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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11


The German ships which we seized
in American docks were 100 in number,
and their quick repair stands as a
miracle fAmerican engineering. Every
one of the ships had been ingeniously
and badly damaged, so badly, in fact,
that the United States Shipping Board
experts thought it would take at least
eighteen months to make the difficult
repairs required. Yet all the ships
were ready and in service within eight
months after war was declared. Six
teen of the biggest are troop ships, with
a total capacity of almost 60 thousand
officers and men. Allowing three
voyages every two months-a reason
able assumption-these ships alone can
take 1,O8O,OOO soldiers cover there" in q
year.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11

Mrs. Jean Diffenderier aged about
60 years, is dead at Boyce, Clarke coun-
ty, Va, as a result OF drowning in a
cistern. Searchers found her body
with a sack around her neck and a
stone weighing about 40 pounds at
tached.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11
Norfolk &Western Ry

Schedule in Effect Jan. n, 1918
LEAVE SHEPHERDSTOWN DAILY.
SOUTHBOUND.
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termediate stations Pullman Broiler
Parlor Car to Bristol; connects
with the ST. Louis Express for all
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oke to Columbus and Cincinnati.
cafe car.
No. 27-5.33 p. M.-for Shenandoah,
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doah Junction or 10 take on for Basic
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hanson, w. Va, and Winston Salem,
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phia ard New York.
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Bitter taste? Complexion sallow? Liver
perhaps needs waking up. Doan's
Regulets for bilious attacks. 30c at all
stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11

Three youthful desperadoes of Luz
ray, William Sampsell, Raymond
Viands and Elton Thomas, all under
twelve years of age, were arrested last
week for trying to wreck passenger
train on the N. & w. Railway. The
boys had successfully burglarized a
store at Stanley, and then concocted a
scheme to wreck train No. IA and rob
the passengers. They had piled up OBJ
structions on the track, but a section
crew discovered them in time to avert
trouble. The little rascals were sent
to the Virginia House of Correction un-
til they are 81 years old.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11
Paint and Oil Department.

Ciiit eAiiA NAA - f~>~' 80.
Raw and Boiled L ms eed Oil, Harness
Oil, Machine Oil, Black Strap, Tur-
pentine, N. c. and Gas Tar, Gasoline,
Varnish, Japan Dryer, Knot Killer,
White Lead, Red Lead, Spanish
Brown, Calcined Plaster, Portland
Cement, Lard Oil, Plastering Hair,
Coal Oil, Neat Foot Oil, Fish Oil,
Bath Brick Soap, Sulphur, CopperaS,
Borax.
Patent Plasteridg prepared for immediate
use.
international Stock Food and Gleason's
Horse and Cattle Powders.
Frank Miller's Harness Dressing, Whale
Black XII La mss Foot Harness Oil.
The Perfection Blue Flame Wickless Oil
Stove-safest and best.
The Four Leaf Clover Cream Separator,
where the milk is not mixed or d.
luted with water, leaving it pure and
sweet for family use.
Wall Paper furnished on short notice al
reduced prices.
Reduced Prices on Haying Tools and
Barn Doors Hangers and Track.
Force Pumps, Deep Well Pumps, Gal
vanized Bucket Pump and Water
Purifier, x L Chain Pumps.
A Large Stock OF Cooking and Heating
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-11
Hardware Department.

Hardware Department.
Bar Iron, Nails, Horse Shoes, Large
Iron Wash Kettles, Brass, Copper
and Porcelain Kettles, Skilets, Waffle
Irons, Trace, Butt, Cow and Halter
Chains, Farm Bells, Screen Doors
and Windows, American Fence Wire.
Barbed Wire, Saws, Black Hawk
Corn Shelters, Lawn Mowers, Files,
All Sizes Bolts, Loaded Shells, Pow
der and Shot.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09

