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Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-16
DISTRICT oF LEBNNoN.

Court of Probate Dec 18th. 1919.
 Estate of John J. Phillips late of Lebanon, in said. District deceased.
 The Administrator having exhibited his administration, account with said estate to this Court for allowance. 1t Is
 Ordered, That the 23d day of Decen- Der. A. D. 1919. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. at the Probate Office in Is@,,- anon, be, and the same Is. assigned foy hearing on the allowance of said ad- ministration account with said estate, and this Court directs the Administra. tor to cite all persons interested there in tn appear at said time and place hy publishing this order in some news. paper having a circulation in said Dis trfct. and by posting a copy on the public signpost in the Town of Leb- anon, where tho deceased last aweIt
 ALBERT G. KNEELtND. <
 dec1sd Judse.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Welcome STRAN.
GERS To MADISON
LUTHER LEAGUE ENTERTAINS
STUDENTS OF STATE NORMAL
AND HIGH SCHOOL

The Trinity Luther league gave a
well-attended and very successful re-
ception to the Lutheran students in
attendance at the Normal school and
the high school last night in the M.
e. church parlors. The rooms were
tastefully decorated in fall effect,
with corn stalks, pumpkins and fall
leaves.
Over one hundred young people
were present. A short program was
announced by DR.. P. M. Rensvold
the president of the league: from
bone solo by Rosing Gimme, piano
duet by the Misses Mildred johnson
and Ruth Opperud, vocal solo by
Miss Anna Johnson accompanied BY
Miss Lula Gimme, and an address Of
welcome by Rev. G. X. Solberg
Seated in groups of six, arount
small tables, the young people wer'
served refreshments. The evening
was spent in playing games and :
good time was enjoyed by all present
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
SPOTLIGHT MAY
BETRAY BANDITS
CAR so EQUIPPED WAS SEEN
BEFORE AND AFTER OLIVET
BANK ROBBERY

Sioux Falls, Oct. S.-Two mystic
rious men wearing fur coats and driv-
ing a runabout car with a spot light
are believed to have been responsible
for the robbery of the Olivet State
bank. They escaped with about
$4,000 worth of Liberty bonds and
valuable papers, which they took
from about twenty-five safety deposit
boxes in the vault of the bank
No trace of the robbers has been
found except that different persons
saw the mysterious runabout on the
night of the robbery. One man saw
the car standing near the Evangelical
church in Olivet after midnight 1t
was during this time that the robbery
is believed to have been committed.
About daylight farmer living some
miles from town saw the runabout,
with spot light turned on, pass his
place, this being when the robbers
evidently were making their escape.
Among the valuable papers carried
away in the safety deposit boxes were
insurance policies. 1t is believed that
after removing the Liberty bonds
from the boxes the robbers threw the
boxes and insurance policies away
and search now is being made in
hope of recovering the boxes and
papers.
Bloodhounds taken to the scene oil
the robbery took up the trail at a
basement window of the bank and
followed it tosthe Evangelical church
corner, where the mysterious car haG
been standing.
1t is thought that the two men who
robbed the Olivet bank also were i'm.
plicated in the recent robbery of q
bank at Gayville, where they secured
about 100000 worth of Liberty
bonds, leaving the cash unmolested
this having been the case in tht
Olivet bank also.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
MADISON IS
SHORT ON SUGAR
SALES MADE IN LIMITED GUAM
TITIES-BUILDING CEMENT
ALSO SHORT

Madison, like other cities of this
state. is experiencing a sugar short
age. Calls at two local grocery stores
yesterday revealed the fact that
neither proprietor had supply of
granulated on hand. In lieu of that
grade they were disposing of dark
brown sugar in limited quantities.
For the past few days sales of gran
ulated sugar were limited to 25 cents
worth to each customer. Some re-
lief. however, is in sight. Shipmnets
of granulated sugar were expected
today.
Not only is there a scarcity OF
sugar, but building cement is equally
scarce. Contractors and builders with
large construction programs on their
important material so necessary in
building work. The lack of cement
is delaying work on buildings in this
city and what does reach this place is
sold instantly. This is an indication
of the vast amount of construction
work going on not only in this Sec
tion but throughout the whoel nortn>
west. There is plenty of cement made
for ordinary times but the demand
for it now is much on the increase
due to active building everywhere.
A car arrived in Lake Preston a few
days ago but was gone in half an
hour after it arrived. Another car
of cement came to Junius on Satru-
day and it disappeared as if by magic.
Local yards here cannot fill the large
number of orders they have on hand.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
MUST USE THE SMOKING CAR
Women Who Use the Weed to Rank
With the Men on Railways
In England.

