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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-07-22
Bryant returned at $500. lowe.

S-s@AAs ASe~A ASN ~ vSV.Vss lOMCA.
ed per cent.
Grant returned at $62.99, lowered
IL per cent.
sisseton returned at $57.0s, low
cred 5 per cent.
Long Hollow returned at $3.50,
raised 10 per cent.
Harmon returned at $500. raised
5 per cent.
Hart returned at $59.7s, lowered
10 per cent.
Enterprise returned at sS2.22.
lowered Is per cent
Bossko returned at s45.32 raised
per cent.
Victor returned at $4s.ss, raised
10 per cent.
Lien returned at SCOTT, lowered
10 per cent.
Minnesota returned at $49.97,
raised,5 per cent.
Norway returned at $500, lower
ed 5 per cent.
Motion carried, all members yot-
ing aye.
| Motion was made by Twite, Sec
4 onded by Negaard, that sDwelling
Houses occupied by Owners" as re-
turned by the assessors of the differ
ent civil townships be raised or low.
cred as follows:
Lockwood returned at $764.7O,
lowered Is per cent.
Geneseo returned at $s21.27, low
cred 80 per cent.
Garfield returned at $7S4.s1, low
cred Is per cent.
Ortley returned at $355.40, raised
| 40 per cent.
Summit returned at $731.O6, low
cred 80 per cent.
Lake returned at $856.OO, lower
ed 80 per cent.
Spring Grove returned at $285.7l,
raised 80 per cent.
Alto returned at $659.61, lowered
25 per cent.
Lawrence returned at $965.62,
lowered 40 per cent.
Agency returned at $740.54, low
cred IS per cent.
One Road returned at $3SO.73,
raised 25 per cent.
Goodwill returned at $485.25,
raised 20 per cent.
Dry Wood Lake returned at$365.-
SO, raised 80 per cent.
Grant returned at $440.S0, raised
35 per cent.
Sisseton returned at $1027.02,
lowered 35 per cent.
Long Hollow returned at $456.S2,
raised 20 per cent.
Hart returned at $624.07, lowered
5 per cent
Enterprise returned at $538.S3,
raised 10 per cent.
Bossko returned at $461.76, raised
10 per cent.
White Rock returned at $452.5s,
raised 35 per cent.
Victor returned at $910.34, low
cred 35 per cent.
Lien returned at $4,000, raised
Is per cent.
Minnesota returned at $702. 80,
lowered IL per cent.
Motion carried, all members vot-
ing aye.
Motion made by Twite, seconded
by Negaard. that "Other Structures
and Improvements" as returned by
the assessors of the different civil
Townships be raised or lowered as
follows:
Lockwood returned at $862.7S
lowered 20 per cent.
Geneseo returned at $so2.ss, low.
cred 25 per cent
Garfield returned at 1858. lower
ed 80 per cent
Springdale returned at $796.5S
lowered 10 per cent.
J Ortley returned at $440.31, rafsel
80 per cent.
Summit returned at $227.S5
raised $50 per cent.
Lake returned at $133s.S2, lower
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-07-22
Proceedings of
Commissioners
(Continued from Page ~

Petition of j. L. Suffecool, Indian
Agent. asking that the taxes asses
sed against the personal property
held in trust for John Max, Jr., was
now considered by the Board On
motion duly made and carried said
taxes were ordered abated for years
1919 and 1920.
H. X. Christensen having been q
member of the Ortley Fire Depart
ment during the years 1917 and 1919
and having paid road poll tax for
those years, motion was made and
CARVED that sald taxes be refunded.
Petition OF Mandius Finnesand
asking that $3.50 personal property
tax charged against him in Enter
prise township be abated, was on
motion duly made and carried. al
lowed. The Board OF County Com
missioners being satisfied that thresh-
ing machine owned by Mr.. Finnesand
had been assessed for the year 1920
in both Hart and Enterprise town
ships.
Motion was made by Twite. sec
onded by Negaard that the amount
Of $500 be and is hereby appropri-
ated from the general funds of
Roberts county for the building of a
house 10x12x7, such house to be the
home OF Nils Lundby. county
charge. Motion carried, all members
voting aye.
On motion duly made and carried
the Board adjourned to 900 a. M,
July Z, 1921.
Attest:
NJ. A. Leversee, Chairman.
Elmer Pearson, County Auditor.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-07-22
A PRACTICAL EDUCATION

