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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
SOUTH DAKOTA COLLEGE NOW
HAS ALPHA ZETA CHAPTER

Brookings, Feb. g.. South Dakota
State College is now one of the "a ag-
ricultural colleges in the United
States. having local chapters of Alpha
Zeta. national honorary agricultural
fraternity. Formal installation or tine
South Dakota chapter was held Mon
day evening with Lew T. Skinner,
Lincoln, Nsbr.. high scribe, and Harry
b.. Potter, Marshall, ILL.,, high treasur-
er and general secretary of the Ma
tional Fraternity of Alpha Zeta, in
charge. other visiting officers of the
organization included Elton Lux and
Allen Cook OF Lincoln. Neb., Pau,
Dunn and Theodore Uehling of Ames.
Ia, and Lloyd Nelson, Minneapolis.
Officers Of the South Dakota chap
ter were elected as follows: Rush 3.
Locke, Bookings. chancellor: Agus-
tus l.. Haines, Mitchell. censor Or
man +. Street, Revillo. scribe: Lloyd
Larson. La Crosse. Wis, treasurer:
Helmer Greguson, Canton, chronicler.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
HIGHMORE BAKERY DAMAGED
IN EARLY MORNING BLAZE

Highmore Herald-The ringing o.
the firebell about Sis Wednesday
morning called out the fire department
20 night a blaze which had started
above the furnace in the City Bakery.
a partition was damaged to a consid-
tie Johnson. who with her sister oc
cupy rooms with Mr.. and Mrs. Holtz-
man above the restaurant. She was
awakened by the smell of smoke anC
reused the other inmates, who turned
in the alarm and Immediately began
carrying things out from upstairs.
The fire started in the floor over the
furnace. and was confined to the low
er story, Of which the floor and wall
were badly burned. The stock is a
total loss as is nearly all OF the fix
lures, while much of the supplies in
the basement will be a total loss. The
stock in H. Perry's general store, sep
arated from the restaurant by only
The fire was discovered by Miss Myr-
cradle extent by smoke.
How the fire started Is not known,
as before closing at about midnight
Mrs. Hoffman went to the basement
to look at the furnace, and it appeared
there was but little fire in the
furnace. Both the loss of stock and
to the building is partially covered
by insurance, and as soon as an ad
arrives to adjust the loss. pre-
parations to repair the building will
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
SEVENTH DISTRICT TO HAVE
A GIRLS HOOP TNORNAMENc

The first girls basketball tourna-
ment in this district. IL not in the
state. will be held at Harold on
March 10. IA and Is. upon invitation
OF the Harold Commercial Club.
The Harold Journal has the follow
ing to say anent the tournament:
Last Monday evening the CONNER
cial club held a special meeting to
consider holding an invitation tourna-
ment here for girls teams In this dis
trict. Prof. Eckman explained the de-
tails and after discussion II was de-
cidcd by a large majority to cooper
ate with the school athletic associa-
tion In staging a tournament here. A
committee OF Carl Grothe, Geo. Haas,
Harry Feeney, Joe Marso and John
Winckler was appointed to act with
Prof Eckman and a committee from
the athletic association consisting of
Helen Hilton. Bertha Geraths and
Kenneth Brimmer to promote the
meet.
This Is quite an undertaking for a
community this size. Teams from
eight towns have been invited to be
our guests here March Is. IA. Is. We
have one OF the finest gyms In the dis \
trict and IL all will take hold of the
proposition a a matter Of community
pride and cooperate in every way,
Harold will make a name for itself
that will stand out big. There has
never been O girls tournament in this
district and possibly none in the state
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
HAYNES COAL MINE ON FIRE
APPEAL TO STATE FOR HELP