London.-So many British women
have become confirmed smokers that
in recent months railway employees
have hesitated to enforce the rules
against smoking In certain carriages,
and it has come to be accepted that IL
the women passengers do not object,
every compartment becomes "smok-
ing car"
The Great Eastern railroad, whose
general manager is General Henry
Thornton, formerly of the Pennsyl
vania 4 Long Island systems In Amer
lea, Is the first of the railroads te
change the existing order and move fol
a return to pre-war conditions.
BY a recent order only such com
partments as are designated "smok
ing" can be used for that purpose, and
even though all the passengers ma,
consent, no concessions are made Il
! women
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Mitchell Councilman
is Arrested

Mitchell, Oct. S.-A. c. Miles, a
member of the city council, and prom
inent contractor, has been arrested
charged with having improper rela-
tions with Mrs. Ida Thorn. Miles
arrest, ii is asserted, is the sequel of
a quarrel of long standing between
the mayor and Miles.
? Miles, it is asserted, was one of the
council members who was instru-
mental last winter in having Mayor
Wells arrested on a charge of illegal
ly disposing of liquor. The mayors
case is scheduled to be tried at the
postponed fall term of circuit court
which will open November 10. 1t is
arrest on the liquor charge the ad
ministration has had Miles closely
watched.
Friday evening, according to Miles
story, Mrs. Thom's son requested hin
to call on his mother relative to th'
purchasing of house she was plan
ming to buy. Miles went to thu
Thorn home, and while there wa
placed under arrest. The police al
legged he was found in compromis
ing position.
Miles waived examination and wa
released on $1,000 bond. Mrs
Thorn has been released on a $50
bond.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
u AIRPLANES
IN Big RACE
FIFTY-FIVE START FROM NEW
YORK-REMAINDE START
FROM SAN FRANCISCO

New York, Oct. 8.-The greatest
aerial race in the history of the world
began at 9:10 o'clock this morning,
when seventy-one airplanes started
to take off on a transcontinental race
between New York and San Fran
cisco. Fifty-five machines were leav-
ing Mineola, l.. L., at about two
minute intervals and the remainder
were to start from San Francisco.
Several of the flyers who took part
in the Toronto to New York race
have entered the trans-continental
contest. The flights were planned
Jointly by the army and the American
Flying club of New York.
No prizes were offered, the glory
of winning being the only incentive
The flyers will be fed enroute by Red
Cross societies and local civic bodies
at no expense to the government.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
DAPpER DIP OF 81
YEARS IS NkHBED
Old Man French Tells Chicago
Police of Decline of Pick
pocket Game.

Two aged men, with combined po-
lice record 105 years long, stepped
nimbly into the detective bureau in
Chicago beside Detective Sergeants
Tony McSwiggen and Charles Nc
Shane and waved a CHEEKY greeting to
the desk sergeant.
swell I'll be burned IL 1t amt Old
Man French" said that enthroned up
holder of the law to the elder Of the
pair, a gentle, likeable little old man
with snowy hair, anonymously dressed
as flashily as gay young blade.
"rll say it's Old Man French" re-
piled the wearer of the checked suit
showing forward a slender. supple hand
that has spent 62 years delving into
other peoples pockets, "and still able
to go few If he Is eighty-one years
old. Let me introduce the Kid here
Perhaps you don't know him as well
as you do me-"
The kid" known less notoriously
than the other to the annals of crime
as "Kid" Adams, stepped forward, a
stocky. pudgy man, sixty-five years old
with iron-gray hair.
"Where dye think we found 'em?''
asked McSwiggen. "Out at the Mardi
Gras at Riverview kickin' around In
the crowd as spry as couple o. eight.
een-year-old dips"
"But they haven't a thing on u.s.
said French, because we hadn't got
started yet. The Kids kind of a slow
worker. He amt got my speed. I'll
never get too old for this graft game
and I've put in some time, too, as q
heller you know, playin' the banks.
"But the game amt like Ii used tc
be when YOU could get on Broadway
car in NYork and bang a super under
newspaper. I've been to Europe sew
eral times with Barnum's circus
knew old Phineas T. well-and cleaned
up on them foreign boobs crowdin' the
sideshows. And / know all about
crowds to get into and crowds to sta,
clear of, and l told the Kid this River
view bunch were pikers."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08

