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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
A GOOD SOAKING RAIN.

Wednesday night at about ten O.
clock it commenced raining and con
tinued practically all night with the
result that we had the heaviest rain
of the season and which will now
practicalylnsure this county bumper
corn crop as the coro is just begin
ming to tassel. The precipitation
measured 2 10 inches and it certainly
will insrre US bumper crups of all
kinds. This rain is actually worth
millions to this county.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
DO YOU HAVE A WAR GARDEN

If so, do you realize that a consid
cradle portion of it will be wasted un
less YOU resort to some means of can
ming or drying the surplus. If you
have never dried vegetables such as
beans, peas. pumpkins, squash. etc.
write or call for Farmers Bulletid No
9S4. We have a limited supply of
these bulletins on hand for immedi
ate distribution and we wish them to
reach the people who are interested
in saving food as they are very valu
able Bulletins. Office of County A
gent.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
BUTTE VALLEY ITEMS

Roy st. Clair is driving new Ford
car.
Chas Bigler is driving a Ford car
now days.
A good crowd attended the Hedrick
Bros sale Tuesday.
Nike Gatfney called at the sheep
ranch Monday evening.
r. Rankin and family were callers
at the Hellekson home Thursday.
Peter Jungewaard was out from
VIM Tuesday and took in the sale
WirtPeterson expects TO have sale
In the near future. Watch for the
date.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wainwright and sons
called at J. L. Souls, Sunday after
noon.
VIII, Horton returned Monday even
ing from his claim where he has been
the past week putting up hay.
Anna, Rickie, Cora and Jennie
Jongewaard called at the sheep ranch
Sunday but found no one at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Brown and son
Richard Of Wood were dinner guests
at the Peterson home Sunday after
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy st. Clair are the
proud parents of a fine boy born TO
them the 18th Of July. We extend
congratulations.
Merle Kaufman and wife were cal
lers at the Krieger home Sunday and
all called at Lon Evans and enjoyed
Ice cream in the evening.
Mrs. Alice Hedrick is spending
few days at the home Of Mrs Orr be-
fore leaving for Junction City, Kansas
where she will visit with her son
Will and vile.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

listens 10 the foot steps OF him a>
he comes whisteling down the Old
board walk. Sothey live again the
glorious days of the old home town
the man OF gold and the sad eyed We
man.
"TiS a thing OF sentiment. the little
old country newspaper When you
want the story Of valOr told the world
it sings the song, When perchance,
disgrace paints the scarlet letter on
the family circle. it listens TO the
pleadingS Of the broken hearts and
whispers not Of it. When it does you
favor YOU go in and beg a few extra
copies, but when il steps on your toes
you drop parOund the corner and tel
some OF your frierdS that you are 60
ing TO lick the editor.
Without, what you call, the dinky
county paper, your towns and nam
lets would be like the man who threw
kisses at the girl in the dark -he knew
it but no one else did You imagine
you were alive, but other people would
have to buy railroad ticket and come
TO your town and see for themselves.
thus ends the brie1 relerSal Of the
glorious record OF the blooming little
old country weekly.
Let the citizens Of every town, cOun
ty and vicinity reconsider, and stand
by the home paper as truly as ii is by
you, and all will be as merry as mar
riage bell, w, II. Smith.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
CODY ChOPSTICKS

Matt Richards and two sons are
Lsiting In Nebraska.
That was nice rain Saturday
ight. Just what we needed.
Henry Lensman and Jack Gillen is
ur next stars to go for the front.
A few from this neck of the woods
ere in White River to say good bye
, the boys. They leave via Murdo
ne 23rd.
Preaching services at Cody, Sunday
uly 2Sth at p m. Everyone Is In
tied to attend. Lets make the min
ter happy by everyone being present
nd on time. Come everybody.
This county has enjoyed two treats
.tely. First the speech of Governor
orbeck and last but not least those
Frank Linden of California. We
e glad to have the opportunity OF
caring them, it was almost like a
back east" chautauqua. Come again
f. B. Egleston and Gust E. Gunner
,ok their families to Winner, Tues
ay evening to board the train Wed
esday morning. Mrs Egleston fol
orning Iowa, Mrs. Gunner for Oma
a to visit her brother as he Is think
,g Of going to the ship yards. Mrs
gleston to visit her brother Harr.
no Is called in this draft.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
POSTAL BUSINESS GROWING.

