was in the yard gnawlng q large bone. My Nero saw her and ran to seize the bone. Then there was a little fight. until I struck them few sharp blows with my cane. After that the bone lay in the middle of the court while both dogs stood of some distance and looked eagerly at it. Each dog ] in fact. was anxious to keep the other away as he was afraid Of my cane and therefore neither ventured to seize it, You see. that is what they call in diplomatic circles an entente cordlale.'
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06

IF ANYONE HAS DIED
 EloPED
 MARRIED
 DIVORCED
 EMBEZZLED LEFT TOWN HAD A FIRE HAD A BABY SOLD A FARM COME TO TOWN SEEN ARRESTED BOUGHT 4 HOME COMMITTED MURDER THAT'S NEWS TELEPHONE MAIN 46 THE NUGGET OFFICE We do not have 10 brag about our Bread and Pastries. they speak for themselves in quality and size.
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Austrians Seize Serb Crops

LONDON--Crops throughout Serbia and Bulgaria are better than ever be fore, according to information received by the Serbian government In occu- pied sections Of Serbia. however, all the harvests have been reguisiuoned by the .ustrians. and not even enough has been left to enable the native
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
WOMEN GIVE OUT

HouscWork is hard enough when healthy. Every Nome woman who is having backache, blue md nervous spells dizzy headaches and kidney or bladder troubles, should be Gl,d 10 heed this woman's experience.
 Mrs. r, Frohwcrk, GS7 York Sl, Portland Ore. says: My kidneys act ed too often and my feet and ankles swelled, l had to go to the ,spit Il and the doctor said 1 had uracmic poisoning. suffered terribly with sharp palns in the small of my back. When returned I still suffered with pains in my back. Later w,ts again taken to the hospital and 1 cant de- scribe how l suffered All that spring, after I came home, 1 had that trouble and finally nurse told me to try { Doan's Kidney Pills. I'm glad 1 did for they cured me of every sign of kidney complaint"
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
New Names Of lee Cream Cone

JUAItEZ. Mex The tinted states has given Mexico a new word When ice cream cones first appeared ftrc there was an instant rush for then But there was no word in the Mexican language for cone so the vendors call; "NieVc conc"
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
ITEMS OF
 INTEREST

Newsy articles on various topics received through the mails are pub ltshed under ttfIs heading. AS tho majority of such articles are not in- clnded in the regular telegraph ser vics they will furnish many interest Ing side lights on events of current interest:
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06

farmers to exist until ncNt summcr. The farmers received only 9 nominal price for the grain rcquleltion'd lN Austria. while no payment 3t all Was made by the Bulgarians
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
We'll Ever Since

Mrs. Frohwerk gave the above state ment November 13, 1915. and on May 22. 1917, she added: "Doan's Kidney Pills saved my life when they cured me of kidney trouble. have been strong and well ever since"
 6Oc at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co.,. Mfgls.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06

A daily newspaper is big thing for any community, large or small, are you helping 10 maintain tiff not get busy and telephone your subscription.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-06
WEATHER REPORT
 D. $ Weather Burcau

December 6 l.. m. Temperature Max. r.. Min Barometer 303sS inches Weathcr-Clear. Wind x. miles per hour. Precipitation None
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
PREPARING FOR BATTLE.
Attorney for I. w. w. Getting Ready
 to Fight Indictments.

Chicago, Oct. 3.-Whether an or ganization can go on strike during war time and whether members can stay out when that strike was tnitiat- ed before the war started are the two paramount Issues between the United States government and the 166 indicted members of the Industrial Workers of the World, according to Otto Christensen, attorney for the organization. who today began pre- pairing for the legal battle which will open soon.
 Denial of each of the ten thousand charges named in the indictment was made by Christensen. who asserted the chief point at issue is whether the I. w. w. members are within the law in promulgating strikes during war time.
 '"rhe government charges cannot possibly stand up," he declared.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
AMERICAN DESTROYER
 WAS IN COLLISION
But the Crew Was Taken Off and Boat TOWed
 Safely Into Port.

Washington. Oct. 3.-An American destroyer in British waters recently was in collision with a British naval vessel which, after taking off the American crew, lowed the disabled destroyer safely to port In an- nouncing the collision today the navy department said no one was injured aboard the American destroyer and that the vessel since has been repaired and restored to active duty.
 An official inquiry developed that the collision was unavoidable, the ves- sells having come together during a heavy rainstOrm. No blame was placed on either the American or the British vessel.
 The following official statement was issued:
 An American destroyer, operating in European waters was severely damaged in a night collision with a British naval vessel After the ac- cident the British ship stood by, took off part of the destroyer's crew and lowed her into port. No one aboard either ship was injured and the de- stroyer has since been repaired and returned to active service"
 An Investigating board of naval of ficers found that the accident was due to the fact that the destroyer sudden ly emerged from heavy rainstorm which made her invisible almost up to the moment Of the collision.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
ACQUIRES FOUR NEW
 SILK INDUSTRIES
Watertown Concern Organized With Capital of $25O, ,OOO With Common
 Stock of Two Million.

