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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
JOSEPH HOFFMAN DIES

Joseph Hoffman Of Tx kalaka, Mont,
who was here visiting with his sOn-in-
law, Paul Meyer, died st the hospital
at Murdo, last Saturday night. Mr..
Hoffman had been a sufferer from
hardening of the arteries for some
years, and has been practically an
invalid. He came here about Il month
ago, hoping that the change in climate
would prove OF benefit to- him. he
was taken worse abe ut ten days ago
and was taken to the hospital at Nur-
do. His condition Eecame so serious
Thursday Of last week, that Paul
Never and Conrad KriegeI started
Tor EFalaka in q car 10 bring Mr.
Hoffman s wsfe ;nd Mrs. Meyer tc
the bedside OF The husband and 1athel
but they e1:perie' Med considerable cal
trouble, and VIII en- tlrey finally got a.
lar as Belle Fourclre, tney received
word that Mr.. Hoh. man had passed
away The ladies then returned t.
Ekalaka, to make :arrang sments TO
the funeral, while NJ +. Mey sr and Nh
krleger came on TO Murdo, and Nh
Meyer accompanied the bodc to Eka
laka. Wednesday. Mr.. Kaieger re
turned home. Ssa -
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
FARM BUREAU NEWS NOTES
E. G. Rudolph, County Agent
Inestinal Worms in Pigs

Intestinal worms are common in
hogs and are particularly injurious
to growing pigs. Insuffcicntly fed,
neglected pigs living in dirty pens
and yards, fed from filthy troughs
drinking contaminated water, bathing
in old hog wallows, and roofing and
sleeping in manure piles and stack
bottoms soon become infected with
worms. Such pigs do not thrive, but
develop into potbcllicd, profitless
runts. Pens should be kept clean and
dry and the manure frequently re-
moved.
Mixtures containing charcoal, cop
peras, are believed by some to be Of
value as prcventatives and destroy
ers of worms, but their usefulness
probably depends upon their general
effect on the condition of the pigs
and not upon their action on the
worms. Other things being equal, a
pig in good condition is better able
to resist the attacks OF worms than
one that is not in good condition.
Mneral mixtures may, therefore, by
helping to balance the ration, tend to
increase the powers of resistance to
the i'll effects of worms and other
parasites. They should, however, be
classed as tonics or conditiOners rath-
er than as worm preventatives or de-
,strOyers.
The following treatments have been
found to be very effective in expelling
intestinal worms:
J.. Oil of Chenopodium, 16 drops /;
castor oil, to l12 ounce. Starye the
hog from II to "A hours and then ad-
minister this dose to each hog with a
dose syringe; being dose from so to
lOO-pound hog.
,. Santonin, grains; Calomel, 2
grains; Areca nut, 70 drachm. Sodium
blcarbOnate a. s. to make capsule.
This is treatment for so to 100
pound hog and is administered with a
capsule gun. Starve the hog for at
least II hours before treatment.
These two formulas are the most
common in use and | feel that the
first one is little better and is a
little cheaper than the last. However,
ii is little harder to administer.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
OPPOSITION TO AUTO
LICENSE LAW

Active opposition all over South
Dakota is being manifested toward
the automobile license law which
will 90 into effect next January /,
unless sooner repealed. Under the
law auto license charges will be as
follows:
License on cars weighing less than
1000 pounds, $500.
1000 to 5000 pounds, $l700.
5000 to 1900 pounds, $4,000.
1900 pounds and up, $500.
License on trucks less than l ton
capacity, $500.
l ton to ~ ton capacity, $1,000.
~ to 2 tons capacity, $25.00.
: to 3 tons capacity, $500.
. 3 tons and up, $500.
20 per cent goes to the state road
fund. ) per cent to the secretary Of
state. u per cent to county road
fund.
The law not only imposes a hard
Snip upon many car owners, but will
also hit towns and villages financial
~, as automobiles will - exempt
from taxation after the license fee is
paid. A little figuring will convince
any town citizen that the amOant of
taxes paid on automobiles is a stable
item in the municipal revenue. And
one OF the most Objectionable features
OF the law is that only 81 per cent
OF the license money received remains
in the county in which it is paid, the
rest of it going to the state highway
department.-Burke Gazette.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

the very worst, from Wood east for
six or eight miles. We have been very
proud OF our Memorial Highway, but
we certainly cannot say much for it
in its present condition. The flood
and the heavy Frontier Days traffic
during the flood conditions, left this
highway in mighty bad condition and
it needs lot Of work on it right now
to make it even fairly decent. We
enjoyed our few days vacation,
learned lot about our own state of
South Dakota, and came back wi2
greater faith in the future Of Mellette
county than ever.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
PRISONER IS RE-ARRESTED
WHEN RELEASED ON BOND

