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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1919-06-20

Be 1t Resolved that we ex-
press our sincere thanks and love
to our Heavenly Father who has
blessed the work so wonderfully,
also to the teachers and work.
ers we extend the deep appre-
citation which the Sunday Schools
have for their faithfulness.
Resolved that we express our
gratitude to those who have con-
tributed so strongly to the sue
cess of these sessions of the con-
vention both to the speakers and
to those who have so generously
opened their homes and cared
for the delegates and visitors.
Resolved that we express our
appreciation to the Baptist Con-
gregation at Corona for the use
of their beautiful new church by
the convention.
Resolved that we ask Mrs.
Hess to have the Bible outlines
printed which were used in her
Bible study work at the con-
vention. The outlines to be sent
to all the Sunday Schools in the
County and the expenses of print
ing and mailing to be paid by the
Association.
Resolved that we express our
! thanks TO the officers of the ASSOC
citation and especially to the
President, Mrs. j. A. Munro, foo
their untirin.g efforts in b ,lding
up the Sunday Schools and plan
ming and executing the conven-
ton so successfully.
Resolved that we recommend
that the President of the Asso-
citation confer with the other Of
fcers to plan the advisability of
county tours, Institutes, d;vis-
ional conferences, house to house
work, visitations etc, and that
the President shall be authorize
ed to receive invitations for a
place to hold nextyears conven-
ton and to decide where it will
be held.
Respectfully submitted,
G.. D.. Schoenleber.
Lottie Howells
l.. w. Nelson.
The nominating committee re-
port the following nominations {:
President, L. w. Nelson, Pee
yer.
Vice President, Rev. j. H. IT.
win, Sisseton.
Secretary, Lydia Marvick, Sis
seton.
Treasurer, Mrs. j. A. Munro,
Wilmot.
Department.
Children's Division, Mrs. Geo.
Lieb, Corona.
Young Peoples Division, Miss
Fern Jackson, Sisseton.
Adult Bible Class, Rev. G. E.
Schoenleber, Wilmot.
F Teachers Training, Mrs. J. L.
Hess, S-sseton.
Delegate to State Convention,
L. w. Nelson; alternate, Miss
Lydia Marvick.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1919-06-20
Farm Bureau Picnic

The Roberts County Farm
Bureau Picnic will be held at
Hartford Beach, Thursday, June
JIG, 1919. Willis e. johnson,
President of South Dakota Ayr.
College will address the meeting
and G. Larsen, State Director Of
Extension Work will also speak.
There will be a meeting of the
Roberts County Breeders Assn
in the pavillian, in the forenoon
lat II o'clock. All breeders and 9th
ers interested in purebred stock
are urged to be present.
Among the amusement fea-
lures are a baseball game be-
tween Sisseton and Milbank.
The Sisseton Orchestra will
furnish music for the afternoon
program and there will be a
dance in the evening for the
young folks.
Boating and fishing galore,
where they catch the big ones.
Creased Pig-In order to Gre
ate some fun for the boys Incl
IDENTIFY and put some young fell
low in the purebred hog business
Spencer Marvick has offered a
good young gilt to be put in the
creased pig contest. Get ready
boys.
There will be stands on the
ground where sandwiches and
coffee, peanuts, popcorn, ice
cream, etc, can be secured.
Bring your lunch baskets and
come early to have dinner with
your friends and enjoy a full
day. There will be something do
ing all the time. Remember Hart
ford Beach is one of the ideal
beauty spots of South Dakota.
It is mighty little nonsense
that the overseas boys who get
home are going to put up from
the semi-patriotic if a happening
at W0rthingt0n last week is any
example. One fellow who went
int the service and then who
ltlunked out because as he said,
he had some relatives in the
German army, and who return
ed to Worthington and took q
good job while his fellow-towns.
men went across to fight for lib
erty and democracy, got his face
badly pounded up by q returned
soldier who had fought in the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
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lFhai IN y 50 srS,,sss> ESt.s..J.1

