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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29

City last week, presumably to take
up a position with a dental Arm, but
informed relatives and friends there
that he was going to Virginia to join
the army.
The drive for the $3.50 in this
county for the Y. M. G. A. has had
pretty fair results and may yet reach
the desired goal. The Ledger is in
formed that the amount so far raised
lis approximately $500. with some
still working. A full list Of nemes
for this section of the county contrib
uting will appear in the Ledger next
week. Much credit is given Rev.
Rueder Of Scotland. who after work
ing in his own county, came up and
helped Andreas Baltzer raise nice
sum in and around Kaylor. Those
who have not made their contribution
may give it or send it to the County
Committeeman, Henry Klatt Jr. So
many Of the counties have over-sub-
scribed their quota that it would be
shameful to let this county fall below
the quota
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29
From the Springfield Times.

From the Springfield Times
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w Richmond left
Tuesday to spend the winter in Flor
ida. They will make several stops
on the way down.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claud Smith of Cot
tonwood are visiting at the Geo. Hem
derson home and the j. H. Smith
home. Yesterday Mr.. Smith, Mr..
Henderson and R. w. Kibble autoed
to Corsica for couple of days duck
shooting
The Courier published for many
years by Editor Exon at Wheeler has
been moved to the county seat Lake
Andes. Since the removal Of the
court house all that is left Of the lit
tie historical burg up the river isits
name. Success to the Courier in its
new location.
Dr.. Duguid took some Of the rep
ressntatiyes of the Mennonite colony
10 Scotland Wednesday and from there
to Maxwell colony on the James river
to adjust matters for their $500 con-
tribution to the Y. M. C. A. It was
d big drive but Doc was not going to
let this opportunity slip to add this
amount to our fund. Besides all the
work. the Doctor contributed to The
Springfield fund and having two..child-
rcn In the Normal school he was cali
Ell upon 10 contribute to the college
fund twice. That's what we call
pubic spirit.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29

Representatives from five Hutter-
ische societies, Rockport, Rosedale,
Elm Springs. NewNew Elm Springs
and Wolf Greek, returned from Wash
ington. D. c., where they attempted
to get a ruling from the war depart
ment exempting members Of their So
iciety from military service. They
got no encouragement from the de-
spartment.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29
From the Tyndall Tribune.


F. B. Colgan and daughter, Nellie,
left Tuesday morning for Rochester,
Mimi, where the latter expects to
submit to an operation for goiter.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Turner of
Springfield, passed through Tyndall
Saturday morning on their way to Los
Angeles, Cal. where they will spend
the winter enjoying the beautiful eli
mate for which that city is famous.
Before returning they also expect to
visit many places Of interest along
the Pacific coast.
Bon Homme county has oversub-
scribed its apportionment of 81, 500
for the Y. M. c. A. by approximately
$1,000 The exact amount can not be
given as Springfield, Avon and Tabor
have not yet officially reported. Tyn-
dali subscribed $3.50; Scotland ST.
400; Kingsburg 203.25 Springfield
approximately $1,000; Avon approx
imately $3.50. Tabor has not re-
ported at all but probably made its
apportionment of $500
Friends in Tyndall were pleased t.
hear the first of the week that Ernest
Lower has received a commission al
second lieutenant in the U. S. army.
Ernest enlisted as private in the U.
S. National Guard several years age
and has worked his way up from the
ranks to that of commissioned off.
Ger. We know that the honor was
earned and deserved and we are sure
that Ernest will make a record OF
which his relatives aid friends viii
be proud.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29

PROM the Tabor independent.

Prom the Tabor Independent.
Mrs. Jos. Piroutek Of Betvidere
and children arrived here Sunday for
visit with her parents, the aged
Welt folks.
Albert Novak. who had been work
ing at Families at Yankton, received
position as mail clerk in Washing
ton and left for that place last We'd
nesday.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29
From the lynda ! Register.

