davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22
SANTA HAS HIS GREATEST GIFT

We talked to Santa Claus the other
day, asking him what time he plan
ned TO come to our little town, be-
cause all the children were much in
tcrcsted to learn. Some Of the little
ones. we told him, feared he might
not come at all-that they might
be forgotten. But Santa smiled.
81 will be with you, have no fear,"
he said, "but Just the hour | cannot
say. If | get lots of help, it may
be early, very early, but who knows ?
When the mince pie is III the oven,
when the plum pudding is steaming III
the pot, when the bic gobbler is crisp
and brown and nuts and raisins rest
on mothers snowy tablecloth, when
sleepy eyes are opened to behold the
tree and the laughter of all the child
rem echoes over fields and down the
narrow city streets, when tender
hearts, Just everywhere, are all aglow
with the JOY OF human brotherhood,
there will not be. child in all the
land that will not know old Santa S
been around. A little lump will rise
in mothers throat and perhaps a tear
in dear old dad S eye will tell us that
the spirit of Christ still lives.
This year Santa said he will have
Gift for everyone, greatest gift in
all the world. OF course he will leave
the toys, the apples and the candy
sticks, but the candy will be eaten
and one day the tin soldier will be
bent. The big gift is to last forever
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22
THE FARMERS WIFE
BY Mary Ann Gray

Curing and Canning Of Pork
Home curing of pork is an old prac-
tice which has come into style again.
After the hog is killed and dressed
the housewives work begins. The
dry cure is preferred to brine packing,
and this method is advised by State
college. specialists:
For each 100 pounds Of meat use
8 pounds of salt, 2112 pounds OF sirup
warmed slightly, 2 ounces saltpeter,
ounces black peppei. and ounces red
pepper. Mix ingredients well and rub
mixture over meat; pack away in bar
rel and after third day repack to in
sure thorough contact with cure. For
each individual piece Of meat, per
pound, allow two days cure, as, a
l0-pound piece of pork should have 20
days curing Then hang away with
out washino off. In this method be
sure not to omit saltpeter.
Pure pork sausage is made from
this recipe 65 pounds fresh lean
meat, 35 pounds fat, l3l pounds salt
| ounce ground nutmeg, 2 ounces fine
sange and ounces black PEPPER
Cut meat in small pieces add spice, put
through finest grinder. Mix thor
oughly to get the seasoning uniform
If sausage is to be stored in bulk do
not add water, but little is necessary
# the meat is to be put in castings.
This sausage can be made from trim
mings and the only equipment needed
is a meat cutter with a suffer at
tachment. Sausage keeps well III
stone crooks if covered with a thick
layer of paraffin.
Pickled Pigs Feet--Soak in salt
pickle for several days, then boil feet
until done, but remove from kettle
before meat separates from the bone.
Split feet lengthwise, place in jar and
cover with vinegar to which bay
leaves, allspice and pepper are added.
When cooking ham allow it to cool
in the liquor it was boiled in as this
makes the flavor richer. The same
rule applies to tongue or any otheF
meat to be used cold.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Az WINNER FAILS

The First National Bank at Winner
last Saturday morning failed to open
its doors for business. The bank was
closed by order of the Board of Di-
rectors. The failure was caused by an
overload Of paper that could not
readily lie realized upon. Winner had
five banks, and the First National
bank, formerly the Lamro State, was
the Oldest Of the five The failre
came as somewhat Of surprise and
shock.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22
SANTA CLAUS WILL VISIT WOOD