Seventeenout OF 35Presidential class
post Offices in western South Dakota
had sufficient increases in the volume
of business that the postmasters there
Of would have been entitled to an in
crease in salary had not the act of
April 3rd 1917, prohibited any in
crease of postmaster's salaries until
after the termination Of the present
war, according to statement given out
by Congressman Gaudy after check
ing up the reports of the various of
fees at the Post Office Department.
Bonesteel, Burke, Gregory, Dallas,
Winner, Midland, Philip, Belle Four
che, Bison, Lennon, Mcintosh, Du
pree, Isabel, Faith. Kadoka and Ken
nebec postmasters would have been
entitled to an increase of 500 each,
while the postmaster at Murdo would
have received an increase of $500.
The act prohibiting increases in
postmasters' salaries did not prohibi,
increases in clerical allowances foI
post Offices and upon the request oi
Mr.. Candy the Department is giving
consideration to the need for increa.
ed allowances at these offices where
the volume of business is increa sing
Some increases have already beer
.,thorized and others are expected
shortly.
The post Office at Reliance has IT
Gently been raised from fourth t.
third class. Only two Presidential
class po.tmasters in the district su
fered reduction in salary, those a
Fairfax and Oacoma and the redu
ton in volume OF business there wa
due to county seat changes.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

ESTRAYS: Information to any
cattle bearing brands Jay Cross, or
Four V, or Box : ON left hip, or Cir
Gle Dot on either side, which leads to
the recovery of any strays vii! be re-
warded. We are short number OF
southern cattle, steers and heifers
bearing southern brands. Anyone
knowing of any strays. please inform
jackson Brothers, Dallas, South
Dakota "A At.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

The Cleaners had an open meeting
Wednesday night of this week and a
goodly number were in attendance.
Ice cream and cake were served dur
ing the evening. County Agent Blak
lev was present and organized a
branch of the Farm Bureau by elect
ing George Moore president of the
local Bureau, a. j. Krieger, vice pres
dent, John Ham, secretary and Fred
G. Kirch, treasurer. On account oi
the big rain that came up after the
crowd had gathered, many of those il
attendance did not get home unit
the next morning.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
THE OLD HOME TOWN PAPER
By w. d. SMITH, OF MARCELINE, IN
THE PRINCETON Posi-

THE lRlNCEION lost
Dear Price: | noted a few weeks
ago that you made call for those
who had wandered from the old home
town and their place of birth, to a.
again renew those wonderful hours Of
pleasure by writing letter to the
Post.
1t is true that we are but a few
miles away, yet the association, per-
haps the best part of life have been
severed, and it has been our lot to
make new friends. The Post reaches
us weekly and permit me TO say that
it is perused with more care than when
we were at the place of publication.
| often think of the cold Home Pa
per-" the one thing that no town or
community could exist without.
When the neighbor or citizen has
reached the evenings meridian, and
is gathered to his Father, it is the
country weekly that extOls his or her
virtues, and in words and paragraphs
lays wreaths Of flowers upon their
bier, and consoles those who are left
behind. 1t records the arrival OF the
babyhood and tells OF the bright pros
pect that surrounds the happy couple
as they start out on the journey OF
matrimoney. When all is we'll, the
sun is high and bright and prosperity
flows over land and sea, it rejOices
with tbs people and repeats again and
again the story ofthe best town in
the best county in the state.
When the drouth stalks down OF
the hills, plains and valleys, and the
crops are parching in the scorching
sun, it sings song OF optimism and
states authOritively that it will likely
record in it's next issue the news OF a
soaking rain. Joe Davis new barn,
Jim Browns almost completed resi-
dence and Zack Jones remarkable
patch of alfalfa find their way into
It's columns. The doctor, the lawyer
the merchant, and the banker-all OF
them-appear in never ending NOV
ing pictnre before the eyeSof the peo-
pie every seven days.
The man who has wandered IA
from the old tireside picks it up, ant
again there is spread before him tn
whole panorama Of his his boyhood
golden days-all for three cents pc
week, and pay the same when yOl
happen to think about 1t.
There is the stern faced man, witt
his silver threads, who is worths hi
millions in his spacious Office he reacl
es oft every Sunday morning and paw
over the pile of mail until he finds tn
home paper with the yellow label on |
The careworn woman In the littl
humble home on the far western CLAIM
glances frequently from the doorwa
down the long winding road at tn
close OF a certain day every week fo
, the coming of husband or father fro,
r the rural post office with the love
r messenger, the weekly paper. Sh'
? too. is always looking for the Sam p;
per with the same little yellow lab'
t on 1t. They scan every item-th
r country correspondence, too-the ma
t Of gold and the sad eyed wOman-an
the marble halls and the flush OF powt
s and the dingy walls and the gnaw {
O want fade away and are forgottel
S He sees again the old river, and hea
the shouts Of the boys from the mi
.l.'s...lag 50 !. a,6a Sss.I-s
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
RID0ELAND