Full college courses in Agricu'-
ture, Home Economics, Engineering.
Pharmacy. Commerce, Music AMI
General Science.
College term begins September %.
Strong four year courses in Farm
ing and Home-Making for common
school graduates. School Of Agri-
culture opens October 81.
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE
Bookings
July S-4tpd
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-07-22

splendid work. They learn to make
all kinds of quick and yeast breads
and in addition are taking up cake
baking, which adds much to the in
terest in the work
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23

While others fretted, stewed and
 fumed Because the well known world seemed
 doomed, Old Clemenceau sat at his ease With long range rifle on his knees; And when two tigers passed the spot He filled them full of lethal shot.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
LIBERAL
Collier
By AHnan

Pastor-This morning I will have for my topic the great flood in Genesis.
 Prominent Member of Congregation (arising)-I've got an engagement to play golf so I can't stay, but I'll head the subscription list with $1001 to re- lieve the suffering Genesians.-Car- toons Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
A cineinnatian

Smith is very old-fashioned isn't he?" said Brown.
 He certainly is" agreed Mir. Jones. Why, he still refers to the automobile as the horseless carriage" ."-Cincinnau Enquirer.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
EMBARRASSING

These traffic cases are annoying" How so, girlie?"
 Our car was rather crowded. l had to go into court and testify that I was seated on a gentlemans lap.'- Louisville Courier Journal.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
NOTHING nnING

T told you to go to the music deal er's and get me The Lost Chord"
 ''The dealer couldn't find it. my dear. .'--Louisville Courier Journal.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
she-One more question.

He+-Yes. dear, I am listening.
 She-Will you love me when I'm old l?
 e-Well-er-this is practical age, you know, dear At any rate. I'll see that you get adequate alimony.- Boston Transcript
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23

More than s54,Oo0 worth of food was preserved last season by 1,250 girl members of food clubs organized and conducted by Ohio State university
Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
RhynNed Reviews ofReert News
 N 6yHoWard Mann

The president elect said: "lNix," We want no fete, they'll think we're
 hicks; Inaugural balls are not for us, Nor $50,000 fuss" Whereat the social climbers tore Their hair; some sighed and others
 SWOre.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05

disappeared among the blooming lau-
rels.
The man BY Heck wore the poor
clothing of a poor hillman. His hat,
which had once been black, was all
brim and yet all crown; his suspend
ers, which had been bought with a
'coonhide, were redder than fire; his
rundown cowhide boots seemed ridicu-
lousy short because Of the great
length Of his slender legs.
When he had reached a point some
three yards from Dale he halted,
placed the butt of his rife carefully
between his toes, and leaned on its
muzzle; then he deliberately began to
take eye measurements of the new
conner.
Dale didn't like the stare-to him 1t
was impudent.
"Well, what's the verdictT he asked
sharply.
Spoke like a man." drawled BY
Heck. Il reckon you must be up here
a-loollin' TO- coal"
'How did you reach such a conclu-
sion as that?"
"Jest plain boss sense" The droop-
ing mustache mutfied the words some
what. "The' amt but three things at
can bring a city man here, mister" he
drawled on, land them'S moonshine
stills, bad health, and coal. You shore
ai'nt got bad health and you ainAt got
the cut Of revenuer, though few
minutes ago thought mebbe We was"
And you shot at mew said Dale.
"No," objected Heck. II shot at yore
hat. l allus hits at what / shoots at,
mister. wanted We to turn yore face,
SOS could see 1t, and we did. AS TO
that coal
1.-The Morelands, they owns the coal
in David Moreland's mountain, and
they won't sell it To- no mount O.
money. They lives over in the settle
ment, them and the Littlefords.
They're every DANCED one fine folks.
I'm a-g0in' over thar now. Want to
go long? Say-dang my picture eff l
didn't fo'git to ak what might be yore
name, mister"
"Bill Dale" came quickly-"Bill
Dale. Settlement Sure Lead the
way, BY Heck. Who's the young wom-
an / was talking with when you came
up2
"Who7 Her? That's old Ben Little
fords gyurl. Her names Babe. That's
what they call her. She's got another
name; but it amt been used TO- so
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05
A FEUD OF THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS

From somewhere nearby OuntGtnStde rifles keen report
split the air. bullet whned like mad hornet DaIsS hat Jumped
little his head.
The awakening exceedingly rude Dale wbscle his gray
eyes aba and only ting cloud of smokms rising from the
IGarels more than fifty feet GWay
Come out, you cOwardP he rOGyed Come out and let
see you curiosity taking the place of anger has Vocs I've
Arrays WGnted to know Just wbat real hgbwGyman Rk
The mufled sound Of tg breaking short distance off his
Gpa of the finest cIcar brown eyes he had He her
eyes first; he never forgot that
She standing lon cliff beyond the sparkling creek that
owed beside the railroad and she partially hidden By cup
of blooming laurel But Dale could that she about Wenty
that every line Of her rounded graceful figure whispered Of doeIke
strength; that she straight young pine that her chestnut
rown hair caught tie sunlight and that her face ovGhaped
and handSome-ratber than prety-in spite of its tan
Dale took off his hat There bullet hole IN the very top
of its high-peaked crOwn,
who's the robert" he frowned
The girl blubed.
Me55e he amt ro55er she said "MeJ5s he thought you
was somebody else Anyhow you amt bad hurt GEE?
Dale smiled "Ob not serOusZyp
"YOu amt likely to be, ef ye behave yeseH."
the hero and heroine of The Clan Ca
Out of the ordinary Rather But then they extraordinary
the United States of America where live he
Americans whom other and educated Americans left
darkness of order that they might send missionaries
educators foreign countreshe mistake of church and
society since the Civil war"
But fascinating country people And this
of and them. Of it's
a with cut-ofdOors mind the heroine girl
the feud ntervenes between them but love
: feuds it does at Ocksmiths.
Hapsburg Charles Haven) Liebe men to tell
story Native of the soldier
saw6tter, patriot and emade literary craftsman
land and the people And his story is labor of love-
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05

yond the sparkling creek that flowed
beside the railroad, and she was par
TALLY hidden by clump of blooming
laurel. But Dale could see that she
was about twenty; that every line of
her rounded, graceful figure whls-
pered of doelike strength; that she
was as straight as a young pine; that
her chestnut-brown hSir caught the
sunlight, and that her face was oval
shaped and handsome-rather than
pretty-in spite Of its tan.
Dale took off his hat. There was a
bullet hole in the very top of its high
peaked crown.
who's the robberT he frowned.
The girl blushed.
"Mebbe he amt robber," she said.
'Mebbe he thought you was somebody
else. Anyhow, you amt bad hurt, are
yer"
Dale smiled. "Oh, not seriouslyp
"YOu amt likely to be. eff We behave
yeself."
IF l behave myself" Dale
laughed. "Why, I couldn't be naughty
If l tried; I'm the one and only mann
mas little Wlllie-boy! / wonder If l
could put up at some house near
here; eh?"
"The' might be-" she said, thought
fully.
"Where?"
AT pap's, or grandpap's, or with
most any O. my people; or" she added
with a contemptuous twist to her lips,
'you might stay with some o. them
low-down Morelands."
"Where do your people llve%
about six mile back that way"
She pointed over her shoulder with
a forefnger.
"Would you mind showing me the
way to your parental domicile?"
"Whats that, TO goodness sake?"
"Your home, you know" Dale ex-
planned with a smile.
"Oh my home. Why didn't We say
so, then? No, won't" she declared
Dale put his bag down and rested
his hands ON his hips.
"Why, may I inquirer
"'Cause l won't. I don't never
keep comp'ny with no strange men
folks. But yander comes BY, and he'll
show We the way; he's a-goin' over to
the settlement"
Dale faced to the right and saw,
coming toward him with steps that
would have measured almost four
feet, the tallest and lankiest indivld-
ual he had ever seen outside a circus.
The newcomer had smoothly shaven
chin, his coal-black hair was long and
his long mustache completely hid the
narrow slit that was his mouth. In
one hand he carried a repeating rifle.
"Who's that?" Dale half whispered.
That's BY Heck" answered the
girl. She continued in a low voice,
His names Sam Heck; but pap, he
called him by Heck one day, and the
nickname stuck to him like molasses.
Everybody calls him that now. even
the reyenuers. BY, he's the biggest
eater, and the biggest liar, in the
world But his lynn don't never do no
harm, and nobody keers. So eff We
want to go to the settlement, mister,
BY, he'll take We over. They mebbe
amt got what you're used to TO
eatln'. but yen be welcome to what
the Is"
She laughed a little. turned, and
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05