various combinations and trusts. in
cludes large percentage of every.
thing that the farmer must buy.
What the farmers demand is a rea-
soaable measure of stability. They
can't to eliminate the unnecessary
Spectator. They want to Danish the
rlofiteer. They want the grain gambl-
ing pits closed They kncs there is
no justification whatever for the
"sale" of three thousand bus'lels of
wheat in the United States 70 every
hLshel of wneat grown in America
They know, and we know, and the
public in general know. that every
dollar of profit reaped in spe ;ulation
in farm products is eventually paid
by the consumer; that every dollar
exacted, over and above legitimate
profits. in the handling of farm prod
ucts. is a charge against the consuln-
er and one which the producer helps
to pay in the long run; hence, the
farmer gets less for what ne sells
than otherwise would be the case and
the consumer is compelled to pay
more than should be demanded of
him.
1t matters not whether the consum.
er is a wage-earner or capitalist,
hodcarrier or a farmer, the idle
rich or the laborious poor, he pays
more for the necessaries of life than
he would be called upon to pay if our
system of distribution were based UP
on justice and equity. At the same
time the producer gets less for what
he has to SELL
The organized farmers of the north
west are not seeking to revolutionize
the government; rather, they are de.
manding the elimination of unneces-
sary waste in the distribution of our
farm products. They are asking that
the system be placed in charge OF
those who are friendly to the move
ment, not those who, by all their pre-
vious records and their associations
and their political environments, have
shown themselves to be unfriendly to
a reasonable modification of system
of distribution that is admitted by
political economists everywhere to be
wasteful and inadequate.
That's what's the matter with the
producer @
And that's what's the matter with
the consumer-if he but. knew it.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
BAKERS WORDS OF CHEER.

Secretary of War Baker, recently
returned from Europe, brings to Am
erica words of cheer.
Not that Secretary Baker has said
that we have won the war; for he has
not. But he gives the assurance that
while the central allies are still pow
erful and capable of vast military OPP
erations, the forces now arrayed
against Prussian militarsm are cap
able of holding the autocratic powers
in check until America shall be able
to bring into action its immense re-
serve strength.
Secretary Baker comes home i'm
pressed with the necessity for speed.
He is engaged in systematizing his
department for accelerated action.
The great need of the hour is for
men and munitions and foodstuffs.
America has the men; it can make the
munitions; it can produce the food
stuffs.
Notwithstanding more or less ad-
verse criticism of his department by
men in high places, much of which
may be due to partisan bias, Secretary
Baker is a staunch American. He
has visited the seat of the great con-
flict. He knows what is necessary for
America to do, and he knows that
America has both the ability and the
willingness to do it. He has himself
become thoroughly aroused to the
urgent need of persevering, aggressive
American cooperation to the end that
democracy may triumph over autoc-
racy in the worlds most appalling
conflict
We have great task before us, as
Secretary Baker has warned us. But
Americans will rise to the emergency.
They will support Secretary Baker
and the administration in all things
necessary to be done to achieve vic
tory.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF SCHOOLS.

The undersigned respectfully an
nounces her candidacy for the office
OF County Superintendent of Schools
for Codington County, South Dakota.
subject to the will and approval Of
the republican voters of said county
at the May primaries, and solicits the
KIND support of each and every re-
publican voter of said county. If ,nomi-
mated and elected, / will constantly
endeavor to prove myself worthy, and
Will devote my entire time to the dis.
charge of the duties of the office.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Adah e. Minard
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
of Range Fifty-two
Principal Meridian,
.52), West, of the
containing 160
according to the

OIL 5fIdnSe f1ICy-IWO 3(0Z) west, OF the
Principal Meridian, containing & 100
acres, more or less, according to the
government survey.
Whereas, default consists In the
failure of the said mortgagors to pay
the annual interest of $568.OO due
March /, 1918, and in their failure to
pay the taxes on said land when due,
which said taxes with penalty thereon
have been paid by said mortgage in
the sum of $64.62, by reason whereof
SAID mortgage, pursuant to authority
contained in the said mortgage has
elected to declare and does hereby
declare the said mortgage to be due
and payable
The amount claimed to be due on
said mortgage at the date of this no
tice, for principal, interest and taxes.
is the sum of $9,341.12 and a statutory
attorneys fee of $500.
Notice is hereby gicen that the said
mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale:
of said mortgaged premises by the.
Sheriff Of said Codington County, or
his successor in office, at public aue-
ton at the front door of the Court
House in the City of WATERFOWL, in
said Codington County, South Da-
kota, on the first day of June, 1915,
at 10 O'clock A. NJ, of that day {;
E Dated April 22nd, A. d. 1918.
Otto A Rau.
}S Mortgage
Clay Carpenter,
a Watertown, S. D..
Attorney for Mort gagee. IL
(First pub. April 25, last pub May 3O)
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
vote and support will be appreciated
VIM. M. Olson.
ANNOUNCEMENT.

desire herewith to announce my
self as a candidate for the republican
nomination for the office of States
Attorney of Codington county, S. D.,
subject to the will of the republican
primary to be. held on May 18th, next,
Your support and vote will be appre-
ciated. assure the people of Codins-
ton county that if nominated and
elected, shall give the interests of
the county and state prompt and faith
full attention. Thanking all for their
support and vote, l remain,
Respectfully.
John N. Weber
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
E D IT O R / AL
THE AIRCRAFT SCANDAL.