ARRANGEMENTS have been made for q
community Christmas tree and enter
tainment to be given at the Legion
Hall tomorrow Saturday evening,
December %. The teachers of our
public schools have been working hard
)n preparing program for this occa-
SIGN. We are told that the Legion
Hall will be banked up and everything
possible will be done to make the hall
comfortable for that evening. There
will be Christmas tree and Santa
Claus has promised the committee in
charge to make personal visit to the
hall, arriving Immediately after the
program. There will be a treat of
ccndy, nuts and fruit for all the child
ren. The program will start promptly
at eight clock, and everyone is re-
ouested to make a special effort to be
vt the hall on time, and be sure and
bring the children.
The following is the program:
christmas Carol" School
Welcome Address Robert Galbraith
"Dear Little Stranger, Song
by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Cleavers class
His First. Recital" :" Dale Richardson
"a. B. C. - Dialogue
"Hush-A- Seven little girls
"Toyland, Playlet by Primary
"Kris Kringle," Ruth Weed
"Fairy, Strikc,' Grammar Room
ga Letter For Santa" :
Theodore Palmer
"Sing Again That Song to Me-. )"
Santa's Arrival.
Everybody welcome. Remember
we start at eight o'clock prompt.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22
FARM BUREAU NEWS NOTES
Developing Feeder Pigs on Alfalfa
BY Sam Bober, Experiment Station,
Newell, S. D.

Hogs are money makers. They are
the most profitable animals to raise
on the FARM because they multiply
more rapidly and make greater gains
per 100 pounds feed than other farm
animals. Hog-raising is especially
profitable where alfalfa is so easily
grown and is so plentiful. Alfalfa is
the most nutritious plant grown.
With supplementary grain ration it
will produce more meat per acre than
any other crop. While hog raising
requires a smaller investment in ami
mails and equipment, it will as a rule
yield quicker and relatively larger re-
suits than any other branch of live
stock.
Feeder hogs weighing 100 to l25
pounds by the middle of September
are the most profitable and easiest
grown in this district, for the rea-
son that the "flesh" on the spring
pigs is grown mostly on pasture, and
not laid on with lot of grain, and
at the same time they command the
Omaha top market price at the
local yards
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

Shipments of grapes from Califor
MIA have increased steadily during TIA
last six seasons, reaching total o.
approximately $4,000 cars in 1922, az
cording to reports of the Unite
States Department of Agriculture.
Of the total apple crop in the north.
vest, l5 to 20 per cent are of the
Delicious variety. according to reports
O the United States Department OF
Agriculture. This variety brings
higher prices than other prominent
varieties OF boxed apples.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

Santa found it in a manger. We for
got to ask its name, but as we look
across the years and view the setting
sun, we think that Jesus called it
Love, so let us watch for it on Christ
mas morn and nourish it throughout
the years, each day. each moment OF
our lives.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

Shipments OF grapes in 1922 from
the three leading grape growing states
n the east-New York. Michigan and
,ennsylvania were double their aver
lgc annual shipments according to re-
,orts to tho United States Department
If Agriculture. New York shipped
1,4S4 cars. compared with IN average
Of 1854 for the wears 19l7-l92l;
Michigan shipped 1888 cars, COM
pared with an avera'.e of 2,9l2; and
Pennsylvania, 1914, compared with
737.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

Of the fight against tuberculosis,
The county committee will give $40
for first and S. for second to the
schools selling the highest and second
highest amount Of seals per capita.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

The realization that some 10000
rcvolvcrs and 800 shotguns are now
IN the hands Of postal employees who
have been trained to use them accur-
atclv end instructed to use them when
needed. IS considered the real reason
Of the decrease in mail robberies.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22
Start in a Small Way

