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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

l4s ~ - SAPh121I AUAk0 d$98
State OF South LakotsssT G5ufTty-Df Cod.
ilgtona IS. In County Court.
IN the matter Of the Estate of Amelia
Nelson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under.
signed Executor. OF the Estate oil
Amelia Nelson, deceased, Ia creditors
ct, and all persons having claims
against tbs said deceased, to exhibit
them. with the necessary vouchers,
within four Ga months after the first
publication Of this notice. I'd the said
Executor, at the office of sherin ana
ssherin, Waterfowl. iii the county of
sCodirigton, South Dakota.
Dated atgANatertown, s. Dssthis 31st
tas Of August, 1915.
EARNEST BREITzMAN
EXeeutors of tho Estate 81 Amelia
Nelson deceased.
SdEFIS AND SHERIN
Attorneys for Executor.
ltlrst pub. Sept. &, lest PUB, Get. 8
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
For LisTaTEfss Or AMINIS.
TEATION.
Counts Court. Goaingtpn County.
South Dakota. sA
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
E DIT @ L
4 REFRESHING INSTANCE

We wish to endorse this extract from the Sioux Falls
Press of yesterday:
.sOnce in a while something refreshing comes in the
night news to restore our faith in the leadership Of certain
labor unions that have been appearing in a bad light. The
United Mine Workers of a Pennsylvania district is d case in
point. At a convention the other day these miners unanl-
mously went on record as opposed to strikes at this time or
threats of Strikes
1t is indeed refreshing to know that the miners have acted
SO sensibly and Loyalty, but even those who strike are to be
condemned no more than the profteers who take advantage
Of a situation in a crisis to "hod up the public for twice or
thrice the prices that are needfuI for the furnishing Of rea-
senable profit Oh the cost Of production.
just as soon as the war was declared, certain Of the big
manufacturers Of the country began to advance prices and to
exact higher and higher tolls until the average laboring man
was hard pressed for the wherewitlal to make both ends meet.
When America entered the conflict, it was found that not
only We're the prohteers reaping millions from their foreign
contracts but they were actually holding up their own people
in America for unwarrantable profits. They have desisted,
if at all, only because a firm president has given notice that
their properties would be taken over if they persisted IN
profteering. Those beyond the reach of existing statutes
and regulations are still exacting unreasonable returns upon
thecost OF doing business or the cost Of production, as The
case may be.
When the labor unions and laboring men IN general threaten
g strike they are but employing the weapons at their command
for enforcing their d~emands.If they We're in the position Of
the monopollsts, or OF the industrial enterprises whose con-
troll along certain lines amounts to a monopoly, they would
do as the monopolists have done: increase the cost of labor
as the profteers have increased the cost Of their respective
outputs to the consumers.
Hence, while it is refreshing to learn Of the action Of the
Pennsylvania miners, justice demands the admission chat
even. g threatened strike for increasing wages is not one whit
worse than the course Of the ~profteers since America became
involved IN the world conflict.
Let us be at least as reasonable IN our treatment Of labor
andsof labor unions as we are and have been of the profteers.
The laboring man who strikes isn't to be more severely con
demned, IN principle, than the profteer who extracts tribute
because he has the power to do so.
Onr tendency has been to censure and condemn the man
who demands something just beyond his reach and who is
poWerless to enforce his demands, while we have been view
lng the monopollst with some degree of generation because he
demands the same thing IN principle and is able to enforce his
demands.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
NAPOLEON POINTS WAY
FOR B0CHE-CHASERS


With The American Army in France,
Aug. 20. l3y Mail)-m u tiny village
hat is hardly d village any more,
aince Shells almost removed it from
he earth, one building has d tower
landing untouched. a platform tops
his tower, and a miniature figure of
Napoleon stands there facing and
}ointing toward the positions held by
he Germans.
Thousands of shells have whizzed
md exploded by this tower, but none
las touched the tower or the figure
# Napoleon pointing ~northward
thousands Of Americans, thousands Of
rucks, quar.ttjos of guns and ammuni-
ion n supplies have rolled over the
Rain street by this figure pointing
he way to the Boche during the past
lew weeks.
Everyone has marvelled that the
over with the miniature Napoleon
vithstood all bombardment, and many
u American passing the statue among
he ruins has remarked how appropri-
te is this defiant figgre pointing he
way,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR LETTERS OF ADMINS
TRATION