Harold Westbrook, who has been
held in the Tripp county Jail here for
safe keeping for Mellette county OH
cials for the past several weeks, fur
nished $1,000 appearance bond and
was released la.,t Friday, but shortly
after his release was re-arrested by
the sheriff Of N!innehshs county,
South Dakota. Y
Westbrook is charged with the
shooting Of DR.. ", H. Still, which
occurred at White River on June 2l.
He was arrested by the Mcllette coun.
tv sheriff following thr shooting af-
fray, ard, being unatle to furnish
bond, was brought to Winner and
placed IN the Tripp county jail tor
safe keeping. After securing bond
last FRIDAY, he went % 9 hctcl n this
city, where he was met by the Mime
! aha county officer and taken TO Sieux
Falls, where, it is said, he is wanted
on the charge OF etc Al ~ an automo-
bile. In order to Get tTont here to
Sioux Falls BY train il Is necessary
to pass through Nebraska and lowe
and Westbrook is said to have OBJ
jected to the trip without estrsdition
papers. His objections were over
come, however, by the NinnehsS 2,
county sheriff, who took him by aut~ll
mobile to Presho and thence by tratu
TO Sienx Falls.--Winner Advocate.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
THE GREAT AMERICAN BELL
By Richard Lloyd Jones

In practically every home ON farm
and in town, in every shop and store,
factory and Office there is a little
bell behind which is a story of ro-
nance and before which is wonder
tul world that it made less wide. That
I, your telephone bell.
We used to call hello across the
tield. This little bell now carries
our hello across the continent. The
farmer who was ten miles away from
town had to harness his horse and
drive the old spring seat for better
than an hour TO deliver a simple bus
mess message. Now he rings the
little bell and in two minutes the bus
mess is done
With equal ease the business man
n Minneapolis confers with his GUS
toner in New, Orleans and the New
York lawyer talks to his San Fran
cisco client.
Imagine what it would be to be
without it. How strange that scien-
titlc men OF fortysix years ago view.
ed It with suspicion.
On the first day of this month in
his Nova Scotia summer home, Alex
ander Graham Bell, the inventor OF
he telephone, died in his seventy
fifth year. Hes death brought back
the story of the advent of the phone.
Rcll was highly educated in the
scientific schools of Scotland and
England. AS young man he was
professor of sciences in Boston Uni
versity. He married the daughter of
wealthy merchant. He joined the
family in extending to her especial
tender consideration for she was deaf
He resolved to use his scientific know
ledge to perfect device that would
give her an artificial ear drum that
his voice might carry to her. For a
year he experimental in his father-in-
laws barn He failed to find way
TO carry his voice to his beloved and
afflicted bride, bat that romantic ef-
fort brought to him the instrument
that has carried the human voice over
seas and across continents.
His fat..er-in.iaw lost his fortune.
This inventor rebuilt it beyond the
proportions Of all former dreams.
In 1876 Mr.. Bell carried his newly
patented invention to the Philadel-
phia exposition where our nation cello
brated its Centennial. But no one
noticed the telephone. Popular inter-
est seemed to center in the butter
lady, moulded out Of New York's IA
nous Hcrgimer county butter.
Scientists assembled there but even
they were not attracted At last two
If the more eminent consented to look
at the odd little device. One spoke
into the mouthpiece, another at a
distance listend at the receiver.
my God, it talks!" the latter
cried. And then the telephone came.
1t il your house and my house,
your shop and my shop. Our life is
now built to be dependent upon it.
On the first of this month few
took notice of the passing of this
great benefactor of mankind. He
shortened distance; saved time; sped
up all the wheels of industry and pro.
NOTED commerce. He was great
progrrss- maker. Mr.. Bell sent our
hello everywhere. He brought US tho
little bell that we have made the great
| Amrican Bell. Tt is the little bell
that calls as to its bidding more than
anv bell the world has ever known.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