The beginner should take up hog
raising slowly and gains the necessary
experience as the business increases.
The farmer who has been raising hogs
in a small way an1r has the necessary
experience should be encouraged to
increase his herd to enable him to
raise a carload of spring pigs. 1t does
net take much work and certainly
yields large returns. The farmer rails
ing this many hogs Usually makes it
business to give them better care
and to feed them better and more reg
ulcrlv. He also becomes more eff
cient manager and feeder.
Pigs farrowed eaiIr arc grown out
N alfalfa with the aiu OF supple
mentary, = per cent grain ration to
weigh 100 to l25 pounds by the mid
die of September when the biggest de-
mand comes from the cornbelt feeders.
The fall pigs should be farrowed by
the middle of October. They should
be sclf-fed on third cutting alfalfa
and FED to 2 to 2l2 supplementary
grain ration. Skim milk and roots
help to grow the winter pig more
rheaply. These pigs should be grown
to weigh 100 pounds in the spring and
urned on the alfalfa pature till they
weigh $50 pounds. With the help of
2 per cent grain ration they will at
tain this weight in the later part OF
June, and be ready to be shipped as
feeders or as Pacific coast hogs, which
| usually bring higher price than mar
ket hogs.
In order to be able to raise a car
load of each fall and spring pigs it
will be necessary for the farmer to
have at least 40 acres OF good alfalfa.
This will afford more pasture than
!hc pigs will need and the alfalfa will
have to be cut regularly for hay, as
though there were no pigs pasturing on
it. This practice will lengthen the
life Of the alfalfa and the pigs will be
making cheaper gains than when the
alfalfa is pastured to full capacity.
| Water should be available to the pigs
at all tines during the pasturing sea-
son. 1t is not necessary to have fancy
| or elaborate buildings in order to sue
essfully handle hogs, but dry warm
quarters free from drafts must be
provided, especially curing farrow-
nc. In the summer A shaped colony
louscs will provide shade and shelter.
A herd of % sows should produce
l40 fall and l40 spring pigs, figur-
;ng on an average Of pigs per hit
ler. 1t will take approximately ll2,-
900 pounds of grain (barlcy, corn, rye
horts or wheat) to feed the sows for
u months. raise 40 springs pigs to
weigh 100 pounds and to raise l4O
Fall pigs to weigh $50 pounds. This
Grain must be grown, or the farmer
must be financially able to buy this
Feed during the winter or the early
,pring, when the grain is low in
rice and the farmer has more time
0 handle it.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

The snow is thawing quite freely
the last day OF two.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-22

WOOD MEILETTE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA %,
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

ground has been to him in labor and
materials during the several years in
which he has been developing the
claim.
Take this example. There is a claim
which was located in 1910 and since
that date the locators have expended
in the neighborhood of $4,000 in la
boz and materials. Today the market
value of the claim is practically moth
ing but the owners are prepared to ex-
pend more money feeling that they
will in time develop something. Sup
pose this year they strike the pay and
succeeded in selling the property for
$500,000 Under the law they would be
required to pay Is per cent of this to
the government. 1t would seem that
the proper income on which the tax
should be levied would be the selling
price less the deduction of the amount
expended by the prospectors in labor,
material and money in the develop
ment of the ground
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

selves to declare along that line.
R. E. Esner, Republican candidate
for Senator in the Third division, who
led losing fight in the House last
year for a change of capital, declares
in his newspaper advertisement as fol-
lows: He is a firm advocate of the
removal of the capital to Seward, or a
division of the Territory, giving Alaska
a chance to develop"
Frank H. Foster, candidate for
the House in the same division, is
equally keen in the idea that Juneau
has had her day and in his platform
declares. Repeal lot of poor laws;
pass very few and be sure they are
good ones. Seward for the capital of
Alaska"
The people of Juneau and the First
division may just as well accept the
fact now as later that an effort will be
made to have the next Legislature pass
a bill that will submit the change of
capital question to the voters of Alas
ka. In this formative period in the de-
velopment of Alaska with no man
knowing what the next FIVE, o. ten
years, may bring forth in the matter
of populating the Territory, it would
seem quite unwise to make any change
as the present location has been gen
orally agreeable to the people at
large and there seems no good and val
id reason why there should even be
the agitation at this time foT change.
But some of the politicians will not
remain content until they have ex-
hausted every effort to take the capital
away from Juneau. And it now de
wolves upon tire alert and progressive
people of this division to De up IN arms
to circumvent the intent to take from
us what we rightfully hold One of the
first steps is to nominate a strong
Legislative ticket in this division in
the selection of men who have the
nerve and force to fgh tand to fight
with good Judgment and effectiveness.
This is not the year for pussyfoot can
didates.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
Gladstone a Hard Worker.

