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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
LEGION MEN WANT P. M. FlREC
Lincoln (Neb.) Post Takes Exceptions
to Government officials Demand
for Use Of German.

a resolution requesting the govern
ment to relieve Henry G. farms. post
master OF Emerald, Neb., from his of
flee was passed by Lincoln (Neb.j
IoSt No. 3 of the American Legion. as
a result of the postmasters efforts to
Supplant the American language bv
the German language in a church Of
Emerald.
Inc trouble started when the pastor
Of the church invited two Legion mem,
berS 10 deliver patriotic addresses in
the church, When the speakers an
peared, farms objected to their pres
ence and called for vote of the con
greg3fion 10 decide whether they
should be ouSted. 1t was the win Of
the majority that the Legionnaires
should not be heard After the vote
the Legion members quietly left the
church.
The pastor. whose Invitation to the
Legion men was made In an eudeavor
to conciliate the pro-Gcrman and
American elements Of his church in
their controy erSy over the use of the
American or German language then
took the floor ana expressed his sur
prise at the turn Of events and left
the meeting.
In communication Of the patience Of
the American Legion members Lin
coin newspaper expresses the follow
Ing sentiment in its editorial col
umnS:
The policy Of the Legion to send
speakers to address meetings on in
Njtauou only and to teach American
ism by example rather than by force.
has everything to commend 1t. The
small groups of unassimilated folS
elgners In this country can readily be
curdied Into compact masses by hate.
on tine other hand, they can be dis.
solved in time by patience aud friend
ship. The American Legion is honor
ing the name 1t bears when 1t adopts
the latter course"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09

think-perhaps-that l could have
shot it. But I'm nor going to XIII does
There must be some reason for the
game laws. or they wouldn't exist
You're n funny one. Come three
thousand miles 10 hunt and then pass
UP the first deer you see. You could
almost have been your grandfather
to have done that. He thought killing
deer needlessly was almost as bad as
killing man. They are beautiful
things, aren't they?"
Dan answered him with startling
emphasis But the look that be wore
said more than his words.
They trudced on. and Lennon grew
thoughtful. He was recalling the pic
ture that he had seen when he had
whirled 10 look ~ Dan. Immediately
after the deer had leaped from its
bed. II puzzled him a little. He had
turned to find the younger man In q
perfect posture TO shoot his feet
placed IN exactly the position that
years Of experience had taught Len
nox was correct and withai absolute
~ moti0nleSs. What many hunters
take years 10 learn. Dan had seemed
to know by instinct Could it he. after
an. that this slender Weabl.ng. even
now bowed down with terrible
malady. had inherited the true from
tiersman's Instincts of his ancestors?
The result of this thought was at
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09

just opened, and it might be that Dan
would want TO procure one of these
creatures.
But I'm not sure I want to hunt
deer Dan told him. sYou speak Of
them as being so beautiful"
THEY are beautiful and your
grandfather would never hunt them,
either, except for meat. But maybe
youl change your mind when you see
buck. Besides. we might run into
lynx or a panther. But not very like
~ without dogs"
They trudged up, over tEe CARPET of
pire needles. They fought their way
through thicket of buckbrush. Once
they saw the gray squirrels in the tree
tops. And before Lenn0x had as much
as supposed they were near the haunts
OF big game, a yearling doe sprang up
from its bed In the thicketS.
For an instant she stood motionless
presenting perfect target. 1t was
evident that she had heard the sound
Of the approaching hunters, but had
not as yet located or identified them
with her near-sighted eyes. Lennox
whried to find Dan standing very
still, peering along the barrel Of his
rifle. But he didn't shoot. The deer.
seeing Lennox move, leaped into her
terrorpace-that astounding run that
Is one of the fastest gaits in the whole
animal world. In the wink of an eye
She was ont Of eiuht
"Why didn't you shoot?' Lennox de-
handed
"Shoot? 1t was Q doe. wasn't it?"
Good Lord. of course it was doe
But there are no game laws that go
back this far. BeSides-you aimed at
It,"
81 aimed just to see if I could catch
it through my sights. And l could.
My glasses sort Of made it blur-but
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
SYNOPSIS.

