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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT

| heartily endorse the platform and
the candidacy Of Hon. Carl Gunder-
son, the republican nominee and the
'armers' choice for Governor of South
Dakota. His platform is constructive,
yet conservative.
| take this occasion to formally an
nou1ce my candidacy for the republi-
can nomination for representative
from this district at the next regular
session of the state legislature.
My platform is entirely non-politi-
cal and Of vital interest to every
voter regardless of party afiliation.
A brief epitome of which herewith
follows:
How our state may attain the great
ct measure CO agricultural prosperity
is the absorbing thought of the day.
That such prosperity depends in a
great measure upon our success in Sc
2uring foreign markets for our sur
plus products is coming to be fully
appreciated by all our people. The
problems of marketing at home and
abroad will, no doubt, be prime issues
with Mr.. Gunderson in his coming
aampaign.
More rapid development Of the un-
occupied areas of our Rosebud country
would result if the Sioux Indian lands
'ffered by the government for sale
were offered on the same terms as our
tate school lands; or more nearly so
than at present. That a concerted
movement looking to that end should
be started at once by the people of
the Rosebud and Pine Ridge counties
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14

Arthur Siegmund and wife made 8
trip to Winner, Tuesday.
DR.. r. M. Master of Carter was g
Wood visitor, Monday of this week.
The prospects for a big ice harvest
certainly ere not very promising SC
far this winter.
VIZ are authorized to announce thai
the Carnival which was announced fol
tie Cody school, has been indefinitely
postponed.
They have another full sized revo-
luton in full swing in Mexico, and
they have been doing some real fight
ing down there this week.
The schools Of Wood are still closed
en- account OF sickness. The schools
at White River and Happy Hollow
have also been closed on account OF
sickness.
Just a suggestion: Send the Pic
neer for a year to some friend OF
yours as a Christmas gift. It's week
" visits will be appreciated and it
is a really worth while gift.
The Republican national convention
will meet at Cleveland, Ohio, next year
to nominate their candidates for presi-
dent and vice president, while the
democrats will probably meet at
Chicago.
Just one more week from Tuesday
next is Christmas. The weather has
been so mild and pleasant and we
have had such little snow, that il is
hard to realize that it is Utmost Santu
Claus time again.
The Butterfield ranch has installed
q new pitless wagon scale Mt their
ranch on White Thunder creek abou,
three and one-half miles southwest
of Wood. They expect to do consider
able feeding at the ranch this winter
and are in the market for n part of
Mellette county's big corn crop.
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County Highway superintendent B
" W:the-sneea and family CO White
River, passed through Wood eariI
Tuesday morning enroute to Murfrees
boro, Tennessee, where they will visit
with Mr.. Witherspson's sister, who is
very i'll. They expected to drive their
car as far as Norfolk, Nebraska, be.
fore boarding the train to complete
their long Quincy.
Paul Blankenhagen, who has been
staying with his brother in-law, Frank
Hakl, for the past eight or nine
months, in Rosebud Valley, left last
Monday morning for Omaha, where
he expects to find employment during
the balance of the winter. Mr..
Blankenhagen is an experienced meat
cutter and hopes to find employment
IN a meat market there. His sister,
Miss Elsie, is also employed at Omaha
at present.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14

! and our representatives in congress.
That Mellette county should be cut
off from that group of semi-arid coun-
ties which comprise the fourth hail
district and attached to the second
hail district. That hail statistics to
date will show her proper place to be
along with her neighbor counties OF
Jones and Trip. This would mean a
saving to Mellette county farmers of
five cents per acre per year, On every
acre of crop insured.
That the agricultural prosperity of
this part of the state could be greatly
promoted by the institution of a state
corn breeding station near the center
Of the Rosebud country; the purpose
Of which shall be to develop standard
varieties of dent corn in commercial
quantities for sale to our farmers.
Such station also to establish . divi-
sion of horticulture and farm forestry,
for quantity production of fruit
shade and forest trees adapted to our
soil and climatic conditions, to sell to
our farmers at a reasonable price for
transplanting upon our treeless farms.
This to be, not strictly speaking, an
experiment" station, bat a quantity
producing and self sustaining institu-
ton.
/ favor reDeal of the Richards pri-
mary law, or at least submitting it to
such severe surgical operation as shall
relieve it of its most serious infirmities.
! favor amending our state game
laws SO that they shall merit the
respect and appeal to the good sense
and challenge the support of every,
land owner and land tenant in the
state.
| hold that legislative service should
be rendered at least in part as a pat
riotic desire to promote the general
welfare, on the salary specified by the
state constitution.
Any further measures that have for
their object the development of the
Roebud country and the welfare of its
people will meet with my hearty APP
proval.
j. A. Houseman.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14