Gladstone was a hard worker, with
no breads with regard to work, says
the American Magazine.
He turned from political RESPONSE
6ilities of the heaviest to Greek for
recreation, and lived his four-score
years and more, just as Pope Leo
Nil, turned to Latin poetry for his
relaXauOn from worldwide burdens,
and lived on beyond four-score and
zen, living so hopefully that when,
at the little dinner given him on his
nlnetieth birthday, one of the cardin-
ais said, in proposing a toast to him,
Here's that you may live to be a
hundred, holy father" the old pontiff
replied: "But why limit. me to
hundred?"
They were contemporaries of Ranke.
the German historian, who at the age
OF nlnety-one proposed to write his
tory of the world in II volumes, one
volume to be completed each year,
and actually lived, L believe, to COM
plete nearly half of it.
These men had no breads: but they
their energies to work on,
without any fear of exhausting their
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
EARLY MAN FIGHTING ANIMAL
Ancestors of Present People Were
Called Upon to Face Beasts That
lnhabited'piain and Rivers.

The first houses We're caves. Early
man was fighting animal, and had to
contend against the huge and feroci-
Gus beasts that infested the plains and
rivers, observes a writer. His dwelling
naturally had to be place of security
as well as habitation. Caves were
Natural and artificial, the latter being
followed out of solid rock by rude flint
instruments. Most of them were form
ID in the sides of cliffs and among
high, rugged hills.
To those early ancestors of ours the
rrineval men and women who secured
as one would think, but scanty shelter
and protection from these stone caves
and holes in the rock. we applv the
generic term of cliff dwellers.
They We're entirely ignorant of agri:
culture, and subsisted by hunting and
fishing and on the natural products
they found growing in a wild state.
What is very remarkable, at our
very doors can still be seen the typical
houses and handiwork of those pre-his-
toric tribes in the caves of the Lancos
river In southern Colorado. These, in
most instances, are as we'll preserved
as when their ancient occupants de-
serted them-perhaps 10000 years
ago. When inhabited they were reach
ed quite frequently by notches cut in
the rock, and at other times rope lad
ders must have been used.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

The residents of the First division
should not object to a referendum be-
ing taken on the location of the CAPT
tai. Where a majority of the people
agree upon is where its location should
be. Seward will be content if the vote
favors Cordova or Anchorage, believ-
ing that Seward is the most logical
place foG the capital but content if it
can be brought up into Alaska proper,
saving an 500 miles sea voyage to the
great majority of citizens who have
business to transact.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

THE refusal of congress to grant the
appropriation for a new Alaskan cable
is one of the 81 reasons why Alaska is
becoming depopulated. The cable be-
tween Alaska and Seattle is worn out.
Each years sees the number of breaks
multiplied. These breaks are costly
and vexatious. 1t is true that there
are several radio stations in the Ter
ritory, but service by these is more
costly than the cable, and is slower.
The business men of the Territory
need quick communication with the
continental markets. When they see
Congress appropriate an hundred mil
lion for less worthy projects and turn
down proposition of vital necessity.
it makes one wonder just why is Con-
gress?
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
iNcoM E TAX.

The Income Tax although a splendid
means OF raising revenues, and which
is alleged to place the tax on the peo-
pie who are most able to bear it,
there is some objection to the tax as
applied to income derived from the
sale of mining ground.
The Alaska prospector who mas been
years in the North suffering from the
cold in the winter and mosquitoes and
flies in the summer, toiling and moil-
ing without pay or reward for years
and then suddenly finding the pay"
objects to paying the government a
large share of the money received in
the sale of his ground.
The Income Tax law makes some al
fowance for such conditions. Ordi-
narily one having an income of $780,
900 Is required to pay the government
fifty per cent of it as tax In the
case of the sale of mines, oil or gas
wells, the law provides as follows:
I'm the case of bona fide sale OF
mines, oil or gas wells, or any inter
est therein, where the principal val
lie of the property has been demon
strated by prospecting or explora-
ton and discovery work done by the
taxpayer the portion of the tax i'm
posed by this section attributable
to such sale shall not exceed for the
calendar year 1921, 20 per centum
and for each calendar year thereaft-
er 16 per centum of the selling price
OF such property or interest" 4
Which means that if you sell YOUR
mining ground this year cor S. the
sum of 100000, you will be required
to pay the government Is per cent of
the amount you receive, or $4,000,
This amount is payable regardless Of
whether one year or twenty years has
been spent by the prospector in devel-
oplng his claim. 1t would seem more
equitable if the prospector could be al.
lowed to deduct from the amount on
which he has to pay tax the cost his
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
RUSSIA TO RECLAIM DESERT
Good Pasture Lands Are Destroyed at
the Rate of One Hundred Thous-
and Acres Year.