Waterbury, Oct. S.-The following announcement was given out here to- day concerning the plans of the new H. K. H. Silk company of Watertown:
 ''The H. K. H. Silk company of Watertown, Conn.,, has been organized with a capital stock of $5O0,O00 pre- ferred stock and $2,000,000 common stock This corporation has pur- chased the property and business of the following companies: The Ham, mond- company of Putnam, Conn.,, the M. Heminway and Sons silk company of Watertown, the Eureka Silk company of Portland, Me, and the incorporated New Lon- don washl Silk company of New London. The new company will take possession of the plants of the four old corporations on Jan. 2. 1918, and will begin business and continue the business carried on by the four cor porations whose properties it has purchased. The officers Of the H. K H. Silk company are as follows:
 President c. c. Knowlton. first vice-president, George A. Driggs; sec ond vice-president Theodore B Thompson; treasurer H. Morton Mer- riman; asst. treasurer Clarence A Hammond -Knowlton; secretary Fred. erick w. Shaw; asst. secretary Clara D. Place"
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
SLAYERS TAKE
 WITNESS STAND
FOOD PLEDGE CARDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED M Meeting Called at Capital For Controlling Food
 Supply.

Hartford, Oct. 3.-Two hundred thousand persons in Connecticut are to be asked at once to sign food pledge cards as a step towards con- servation of the food supply. A gathering for organization of this movement has been called by state food commissioner Robert Scoville of Salisbury, for the house chamber in the capitol tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O when R. G. Hollington of Provi- dence, of the federal food administra- tion corps of experts will make the chief address. He is in charge of or ganization. MT. Scoville and former Senator G. M. Landers of New Brit ain. chairman of the state food sup ply committee of the council of de- fense, will also speak. Connecticut is asked to pledge about twice the num- Der of it's population as shown by the last census in order that everyone
 now in the state may be embraced. In a notice which the council has, Herbert c. Hoover, the national food administrator, has pointed out that Connecticut has been from two weeks to a month ahead of all other states in taking steps towards defense and
 conservation, and the state is ex- peCted to lead orr on the OeLalleQ organization of food conservation The point is emphasized that the more people who sign pledge cards
 now to follow the regulations of the 1 food supply committee the less need
 there be for imperative orders to this end next year should there be a
 scarcity of food. Each person pledg. l ing himself or herself to conserve 1 food will be expected to do so ir | good faith and to keep the faith.
 The organization work it is stated l will in a measure go over the same ground as the work of last year wher | pledges were sent by housewives tc | Washington direct. Fully 10000 per
 sons so pledged themselves but the 1 flood was so great at Washington
 that acknowledgements could not b'
 made and confusion reigned. Prac. tically the entire list of 10000 is nov 1 in MT. Scovilles hands as nucleus f for the new organization.
 The meeting tomorrow will b. 1 opened to the general public and es 1 pecially to committees of local bodie.
 which have been aiding in the gen
 eral movement looking to food con-
 se,Na tion.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
MADE NO PROPOSALS FOR PEACE TERMS
Germany Makes Strong Dcnials That Any Offer of Separate Peace
 Was Made,

Amsterdam, Oct. 3-Germany has made no proposals whatever for a sep arate peace either to France or Great Britain. Dr. von kuehlmann, the German foreign secretary, makes this announcement, according to an official statement received here from Berlin. in answering the speech made by Gen. Verkhovsky, the Russia minister of war, before the democratic congress in Petrograd. The statement reads,
 "The Russian war minister, Gen. Verkhovsky, asserted at the Petrograd democratic congress that the imperial chancellor GOT. Michaelis) had stated among other things at Stuttgart that Germany was ready to return Alsace- Lorraine to France. The imperial chancellor's utterances at Stuttgart are generally known and the assertion of the Russian war minister is an in- vention.
 "General Verkhovsky further stated that it was Germany's intention to make separate peace with Great Britain and France at the cost of Rus sia and that Great Britain and France had informed the Russian government that they would not be parties to any such proposal.
 T herewith state that Germany has made no proposals whatever for a separate peace either to France or Great Britain.'
 Last month reports were circulated in Russia that France and Great Britain had received offers from Ger many to make peace at the expense of Russia. They became so insistent that the Russian government obtained from France and Great Britain formal denials that they would make peace with Germany to the detriment of Russia.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
SIX, CENT FARE NOT
 POPULAR WITH ANY
Even tho Conductors Arc Grumblino Because of Losing Money By
 the New Rate.

Bridgeport, Oct 3.-The six cent fare and pay-as-you-e enter cars do not make successful working combina- ton, in the opinion of many trolley conductors here after trial of two days.
 The six cent trolley fare was put into force by the Connecticut company Monday morning in spite of a distinct prejudice, on the part of the public Many schemes have been proposed 10 beat it. Jitneys are carrying big loads and many are walking to show their opposition to the increase.
 The pay -as-NOu-cnter cars seem to be the vulnerable point for those that want to "beat the company. The conductors are buster than ever, espe- cially at transfer point, making change for the extra penny needed. They are unable to determine whether six, five or four pennies rattle down through the channels of the fare box as ger sons pay their fares in coppcrs. There are two registers, however, in these cars-one worked by hand show ing the number of fares, the other in the box automatically recording the amount of the coins as they come | through. These registers should bal ance, but rhe conductors say they have not this week.
 One conductor said he was $3 short Monday; another said he had to make good more than that amount yester- l day Several have thrown up their | jobs as it is the conductor, not the | company, that loses when passenger | drops short change. There is tall1 among the men of demanding that the
 hand registers be discarded and that
 the company bear the profit or loss
 resulting from errors by passengers
 by accepting the count of the automa-
 tic register for what money is taken.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
ANOTHER NEW PARTY.
Organization of National Political
 Power Intends to Do Something.

Chicago, Oct. 3.-The organization of a new national political party is the announced purpose of confer ence here today of a number of pro- hibitionists progressives, social demo crats and single tax adherents.
 The party is yet unnamed, but it proposes to elect half a dozen United States senators and between 20 and 40 members of the house of repre- sentatives in 191S,' according to an announcement of the leaders Tn 1920, the prospectus of the party says a march upon Washington will be made to take possession of the gov ernment."