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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
COUNTY NEWS
BY CORRESPONDENTS
News Notes and Personal Items Of In
terest Over the County
HOLDEN

The showers OF the past few days
are keeping the ground in fine condi-
ton for the small grain, but a little
cool for corn.
Clifford Hudson's house was struck
by lightning early Saturday morning
but the fire was extinguished before
any great loss was done.
Roy Rush has completed his new
well with about sixteen feet OF water.
Mrs, Ben Selke went to the hospital
in washington last Thursday, where
she underwent an operation. Mr..
Selke stayed with her several days,
returning hame Monday. Miss Ida
Jenner is caring for the children dur
ing Mrs. Selke's absence.
Mrs. Julius Friemark left Friday
evening for a visit with relatives in
Iowa She was accompanied By her
little granddaughter, Hildred Ross.
John Dennis is now driving a new
Buick six.
Miss Glare Bowles is now the hap
by owner of a piano purchased or
Rhoades Bros. of Miller.
Another one of u boys, Hugh
Snodgrass, has been called and will
leave Saturday morning.
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TORNADO DAMAGE
In SATURDAY STORM
SanbOrn and Brown Counties Visited
By Twisters

Woonsocket, S. D.. May 20.A
cyclone struck Woonsocket Saturday
evening causing damage estimated at
$75, 00O. No lives were lost, although
a number of people were slightly in
jured.
The city hall and frehouse were
badly wrecked by the storm. The
front of one of the large business
blocks was blown in and part OF a
large. furniture store demolished. The
twister wrecked the Anderson lumber
yards and several dwellings. The
large poultry sheds on the Strubh
place were unroofed and much dam
age done to other farm buildings in
the vicinity. A number of smaller
buildings were blown away.
Electric light and telephone wires
are down. The storm followed a path
from the southwest to the %northeas'
Two Hurt In Brown County
Aberdeen News-Two persons were
injured in a cyclone which swept
south and east of Groton about 6
o'clock Saturday night, destroying a
score of farm buildings and causing
a property loss estimated at 100000,
Coming as a climax of the day OF
spotted showers and electrical distur-
Dances and originating at the German
Lutheran church 5 miles northwest OF
Ferney. the twister tore across the
county in a ~northeasterly direction,
passing a half-mile east of Groton.
Farmhouses we're lifted clear of
foundations, barns, hog houses and
chicken coops blown to bits and tele-
phone and telegraph poles snapped OFF
like twigs.
That only two persons were injured,
neither ~GcriUitsiy, e -eeast4erea pc
markable. Many families sought safe
ty in their cellars, others barely had
time TO rush indoors before their
dwellings were levelled.
Twelve Killed in Nebraska
Bloomfield, Neb., May 20, Twelve
perSons, mostly children, KILLED asl4
| Twenty-Five injured is the human tsl
of the tornado which swept this por-
ton of Nebraska Saturday night.
One child Z years old is the only
survivor of one family. Five other
children were instantly killed and
their fathers limbs so badly mangled
that il was necessary to amputate
them Due to wire conditions details
are unobtainable but the storm LETT
| scores of demolished homes and other
| buildings in its wake.
Later details will swell the death
rate. The tornado was accompanied
| by hail and rain.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
Memorial Sunday
And Decoration Day

Sunday, MAY Goth at IL a. III. at the
Opera House in Miller at a joint meet
ing of all churches the sermon viii
be delivered by Rev. Simons of the
Presbyterian Church. Special music
at this service.
Decoration Day May Both
All citizens meet at Charcfifl's cor
ner at 10 a. m. where they will march
with the band to the G. A. r. Gene
terry. Autos provided for veterans.
Mrs. S. v. Christ will deliver the
address at the Cemetery.
The members of Candy Post have
charge of other exercises. $3.50 p. m.
in the Opera House:
Band Music.
In vocation
Song-America.
Music by double quartet
Exercises by school children.
Cornet Solo by Mrs. VIM. Saltmarsh
Address-Hon. Chas. s. Whiting OF
the Supreme Court.
Music.
Nate Johnson, Marshal of the Day.
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UNFIT TO FIGHT"
POEM BRINGS FAME
Highmore Boys Poem OF Regret VIII
Live in Country's Literature