Frankly, we do not know the true
situation. Nor does the country know
the facts. Even the senate commit
tee, composed of eleven members (six
democrats and five republicans), is
hopelessly divided.
The majority of the committee, con-
sisting of five republicans and three
democrats, reported conditions to be
very bad. Incorporated in the report
is the following paragraph:
"The production of Liberty motors
to date is gravely disappointing y
The production of combat planes for
the United States for use in actual
warfare has thus far been substan-
tial failure
On the contrary, the minority of the
committee, composed Of three demo-
Gratis, made most favorable report,
which included this paragraph:
ION the whole, the record of the
signal corps (which has charge of the
aircraft work. is one of which every
American can be justly proud. In the
1 face of unparalleled difficulties it is
accomplishing an unparalleled task
with characteristic American energy,
capacity, patriotism and enthusiasm. ;"
In this connection we reproduce a
paragraph from the New York World,
a supporter Of the democratic party,
which says:
Neither gives the country the in
formation to which 1t is entitled
The majority report is a blanket in
dictment; the minority report
Is a sweeping defense. After
reading the majority and the minor
i ity reports of the senate committee,
most people must find themselves in
greater state Of bewilderment than
ever.
Those Of us who are a thousand
miles from the scene Of verbal conflict
cannot be expected to form a. un-
biased opinion. No doubt the repub-
lican members Of the committee are
influenced to some extent by their po-i
litical leanings. In such a campaign
year as The present they would like
I to be able to point to administrative
4 Inconsistencies, so that we cannot ac-
cept republican criticism without a
few grains of salt
And yet the find the democratic mem
the Il t 4
equally a divided; nevertheless, we must
take into account the fact that the
democratic members Of the committee
who Joined the republicans IN ian adj
verse report are yated as anti-admins
istTation demo crats, and that those
who united iii tie sweeping defence
are partisan champions Of the admin
\ istration
This brings as back 10 the starting;
: point w . are no III carer The solution
than when M began the discussion
Nor ii Il my one else who lacks the!
opportunity nor y personal inYestiga-
stipn any nearer. than are NE.
When erica eclared itself 70 be
in this az. we u ere told nv men IN
high authority that We must prepare
for hires ears strag gis are
wonds ring whet her Il isn't possible
that tlle aircraft depart nent has been
Et'parat ing upon tlle bas is 81, tl CROUCH
ration before beg Inning the work
III supp lying machines
ss8 This seems ta be the conc lnsion of:
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE
FARMER?
What's the matter with the farmer
Isn't he getting enough now for what
he sells? Why does he want more?
/ Nobody knows any better than does
the farmer himself that the man who
Us working for weekly wages in the
average vocation has about all to con
tend with that he can Withstand. A
little sickness above the ordinary, an
enforced hospital operation, loss by
fire, puts the average wage-earnero on
the financial rock
Considered from the standpoint OF
the prices of the articles which he has
to sell, the tanner is well aware that
he is getting enough now
But the farmer is looking ahead.
He knows that no country rich in re-
sources as it may be, can continue
to pay tribute Indefinitely to price
manipulators and exchange gamblers
who neither SOW nor reap. who toll
not nor spin, who are but leeches
whom the producer and the consumer
Jointly support in idleness.
Out of every dollar that the CON
sumner pays for products of the farm
the producer gets less than forty
cents, on the average. This would be
ample. and more than ample, provid-
ing the farmer were not compelled to
pay exhorbitant prices for what he
has to buy. 8
e Some where, between the producer
and the city consumer sixty cents out
of every dollar that the consumer
pays disappe Al part of it is alb
sorbed in the cost of handling, it is
true The Iaborer is worthy of his
hire. The railroads are entitled to a
fair compensation for Transporting the
goods TO the market centers. The
Legitimate handler should be accorded
reasonable remuneration for his
services. The retail merchant should
get an equitab1e measure Of profit for
buying, keeping storing, selling and
delivering the goods to the consumer.
But q considerable portion of this six
ty cents virtually goes into rat hole,
so far as the value of the service rem
dered Is concerned
AXE barley, for instance. The bulk
Eof the barley grown last year was sold
By the farmers Tor about dollar &
|bushel-a LITTLE more OF little less:
We are speaking 81 barley US d crop.
not of the eoinparati lively small guam
tity held III the farmers bins. No
sooner was the barley mostly III the
hands ~ the spees1l ators than the lie
price began 10 advance continuing
until barley comma nded above two
dollars i bnahel Oh the open markets.
VINO gpt tlle benelIt Certainty no e
tl.e Farmer d "a ne average. sold
for llogt 3 dollar
ver since the gges K rain xchanscs
bliehed sfisss II pIicess II wheat
islj ~ A y Il u tes IL suitg NV
eonys nIenSs I'M 81 I,scify .of the sr ls
\ b 4 n lsple esse B | Is,
II l lssn loxi!sal
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
THE WILD ASS OF MINNESOTA.