July 8, 1911
E. Eriksen is building a garage fo
is car.
Archie Orr made a trip to Carte
riday.
NJ. II. Weed purchased the Hellek
IN cattle this week.
Mrs. Orr and sons Rex and Archie
.led at the Hellekson home Wed
esday afternoon.
Erik Eriksen and family celebrated
he Fourth with the Sturdevant fam
yat their home on the creek.
Miss CAROLYN Shatfer writes that
le is having delightful time visit.
X with her sisters and brother at
llloway, Nebraska
Nj. II. Weed purchased the Miss
.afra Nelson quarter, known as Fair
lew, in Ridgeland. Miss Nelson
ow resides at Milo, Iowa
Z. Erickson and family were dinner
lests at the J l.. Orr home, Sunday
:. }, Palmer and family Of Pure Wa
n were invited, but, likely the in
ement weather kept them at home.
The Fourth Of July celebration was
tremendous success and much cred
, is due those who had a hand in
laking it so. All who attended from
leSe parts report a most enjoyable
me. OF course the day was ideal
I'd that added greatly to the pleasure
July Is, 1918
H. Quackenbush was in our neigh
orhood this week and dug a new
ell for J. L. Orr.
Mr. Moses is doing the interior fin
ihing and building a porch at the
Iatouchek home.
NJ. H. Weed and family and James
'arter and wife were calling at the
iatouchek home Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy ST. Clair are the
roud parents Of baby boy, born Fri
ay the twelfth. Mother and baby
re getting along nicely.
Mrs. ]. L. Orr and Mrs. F. Hoban
ocompanied by Miss Myrtle Christen
en- returned from Omaha Friday
,ning. Mrs. Orr and Mrs, Hoban
re guests at the Christensen home
lie in Omaha.
drs. J. l.. Orr and mother Mrs. Eli
beth Hoban have gone to Omaha
consult Dr. Clifford the Oculist,
IS. Hobans eyes have troubled her
years and we hope the doctor will
da way to relieve her.
If you have an idle dollar
It's Stacker.
Take it firmly by the collar,
It's Stacker
Make it battle for the nation
tor dollar on vacation
In this present situation
Is a Stacker.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

departed Tuesday for st. Joseph,
Misso, ri. The Gallaghers and Mrs.
Mrs, Emery KING accompanied them
as far as Murdo. They all declare
they like Happy Hollow and expect
to come back again.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

FOR SALE; One team of mares,
one team work horses, one 2-year old
mare, one : year oln horse, hogs and
chickens, one Monmoth mower, one
sulky pillow with breaker attachment,
two section harrow, two row corn
planter, one riding cultivator, one
tonguele"s disc, coopS and troughs
etc Inquire Of John Krleger, Wood,
$. ID 23 1T.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

STRAYED or STOLEN - Bay
horse, white stripe in forehead, weight
1850, wire cut on right hind foot, no
brands. wore halter when last seen.
Suitable reward for return of animal
to S, G.. Gary, at Little Crow Day
School. lOtf
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

FOR SALE: Half Section, on
Wood White River Trail, good soft
water, with $1,000 improvements, 26
acres under plow; place under fence.
fine salt grass, l25 acres good farm
land, balance a ! pasture and hay
land. Price $50 per acre for quick
sale. Can give good terms on part.
inquire at this office for further part
iculars.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

