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The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15
Dewey Teall, Philip.
Fred Vollbrecht, Philip.
Luzenz Weirauch, Midland.
PIERRE TO CELEBRATE HOME
COMING

Postmaster H.. ]. Mcmahon this
morning received a letter from
Jim Holm, the postmaster at Pierre
stating that Pierre would celebrate
the return Of the boys of the 147th
Field Artillery. He further states
that party will go from there
to Sioux Falls and to Camp Dodge
to meet the boys upon their dis
charge. They will first go to Sioux
Falls and then to Pieere and he is
promised plenty of entertainment
at both of the cities.
The following from the Pierre
Gapitol-Journal gives an idea of
the plans they are making:
At a meeting of the city COM
mission last evening, Mayor Bind
er appointed committee Of re-
preventative citizens Of the city
to arrange for fitting reception
Of the boys from this town who
are members of the 147th field ar
tillery, and who will return from
Camp Dodge Immediately after
their discharge. With them will be
many members of old Company
AZ who are from the towns in
surrounding country, and arrange
ments of the crowds that will Yn-
doubtedly come from these towns
to witness the homecoming. The
exact date of the return is not
known, but it will probably be
about the 22nd. of the month or
possibly a little later. The COM
mittee will meet to arrange for
the entertainment of the boys,
and when their plans are definitc-
ly arranged they will be publish
ed in the Capitol-Journal.
The members of the committee
are as follows: P. F. Mcclure, H.
M. Reed, Jas. Holm, Chas. E. De-
land, Jas X. Seebree, L. L. Step
hens, and H. N. Walker.
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15
UNCLE SAMMY'S MINSTRELS
Coming To Philip Sunday May 18
What Others Say of Them

The Uucle Sammy's Minstrels
composed of all soldiers who have
served overseas was at Leon on
their way to New Hampton, Mo-,
where they appeared Monday night.
Gainesville Saturday night and to
Leon Sunday morning, and on ac-
count of annulling of trains as a
result of the high water, they re4
mained here until Monday morn
ing. Their band, an excellent or
ganization, played concert in the
band stand in the court house
park Sunday afternoon which a
large crowd thoroughly enjoyed.
That evening they were entertain
ed at the rooms of the civic club.
The ladies had prepared some fine
refreshments and every body en-
joyed the spread very much. After
the serving of refresments the boys
entertained those present with
some excellent music. They are
certainly good and it is expected
that arrangements will be made
later on to have them give their
entertainment at Leon. They said
that Leon was real town and the
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15
PHILIP COUPLE MARRIED
AT MADISON, WISCONSIN

Friends of Kenneth w. Mathie-
son and Miss Weltha Valiant were
surprised few days ago to learn
of their marriage at Madison, Wis.
The ceremony was performed at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Percy
Baldwin, formerly of this place,
Mrs. Baldwin being a sister of the
bride. The following account was
taken from the Wisconsin State
Journal Of May 9th:
Announcement is made of the
marriage of Miss Weltha Valiant,
1142 Jenifer street, to Kenneth w.
Mathieson of Philip, S. D., which
took place at 3 p M, yesterday at
the home of the brides sister and
brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Percy
Baldwin, 1142 Jenifer street, in
the presence of a few relatives.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Henry Guy Goodsell, pas
tor Of the First Methodist church.
The couple was unattended. The
bride wore blue serge travelling
suit, with a large corsage bouquet
roses, sweet peas and lilies of the
valley.
Following the ceremony, an in
formal luncheon was served at the
home Of the brides sister. Those
attending were Mr.. and Mrs. Zala
Baldwin, Miss Eunice Baldwin,
Miss Esther Baldwin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Baldwin, the Rev. Goodsell,
and. the bridai cSurise:. ''-'-- ''--- =
In the evening the couple were
rendered surprise and farewell
party It the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Baldwin. The guests were
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15

