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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03
LIFE SERVICE APPoIN T.
'UIo WY IIWIyI
c. l.. NELSON,
Secretary,

LIE n = CEhN1Cb AEGOlN l.
MENT FOR CUSTER COUNTY
Charged with the duty of recruiting
young men for the service of the church
as ministers or missionaries, Rev. w. 5.
Harper, of Custer, has been named
county representative os the Life Ser,
vice Department of the Inter Church
World Movement for Custer county.
The appointment was made by Rev.
L. w. Fife!d, state representative of the
department, whose headquarters are al
Sioux Falls. 1t will be the task of Mr..
Harper to select likely young men in
the county who wish to enter the ser.
vice of the Protestant church as tbs now
co-ordinated by the Inter-Church World
Movement of North America.
The importance of Mr.. Harper's work
is readily recognized when it is realized
that all the church colleges and semin.
aries now existing in the United States
are unable to supply the demand for
pastors and missionaries or even to fill
the places left vacant by those who fall
sick and die, or enter other business.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03
TELEPHONE COMPANY
ADOPTS NEW RU

The following letter has been received
by Mr.. T. II Richardson, President OF
the Custer County Telephone Co., from
the State Board of Railroad Commission
ers, regarding collection Of telephone
rentals:
Pierre, S. d., March s, 1920.
T. II. Richardson, Pres Custer County
Telephone Co, Custer, S. ID.
Dear Sir:-This will acknowledge re-
ceipt Of your application of the 29th
ult. in which you request permission to
put into effect the discount rule as ap,
piled to the collection of telephone
rentals. In answer thereto, will say
that the said application has been pre-
sented to the board and / have been
instructed to advise you that permission
has been today granted your company
to bill your subscribers 25c per month
per telephone in excess of your legal
filed rates now in effect, from which
you will allow business and residence
exchange subscribers a discount of 25C
per month telephone where the rental
rate is paid on or before the 10th day oil
the current month; and where your
rural party line telephone rental rate is
paid on or before the last day of the
first month of the quarter, discount OF
25c per mouth per telephone will be al.
| lowed.
This will be your authority to put the
rule into effect, if you so desire. Should
you put the rule into effect, see to il
that it's terms are lived up TO. You
should fully instruct your subscribers,
however, that the company has adopted
the rule aud been permitted by the
commission to put such rule into effect,
as we'll as furnishing your subscriber:
with the reasons and necessity for the
establishment of such rule. The adop-
ton of the rnIe by other telephone
ompanies in the state has wonderfully y
assisted srch companies in promptly
collecting its rentals and after the sub
scribers become acquainted with thi:
manner of paying telephone bills, have
no opposition to its continuance.
Very truly yonrs,
H. A. USTRUD,
Secretary.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03
TOWN JUDGED BY ADvERT1sIN @

BY watching the advertising columns
of a newspaper we are enabled to know
the exact condition of mercantile affairs
and the general prosperity or depression
in the town where that paper is publish
ed. We can sit at our desk and pick
out the live business towns and the
dead towns. There is no better index
to town than its paper; it is better
criterion to go by, and is considered so
by sagacious men, than photograph;
it is the enterprise of the inhabitants
and not the size Of the buildings that
make the town. You may pick up a
paper and read at a glance, eve mean
business" or "We are deader than a
stuffed bird" as plain as though it was
printed in ten line plea and red ink
across every page -Alger (Ohio) News
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03

w. s. Harper received official notice
this week Of the success of the Govern
ment claim in the case of the young SOL
dier, Mr.. Ludwig Larson, lately admitted
to the State Sanatorium. Mr. Larson
came to Caster last summer for bis health
and has been living here since. While
much benefited by the climate he was
not able TO work. He was finally placed
in the Sanatorium. The Government
claim which has teen handled through
the Home Service Department, which
has Just been allowed, will bring Mr..
Larson $4,000 per month and will date
from June lst, 1919. This amount will
continue beside free treatment until he
is able TO again resume work.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03

The Spazzfe sale held Wednesday was
well attended. Notwithstanding the fin
ancial situation the stuff brought good
prices. One thing was demonstrated,
that it pays to keep good stock in good
shape. The Spazzie's had good stock
aud know how TO keep them, and be-
side Kneeland was the auctioneer-a
three-fold combination which prophesies
success. Cows sold at around 500 90
average. One team brought 1882. 90.
The sale amounted to $4,000 90. The
Spazzies had stock sale last fall which
brought them around $5,O0000 By
hard work and good management they
have accumulated this amount beside
the ranch, since coming 10 Custer coun-
ty, nobody would Withhold the success
which they deserve.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03

The fishing season must bo on in the
northern Hills An enterprising youth
is advertising in the Lead Call that he
will furnish angle worms OF the tempt
ing variety.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-03
TOWN CAUCUS.

