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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-14

OratOry has been meHectiVe. lem
.onstration has failed to do the job.
Bankers and merchants have put up
money for calf clubs, pig clubs and
poultry clubs because it has been fash
,ionable-quite the thing-to do so. 1t
gave them good standing in the agricul
tural society. They sought to buy agri-
cultural development and prosperity.
Yet in their daily work of passing up
on farmers credits these same bank
ers and merchants have continued put
ting emphasis on cotton-and numer-
Gus children to pick the cotton with
out pay. ~
John Burroughs wrote: 'Where the
COW is, there is Arcadia so far as her
influence prevails, there is content
ment, humility and sweet homely
| life" All of us join in campaigns to
induce city children to drink more
milk, but we give no thought to the
fact that more than one-third OF the
children living on the cotton farms
of the south do not know what milk
tastes like-they haven't tasted it since
they were weaned. Instead OF being
sustained and strengthened by a drink
! of nutritious milk when weary with
ichopping or picking cotton they are
| iuiced up with dose of chill tonic
and told to hop to it.
Here are the plain facts OF the bus
illness:
/ If every farmer in the cotton states
had, in 1920 and 1921, fed and MIXED
lone COW: bred and fed one sow and
| fattened and killed and cured the meat
from her litter; and made full use OF
what two dozen hens, assisted by a
rooster, would have produced things
would be very different now.
If bankers and merchants had not
extended credit for the production OF
cotton to any tenant farmer who did
not have at least one cow, one SOW,
two dozen hens and a rooster, and a
rental contract under which the land
owner provided suitable shelter Tor
! livestock and permitted the production
of feed on a share-crop basis, few land
owners, cotton farmers, bankers and
merchants would be in trouble now.
| Having gotten into a variety OF dif-
| ficulties through financing cotton
| farmers upon what has been proved
so conclusively to be the reverse OF a
money making basis, isn't it time to
insist that that they put their farming
on a living making basis first before
/ raising any cotton?
am sure that the time to do this
| is now. You can't buy your way out
| of the present situation. You must
work your way out. As a starter,
when any farmer comes to you Tor
credit and confesses that he hasn't a
lcow: a sow. and a flock of hens you
should register amazement, astonish-
ment, surprise, apprehension, dismay,
solicitude and CONSERVATION; get red in
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-14

In India in remote mountain sec
tions the natives do not know the
meaning of the word clothing. Some
times a loin cloth of seaweed is worn,
but more often none at all. Up
in the region of the Ohul the
native approaches the type of print
tive man He is nearly vegetarian,
subsisting on weeds, roots Of plants
and rice, with an occasional juicy
mouse roasted over spit, These ro-
dents are considered great delicacy.
All Indian lakes are very attractive,
and Ohul is only a type OF many an
other similarly lined with mangroves,
their dark glossy leaves. glistening in
the sunlight Every lake is a floating
garden surrounded by fringe OF
marsh covered with bulrushes and
aquatic plants of natures own selec-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-14


1t is a fact that those who control
land and credits largely determine
what farmers do. Whatever is the mat
ter with agriculture in the south to-
day responsibility for most of it rests
with the. land owners, bankers and
credit merchants of the south,
A study of reports of conventions
and conferences to consider the state
of southern agriculture leads to the
conclusion that, hitherto, they have
been long on oratory and short on
Ioperation. The end to be sought was
never better expressed than by Henry
w Grady, when he said:
when every farmer in the south
shall eat bread from his own fields
and meat from his own pastures and,
disturbed by no creditor and enslaved
by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming
gardens and orchards and vineyards
and diaries and barnyards, pitching his
crops in his own wisdom and growing
them in independence, making cotton
his clean surplus and selling it in his
own time and in his chosen market
and not at a masters bidding-getting
his pay in cash and not in receipted
mortgage that discharges his debt but
does not restore his freedom-then
shall be the breaking of the fulness
of our day."
Those sentiments so beautifully ex-
pressed are always applauded wherev-
Ier quotedr-applauded and that is all.
DR.. Seaman A. Knapp started the
agricultural demonstration work i'll the
south and laid the foundation for its
agricultural rejuvenation. Among his
Ten Commandments OF Agriculture
are these:
Increase the farm stock to the eX-
tent of utilizing all the waste prod
Iucts and idle lands of the farm"
Produce all the food required for
the men and animals on the farm"
On many occasions he reiterated,
Zone of the foundation principles OF
our work is that the farmer should
raise the food for the family and for
the farm stock so that his principal
cash crop may be all profit.
Those who have been carrying on
the agricultural demonstration work
in the south have failed to obtain the
results for which DIR. Knapp hoped.
That cotton farmers generally have
not been influenced by agricultural
ioratory and have not practiced these
sound precepts is clearly shown by
some recent reports of the bureau OF
the census This table shows the num-
Der of farms in each 100 farms in the
cotton states which raised no calves
and which raised no pigs in 1919:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-14
Farmer Is Hit Harder
Than anybody Else
Crops Show Most Drastic Drop If
Values in American Industries.