A thousand-acre farm in the heart
of large city would doubtless be
looked upon as poor business pro-
position and a waste of valuable
space. But in hundreds of large cities
of the United States the corporate
limits surrounded last year thousands
of little farms, the aggregate area Of
which ran into thousands of acres.
Nor were these garden farms poor
business proposition, for the land had
been idle for many years, and the
time spent in its cultivation in most
cases would have been wasted.
Nobody knows how many city gar
dens were planted or how many acres
were really occupied last year, but it
is known that the value Of the pro-
ducts of these gardens ran into many
millions of dollars, and that the home
food plots helped materially in pro-
viding food for the hungry. A survey
of the situation discloses that there
still are thousands of acres of idle
land, suitable for gardens, in and
around our large cities and industrial
centers. There still Is great demand
for food production and conservation,
and the man who turns idle city land
and spare time into edibles will serve
his country by raising a part of his
own food and lessening the drain on
regular farms.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
U. 5. Quqkers, Forbidden BY Religion
to Fight, Helping to Rebuild France

Many of them are from farms and
small towns. They are the most viii
ling of workers and accept any sort
Of task cheerfully. They til the soil,
set up hosues, repair roofs of build
ings that may still be used, drive am
balances, nurse the sick. DR.. Jones
told me how they take their lives in
their hands sometimes.
Our men are blowing the battle
fields" he told me, with tractors and
gang plows. They are constantly in
danger of striking unexploded shell
hidden in the ground. A French farm
err was driving tractor and gang
pillow when one OF the pillow points
struck a "dud" He was blown to
pieces. That sort of thing is bound
to happen many times within the next
year or two.
WHEAT ON DEVASTATED
LANDS DOING WELL.
Last autumn our men succeeded
in blowing over a considerable area of
devastated land, and in sowing it with
wheat. The young crop, growing over
territory so recently trodden by armed
men, looks fine and encouraging this
winter. We are unable to use tractors
and gang plows in the toughest of the
Argonne country; we use horses and
single plows instead.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
When Vas Eighth
Street Friends
Church Founded?

Fifty-two years ago, on Sept. Is,
1867, the first meeting of Friends was
held in the South Eighth Street
Friends church. The congregation
had been organized for several years,
but had met in rented rooms.
The South Eighth street church was
the child Of progressive movement
among Quakers of that day, and has
continued in the forefront of progress
ever since. 1t was the first meeting
where men and women sat together,
the first to engage a pastor, had the
| first organ, sent out the first foreign
missionary, experienced the first re-
vival, had the first regularly organ
lied prayer meeting. had the first
Christian Endeavor society, was the
first to allow minister of another
denomination to speak from its gal
lery, and the first to admit negro
members.
Benjamin Johnson, until this day,
leader in the church, helped cut the
timber for the church structure The
building cost $4,000 and was financed
by a stock company, formed for the
purpose. Levi Jessup sat at the head
and timed the first meetings; John
Nicholson was the first clerk
There was no regular pastor, mem
bers Of the church occupying that po-
sition. Among the first were Levi
Jessup, Charles F. and Rhoda Coffin,
Hannah Lawrence, Theodore Gambler,
Joanna M. league, Sarah Smith, Dr.
Dougan Clark and Charles A. Fran
cisco.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10

I'VE have $50 moving machines,
about forty binders for cutting the
grain, and four or five threshing ma
chimes, which we expect to keep very
busy during the coming summer. We
have our agricultural headquarters at
Grange lie Conte, a 600acre farm.
There we train our workers and the
French peasants in handling modern
farming machinery"
The Quakers have SO far raised all
the money they have used, about half
million dollars, among their own
number. They need 100000 more,
and are preparing for new cam
paign.
Judging from appearances and from
current reports, no one is doing more
good per dollar spent in France than
these kindly, quiet, unassuming Quak-
er folk and their English cousins, who
are also busy in good works.
(This is the last Of Mr.. McNaught's
articles from Paris. He has returned
to this country, and will tell next of
an Americans Impressions Of Amer
lea, after stay among our overseas
fighting and relief forces. The series
will end with final story about our
soldiers, and what war has done to
them and for them.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10