Considerable interest developed by
Monday night in the Town Caucus foi
the placing in nomination a ticket fol
the various town Offices. About ninety
citizens were present and the voting wal
very spirited at times. The following
ticket was finally evolved;
TOWN TRUSTEES.
Ist District-0. l.. Metcalf.
2nd District-Geo. A. Babcock.
3rd Dislrict-Wm. r. Hoy.
4th Districts +. Ainslie.
9th Distrct-E. X. Tay lor.
Town Cerk-H. +. Way.
Town Treasurer-C. E. Perrin.
Town Assessor-W. 5. Harper.
Justice of the Peace-W. j. Reynick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
Gist of the NelUs

Suffrage due for decision early this week.
 Tennessee river rises after cloud burst.
 Coal confiscation stopped by court. Find source of narcotic supplies.
 County warrants declared invalid.
 Daniels comes out for suffrage. Gas and oil cost more than coal when used in furnace.
 Mine engineer shot and killed at post of duty.
 Governor Conner offers s2OO.OO0 to aid farmers hold cotton.
 Kelly Ingram Memorial Campaign to be launched.
 oil .tn men deny action to lower price of seed.
 Housewives and farmers to discuss nuniciDal market.
 Alabana iasd available for suitable settlers.
 Women enter in Fir.t Aid contesr at field meet.
 Land conveyance set aside by order of court.
 .Moatxenery City" launehes st Mobile shipyasda.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
DANIELS NOW OUT
 FOR SUFFRAGE, TO0 Naval Secretary Says It
 Was Promised In Plat Es,. form, So Do It
Tr.M
ey Aaseela.sd psss

Raleigh. N. c, August 14.--Secretary Daniels got. into the fight over suffrage ratification in his home state tonight. In a formal statement the Secretary appealed to southern democrats" to help win the next election by giving their approval to equal suffrage and at tho same time bitterly assailed de- tenders of the states rights plea.
 The navy secretary called upon his fellow partisans to observe the pledges and promises of their national and state platforms. This admonition he directed at both the North Carolina and Tennessee legislatures.
 The message sent to the Tennessee legislature by W. H. Williamson, presi- dent of the States Rights Defense League, and in which he said The President next President. the United States Senate, and the Secretary of the navy had brought pressure on anti suffragists, was attacked by Secretary Daniels as "unjustifiabie and unneces- sary." He said it probably would be news to the legislators of North Caro- lima to know that pressure was being brought on them" by him.
 The Williamson charge that "a crime was being perpetrated" was answered with the simple statement that the Secretary believed MT. Williamson was ignorant of the meaning of the word."
 A<If Mr. Williamson should un-
 lertake to have all of us punished
 who perpetrate this crime, to seek
 ratification of federal suffrage the
 IL H. h~
 (Contfnued on Page Ten)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
PROMPT ACTION ON
 TREATY, IS BASIS
 OF COX ARGUMENT
Gilbert Says, However, He Fails to Arouse Much Real Enthusiasm Over
 League of Nations
By CLINTON W. GILBERT

Wheeling, w. Va, August IA. - Especially = Governor Cox made a reservationist speech in opening his cam paign for the presidency here today before the democratic state convention.
 His big issue as indicated in this address is action upon it, putting it into practical opera tion," as he expressed it, with out months of useless discus sion.
 The speech implies rather than ex- presses willingness to accept reser- vations. The working of the governors mind is shown in the sentence: The platform of our party gives US the op- in the greatest movement of righteous ness in the history of the world, and at the same time to hold our own in- terests free from peril"
 Those last words, "our own interests free from peril" are not Wilson doc trine.s They imply recognition of the reasona bleness of some of the doubts that prompted supporters of reserva- tionsc.
 The speech gets away from the Will son position in many ways. The Lodge reservations are not condemned the republican senators are not accused of breaking the heart of the world. in the language of the President but of
 (Continued Pane Three)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
Boys Nearly Pop
 With Importance;
 Ride With Wilson
ay Assoeisssd Press