J.. B. Brown was a Winner visitor
asst Monday.
Senator Sterling has filed his name
IS a minority republican candidate foi
..nited States senator from South Da.
.ota. II looks now as though w
light experience a real lively primar,
ampaign here in South Dakota.
The South Dakota republicans ell
| iorsed President Coolidge as theil
choice for president. Coolidge, il an!
hing, is an old line republican, bu
they adopted II so-called progressive
platform and then named Capper, OF
Kansas, a progressive, as his running
mate. It's causing some OF the GU
side states, who are not afflicted witt
a Richards primary law, To smile.
j. X. King, who is one Of the EN-
)loves ON the Butterfield ranch south
est OF Wood, and who had his right
co broken just above the ankle about
i've weeks ago, when a horse fell
18th him, and who has been in the
Winner hospital since that time, re-
.urncd to the ranch Tuesday Of this
week. Mr.. King is still a little lame
but by being careful he will soon be
5 well as ever.
Mrs. f. S. Richardson on last Mon
lay purchased seven head of fine thor
,ughbred Holstein cows from Lige
Graham of Happy Hollow and she will
put them on her fine farm five miles
east of Wood. Holsteins are a fine
strain of milk cattle, and Mrs. Rich
ardson now has the foundation for a
good dairy herd that with proper care
should make her a good bank account
in a mighty few years. Dairying is
a branch of farming that should re-
ceive more attention by our farmers.
\ good, well-cared-for dairy herd
means a good steady income of real
cash on any farm. It's better than a
government pension.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14

A. G. Beard. the Cedarbutte merch-
ant and A. A. VanLaer of the same
community were overnight guests at
the Burns Hotel here last Monday
night. They were on their way home
from Winner, where they had taken
a truck load of poultry, and it was
the first time that Mr.. Beard had
ever visited the Trip county metro
polls.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14
J. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPoR.
For Week Ending December IL

Total precipitation from January !
1923, to date .20.7,
Precipitation, previous years:
l9~l3-17.96. 1914--l9.57. l915--32.42
l916-l8.S2. l917-l8.21. l918--l9.5s
l9l9--2032. 1920--2S.l5. l92l--l8.2O
l922--24.53.
Fred c. Kirch, Observer.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-14

Read the ads in the Pioneer.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
WALL STREET STOCK
 EXCHANGE REPORTS

l0iso a, m.-openins prices in to. days stock market were irregular with changes confined lo small frae- tions and some of the stocks which displayed acute weakness yesterday showed a better tone, particularly Baldwin and Am, Can, the latter risr ing l point. Some Of the rails weak ened substantially, Industriais hue- tuated nervously, studebaker falling 10 s6 i-i. new low, rebounding to yesterdays closing figure Of sd s'i,
 koen-Aetiye selling of rubber shares which carried Goodrich pfd, down four points to a new low for the year failed to unsettle the gens sral list and short interests covered freely during part Of the forenoon. Some of the recently conspicuous heavy stocks like Am Can. Baldwin. DuPent and Dawson Chem advanced to 2 points. Heayiness again ap- neared In spots. studebaker dipping to sb a-i before rebounding moder- ately. Call money opened at l-t per cent.
 Wall Street, i;so ?. m.--stiffening of raw and refined sugar price brought the sugar group into favor after mid day with resultant advances Of 1 to 2 points. Speculation in the leaders was quieter.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
JAIL GUARD KILLS WOMAN
Into Ohio Auto Party, Fearing
 Delivery of Prisoners