died at his home in Highmore, was
we'll known in Miller. When the war
broke out he was eager to go into
the service OF his country, and had
some preparation al an officer in a
company of the Fourth South Dakota.
But when he appeared before the doc
tors for physical examination they
said he was a victim of tuberculosis
and refused to list him as a fighting
man. He was bitterly disappointed,
and during this period he poured out
his heart in a poem of regret and
then died. His poem has been pub
lished all over the country.
Unfit TO Fight
Unfit to fight tersely the sur
geon put it;
| Unfit! Good God! II he but knew
The battle / have struggled through,
A battle lasting days and nights, and
months and years,
A battle to the death
For breath!
"Unft to lght?" Yes, | suppose am
unfit.
And yet wonder-if that surgeon
knew
How night after night, / fought the
fight
In bitter trouble with despair
With sweat pouring down through
matted hair
And death, waiting there so tempt
ing
In that bottle on the chair
If he would still have said Unit to
fght?"
Home, mother. family, sweetheart,
friends-aii put behind
That / might fight this battle with
my mind,
The battle every hopeless one must
fight
WtlGl uedLn sScilo 5oo" -"
only fright,
With rotting lungs and wheeling
breath,
A man Stunned, outcast, wishing only
death;
But I battled on, and lr a way won
until hat night
The SURGEON said you are unit to
fight"
You boys down on the border can not
know
The battle fought by those who could
not go
BY those who were pronounced ''unht
to fight"
And SO, tonight,
When taps has sounded, slowly. SWEEP
and clear,
| And thoughts float back to those You
hold most dear,
Perhaps you'll breathe a prayer into
the night
For those who stayed at home, unit
to fight,
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PARTY PRIMARIES
COUNTY AND STATE
Candidates For Fall Election to be
Selected by Voters Next
Tuesday

Under the machinery of state law,
the official primaries for selection of
candidates in state and county will
occur next Tuesday, May 2Sth, with
time and places given in official no
tees published in the newspapers.
State Tickets
In the state a full set of candidates
will be. selected by the republican and
democratic parties. On the republi-
can side there are only a few very
lively contests in an otherwise quiet
campaign. Senator Thomas Sterling
and former governor Frank Byrne
are seeking the party nomination for
United States Senator. Congressman
Royal Johnson and state senator Me-
Lean axe candidates for congress in
this, the >Second district. Governor
Norbeck has no opponent in the pri-
maries.
The Office of Attorney General,
which has the smallest salary of any
state office, appears to have attracted
the ambitions of several young at
t~ornevs. including one from Hand
| county, two from Pierre, one from
Watertown, and one from SissetOn.
There are contests also in the Of
| fees Of Secretary of State. Auditor
| and Superintendent.
County Tickets
The preliminary campaign in the
| county has been very quiet, confined
almost entirely to newspaper an
Inducements. In fact. that is be-
coming the custom in both state and
| county,. Neither the republican or
democratic county tickets are com
plete The filings show these candi-
dates.
State Senate
Republican Democrat
Charles Gardner ...........
Representative
| Il. r. Sedan David Erwin
County Judge
r. C. Anderson ..........
Clerk of Courts
| ............... W. e. Morrow
County Treasurer
j. w. Coquiiiette Il. j. Nelson
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
Iowa and Kansas Hit

Boone. Iowa, May 21.-Three per
sons were killed, so to 100 injured and
81, 600 of property destroyed in
tornado which swept through this cts
tonight
A tornado at Newton killed two, aEt
Injured six persons.
Little Rock, Wis, was practically
wiped out by a tornado.
Five persons were killed by a tor
nado at Hays, Kansas.
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VAYLAND


