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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
New Form.

snow gentlemen of the jury" began
the old lawyer.
Hearing a cough from his partner,
he stopped abruptly.
81 beg pardon. Now, ladies and gen.
tlemen of the juryl'
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
en- So N@N-@

Christmas in America has to adjust
itself to a different environment from
the old world setting. The heroic strug-
giles of our pioneer ancestors tuned the
Tyre of one of our ballad writer's to tell
of ''The First Christmas in New Eng
iind." His picture of the Iforbidding
New England coast presents pitiable
contrast to the warmth and cheer
which memories of Christmas. suggest.
''They thought they had come to their
port that day,
But not yet was their journey done;
And they drifted away from Provincetown
Bay
In the freless light of the sun.
With rain and sleet were the tall masts
And gloomy and chill was the air;
But they looked from the crystal sails to
Christ,
And they came to harbor fair.
The white hills silent lay
For there were no ancient bells to ring
No priest to chant, no choirs to sing,
No chapel of baron, or lord or king,
That gray, cold winter day.
Then the vOyagerS remembered the
bells of old England which were ring
ing for Christmas worship and they
forbOre to devote the day to labor.
''Sha1l our axes swing on this day of days
When the Lord of life was born?'
The tragedy of the Civil war trailed
It's shadow over Longfellow's Christ
mas verse and even his courageous
spirit faltered:
''I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
r The words repeat
OF p eace on earth, good will to men
And thought how. as the day had come.
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along,
The unbroken song
OF l,eace on earth, good will 20 menu
sThen echoes of the accursed cannon
numbering far away in the southland
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
No Idle InterIude.

"What do you do to pass the time,
when politics has adjourned?" inquired
the innocent bystander.
my friend" replied Senator Sor-
ghum, "the poet has said, All the,
worlds STAGE The busiest work is,
not done in the public performances,
but in the rehearsals."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
Corn Flour DumpIinqs.

Take a cupful of corn flour, tea
spoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls
of milk, two eggs, teaspoonful of
baking powder; mix and beat well,
drop into hot stew by tablespoonfuls.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20

SCRAPS OF HUMOR

Still Saving.

lou Il L Z uU
longer interested
in daylight saw
ing"
"Y e s, 1 am,'
said Farmer Corn
tossel. 1.-THE only
way to save day
light now is to-
work hard while
it lasts"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
Mothers Cook Book

p-E-H-St-St--Ss1-ssS t-ssS--sS--sss-ts-1
Light crisp rolls for breakfast, spongy
sweet loaf for dinner and .fiaky biscuit for
supper cover a multitude of culinary sins;
and there is no one thing on which the
health and comfort of a family more de-
pend than the quality of its homemade
bread"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
Up-to-Date.

"And you need not try to conceal
yourself behind the skirts of your
wife!''
"Huhi You don't know what you
are talking about. My wife's skirts
don't even conceal her"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20
Not Maxine ANY.

Traveller Tin smoking car)--Could r
trouble you for match?
Champion Pugilist (absently)-Not
till l finish my vaudeville engage
mentS.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20

Another favorite with the children
is christmas Day." by Ruth Ray
mond.
Now, chile, go hang yo' stockin's high
Dyar by de chimbly place,
Flo Santa Clause goes ridin' by
Wild him ole jolly face,
Oats allus smilin' cause dey say,
He lubs de chillun so,
An brings dem gifts each Christmas day
Across de miles of snow.
IT'S mended dem from top to toe,
Deyl hole de things yo' need
One Pile garden rake and hoe,
De book We longs to read,
Wild fife and drum fo' yo' to play;
Dat Santa Clause boun' know
De things yo's prayed fo' cherry day
And make yo' happy so.
Hang up you stockin' den an rest
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20

The Place for Modern Matches.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20


and carols which spring from these
festivals carry with them distinct
flavor Of the different nationalities
which inspire them. Even two coun-
tries so closely akin as England and
America infuse certain national at
Tnosphere into the literature of Christ
mas. In England one may trace the
Christmas carol from the qIaintest of
old folk songs
"As Joseph was a-waukin' a
He heard en- angel sing,
This night shall be the birth night
OF Christ. our heavenly king -
down through a sort of procession OF
Christmas ideals in successive CEN
turtles to our own time, when
'Hark, the herald angels sing
seems to embody Christmas joy in Eng
disappearing lands the world over.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20

seemed to drown the music of the
bells.
1T was as If an earthquake rent
The hearthstones of continent.
And in despair / bowed my head
There is no peace on earth, said.
For hate is strong
And mocks the song
OF peace on earth, good will to men!,
Then pealed the bells more loud and
deep;
God is not dead. nor doth he sleep!
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail
With peace on earth, good will 10 menP "
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-20