| That Biblical classic, Job dealing
with a period ante-dating the birth OF
Christ by five hundred years, so apt
| ly and comprehensiyely describes a
character that flourishes in A. D.. 1918
! that we are constrained to reproduce
a couple of phrases for the delectation
of men of the present day.
Combining trace of satire with a
certain degree of natural curiosity,
the author of Job, in the fifth verse
of the thirtyninth chapter, inquiries
"Who hath sent out the wild ass
free2 ar who hath oosed the
bands of the wild ASST"
Two hundred and fifty years prior
to the time when Job propounded
these queries, Hosea, obviously hav-
ing in mind the same character, ex-
claimed
For they are gone UP to Assy-
ria Washington, a wild ass
alone by himself,
If it were not self-eyident. we would
be inclined to suggest that the famous
authors of twenty-five centuries ago,
looking down through the generations
yet unborn, had glimpsed member
of Minnesota's so-called Public Safety
commission. who journeyed to the
national capitol a few days since to
SANDER his betters and to hurl broad
cast sweeping charge against the
farmers of his state
This ex-jurist. frequently referred
to as Judge MCGEE, after publicly
lodging his charge, so that it would.
Sbe sliced upon By some Of the great
Associated Press papers of the north
west and thus find resting places
here and there among loyal Amer
leans, quietly withdrew his slanderous
Indictment.
Hence. when the president Of the
Nonpartisan League arrived ait Wash
1ngton last week to testify before the
same committee before which Judge
MCGEE had appeared, he found moth.
ing to refute, the committee inform.
ing him that the Minnesotan had le
itracted, or withdrawn, that portion Oh
hi I.
/ What sort of a man is this who will
travel three Thousand miles TO Bring
"a public Indictment against the farm
iers Of his state and hen, having sown
the seedsof doubt and of discord and
#of SANDER, SO quietly retract or with.
draw is AS to leave the stain where
he Intended 1T should be left,
III Minnesota would cast this wild
ass into som eqlIi ne corral whereghe
could inbibe q little horse sense and
keep him there I'M III the war is over.
AL would be better for the state and
7bett er for the country \
One might as weil try ID hold the
;Tepub lican party responsible for the
words and acts Of one Of it's hitherto
most pronounced champ ions now fac.
Ing The belated verdict of Ills sena-
|torial assncia tes with terence to his
Anne lcanis ia to indict the farrners
AM clsss for tie course &c 4 few Of
their number The members 81 the
III i5.s 4, ,,., :, Il 5,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09

& Il think it's good time to tell that
big brute what / think Of him Don't
YOUR
Well, don't know. The hospitals
are pretty crowded just now Judge.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
! ANN o,JNc EMENT.

hereby announce myself candi-
date Tor the ONCE Dc Register VI
Deeds of q oding tors Count subject
to the decision D fthe coming repubs
lican primary
O. MI Kirliis #
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09