From the lynda Register.
Frank Pillar and sister Maggie au.
toed down from Scotland on Sunday
and visited their sister. Mrs. Frank
Stanicek
Mr.. and Mrs. John Turnbull of
Scotland and Charlie Turnbull of
Yankton spent Sunday at,the home of
Mrs. L. C. Turnbull here
Last Saturday evening the children
and grand children of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kramar Sr. and large number
of friends and neighbors gathered at
the home of John Kramar and tender
ed the elder couple a surprise. the
event being their Golden Wedding an.
niversary.
]. A. Cole thinks he has the cham
pion lady corn husker in Bon Homme
county. Miss Rose Kreycik has husk-
ed corn for just fifteen days and has
husked 867 bushels of corn during that
time an average of nearly So bushels
day. She also unloaded her own
corn each day. On two different at.
ternoons she husked thirty-nine bush
els. The women of South Dakota
are doing their duty during the wal
and Miss Kreycik is showing her pat,
riotizm by doing the work that woule
be done by some man who is nov
with his regim Mt in some camp.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29

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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29

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A grain of theoretical wisdom may
turn out to be q pound Of practical
folly.
Many woman's idea OF the truth is
the disagreeable things she hears about
her neighbors.
Lots of men would never be able to
recognize themselves MS fools IL they
didn't fan in;love.,
Few men make their way through
the world on the strength OF their
chronological development.
Probably more young people would
embark on the tempestuous sea Of mat
rimony 4 parents would. lit the block
Jade.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-10
AS TO SENDING TROOPS TO EUROPE
Let Us Look Before We Leap.

headed are acting like inebriates A strange
intoxication exalts them, sweeps them off their
feet, fastens them and leads them on, and on,
AND ON, until they are mere echoes Of the slo-
CANS which are sounded in Washington.
Like folks at revival that has been run
ming for weeks, and which has caught up the
whole community in its swirl men are hardly
conscious Of what they say and do, but are
mesmerized by that irresistible current Of
unusual emotions.
Before shot is fired, war debt, equal to
double the amount Of all the god-8tandard
money on earth, is rapturously incurred by
this Republic.
With no enemy in sight, and no attack
made upon u.s. different from what other neu-
trails have suffered, we gayly start out to raise
an army Of million men.
For what?
To SEND TO EUROPE
IF we were not excited, off our balance,
and intoxicated by contagion, we would hno1o
that such proposition is preposterous folly
But we are excited, we are off Our balance
are intoxicated by contagion, and hence we
have temporarily lost our common sense.
Like the gay chap having glorious time,
we toss off the glass of liquor; we feel exhlll-
rated we expand; we grow rich in our mind;
we mount the pinnacle Of geniality; we see
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-10

WHEN nation goes to war, it expects to
resume business at the old stand, in the
same old way, after the war, but 1t never does.
"The mill will never grind again with the
water that has passed." and this is true of
governments, too.
My illustration is homely; and it does not
compare, in dignity and academic elegance,
with the literary War Whoop of Professor
Woodrow Wilson; but, if we all live to see
the end of this bad adventure, you will then
be better able to Judge between Wilson's fore
sight and mine
What is it that President Wilson sees in
the future?
What is he aiming at? What does he hope
to accomplish?
What is his conception of the after czaps
of this European War, into which he is plung
ing us?
Virtually, the Government is already COM
mitted to burdening itself with a huge
bonded debt, far greater than that incurred
in the War between the States
Virtually, the Government is already COM
mitted to military plans which call for an
Army larger than all the armies raised dur
ing the Civil War.
It is amazing! It is appalling! It is
almost incredible!
Men who are ordinarily cool and level
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-10
"1he Catholic Laymens Association Rerites History
Fables Where Facts Belong

while celebrating Romes distinctive rite, the
Mass.
Yet any one who has access to the Encyslo-
pedia Observation-Disclosures the Jesuits doctored
the last edition-Will at once realize how the
Laymen have evaded the story of John Wy
clife.
(See the United Editors Encyclopedia, the
Columbian, Johnson's, Harmsworth's, Apple
toms, CasseH's, or any other, except those
that the lying Jesuits have mutiated and
changed-as they recently were permitted to
do with the B11tannica)
Did 7VycNfe Hve and die, good pdpiat, at
peace qrith Rome?
Let us get at the facts, briefly: using the
latest and best HLife" of the Reformer, by
Prof. Gotthard Lechler, Of the University of
Leipzig. 1873
On pages 1875, 6, and Z, the learned German
scholar states the c0uSeS which led Pope
Gregory XI. to Seeh the life Of the English
priest.
The first great cause was, that Wyclife had
contended, that the Roman church had no
moral right to own and enjoy such vast
properties, unless the church used this
property for religious and charitable pur-
poses;
Secondly, Wycliffe contended that the Pope
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-10