Bismarck, N. D., FEB. 28-Appeals
were made today to the states OF
South Dakota and North Dakota to
aid in fighting a destructive coal mine
fire raging in the mine OF the Haynes
Coal Mining company in southwestern
North Dakota near the South Dakota
line.
After receiving an appeal for $4,000
from the state emergency fund to aid
in fighting the fire. Secretary of State
Thomas Hall and Commissioner -
Agriculture j. A. Kitchen, members of
the state emergency commission, left
here late today by automobile for
Haynes to view the fire. They were
informed an appeal for $4,000 was
being made to the state OF South Da
kota, through it's coal mining com
mission. and that the Haynes Coal
Mining company would also advance
$4,000 to fight the fire.
w. S. Stratton, consulting engineer
OF the state mine department. also left
to join j. p. Mellon, state mine inspec-
tor who is in charge Of fighting the
fire.
The fire. according to word here,
was of incendiary origin, having bro
ken out in three places, so feet under.
ground. Great clouds of smoke and
are issuing. through assures,
from rs to 100 feet above the ground.
Fear is expressed that the fire will
through the Haynes mine to
the adjoining mine owned by the state
Of South Dakota, and to coal land
woned by the state Of North Dakota,
declared to be worth $780, G0. NJ
were endangered by the fire.
Officials here profess to know of no
reason why the present fire should
have been set.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

South Dakota all the right. title, inter
est and estate of the said John o.
Buehler at the time of his death and
all the right, title and interest that
the said estate has by operation of
aw or otherwise, acquired other than,
or in addition to that of the said John
o. Buehler at the time of his death
in and to that certain lot, piece or
parcel of land lying and being in the
County of Hand and State of South
Dakota, and bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
The North West quarter of section
ten, in Township Ill, Range 6S;
The land will be sold subject to a
first mortgage to the State of South
Dakota for 8 ,600.29 and accrued in
terest at 5h per cent per annum
from March list, 1928, and a second
mortgage for $3,625.00 with 6 per
cent interest from March list, 1928.
Both mortgages covering also the
South West quarter of said section
ten.
Dated February 18th, 1924.
C. l.. Penny,
Administrator of the estate of John
o. Buehler, deceased.
S. V. Christ,
Attorney.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
Feb. II, t3.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE Oh
SALE OF REAL ESTATE 49,.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
in pursuance of IAN order of the
County Court of the County of Hand,
State of South Dakota made on the
18th dayLof February, 1924, in the
matter of the estate of John o. Bueh-
Ter, deceased. the undersigned, the
administrator of said estate will sell
at public auction, to the highest bid
der, for cash, and subject to confirma-
ton by said County Court, on Thurs
day, the 18th day of March, 1924, at
two o'clock p. NJ, at the front door of
the Court House, in the City of Miller,
in the County of Hand and State of
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
Feb. II, t6
NOTICE or FORECLOSURE SALE

Default having been made in the
payment of the interest due upon the
promissory note, the payment of
which note and interest thereon was
secured by a mortgage dated March
first, 1920 executed by Thomas J.. Hen
drick and Evelyn F. Hepdrick, hus
band and wife, and Oscar Brewer and
Sadie Brewer, husband and wife. as
mortgagors, to Louis Hemmingson, as
mortgage, and which mortgage was
on the nth day of March, in the year
1920, recorded in tire Office of the Reg
lister of Deeds in and for Hand County.
South Dakota in Book III of Mortgag
es on page rs. No action or proceed
ing at law or otherwise has hereto
fore been instituted to recover the
debt secured by said mortgage or any
part thereof.
Said mortgage provided that upon
default in the payment of any inter-
est due on the said mortgaged indebt-
edness, that then the whole principal
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
POP CORN CROP NETS
KIMBALL MAN 81, 100

Kimball, March 3.-John Wingert, a
progressive farmer living north OF
this city, just sold his popcorn raised
the past year, which netted him the
neat sum of $1,000. Mr.. Wingert had
in around rs acres the past year, and
his crop was sold to an eastern man
said to be from Spencer, Ia, who
makes a business of buying popcorn
and shipping it. 1t is thought many
other farmers around here will put in
about half the acreage that Mr.. Win
CERT put in, which has been profitable
to him for several years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
Feb. II, IS
NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION

Notice is hereby given, that a prl-
mary election will be held at the reg
ular polling places in all voting pre-
cincts of Hand County, South Dakota,
on the 25th day OF March, 1924. be-
tween the hours of eight o'clock A. NJ.
and five o'clock p. NJ, for the purpose
of allowing the members of each poll
teal party in the state by a direct vote
TO choose the paramount issue for
party platform and propose their sew
eral party candidates for all presiden-
tial, state, congressional, judicial, leg
islative, county and district offices.
which are to be filled by election al
the next general election, and to elect
party. national, state, county commit
teemen, and state party chairman and
delegates and alternates to the nation
al convention.
Dated this 18th day of February,
1924.
p. Fl. WALSH,
County Auditor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