A large number from this commun-
ity attended the circus at Miller on
Monday.
William McCombs arrived Friday
from Milledgeville, Illinois for a visit
with. his daughter, Mrs, Grant Byers.
M.a -G-p Zdanartad Sat
urday evning for Have, Montana, to
look after business interests there.
Mrs. Prentice expects TO be gone
about a week.
Mrs. Frank Otto arrived home Sat
urday noon after spending a couple
OF days In Huron.
Mrs. w Il. Hardin, of GAIA, Iowa, is
visiting This week. at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. !. ]. Fisher.
Her brother Oscar Fisher leaves this
week for training camp I'm Washing
ton state.
BY mistake last week. we omitted
an item which concerned the brief
| visit of J. NJ. Michealson, of Water
town, at the II. N Cassidy home.
VIM. Butler returned Tuesday noon
from Camp Funston after spending a
few days with his brother Everett.
| Mr.. Butler reports that the boys In
camp are doing and looking fine.
Cortes Vaughn, who has been as
| sisting w. F.. Pautsch with his work
| for several months. departed the first
OF this week for his homo In Tennes-
see. Mr.. Vaughn expects to be call
| ed into training soon.
Mr. and Mrs. c. w. Miller left Tues
day evening for sioux rails MR.
| Chas. Hanon also went to Sioux Falls
on the same train. The Miller chill
dren are visiting their cousins In st.
Lawrence during the absence Of their
parents.
Mrs. Will Ranft is reported TO be
quite i'll with rheumatism. Mrs.
James Mcclure, who has been very
iii, is improving at this writing.
Mrs Andy Conkey and Mrs. +. G.
hudson of York township autoed to
Huron last week Wednesday to meet
Mesdames w. W. Cotton and Clifford
Hudson, who were returning from
their trip to Sioux City.
Misses Pauline and Emma Otto de-.
parted Monday morning for Huron,
where they will attend Summer
School for the next five weeks. They
are making their home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Mark Clifford during their stay
In Huron.
]. C. Tanning, who as been In this
community this spring, has received
his orders to go to Camp Funston
soon. Mr. Tanning must be In Bur-
rngton, Kansas, on Monday, May n.
Obituary
Rosa Katherine Golding was born
in Nebraska August 20, 1875, and she
died at her home southwest OF Way
land on Monday. May 1s. 1918 at the
age of forty-two years. She grew TO
womanhood in Illinois, and on Noyem-
her %. 1895 was married to George
GoIding. They lived on a farm In
Kankakee County. Illinois until COM
= ing to Hand County a year 8 last
: March. To this union were born eight
children, three sons and 1--WE daugh-
! ters. all Of whom are living.
The deceased had been in failing
! health for some time, having had an
: .,-sssatiaHs FOR cancer fonr years ago
e However, her health Was such thai
2 she was not bedridden until last fall
CONTINUED to last pags,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
FORMER COUNTY BOY
NOW In ENGLAND
Enlisted With Canadian Troops and
Is Completing Training
There
Bramshott Camp,
Hants, Eng, April 20

Hants, Eng, April 20
Dear Mother:
suppose you think | have forgot
ten you, but not so, for | am thinking
of o now more than ever before in
my life, but we are so very busy we
do not get much time for writing,
We are drilling harder each day but
we must all do our share to help end
this awful war. | think Germany i,
now making her last and greatest eff
fort and when she finds she cannot
break through, she will give up, for
the way the Allies are moving down
Germany's men, in the last few weeks,
is something terrible.
| was over in Scotland on my land
ing leave and surely enjoyed the trip
The Scotch are such fine people. This
week | have been on the rife range
and passed with first class score In
shooting. We will march back to
camp tomorrow. a distance of eigh.
teen miles. | used to think that was
some hike, but don't think much OF
walking that far now. We complete
our training here next week. viii
be glad to get over to France for i
may be we will get more to eat,
have been hungry ever since we land
ed i'm England. / realize ! should no
complain but l can't help It for
never was hungry before in my life
We will all have TO make even great
err sacrifices tho before this wal Il
over.
Well Mother ! must close and g
to bed for we get up so early morn
fngs. Write often for ] do SO Ions
to hear from home.
~ Ynur loving son.A
2cAM
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
First American Army
Of 100000 Now Formed

Washington, May 21.-America's
first field army OF 200 1000 is now fully
formed in France OF seasoned troops,
Allies Strengthen Positions
London, May 21-Both British and
French army headquarters report
sa9naM MKlanaAr4rThe Allies are
continually Improving their positions
against tho expected German dTiE5.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
Rcerntlon for soldler Bows MAJ, "a

hcccptiOh 'VI oViofu ""!' 80"
Another reception for the soldier
boys who leave Saturday moIning is
TO be given Friday evening, the oath,
Plans are being made TO have the re-
ception on the Court House Lawn.
Among other things a bowery dance
will be given on a platform that is
being built.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
43 DRAFTED MEN
TO GO SATURDAY
Next County Contingent viii Go To a
Camp at Seattle