IN COUNTY COURT. CQDINGTON
COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA.
In the matter of the Estate Of Robert
McElhany, Deceased.
The State of South Dakota Sends
Greetings to: lilly Summer, Mary p.
Kellogg, William McElhany, Robert Nc
Elhany, Harry McElhany, Eugene Nc
Elhany, Clarence McElhany and Her
bert McElhany, heirs at law and mex
of kin of Robert M%cFlhany, deceased,
and to all whom these presents may
come.
Notice is hereby given that Clarence
McElhany has filed with the Judge OF
this Court, a petition praying for Let
tiers of Administration of the estate OF
Robert McElhany, deceased, and that
on the 2Sth day of September, A. D.,
1918, at ten o'clock a. m. of said day,
being a day of a regular term of this
Court, at the Office Of the County Judge
in the said County of Codington, has
been set for hearing said petition, when
and where any person interested may
appear and show cause why the said
petition should not be granted.
Dated at Watertown, ScIth Dakota,
this goth day of August, A. D., 1918.
John Nicholson,
Attest: Judge.
Ralph Horswill, Clerk.
BY Brownie Mather, Deputy.
Clay Carpenter, Attorney for Petitioner,
Watertown, South Dakota.
First pub. Sept. IL; last Sept. 26.)
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
BRITAIN &OLICITOUS OVER
COTTON SFiNNERS' STRIKE

London, Sept. 18.-Greatly concerned.
1ver the cotton strike, Premier Lloyd
George tonight from his sick bed is
ued an appeal to the strikers to re.
urn to work and leave the decision in
he matters under dispute to the gov
rnmen after an inquiry by a special
tribunal to be Immediately appointed.
the premier bases his appeal on. the
ACT that the strike Will seriously in.
terrier with the production Of WA
material.
The spinners in the Yorkshire and
4ancanshire cotton mills quit work
Saturday on The question of the aboli,
ion Of the rota system. The Anal.
canoated Association of Cotton Spin
lers has a membership of 10000, but
Indirectly the strike will affect 100000
operatives,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
BY FRANK j. TAYLOR

Omitted Press Staff Correspondents
With The Americans Near Chateau.
Thierrg, Aus. IL. tBy Mail1-rhat ann.
bulance unit from Pittsburgh has d
mess sersseaat who is Il genius, Nobody
Knows how he was able TO feed 20
many people with the supplies he re.
ceived. but he did 1t, and questions
are not asked after a Ihing is done.
The ambulance INIT was host to
everyone who came along hungry Tor
q Goufaie of weeks after the Americans
Ientered Ctateaus1'hierry, When tie uai5
moved la it, took a horse near the
cross roads for aeadqu$rtefs. The sef-
geafs established his kitchen 81 The
garden AT The side,
The Gerfnarss did alpt leave amy food
ia chateau aiefr and units tfat
eairae into The town brought food for
their personnel only AS the fighting
moped up the line, there came d eon.
tifual stream Of casnals going through
the Eninad city on the Way to theii.
es,tfssta flssltt iissssssl Ip fTo4Hftts s5Ss ~ ~
tTsbet.e were not msassy nastauraiais
anaWiiefs, 81 filege .aStras got file
halis 81 wandering into any kItciian
far Bite The ambulance unit, being
nearest the cross roads, cot ) 81
|theill a'aa .iasa was laast ste everyone
nilu came aipsa
Nope. vi DON'T gel extra faiiosaH
Tor thean, : said the ness ol
the Unit from Eitrshtrgi n Hoes
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
PI'I'lSBURG Unit FEEDS
TEE uULlIIUDES AT TEE FRONT

was satisfied, thanks To the way the
mess sergeant and his cooks figured il
out
ihea The refugees who had been
dripsn out Of Chateau-a,hierrx BY the
Germans started back home, Every.
thing they had owned was looted BY
the Germans and their houses were
baftered down by artillery. When ii
came near mealtimes they were hun
g1y, and looked on the kitchen Of tae
Pittsburgh unit hungrily.
The mess sergeant saw them ana III,
Vlted them in for u chunk &c bread
ard q plate OF stew phe refugees
ate if like starving people. 1t was a
pretty sight tp see them scattered over
the lasai, old ard young French res
fugees, dougilboys. officers, army
workers Of al kinds. snlacking their
bps together eyer the Pittsburgh units
stew.
Someone asked the mess ~selgeaia
how be made food go tar enough for
q to = hundred extra every meal.
g ut making Tie most of Waassa hat III
haze he said, IF feeding people ID
aoifg 10 lielplick Germans. we're going
10 feed people.
The example OF the F~attsbnrgli Unit
pisRa one 81 Che many pretty iHustras
fl9ns sof good Fellowship made greater
flae common nurnose aud sacrifice
pf tsao great offensire.As one dougibpys.
PIT e You forget all abosit Yourself
when You get lost Iii one Of these
ofse,lsives.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
KORAN STOLEN FROM
RUSSIAN CAPITAL LIBRARY