refunded to the subscribers, and justice be done
to them as widely as possible.
This whole episode was revolutionary. I'm
der the guse Of war necessity, and after the war
had ceased, the government undertook to control
telephone and cable lines, and, in fact, succeeded
so far as the cables, and the telephones in other
states were concerned. This was most unfortun-
ate for the success of the peace congress The
public had been led to believe there would be no
secret negotiations whereas matter OF fact,
there were no public negotiations. The redout-
able Creel and an army of publicity men and CEN
sors swarmed around the peace camp, while Bur-
Lesson over on this side of the Atlantic held his
hand on the cable keys. The evil of it was not
that the public was prevented from finding out
something-for this is no longer possible-but
that it should be regarded SO cheap and unneces-
sary, as if, as long as Colonel House and few
others were on the grounds, nobody else need be
concerned. Everything would be done in due
time. All this was resented. And it was an un-
fortunate prelude to the peace announcements
when the government was ready to make them.
''The president was losing prestige at home
by reason of the foolish acts of the Burlesons,
who placed their chief in the attitude of attempt
ing to suppress transmission of the news. This
was the large national and international effect !;
while the local result of Burleson's course was to
cause the rapid extension of feeling already ex-
listing that we were about to be plunged, willy
nilly, into socialistic experiments.
eve had also been informed that the early
effect of government control of the wires would
be lower rates, ETC., etc. The first experience was
the collapse of the service; and the next was an
increase in the costs. In the meantime the state
board acted and now, thanks to it's efforts, the
rightful owners have their properties back and
the public may once more expect service. But the
pity of it all is that it has left such bad taste
in the mouth. The chief reaction will be to
the president himself, whose already heavy bur-
dens will be made more difficult by the blunders
of his subordinates."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
The Telephone Blunder

Apropos of the action of the Indiana public
service commission ordering the refunding of
charges made under Burlesons ruling, the Ind
annapolis News remarks:
"The impudent and illegal attempt of Post
master-General Burleson to take possession for
the government of the telephone lines has been
fearlessly and successfully met by the Indiana
public service commission and other state bodies.
The Indiana commission has, as a climax to it's
resistance to the intrusion of the postmaster
general, directed that the charges that were made
in the few destructive hours that Burlesons de-
partment had possession of the properties, be
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
Memories of Old
IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO
TODAY

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO
TODAY
The Richmond Water Works filed
articles with the Secretary of State
to increase it's capital stock from
$250,000 to $375,000.
Allen Jay spoke at Earlham on his
experiences as the guest of the Frys
ad Cadburys, the great cocoa manu-
facturers of London.
Eighty persons attended the roll
call meeting of the Oriental Encamp-
ment of Odd Fellows.
The Whitewater lodge Of Masons
held an old fashioned egg supper.
Lawyers said that no race could
be made for city treasurer in Rich
mond under the revised Thornton bill
which they said abolished the Office.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
WEAKNESS REMAINS
LONG after
Reports Show That Strength,
Energy and Ambition Re-
turn Very Slowly to Grippe
Patients.

After an attack of influenza. doc
tors advise that nature be assisted
in its buildlng-up process by the
use OF a good tonic-one that win
not only put strength and endur-
ance into the body, but will also
help to build up and strengthen the
rundown cells of the brain.
One of the most highly recon-
mended remedies to put energy in
to both body and brain is Bio-feren
your physician knows the form
ula-it is printed below.
There's iron in Bio-feren-the
kind OF iron that makes red blood
corpuscles and creates vigor. There
is 1ecithin also; probably the best
brain invigorator known to science.
Then there is good old reliable gen.
tian, that brings back your tagging
appetite
There are other ingredients that
help to promote good health, as
you can see by reading this form.
ula, not forgetting kolo. that great
agent that puts the power OF en-
durance into weak people.
Taken altogether Bio-feren is a
splendid active tonic that will
greatly help any weak, rundown
person to regain normal strength,
energy, ambition and endurance.
Bio-feren is sold by all reliable
druggists and is inexpensive For
weakness after influenza patients
are advised to take two tablets
after each meal and one at bed
time seven a day, until health,
strength and vigor are fully re-
stored.
1t will not fail to help you and
II for any reason you are dissatis-
fed with results your druggist is
authorized to return your money
upon request-without any red tape
of any kind.
Note to physicians: There is no
secret about the formula Of Bio
feren, 1t is printed on every pack
age. Here 1t is: Lecithin; Calcium
Glycero phosphate; Iron Peptonate.
Manganese Peptonate: Ext. Nux,
Vomica; Powdered Gentian; Phe.
nolphthalein; Olearsin Capsicurn,
Ko1o.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10

