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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
PERCY Il. helm A CANDIDATE
FOR STATE SENApOE

1t has been known for some time by
the personal friends of Mr.. Helm that
he was considering the presentation of
his name at the coming primary for the
office of State Senator. 1t is with pleas
ure that we announce his consent to make
the race on the Republican ticket for
the nomination for State Senator from
Custer and Fall River counties.
Mr. Helm is at present the very eff
cient States Attorney of Custer county
and is finishing his second term. In
this capacity he has given splendid ser
vice. and has been particularly diligent
in the management of the Office to the
general satisfaction of the public. He
has brought to the Office a fine legal
equipment and high sense Of duty and
has been untiring in his service to the
county's interests.
As a public citizen Mr. Helm is ex-
emplary. He is at present chairman of
the Red Cross Chapter at Custer. He
has assisted in all effort of Y. NJ. C. A.
and other Army work. Is member OF
the select draft registration board and
in that capacity has been of great assist
ance to the county. He is chairman
Of the Custer Independent School board,
and in this as other public service he is
always ready to give time to do the best
thing.
Our interests in the legislature are in
Creasing in Importance and need our
best talent to care for them. The i'm
provement and maintainence of the State
Sanatorum for Tubercular treatment at
Custer, the State Soldiers Home at Hot
Springs, beside much legislation arising
through war conditions as well as State
improvement calls upon us to lay aside
politics and elect men of high patriotism
and ability to ably represent our section
of the Black Hills. All these qualities
we believe are found in Mr.. Helm. He
understands the local conditions of the
two counties and has the mental and
moral make up to see his duty and
when enlisted has the courage to stay in
the fight till the cause is put safely over.
The Chronicle highly endorses the can
didacy of Mr. Helm and in giving him
this nomination it will be not only an
honor worthily bestowed but in the full
interest of bOth COMMITTEES for an pfficipnt
and satisfactory representation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
PRINGLE PARAGRAPHS.

Feb. IL, 1918.
viii Woods was a Pringle visitor
Wednesday.
Greeley Mcclure was trading in
Pringle Tuesday.
Mrs Joe Carter was a passenger to
Rapid City Saturday.
Miss Bessie Ellison is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Charles Smith.
Charles Smith is in Hot Springs TAX
ing medical treatments.
Mrs. Ellen. Grimes returned to her
home in Hill City Sunday.
Miss Cora Sutherland is reported very
i'll at the hospital in Hot Springs.
Miss Josie Callan commenced school
at the Cold Springs school house Mon
day.
Mrs. Charley Snyder has returned
from three months visit with relatives
in Crete, Neb.
Don't forget the old time dance given
by the Red Cross Feb. 22nd. Come and
help good cause.
Ranger Moore is in Pringle this week
getting acquainted preparatory to taking
charge of the district.
Remember all roads lead 20 Pringle
Feb. %. Good music, supper, and
good time are assured.
The fact that John SEWERS received
the 81 900 insurance on the policy held
by his late wife is very gratifying to the
members Of the local Degree Of Honor,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
FOOD SPEAKERS TO VISIT
BLACK HILLS TOWNS,

Aberdeen, Feb. o. Nine cities and
towns in the Black Hills will hear the
food administration speakers who will
bring the war message to South Dakotans
the ten days beginning Sunday, Febru-
ary oath. Headed by John b. Lord,
one of the six commissioners sent to
Europe to investigate food conditions in
the countries of our associates, these
speakers will give the people of the sun
shine state better idea as to the need
of saving food and substituting. The
nine cities in the Black Hills which will
probably hear these speakers are: Lead,
Deadwood, Belle Fourche, Spearfish,
Rapid City, Hot Springs, Buffalo Cap
Sturgis and Custer. A representative of
the food administration is now making
arrangements with the Black Hills local
committee for the appearance OF the
speakers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
HOME GUARDS
Organization of Home Guards is Nearly
Complete in Other Districts and
Yet Nothing Done Here.