Mrs. McLane is the first woman
assessor in the state. Moreover
the appointment is a fitting one,
and the appontee fully qualified
for the task. It will fall to her
lot to list within the next few
weeks more than half million
dollars worth of property as well
as a good many dogs that have no
right to be considered as property,
partaking more of the nature Of q
nuisance.
The mayor is to be compliment
ed on his appointment. If the as
sessment of the city il not turned
in in better shape this year than
it has been in one or two years OF
the past we will be much surpris-
ed.
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15
GOSSIP AND CLEANINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST

ice Degan ever became a bankrupt
considering the prices at which he
sold them cattle during the past
four or five years.
This is the bull-head season, not
the obstinate season, but the sea-
son when with little patience
great quantities Of bull-heads may
be caught out of Bad River and
some of the small lakes near Phi
lip. All the boys, both young and
old, are fishing these fine days.
Almost any evening the banks of
Bad River will be found lined with
the most respectable and sedate
citizens of the community. Even
some Of the county officers are not
above casting a chunk Of liver up
on the water in the hope that pre-
sently it will return to them with
a catfish hanging to it.
II
Many land seekers were here
last week from the eastern part
of the state. We have not learned
whether any of them put any
thing over on our local real estate
agents or not.
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15

One of our friends, recently re-
turned from overseas, suggested
the letters A. E. F. correctly trans
lated means, After England Fail
ed"
Wanted: A few more livestock
ranchers to locate within the cor
porate limits of the city of Philip.
Anyone having a number Of hor-
ses, cattle or hogs will do well to
inquire of the mayor or the presi-
dent of the commercial club.
At the risk of being court-mar-
tailed and shot the Pioneer reports
the notorious fact that most of
the Haakon county soldiers COM
ing home from overseas do not
seem to be pining away with love
for the Englishman or the Eng
lish soldier. A close up Of John
Bull is not half so enhancing as
the picture presented of that indi-
vidual about year and half ago
by the American newspapers.
n
A good many Haakon county
ranchers are wondering how Maur-
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15
SOUTH DAKOTA'S GREAT
FIGHTING UNIT HOME

The Battleship Kansas brought
the 147th Artillery to American
soil at Philadelphia late Tuesday
evening, and South Dakota's fam
Gus fighting unit was back in
Gods country again. These vet
Grams Of the Great War will be
quartered in an eastern camp for
few days rest, and will then be
taken to Camp Dodge for demob-
ilization. After that the boys will
scatter at once home and mothers
cooking.
The trip to Camp Dodge will be
made by way of Sioux Falls under
authorization of the War Depart
ment, and the state will be given
an opportunity to give it's heroes
welcome as a whole. Although
the date of arrival has not yet
been set, Sioux Falls is preparing
to extend a welcome that will
make our soldiers realize that the
people of South Dakota are not
unmindful of what they have done.
Hereafter when the history Of
the great war is written, the 147th
artillery must be given promi-
nent place. We did not realize
how much our South Dakota boys
were doing while the war was 60
ing on. The brief letters home
indicated that they were in the
thick of things, but we did not
know the relation Of their task to
the general plan of campaign.
Now it appears that these boys of
ours had more days Of fighting
than any other artillery unit ex-
cept one, and that their guns hurl-
ed more shells at the Hun than
any other American unit. At any
rate they burnt up Uncle Sans
powder, and the fact that they
were ever on the track of the re-
treating Germans proves that it
was with effect.
One battery of the regiment
contained twenty-eight Haakon
county boys, and parents have
been receiving kilograms all week
announcing safe arrivals. In fact
safe arrival is the marvel of the
history of the 147th. There were
few casualties, and practically
none from Haakon county. Clifford
Pole Of Kirley seems to have come
in for most Of the bad luck Of the
battery to which our boys belong
ed. He was wounded in September
and gassed in October of last year.
All of the Haakon county men,
bers Of the unit are expected home
very soon.
The following are the members
of the 147th Artillery from Haa-
kon county: =
Guy H. Bergen, Nowlin.
Earl B. Boysen, Kirley.
Willie BOIL, Midland.
Henry BOIL, Midland.
Roy H. Blingenger, Midland.
Hubert L. Buswell, Philip.
Alex M. Calhoed, Midland.
Vern M. Calhoon, Midland.
Luverne r. Church, Philip.
Vern Farnsworth, DowIing.
Grams L. Forsell, Philip.
Evan A. Griffith, Leslie.
Victor Haagstrom, Moenville.
Bryan M. Keegan, Leslie.
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Mrs. McLane Appointed Assessor,