Vegetable Compound in the newspapers,
and since taking it am cured and have
a nice baby four months old. feel like
q new woman, and have recommended
your medicine to my friends. l would
be glad to have everybody know what
your medicine did for me, and if any
write to me will answer all letters."-
Mrs. MARY CALIGURE, BIT South Main
St., Herkimer, NY.
Every woman at some period or other
inner life may suffer from just such dis
turbances as Mrs. Caligure, and If there
is no interested friend to advise, let this
be reminder that this famous root and
herb remedy has been overcoming these
Observation-Disclosures n4Oyears.
1t any complications exist, write
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for advice. The result of many
years experience is at your service.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
U. s. ARMY SCHOOL
OPENED IN FRANCE,
WORLDS GREATEST

NEW YORK, March 10.-The Am
erican Army university, the largest
university in the English-speaking
world, has been opened in Beaune,
southeast of Paris, it was announced
here.
Fifteen thousand soldiers have en-
rolled for the three months course.
The faculty of 500 members, chiefly
drawn from the American Expedition
airy Force, is headed by Col. Ira l.
Reeves, formerly president of Nor
wich university in Vermont.
The buildings now serving as study
halls and dormitories were used dur
ing the war as an American hospital
A farm of 600 acres is used as the
main agricultural college, while for
mer workshops of the hospital supply
quarters are being utilized by classes
in engineering.
The American Army university is
one Of the four features of the educa-
tional system introduced for the bene-
fit of the expeditionary force. The
other features are post schools in all
organizations for elementary work,
corps and divisions for vocational
training and general instruction in
high school subjects, the detail of
officers and soldiers as students at
the French and British universities.
Post schools give instructions in
the regular common school subjects.
Emphasis is laid on geography, study
of which Is being supervised by Prof.
Reginald Aldworth DAILY of Harvard.
In each army division there is also
a high school giving both regular and
vocational courses.
When troops are in devastated re-
gions, the training in certain trades,
such as masonry, can be made of d.
rect benefit to the localities
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
Help the Czechs

There two things the Allies do to help &
people which is the most highly developed of Slav
and which rendered considerable contributions
ward the winning of the One hurry the Czecho
slovak army back from Siberia, other to get food
and raw materials into the country This latter work
has been delayed first by the obsructionis of Vienna
and later by the quarrel between Italians and Jugoslays
There is to hope that both of these factors
OF delay the to be eliminated at least
they affect the Czechs And they ought be eminat
ed for if the Czechoslovaks have enough and their
factories enabled to get under way the
stability of the will greatly strengthened
If we do not give them what help can, may pres
emily realize that the saying that the of Bohemia
is the master of Europe is true it
We cannot afford to let the Germans Bohemia
again. I
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10

From the New York Times.
Y~HE Czechoslovaks, for reasons of necessity, have
been keeping up informal diploma tic relations with
n their German neighbors. Now certain Vice Con-
has been arrested for activities which
indicate that diplomat has not yet changed
spots He did his best to omen instructions of the
German minority in Northwestern Bohemia supplemented
by Boshevst the cities and German troopsthey
may or may not have authorized by the Ebert gov
crnmen if they only filibusering bands
they might been fairly numerous-were to cross the
frontier at time and try to upset the Masaryk
government The plot failed because the Czechs whose
talent for secret work has always umphed easily
over German clumsiness discovered it in time The dis
noson of the Germans, both within and without the
Czechosovak republic to do what they can to undermine
II still remains.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10