II think it's a good time to tell that
big brute what I think of him. Don't
YOUR
well, / don't know. The hospitals
are pretty crowded Just now Judge.
NOTICE.
State of South Dakota, County Of
Codington, SIS
In Circuit Court, Third Judicial Cir
cult.
In the Matter Of the Voluntary DISCO
luton of VIII. Stokes Milling Co.,
a Corporation.
w H Stokes, the owner of all the
outstanding stock of said corporation
and the sole remaining director there
OF, having presented to the above en-
titled Court the voluntary application
in writing of the w. TT. Stokes Mill
ing Co, praying for the dissolution Of
said corporation, and the Court being
satisfied that said application is In
conformity with Sections 446 to $50, Of
Article 5, Chapter 8, of the Civil Code
of 1903, OF this State, and having or
sdered said application filed and the
giving Of notice by the Clerk;
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given. thar Monday. the 10th day Of
June, A. ID. 1918, at 1000 o'clock d.
M, or as soon thereafter as counsel
can be heard, ait the court room Of
this Court, in the court house. ait Wa
tertown, S. d., have been fixed as the
time and place for hearing and the
determination Of said application.
& Dated this Sd day of May, A. ID. 1918.
Ralph H FIorswi I'LL
Clerk Of the Circuit Court of
Codington County, South Da-
kota.
Hanten 4 Hanten,
ttorneys for Petitioner
4 First pub. May 3, last pub. May 301i
NOTICE or MORTGAGE SALE.
Whereas, default has been made id
the conditions of q certain mortgage,
executed by Marvin C, Leadley and
Bessie Leona 4eadley CHS wife),
mort gors, to Otto AS Ras, of Wa
tertoWn, Coding ton County, South Da-
kota, dated March Il $40, fled iii
the office of he Register of Deeds
of Codingtpn County, South Dakota,
March 10TH 9ll. at 3 ::35 d, clock In
the A nd duly recorded in Book
E72 of mortgages on page G32. mort
gagtng the following described prop
|erty situated in said Cooling ton Coun-
tys to-wit III :ssSs
The Southwest Quarter lsW3xJ 81
Sectlon went ght t281 81 oWnship
One Hundred Eighteen 4 11S Worth,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
FOR STATES ATTORNEY.

hereby announce myself as a can.
didate for the office of states attors
ney Of Codington county, subject to
the will Of the voters at Tic coming
republican primary If 4 am nominal
ed and elected the duties of the Office
will receive my very best attention,
and the county, in that event, being
my largest individual client, will feel
that it is entitled to, and it will re-
5ceiYe. the preference over any and all
private business and interests. Need
less to say. YOU, support and vote VIII
be sincerely appreciated.
Daniel & Loucks.
OTiCE.
I take this opportunity to announce
to the voters OF Codingt county that
I am candidate for the office of
County 4 treasurer of Codington coun.
ty In the coming election. and shall
be thankful for the support OF my
friends in the Tepubli can primaries
May 2Sth next am, and always
have been. a republ ican. and III the
present crisis am first American. I,
THANKING my friends fpi consider.
alton,
remain
20 tss Y :iTs t.aJf1 j;
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-09
NOTICE 70. CREDITORS.

j u :,
Estate of William G. LautenschlageI,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the. un-
q ersi gne d administrator of the Estate
of William g. Lautenschlager, de.
ceased, to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased; to exhibit them, with
the necessary vouchers, within four
months after the first publication of
this notice, to the said administrator.
at the Office of the attorney for said
administrator, Daniel K Boucks, in
the City Of tertown, in TIL e County
Of Codington South Dakota. a.
Dated April 9th, 49,
George a. Eautenscallager
Admins STRAIT or OF the Estate
of William G LautenschIag-
er. Deceased
h First pub May p, last pub. May 2331
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State Of South Dakota, County af
Codington, IS.
In County Court
n the latter ,of the Estate of George
by kstra Deceased
Notice lis hereby 81 ven BY the liIa-
dersigned. Jennie Dykstra d lIninistra-
Itrix Of the estate Of q gorge A. Dyk-
stra, deceased, to the crefli tnrs of, and
all persons having claims gain ss TIA
said deceased To exhibit Il hem with
the necessary vouchers within four
months after the first publ ication pf
this notice, to the said admin stratrix
at he Office of her attorney, George
n Marql at and irl the City OF
IWatertoWu I'M the Tsf,tY1l NH a,f fsndi IS o.