Warned by his physician that he
has not more than six months TO
live. Dan Failing sits despondently
on a park bench. wondering where
he should spend those six months
Memories of his grandfather and a
deep love for all things of the
wild help him in reaching a deci-
sion. In a large southern Oregon
city he meets people who had
known and loved his grandfather.
a famous frontiersnan. He makes
his home with Silas I.ernox, typ
zeal westerner. The only other
members OF the household are
Lennox's son, bill" and daugh-
ter. "Snowbird." Their abode is
in the Umpqua divide, and there
Failing plans to live out the short
span of life which he has been
told is his. From the first Failing's
health shows a marked improve
ment and in the companionship of
LennOX and his son and daughter
he fits into tho woods life as If he
had been born to it, BY quick
thinking and a remarkable display
of nerve" he saves Lennox's life
and his own when they are at
tackled by a mad coyote Lennox
declares he is a reincarnation of
his grandfather. Dan Failing |.
whose fame as a woodsman is
household word
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
Showing Him Up.

A New York lawyer was talking
about corrupt politician.
I'VE showed him mp" he chuckled,
almost as neatly as Lolita Golda
showed up her proflgate old earl.
GLOW did It come aboutp friend
Of the family asked, that Gobsa
Golde's daughter refused Lord Lac
IandT
"'Well. you see another friend OF
the family answered Lolita Golde IL
slightly deaf, and when the earl pro-
posed TO her She thought ne was So
letting for charity drive. ard so
she told him she was very sorry. but
she had promised her money in an
other direction"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09

earth, for this baby is now four months
old and healthier baby you would not
want. | am sending you picture of
her: Everybody says, That is some
healthy looking baby You have my
consent to show this letter. ~ Mrs. G.
W. BENZ, 13l 3rd Ave, Altoona, Pa.
No woman can realize the Joy and
happiness this healthy babe brought
into the home of Mrs. Benz, unless they
have had like experience.
Every woman who suffers from any
ailments peculiar to her sex, as indica-
ted by backaches, headaches, bearing
down pains, irregularities, nervousness
and 1.-THE blues" should not rest until
they have given Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound trial.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09

BOrn In Phlla-
deiphia, Pa, Mr.. Coleman was edu-
Gated in private schools in that city
and in New York. During his business
experience in various departments of
the. Pennsylvania railroad. he lived in
Philadelphia, New York City, Albany,
\. Y. Indianapolis. Ind, and Bethle-
hem. Pa.
During the war Mr.. Coleman served
In the American Destroyer Flotilla.
which had its base at Queenstown, Ire
land. Since the war he has been con
nected with the United States Embassy
in London
London Post of the Legion took Il
leading part in decorating the graves
Of American soldiers buried in England
Memorial Day, 1920.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
CHAPTER iII-conrinued.

Dan saw the door close behind him
ana he had an instant's glimpse of the
long sweep of moonit ridge that
stretched beneath the window. Then.
all at once, seemingly without warn
ing, it simply blinked out Not until
the next morning did he really know
why, Insomnia was an old acquaint-
ance Of Dams, and he had expected TO
have some trouble in getting to sleep.
His only real trouble was waking up
again when Lennox called him to
breakfast. He couldn't believe that
the light at his window shade was
really that Of morning.
Good HeaveRsn' his host exploded.
You sleep the sleep of the just"
Dan was about to tell him that on
the contrary he was a very nervous
sleeper, but he thought better of it.
Something had surely happened to his
insomnia. The next instant he even
forgot to wonder about it in the reali-
cation that his tired body had been
wonderfully refreshed. He had no
dread now of the long tramp up the
rdse that his host had planned.
But first came target practice In
Hans baggage he had a certain very
plain but serviceable sporting rifle of
about thirty-fOrty caIiber-a gun that
the information department of the
large Sporting-goods store in Gitche-
apoiiS had recommended for his pur-
pose Except for the few moments in
The store, Dan had never held rifle
in his hands. The first shot he hit the
Tunk Of fiyefoot pine at thirty
PAGES.
"Iut I couldn't very well have
missed it," he replied to Lemons
cheer. You see, ] aimed at the mid
debut ] just grazed the edge"
The second shot was not so good.
missing the tree altogether And it
was a singular thing that he aimed
longer and tried harder on this shot
fhan on the first. The third time he
r'ed stfll harder, and made by far
Vie worst shot of all.
hats the matter?" he demanded.
IN getting worse all the time"
LennoX didn't know for sure. But
he made long gnoss ~ ,,iah+ no
beginners uck no sotd pm -, IN
cIned 70 think you're trying too hard.
TAKE 1t easier--depend more on your
instincts"
Dams renlv was - uf+ tho r,eo
lightly to his sbouldar clanoo nr,al,lv
along the trigger and fro Tha h,,Ita,
struck within one inch ~ tho can+or
of The nine
For long second Tanrov co7oa .,
hn IN onen-ro,,tbod aetanf1 I--r -,
stHf, . -. ~
.Was misto Ivy T., H. .s, tI.e" AZ 'aSt'
a born tepderfoot-aftor ans Ca, q
hs That -.ie 20 ,.ann a., &C
la-s skin has heon 80 80 $50 a
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
MEMORIAL AT CLINTON, MICH.
PEPPER Post Unveils Monument In
Honor of Veterans Who Served
In Last Four Wars.