could not use the power of ''the keys" ex-
cept In conformity with the gospel. In other
words, the English priest appealed to the
Bible, as Luther did at a much later date,
and as the prosecuted Minorities of Italy had
done in the 18th century.
Thirdly, Wycliffe denied that every priest
had free power to forgive "all manner CT
sin"
The Laymen's alIusion to Wycliffe gives
you no hint of this deep and protestant
character of Wycliffian 'heresy;" nor do the
Laymen give you any hint of the narrowness
of Wycz5fe's escape from death By f'8---a
fate which afterwards overlook John Huss
and Jerome, on account Of this same Wy
clifian 'heresy."
The powerful Duke of Lancaster saved
Wycliffes life, from papal vengeance, by pro-
tecting him with a military escort at his trial,
defying the blood-thirsty papal court, and
taking Wycliffe away from London.
In practically the same manner, the Elector
Of Saxony protected Martha Luther and saved
has life, when the malignant papiSts were de-
handing that he be burnt at the stake
Did Wycliffe die of stroke of "apoplexy,"
while he was 'assistjng at the holy sacrifice
of the Mass?"
He did not have a stroke Of apoplexy, he
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.l
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-10

| T is comical to see such men as compose the
Catholic Laymen's Association transform
ing themselves into megaphones, through
which the Jesuit priest can talk ''history'' to
the unwary.
Let us examine a few points in the Lay
mems historical discourses, and see how they
agree with historical facts.
"WYCLIFFE DIED IN HIS Bed"
Addressing circular letter to my friend,
Rev S. g. Woodall, of the LAGRANGE, Ga,
Graphic, the Laymen's chairman, j. j. Far
rell, thus repeats the lesson taught him by his
Jesuit priest:
'Wycliffe died in his bed, on the 31st of De-
cember 1884, from a stroke of apoplexy received
three days previous, the 28th, while he
assisting at the holy sacrifice Of the Mass
Like the majority of our Protestant minis
ters, Mr.. Woodall was born in a rural district,
where books of reference are seldom found;
therefore the Jesuit, who is megaphonng
through the Laymen's Association, deemed it
safe to dispose Of Wycliffe, IN one deceptive
sentence.
The impression sought to be made, in the
case Of the Great Reformer, is, that he lived
at peace with Rome, and virtually died
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21
WEDNESDAY

Washington: Judge Jennings of Juneau
was this morning appointed by President
Wilson as federal district judge of Alaska.
Washington: The senate committee
on military affairs this morning recom-
mended the passage of the selective army
bill as asked BY the general staff.
Washington: The senate this morning
unanimously passed the Culberson bill,
which makes it legal for the Allies to re-
cruit their subjects in the United States.
New York: To prevent any possibility
of this city being shelled by submarines
all channels have been heavily screened
with steel nets and heavy patrols are be-
ing maintained IN the waters off Sandy
Hook.
Minneapolis: Canada has placed wheat
and -four on the free list. and thousands
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21

anticipation of a new French attack, but
the British flanking movement came as
a complete surprise. and prevented the
Teutons from bringing up their entire
reserve. The French force launched it's
attack against the same front and Melted
a three mile gain along front of over
10 miles. Reports from the French war
Office this morning state that more than
0O.OOO German prisoners were taken by
the French forces during this action.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21
TUESDAY

New York: Charles Hastings and
Rutledge Rutherford, American cores.
pondents located in Holland, were this
morning indicted by the federal jury as
spies. charged with transmitting military
information to Germany.
London: The admiralty announced
this morning that the attack on Freiburg
yesterday by British and French planes
was planned and executed as a reprisal
for the recent sinking of two hospital
ships by German U-boats.
Berlin: All official announcement by
the military staff this morning states that
the military hospital at. Freiburg was
bombarded by French and British fiers
yesterday, and that eleven persons we're
killed and twenty. mine injured.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21
DAILY PROGRESS OF THE WORLD WAR