ESr2AYED: One white faced year
old hei(er, branded 6666 on left side
and II Oh left hip. Reward of $50
will be paid for information leading
to recovery. RoIla Hedrick, wood,
S. ID. 20 IF
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26
AuA(,Mlges,r&Se 4 { y \ r&SeSSS~n(Sn~rFs. 5

ALFALFA SEED Good home
grown alfalfa seed, clean of weeds. at
lG cents per pound, 20 miles north OF
Wood, just across Big White River.
Alfred Anderson, Vera, S. ID.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

STRAYED Six yearlings brand
ed In connected on left hip with a
fresh brand A either above or below
the old brand. Reward will be paid
for Information leading TO recovery OF
this stock. NJ. T. Anderson, Farley,
5. d., or notify this office. 244tp
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-26

Late Columbia double disc Records
at 75c and up. Come and hear
them. Steel and Fiber Needles.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15
BEZALEL SCHOOL IS RE-
OPENED.

The gladdening news comes from
Palestine that with the entry of the
British forces, normal activity in the
Jewish colonies is resumed. The
Provisional Zionist Committee has
received the information that the
shops of the Bezalel school are now
open and work there is going on as
in the days before the war. One
week prior to the occupation by the
British armies, Prof. Shatz and Man
aper Boroachov were expelled by the
Turkish authorities.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS IN
GALICIA.

Serious anti Jewish riots have oc-
Cured in Cracow, Lemberg and
other towns in Galicia, according to
advices received by the Provisional
Zionist Committee. Hundreds Of
men and women were seriously in
jured, and the rioters pillaged shops,
stores and homes. Polish students
were the ringleaders of the mobs,
which were not interfered with by
the authorities.
The rioting was fomented by the
broadcast distribution Of instigatory
circulars and anti-Semitic leaflets,
which were handed out even in the.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15
JEWISH BLOOD FOR ZION.

There is something epic, heroic IN
the formation of a Jewish battalion
to fight in Palestine. Whatever the
cause might be, that the soil IN and
about Jerusalem should again be
fertilized with Jewish blood, is more
than one of the prosaic repetltions
of history. Not that the Holy Land
has not known the tragic moisture of
Jewish tears and Jewish blood for
these many centuries since the } eW-
ish nation was subjugated and dis
persed. But an armed JeWry,
fighting as soldiers, in Jewish
cause in Palestine is SO extraord1n-
ary that it borders on the romantic.
A few years ago a Zionist in
speech on behalf of Zionism said he
longed for the opportunity to shed
his blood for his people, that tor
their freedom he would gladly take
I'D arms. The occasion seemed re-
mote indeed at that time, probably
both to the speaker and his audience.
Today it is solemn reality.
1t needs no far-fetched reasoning
to demonstrate that the issues to be
settled in part at least on the Pale
stinian battlefield are Jewish. The
cause of democracy always has been
and is now so bound up with jewish
life that no struggle in which free
dom in any form is the issue is
alien to the Jew. The removal OF
Jewish disabilities and the growth
of democracy have always been par
allel movements. Where freedom
flourished there the Jew flourlshed
Where despotism flourished, where
autocracy flourished, there the Jew
was an outcast, was prosecuted,
was ens1aved. No people will be
more directly the beneficiaries OF
this gigantic struggle, if the forces
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15

public schools, government buildings
and railroad stations.

