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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

1t ruincd and then it rained some
more.
LANCE, Eye Man, at Winner, Sat
urday, June 2, Sunday, June 8. 1913
The sun shone a little through the
clouds yesterday, for the first time
this week.
F. S. Richardson left Monday fol
Deadwood, where he is this week at
tending U. S Court.
The rains the past week have com.
pletely routed the pessimist who has
been predicting a dry season.
Several of the young folks from
here attended the pavement dance al
Winner last Saturday evening.
Mrs. Gertrude Petrich and family OF
Mission were here Sunday visiting
with her brother, Lewis Helm anG
family on the Butterfield ranch.
Merrill Kaufman and wife and sons
drove to the Agency Sunday to visit
with the Fredrickson family there.
Monday was a damp, dreary, rainy
day. Fine weather for small grain
and alfalfa, but not very good fo4
corn or other spring crops and garden
sass.
The Hotel Wood has been re
christened the Burns HOTEL and
Collice G~allineaux this week painted
a neat window sign announcing the
change in name.
Boss Farmer Y. S. Cleaver and wife
left last Sunday for Murdo, where
they boarded the train enroute t.
Deadwood, where Mr.. Cleaver is this
week attending u. S. Court.
A number of our farmers are now
planting corn. The ground is i'll fine
condition, but so far the spring has not
been very favorable for corn rs the
weather has been entirely too cool.
The big Indian land sale will be
held at the Agency at Rosebud next
Monday. From indications there will
be the largest number of bidders for
the lands offered hat have appeared
in recent sales of like kind.
From reports we have been getting
we are free 10 say that the spring pig
crop in Mellette county is the largest
ever produced in the history OF the
county. Hog production is one OF the
fastest growing branches of farming
in this county.
c. A. Brown, who is farming the
Banker ranch just north of town, ak
poets to plant 315 acres to corr this
year, and he is breaking lao acres OF
new land on the ranch. This large
corn acreage is practically all in one
field. Besides the corn they have
about fifty acres in small grain. Mr..
Brown has three grown sons and they
are handling this big ranch without
outside help.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

We have a very good half section
# Mellette county land located with
n seven miles of Wood, with plenty
II good pillow land, water and pasture
land, that can be bought for less than
$500 and we can give good terms 10
tho right party. This is raw land
with no improvements, but it is a
snap. Call at this Office for further
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25
J.. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT
For Week Ending May %.

Total precipitation from January l,
1923, to 6.O7
Precipitation, previous years:
l913--17.96. 1914--19.57. 1915--32.42,
9~16-41S.S2. 1917--18.21. 1918--19.58,
9~l9--2O.32. l920--28.15. 1921--1S.2O
922--24.53.
Fred c. Kirch, Observer.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

The local chapter of the Order OF
the Eastern Star will enjoy an Official
visit from the Associate WORTHY
Grand Matron, Mrs. Jessie Wendal'
of Aberdeen, South Dakota, on the
evening of Thursday, May 81. AL
members of the local chapter are re
quested to attend tho special meeting
called for that evening.
Next Tuesday is circus day at Win.
ner.
Advertise in the Pioneer.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

He makes good money from HI,
land, and has success at every hand
cause he diversifies.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

Rock phosphate applied on corn
land with manure has given a 80 per
cent increase for all crops in the corn
small ~grain-clover rotation at the
Brookings experiment station. Phos-
plate is now available from q carload
at Sioux Falls. White to the agron-
omy department, State college, Brook.
ings, for particulars.
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particulars

we have a mighty nice quartz, sec.
tlon OF irho about five miles from
wood on Memorial Highway, that
would inakc a mighty nice home
plenty OF good soft wafer. All raw
land. It's a real snnp, al less taan
so'oo. Can give terms on part. Call
At tahs oaice for full ~particulxrsL
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

The most valuable news q farmer
can obtain is news Of other farmers
and news of the world which, has a di-
rect or indirect bearing on his business
or his home. The country newspapers
print the news of other farmers.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

The Ladies Aid society will meet
with Mrs. j. L. Orr on Thursday aft
ornoon, June Z. All ladies are most
cordially invited to attend this meet
ing.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