Seattle: The Port commission is per-
fecting plans to use their storage and
warehouse facilities to distribute food
products of every kind directly from the
producer to the consumer in an attempt
to reduce the high cost of living.
Mexico City: Ambassador Fletcher
has notified the state department at
Washington that Gen. Carranza's speech
before the Mexican congress recently
declared Mexico's position with regards
to the German situation as being strictly
neutral.
Washington: A wireless dispatch re.
ceived by the war department this morn
ing states that AN attempt was made by a
German Uboat to torpedo the U. S. tor
pedo-boat destroyer Smith at point 100
miles south of New York. The torpedo
missed the boat BY less than IS Yards.
its wake being plainly visible from the
deck. Officials assert that this is the
first evidence that the threatened sub
blockade OF the Atlantic coast by the
Germans has gone into effect.
London: Swinging his center of pres.
sure to the south and away from before
Lens under cover OF darkness. Field
Marshal Haig this morning executed O
flanking movement on the German line
between Scissors and Rheims. German
forces to the number OF over 500, 600 had
been concentrating along this front IN
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21
MONDAY

Cambridge: Five. hundred and seven
ty-tour students and alumni OF Har-
ward university have enlisted in the reg
ular army.
Portland, Ore: Wheat is selling here
at 500 a bushel, and -four at 5000 a
barrel, the highest prices ever quoted on
the Pacific coast.
Los Angeles; Two hundred pounds of
dynamite was discovered this morning
cached in the acqueduct which furnishes
the water supply tor this city.
Petrograd: Alexieff has been appointed
commander-in-chief of the Russian army.
General Kuropatkin and General Buroff
have been placed under arrest.
London: The Turkish war office an
nounced this morning that the American
gunboat Scorpion, stationed at Constan-
tinople, has been 1nterned by the Turks
Washineton: The senate finance CON-
mittee approved the seven billion dollar
bond bill this morning and its passage
by the senate is assured by tomorrow at
the very latest.
London: Reports from Switzerland
state that serious food riots are occurring
i'll Germany, the cities Of Mannheim and
Leipzig experiencing especially violent
demonstrations, the mobs wrecking sew
eral shops.
Montreal: Quentin Roosevelt, son of
Col. Roosevelt. has joined the Canadian
aviation corps in order to obtain instruc-
tons which will fit him for service with
the American army at the front in Europe.
San Francisco: A Japanese newspaper
here has received dispatch from Toxic
stating that 1.-THE Pscifc coast of the
United States need have no fear of enemy
divers, as it is being patrolled by the
Japanese navy"
Washington: A powerful navy wire
| less station is to be erected at Woody
| Island to connect Alaska with the States
thru the Pacific coast states stations, to
insure uninterrupted communication at
all times. should the cable go out of com.
mission at any time thru accident or de.
sign.
Ell Pasn: Mexican soldiers and labor
ers are busiiy engaged in digging in
trenchments along the Rio Grande op.
posite this city. Officers in charge dis
claim any hostile intent, but American
forces have trained their guns on Juarez
and taken other means of withstanding
any offensive movement.
British Headquarters in France: The
British forces have turned the pivotal
point of the Hindenburg line in Northern
France, and are advancing along a fifty
mile front. The retreating German fore
es are evidently endeavoring to construct
Notifications in which to make an effect
i've stand, but the speed of the British
advance makes this impossible, and they
are leaving vast stores of supplies behind
them.
Paris: The Belgian forces have invaded
the second line of German intrenchments
in front of Dixmude, in Western Bel
GUM. They met with little resistance,
the German line falling back as they ad-
vanced. During last mite the French
forces in Lower Alsace penetrated the.
German second line at number of diff.
terent points, using the curtain of FIRE,
and found only dead men in the trenches.
TUESDAY
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21