of the tuber and then deity strip it
all off. You must have had much ex-
rerience in skinnings eer entering
upon soldiers life?"
Il did, thank you, SIR replied the
accomplished member of the kitchen
police. Before / decided to make the
world safe for democracy l was a
country banker"
Don't talk to me about the Won
ders of past ages said Uncle Joe
Cannon The world today is far more
wonderful than ever before. Just
think 1t took Columbus as many
months as it now takes days to cross
the ocean, and we talk about flying
and travelling mile minute as
though they were nothing.
why the other day l dropped into
country school just in time to hear
the teacher ask:
g Johnny, into what two great class
es is the human race divided
And Johnny answered promptly:
" Motorists and pedestrians.
That's what l call progress. After
while there won't be any pedes-
TRANS
A teacher was trying to impress
upon her pupils recently the fact that
history repeats itself and that many
things which happen today are the
counterpart of similar things that hap
pened years and years ago.
Now, will any one tell me of any
thing new of importance that has hap
pened during the last twenty-five
years." inquired the teacher
Me-" answered one of the pupils.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10

compound tor 1t has
done me SO much
good. / had female
weakness, infamma-
ton, pains in my
sides and painful
periods. / suffered
for six years and
tried many remedies
w j t h out benefit.
The doctor said I
must have an opera
ton. l read about
r. pinkham's
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
Signs Of Spring

1.-The feel of the air is the only sure
sign that spring is here, says City
Building Inspector John Pinnick.
You can have warm days in winter,
but someway they never feel right.
But when the genuine article does
come along you know 1t In an instant
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
YES. OUT OF HIS MISERY

Knoxville Journal and Tribune
Wilhelm says he is compelled to ask the National AS
sembly help him out" According to French news
papers National Assembly is getting things lined
to help him out"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
BETTER MAKE IT A YEAR

Pittsburg Gazette Times.
The French Government has taken threemonth
lease the house Mr.. Wilson will occupy but under
stand can be renewed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
BY VICTOR McNAueHT.

ARTS, March 10.-America
has sent to France a little
peaceful army of 500 men
and fifty women, whose
task is to combat the fear
full ruin and desolation Of
war. The army is made up
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-10
Good Evenin6!
IT'S A TOUGH LIFE
BY ROY X. MoULToN


A gentleman by the name Of Skibbs
went out to skate on a pond near his
home in Massachusetts the other day.
He sat down on tree trunk and ad-
justed his skates and made a mad
dash for a grand skid across the pond.
Mr.. Skibbs was going by the calendar
only, and he neglected to note that the
water in the pond had not been frozen.
1t has been an open winter. When
Mr.. Skibbs had been dragged out of
the mud at the bottom of the pond
and returned to his family almost half
alive he resolved in future, whether
the calendar says January or June,
to do his skating at the O. K. Roller
Rink, downtown.
Remus J. Purdy, an eminent scien-
fist at Hog Ford, KY, was experiment.
ing the other day on process of MAX
ing good corn whiskey out of gasoline
and saltpeter. So far as he knew no.
body had even invented a satisfactory
substitute for whiskey, and he expect
ed to make a fortune out of it. Mr..
Purdy had just taken a drink Of his
invention and struck match to light
his pipe. The funeral was held from
what remained of the house
REGULAR POETRY
Oh, 1t takes lot of sand to be a SOL
der,
Against the rushing foe to make a
stand,
But no matter how unpleasant,
He always answers present"
For soldiers always got a lot of
sand.
oh, it takes lot of dough to be a
citizen,
For the prof1teers just keep him on
the go;
He may show timid feeling
When the prices hit the ceiling.
For the citizen hasn't always got the
dough!
When he was young poor Uncle Ned
Had funny noises in his head.
Those funny noises had begun
Before he had reached twenty-one.
They worried him thruout his years.
The docs were baffled, 1t appears.
His was a melancholy fate.
He died aged Just a hundred-eight.
His death was caused, the docs said,
By funny noises in the head.
There was young girl in Hohokus
Who was given fine education,
But she married barber
Who wore white coats and trousers,
And spent her whole life at the wash
board
THE time has come the allies said.
ITO talk of many things
Indemnities and boundary lines
And cabbages and kings"
"MEXJCANS ROB AN EDITOR