The following letter has been received
from Major Lynch:
Rapid City, s. D., Feb. Is, 1918.
Captain Co. L, Custer, S. ID.
Dear Sir:-Have you tried to secure
funds from the community for equip
ment. If there is any possible means Of
securing funds from the community it is
best to take this course rather than ask
the members to buy their own equip
ment.
| will state that at a special session of
the commissioners Of Pennington coun-
ty 81 l,83500 was appropriated to buy the
clothing as given on the Mandle Bros
price sheet. The city commissioners
are ready to buy the rifles as soon as a
price can be ascertained and where they
can be purchased.
| am hoping that the community will
come to your assistance, and perhaps a
little publication on that matter may
start the ball rolling. / have wrote to
several eastern firms in regard to data
on rifles, and have mentioned your or
ganiZation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
NEW RULING ON THE
SALE OF WHEAT FLOUR

Washington, ID. c., Feb. I2.-Mixed
fours, containing less than 30 per cent
of wheat flour, may be sold without ac-
companying substitutes, the food ad-
ministration has announced. Where
the -four contains more than half wheat
-four sufficient substitutes must be sold
to bring the sale to basis of one pound
substitutes for each pound of wheat
-four.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to express our sincere
thanks to all those who so kindly as
sisted us in our sad bereavement.
Mrs j. s. Peltz and Family.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
DON'T TRADE LIBERTY BONDS.

DON Il TRADE LlBEhTH BON DS.
Secretary McAdoo of the treasury de-
partment is calling attention of those
who have purchased Liberty Bonds of
the danger in trading these bonds for
other securities. While it is true that
some of the securities offered are good,
great many of them are not, and il be-
hooyes the man or woman owning Lib
erty Bonds to be careful. In his closing
statement, Mr.. McAdoo says:
Practically all of the substantial and
representative investment houses of the
country in cooperation with govern
ment and many other patriotic agencies,
have participated in a most unsefsh
way in both Liberty Loan campaigns,
sacrificing their own interests in order
to contribute their share toward winning
the war. 1t is inconceiyabe that after
the magnificent work of distributing gov.
ernment bonds thus accomplished in a
large measure by investment houses,
some of the same people should attempt
TO substitute other securities for the
government bonds which they have just
helped in placing. 1t seems evident
that a large majority of such offers made
to holders of government bonds must be
made by the least responsible of the Sc
curity merchants, and that suspicion as
to the character of the bonds offered in
exchange, is fully justified.
1T is my earnest hope that every pur-
chaser of Liberty Bond will realize
that the only genuine help he gives his
government is by keeping his bond as
an investment as long as it is possible
for him to do so. Where because of
misfortune or imperative necessity, the
holder of Liberty Bond is forced to
sell, there can, of course be no objec-
ton"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
NJ. r. LYNCH,
Major Third Bat

Major Third Battl.
The organization of the Home Guards
is nearly complete in other districts and
as yet we have done nothing here to
perfect our company. The blanks for
ordering the uniforms have been re-
ceived and we must decide whether we
are going ahead with our company here
or not. A meeting will be held in the
court room Sunday at 200 p. M, Feb
18th, and it will depend upon how many
are present and have decided to stay
with the organization as to whether the
company here will continue. If you are
going to help do your Bit come.
Listed below is the outfit the Adiutant
General of South Dakota has selected
and approved, with the prices for each
item when sold in company lots. This
means at least so menu
Cotton khaki blouse and breeches 3 SIS
Blouse has rolling collar and
buttons hear seal of the State
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16
SAVING OF FUEL.

Leila Fenwick Feb. /, 1918.
We are facing a shortage of coal and
must begin to save it. Much coal is
needed in factories and ships which are
sent to Europe with soldiers and sup.
plies of our soldiers. When coal is
shoveed much of it is spilled through
the carelessness Of the men that shovel
it. Many of the small pieces are drop
ped which are as useful as the larger
ones,
Coal is wasted on the railroads in
many ways. For example the men that
take care Of the engines spill great deal
when they are firing them or the doors
of the cars are sometimes broken aud
the coal falls out and drops to the ground
becoming wet or broken and is left
there. All this can be avoided by care
and by repairing the cars.
Coal can be saved at home. We
should not open the doors and windows
when room becomes too warm because
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-16