 Washington, August I4.-Three kids, just out of n swimming hole in Rock Creek park. were picked up today by President Wilson, treated to . 45-minute motor ride. and dropped out at their home in town 50 proud the folks there could not hold them with n rope.
 The trio had just come from n and were hiking along the road House ear and recognized the President. on came their caps, and as Mr. Wilson ordered the ear stopped. they timidiy approached and asked how he was getting along.
 Hop in.- said the President, and they hopped.
 All along the ride they kept their eyes on the President and Mrs. Wilson. and answered more ques- tions thnn they asked. Water from tousled heads trickled over three sunhurn~d faces and dropped on the Presidents shoes. One young ster tucked to save the President,s shine and npoIoEised. but was told not to worry.
 Coming down Connecticut ave- nue. the youngest of the trio. n thin, frsil lad barely eight years old. xpied . kid he knew and called to him by name. The youngster in the street dropped . loaf of bread and gasped.
 When the kids got out all three shook hands with the President and Mrs. Wilson.
 '.So long, be.. one shouted to the secret service man on the front seat. The President smiled bsoad- Iy, Islted bis bst apd stsFtsd home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
WILSON'S MESSAGE CLEARING THE AIR American Attitude Gives Firm Ground for French
 and English Stand
By AuoeIarsd Ere.

Paris, August 14.-Tension be- tween French and British govern ments Is rapidly abnting. in the opinion of most of the newsps2S through the recognition of Gen. Baron WrangeI is so improved that, according to L'Homme Lbre, am other meeting of Premiers Miller md and Lloyd George at Boulosne wilt be unnecessary.
 One Of the ciPc ms tan which may best favor resumption of close collaboration between France and England. says the l'etit Par isian. is the agreement now reai- ixed between France and the United States on the Russian qucs- tion- The Echo de Paris voices the same opinion.
 ''Boishevfsm k mn enemy. the newspaper continues. -and Eng land knows that perfectly. Tnz only questions involved are those Of tactics and nor or sentiment. [. These may separate her from France. but the voice from overseas reminds her with special force of European duty. as. it will help to efface nll divergencies between France and her allies"
 The Figaro says the Washington several good effects. in that 1t has brought moral aid to Poland ana cleared up the diplomatic situatiea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
.F|UME POET MAKES
 CELEBRATION PLANS City to Proclaim Its Inde-
 eendence or D'Annunzio Will Leave It
 EzKWE
sv A,,oe,ateo prsss

Trieste. August 14.-Gabriel D'Annunzio. the soldier-poet. last night addressed a meeting of his soldiers. at which time no members of the national council were in the city. Discussing the proposed extension of the area of Plume. he said
 T think the city must proclaim its independence and extend it's confines Plume is now limited with the bound aries set by Maria Theresa (Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary in the eighteenth century,. One feels suffo- catcd within them.
 'I have reason to believe that my proJ- ect will not receive the consent which I desire from the national council. 1 seek. instead, the consent of the. people of Plume. If l am denied it, I will leave before the anniversary of my entrance
 Serbian patrols yesterday fired on the poets sail ooas off the island of veglia. A machine gun on the D Annunzio craft returned the firs and silenced the Serbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
COAL DIVERSION
 HALTED BY COURT Confiscation By Carriers to Be Analyzed In Supreme
 Tribunal
By FIRED Fl. GoRmLEY
uonlomeFy Bureau Ine AoA-Heralo
 2zt-2 First Natleaai 6aak 1uiidin,