Crops Show Most Drastic Drop in
Values in American Industries.
ATLANTA. Ga.-The federal bu-
lreau of markets and crop estimates,
according to figures just received by
the state agricultural department, re-
ports that the average value per acre
lof the ten principal crops of the Unit
ed States fell from $21.23 in 1919 to
$14.52 in 1921. Thus they lost 50 per
cent of their value This is regarded
here as the most drastic drop in val
ues recorded in any American indus
try during the deAation period.
1t is to be remembered, too, accord
ing to officials OF the state agricultural
department, that the farmers low
price crop of last year cost him almost
as much to produce as his high-price
crop of 1919. And what IS more to the
point, agricultural department officials
say, while he has got less than halt
as much for what he had to sell, he
has had to pay almost as much as ever
for most of the things he has had to
buy
The imitation of land values, of
which so much was made during the
boom, it is pointed out here, has done
the real farmer more harm than good.
Only owners who were lucky enough
to sell at the crest Of the wave and
get their money have proited. Buyers,
working the costly land at loss, have
gone broke. Those who kept their land
and continued farming it themselves
have had their taxes raised. The larger
investment makes a heavier overhead
and less profit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-14
DUST STORMS BLOW
WHEAT UP BY ROOTS

TOPEKA, Kan.-Western and CEN
trail Kansas, the heart of the states
wheat belt, today faced continuation
of severe dust and windstorms, which
yesterday swept across a wide strip
of territory and blew wheat out of the
ground. No estimate was available
here as to the extent of the damage
In places the dust is reported to be
drifting like snow.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30

r. Anderson has filed with the Judge
of this Court, a petition praying that
Letters of Administration of the Es-
tate of Jut Peter Anderson, deceased.
be issued to Peter p. Anderson, and
that Saturday, the first day of April,
1922, at two o'clock p. NJ, Of said day,
being a day of a regular term Of this
Court, to-wit: of the April term, 1922
at the office OF the County Judge at
the Court House in Miller in the said
County of Hand has been set for hear
ing said petition, when and where any
person interested may appear and
show cause why the said petition
should not be granted.
Dated at Miller, South Dakota, this
18th day of March, A. D., 1922.
G. c. BRIGGS,
Attest: County Judge.
Emma A. Morrow,
(SEAL) Clerk Of Courts.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30
March 16 II
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE

vi SNhbhS
Default having been made in the
payment of the interest that was due
upon the promissory note secured by
a mortgage dated March first, 1921,
executed by B. J. Selke and Clara
Selke, as mortgagors, to A. NJ. Ander-
son, as mortgage, which mortgage
was recorded in the office of the Reg
lister of Deeds in Hand County, South
Dakota on the third day of March,
1921 in book 11S of Mortgages on page
11S, and whereas no action or proceed
ings at law or otherwise have been
instituted to recover the debt secured
by said mortgage or any part thereof.
And it was stipulated in said mort
gage that, if default be made in the
payment of the interest, then the said
note, both principal and interest would
at once become due. Said mortgage
is the present owner and holder OF
said note and mortgage.
The amount claimed to be due on
said mortgage at the date Of this no
tice is the sum Of Twenty-Five Thou
sand ($25, 000. 00) Dollars as principal
and Fifteen Hundred Forty-four and
10-100 G~$1544.10) Dollars interest,
making a total of Twenty-six Thou
sand, Five Hundred Forty-four and
10-100 1926, 544.10) Dollars, besides the
sum of Twenty-Five ($25.00) Dollars
attorneys fees allowed by law.
Now, Therefore, Notice is Hereby
Given that by virtue of the power OF
sale contained in said mortgage and
in pursuance of the Statute in such
case made and provided, the said
mortgage will be foreclosed by sale of
the mortgaged premises therein de-
.scribed or so much thereof as is ne
.cessary to satisfy and pay said indebt-
edness secured by said mortgage and
costs of foreclosure, by the sheriff Of
Hand County, South Dakota at public
auction to the highest bidder for casn
at the front door of the Court House
in the City of Miller, South Dakota on
Saturday, the 10Th day Of April, 1922
at two o'clock P. NJ. or said day.
The mortgaged premises are situat-
ed in Hand County, South Dakota and
are described as the East Half (Ek)
of Section Thirty 900 and the West
Half CWk) of Section Twenty-Five
(29) in Township One Hundred Four
teen (114) North, Range Sixty-six (66)
West of the Fifth P. M.
Dated this 10th day of March, 1922.
A. M. Anderson.
Mortgage.
M. J. Butte, Sheriff.
C. M. Carroll, Attorney.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30
March 23t6
MORTGAGE SALE