present bonus of $50. was considered
inadequate.
The sentiment in the house of rep
resentatives Is favorable to a bonus
but there is no definite amount de-
cided on at this time. The commit
tee, after having given the matter
considerable attention, has deferred
action until after the national con-
vention of the American legion at
Minneapolis in November, at which
time the wishes of the ex-service men
will be expressed, furnishing a guide
for future actions by congress.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
SQUARE DEAL is
SCHOOL SLOGAN
CHILDREN GET SMALL
END OF FINANCIAL AID.
STATISTICS SHOW

Sioux Falls, Oct. S.-To prove that
the country boy and girl in South
Dakota is not getting square deal,
Fred L. Shaw, of Pierre, superinten-
dent of the state department of edu-
cation, has compiled some interest
ing figures taken from the depart
mental survey.
Il wish the people of the state
would study these figures and then
tell me honestly what they think, "
said Mr. Shaw, who is here prepar-
ing for the statewide drive that opens
October 27, in the interest of better
rural schools.
There are nearly twice as many
children enrolled in the country
schools as there are in the town
schools, yet the country children
have only $4,200,000 expended an
nually on their education, while the
city children have $3,60O,O0O spent
each year on their education. within
1000 as much money, and yet we
talk about equal rights to all.
cities of South Dakota would receive
$SS,335 for years work. The same
number of teachers working in the
country would receive $56,579. Why
this difference? What does it mean?
Why it means that the best qualified
and most experienced teachers flock
to the cities where the pay is better,
But the founders of our nation be-
lieved that a general diffusion of
knowledge was essential to the lib
critics of a people If the children
of South Dakota were lined up, the
city children in one line and the
country children in another line, and
we should distribute the money to
these children to be used for their
annual education under the present
ratio of distribution, we would give
to each child in the city row 50 while
to each child in the country row we
would give 81.
This is not all. The normal
schools of the state are institutions
| supported by all the people. and their
work should be for the benefit of all
| the people. That it is not, is not the
| fault of the normal schools. They
must do what the people demand
The people of the country are stand
ing idly by and allowing 80 per cent
of the teachers trained by their own
normal schools almost to go into the
city schools. The cities demand
trained teachers, pay for them and
get them. The country pays the
price, and provides the inducements
which draw nothing but the poorest
class of teachers, and in most cases
seems to be satisfied with what i
gets, because it always has beer
So"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08

gled in the blower belt. When the
blaze started CLANCY reached into the
machine to rake out the burning
straw and in doing so was caught in
the belt driving the blower and was
thrown with such force as to break
one arm, fracturing his skull and
causing severe internal injuries. The
accident occurred Saturday while
threshing on a farm six miles north
of Roswell. He never regained con-
sciousness after the accident up to
the time of his death on Monday.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Daily Market Report

Minneapolis, Oct. 8.-Corn-Mar-
ket about steady; demand quiet. but
offerings light. No. 8 yellow closed
at $1.4301.44; No. white and No.
3 mixed, $1.40Q1.41.
Oats-Steady to firm, compared
with futures; demand fair. No. 8
whites, 1kc over December to &c
under. No. white closed at 65 rs
@68ssc.
Rye-Steady with fair demand
No. 2 mainly at December price
some hc under No. rye closed al
s1.40z 01.41.
Barley-Steady to firm, with lighi
offerings and quiet demand; prices
about unchanged. Prices closed a.
$1.05 1.30.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
FIGURES SHOW
STATE ACREAGE
ASSESSORS RETURNS SHOW BIG
INCREASE IN WHEAT AND
CORN CROP