long it's been fo'got, / reckon. She's
the youngest one O. old Ben's children.
She hain't like none O. the rest O. the
Littlefords. BY gosh, she's awful high
headed. She can read good, Babe can
Old Major Bradley, from down at Car
tersyille in the lowland, he spends his
summers up here TO his health, and he
teached Babe how to read. Fine fell
Ter, Major Bradley. Lawyer. Babe
she has done read everything in the
whole DANCED country. The's sev'ral
Bibles, and a book about a Pilgrims
Progress, and a Bakers Hoss and
Cattle Almaneck, and a dic-dictionary.
but we'd better light out TO the
settlement, Mr.. Bill, or Wen miss din
ner, mebbe. I'm a plumb DANCED fool
about eatin'. ct twenty-five biscuits
o. tlour-bread this mornin' TO- break
fus', asides a whole billed hamshank,
and other things accordin'. It's the
dyin' truth! Come on, Mr. BILL"
They went down to the creek,
crossed it on stones, and began to
climb the low cliff.
After an hours travelling Heck
stopped In the trail and put the butt
of his rifle to the ground.
From right here, Bill" he said, I'VE
can see every house in the whole
DANCED settlement"
They were standing on the crest of
David Moreland's mountain. Below
them lay a broad valley checkered
with small farms; and each farm had
its log cabin, it's log barn and its apple
orchard. Beyond it all rose the great
and majestic Zig Pine, which was
higher and more rugged with cliffs
than David Moreland's mountain.
1.-THE Morelands lives on this side o.
the river and the Littlefords lives on
yam side" drawled Heck. "They don't
never have nothing to do with each
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05

an old, old sorrow, lis knowed as Da
vid Moreland's mountain mostly be-
cause David Moreland is buried in the
very highest place on top Of it, him
and his wife. He was my brother, and
was the best brother q man ever had.
1t was allus the talk o the neighbor-
hood how much we liked each other.
Up ontel the time he was married /
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05
CHAPTER |.
David MoreIand's Mountain.


Carlyle Wilburton Dale-known to
himself and few close friends as Bill
Dale-had laid out course of action
almost before the northbound train
had left the outskirts of the state cap
ital behind. 1t incurred facing big
odds; but other men had faced big
odds and won out, and what others
had done he could do. Indeed, he had
already done several things which
other men might not have thought OF
doing, and one Of them was leaving a
bride, not iguratively but literally, at
the altar in fashionable church But
he knew Patricia hadn't wanted to
marry him any more than he had
wanted to marry her.
1t was only natural for him to think
of coal, now that he had cut loose for
all time from the "set" in which he
had always been colossal misfit, now
that he must pull his own oars or vir-
tually perish. He had heard coal
talked since the day of his birth; to
him coal and business meant exactly
the same.
One of his fathers associates had
often spoken of fine vein in the
mountains of eastern Tennessee-had
often tried to persuade his father to
look into it, to no avail, Young Dale re-
membered that this vein lay not far
from long railroad siding called the
Halfway Switch, in the vicinity of Big
Pine mountain. The owners were
mountain folk of English descent, his
fathers associate had said Decidedly
strange, thought Dale, that his father
had never cared to investigate it.
The cindery little train reached the
long siding about the middle of fine
spring morning. Dale took up his bag,
FASTENED out, and soon found himself
standing alone in the heart Of an ex-
fremely wild section of country.
When the noises Of the little train
and the fast mail it had just met had
died away, there came the saucy chat
tering of boomer-squirrels and the
sweet twittering of birds Dale caught
the Joyous spirit. He could have
fairly shouted out of the fullness of
his very human heart Here all was
unspoiled and unprofaned, and some
thing whispered within him:
''They won't call you savage
here-make this your own countryw
From somewhere on nearby
xnOuntainside rifles keen report split
the air; bullet whined like a mad
hornet; Dale's hat jumped a little on
his head.
The awakening was exceedingly
rude. Dale wheeled, his gray eyes
ablaze, and saw only a tiny cloud Of
smoke-mist rising from the laurels
more than fifty feet away.
"Come out, you coward !" he roared.
ssCome out and let me see you" curl
osity taking the place of anger in his
voice. 1--WE always wanted to know
5ust what a real highwayman was
like"
The muffled sound of twig break
ing a short distance off to his left next
Chained his attention. He was being
closely watched by pair of the fin
est, clearest brown eyes he had ever
seen. He saw her eyes first; he never
forgot that.
She was standing on low Gilt be-
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05