1921 at two o'clock z. NJ, of said day.
being "A day of a regular term of this
Court, to-wit: of the regular March
term, 1924, at the Office of the County
Judge at the Court House in the City
of Miller, in the said County of Hand
has been set for hearing 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
10th day OF February, A. ID. 1924.
G. c. BRIGGS,
County Judge.
Attest: Emma A. Morrow,
Clerk OF Courts.
ICounty Court Seal
G. M. Carroll. Attorney.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
Feb. 81. t3
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR LETTERS OF ADMINS
ND lUNVnN

State of South Dakota, County Of
Hand, SIS.
IN COUNTY COURT.
IN THE NATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF
Claus Johnson, Deceased.
THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
SENDS GREETING TO Arthur p.
Johnson, Edward A. Johnson, Amelia
Fegan, Esther Pierce, Anna Frad, Ell
wood Johnson, Clarence Johnson,
Wesley Johnson, Bertha Johnson,
Hazel Hagen, and Nina Johnson, heirs
at law and next of kin of Claus John
son, deceased, and to all whom these
PRESENTS may come.
Notice is hereby given that Arthur
p. Johnson. has filed with the Judge
of this Court, a petition praying that
Letters of Administration of the Es-
tate of Claus Johnson, Deceased, be
issued to Elwood Johnson and that
Saturday the eighth day of March,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
VETERAN RAILROADER, KNOWN
HERE. DIES AT TRACY HOME

/. A. Merwin, flagman for the C&NW
railroad between Tracy and Pierre,
since 1895, died February 2Sth at his
home at Tracy. Mr.. Merwin vas the
oldest passenger brakeman in the ser.
vice, starting in 1891.
Mr.. Merwin YVES perhaps n of the
best known railroad man on this par
ticular branch of the division. Hn
was pensioned on February LIST, and
had been sick since October.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

Miss Isadore Wellington Is the
most popular young lady in town since
Saturday, having just purchased a
new Nash coupe. Miss Wellington is
kept very busy giving her many
friends a ride.-Pierre Dakotan.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

Through an error the grain was
omitted from the Burgher & Woodruff
sale bills and advertisement. They
offer 200 bushels seed wheat. 200 bu-
shells barley, 600 bushels seed oats and
700 bushels corn. Their sale will be
held on Tuesday, March 18th.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
Scofeld's Cash Mere. Co.

The Light Bearers OF the Presby-
terrain Church met at the Manse last
Thursday afternoon for a social time,
and to reorganize themselves into a
Westminster Guild Circle.
sOficers were elected as follows:
Pres, Gwendolyn Weber; Vice-Pres.
Margaret Lee: Sec'y, Mabel Murphy;
Treas. Mildred Bohning; Music Com,
Maxine Smith, Eunice Hancock.
Mrs. Simons will act as p~atroness
for the time being.
The first regular meeting of the
Circle will be with Bethel Anderson.
March 18th at AIS %. M.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

before, SO It's do our very best in
every way"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

Nash's Delicious Coffee, Sunshine
Cookies and Palmer's Candy Demon
stration, Saturday, March 18th.
1s Scofield's Cash Mere. Co.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

When you want to buy a New Car,
Truck or Tractor. trade in the old
one for terms on the new one. See or
phone us.
l.. X. Chesebro, washington, S. ID
Authorized Ford Sale and Service
10 c. A. Kelley, Salesman
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

FREE! Nash's Delicious Coffee and
Sunshine Cookies, Saturday, March Is.
10 Scoield's Cash Mere. Co.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
HONOR ROLL

The following is a list of paid-up
subscribers, both new and old, receiv-
ed during the week. Let us add your
name to the list next week.
1gko. Tlo~.o NE;lInr
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

FREE! With each 3 Id. can OF
Nash Delicious C~offee-one can Of
Melba Halves-Gold Bar Yellow Cling
Peaches.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

a Degree of Honor Lodge was or
ganized this week as an auxiliary to
the Woodman.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06
TWENTY YEARS AGO
FROM PRESS FILES MARCH 3, 1904

met at her home TO celebrate the an
niversary of her birth, Saturday Feb
ruary 9th. -
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