Whereas, Default has been made in
the payment of the interest on the
money secured by a mortgage, dated
the LIST day of March, 1920, executed
by Wilhelm Wrigg and Emma Wrigg,
his wife, of the county of Hand and
State of South Dakota, to Helen A.
McWhorter, of the county of Hand and
state of South Dakota, and which
mortgage was recorded in the Office of
the Register Of Deeds of Hand Coun-
ty. South Dakota, in Book 1T of
Mortgages on Page 25S on the goth day
Of April, 1920 at two o'clock p. M. and
Whereas, No action or proceedings
at law or otherwise have been institut-
ed to recOver the debt secured by said
mortgage, or any part thereof, and
Whereas, 1t was stipulated in said
mortgage that If default would be made
in the payment of any portion of the
principal or interest promptly at the
time the same should become due, or
If default be made in the payment of
the taxes assessed Or to be assessed
on said premises before the same be-
come delinquent, then the whole sum,
both principal and interest, at once
become due; and
Whereas, The whole amount of the
principal and interest has become due
by eason of such default, and
Whereas, The amount claimed to be
due upon said mortgage at the date
of this notice is the sum of Four
thousand two hundred fifty-fve and
40-100 dollars C$4255.4O) to-wit: $4,000
principal and s225.4O interest, besides
the sum of Twenty-Five dollars attor-
ney's fees, stipulated for in said mort
gage.
Now, Therefore, Notice is hereby
given that by virtue of the power of
sale contained in said mortgage, and
duly recorded as aforesaid, and in
pursuance of the statutes in such case
made and provided. the said mortgage
will be foreclosed oy a sale of the
mOrtgaged premises therein described,
at public auction by the Sheriff of
Hand County, South Dakota, at the
front door of the Court House, in the
city of Miller, and county of Hand
and state of South Dakota, on the 4th
day of May, 1922 at one o'clock in the
afternoon of that day. The mortgag-
ed premises are situated in the county
of Hand in the state of South Dakota,
and are described as follows, to-wit:
The South east quarter of section
twelve, township one hundred nine,
range sixty-nine, west of the 5th p. NJ.
Dated at Miller, South Dakota, this
21st day of March. 1922.
Helen A. McWhorter,
Mortgage.
Harlan J. Bushfield, Attorney for
Mortgage.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30
containing a power of sale,

mortgage. containing a power of sale,
was duly executed by the makers OF
said note, as mortgagors, to the payee
of said note. as mortgages, on the
9Th day of July, 1916, and filed for
record in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Hand County, South Dakota,
on the 7th day Of July, 1916, and re-
corded in Book los of Mortgages, on
page 552; which mortgage, with the
note secured thereby, was assigned to
Yankton College, a corporation, on
the 18th day of September, 1916, by
6 aid mortgage. by an instrument, in
writing, executed and delivered on said
day and filed for record in he Office
Of the Register of Deeds of said Coun-
ty on the 29th day of January, 1917,
and recorded in Book los of Mortgages
on page 464.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30