Frederick +. PEPPER Post Of the
American Legion Mt Clinton, Mich.
has unveiled Il monument erected by
the post in honor of sons Of Clinton
who served in the last four wars of
the country
Patriotic citizens Of the town do
mated a plot Of ground surrounding
the monument which viii be convert.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09

IL. y. Coleman, adj
jutant of London
Post No. l of the
American Legion,
is in close touch
with the entire
Legion program.
Mr.. Coleman was
one of the found
ers of the Legion
at its first caucus
in Paris and or
sanized the post
in the British cap
ital.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
JOY BROUGHT
into HOME
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, Restoring
Mrs. Benz to Health
Altoona, PA am writing to tell
you what Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable

compound has done
for me. We have
h ad six children
die almost at birth.
From one hour to
nineteen days is all
they have lived. As
/ was going to have
another, | took a
dozen bottles of your
We ge table Com
pound and | can say
that it is the great
- - - =, J
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-09
O TIE O!
AMERICAN
LEGION
Copy for inis Department supplied by
the American Legion News service
ONE OF LEGlON'S FOUNDERS
Walter n. A. Coleman, Adjutant Lon
don Post, No. I, Organized Body
in British Capital

Although he is thousands of miles
from National Headquarters. Walter
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
CASS SUCCEEDS
MRS. WA|vZER
OF SOUTH DAKOTA
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSN. RE-
SIGNS FOR OTHER DUTIES.

Huron, Feb. 23.-Mrs. <. p.
Wanzer of Armour, state chairman
of the South Dakota Public Health
association, rendered her resigna-
ton in January and it became ef
fective February Is. Mrs. Wanzer
stated that many other demands
upon her time compelled her to re-
linquish this work.
Mrs. Wanzer organized the Red
Cross Seal commission in 1913 and
was largely responsible for its prog
ress. Today there are 80 visiting
nurses in the state and seven school
nurses with 100000 school children
enrolled in the modern health cruz
sade work in addition to the other
activities of the association which
last fall reorganized and changed its
name to the South Dakota Public
Health association.
Mrs. Wanzer was asked TO name
her successor and appointed III. M.
Cass who came to South Dakota
from Minneapolis and has acted as
field worker in the organization for
the past year. He was a first lieu
tenant with the American forces in
France and Mrs. Wanzer expects
that he will be accorded the same
cooperation given herr
The headquarters will be moved
to Huron from Armour, to make II
more central. During the time that
II hse been in Armour the fourth
class postoffice was changed to q
third class office because Of the VOL
ume of mail
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
SPEEDY PEACE
|THGERMAVY
THE PLAN HAS BEEN VIRTUAL
LY DECIDED UPON BY HARD
ING.

st. Augustine, Fla, F.. %
The program for bringing about
speedy peace between the United
States and Germany has been virtu-
ally decided upon. 1t follows the
passage by the senate and house of
the Knox resolutions or a similar
measure declaring peace; informal
exchanges between the United States
and the allies and the United States
and Germany to adjust financial
matters and other questions relating
to peace, the dispatch of an Ameri-
can minister to Berlin and the ac-
ceptance of a German minister at
Washington. Negotiations will be
conducted by secretary of state
Hughes. The United Press dispatches
from Europe today said the allies
have virtually stopped discussions
pending the Inauguration of the
Harding administration
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
HIGH COST OF
ROAD BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION IN 1920 BESET
WITH MANY DIFFICULTIES.