JEWISH YOUNG MEN ANX-
IOUS TO JOIN BATTALION.
The Jewish Battalion which left
New York on February 18th on it's
way to England to join the other
Jewish regiments for service in Pal
estine, was only the first contingent
and will soon be followed by thou
sands of other Jewish young men
who are anxious to go and battle
for their people and their land.
One of the recruits who has left
with the first contingent, carries
with him a letter from his brother,
which shows Enthusiastically the feel
ing which prevails among hundreds
of Jewish young men who are pre-
vented from joining the Jewish bat
talon, either because they are sub
iect to the American draft or be-
cause they have dependents. This
recruit is Mr.. S. Friedlander Of
Orange, New Jersey, who was vice
president of the New Jersey State
Zionist Association and most &C
tive Zionist. His brother, Pinchos
Friedlander, was prevented from
going because he has dependent
family, and being grievously disap-
pointed at his being unable to take
part in what he terms "a holy task
he gave his more fortunate brother
letter, which reads in part:
my heart is broken because | can
not go with you How petty every
thing about me seems now when l
think of the historic things which
are happening Every fibre of my
body revolts, my ideals burn within
me and make my face blush with
shame. Shall I remain here to sell
merchandise when you go forth to
fight for our people and our land
O, how that touches me! | envy
YOU, brother. You have the good
fortune to be one of these heroes
who will defend with their blood the
honor of our suffering people. Fight
for me, too! Be hero! Fight as IS
BETTING the new Jewish heroes OF
Z;o,, -
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15
March IS, 1918.

Zionism does not mean that.
Zionism is the aspiration of Jews to
see a Jewish state established in
Palestine, and Jewish national life
revived there. A Zionist is he who
feels himself at one with this group,
the ideal Israel, in this aspiration,
who feels Israels life pulsating in
his own heart, who cherlshes lsraers
ages-old hope and faith, and shares IN
this glorious vision. One for whom
this vision has no charms, and who
does not feel the Zion-impulse in his
own soul, may have philanthropic
interest in the Zionist plan, but he
is no Zionist.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15

We must confess that were it not
for our own Interpretation Of Zion
ism and our own reasons tor It's
necessity, the Interpretation given
it bv certain Zionist lecturers, espe-
ciallv such as claim to have philo-
sophically trained minds would make
us strongly anti-Zionistic. The cause
of Zionism, we believe, would be
served better by their silence.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-03-15

Tie AMERICAN JEWISH WORLl
of democracy are victorious than the
Jews.
But in an even more direct sense
will the Jewish soldier in Palestine
be shedding his blood for a Jewish
cause. The rehabilitation of the
Jews as nation in Palestine seems
inevitable.
The likelihood of German vic
tory is remote. That the United
States or it's Associates in the war
should make peace on terms which
do not include the principle of group
self-determination is scarcely think
able. One of the results Of the war
which cannot be undone even by
Imperialistic Germany is the recog-
milton of the principle of g1oup-de-
mocracy, Of the principle that races,
nationalities, religions, or other
natural or voluntary human group
ings are individuals in the great hui
man family with certain rights, funda-
mental, inalienable, natural, axioma-
tic; that to deny this group
equality is perhaps even a greater
crime against humanity than to
deny the equality of the individual.
The logic of the situation was un
escapable. And the Zionist was
quick to grasp it. Group self-de-
termination, group equality, group
democracy for the Zionist spelled
one word in large capitals
.ZIONISM. To such an extent
have the aims of Zionism become
implicated with the aims of the AL
lied Governments and the United
States that it seems certain that the
latter will insist upon the recogni-
ton of the rights of the Jews to es-
tablish themselves in Palestine when
the settlement is finally made. 1t is
to the interest of the Jews that the
terms of this settlement be as liber
al as possible For the more clearly
and broadly the principle of group
self-determination is established, the
more surely will the rights of Jewry
both within and without Palestine
be secured
Thus the Jewish soldier, once
again, is fighting Jewish battle on
the ancestral soil.
c.. L.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-02
GARY LAND COMPANY, ING.

Steel plant lots in Gary, adjoining.
the $33,0O0,OOO steel plant offer a safe
investment to 4our citizens and are
being handled by the Gary.Land Com
pany, Inc.,v 200 Manhattan building,
These lie in the first and central di-,
vision of Duluth and contain choice
business lots on Gary Street and Com
monWealth Avenue There is a de-
cided movement, among the shTeWd
ones to purchase these business sloca-
tons while they last. Gary district is
destined to be great industrial cen
ter of Duluth. The building of the
great steel mills is a sufficient guar
antee for the industrial future of these
divisions, and soon there will be an
influx of workers who will want to
have their. homes near their work.
Heads of small plants and industries
who are icontempl plating enlarging their
business or. who need more c0nlmodi1
Gus quarters will do well to get in
touch with the Gary Land Company in
regard to these sites.