March 1878
Notice Of Hearing Petition for Letters
Of Administration
State of South Dakota, County of
Hand, IS. In County Court.
In the Matter Of the Estate Of Jut
Feter Anderson, deceased.
The State of South Dakota Sends
Greeting to Ida c. Anderson, Vivian
NJ. Anderson, Peter p. Anderson, Ru-
dolph r. Anderson, Susanna M. AL
mond, Albion A. Anderson, heirs at
law and next Of kin OF Jut Peter An
derson, deceased, and to all to whom
these presents may come.
Notice Is hereby given that Rudolph
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30

the 18th day OF May, 1922, at the hour
of 1880 o'clock in the forenoon or
that day, to satisfy the amount then
due upon said note and mortgage and
the costs of sale. Said real estate is
described as follows:
The Southwest Quarter Of Section
Twenty, (20), in Township One Hun
dred and Twelvei (112). North of
Range Seventy, (70), West OF the 9Th
Principal Meridian, in land County.
South Dakota.
Dated this 18th day OF March, 1922.
M. j. Butte,
Sheriff OF Hand County, South
Dakota.
Yankton College,
Assignee OF the Mortgagee-
Crawford & Crawford, Attorneys for
Assignee Of Mortgage.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30
There is now past due and wholly

There is now past due and wholly
unpaid on said note and mortgage the
sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars,
G1, .00,) principal, and Two Hun
dred and Sixteen and 1900 Dollars,
G216.1S.) interest, amounting, in all
to the sum OF Eighteen Hundred and
Sixteen and 1900 Dollars, ($1,S16.13)
with interest thereon, from the date
of this notice, at the rate of ten per
cent per annum.
Therefore. Notice Is Hereby Given,
That, under and by virtue of the pow
err of sale given in said mortgage, the
real estate therein described WIFI be
sold at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, by the Sheriff of Hand
County, South Dakota, at the front
door of the Court House in the City
of Miller in said County, on Saturday,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30

Frost is coming out of the ground
rapidly, and there appears to be no
bottom in sight. 1t is the general
opinion that this section of Mother
Earth has not been soaked so deep
since the early eighties. This makes
the Spring an unusually promising one
for the crops.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30
TWENTY YEARS AGO
FROM PRESS FILES MAR. e7, 1902

Deputy Register Dwyer is confined
to his home by sickness.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30

Little Marguerite. daughter of Mrs
+. +. Waite, is seriously i'll.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30

Fred Coleman went to Pierre Tues.
day, where he has a position.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-30
March 23t7
Notice OF Foreclosure Sale of Real
Estate

Default has been made in the pay
ment of a promissory note executed
by e. Nj. Shuster and Lewis Shuster
for the sum of One Thousand Six Hun
dred Dollars, C~1,600.00), payable to
the order of the Dakota Savings and
Loan Company, a corporation, dated
June 30th, 1916, due July list, 1921,
bearing interest, from date to matur-
ity, at the rate OF six per cent per
annum, and, after maturity, at the
rate Of ten per cent per annum, the
payment of which note is secured by
certain mortgage upon the real es-
tate hereinafter described, which
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

about. It's an engineer who forgot soma
of his figures"
Here's a queer shift in the wind En-
gineer What connection has such man
with the salmon?
Mcpherson is still speaking In riddles:
"A few figures on the wrong side of the
decimal point. and bangi goes a
cliff. Ay. and, bang! goes the worlds best
run o. saImon,"
He lool0e6Lme over to be sure that was
well prepared for the question: 'what'd We
mans hand cost B. c. and the State of
Washington s27.OOO.OOO?"
told him.
But queer change had come over his
face. making my remarks about the
strength of his whiskey sound rather fool
ish. He kicked the switch off the magnetic
and sat down on the locker. letting the
launch drift on in the rain. He stuffed
some vile smelling shag into his pipe and
then using the thing as a pointer talked
figures.
Interesting? Rather, At first I refused
ingtOn, alone. being forced to lose 10000
600 year because of the act of one man.
Impossible? So it would seem; but Nc
Pherson was dealing with facts and as he
held them up to my view / began to see
numerous things which before 1 had found
hard to, explain. A tin of salHon, for in
stance, I had bought years before-out in
Egypt-now / understood why it had cost
me so muchi All the world must forever
pay through the nose because that one
engineer was weak OF his strength of ma
terialsl
Man. 1 can tell you tale of death AMI
destruction that will fairly break your
heart" And there, in the reek of oil and
burnt gases, meath a hammer of rain on
the cabin heard the saga of the Sockeye
the Big Run, in the Fraser. and its tragic
conclusion.
ut was~the most wonderful run in the
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Phete By GHiian7s Service