Washington, Feb. 23-Every kind
of road cost about twice as much to
build in 1920 as it did in 1917, ac-
cording to the chief of the bureau
of public roads, United States de-
partment of agriculture, and high
way construction suffered more
than any other class of work
through railroad congestion, strikes,
labor troubles, and material short
ages.
After the war there was great
public demand for improved roads.
Many roads had been seriously dam
aged by war traffic, and it appeared
that the return OF men from mill
tary service would provide an abund-
ance of labor. The army of labor
ers which was expected to apply for
the work did not, however mater
ializs. On the ontrary. there was a
distinct shortage of labor, and wa
ges reached the highest levels at
tanned in the history of the country.
In 1917, competent labor could be
secured for from $3.50 to SO per
day, but the corresponding wages in
1920 were from SO to SIS for a
shorter days work.
In proportion to this demand
there was also a pronounced scare
ity of construction materials. Sand,
gravel, stone, and cement, and ma
terials commonly uEed in road work
increased in price between 1917 and
1920 from SO to 100 per cent. Ma
turally, these increases in cost were
reflected in the prices paid to con-
tractors for road work. Gravel
roads increased from $4,535 to ST.
$50 per mile; concrete from $21, ,165
to upward of $4,000 per mile, and
brick roads from $4,000 to $685.
900 per mile.
AS funds available for road con-
struction are largely limited by sta
tute, or by the returns from tax
alton, majority of the states this
year have deliberately withheld
work, the plans for which had been
completed, until they could obtain
greater return for their expendi-
ture.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
MODERN WOODMEN
INITIATE LARGE CLASS
LOCAL CAMP FINDS GROWTH
SATISFACTORY. SIOUX FALLS
DEGREE TEAM PUT ON
WORK.

Members of the local Modern
Woodman camp are pleased over the
success of the public meeting held
at the high school auditorium last
evening. Not only did the entire
force of the local order turn out but
members from Flandreau, Ramona,
Wentworth and Winfred drove into
of ten.
Assisting State Deputy p. HI. Will
ladsen and District Deputy, the Wis
iting degree team from Sioux Falls
took an active part in the ritulistic
procedure along with the local drill
corps.
The fraternity had the pleasure of
listening to an instructive and in
teresting talk by National Lecturer
C. T.. Renner who accompanied the
state deputy over from Flandreau
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Renner
gave a detailed account of the
splendid work being down at the
Colorado Springs sanitarium where,
besides the regular number of tu-
berculosis patients between nearly
seven hundred ex-service men, in
cluding sailors, are receiving treat
ment from a staff of skilled sur
geons.
Among the inter esting features OF
last nights program was the M. w.
A. song rendered by Miss Newton.
This was splendidly given and
touched the sympathies of all pres
ent.
State Deputy p. III. Willadsen
spoke on the advantages of fratern-
ity insurance in contrast with the
insurance offered by old line COM
panies. The benefits to be derived
from Woodman insurance was very
evident after the speaker left the
platform.
The stunts provided by Niger
Bill and Roxie" caused much mer-
riment.
At the close of the evening cere-
monies local members together with
all visitors repaired to Eagles hall,
where a fine lunch was served.
The local camp is taking on new
life and interest. AT the present
time there are $50 active members
in the local order all anxious to
seek recruits and help augment the
1,055,0O0 other brothers who hold
beneficiary insurance in many hun
dreds of similar camps all over the
United States and Canada.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
Harness Men
Are To Meet

Sioux Falls, Feb. 23.--At direc-
tors meeting of the South Dakota
Retail Harness Dealers association
held at the Cataract hotel Sunday
afternoon, final arrangements were
made for the annual convention of
the organization which is to be held
in Sioux Falls May 24-25-26, at
which time an elaborate exhibition
was also decided upon as part of
the convention, the Catract hotel be-
ing the place selected for the annual
event.
Charles Haegle, of Sioux Falls.
president of the association, presid-
ed at the meeting which was well
attended by a number of outside
state representatives each of whom
expressed enthusiasm over the pros
poets of the coming convention
Prominent among the speakers to bs
heard at the convention according to
the tentative program as now ar
ranged, will be Wayne Dinsmore,
secretary of the National Horse as
sociation, of Chicago, w. F. Kum-
lein, of Brookings, Curtis Mosher
Of the Federal Reserve bank. Min
neapolis. Jas. Gilbertson. Bred Bar
ber. Dell Rapids, and Charles Haze
gle Of Sioux Falls. The program
which Is now In the course of con-
struction will appear later.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
GENERAL BUSINESS
SHOWS A DECLINE
REDUCTION OF S8 PER CENT IN
TRANSPORTATION OF LUMr
BER INDICATES CONsTRUC-
TTON STAGNATION.