Cleveland, O., Sept. 26.-Mrs Mar garet Dunn, IS, was shot and killed yesterday morning by a guard at the 'Warrensville workhouse when he opened fire on an automobile party, of which Mrs. Dunn was a member and which, the guard said, he suspected of attempting to stage a jail delivery.
 The guard, Thomas Edwards, held at police headquarters, admitted he had fired five shots in the dark at the figures of several persons dashing from the cell block toward. the auto- mobile. He said he did it as matter of duty.
 Mrs. Dunn was shot in the head John Dunn, her husband, is among the five remaining members of the party, four men and one woman, held by the police. The woman is Mrs. Margaret Mannheim, paroled as a pris- oner in the workhouse 10 days ago, who was remaining on duty as an em- ploye.
 At police headquarters the men said they were returning from a late tbeater party and were taking Mrs. Mannheim back to the workhouse be- fore starting to their homes.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
DRYS ID ADVOCATE
 MORE STRICT LAWS.
Want Prohibition Unit Separated
 From Treasury Department

Washington. D. C., Sept ss,-rra- hibiti0n lobbyists and their supporters are preparing to make drive on congress for more drastic laws, The firsl thing they will demand is the passage of a bill separating the pros hibition unit from the treasury de- partment, They desire an independ- eat dry bureau. manned by prohibi- Iianists of the Wayne E, Wheeler, E, C, Dinwiddie and Roy A, Haynes type,
 A publicity campaign started by them charges that Commissioner Haynes has been interfered with. handicapped and blocked in his efforts to enforce the volstead act seere- tafy Mellon and Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair are described as ''unsympathetie."
 A bill modeled after the Wood- Ernst proposal win be introduced as soon as congress convenes. The Wood Ernst measure would transfer all the powers and duties incident to the national prohibition act from the secretary Of the treasury and the com missioner of international revenue to the attorney.general with certain ex- captions"
 Prohibition leaders claim a major ity in each house of congress. They believe they can put through any rea- sonablo legislation they see ft to offer. but admit that the opposition has grown so strong and SO determined that stubborn fight would ensue on any plan to amend the volstead act.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
DAYLIGHT SAvING'
 ENDS NEXT SUNDAY
Center Church Clock Gets Hands
 Back This Week

Daylight Saving will offieially come 10 an end this year at l a, m,r Sunday. September 80, This will be accompanied by the reyersien to standard time of all business houses Tn the city. together with the churches and schools,
 II was announced al the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad station in this city today that com pieie new timetables will so into ef- feet on sunday, Trains will. thus. on standard time. run one hour later than usual. Manufacturing plants will also take to tha>>standard time system again.
 Postmaster W, F. Delaney stated this afternoon that the post offiee will follow the railroad schedules, dispatehing and receiving mail in ae- eordance with the system taken up by it, II Is probable he said. that mail will be sent out and received subject to the railroad schedules.
 The hands will be replaced on the Center church clock sometime this week. so that the clock may start it's work when standard time again goes into effect. It Is expected that the hands will be replaced on the South church clock in the near future. also.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
SIX CONGRESSMEN
 GLOOMY ON RETURN
Europe in ChaOS--War Seems
 Inevitable They Say

New York, Sept. 26. Reinforced with first hand information which probably will figure in debates in con gress this winter, group of United States senators and representatives re- turned yesterday in the Leviathan from Europe, where they studied political and economic conditions. !, Some of them also attended the in- ternational parliamentary union at Copenhagen.
 Among the returning congressman were Senator Joseph Robinson of Ar kansas; Senator Kenneth Mcclellan of Tennessee; Senator William B. Me- I<inley of Illinois; Senator Claude Swanson of Virginia; Representatives Nicholas Longworth of Ohio and J. E. Raker of California.
 Senator Robinson, who was minor ity leader of the senate, has been men, tioned as 8 presidential possibility, when asked if he would accept the democratic nomination, said: T want to render the best service of which l am capable in the United States sen- ate. I am seeking no further advance ment. l don't want to impair my use- fitness in the senate by. becoming candidate for the presidency"
 Senator Robinson said that while adjustment between Germany and France would not be immediate, nec- essity probably would soon force a working agreement which would be the forerunner of complete adjust ment between the two nations.
 Senator McKeller declared that an other war in Europe can not long be deferred. All nations are either preparing for it or planning to-" he said Hatred of each other is the dominant characteristic of all the na- tions I visited"
 France is amply able to pay interest on her three billion American debt, according to Senator McKellar, who said the foreign debt commission should urge an immediate settlem ent.
 Senator Swanson said he had reach ed the conclusion that there would be no war out of the present political chaos because the people are war weary. He predicted a dictatorship | Tor Germany as a result of the es- tablishment of dictatorships in Italy, Spain, Russia and Bulgaria. He said the people are foolishly throwing away their parliamentary rights and the very institutions that gave them freedom.
 Senator Mckinley said Germany could pay reasonable amount in separations if the allies would agree on the sum-
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
ENDS TOBACCO co.
Griffin Firm in Hartford is Formally
 Dissolved