beautiful legend surrounds this volume
line blood spots on its covers are said
70 be those of Nahomet himself. I don't
know the motive that may have i'm
PEELED those who stole it. | do not be
lieve the story that Turks have stolen
lt, as the soviet government already has
promised 70 return it to any properly
DESIGNATED body representing the Ma
honledan church,
Photographic copies of the volume
are to be found at the library,
The volume came originally from Tur-
key, where ii was presented to a mum
Der Of linssial scholars as a gift 10 the
Petrosrad public library.
a few days before the theft, a nun
ber of American collectors offered
S1.0o0,0oo for it.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
~ CO sa3,s;;ES5if MAJ CAMPAIGN
EXPENSES TO BE PROBED

Washington, Sept. 1S.-Primary
tampaign expenditures of candidates
or Congress in New York, Illinois.
ohio, Michigan, West Virginia and
several other states are under inves-
legation by the Department of Justice
o ascertain whether violations Of the
'ederal statutes limiting election eX
oendirrres. Both republican and demo
ratio candidates are understood to be
lmong those to be investigated,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
isy Joseph shaplen

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Sept. 10, one Of the vie.
inns of the Russian revolution is the
most famous copy of the Koran in the
world. 1T was stolen from the pubic
library in Fetrograd and it's where.
l5outs is now an absolute mystery.
Speaking Of this volume Of the Koran,
ne celebrated Russian scholar, Prof, S,
e, oldenburg, said;
The stolen Koran is apqasstionsbly
one OF The most famous volumes OF its
sind. BY M~ussolnaans throughout the
world it was regarded as very holy. /
personally have seen hundreds Of wor-
sfippe1s Of Allah walk into the public
library and bow before the book. A
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
STERLING IND THE STRIKERS

senator demonstrating Of South Dakota, according to a
81 warrington dispatch, printed elsewhere today, charaeterizes
the labor1ug man who strikes for more than fair wages as II
pronteer. III think many Of them might be summarily dealt
Win under thealaWs now IN force the senator is quoted as
saying with reference to the striking laborer.
We quite agree with Senator Sterling. The laboring man
who strikes for higher wages when lie is getting i fair wage
now Is ia q class with the ~profteers.
But Senator Sterling's vote OH tile revenue #lMl ,assaaI
SbyBcongress soon after America became involved ia tile Var
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
METHODIST BISHOP WILL
DIRECT CEgAPLAINs' WORK

Boston, Mass, Sept, iS.-Rev. Dr..
Edwin Hughes, resident bishop Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, will sail
or France within a few days. He
viii establish headquarters in Paris
and will have direct charge of the
Methodist chaplains at the front.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19

ATTEST:
RALPH HORSWILL
Clerk
BY BROWNIE MATHER
Deputy.
CLAY CARPENTER
Attorney for Petitioner,
Waterfowl, S. D.
Q0irst publication Sept. 5; last Sept. 10
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
NOTICE FOR PARDON.

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, a. j. Rager, will apply to the
Board of Pardons of the State Of South
Dakota, for a pardon. The crime for
which he has been convicted was rob
berry. He plead guilty and was con.
yicted Of said crime on the 18th day of
February, 1917, and was on the same
day sentenced by the Court to five (5)
years imprisonment at hard abor at the
State Penitentiary at Sioux Falls. No
tiee is therefore given that the under.
signed VIII make an application TO the
Board Of Pardons ut Pierre for a par
don, and for a discharge from the Peni-
Tertiary under said sentence, and that
said application win be presented to said
Board of Pardons at their first meeting
after the completion Of the publication
of this notice.
Dated this 18th day Of September,
1913.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
I, = !: . = = y y = - y :
THIS DAY M THE WAR