Pierre, Oct S.-The returns of
assessors on crop acreage in the state
for 1918 and 1919 show an increase
in wheat and corn acreage, but a
decrease in other small grain crops.
The wheat acreage increase shows at
about $4,000 acres and the corn
acreage at about $4,000 acres. There
was heavy falling off in the barley
acreage, going down from nearly a
million and half last year to 770,-
900 acres this year, this no doubt be-
ing on account of the drop in price
of this grain when the American peo-
pie could not find the flour to their
liking, and their refusal to purchase.
The rye acreage dropped about
10000 acres, and oats showed a
falling off of nearly 100000 acres.
One of the features of the shortage
of the optato supply for this year may
be in a falling off of about 1000
acres in the area planted to this crop,
which supplements the short crop
effect on the acreage planted. The
alfalfa acreage shows drop of about
$4,000 acres.
The returns this year show a far
longer list of items than that of last
year, and while they are fairly accu-
rate, the ohlding that assessors were
not to be allowed any additional com
pensation for this work, no doubt had
something to do with the way the
figures were collected. The acreage
of the different crops and other agri-
cultural information summarized by
the state tax commission from the
figures returned to them, for the
1919 report are:
Corn, 3,216,424 acres; oats, l.,
z9O,033 acres; rye, 450,231 acres
millet, 1890 acres; potatoes. 80,
692 acres; beans, 2,203 acres: alfalfa
hay, 2S7,026 acres; wheat. 3,795,15,
acres; barley, 77O,784 acres; speltz
123,674 acres; buckwheat, 4,18.
acres; sugar beets, 2,270 acres
clover and timothy hay, 1901
acres; other hay crops, 1,519,96'
acres; alfalfa seed harvested, 5.44'
bushels ;apple trees, number, 1919,
O23; silos, number, 1857; bees, col
onies, 1857; dairy cows, number
381,249; spring calves, number
446,10S; spring colts, number, AZ
O63; spring pigs. number, 1900
032; spring lambs. number, 235,193
The largest sugar beet acreage wa
in Butte county, where 1876 acre
were planted, more than four time
that of all the rest of the state. Thi
is from the fact that the Great West
ern Sugar company is at work deve
oping sugar beet growing in the irr
gated section of that county.
While it is generally believed ths
the western part of the state pay
more attention to the raising of a
falfa than does the eastern porto
of the state, Charles Mix county, O
the east side of the river, with %
037 acres in this crop, is second
the state, Meade county, with 40,4
acres, being the only county with
larger acreage.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
CARE in SELECTION
OF SEED CORN
WARNING AGAINST SAVING CORN
FOR SEED WHICH is NOT
NATURE

Huron, Oct. 8.-"More care in the
selection of seed corn is essential, :"
declares DR.. Arthur T. Evans, pro-
fessor of biology in the Huron col
lege. I'm many cases what the farm
er selects as mature ear of seed
corn from an apparently mature
stock is merely dead ear on a dead
stock, with the result that the seed
is immature. Careful paintings made
from this type of selection has given
badly diseased stocks, poor yield,
many being barren"
AS assistant pathologist for the U.
s. department of agriculture for sew
eral years before coming to Huron
DR.. Evans spent much time in spe-
cial study of the diseases of corn
One of the outstanding results of an
intensive investigation was in the
matter of selectin gseed corn from
dead stocks. 1t was found thai
when farmers go into field early In
the fall to get seed corn, many o.
them look for mature ears on mature
stocks.
The investigation disclosed that thu
ears which seemingly mature earlies
are diseased, being killed by root-rot
resulting in immature seed. Otter
this is mistaken as being an earl,
| maturing variety of corn. "Selec
your mature ear from green stock,
is the advice resulting form the in
vestigation. DIR. Evans states tha
the root-rot is caused by the sam
organism which caused the whea
scab that damaged so much Sout
Dakota wheat this year.
/ Several years ago DR.. Evans spen
some time in South Dakota carryin
on Investigations in diseases G
wheat. He is an expert In patholos
ical matters, in diseases of all CT
reals. He has now resigned his pos
i ton with the department of agricu
ture and holds the chair of biolog
in Huron college.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Plan Additional Bonus
For Ex-Service Men

Watertown, Oct. S.-Information
from the congressional delegation of
South Dakota in the hands of the
state publicity officer of the Amer
ican legion in Watertown indicates
that there have been numerous bills
introduced into congress providing
for an additional bonus to ex-service
men. This is largely because the
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08