On Saturday of this week fortythre,
class one men will leave Miller fol
the northwest caost where they go in
to training to become soldiers. Fol
lowing is the list out of which 43 viii
go:
Glen M. Spain.
Elmer Walton
Stanley f. Cox
Edmund DePaum
Charles A. Kelley
James C. Cronan
Thomas l.. Collins
Elmer Enger
Perciyal A Wade
Ernest e. Walton
Hank Stogdill
Hugo Slender
VIM. Peter Post
Lee B. Lacey
Frank often
Jesse e. Arbogast
Oscar T. Fisher
Matt Heller
Joseph M. Hanks
Walter Wells
James e. Dobson
Irwin F. Milton
Chas. Il. Koran
Thomas L.. Erwin
Edward Gressers
Garrett c. Reynolds
Floyd Sheppard
Anthony +. Lukmin
Ora w Zimmerman
Peter p. Rausch
Louis II. Hallett
John II. Hinton
Edward d. Wade
James Menecek
Deli Dean
Clarence Stevens
VIM. ID. Johnson
Glen Burger
VIM. A. Kruger
Fred Chaldy
John ID. Gerdes
David J. Powell
Leo Raymond
Emil Bonk
Lloyd Phinney
George w. Little
VIM. X. Starks
Next Call June list
The next call for Class l men viii
be on June 1st Hand county's quota
for this call will be only two men.
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Request To Cut Out Wheat
Flour Products Until July LIST

Aberdeen, S. d.. May 18th, 1919
To County Chairman and Local Committeeman
AT a meeting Of the County Chairmen and members Of the various
State Committees d. the Federal Food Administrator for South Dakota,
held in Aberdeen, May 18th, 1918, ON motion OF Rev. W. H. Thran, Of
Huron, s. d. which was unanimously passed it was decided that the Peep
lie of South Dakota, should be urgedto abstain absolutely from the use Of
wheat -four products until July L1918.
l herany announce to the peopleof our State, the action aforesaid
and earnestly appeal to you. my fellow workers. to take such action.
promptly. IS in our opinion. Will hest accomplish the desired object ILL
= Faithfully ;5Hs. -NN%z
Charles NJ Herrhd,
Federal Food administrator S. u.
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All kinds of fresh fish at the foot
of Commerce street Terms strictly
cash. East Side Packing Co. Phone
534-Adv 11-6t.
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Useless Habits Of Men

I think it rotten that no restraint
is placed on any of the useless hab-
its of men while the women are told
that food will win the war" Meat
less, heatless, wheatless, porkless,
and all kinds of less days are urg-
ed upon the women of the home, and
it is all right, but let's have candy
less day, a peerless day, a smokeless
day, a poolless day, billiardless
day, moving pictureless week, and
lot more things with less on them
that could be very easily observed.
L. c. B.
You notice that the "authorities"
are not saying less" in italics to or
ganized bodies of men Or to people
who have become slaves to useless
habits. The tobacco burned in New
York would provide for the Belgians
and put the Red Cross far up in the
million class. The women and the
farmers get most of the scolding be-
cause they are not organized and
cannot therefore talk back in a
chorus. Whenever we press this
matter with the men higher up they
say privately that they do not care
Cor dare) to interfere with the pleas
ures of the people. They must be
entertained and cannot entertain
themselves. They must be amused
or they will shake up organized So
ciety. The theory seems to be that
the organized city labor must be
kept quiet while the unorganized far
mers will do little but talk. We
shall see about that.-Rural New
Yorker
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all the laws of God and man, and
will develop in perfidy, mendaclty
and malignant ferocity, and that on
a wholesale scale.
You have deposed revelation
from a place in your polity. and in
stalled natural reason and consci-
once as Sufficient to do as we'll or bet
fer VIII now show you that the
most rationalistit and philosophical
Of nations being goddess, will deNel-
oH in social vices. immortality, and
I6WlesSneSS above all other Coun-
tries. pagan or civilized.
NV Jaw has declared the sacred
ness OF The marriage tie 10 lie al the
root OF social order and national
welfare. Your doctrinaires and wise
acres have declared otherwise, and
Won have among you a large move
meul for making divorce cheap and
easy. All countries that have done
this in The past Imperial Rome, for
instance have come to ruin; and
YOU will be no exception. | have al
ready warned the belligerent powers
on this matter, by allowing wives to
lose their husbands. and husbands
their wives. on scale never expert
enced before. Will you take the
warning 10 heart, or go to ruin?
From the first l have declared
one days rest i'll seven TO be essen
tial to mans bodily. intellectual and
physical welfare. You have declared
otherwise and have been systematic
cally celebrating the Sabbath, and
turning it into day OF work and
pleasure. You will now see half the
lNl 70 r no
Sabbath, and you will see them stuff
er in consequence, and long IN vain
for one days rest in seven.
You have allowed your parks and
commons to be overrun by preachers
of Free Thought, by men who throw
ridicule on the Atonement, and who
teach that the whole principle of vi
carious suffering and sacrifice is an
immoral one. | will now show you
that it is by vicarious suffering and
sacrifice that these very preachers
are able to enjoy their country, their
homes, their work, their pleasures.
You have seen all this, and very
much more, and yet 1 see no general
spirit of confession or repentance.
On the contrary, l see signs of in
creasing blindness of heart and stiff
ness of neck Have not your judges
even since the war began laid it
down that the teaching of atheism
is no longer an offence or detriment
at law"
= An early and overwhelming
victory in this great war would have
sent US back 10 all our old sins with
redoubled greediness and Zest, and
probably that is why in mercy we
have not had it, for then repentance
would have been further off than ev-'
err Now our country. nation, en-
pire, has another and tremendous
call, and probably the last it will
have. Would that it would heed it.
Would that Britain would so down
on her knees, humble herself in dust
and ashes before Almighty God, and
VOW to submit herself to His will!
Would that every country would do
the same, and win the first and great
est victory over-herself!-A. H.
Forbes, NJ A., in Life of Faith.
A remark understood by about
100000 Americans: That's
good
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Paints, oils, lime, cement and
builders hardware United Stores.
16-6t.
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"Poor Pillycody"