= - Z = y y g - y 4 = 81
Sept, 10, 1911: Argentine votes to
ever relations with Germany,
Sept. 19, 1916; Serbs again fight on
heir own soil, taking Krusheyfad.
Sept, 10, 1915: Austro-G Germans cap
utre Wilma:
Sept. 10, 1914: Deadlock on west
front as It'll week of war closes.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19
In tie Matter of the Estate Of Sarah

In the Matter Of the Estate of Sarah
Jane McElhany, Deceased.
The State of South Dakota Sends
Greetings to: lilly Sumner, Mary e.
kellogg, William McI1lhany, Robert Nc
Elhany, Harry McElhany, Eugene G.
McElhany, Clarence McElhany and
Herbert McElhany, heirs at law and
next of kin of Sarah lane McElhany,
deceased, and to all whom these pres
ents may come.
Notice is hereby given that Clarence
McElhany has filed with the Judge of
this Court, a petition praying for
Letters of Administration of the Els
tate OF Sarah Jane McIIlhany, deceas-
ed. and that on the 2Sth day OF Sep
tember, A. d. 1918, at ten o'clock A. NJ.
Of said day, being a day of a regular
term of this Court, at the office of the
County Judge in the said County of
Codir k|ton, has been set for hearing
said petition, when and where any
person interested may appear and show
cause why the said petition should not
be granted.
Dated at Watertown, South Dakota,
this goth day of August, A. D. 1918.
JOHN NICHOLSON
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-25
CROP PROSPECTS
GOOD ON SLOPE
Rye And Barley Harvest
In Progress In The
Southern Counties

Mandan, N. D., July 25.-There are
prospects for a better crop In the
Missouri slope district this year than
a year ago at this time. and indica-
tons are that the slopes total pro-
duction Of grains will be greater this
year than in 1917, according to in
formation received from every coun-
ty in this district.
The greater acreage Of grain Will
bring the production up to the 1917
figure, and there are indications that
the average yield this year will not
be less than it was year ago.
Rye harvest is general throughout
the district, and barley harvest has
commenced in some places. Within
a week, the wheat harvest will be
we'll under way in the southern tier
Of counties-Bowman, Sioux, Grant,
Adams and Hettinger, while two
weeks will see wheat harvesting I'M
der way clear to the Manitoba boun-
dairy line.
There are indications that consid-
cradle damage has been done to the
grain in some southwestern counties
by the grasshoppers. They have been
more numerous this year than for
several seasons past, but the in
tensive campaign made on them by
better farming agents has had the
effec tot materially reducing the
losses.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-25
"Peter-out" Patriots
Rv Ellis Parker Butler Of The VigiIantes.

The verb ito peter-out" is a queer one. The
dictionary says it's origin Is uncertain out hGHo
an idea it comes from the Peter whose loyalty
tn Christ faltered when the cock crew thrlceS
He was faithful when the cock crew once anu
when the cock crew twice, out ms morals ta6
ened as the long night dragged lie PeteLeu-
out" He came back" however. He was the rock
on which the church was founded at last.
The American who Weakens and Chen
+ro,,g+bens ia not as bad as the Judas who sells
his country He can come back.
The patriot who weakens and then comes
who do not weaken. If we all weakened "
would be all over with US, and with PATRIOTISM
and with America" Freedom would De oeao'
autocracy would rule
Don't YOU be the one to weaken! Don't you be
the peter out" patriot. Perhaps you canvaSseo
in the last Red Gross or LIBERTY loan 4 a bafers
that, but now you are so tired! 4ouu let some
other fellow do it.
record so far keep it up Let on that you've
enlisted for the war; if you peter out" you are a
deserter. ,z
here and there you hear people saying Of this
one and that one, "Ohl he's peter,out patriot.
fresh and interesting but look at him now! He's
quit"
The peter-out patriot is noticed because there
are so few of him. He sticks up like a sore
thumb. He is the woman who was going to let
her automobile be used whenever needed Tor
loyal work and who just can't spare 1t now: he
is the man who eager to write for the
Vigilantes until the novelty wore off. He Is the
child who gave up gum and candy to buy Thrift
stamps, until she forgot. He is the man who ate
nationally until he lost the novelty Of it and then
began stuffing his over-extended belly again. He
is the woman who planted her garden but stop
ped cutivating it when the sun grew hot. He is
the man who shouts when the band goes BY and
never does another blessed thing to help win the
war.
The peter-out patriot is the curse Of any coun-
try He rushes in at all beginnings He is the
man who makes this loyal organization show a
huge membership that gradually peters out. He
is the man who boosts his towns subscription to
the Liberty loan and then fails to pay his in
stallnents He is the with the mental and
moral hool1-worm His bump Of grit is hol-
low His real love for his country is a pigs love
for Thoughtful. Even a pig will rush to the gate
and grunt joyfully when its master appears, but
it has short memory
dog. Take hold and hang on, Grab q little more
work between growls There will be two
phrases of honor some day. One will be He
gave his life for his country" The other will be
"TIe did his level best for his country all
through the war" There will be two great
phrases of disgrace. One will be "EIe was shot as
a deserter." The other will be HE petered-
OUT!
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-25
SUCCESS OUT OF FAILURE.