One farmer has found hal rats may
be destroyed by piping the fumes OF
an automobile exhaust into their bur
rows under the barn, garage or
chicken house. He packed loose earth
around the hose and ran the engine
moderately for about ten minutes.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25

One COW out of every six, on al
average, loses money for her owner.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25
CULLS

A ventilator in the barn is a paying
proposition.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-05-25
THE FARMERS WIFE
By Mary Ann Gray
Does Your Child Weigh Enough?-

Does Your Child Weigh Enough?-
The weight for height and age and the
rate of gain make the best index to
the general health of your boy and
girl. They should be weighed regu-
larry, and the gain or loss noted, adj
viseS Susan F.. Wilder, extension spec
ialist in foods and nutrition, in her
bulletin, adequate Diet for the
School Child Each month the gain
according to age for girls should be
as follows: SIS years, 6 o.; S-l1,
S or; lila, y o.; 14-l6, s o.; 1918,
4oz. The boy from 5 to s years
should gain 6 o.; S-12, s o.; 1916,
16 or; 1918 years, 8 OF.
Food Habit Score Card, originated
by Mary A. Dolve, extension specialist
in foods, helps your boy and girl
travel the health road by checking
their food daily. Do your children
drink four cups of milk each day, eat
vegetables, other than potatoes, twice
daily and fruits twice a day? The
card shows also that greens should be
included twice a week, and cereals.
such as breakfast foods whole grain
daily; six glasses of water daily and
no tea or coffee. Your children will
find fun in playing the health game
with a food chart, which ear be Sc.
cured from the extension service,
State college, by writing to Miss
Dolve.
Uses For Adhesive Tape-A strip
of this tape stuck to the back of your
pump Keeps the loose heel from
slipping; small holes in rubbers and
in hot water bottles can be mended
IN emergency with adhesive; if the
children loose rubbers or caps at
write their names on strips
of the tape with indelible ink and
paste them inside the articles. This
first aid to the injured also mends p
cracked broom handle or umbrella.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
A BEDTIME STORY
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS

this way and that way. He knew
what these things meant. He knew
that Mother Bear had bitten out that
piece from the trunk of The tree,
and standing UP had made those
great claw marks. He knew that she
knew that he had been climbing that
tree. He knew that those marks
were a message meant especially for
him. He understood that message,
1t was q warning. 1t was a warn
ing TO keep out of that tree. 1t was
a warning to keep away from that
part of the Green Forest. He knew
that if he failed to heed that warn-l
ing, Mother Bear would catch him.
sooner or later. He didn't like to
think of what would happen if She
did. He was big for his age. He,
was strong. But Mother Bear was
bigger and stronger, and love for
those new babies would maks her
very fierce and angry.
Boxer angrily dug his own claws
into the trunk of that tree, then
turned and shuffled away. And as
he shuffled along, he kept turning
his head from side to side and look
ing behind him. He didn't feel easy
until he had reached another part
of the Green Forest far from that
big hemlock tree and the old wind
fall.
I'll go back there!" he kept say
ing over and over. "Pll go back
there whenever L please! She needn't
think she can drive me away! I've
got just as many rights in the Green
Forest as she has. I'll go back there
if I want to, and she cannot stop
me-" III
Now this was idle Boosting. Down
in his heart Boxer knew it. He
knew that he wouldn't go back
there. He knew that he didn't dare
go back there. Anyway, he wouldn't
dare go back there Until he was big
enough to make claw marks as high
UP on that tree as Mother Bears.
He was needless and headstrong, but,
he was wise enough to know that it
would be the most foolish thing he
could do not to heed that MESA ge.
Copyright, 1923, by T. w. Burgess.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
ITHEGUIDEPoST
! by
] Henry van Dyke
The Grind of Life
@Io23 REPUBLIC SYND