Hartford, Sept. 26.-Termination of the corporate existence of the Griffin Tobacco Go. was voted at a special meeting today at the company's Hart ford office.
 All of the issue of common stock, 5000 shares, now owned by the Amer ican Sumatra Tobacco Co. was voted by Ambrose Hardenburgh of New York, secretary of the Griffin Tobacco Co., in favor of the termination.
 More than 1900 shares of the 1900 shares of preferred stocks was voted in favor of the termination by per- sons or by proxy. No opposition was expressed.
 The action today followed vote of the directors on August Is in New York.
 The capital stock of the Griffin To- bacco Co. is s30O,000 in common stock and s150,000 in preferred stocle> The controlling interest in the company was acquired about four years ago by the American Sumatra Tobacco Co.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
BELGIAN BALLOON
 BELIEVED WINNER
De Huytsr Covers 800 Miles in
 2i Hours

Brussels Sept l6-Iselsium appears
 to have won the international balloon
 race for the Gordon Bennett cup again this year. either with Demupter.
 the landing of whose balloon Bslgiea al o'clock Monday night about the center of Sweden, gives him dis tanee of about 600 miles, or with Yeenstra, piloting the Prince Leopold, whose fate at the moment is still un- known.
 Demuyter's distance last year. when he won the trophy. was sfb miles. and his time then was sb hours. as compared with si hours this year,
 The tragic race which started Sunday from the broad plain of aolboseh. outside of Brussels, caused the death of live pilots or aides, the grave injury of one and less serious injuries to four others. the destrue- ton Of several of the balloons and the fall of two of them into the sea-all of which may lead to tho race rules being changed for future contests.
 Dubois. who had miraculous escape when the French balloon savoie fell mass like. owing to the snow which collected on it. wants the race in June or July Others are strongly Of the opinion that a more favorable season of the year for the contest would mean less danger to the lives of the contestants.
 President Jacobs of the Belgian Aero. club Is against changing the regulations so far as concerns post poning the start. The date was chosen, existed which were necessary for dis tance. and desired by the pilots; anti cyclonic conditions would give no in- teresting results. The equinoctial per- tod was chosen because then the pre- vailing winds in Belgium carry the balloons toward central and southern Europe. not towards England and the ocean. The Gordon Bennett cup. he added. was always competed for at Lhis time of year.
 Capt. Dunville of the British Ban- 'hee III suffered sprained ankle in anding. He said the trip was ex- ,eptionally trying. After rising more han 600 feet the Banshee III ran into ] snowstorm, and dropped at a giddy 'peed, making a most abrupt and vio- ent landing.
 The Spanish pilot, Magdalena, of he Ferdnadez Duro, also encountered now. His craft also whired down. yard, but landed without damage.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
HINT MURDER IN DROWNING
Confession by Prisoner fin England May Clear Poughkeepsic Mystery

Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 26.-The death of an unidentified man whose body was found in the Hudson river near here on June 29. 1922, became the subject of investigation of county authorities.
 District Attorney Allen s. Reynolds received telegram from Governor Smith transmitting advices of the state department that Richard w. Ar rowsmith, alias Thomas Wilson, had confessed during recent imprison- ment at Liverpool, England, to killing a man named Waginski in this local ity in June or July of last year. Will son, the state department was inform ed, by the American consul at Liver pool, recently was discharge but now Is under surveillance.
 Coroner John A. Card and Under Sheriff c. Fred Close tonight sought the aid of Hudson Valley police and the New York City Bureau of Missing Persons in tracing relatives of Wag- inski, in the belief that it was his body which was taken from the river. It was indicated that if the authori- ties could prove the drowned man was Waginski, steps would be taken to extradite Wilson.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
SAVES CONVICT FROM CHAIR.
Gov. Smith Commutes Febrola's Sen-
 tence to Life Imprisonment.