more students in this department than
they are able to accommodate.
Friday evening we went to Sioux
City, and spent Saturday in that
city and were right royally entertained
by Mr.. Rogers, resident manager of
the Western Newspaper Uniou, and it
was here that we had the privilege
of partaking of our first real Chinese
dinner, and we certainly enjoyed this
very much.
They seem to be very dry east of
the river, and especially down around
Sioux City, and the roads are quite
dusty. Some of the corn 81 hurt,
either by dry weather or by chinch
bugs, which, we understand, have been
working some in that section this
year. The small grain crop was rather
short on account of lack of moisture,
while the corn, generally, does not
look as thrifty as it does west of the
river. Gardens also show the need of
moisture. However, alfalfa looks
mighty fine, especially in the vicinity
Of Lake Andes. This east of the river
country was quite revelation to us,
as it was our first visit to this section
Of the state. The farms all look pros
porous, more so than they do in many
# the eastern states. They have good
roads and good towns. Practically
every town has its tourist camp
ground and the traveller can find invi-
tations all along the road to stop and
camp, free of charge. Some Of the
camp grounds do not cover much
ground, but no doubt they furnish
ample Accommodations. We gathered
some ideas on the improvement Of our
own camp ground, and when we get
busy and improve our grounds as we
would like to see them improved, we
have no hesitancy in saving that we
will not only have one of the largest
but one OF the most beautiful camp
grounds in this part of the state.
We saw he damage. that was done
by the cyclone this summer at Lake
Andes, but most of this is being re.
paired. Lake Andes is certainly nice
body of water that attracts many
pleasure seekers.
The west of the river country, so
Car as we could see, has it all over the
east river country this year as far as
'rops are concerned, and we were con.
'idcrably surprised to see the fine
farms in both Gregory and Tripp
counties, which compared very fav-
orably with those on the east side.
Corn looks much better over here, and
the small grain crop is also much bet
or, although it is not as good even in
EASTERN Gregory as it is out this way.
We passed through st. Charles, the
town that was practically DESTROYED
" the cyclone. and found everybody
busy trying to repair the damage
StinsOn Brothers are rebuilding their
garage and are building larger and
better,
We travelled the state road No. so
Practically all the way from Winner
o Vermillion and it is a mighty good
road and well marked, but better
marked on this side than on tho east
side Of the river. The worst roads
wc struck on the entire trip were be
tween here and Winner, and perhaps
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
THE FARMERS WIFE
Weekly Service Hints Furnished by
State College Specialists
Mary Ann Gray

"Three an One" Ginger Snap--l c.
sugar, / e. dark molasses, ! t. salt,
3 t. soda flevoD. 3 II. ginger, 3 I.
vinegar, C. lard al butter mixed,
3 eggs beaten TO hghtness. Flour to
roll out. Bake in hot oven.
Drop Doughnuts-12 cup sugar, 70
c. milk, c. flouTs 2 T. melted butter,
3 eggs, orange flGroling, l heaping t.
B. P. Drop a small teaspoonful OF
the mixture into the boiling lard at
a time. They Will cooli quickly and
be rouni and light.
Peanut Cookies--3 L. cooking tat,
12 c, sugar, 2 eggs, 2 t. T. p y t.
salt, ! g. flour, T. sweet mix, | G.
finely chopped peanut. Add a few
drops of lemon juice. Drop from
spoon and place q nut meat On top.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

There are three chef purp oSes OF
cooking. The first is TO change the
mechanical condition so that the di-
gesive juices can act upon tho food
more freely. Heating often changes
the structure of food material very
materially, SO that they are more
easeily chcwed and more easily and
thoroughly digestcd The second j,
to make it more appetizing by I'M
proving the appearance or flavor, or
both. Food which is attractive quick
ens the flow of the saliva and other
digestive juices and thus digestion
is aided. The third is to kill by heat
any disease germs, parasites and other
dangerous organisms it may contain.
This is very often an important mat
ten, and applies to both animal and
vegetable foods. Farmers Bullet
in No. l42.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18
CULLS

To test the milk of every cow,
some folks think quite a chore. But
boys in club work DO it we'll and wish
they had before.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