Mayor Will R. WalpoIe has ap-
pointed Mrs. C. E. McLane assessor
Of the city of Philip, and has
thereby inaugurated something of
an innovation, paying at the same
time proper tribute to the wo-
men voters of the city. She will
qualify and enter upon the duties
of her office in few days.
While other cities have been
electing women to membership on
city councils, it is safe to say that
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entertainment they had received
had not been duplicated in any of
the towns where they had pre-
viously appeared.-Leon, Ia, Mar.
goth.
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15

You can hardly buy better soft
coal than Colorado Niger Head.
1t is hard and chunky, free from
dust, lights easily and last we'll.
$3.50 per ton at Farmers Elevat-
or. 24tf
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-15
CLEAN UP NOTICE

Now is the time to clean up.
Let us make Philip clean town.
Our alleys are in need of thoro
cleaning and after cleaning, q few
loads of gravel thrown in the low
places will give you a drain and
make it easier to keep clean.
Begin at once, toilets must have
lime placed in them once a week.
Don't forget our past epidemics.
By order City Board of Health.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Calendar of Current Exhibitions

A0raham straus Gallery BrookynThryght paintings by con-
temporary artists, to Mays - ~
Academy Art Shop 1853 Fifty-sevent
Batk work. ~ ~
1aerlesEchngs, engravngs, Autographs prints
and drawings by contemporary
Arlington Galleries. 274 Madison and andscapes
Clifford W. Ashley, 1. y
benord Galerles-Panngs by Belle Bennett to Nav 20
bourgeois Galleries. 66S Fifth exhibition Of odo
art to May 81 ~
Caadorl Art Gallery 734 Fifth
sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth century antiques
Devonshre Lace Shop 80 Washington STANDARDIZATION Of bridal
wells and laces, to June ~
Enrich Print Gallery TOT Avenue-Woodbock prints IN ~
to May 2S ~ " i'
Gimpel Wildensen CAT Avenue-Decorative nannos m
Hubert Robert. Ne' ~
Groler Club AZ East Sixtiet Street-Exhbon of hoobrd
NN's'' "
Hotel Majestic Central and sevenv-second s+ H.
to 1900 N 0'"ei''
John Mowbray- Clarke, to June T. ~
hennedy Co.. Glib Fifth Of old naval r;n+
through ~ ~ pii"'S'
hraushaar Galleries. 260 Fifth Avenue-Panncs bv Rvder Mont;
CELL and Luks, to May ~ ~ ~
NlueunExhbon prints drawings bv Degas
~ alees-New YORK street and flag pictures by Chlde
Hassam, through ~ y O'"o
National
October " eN''o'''oi' W
new fork Public LbraryExhion illustrated books Of tho +
four centuries. - ~ VI 'Ao p"s'
ochoo OF Design and Liberal Arts-Exhbtion of Students ~
amy ra SHOP 7l8 Madison
etchings by Adele Brush to June IN - ~ p'osi"piic
whitney Studio Club, lat Fourth Observation-Disclosures 80 ~
and decorative paintings to June l. N t"'e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

subjects meet him half way, they are
classical, but nature has her chance,
and the painter can put forth without
handicap the peculiar strength that is
his.
He can make his ancient ruin a light
romantic fabric. He can make his
trees like the accessories in some
comedy of the period, all grace and
slender beauty Over everything he
can throw the glamour of bright,
COOL luminous sky. The sky in a good
Hubert Robert comes near to making
the painting a masterpiece, it is so
deep and airy, so blandly spacious, so
full of clear, fine color We say
good" Hubert Robert. The pot boil
ers tell different story In this ex-
hibition, fortunately, there are no pot
boilers. Uncommon luck seems to have
waited upon the formation of the COL
lection. Into the handsome room
which they fit so felictously only good
paintings have entered They are all,
indeed, so good that we doubt if bet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The Tradition Which
Developed Hubert Robert