The shifting sands of Astrakban and
the measures taken by the Russian
government to deal with this problem
fern the subject of memoir by J.
q. Ffrstov, published in Petrograd, OBJ
serves the Scientific American. Ten
million acres of the province in ques-
ton are covered with shifting sands
formed during the nineteenth century
and subsequently. These sands have
been spreading at the rate of 100000
acres year, the result being the trans
formation of good pasture land into
barren waste. The principal cause is
over grazing; flOcks and herds are kept
so long in one place as to result in the
complete destruction of the turf. Poor
F"ricultural methods are also respon-
6I5le. About the beginning of the pres
ent century the government took meas
ures OF control and reclamation, and
between 1904 and 1909 an area of about
$4,000 acres was brought under cult
walton. In 1918 a special service was
ordered to deal with the question.
/ ne province was put under the charge
of chief forestry officer and divided
,Ato six districts, in each of which a
subordinate official was appointed to
superlntend the work. At the time of
writing good progress has been made
IN planting soil binders and growing
herbaceous crops, but it was still prob
lematicai whether the province was
adapted to the establishment of for
SITS.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
Some Grievance!

The railroad official invited the stern
citizen to communicate his troubles.
Il want you to give ORDERS" demand
ed the visitor, that the engineer of
the express which passes through Elm
Grove at about II :55 be restrained
from blowing his whistle Cd Sunday
mornings"
lmposslDle!' exploded the official.
what prompts you to make such a
ridiculous request?"
swell, you see," explained the citi-
zen, in an undePtone, "our pastor
breaches until he hears the whistle
blow, and that COMPOUNDED express
was 20 minutes late last Sunday
LAMB.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
Almost the Speed Limit

"At Chattanooga" said veteran of
the Civil war, zone of the men in nv
company left early in the action, and
40 one saw him till after the battle,
when he appeared in camp unwounded
and unabashed. Some of the boys ac-
cused him Of running away, but he
wouldn't admit it.
I only retreated in good order he
declared.
Il heard of the matter, and a few
days later | asked him if he had any
idea how fast he had 'retreated.'
"Well, I'll tell you, cap'n, he said.
If had been at home, and going after
the doctor, folks that see me passin'
would have thought my wife was right
sick !? "-Harper's Monthly
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

If your power needs do not
Include tractive work, you
can obtain the Caterpillar"
Motor in 80, IS, SIS or rs
horsepower for a stationary
OF portable unit.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
THIRD DIVISION CAPITAL ISSUE.
(Trom Juneau Capital.)

wen though the people of the Third
=; lion may not entirely endorse the
LEA, yet the office seekers over that
way are determined to make the CAPT.
tai removal an issue Seward is desir-
Gus of having the change made from
Juneau to that city and it is expected
that several of the Legislative candi-
dates will feel it incumbent upon them
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
APRIL 18th, 1922

~ Snef was member OF the Territorial Cor
uoVa and aggressive in In.
laws now on the statute betterunent of
the territory He is firm removal of the can
10 seward or division of the Territory giving chance
to develop Mr. Esner the IN.
steamship subsidy for the Aeutaa working
man. ana stands for the development of Alaska Aaskns The
votes OF his Republican constituents
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

MARSHAL SULLIVAN apparently
is going to keep the people in suspense
in the appointment of his deputies to
get even for the suspense over the
marshalship
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

MOST of the alleged humorous pa
pers and magazines nowadays target
their wit upon prohibition; and yet all
admit it is no laughing matter.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

THE only tax that Congress has
placed upon the people, which will be
hard to recover from is the tax on
their nerves.
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

LIFE appears to be just one worry
after another to residents of Juneau,
The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

A NAUGHTY woman may not be
good but she is mighty interesting.