Five hundred forty-five girl mem
bers of canning clubs in South Dako-
are now applying the knowledge
acquired through their club work in
putting up" products of the gar
den and farm.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

The coal strike has at last been
ended. The operators and miners
have signed up a peace pact, The
old wage scale is to prevail. The
agreement does not cover the Illinois
and Indiana fields, however.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

Grain feed fresh from the fields in
late summer and early fall helps to
prevent the usual decrease in dairy
production at this time Of the wear.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

Alfalfa Alf seq: 'Farmin' is the
greatest gamble in the world We
plant our grain and trust to Provi-
dence that the drought, floods, hail,
gophers and worms don't get It. We
have faith that the cholera don't get
'ur hogs, the tuberculosis our cows,
md the hawks our chickens. And
then people wonder why we kick
when we don't get fair price for
the fruits of our gamblin'..,
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

All the news of the community V
laid down at your door every weei;
Tor hall the ,tice of good cigar
that S lust part Of the service your
home town paper gives YOU. !,
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-08-18

The fungus disease is killing off
many grasshOppcrs in western Soutl
Dakota this year.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
lack Admits He Can't Write Like This

GAN FRANCISCO.-Suspicion that
~ pretty seventeen-year-old Rose Gui-
da Of Burbank, CAL, wrote love letters
to herself in order to deceive relatives
and friends into believing she had
eloped with Jack Petunfo, driver OF an
interurban bus, grew almost to Ger
tainty when the stage driver vehement
" asserted he could not write love
notes. Following is the substance Oh
the torn typewriter love letter:
Dearest Rose Of My Heart ana MY
Soul: / love you with all my heart
and with all the fire that's In them.
Meet me tonight and We will run away
and live happily ever after.
II will be waiting for You under
the orchard tree tonight at ] o'clock.
|. I have been waiting for this chance
to tell you how much I love you even
to the end Of my heart strings. Al
the very core Of my heart you are iiv'
ing within.
1--WE will run away on my bus ano
be away in q jiffy. Rose, my love,
crave to have you In my arms thi'
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
Marriage Closes Book of Wife's Past

~HrCAGO.-"Marriage closes the
- book ON any mistakes Z woman
NAV have made" said Judge William
L. Morgan Of the court OF domestic
relations, sand I hesitate to say what
/ think Of this young man.
"This young man" was w. t. twen-
ty-two, who lives with his parents on
I fashionable street. Seven months
aso he married A., an attractive girl Of
nineteen. He had courted her for
three years, according to the story told
IN court.
.Now." the wife told Judge Morgan
..he won't live with me and he won't
support me-"
Judge Morgan asked T. to give his
excuses. ''Well, it's a scandal. ne
.nswered, aShe had made mistake
before / married her. ! knew aDou.
4 but after we were married several
men I know who saw me with ner
end didn't know we were married, sale
IN YOU know who that isf and told
me Of my wife's past. found ONT
had made mistake in marrying her.
aAnd sshe has been good wife an'
: rood girl since the marriageF I'M
court asked quietly.
.Oh. yes" the husband answered
HIS bride began to cry.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

DE- EMO, NEV.-On her testimony that
~ her husband married her simply
to evade the draft in 1917, Mrs. Mary
Reisenhaus was granted a divorce
from James Arthur Reisenhaus, Tor
merly general manager Of the Amer
lean Glove company and son or the
wealthy head Of the concern.
The decree was granted by Judge
George Bartlett on Mrs. Reisenhaus
cross bill fled in answer to a petition
for divorce by Reisenhaus filed more
than a year ago. The case was on
hearing for three days. Judge Bart
lett, In his decision, allowed Mrs. Rels'
enhaus expenses incurred in coming
from Chicago to Reno to contest the
suit and alimony Of SIS month.
In her testimony Mrs. Reisenhaus
said that her husband maintained two
residences during the war, one at the
home Of his parents. where she lived
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
eDraft Brides" Husband Was Thrifty