went with him whar he went, and he
went with me whar l went. I'd fight
TO- him, and he'd fight TO- me. It's
hard to tell, even after this long
time. -.
David, he was strappin' big man,
like all O. the Morelands. He was
about yore size, and grey-eyed like
you, and he had brown hair like you.
When you walked up to the gate, 1t
made me think O. him the day he was
married; he was all dressed up in
dark blue like you. Then David
he went up here one summer and
found this vein o. coal. He got law
full p'session O. the mountain, and
moved his wife up here. The rest of
us lived over in the Laurel Fork coun-
try then.
Zone day got letter from David,
which said that a man named John X.
Carlyle was a-goin' to buy his noun
tain and the coal, and said that his
wife was pow'ful sick. A week later
she died, and left baby which died,
too, accordin to a old Injun by the
name o Cherokee Joe, who knowed
my pap and knowed David. And a
month later we was all dragged from
our beds by this same Cherokee Joe,
tellin' us that Carlyle had shot David.
Carlyle, Cherokee Joe said, was
a-drinkin' hard. The Injun seed the
shootin through a window.
1T was might nigh to three days
later when we got here and found
pore David a-layin' whar he'd fell.
We secured the mountains TO miles
and miles around in a s'arch TO- the
dawg who killed him, but we never
found him. :. The land up here
looked purity, and it belonged to us
by Davids DEATH SO we all moved up
here to live, and built US cabins.
Major Bradley found out about the
end O. my brother, and he wanted us
to put the case in the hands O. the
law. But we wouldn't do it. A More
land never goes to law about anything.
He pays his own debts, and he collects
what is his due"
John Moreland arose and paced the
porch floor which creaked under his
weight. He stopped before Dale, and
went on sadly:
''Now yell know why was so much
tore up when l heered yore name, the
Carlyle part. John X. Carlyle killed
the best man at ever lived. And meb-
be yell understand why we amt never
had the conscience to sell the coal,
which cost Brother David his life"
Moreland's guest sat staring absent
ly toward a brown-winged butterfly
that was industriously slipping honey
from the heart of a honeysuckle
bloom. He gave no sign that he had
heard anything out of the ordinary,
but in an odd, persistent way his mind
seemed to connect his father, John K.
Dale, with the story he had just heard.
John X. Dale had come originally
from West Virginia, and he had fatty
refused, time upon time, to make any
investigation of the Moreland coal
property.
The hillman interrupted young
Dale's thinking:
"Addie, she's a-goin' to have dinner
ready purity soon. Would We like to
wash, Mr.. Dale?"
YES" was the answer, and in the
tones Of Bill Dale's quiet voice there
was a shade Of meaning that More
land did not catch. eyes, I'd like to
wash"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-08-05
"What was you a-doin' here
a-talkin' to my gyurl?"

(To BE coNTINUED.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1921-01-03
TEXAS MOTHERS CONGRESS
1921 PROGRAM IS OUT NFD

A CSTIN. Tex Jan 3.-Important
y school legislation will engage
the attention OF the Texas leEis-
lature and viii include the county
unit plan or administration. the Eng
lish language law. the rural aid ap-
preparation and the necessary legis-
lation 20 put into effect the better
school amendment. announced Mrs. s
1T. A. Marrs. OF Austin. president OF
the Texas Congress OF Mothers and
Teacher associations, in a
communication addressed TO various
local councils and parent-teacher as
sociations throughout the state In
this communication Mrs. lIarrs stated
The Texas Congress Of Mothers. be-
sides other measures has agreed FOR
this year TO concentrate on. the fol-
lowing departments County organ
ration child hygiene, kindergarten
and marriage sanctity- You are there
fore requested TO assist the state or
galIEariOn In every way possible to
carry out the program as outlined
TO further county organization u is
suggested that your club organize
and foster at least one Parent
Teacher association in a ueighborinE
community and also cooperate with
the county chairman IN the organic
ton Of q county child welfare asso-
citation in case no such organization
has been effected in your county. The
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1921-01-03

state chairmeu OF the child hygiene
kinderEarteu and marriage saHctity
departments VIII be requested 20 fur
uish suitable program material TO be
material should be ready Tor ulstrlou-
ton by the first Of March and may
be obtained from the state headquar-
tiers.
Some important school legislation
which win engage the attention o.
the coming session Of the Texas leg
stature win include the county unit
plan OF standardization, the English
language law. the rural aid apprO-
priation and the necessary legislation
10 put INFO effect the better school
amendment
Another thing which we should
urge at this time is the payment Of
poll taxes. il our women wish TO
have their influence felt in the affairs
Of the state. they must accept the
responsibility that has been placed
upon them iu masking them FULL
fIedged citizens During the month
OF January every pareur-reacher as
sOclatiOn ia the state should organize
and carry on an active campaign and
see 90 lt thar eTIry woman in the
community possesses herself with a
poll tax receipt Remember that 81
Of each Doll tax belongs 10 the public
school fund.
The success OF our work for the
coming year VIII depend entirely
upon the support and cooperation
which I feel sure you and your or
Eanizalon VIII give me- and I wish
10 assure you that 7 shall put forth
every effort 20 serve you in promot-
ms the great cause On which we have
enlisted Wishing for you a success
ful years work.