1t has been a source of more or
less conjecture among the people
of the United States ever since the
beginning of the great struggle in
Europe as to why the Imperial
German government allowed the
great amounts of gold bullion to
be shipped from the Entente Allies
to the United States without any
apparent effort to sink the ships
which carried it. But the events
Of the past few weeks have cleared
away the mists of doubt and re-
vealed the true reasoning of the
Prussians. The Zimmerman note
was the first inkling of the truth.
The proposals to Japan added one
more link to the chain of evidence.
And now Ambassador Gerard's
speech, delivered in Boston a few
mites ago, has revealed the full in
tent of the German military staff.
1t is plainly to be seen now
that the Prussians wanted those
billions in bullion in the safe de-
post vaults of the large cities on
the Atlantic seaboard rather than
somewhere on the bottom of the
Atlantic ocean, for the very good
reason, according to the Prussian
deduction, that when they had
succeeded in starving England with
the submarine campaign, and were
able to turn their fleet loose upon
the Atlantic, they would use it as
a means of bluffing the United
States into paying them sufficient
bounty to wipe out their war debt,
by the simple expediency of threat
ening to invade this country" Had
their program worked out they
would have had no trouble in in
ducing Japan to join them in such
an undertaking. To make assur-
ance doubly sure they slapped
Uncle Sam in the face a number
of times, and trod on his corns a
time or two to be certain he was
sleeping peacefully, and then pro-
ceeded to put into execution their
program of world subjueation. But
1.-The bubble broke, a cog slipped,
there was screw loose; whatever
it was, it had not been anticipated
in their vast and intricate scheme
of things, and now Uncle Sam is
most thoroly wide awake. Japan
would have greatly enjoyed being in
at the killing, but is a trifle afraid
that she might be left to hold the
bag. Mexico is more than willing
to take chance, but is not a
strong enough factor for Germany
to rely on.
1t was a beautiful dream, how
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21

Juneau: Edward Krause. who was in
prison here awaiting execution next
month, and who escaped from prison last
Thursday, was shot and killed yesterday
by Alfred Fransen. ahomesteader at Doty
cove. on Admiralty island. sixteen miles
south of this city. 'Krause was evidently
out of grub. as he asked Fransen for
food. The latter, who had been warned
to look out for him, covered him with a
gun and demanded his identity. Krause
acknowledged his identity and started to
run away, whereupon Fransen ordered
him to stop. and failing to do so, shot
him. once thru the body near the heart,
and once thru the head. He was not
armed.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-21

ever, and one which would have
been almost too good to be true,
if it had come true. Billions of
gold at the very doors of the At
lantic, theirs for the taking. And
the resources ofthe richest country
in the world to draw upon to make
themselves the most powerful.
Small wonder that they took the
chance.
1t is safe to predict that the
present retreat to victory" of the
Teutons on the Western front in
France is the beginning Of the end,
not only of the great world struggle,
but of Prussian militarism as well.
The Prussian system has existed
for so long time that the German
soldier has forgotten how to do
anything without being shown; and
as he has been taught nothing but
trench warfare he cannot adapt
himself to the rush maneuvers of
the British nor the "eighty-feet-a-
minute advances of the French.
He has just begun to figure out
that he is a whole lot safer back of
the Allied lines repairing roads
than he is digging Teuton trenches
Its not as hard work, anyway
and as a prisoner he is fairly sure
of two square meals day and a
dry place to sleep at mite. And
it doesn't take him long to throw
down his gun and cry "Merci"
when he gets a chance, and his
commanding officer isn't looking.
He is no coward, give him credit
for that. But he's had all the
fighting he wants and is ready to
quit and 60 home. Besides, he
has not found out yet what the fight
is all about, and has come to the
conclusion that he isn't particular
whether or not he ever does find
out. .<.-......
The Washington herald., 1917-04-08

whea. bslt the forecast b for . yisid q only 80.
10000 bushels. This compares with 4lTA0o
bushels last year and s73.9E 600 in 1sl6. This los
Is sensational and whether the spring wheat country
viii be able to cums anywhere near balancing
these losses 10 question in the minds OF not only
the speculative world but u the users Of bfeads1s
q we'll
Thre were sharp price gains in both corn and
oats today and the undertone was one Of abnoraal
strength. The advances were n to 5h cents for
corn and oats Of II 10 yS cents. At one time
during the day corn showed advance Of cents
and the cash property CONTINUED TO keep pace or
lead the futures. Sales Of No. corn made
here today at l.53 and No. white at l39
The cats market Jagged disappJintingly early but
made \ sharp advance later Some Of the big
houses advising caution in making large com
mitments in either corn oats around the present
hign leEelA
Lard the leader in the matter OF strength
today. This due largely to the reduction in
ocean freishts The further uptum in hogs and
grain also cOntribLted to the strength in products
Shppzs large buyers Of lard and realizing
sales for the list were heavy.