i'm one room, paying S. week rent,
and another for answering the draft
questionable of the government. The
American Glove company, OF which his
father Is the head and with which
he was connected, Mrs. Reisenhaus
said, had a contract with the govern
ment for making gloves, and Reisen-
haus fitted a room in his home as
workshop and employed her to make
gloves.
Out of the wages she was to have
received she charges that he always
kept 10 per cent for carrying mate
rials to her from the factory.
In answer to his wife's charges that
he was stingy and made her pay her
own room and board, Reisenhaus at
TEMPTED to introduce an agreement ell
tered into by the couple before their
marriage in which Mrs. ReisenhaMs
agreed to live as the wife OF Reisen-
haus. but to maintain herself. Judge
Bartlett, however, refused to admit IL.
A year ago Mrs. Reisenhaus brought
suit for divorce in the superior court
in Chicago, and in the suit she men-
tions the agreement, charging that ne
induced her to sign II.
Young Reisenhaus, who is a grad
uate Of Harvard in the class OF 19l4a
has been living In Reno for the ias'
16 months, he testified, during which
time he has worked only one day.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
SLAYER Sits on Jury in His Own Case

the insane man, a neighbor Of the
Bakers and q former blacksmith.
Similarity is noted between the
wounds received by the victims OF the
maniac and the head Of the hammer.
Statements made by the man Deing
held in the asylum to fellow inmates
and to officers have convinced them OF
his guilt.
While In the asylum he Is alleged
to have attempted to intimidate an
other inmate with the statement that
he would "use his hammer again" II
he aroused his anger.
This alleged murderer served on the
coroner's jury which returned yer.
dict Of murder In the Balzer case and
was particularly active in seeking the
slayers while officers were Investigate
Ing.
Mr.. Shearer, who apprehended the
man. went into the case as nngei
print expert, after attempts to f1nd
clew to the identity Of the slayer had
proved futile.
The Balzers were killed on thei'
farm near Cassell Prairie, WIS.,. on tn
night Of August 8. Julius and Mar.
were found dead by neighbors, while
william, fatally injured, continued q
live for several days unconscious ant
unable to tell who had committed I'M
crime. He died without giving ciew
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

MADISON, WIS. The supposed
M slayer, Of william and Mary and
Julius Balzer, reciuse Cassell Prairie
farmers, killed with hammer on the
night Of August 8, is apprehended ana
now Is an inmate Of the Mendoza IN
sane asylum suffering from an incura-
BILE mental malady, It was learned
through L. IL. Shearer, special investl-
gator for the attorney generals depart
ment.
The name OF the alleged slayer, al
though known, il withheld by the au-
thorities, who say that his evident In
sanity would prevent prosecution Tor
the crime which shocked southern
wisconsin for Its brutality.
The large bloodstained hammer sup
posed to have been used In the com.
mission OF the crime was recently
found BY Mr.. Shearer on the farm o.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

minute. oh, If could only nave you
this minute would be so happy.
1--WE will be married in Santa Ana
and then we will go to the land OF
Honolulu and live in little hut. NO
one shall ever bother us. You shall
live In a luxurious style. Rose, II you
love me come with me! You are my
dream girl"
The torn bits Of paper on which the
love letter was typed were found Dy
the missing girls mother. Mrs. Jose
phine Guida.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

= swell, I'd hate to tell you what !
think Of you," and Judge Morgan
threw his pen across the bench ana
sat back in his chair. Il think the
girl Il the one who made the mistake.
: terrible mistake, in marrying you. A
man that's half man would start
trimming anybody who said a word
against his wife. That's what You
should have done. It was your duty
and It should have been your pleasure.
You are letting some neighborhood
gossips ruin your married life. Your
wife looks like fine young woman,
and 1t IL you who should have fnger
ypointed your way"
The court ordered $40 paid weekly
and said it would be a pleasure to
send the husband to the house Of cor.
rection u It was not paid.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota

Senator Knute Nelson of Mime
sofa Fixes his job as senator. "'Tain't
necessary for me to say 1t; I've been
holding It down for twenty-seven
years. he says with chuckle. The
senator is old enough to know his own
mind-he was born in 1S43-and his
lob is safe until 1925, anyway. In
fact, there is only one senator whose
continuous term Of service is longer
Lodge of Massachusetts, who entered
the senate in 1898, two years before
Nelson. The senior senator from Min
nesota is a notable figure in the upper
chamber. He's a veteran OF the civil
war and he's chairman of the judi
ciary committee and member OF the
commerce, printing and rules commit
tees.
Senator Nelson was born In Nor
way and came to the United States In
1S49 with his widowed mother. They
came over in a two-masted schooner
and were seven weeks on the voyage