27t-2 FIrst Natlsaai Bask suiIdinS Montgomery. August N.-(SpeciaL)- Authority of a railroad to confiscate coal consigned to it for delivery to other per sons will be tested in the supreme court of Alabama.
 The Zimmerman Coal Company of Mo bile and Pensacola today obtained a temporary injunction from the supreme court prohibiting the Southern and Mo
 bile and Ohio railroads from taking over coal shipped to the company from coal
 mines in the Birmingham district. The temporary injunction was granted by
 John c. Anderson, chief justice, and ar guments will be made on the petition
 for permanent injunction.
 Chief Justice Anderson took action after Judge Semmes of the Mobile cir
 cult court had declined to grant the ps- tition. The company alleged that it held
 contracts for coal; that the railroads have persisted in the confiscation of cars consigned to it. and converted the coal to their own use, and that the state law which makes a common carrier guilty of embezzlement when it converts to it's
 own use goods rendered it for transpor- tation had been ignored.
 In granting the temporary injunctions
 Judge Anderson did not pass on the merits of the complaint. He merely put the case in such form as would give the coal company temporary relief while ths case is being considered. The railroads in recent weeks have confiscated many cars of coal which were consigned to other persons, alleging that such was necessary in order to furnish fuel with which to operate trains
 Coal consigned to the state has been taken in a few instances, and the stats board of control and economy made complaint last week which resulted in an investigation by the public service com mission.
 The Zimmerman Coal Company all legged that it is suffering heavy financia' losses as a result of the confiscatton of it's coal, as it is being forced to meet penalties because of the non-delivery oi coal according to contract while the railroads are paying it only the cost oi coal at the mine instead of the amount the company would have received had II been able to send the coal through Its regularly organized business channels 1 Confusion in the Demopolis territory about the taking away of cars whicf 1 had been consigned to shippers in tha
 section resulted from a misconstructior of an order of the interstate commerce commission according to telegram re ceived by the public service commission today from the director of service of tho interstate commerce commission.
 | The director said the order has beer misconstrued by local agents of tn, Southern railroad in the Demopolis ter ritory but that a correction had beer
 made which will be satisfactory to tht shippers However. the message did no
 say whether or not Demopolis will bs given the number of cars necessary fol
 the movement of shipments already un' jder contract.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
Cox Turns Spotlight on Republican Plan Of
 7reachery to Nation
Reveals C. O. P. Senatorial Ring That Takes Timd Olc Politician and Ties Him to a Front Porch, Mug zled and Mere Figurehead, So
 Standpatters May Rule

being under reactionary control. Gov
 ernor Cox said the late Colonel Roose-
 velt's fight for it's reform was only
 temporary in effect.
 Domination by political figures once
 violently repudiated by the American
 electorate, is unblushing and undenied, !"
 Governor Cox declared. The men who
 control the United States Senate are
 determined to annex the presidency to
 their domination, and in what they
 believe to be certain republican year
 they have done things that they would
 not have dared think of doing in the
 past. Recognizing the unrest of the
 hour and the disposition of the people to shake themselves free from the con ditions that surrounded them during the vexing time of war they have argued that the electorate would turn to the party not In power
 'sIn the first place, they have nominated one of their own num- her for President, and the party their creed of hate and intrigue. "They discuss plural government with self-evident candor. At times the upper branch of Congress has exceeded It's constitutional author ity, and it is dominated now with an arrogance without precedent. PEOPLE FESTIVE
 'T recognize now that the people are restive; that their emotions have been deeply stirred; that their conveniences have been interfered with by the ne- cessities of war, and that emergency taxes have been oppressive; but my message to the people of this republic is this: ~Stop, look and listen before you step. Ask yourselves what the reac- tionary policies have meant in the past Reflect upon the certain consequences of a senatorial oligarchy taking over the presidency and depriving 1t of the characteristics of leadership which tho constitution intended"
 Declaring that he believed in "evo- lution and not revolution" Governor Cox said he offered Ohio's record oi six years as a Statutory expression of progress.' citing in some detail the Ohio mothers pension, workmen's com pensation, rural school code and other (Cont1nued on Pnge Ten)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
WESTERN MINERS NOW
 WANT g A DAY MORE
By Associated prss

Cleveland. O., August 14-Rcpresenta- committee of miners and operators of the central competitive bituminous coa, field. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois and western Pennsylvania, at d joint conference to- night submitted to the operators dt- mand for a supplemental contract call ing for a wage increase of g per day to all day and monthly laborers and an increase of 10 cents per ton on both pick and machine mining, both retroactive to August 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