Indications are that the one war financ-
ing enterprise which threatened to be a
failure will be turned into a glorious sue
cess.
1t is no secret that six weeks ago the
heads of the War Savings stamp campaign
were worried. The monthly sales were far
below the average needed to dispose of the
$4,000, 100000 issue within the II months
allowed for it.
But the last six weeks have told far
different story. Total pledges to the cam
paign now exceed the $1,60O,0OO,00O mark,
and unless the workers relax their efforts
there is every reason to expect the total
will be reached and passed.
But the tremendous task of turning the
pledges into cash remains. The cash sales
to date are less than $500OO0O0O. -~.
The figures, therefore, should be merely
q stimulus to greater efforts, rather than a
signal TO relax.
The most encouraging feature of the
campaign is that 81 100000 savers are list
"a. That is nearly one-third of the entire
population Of the country Raising the
money il but small part Of the results Of
tae campaign. II has taught great les
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-25
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not Square
With The Views of The Forum
From The Outlook, New York.

From The Outlook, New York.
DR.. Kuehlrnann understands correctly Why
peace negotiations have failed and until victory
crowns the Allies cause, must fail. There can be
negotiations without mutual confidence. And
Germany has made such mutual confidence i'm
possible.
How can England believe in the chivalry OF the
nation that murdered Edith Cavell?
How can Belgium believe in the chivalry Of
the men who shot civilian men, women and chill
dren they marched toward the Mouse?
How can France believe in the Chvalry Of the
men who ground the very bricks of French homes
to powder, and cut down the very fruit trees,
that Franco might in the future find it agony
to recuperate?
How can Italy believe in the chivalry Of the
bombers Of Venice?
How America believe in the chivalry Of the
who nassacred the defenseless passengers
the Lusitania?
How can mankind believe in the chIvalry Of the
Hun?
And Kuehlmann says that an exchange Of
ideas is impossible long as every peace over
ture Is regarded a peace offensive Does he
wonder? He need not. He cannot have forgot
ten Brest- Litovsk. He cannot believe that we
have forgotten. The Russians believed that a
German peace overture was real offer Of peace
and they suffering the consequences Of
their faith in the faithless their confidence in
the perfidious.
No. So long as Americans retain their MEM
Dry and their sense they will enter into nego-
tiations with men who have shown that they
count chivalry weakness and fidelity a vice.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-25
WAR AND PROFANITY.

What is there about war that makes pro-
family seem necessary concomitant?
The dispatches Of the correspondents
which attempt to tell the human interest
side Of the fighting, are sprinkled with
profanity. The war correspondent does
not seem to consider it possible to give a
touch Of ''atmosphere" to his story with
out liberal admixture Of Hells and
Damns. They deem it necessary, in giving
a pen picture of regular herman soldier,
to make his language bear a close resem-
blance to that of wharf rat.
Profanity is not a sign Of mental vigor.
It is a sign Of poverty of vocabulary. The
profane man takes the ready-made express
sion to give vent to his thoughts and feel
ings. On rare occasions a moderate oath
may add touch of the picturesque, but
surely President Wilson's state papers do
not lack vigor or forcefulness because they
fail to consign the Kaiser to hot hereafter
every second paragraph.
Even if our doughboys and petty offic-
ers, and generals talk like barroom loafers,
when, in the heat Of action-which we GER
tainly do not believe is the case-we beg
the correspondents for the good Of the
service to censor the profanity, and endow
our men with a sufficient command Of the
English language that makes it unneces-
sary to resort to ready-made oaths to con-
vey the simplest emotions.
Remember these soldiers and officers are
the heroes Of the youth Of America as well
as Of the adults.