" SEAl&g ~
Snow and Christmas winds seem TO
be so closely mingled with Christmas
in the minds of English-speaking peo-
pie that many of us are scarcely aware
that new traditions of Christmas eli
mate are being built up in parts of our
wide country. The poet Sill, with his
exquisite art, paints for us picture OF
christmas in California;
Can this be Christmas-sweet as May,
With drowsy sun and dreamy air.
The new grass pointing out the way
For flowers to follow everywhere?
Has time grown sleepy at his post,
And let the exiled summer back,
Or is 1t her regretful ghost
Or witchcraft of the almanac?
1 am his creature, and his air
l breathe, where'er my feet may stand;
The angels song rings everywhere,
And all the earth is Holy Land"
Besides the religious spirit of Christ
mas poetry, great deal of verse has
been written In honor of st. Nicholas,
Kris Kringle or Santa Claus, as he is
called, and the children. Perhaps one
of the best known of these poems is
"The Night Before Christmas" by DR..
Clement c. Moore, which begins:
a" Twas the night before Christmas, when
all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a
mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney
with care,
In hopes that st. Nicholas soon would be
there;
The children were nestled all snug in
their beds,
While visions Of sugar plums danced in
their heads" etc.
e@I& aINme-@
Another favorite with the children
is christmas Day." by Ruth Ray
mond.
Now. chile, go hang yo' stockin's high
nSyo Inv n oh r11o 1xy TIn
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
NEW JOB FOR McCAFFREE

The most recent dollar a year" ap-
pointment to come to South Dakota is
that of director of employment to
which Commissioner McCaffree of the
immigration department has been
named, this because of his connection
with the free employment bureau
work of different natures which he
has been engaged in since that policy
was established for South Dakota. The
duties under the new appointment in
cludes the general supervision of the
federal state cooperative Office at
Huron, and three Offices established
by the department Of labor at Sioux
Falls, Aberdeen and Rapid City, along
with the temporary harvest Offices
which will be located at Mitchell, Red
field and WATERFOWL. This service al
so looks to recruiting for the different
war work industries, and is planned to
eventually cover the entire direction
OF skilled and unskilled labor in South
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01

per cent Of the enlisted strength of
the camp being made. Hundreds of
men who entered Funston as raw
draftees have gained commissions or
are now training for them. Through
the opening of the new schools, hun.
dreds of others will have the oppor.
tunity to become officers.
Schools of instruction in the Eng
lish language will be established in
each development battalion at Camp
Funston, for the benefit of soldiers
who have not enough knowledge of it
to enable them to properly under
stand and perform their duties. In
the schools, soldiers of foreign birth
will learn enough of the language to
intelligently receive and execute or
ders, and transmit verbal messages
correctly, and, as far as practicable,
to read and understand ordinary print
ed matter.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
BOOZE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS

An opinion issued by the attorney
general means that the South Dakota
prohibitory law not only cuts out the
saloon business but helps to build up
the schools. While there are few
cases of bringing in liquor, where such
a cas- is found. the cost to the vio-
lators is such that they will not soon
forget it. The holding of the attor-
new general is that after the expense
of such case is taken out, all the net
proceeds of the fine go directly into
the school fund of the state.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
EXAMPLE

North American Review War Week
ly-Canada, we are told, has sent AGO.
900 men to the war and has 100, 600
more in reserve. According to the
good old rule of three, then, to do as
well as Canada has done, the United
States should send 500 900 men to
the war and have 400, 900 in reserve.
Until we have done that we shall
have no cause to complain of the bur
den of CONSUMPTION. And let us re-
member that it is just as much our
war as it is Canada's.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01