The French school Of the eighteenth
century was of sophistication all COM
pact. 1t was the growth of the studio.
brought to perfection for the drawing
room and the boudoir. Never was an
art more sympathetically social than
the art Of this period. 1t is at once
the mirror of French manners and
their monument 1t reproduces with
eXactitude the color and movement of
life in which human relations were
codlfled to an extreme degree, and it's
all-pervasive law was one essentially
urban. The wholesome airs of the
countryside seem to have been excluded
from this fabric as by general con-
sent. But genius dominates the sur
roundings from which it draws the
breath of life. In the paintings and
drawings of Vatican you see how his
instinct for nature made him superior
to mere artifice. Chardin, delineating
kitchen maids and other humble do
mesuc figures, developed a style as
robust as his themes and rose mas
eSt1uli. dOOEe tne lNSlncerlty of his
time. From the influence illustrated
by these men there developed in the
eighteenth century feeling for nature
counterbalancing the hot house atmos-
phere that everywhere controlled. Art
lists who would not have known what
to do with ploughed field, such as
Mlllet was later to make beautiful
were at home in stately park They
recognized the value of tree. as least
as decorative value. Hence, they ar
rived at the formation of something
like landscape tradition. They ex-
plotted 1T in subordinate capacity.
Their landscape was never painted for
its own sake, but only as back
ground. Nevertheless, they made it
fascinating. 1t was this tradition that
produced Hubert Robert.
He was born in 1888, light. CAV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
By Royal Cortissoz

The fault of much modern mural
decoration lies in the Difference it paws
to an outworn ideal of symbolical de-
sign. A goddess is enthroned in the
middle of the canvas. The subsidiary
hgures on either side are ranged and
posed like supers in O stage tableau.
AS an American artist once wittilv OK
pressed 1t, the effect smacks of a banal
rlte-"the presentation OF pianola
by Fisheries to Manufactures. It is
the absence of nature as a controlling
influence that explains this defect. On
the other hand, mural decoration re-
qulres certain architectural balance.
In the solution of it's problems the
greatest of modern masters are those
like Puvis de Chavannes and Besnard
VINO have known how to fuse natural
sstlc with formal elements. An
eighteenth century painter, Hubert
Robert. who, in his way, brilliantly
accomplished this fusion, may now be
studied in New York There is an
exhibition of decorations and pictures
from his brush at the Gimpel and Will
denstein gallery. In It's intrinsic charm
and IN the light it throws on an i'm
portant subject it makes a peculiarly
welcome episode.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

ter group could be gathered together
IN Paris or in Russia,
1t is an intense pleasure to see #
The exhibition is one of sheer delicbt
making known in an ideal way the best
qualities of deeply interesting type
whose traits need to be better under
stood in the United States. Moreover
the show is full of suggestion for the
student of decorative painting. II
shows how nature and art NAV be fused
together, how landscape may be intro
duced into formal schemes without
pedantry, without sacrifice Of the
beauty belonging to greensward and
trees. The net result is, as we are
pound to repeat, a shade theatrical
but 1T is theatricality refined to a point
OF loneliness. Think Of it in close as
sociation with the social world of
eighteenth century France and one can.
not help making much of the rlittering
artifice which was a second nature ~
Hubert Robert, as it was to all tho
painters of that epoch save such nor
tents as Chardn and Vatican. Think
OF 1t more abstractly, as just a mode
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Hubert Robert and
The French Tradition

personality, not in the least a man
of genius, but Individually a man of
talent. He was altogether in harmony
with his period When he died in
1908 and they buried him in the ceme
terry at Auteuil, the inscription upon
his tomb commemorated him as an
Academician formally unregistered as
such, not only in his native France, but
In st. Petersburg, where the Russian
aristocracy had long followed a cult
Tor his works. A brief biographical
introduction to the catalogue of the
present exhibition lays stress upon his
cheerfulness, which persisted even un-
der the imprisonment which he suf
fered during the Terror. He is de-
scribed as bold athlete in his youth.
AT Rome he risked his life prone
nading the cornice of the dome of
st. Peters. He did this on wager
OF a few sheets of drawing paper.
Vlgee Lebrun, who painted his Dor
trait when he was young man, repre-
sents a full blooded, energetic being.
who, with the temperament that we
know he possessed, ought to have be-
come something like n romanticist. He
became, instead, an archaelogue. He
never could throw off, he probably
never wanted to throw off, the habit
of the Academy. At the same time,
there was at the bottom of his aca-
demic prediction certain realistic
strain. In the foreground of his
Staircase and Foyer of the Villa Me-
dici," purely architectural subject,
as formal in design as a work by Pan
Mini or Piranesi, washerwoman has
hung up her linen. The incident is
of Robert, of his taste
or everyday accepts upon his monu
mental schemes. He did not ALWAYS
iraw his figures himself. Boucher.
'ragonard and others drew them for
lin. But he wanted them there. It
S the mark of his archaeological world
hat nature is always creeping in.
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Nature and Art Fused
In Decoration