Lie UTI1u Vi AuIS
Patient in tribulation.-Ro
mans 1912.
X/OU must not suspect me
of having an Interior de-
sign of >springing a new
theory of the universe upon you,
nor of subtly advertising
panacea for all
THE heartache, and the thou
sand natural shocks
That flesh. is heir to-
No, 1 am as much in the dark
as you are, and with you I suf-
. fer
1.-THE sings and arrows of out
rageous fortune"
IT'S a rough, confused, turbu-
lent age in which we have to
live.
But it is the only age that is
given to us. Let us make the
best of it.
And above all, let us not lose
either our loyalty to truth or our
sense of humor.
Tribulation m ans grin
ding" and I suppose we must
go through it if we want the
good flour to come out of the
wheat.
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|IIIIIIIUIlLIIIIIIIII|

sister-in-law told me to take the Veg
etable Compound when I began to
have the same old dreadful sickness
and headaches and was so worn out.
Since then I have only had two
headaches, had a good appetite and
scarcely lost meal. l have fine,
healthy baby girl who has never had
a sick day. The incest part is that I
am healthy, too. 1t did me lot Of
good, and if / should ever have another
baby will take your medicine at
once. - Mrs. BESSIE WARD, s1O27
Park Avenue, Springfield, Ohio.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is an excellent medicine
for expectant mothers, and should be
taken during the entire period. 1t
has a general effect to strengthen
and tone up the entire system.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

a most unfair one to the woman
and why any girl could enter into
such an unequal bargain, and one
IN which she always gets the bad
end, passes comprehension.
Nevertheless, they do, and I have
a pathetic letter from a young girl
who is the victim of this atrocious
sentimental system. She says that
she has been keeping company"
with a boy for three years and,
while she likes him, she doesn't
love him. They are not engaged.
He has never popped the question,
but he gets furiously angry and
raises ructions if she so much as
looks at another boy, rand she is
tired of this petty tyranny. She
wants to play around with the other
boys and to see other men, before
she makes hir final choice of the
one with whom she is to spend
the balance of her life. and she
wants to know If I don't think she
is right.
OF course she is. The girls who
live. swhere the keeping company
custom prevails should unite to-
gether and break it up, because it
so manifestly unjust to them all
along the line. 1t makes them give
all and get nothing. 1t makes them
take all the risks of a courtship
that may fizzle out into nothing.
1t makes them the prey of every
social CRATER and philanderer who
happens along.
1t makes a girl waste her youth
and beauty on a man whose at
tentions may be altogether without
intention, and that is very Sc
rious thing, for girls face is her
fortune, and she is far more are
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
Boxer Finds a Message

A warning that is wisely needed
Will not a second time be needed.
Mother Bear.
Boxer stayed up in the big hem
lock tree watching Mother Bear and
her three new babies until she de-
cided that. they had been outside
long enough, and sent them back
under the old windfall. Then she
followed them in. No sooner was
she out of sight that Boxer scram-
bled down from his perch and
hurried away as fast as he could
go. He didn't want to be anywhere
near there when Mother Bear should
come out to look for her dinner.
But the next day Boxer was back
up in that big hemlock tree. He
simply couldn't keep away from
there. He saw the triplets again.
And as on the day before, scrambled
down just as soon as they and
Mother Bear had disappeared under
the old windfall. The same thing
happened for. several days. Boxer
began to feel quite safe from dis
covery. He thought himself very
smart.
But one morning when he reached
the big hemlock tree and started to
climb it, he discovered something
that gave him a shock. Yes, sir, it
did So A piece had been bitten out
of the trunk Of that tree. Above
this, much higher than Boxer could
reach even when he stood up and
reached his highest, were big, deep
claw marks.
Boxer looked at them for a full
minute. Then he nervously looked
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
Dear Folks:

Dear Folks:
You know I've talked lot about
not having things" cluttering UP
your homes, and I'm very much of
the opinion that most makeshifts
are denominations.
Last week, however, I had to al
ter that opinion a bit. While driv-
ing down the highway / noticed
most attractive porch. At first L
did not quite take in the makeup
of this porch, but as it was inter
esting looking, on my return trip L
slowed down and really took a good
look. This is what 1 saw:
Around the porch were flower
boxes, painted green, of course.
These were filled with fresh green
plants, but the thing that really
caught my eye was the treatment
of beams that ran across the top
of the porch. There were four
openings in the porch, of course not
counting the entrance. Hung In
each of these openings were two re-
ceptacles for flowers. On close OBJ
servation [ found that these holders
were made from four-pound lard
cans painted green and hung by
chains from the top beam. Trailing
plants filled these, and, of course, 1
knew that the bottoms must have
been punctured to allow drainage.
1t was a, revelation to me, and with
the hope that it may help some
other housekeeper to beautify her
porch, 1 am passing the idea along.
Cordially,
AUNT JULIA.
Mrs. J. o. J.:
Have had some difficulty in Sc
curing your thread. Hope to mail
it to you not later than tomorrow.
F'rills:
Ruffles and ruffles are being
worn, but you have to use care when
adopting them. If you are stout
and the ruffles come at your waist
line or around your hips you look
much larger.
Ned:
After you call on girl friend it
would be proper to say; II have en-
joyed my evening Tor afternoon
very much. I hope that you Will
allow me to call again. If you wish
to invite your friend to a picture
show first be sure that the picture
is one that you'd care to see with
a girl friend, then say: There Will
be a good picture on next Tuesday
Tor whatever night the picture of
your choice is shown; won't you go
with me to see it?'
Housewife:
If YOU want to do a creditable job
of painting on your furniture, be
sure to sandpaper the rough places
and the DID, scaled paint off before
starting. Unless your surface is
smooth and even you will not have
a satisfying job. When the furnl'
ture is mahogany or walnut you
should rub it own with linseed OIL
and rotten stone, then go over IL
with a good furniture polish. O'Cedar
Oil or Liquid Veneer is good. YES
I do like the light paint, say gray
or blind green, for porch furniture.
The white furniture is pretty for
norches if you give it a character
bv using cretonne or bingham check
slips and pillows with 1t.
Seena:
Soak your hands in warm water
and some pure soap, keeping the
water warm and leaving the nails
in the water long enough to soften
the cuticle around them, then with
the round end of an orange SUCK
gently push back the skin afounu
the nail, shaping them as you do'
At night rub g. pure cold cream or
white yaseline over and around your
nails. You will be surprised at the
improvement.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

SplenQlO H1eOlcl1e
for me before my
fourth child was
born. With the
first three l had
been sick and
weak, andhad sick
headaches twice a
week. l couldn't
keep enough food
down to do me any
good, and my work
was left undone
manu- q time NV
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EVERYBODY

Rules
/. All questions must have tull
names and addresses signed. II 1t
is desired that names do not appear
in the paper, add your initials or
some chosen name in addition to
your full name.
2. All questions must be written
on ONE SIDE Of the paper only.
8. No legal or medical advice can
be given, either in the Question Box
or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring personal
reply MUST inclose stamped, self-ad'
dressed envelope.
S. Letters for the Question Box
MUST NOT be included in letters for
Aunt Julia's Letter Box. The Ques-
tons must be sent separately and
must be addressed to Aunt Julia's
Question Box, The Atlanta Tri-Week-
ly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Wise Girl Doesn's Allow Her.
self to Be MOnOpOlized; She
Never Keeps Company" With
Man Until His Ring Is on

I9Su!I L9H
TN certain parts of the country
there exists a social custom
~ called keeping company" Be
ing interpreted, this means that a
youth deigns to cast his handker-
chief to a particular girl. He goes
to see her several times a week.
He takes her about to places of
amusement, and in return for these
royal favors the girl must receive
attentions from no other man I'M
der penalty of losing her job as a
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