Sioux City, Oct. 8.-General quail
ity of the Tuesday run was above
that of the opening day, and this fact
tended to hold the bulk of the sales
pretty close to the same position
Most Of the sales landed within a
spread of $500 016.00. while one
salesman split quarter to make the
top, which was $16.35.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Narrow Escape in
Airplane Accident

Mineola, l.. L., Oct. S.-Benedict
Crowell, assistant secretary of war,
narrowly escaped injury this after
noon when an airplane in which he
was passenger fell about fifty feet.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Thresher Killed
by Blower Belt

Roswell, Oct. 8.-While attempt
ing to extinguish blaze that had
started in a threshing machine.
caused by an over-heated bearing,
VIM. Clancy suffered injuries which
proved fatal when he became entan-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08

morning, according to information
obtained at the white house. The
presidents appetite is much better
and he is very anxious to get out OF
bed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
Senate Takes Up
Prohibition Bill

Washington, ID. c., Oct. 8.--With-
out debate or opposing votes the sem
ate today agree to conference re-
port on the prohibition enforcement
bill
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08

Woman Reads Letter and Ends Life.
After reading the first letter she had
received from Germany in five years, q
letter stating that six of her relatives
had been killed In the war, Stella
Farra, fifty years old of New York
city, leaped from a 50story window
of an apartment house and was In
stantly killed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
President Wilson
Much Improved

Washington, d. c., Oct. S.-Presi-
dent Wilson was much improved this
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-08
ror As OLD a sxx HOOKS

Women do not like to look older than
they really are Neither do men. Both
sexes are subject to kidney trouble. and
kidney trouble makes the middle aged
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-09
TOO MUCH HOT AIR.

The congressional committee inquiring
why men and women sent to New York for
deportation are not being sent out of the
country have found that American lawyers,
citizens, eagerly defend" these enemies of
government without compensation" and
that existing law does not fully cover their
cases. From this it seems that congress must
make new laws for deportation, and while
doing so it should cover these lawyers
Yet the committee may discover, if it goes
into the matter far enough, there is law
enough if the government will employ law
yers as sharp as those defending these enc
my aliens. In measure it's the fault of our
political system, not of our laws.
The fact of the matter is the government
has not gotten after the "reds" as it should
get after them, and probably won't. The de-
partment of justice has been satisfied with
emitting a lot of hot air regarding the
''reds" as well as concerning other matters,
including the high cost of living, to combat
which two million dollars was given by con-
gress, with the net result, according to Off
cial report, of an increase in the prices of
eighteen articles of food and decrease of
only two-tenths of / per cent. in the prices
of twenty-five articles. 1t is time the depart
ment made good some of its promises.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-09
THE NEWBERRY INDICTMENT

The indictment of Senator Truman H.
Newberry, of Michigan, for statewide
frauds and corruption in his election to the
United States senate indicates a deplorable
condition of self-respect in state which has
produced some able statesmen, and which
has never been besmirched with such extern
sive corruption or Frustrated with such polit-
zeal mental mediocrity before. Peculiar ele-
ments enter into the whole sensational deal
The exposure of Henry Ford's monumental
incompetency, his gross ignorance of public
questions and his superficial mentality in
dealing with them may be set against the
ambition of a rich aristocratic family to
have one of its members sit in the United
States senate, and its readiness to corrupt
the electorate of the state to accomplish that
end. If the indictments returned by the
Grand Rapids grand jury are sustained Sen
ator Newberry should be expelled from the
senate. If they are not sustained because
of technicalities in the law under which they
are brought and under which the trial of the
accused must be had it is still the duty of
the senate to make a comprehensive and i'm
partial investigation of his election, and if
he is found morally guilty of the charges,
even though not guilty of them, his seat
should be declared vacant. The time for
election by corruption is past.
Michigan owes it to itself to prove that its
government is uncontaminated. If it has
corruptly elected a man to the senate it
should undo the work. If it is faced with
the dilema of offering an egregious mental
nonentity as a member of that body it should
apologize to the rest of the nation and Ia
ment in sack cloth and ashes until it can
redeem its honor in a clean election