Albany, Sept. Ex-Governor Smith yesterday commuted to life imprison- ment the death sentence passed on a convicted murderer and pardoned a youth convicted of burglary and jail- breaking.
 On recommendation of the district attorney of Westchester county, Frank Febola was saved from the electric chair by the governors ac- tion. Febrola and Anniello Paretti, codefendants, were convicted at sep afate trials of first degree murder. Febrolas conviction was affirmed on appeal, while the court of appeals re- versed the conviction of Paretti. Par- etti was never retried and was re- leased.
 After visit from the boys father yesterday, Governor Smith freed Fred Albert Hayes, convicted in Washing ton county in September, 1921, of burglary in the third degree and es- caping from jail and sentenced to serve sentence ranging from 8 years 6 months to IT years. Executive clemency was recommended by the jlidge before whom Hayes was con- victed and the prosecutor in the case.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
BIBLE CLASS BOARD
 HAS BUSY SESSION.
Parker, Lukens and Fletcher on
 New Industrial Committee

A meeting Of the executive commit tee of the EYerymans Bible class was held last evening in the Y, M. c, 4. The meeting was presided over by A. Ii. Parker and was we'll attended, All the indications point to very success, ful season,
 An industrial committee was SD, pointed consisting of J, E., Lukens. chairman; D. N, Barker and w R, Fletcher Mir. Fletcher was appointed to succeed Mir. Lukens on the A. B. c, news committee. Plans were made for the corn roast which Is to bs held Saturday and a large attendance is ex- peeled, It was voted to have a copy Of the roster of the Bible class pre- scented to visitors registering at the session on Sunday,
 No action was taken on the propos- cd plan of postponing the date Of the convention Of the Bible classes of New England. New Jersey and New York from the scheduled date of De- tober 25th. until sometime in January. Ii Is expected. however. that a meet ing Of the executive committee will be called to take up matters as 1t is thought by many that a postponement until January would make 1t possible to hold the convention in the new hotel.
 Rev. John l.. Davis made several suggestions during the course of the meeting which proved helpful. .
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
HUGE WHITE "N''
Will Greet Western State College Stu- dents From Heights of TenderfoOt Mountain-35O Feet High.

Gunnison, Col, Sept. 26.--A huge white wv, gleaming from the heights of Tenderfoot Mountain, will greet students returning to Western State college here for the fall semes- ter. The letter, said to be the largest college letter in the world, was con- structed by students at the close of the last spring term. It stands $50 feet high, with spread at the widest point of 400 feet. The lines are 16 feet wide.
 Student engineers drew the diagram on the face of the mountain and filled 1t with stones. Lime was carried up in buckets from the foot of the noun tain and the letter whitewashed.
 Western State claims to be the highest educational institution in the country as regards altitude. It is nearly 5000 feet above sea level, and .Tenderfoot mountain, rising from the outskirts of the town, towers several thousand additional feet.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-26
OUTING OF T. & H. CLUB
Sheep Roast and Athletic Program Features of Annual Affair At Lake Compounce Next Saturday.

The Foremen's club of Traut te Hine Co. will hold it's 18th annual outing at Lake Compounce, Saturday. About 75 members will attend and will leave the factory at 12 o'clock Saturday noon and make the trip by automobile. lsl
 A sheep roast will be Id schad- uled to commence about 1 o'clock Following this there will be a pro- gram of athletic events. The feature of the afternoon will be baseball game between the married and single men Captain Heath of the Benedicts will lead his charges against Captain Miller and his bachelor crew. The other events on the program are the 100-yard dash, boat race. potato race, hop skip and jump, shoe race and three-legged race. The party will re- turn to the city about 5 or o'clock in the evening
 The entertainment committee con- sists of o. E. Miller, chairman, P. Koether and W. Willoughby.