The Home Guards are organized to
take the place of the National Guards
and are very much needed in our state
Other counties have seen the need of
the Guards and are helping with the
finances. Can we get any help from our
county?
Come Sunday and hear what has been
done and see if any way can be devised
so that Custer County will not be the
only county that is not interested
enough to equip and maintain a guard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Snow
(From Tho LvrHo)

tFr0m Tho LtTto)
Out Of the silence,
Out of the dark and lonely sky broodng upon
the silence,
Floats the snow, and slips and sinks and
whispers
Whirling lightly over the frozen earth;
Trembling and wavering in its flight as fear
full
Of the harsh contact;
Lying quite still at last UNCHANGED. unal-
tered,
A pale ghost staring back at the black sky.
Drumming and thrashing rains
Break forth from clouds of summer;
Like clenched fists they beat upon the earth
With lost force they stream down from the
trees;
They are heavy and sorrowful
But earth receives them gladly,
When they have gone the grass becomes more
green,
The air feels fresher than before.
But it is far different
With the new-fallcn snow;
The earth is angry at its coming
1t will not open to it the secret doors;
The trees stand bleakly scowling,
The stiff stalks of the grass press through its
surface;
1t lies aloof, abandoned,
Colorless, dead.
Only the wind
Stirs in its heart the longing to fly back
To the forgetful sky from which it came.
YEARLY floating;
In fine dry dust it springs aloft
Spinning in streaming ribbons
Before the breeze;
Sitting and drifting here and there.
Spent gittering particles
That slip back and lie still at last,
Where the black pine trees bar their path;
Sleeping in heavy drifts upon the earth.
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
The Lady Captain Of Tuscany

New York is still mildly amused and
excited over its subway guards and street
car conductors in skirts. Mr.. Shonts
deems the moment suspicious to paste up
one of his graceful little window notes
bespeaklng courtesy and nickels-but es-
pecially nickels-for these new additions
to his force, The novelty is yet with US
even if already on the wane.
SO we cannot be exactly dazz1ed by this
tale of Italy's girl sea captain. Signora
Belluomini, OF Viaregglo, on the Ligurian
Sea. Storms and tempests are surely
not more difficult to handle than SUBJ
way jam. If the preliminary learning IS
more extensive, the courage and hardi-
hood OF facing curious New York in Mr..
Shonts's ungracious uniforms fairly equal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
The Climbing Rabbit

(from The MNlrduhee JoluMuD
And now the climbing rabbit.
The time once was, not so very long ago
either, when one could buy a fine fat rabbit
for 10 cents, or 20 cents at the most. That
time is past. In the restaurants nowadays
one has to pay 40 to GO cents for piece OF
rabbit the size of Miss Molly Cottontal's
track. And one is lucky if one gets the left
hind leg even without the lucky foot.
Those of us who remember our Uncle
Remus will recollect the time when the low
able old nature faker told about Brer Rab-
bits getting so hard pushed he had to climb
a tree. Whereupon the little boy objected
that rabbits couldn't climb trees Out
said Uncle Remus, che jes' materially had ter
do it, honey; he jes had ter do it,"
In the present days of advancing prices
there may not be adequate reason for Brea
Rabbits climbing SO exorbitantly on the
hotel and restaurant menu cards. But he Just
naturally has to do it to keep in good society
with Brer Bull, Miss Lamb Uncle Hog and
Sister Chicken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

admirable suggestion was made by DR..
Albert Shaw. That was to call for the
enlistment, if need be, of volunteer army
of shipbuilders. If we can enlist near to
half million men Of enlistment age for
the army, at $50 a month, it does not seem
as if it ought to be difficult to enlist half
this number for an industrial army, to
serve the nation at home at wages of Sc
or So a day. But what is wanted is some
thing more than just men working for a
wage. We need earnestness and enthu-
siasm. We need workers with war spirit,
the kind who every day at their jobs feel
that they are helping this country to ego
over the top" Why, as DR.. Shaw said,
should not such men be entitled to some
thing of the saMe honor and consideration
as the men who go to France? They are
Just as surely helping to win the war. And
if they had the will they could work
very hard.
We feel that what is lacking here is not
measured in dollars. The workers Of
America have now the highest wages that
have ever been known in the history Of
the world. They have enough. What they
seek now is what all men seek when they
have satisfied their primal hungers That
is, distinction, recognition, feeling of
achievement. They need, they deserve, a
nations applause Touch this string OF
the human harp, and we believe that very
large part of the problem will be solved.
When our men go marching off to war,
when they come marching home from war,
why should they not be passed in review
by another army, home army, an indus
trial army, likewise in unifornl-an army
that has built the ships that have carried
the food and the guns and the shells and
the men who have brought triumph to
the Allied arms, and made Americas con-
tribution the decisive factor in the war?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
The Musical War Board
Ufrom Tho Boston yrnnsc,;nn