Today's communique comedies that the Poles withdrew further in the cen ter of the Warsaw front, asserting it was for the purpose of regrouping sol diers who have fallen back upon the defense line less than nineteen kilo- metres out.
 But even more serious than the
 approach In that direction, nccord-
 ing to observers, is the situation
 northwest of Warsaw. where some
 2,OOO red cavalrymen nre making
 rapid progress toward the vfstuIa.
 The cnvalry's right fInnk, which
 follows the wings of the Prussian
 frontier, has been reinforced by
 red infantry soldiers, who have
 requisftioned the peasants' horses
 and are following closely upon the
 heels of the cavalry division.
 The Poles say that there is no chance of the bolsheviki crossing the Vistula either below or above Warsaw, as the Russians have been doing habitually for 200 years in taking Warsaw from the west. and that all precautions in these sections have been taken.
 GAME STILL
 It is estimated it will require sev- eral days before the reds from the northwest reach the river. Meantime the newspapers continue confident that counter stroke will bring the re- suits desired to free Warsaw from im- mediate danger. The reds. however, are making a little progress daily at various points. particularly directly in front of the city and through the cav- airy thrust on the northwest.
 Warsaw's defense extends from the fortress of Novo Georievsk, through the fortress of Zegrje, through Radzymin, just beyond which the bolsheviki brought up artillery today, through Ceglow to the fortress of Ivangorod, sixty kilometres above Warsaw on the Vistula.
 In their westward drive. the reds, crossing the Bug river in the region of Brest-Litovsk. occupied Siedlice yes- terday, and Thursday reached kalu- szynn, just east of Warsaw. Kalu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
$500 OFFERED FOR
 SLAYER OF KRONER
By Assoeisted Prsss

Columbiana, August H.-A reward ss 500 for the slayer of Thomas Kroner chief engineer of the Boothton mine of the Southern Coal and Coke Company. shot from ambush Friday, was offe ca today by the company employing him.
 Efforts of state prison officers in charge of bloodhounds and Sheriff Jack sons force of deputies to run down the murderer had failed. Two steel baiIs entered Kroner's body, one piercing the lung. and and severing an artery. Prob able cause for the killing was ascribed today by Sheriff Jackson to recent troubles at the mine during a strike uf the men employed there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
By Associated Prexs

Wheeling, w. Va, August 14.-Charges that republican senators are trying to "annex the presidency to their dom- nation were made here to- night by Governor Cox in an address giving his first preten- tious attack on his politicial foes
 'The republican party has passed into reactionary control" the demo- cratic presidential candidate declared in his speech in public meeting on the Ohio river front following an early address to the West Virginia demo- cratic convention, in which he also f1ayed the Senatorial oligarchy."
 sG vvas not nominated by . senn- tsrfza ring any other kind of . ring,D said Governor Cox at to- Aayss meeting. sT decline to be tied to my front porch by n sena- toriaI ring. I deny it the right to. hold me there. muxxled in the face of grent public emergency, and when am elected l do not intend that a senatorial ring nor any other kind of q ring shall own me. believe in the constitution of the United States and the preservation of divided authority between the three coordinate branches as our fathers intended, each retaining it's Independence, but not exceeding its function"
 RING RULE
 Tho republican senators purpose, the democratic standard bearer declared with fling at what he termed the -plurai government" proposed by Sena- tor Harding, is ~to make executive administration not the affair of the responsible President himself. but of the ring that surrounds him."
 Charging the republican party with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
DELEGATES OFF

Warsaw, August A-The Polish peace delegates who are to meet bolsheyik rep resentatives to discuss an armistice and peace left at dawn this morning for Minsk. where the conference Is to be held.
 The string of automobiles carrying the delegates streamed out of the capital just as the day was breaking They are scheduled to pass the frontier east of Siedlce before o'clock. where they will meet holshevik officers who will con- duct them to Einsk.
 Some of the delegates have not been in bed for two nights.
 A nights preparation. with conferences held up to the last moment at various bureaus, preceded by the start.
 Much baggage was taken by the dele gates in addition to the records and ref erence books. Packages of food, enough for an extended stay if necessary, were also carried
 General I.istowski heads the military ewperts while aTnone the Diet members of the party is Stanila Grabziki the na . tional democratic leader
 A correspondent of the Associated
 (COntfnued on Page Ten)