His craftsmanship tells primarily in
the building up of his compositions.
lie knows what to>lcave out and how
to bring what is left into a hapnv
unity. See him in the two panels
dedicated to the baths founded by
Count Vigier on the Seine. He puts
the prosaic elements Of his subject
into most beguiling perspective
The enpcloppc is as graceful as tho
substance of the work is not Ru+
look even more attentively ut a
couple of decorations, like the two
from tho Roussel collection, "The
fountain of the Temple of vesta" and
The Rest in the Park" There h,s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
ANDSCAPE IN DECORATIVE PAINTINC

upon Vernet, inclined less to portrait
ure in landscape and more to the
atrlcal ideal. In an easel picture,
therefore, which exists in isolation. he
has less weight than his master. But
when he has purely decorative aim he
more than rivals Vernet; he achieves,
If anything, a finer role. There are
some delightful easel pictures in the
exhibition under review-the study Of
the Villa Medici, already cited; the
sylvan view of Ermenonville," the
lovely little "Roman Villa" and sew
eral others. They are all serene.
llmpld Impressions, their picturesque
ness carried just SO far, their natural
ISM held in check by polished ele-
gance. taken as group apart, these
would be sufficient to justify Hubert
Robert as minor figure of distinc-
ton in his school. But the decorative
panels almost give him major rank in
that school.
There are four pairs of them. nm
rights OF about the same height, though
the horizontal dimensions vary. Thew
nave been, as it happens, superblv
hung IN a French room where the tint
IN the draperies and on the walls il
precisely the right one and where me-
r'od furniture, with a terra Gotta by
Plgalle, gives the ensemble perfect
hnlsh. The panels make an exhibit
ton, but as they are displayed thew
BRING back the atmosphere of an
eighteenth century interior, That is
the test for Hubert Robert. His
paintings are meant to enter into the
integrity of wall. They do this. As
we have said, he was not a man of
genius, but his talent was consum-
mate. He "trifed" with his ancient
RUNS IN the sense that he relieved
them of all unduly weighty and forbid
Ding effects. He painted them with
KIND of suavity. They are masses of
hoary stone, yet he contrives, without
doing violence to their antique DIGNITY
TO make pillar and frieze, crumbling
staircase or half wrecked cornice no
more overpowering than the same
things are when they are simulated in
Inc opera house. These are, indeed,
oewltchlngly operate scenes, these
scenes OF Hubert Roberts. A CLASH
cal ruin of his, Renaissance palazzo
still intact, as in "a Fete at the Villa
Nedlci," is relieved by trees which hint
lot of the forest but of the garden.
even when he paints wilder subject
IS pendant to the villa picture Just
Mentioned, he makes it, "The Torrent"
n altogether gracious impression of
shattered temple lifted above
ocky gorge. He is never tragic. From
ne bllthe morning or MONDAY light
n which he generally bathes the first
anvas in pair he passes to more
ubdued key without indulging in any
hlng graver than a sort Of mild, sun
ct revery. His characteristic mood is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Free Concerts at
Columbia University

Because of the demand for tickets
for this seasons concerts at Columbia
University, it has become necessary
to provide several thousand more
chairs. Up to the present time there
have been more than twenty thousand
requests for tickets, and the number
will probably reach fifty thousand be.
fore the opening date. The New York
Military Band, under the direction of
Edwin Frank Goldman, who organized
these concerts, will play thrice weekly
for ten weeks.
At the opening concert, on June 2
Ernest S. Williams, cornetist, will give
solo. The second concert will take
place on Thursday, June 5, instead
of Wednesday, because Of the COM
mencement day exercises at the uni
versity.