thTom INC boston IrunScript)
The shake-up on the staff of Field Marshal
Haig, reported several days ago in cables from
London, has been quickly followed at Camp
Devens by a shake-up in the whole system of
voice culture at that cantonment Unham-
pered by the censor the correspondents on
the ground have given to the people "the
whole truth" The grand opera singer orig
inally engaged to supervise this phase Of
troop training has been suppanted by an or
ganst, who will be given full swing, and an
early'improvement in the singing of the diyis-
ion is confidently expected. We are not told
whether the retiring musician is to be called
to Washington to place upon superwar
council to select soldiers songs, but the
sweeping changes already in effect attest the
activity Of the Secretary Of Wars Committee
on Music and tho rigidity with which its in
spectors are wedding out and speeding up in
this important branch OF troop training. No
inefficiency therel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
lie the ultimate test Of nerve and en-

Our0nCe.
Why have there never been lady sea
captains before? Well, why have there
never been lady conductors? Simply be-
cause there haven't been, apparently
The dispatch from Italy telling Of Signora
Belluomini does not ascribe her ambitions
and her final obtaining of masters
ocean-going license to war conditions. But
such, we suspect, was the case The war
is not transforming women into new
breed Of human beings. 1t is simply let
ting them, for the first time, do all the
things that they always could have done.
There was "Moran of the Lady Lefty"
some time ago, for instance, one of the
ablest sea captains in or out of fiction.
Who has not felt personal warmth of
gratitude to Frank Norris for presenting
her? We cannot recall that Joseph Con-
rad has ever matched her with a genuine
ocean-going captain. But that seems more
chance than anything significant. Surely,
for one, that strange, fearless heroine Of
"Victory," Lena, would have faced the
worst the sea can say without tremor.
Ladies have gone down to the sea as
figureheads long enough. Hail the mis-
tress Of the Ship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
A Voice From the Past

1t is always pathetic for hero to live
beyond his time, and that was the fate Of
the great "John L." We have had meas
urably thrilling prizefghts in the last
decades, but nothing remotely to compare
with the sort Of national excitement that
attended the punch in John L. Sullivan's
two fists. BY rolling Caruso and CLONE
Run" Baker and Charlie Chaplin into one
we might achieve an approach to the sort
of national godship that crowned the dome
Of "the big fellow"
Times change rapidly, but fashions in
heroes change even more rapidly. A crowd
of newsboys could always be found faith
full to the tradition of old "John L." But
for most Americans Of to-day he was dim
bulking figure long since vanished from
active thought. Indeed, what place had he
in an age that leaned strongly toward
pacifsm and prohibition! The age Of the
punch was John LIS age When the punch
began to depart from drink and fist alike
there was scant room for a hero who
"never let go" of his enemy whether it
happened to be flesh and blood opponent
in the ring or irewater on the bar.
A brawny, generous, warm-blooded citi-
zen was John l.. Sullivan. No doubt he
bad his shortcomings as a national hero.
But, also, he had his points. Who knows
how far the years Of a war may go to re-
establish some, at least, of his glory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