Sioux City, Feb. 23.-GeneraI
business is still from Is to 20 per
cent below the level of the corre-
spending period in 1920, according
to the weekly reports of the western
railways that were received in Sioux
City. There are symptoms of trans
portation prostration in many local
tiles. This decline in rail traffic is
credited with being responsible for
much of the lethargy in building
construction and many of the indus
tries.
In coal deliveries there has been
an average decrease of 35 per cent.
Stagnation in the building trades is
indicated by the decline of 33 per
cent in the volume of lumber trans
ported throughout the country. High
priced freight, including flour and
cold storage products, is credited
with decline of II per cent.
Movement of grain on the Him
ois Central railway is 5 per cent less
than it was year ago, the company
reports. Coal declined in volume.
There has been no improvement in
lumber. Local traffic was IA per
cent less.
The total number of cars handled
on the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST.
Paul railway, including those receiv-
ed from connecting lines, is about 80
per cent below the record for the
same period year ago. Improve
ment is reported in live stock load
ings of per cent and per cent in
flour and mill stuff.
Miscellaneous freight on the Mil
waukee railway declined 32 per cent,
lumber AZ per cent and grain per
cent Coal shipping is far below the
record of 1920.
A drop in total loadings of freight
on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railway of % per cent is an
nounced. Merchandise and coal
were % per cent lower. Grain and
live stock increased and Is per
cent, respectively.
I On the Chicago and Northwestern
railway the aggregate volume Of
traffic was reduced IL per cent.
Lumber continues to move very
slowly, showing decrease of 40
per cent. Coal loadings were 81 per
cent under the 1920 record. Mis-
cellaneous freight was % per cent
less and merchandise IT per cent
lower. Grain declined z per cent,
these shipments having been affect
ed by the adverse market conditions.
Live stock was per cent less than
year ago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
and cities reporting to the state
board of health.
Memorial day will be given a

BOARD or health.
Memorial day will be given a
deeper patriotic significance under
the Wickre citizenship bill adopted
today in the house. On Memorial
day it provides that all citizens ma
turalized during the year or coming g
OF age within the year shall be pre-
sented with a pamphlet of patriotic
documents with appropriate exer-
cises designed to impress upon them
the dignity and responsibility their
citizenship carries.
The senate adopted a resolution
submitting constitutional amend
ment authorizing the legislature to
fix the salaries of constitutional state
officers by two-thirds vote. 1t now
has that power on the much more
numerous appointive offices and all
appropriations are made on a two
thirds vote. But at the last election
and on frequent previous occasions
the people have refused to trust the
legislature on this point One of
the chief reasons urged early in the
session for constitutional conven-
tion was the need of some change in
the salaries of elective or constitu-
tional state officers. When the con-
vention idea was abandoned it was
hoped by the state affairs commit
tee that this amendment might be
the only one submitted This now
seems improbable and this amend
ment will have to fight its way with
the rest if the house agrees with the
senate is submitting it,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
MADISON

country In whics the study of pre-
historic life through the specimens
which are scattered in the shales of
that section.
This, as well as the North Dakota
tracts, is not such as will attract
anyone under the land laws, and If
a portion of it was withdrawn from
settlement alone without any fur
ther action it would be preserved in
case 1t Is found that the deposits of
that part of the state have any other
value than that of fantastic geologi-
cal formations and deposits of re-
mains of the animal life which ex-
listed In the distant past.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-02-23
Dakota B a n k
Issue To People

Mitchell, Feb. 23.-The South Da-
kota legislature will be required to
call for a vote of the people as to
whether state bank should be es-
tablished, it was announced today
by Tom Ayres, Of the nonpartisan
league headquarters here, as $4,000
names have been procured on the
initiative bank petitions being cir
culated by the league.
Mr.. Ayres and committee of
farmers will file the petition with
the secretary of state on Wednes-
day, and the legislature will be re-
quired to call special election to
submit the state bank bill, or Will
be required to submit It at the next
general election. Less than TO-
900 names are required to make the
petition legal.