it occurred, and that the intervening three
years were just as sure to be lean"
These lean years." perhaps, had been
caused by some landslide, lost in the mists
of antiquity, blocking the fish for three
years. and thus causing the barren re-
turns from those spawnings.
And that's just the point Mcpherson
continued, 'the four year life cycle of the
sockeye. Keep that fact in your mind,
for it holds the gist of what I'm to tell you
It's where the murder comes in.
Nineteen thirteen was big year. The
biggest big year ever was! The sockeyes
came in in millions and millions: 81 ,O0O. 600
sockeye did the Gamers pack that year!
But that was all right; millions more
were headed up for the beds. They en-
tered the Frazer like sardnes in tin!
And had these fish been allowed to get
to their spawning bed,' here Mcpherson
jabbed at me with his pipe, ''the Frazer
would still be the most valuable fishery
known. But here comes that engineer
with his figures. Because of him
1913 was the last big year" of the sock
eye there will never be another
Because, the last blast on the Canadian
Northern Railway tunnel at Yale knocked
the face off the cliff and tumbled the
lot into the Fraser. He'll Gate? Yes, and
the Big Run was stymied,"
Mcpherson had now finished with fig
ures and was dealing with tragedy: "It
was a sight TO make a man scream
watched thousands and thousands of
salmon have try at that jump. Men
worked like devils to help em get past:
fish ladders were built on the sides, fumes,
rocks were hauled out by sheer sweat
atone. But all was too late. Millions and
millions of fish died at the foot of those
fails. Nine feet; the fish made the height,
but a stream like a fire hose. shooting
over the top. flung them back With their
eggs still inside them, they died Z.
and the big year. died with them"
And this is the satanic irony of 1t all:
had the rock slide occurred In any lean
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

year, say 1912 or 1914, little harm would
have been done, but in the big year" such
thing meant calamity, and it is now
known the greatest disaster in the his
tory of fishes! 1917-which should have
been another big year"-showed an 81
per cent decrease Of catch!
The slide has been cleared, but the
trouble will carry on into posterity, and
Washington and the Province of British
Columbia are at loggerheads as to how to
correct it. Be it known that the Ameri-
cans get the first whack at the run of
the Fraser, as all salmon returning from
the sea to spawn in it's watershed must
first pass through many miles of United
takes &c per cent. of the catch-and the
Canadians say that the Gamers down
there will not accept any closed season OF
years (Which. they correctly maintain. is
the only way TO bring back even part OF
the run). Be that as ii may. one doubts,
in the face of their local endeavors to
maintain unrestricted fishing. just how
happy the Canadian Gamers would be
should the Americans suddenly turn pious.
They seem too good to be true. At any
|
British Columbia and the State of Wash
ington has just met at Victoria-and failed
to reach any agreement, though both par
ties stoutly maintained that they came to
establish the closed seasonsl The Siwash,
OF course, get themselves ground up in
the wheels: they at least. can be per-
suaded to sell out their fishing rights to
the Government. Such tidbits of reform
give the appearance of progress.
But" warns the Hon. William Sloan,
Commissioner of Fisheries for the Province
of British Columbia, unless some radical
steps are taken at once the salmon soon
will be as extinct as the Dodo."
1921-dnother "big yedr'-lcds just nine
ty-three per cent. less than that of 1913l
1--WE can't do anything" plead the local
authorities; 1T is case for Ottawa and
Washington, d. Can international af-
fair!"
But to me it seems more than that:
this is a personal affair-yours and
mine, the man in the street.-the high
price of salmon. We eat it, at least
when we can dig up the price. And now,
in New York, our grocer will probably give
us something with the name "CHUM" on
the label. Whitish, queer looking stuff,
not at all like the pink, rich flesh we are
so accustomed to seeing against the green
leaves and firm mayonnaise. Funny stuff!
but salmon, nevertheless. So it is-Dog
Salmon, a fish, until a few years ago re-
jected by Gamers, despised. Only fit for
a Siwashi Humpbacks are now sold as
"Pinks'. An acquiescent market is per-
suaded to eat them They aren't bad;
but that's about the most that can be said
for them.
I'd rather have catfish and waffles.