About the only grumbling that I heard was
from some OF the boys who wished that they
had been created horses or mules. so to g.
the rations. But we were willing to pei
along with parched corn for a time, because
we all had parched corn. If some had been
teasing on roast Vermont turkey, oyster
dressing, cranberry sauce, Long Island duck
ing and the like, there would have been q
ructlon and general stampede.
[ went out with "thc cane" one night mt
long ago. 1t is not composed Of gangsters
and gunner, but Of bright, refined Young So
clety people OF both sexes. From 6 O'Clock,
p. m. until the next morning we ate, or
tried to eat, three big, rich meals of the rich
ana expensive food that this city is cana
pic OF providing for those that wish to nav
10Y such things. There were two or +broo
ootSles, none of which was left emnt,,
incy only slipped of the contents. We vast
ed or could not eat at least three-fourtbs ..
tne 1000 served US. We visited three shows
mere are scores of such gangs" hitting the
'r"li OF waste every night in this old town.
ai'u 'hls VIII continue until they are placed
y" fatiohs. They say it is no ones business
80 long as they pay the bills, but it is They
40 not produce directly single grain OF the
1ooo tha1 they waste, and it is all needed,
greatly needed. l have been in the shadow
OF repentance ever since that night. But the
gangs" are playing the game in the SAM
careless fashion. Rationing, so much and
no more, would wake them up and make fins
men and women out of these careless round
ere.
With this system put into general ursc.
eicc we could furnish our allies and our
own brave soldiers with all needed supplies
give them courage and hope and win this war
m the right way by sacrifice and the blessed
ness of service c. J. GRrrNI.EAF
Dep. PATRIOTIC Instructor. G. A. r.
New York, Jan. 10, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
To America

lFrons The Westminster Gazette
Whatever penman wrote and orator
Declalmed, | could not, for the soul of me-
Deem that the West had lost of liberty
All but the name, and feared the noblest
War:
Of them and theirs I was not ignorant nor
Had failed to learn what impulse set them
free
When alien kings held England's heart in
fee,
And what in conquering they had battled
for.
klnsmen! see, in these dark pregnant hours
Of shadow, when the heavens are cast
With smoke of ruined fanes and ancient
towers,
While throttled peoples yield and nations
die,
Tho morning star Of vengeance shine at
last,
And hear your armies thunder prophecy
MORLEY ROBERTS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Shows of Yesteryears

Nobody takes quite as much JOY out Of
life as the weather expert. After we have
endured untold hardships of temperature
he can always fish some distant day or
month or year out of musty record to
prove what tender blossoms we are. Or if
he cannot do that he reduces the figures to
averages, and what is left!
That is what he has done now with the
worst January that New York has known
since the glacial period. He comedies the
point that it is the worst in thirty eight
years of the Weather Bureau. But only
by 2.3 degrees The average for the month
was Fl above. That is nine degrees below
the 80 degrees which is normal for Janu-
airy. But in 1893 the average for the
month was 23.3. And in 1904 it was 24.1.
Almost we seem like hagglers over an i'm
material nothing, with our pneumonias
and our Blue Mondays and our shivering
shins.
And as if that were not enough, the
weather expert leads out the year 1898 in
a blare of trumpets and announces that it
boosted a January with a snowfall of 2O.3
lnches--as against a paltry 1876 in the
January just past. Also, there was 1886,
with 1876, and 1905, with 1913, to their
credit. Temperature is something, but
snowfall is more, and who are we to brag
with only 1876 to boast of? 1t is small con-
ISOLATION that the normal for January is
81 and that we have just exceeded that by
almost five inches
Statistics may be all very well for
finance and politics, and even art $50 far
as art is question Of auction sales). But
for the weather they are as far aside the
mark as "Blow, blow, thou winter wind!"
is from a Weather Bureaus ingratitude.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Americans, Hail!

(Fron Tire Nineteenth Century,
Frank offspring Of that all-adventuring land
Where, in the petty fray Of Lexington,
Thrice fifty summers down the wondrous
Past,
Began no less O duel than Of Night
And Morning, that was world-watched eight
loud years,
Till Morning triumphed, and the watchers
knew
Americas soil and soul for ever free:
O If you fight as we'll upon our side
AS once you fought against us, how can then
This cause, which is your own and ours and
Mans,
Do aught but conquer? You are come to us
Full of the strong wine of your Western air,
Full of the marrow and the sap of life,
Full of the Jingle Of youth and maiden valour.
You come as Spring comes to the winter fields
When she has lowered long betwixt II will''
And many coy 81 will not"; for even so
You lowered, hating bctwxt "Yea" and
WILLIAM WATSON.