Real Estate Transfers


(By ALBERT MATSON, A~bstracter)
For . Weeks Ending July 2Sth
Ansil Soderman to Paul S. Walters,
lots 4, IA, Is, blk. l, Bruce, W. d.:
$110O.
o. n. Johnson to Simon Simerson,
VIZ 1|2-112-49, W. d.; 10000.
Albert Matson to Frank A. Bickford,
lots 8 and 4, blk. 6, of SINNERS end
Add. to Bookings city, W. d.; $4,-
800.
VIM II. Trulock to Ellef j. Void, lot
! OF sec. 5-111-47, W. d.; $1305.
Fred w. Peatow. administrator to
Varl Peterson, NEA 19-1O9-4S, Admir-.
D., s14, 900.
Margaret Van Cunningham to Bessie
Hanson. w S2h feet of lots l and
2, and w S2k feet of S 35 feet of
lot 8, blk. 4, Moorehouse Add. Brook
ings, W. d.; $500.
r. A. Townsend to f. A. Grape, w rs
IT. lot II, blk 10, Bruce, W. d.; $751;
900.
Fred Fl. Kurth to Henry J. Kurth, lot
5. blk. 2, Browns Add. Elkton, W. d.;
81.
Ed. Schwartz to lakewood Twp. 2 A..
in lot l of 16-111-51, W. d.; 1921.
Horace Fishback to Fred Scholl, lot
II, blk. 6, o. p. Brookings city, W.
d.; $4,000.
Henry Lucks to L. p. Barg, NWA IA
111-49, W. d.; $13,440.
Roy E. Wyman to Mary M. Van Dusen,
lot 6, blk. 27, Bruce, w. d.; 81.
j. e. Wyman to Mary M. Van Dusen,
lot 7, blk. 81, Bruce, W. d.; 81.
Joe Shaffer to Martin Nussbaum, NE
a 15-110-49; $4,000.
E. =. Hunstad to +. G. Hunstad, lot
II, blk. 4, o. p. Brookings, W. d.;
$500.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
GERMANY AND BELGIUM

London Chronicle-A point which
should not be overlooked in Herr Won
Kuhlmann's reichstag speech in his
persistence in regarding Belgium as
a pawn for Germany to bargain with.
He will give it up, but only in ex-
change for something else. This at.
titude is wholly indefensible from the
standpoint of international right. The
attack on Belgium, a gratuitous on
slaught on a peaceful and unoffend'
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01

ing neighbor, was (apart altogether
from the neutrality g%uarantee) a crime
destructive of the society Of nations.
1t must be undone and atoned for ESQ
far as it IA be) Internationally. We
may bargain about anything else, but
to bargain about hat would simply
be to consecrate the crime. Until
Germany recognizes this, it will be of
little use to discuss anything with
her. The point is our prerequisites;
not because We have the least wish
to stand on form, but because there
is vastly more than a formality in it
less, indeed, than the very
roo and foundation of all that the al
lies are fighting for"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01

every community old men, retired
from the drudgery of farm work, are
returning to the fields. Farming in
every section has become a family af-
fair, and the and children have
become real Soldiers of the SoiI' to
make good the promise of the country
to the world. A spirit of closer COM
munity cooperation has been born of
the stress Of wartime necessity. The
floating labor" has been mobilized
by the efforts Of the farm service di-
vision of the Department of Labor, a
service that has cO-ordinated the labor
supply as never before for states and
sections of the country.
The results ever now show them
selves in the fact that a bumper wheat
crop, scarcely less than last years
yield, is practically safe"
The farm labor situation, we believe
will tend to clear up rather than grow
worse. Farmers will more efficiently
utilize the family efforts and the COM
munity labor supply and will more and
more break in the new lands that will
be available.
The Boys Working Reserve fur
hloito NV cunning CAdIllDlc VI
organized effort directly to create a
new labor supply for the farm. Dur
ing the present year $50, 900 American
boys between sixteen and twenty-one
years of age have been trained, and
their efforts added to the army of pa
triots who are cultiyating and harvest.
ing Americas great crops. This quar-
ter Of a million is the nucleus of a
great army that will soon swell to a
million effective farm workers. This
army Of young men constitutes the
n real source of farm labor during
III period of the war.
That the farm labor situation is a
most serious problem, and one that
must be solved to keep effective the
nations most essential of essential
war industries, is patent to all. That
its solution along lines already in
itiated is possible, with the helpful CO.
operation of the farmers over the
country, is the belief of the Labor De-
partment, whose fingers are constantly
on the labor pulse of the country.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
IMPORTANT TO EXHIBITORS IN
WOMAN'S BUILDING, SOUTH
DAKOTA STATE FAIR

Remember that all judging in this
building is done before the fair opens,
and exhibits. in art, needlework and
juvenile must be in the building by
Tuesday, Sept. 8. Send early
enough to allow for delays in trans
portation. Read rules applying, in
premium list, for which write c. n.
McIlvaine, Secy., Huron, S. ID.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
What Will the Farmer Do?