- -
In a word, the
man arrogates
to himself all Of
the rights and
privileges Of a
finance, without
assuming any of
the finances OBJ
legations, for he
is not engaged
to the girl. He
hasn't asked her
to marry him.
He may never
SIX her to
marry him, and
he is perfectly
free to rid e
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

them all up, and then I feel like raising
them sure enough. Do any. OF the other
cousins like to sew and crOchet as wen 9
| do? How many Of you are lett-nanueu
day? l was twelve the 14th of last Septem-
her. As this is my first letter, Will Drlns
it to a close. Much love to AL.
KATHRYNE REEDE JOLLEH'
Marietta, Ca, Route 2.
Tap. Tap: Good morning, dear Aunt Ju-
liza. How kind of you to open the door de lor
cousins. 1 certainly am glad to see you
smiling and looking SO pleasant. r 9iAsi
don't you Just love our dear OLD JouTnal!
will tell you what 1 like best of all IN IT,
Why. to be sure, everything is good IN IL,
but I like ''our box" and Dorothy DIX
writings best of all. Cousins, didn't you
like Aunt Julia's nice letter III me jour.
now, And. cousins, let's try and 90 VIVA
She said. ITO improve each shining hour,
as educa ton is my greatest aim IN lie; ny
gaining a good education you shall nave
y0ur rewa rd in the rich stores of knowledge
YOU have thus collected and when snail
ever be at your command. An educatlon Is
more valuable than any other earthly treas
IRE Now few words on kindness: be
kind to all things is my motto. word or
kindness is a seed, which, when dropped by
chance springs up flower. klnd worn
and pleasant voice are gifts easy to give
And dear cousins. let us all be liberal Win
them, Kindness makes sunshine wherever IL
goes, MANY lose the opportunity of saying
kind thing by waiting to weigh the mat
ter too long. Hard words are like hail
stones in summer, beating down and de-
stroying what they would nourish If they
were melted into drops of Kindness Llt-
tie drops Of rain brighten the meadows
and little acts Of kindness brighten the
world
"a little word of kindness spoken,
motion or tear.
Has often healed the heart that's broken
And made a friend sincere"
All you cousins write me. for all letters
would be greatly appreciated and answered.
get very lonesome sometimes. as my
mother died recently. ] am housekeeping
and / am great lover OF DOCKS. zane
Grey and Harold Bell Wright are my ia
vorite authors. With much love TO dear
auntie for letting me in your coy circle and
with the hest OF wishes to all the cousins
am between fourteen and nineteen. Your
MISS RUBY HARRIS.
Culberson. n. C.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Here ! come
again, after staying away for a year or
longer, asking for admittance in your jolly
band of boys and girls Wonder if any Of
for printing my letter. also the cousins who
wrote me so many nice letters. Wonder II
Katie Mae Jones, of Tallahassee, Fla, has
married yet. If not, what has become of
each other until last year and / wonder what
has become of her. Say cousins, spring is
here again, for l can hear most any kind Of
summer bird singing this beautiful morn
ing, and it's real warm, too. 1 can hear
the bees humming in the tree tops all the
time now, so we know summer is near
viii go, asking You cousins to write an
Alabama lad Of between seventeen and
twenty-one summers who is full Of life
and fun. Your nephew and cousin.
JOHNNIE HALL.
Eclectic. Ala, Route 5. --
.s.. $40 s. q. f. sas sz,sss e.s
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
Hoop Rolling

The JOY Of rolling hoop is infini-
tely greater if on the inside of the
hoop there are two wooden rabbits
which appear to be chasing each
other. These hoops are painted in
CAV cOlOrS. 5rt
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
Dutch Farmers Emigrate

ROTTERDAM. May 26.-Dutch
liners are carrying many Dutch
farmers and farm laborers to Amer
lea. These travellers are going chief
ly to Uella, Ia, and other Holland
settlements in the Mississippi valley
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

away whenever he pleases, leaving
her beauless.
No doubt this is a pleasing enough
arrangement for the man, but it is
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
Help for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"

No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides Of
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
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TO EXPECTANT
MOTHERS
A Letter from Mrs. Ward Tells
How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound Helped Her

Springfield, Ohio. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound proved
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

"F'riendship with all, entangling
alliances with none" is a good mot
to for girls when dealing with men,
until the man comes along with a
proposal on his lips, and a wedding
ring in his pocket That is plenty of
time to begin keeping company"
with him.
Copyright. 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

Any girl lacks self-respect, and
good, hard, common sense who lets
any man monopolize her until after
they are definitely engagedA She
never "keeps company with a man
until his ring is on her finger.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29

A warning that is wisely needed
Will not a second time be needed.
Mother Bear.