Poor Pillycoddy," the charming
little comedy which pleased a full
house at the Grand Opera House re-
Gently, will be presented tonight at
Realty Hall, East New Market. THE
Burglar Alarm, the Fashion Show"
and the tableauX will be added Not
withstanding the fact that they have
seen the performance once, a num-
Der of Cambridgeans have said they
intend to go to East New Market to
see it repeated.
The proceeds will be given to the
Red Cross Chapter of East New Mar
ket.
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100000 BOYS NEEDED
FOR FARM SERVICE
All But Three States Ready to MObi-
lize Their Boy Power For Work
On Farms This Summer.

The United States Boys Working
Reserve, the boy-power mobiliZing
division of the United States En-
ployment Service, began yesterday a
national campaign to enroll at least
250, 900 boys for service on farms
this summer. Boys between the ages
of l 6 and II are eligible to member
ship in the Reserve.
The drive viii be conducted SINH
laTly to that of the United States
Public Service Reserve for 100000
shipbuilders. Boys Working Re-
serve machinery has been organized
and a State director appointed in all
States and the District of Columbia,
with the exception of South Carroll
ma, Louisiana and Washington. Each
State has been given quota, and in
dicationS are that in many States
these quotas will be exceeded. The
Reserve already is strongly organic
ed in the West Illinois, Kansas,
Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, and
other States already have enrolled
large numbers OF boys. Indiana now
has more than 5000 members in its
Reserve. The national membership
OF the Reserve is more than $4,000,
and many of these boys performed
yeoman service On farms last year.
In all the States with Reserve or
CARNATIONS directors have been ap-
pointed for each county. The State
and county directors will be assis-
A., the y. NJ c. A, Y. NJ. L., Knights
Boy Scouts, Rotary Clubs, and all
nt he nj in 70
aid. The public and private schools
are to be used as modelling centers,
with the teaching staff as enrolling
agents. Woman's clubs are bringing
to the attention Of mothers the pur-
pose of the Reserve and asking their
influence in the enrolment of their
sons. Churches are being asked to
help enroll the boys of their congre-
cations and clergymen will urge en-
rOllment from their pulpits
In addition to enrolling boys for
food production, many of the States
are prepared or preparing to train
Reserve members for farm work.
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
have made generous appropriations
for the establishment of farm train
ing and supply camps. Indiana has
III " IGti II at - VI ldI Ill 1uuu that
viii be used for training grounds. IL
linOis, Wisconsin, and other States
have complete programs of agricul-
tural instruction. Iowa is now tea
ching boys the care and handling of
horses and machinery. New Jersey
and Illinois insist that only carefully
selected boys Will be sent to their
farms, and they will not admit to
the Reserve boys below a reasonably
high scholarship standard.
The national headquarters of the
Reserve are expressing satisfaction
over the increasing interest manifes-
ted in the movement throughout the
country. Demands upon it to furn-
ish speakers for war conferences,
teachers associations, and boys con-
ferences have taken members of
the directing staff as far west as
Indianapolis and Chicago and east to
Boston.
John Redwood, Stock Exchange
Building, Baltimore, is State Direc-
tor for Maryland.
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