Farming, the chief of the essential
war industries has Jared badly in
the indiscriminate competition for
labor.
1t was first to suffer. The fall of
1914 saw the foreign element moving
across the e a to answer the call OF
their respective countries, while the
great munition factories, to supply the
enormous demands Of the allies, were
even then draining the eastern sec
tons of farm labor. With the extern
sion of this demand for labor into the
west and the mobilizing of the militia,
the farmer felt the pinch of labor
shortage before the entrance of the
United States into the war. With his
event came the frantic speeding up
of munitiOn manufacture, the building
of ships, the selective draft, the con-
struction Of environments, etc, and the
farms were practically stripped of the
normal supply Of labor.
Now, with a warning world looking
to America for food as the fundamen-
tai element in the winning of the war,
what will the American farmer do?
The answer, in general terms, is
that next year, as this year, the farm
er will face the situation with the
same spirit Of patriotic rallying to the
call of his country and the same de-
termination to carry on" over all diff
iculties that is actuating the real
American a in every line of bust
ness.
What has the banker done to re-
place the expert banking help called
to the colors or drawn into war emer-
gency work by the lure of high wages?
Has the banker walled to heaven that
only expert labor could save the bank
from failure or enable it periodically
to serve the government in this period
of stress? No. The banks Of the
country are full of young women be-
ing trained to do the work; and re-
ports from the bankers indicate that
this new help is doing wonderfully
successful work.
The farmers of the country will pur-
sue a similar course.
They are meeting the situation this
year with grim determination. In
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01

Dakota, as we'll as the first need in
South Dakota farm help, in fact to
cover the needs of the state as a free
employment bureau for laborers of all
classes.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01

District No. Is, $1,000
District No. 70, $149O
Trenton Township
District No. 80, $26O5
District No. 81, $2655
District No. 80, s1O75
District No. SO, s1715
District No. "a, $114O
Aurora City
District No. IS, $4515
Laketon-Preston Townships
District No. Sc, $500
Medary Township
District No. 81, $110O
District No. IS, $1205
District No. SO, $111O
District No. 80, $1S15
District No. 81, $1430
District No. go, s2050
District No. SO. s2225
Aurora Township
A. l.. Squirting, clerk, $3.50
Bangor, VIM. Pickering, clerk, $6425
Oslo, +. f. Clement, clerk, $9460
Preston, Carrie Kinney clerk, 5000
Sherman, j. II. Simmons, clerk,
$4440
White City, ind. school district, $12,-
725
Volga City, final report not in, es-
timated, $4,000
Elkton City, ind. school district,
$19,400
City of Brookings-
1st Ward, $24,600
2nd Ward, $4,000
3rd Ward, $10,450
4th Ward, $24,5 500
Total sales and pledges, $342,110.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
WAR SAVINGS REPORT

Sale VI wal SAVINGS dllu
has the following report
made in the county. H
thank all of the school
teachers of the county f
did efforts that they put
ing this matter a sue
share of the credit he be
to their patriotic efforts:
Bookings Township
District No. /, $2905
District No. 2, $1,000
District No. 3, $1,000
District No. 4, $1065
Parnell township
District No. 5, 5000.
District No. 6, 5000
District No. 7, 1890.
District No. s, $4315
District No. 8, 1920
District No. 10, $1135
Alton township
District No. IL, $3.50
District No. II, $1240
District No. IS, $3.50
District No. IA, $2035
District No. Is, s1740
Winsor township
District No. 16, $1035
District II, SPOTS
District No. IS, $1005
District No. 10, $1,000
Lake Sinai township
District No. 20, $6025
District No. 81, $3.50
District No. %, $1785
District No. %, S1215
Argo township
District No. "a, spas
District No. 25, 1875
District No. 26, $2075
District No. 81, $3.50
Parnell township
District No. %, 1885
Alton township
District No. 20, $1675
District No. 80, 1920
District No. 81, $515
District No. 80, $4155
District No. 33, $685.
District No. "a, $4,000
Laketon Township
District No. "a, $1155
District No. SO, $2315
District No. 81, 5000
District No. 38, $2100
District No. SO, $1140
Laketon-W insor-
District No. 40, $1445
Sterling township
District No. Al, 1885
District No. AZ, $3.50
District No. 43, $3110
District No. A, $1965
Lake Sinai township
District No. As, $500
Richland township
District No. As, $1,000
District No. Al, $3.50
District No. 48, $1735
lakewood, City of Bruce
District No. 40, s8O35
lakewood Township
District No. so, 1885
District No. 81, 1920
District No. So, 1885
Argo Township
District No. SO, 1855
Richland township
District No. "a, $3.50
Eureka Township
District No. IS, $2700
District No. Sc, $2005
District No. 81, $2535
District No. So, $2395
Oak Lake township
District No. So, $3.50
District No. go, $500
District No. 81, $500
District No. 81, $1495
District No. 63, s1470
Elkton Township
District No. Ga, 1855
District No. IS, $1,000
District No. 66, $3.50
Lake Sinai & Bangor To-
District No. 81, 1880
Bookings township
District No. 68, $1195
lakewood township
District No. 50, $2460
Lake Hendricks Townshi
District No. 70. $3.50
District No. II, $1545
District No. ~, 1920
District No. 70, $3.50
District No. "a, sos
District No. IS, 1885
Volga Township
District No. rs, $3175
District No. n. $1665
Evening journal., 1918-07-17

knight, Sir Philip DaDubigny, has lain
undisturbed for nearly seven centuries.
waiting TIL the English came again.
British soldiers and officers are al
most always reserved in the expression
OF religious emotion. but there are
great and rare occasions when the ico
Of reserve melts. and the capture Of
Jerusalem was one OF these. Eye-wit-
nesses OF the attack on the Turkish
entertainments near Llfta, very strong
position which was very stubbornly
defended, say II was the knowledgs
that before our men lay the last ram
part between Jerusalem and its deliver
ers that gave their Irresistible mo-
mentum. TOwnspeople who saw them
enter the suburbs have told the writer
that they were most astonished, after
their long experience OF the mournful
or sullen-looklng Turks. at the Joy on
the faces Of our soldiers. Aud with this
Joy came a natural return to ancient
forms. Many an officer and man when
he first entered the chapel Of the Holy
Sepulchre instinctvely knelt down
within the traditional tomb and there
prayed or made hls vows, as many a
soldier or pilgrim form our islands
had done before him.
So, too. in the churohes-whetheR
Evening journal., 1918-07-17
RuRAL pROPERTY TRANsFERs.

Two hundred and two acres Of land
/ together with the buildings thereupOr
erected, abutting the road leading
from Delaware City TO Port Penn, have
been purchased by the Marlin-Rock-
well Company from Edward r. Cord
rey. The nominal figure OF s. Is set In
tho deed as the purchase price. The
purchaser has under construction al
that place a large plant.
Other transfers Of rural New Castle
county property have been recorded
as follows:
George L. Atkins and wife 10 r. A.
Litchneld, two lots at Colonial Park,
Christiana hundred $40.
John WOlansh and wife TO Samuel
p Fisher, lot. with buildings, at Box
wood, Christiana hund d. $500.
Mary McPike and Annie Gregg and
husband TO William r. Cullen and wife.
land, dwelling an dother buildings, on
the west side OF Choate street, Newark,
$500
Edward F. Bubenzer and Edward
V. J. Richmond. two lots at Holloway
Terrace, New Castle hundred, $3.50.
Annie Gregg and husband, ct. al, 10
Anna B. StrahOrn, land, dwelling and
other buildings on the west side OF
North Chapel street, Newark. $1,000.
The Evening Journal Publishing
Company to Nathan Abramson, two lots
at Holloway Terrace. 50.
Albert w. POsey and wife to Harvey
A. Mears and wife, land and buildings
in Brandywine hundred, $500.