The washington Times
the marriage last week of Charles
Conkey and Miss Barbara Moat, two
popular young people of East Hand
County.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

j. w. Coquilette is having stsne
hauled preparatory to raising his
store building.
Nathan Johnson is tearing down
his bowling alley preparatory to en-
larging his store room.
Andrew Churchill arrived in Miller
last week to visit his brother a few
DAYS. He is now travelling for an
Illinois tank house.
The friends of Mrs. John Schmidt
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1924-03-06

The friends of Mrs. John Schmidt
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-28
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WRITER TELLS GOOD
POINTS OF ARMY ANT
Indians Find Insects Good
Louise Exfernainafors.

Everybody has heard a lot of the
horrible tales about the ''army" OF
driver" ants; how they sweep across
the country In vast glistening sheets
several hundred yards wide and de-
| your every live thing in their path,
| pulling down and swarming over wild
beasts and reptiles alike, each taking
a mouthful and passing on; how more
than one brutal criminal-in fiction
has finally met his just deserts
amidst gruesome details at their
hands, or rather jaws.
Tosh. All of It, AS a matter Of fact
the army ants-there are several spe-
cies-are not bad fellows at all,
writes Gordon MacCreagh in Adven-
ture. I venture to assert that nobody
In all Amazonas has ever seen col
umn of them more than a foot In
width. / have seen dozens of their
trails as wide as eight inches, but
never more.
It Is true they run to three-quar-
tiers Of an inch In length and that
they can bite piece of flesh out with
each nip, as well as sting like hor-
net; but no beast that Is able to get
up and hop need ever be eaten up by
column of army ants.
No, bugs are what the army ant is
out for. Worms, beetles, fat caterpil-
lars, sweet things-and, of course
criminals bound to trees 1t is COM
mon for an Indian, meeting column,
to lay honey trail to his hut, gather
up his brats and his string of baccal-
hao and clear out for the afternoon.
The ants come In thankfully and de-
louise that hut with thoroughness
which would be shining example to
any firm of bug exterminators at $40
room; and with shutdown they re-
turn peacefully home. Mr.. Injun re-
enters and spends his first peaceful
night in months.
Sometimes they happen along with
out any honey trail. l have camped
in deserted hut to take siesta
while the afternoon sun passed over,
and have been awakened by the yell
of "Carralho; Formigas malefiscasl"
and have realized the next second
that the poignant words meant ma
lignant ants.
Upon that occasion / waited not |
upon the order of my going, but just
went with speed and sat me down in
deep water-and began to understand
then why that perfectly good hut had
been deserted. With shutdown the
poems ventured back to collect our
gear.
But 1t was canned grub that eve
ming; for the formigas had eaten up a
big potful of dinner.
But at that there are worse ants
in Amazonas than the army ant.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-28

In Olden Times Always As
ISOLATED With Magic.

1t needed no Aladdin story to assure
the credulous that rings have mystical
powers, which might be invoked by
the initiate with the certainty that
one Of the genii viii appear to do our
bidding.
From time immemorial man (and
especially woman) has adorned his
person with all kinds of fetishes and
charms, not only to add to his beauty
Of appearance, but very often TO en-
nance his dignity, to impress others
with his grandeur, wealth and power.
or all these ornaments the ring sur
passes every other bijou, even the
crown royal, which 1t actually out
shines by Its traditional power and
quaint and varied symbolism.
In olden times 1t was more for it's
magic than for its beauty or value
that the ring was worn. Rings innu-
smerable have, been preserved in ma
tional collections all over the world,
have been among the treasure found
by psychologists In their excavations
or garnered by collectors and connois-
seurs Some of these, entombed 5000
years with Tut-Ankh-Amen, are elo-
quent witnesses of the highly devel-
oped art of their original period, and
the artistic imagination of Egyptian
craftsmen.
The ring has always been a symbol
Of faith and power. BY his ring the
Pharaoh invested Joseph with his au-
thority.
Darius sealed with his ring the en-
trance to the lions den, where Daniel
spent a night. An almost infinite
power was attributed to King Solo
mons sealing ring, upon which was
engraved that mysterious word,
"Shemhampharaoh
BY its magic, according to tradition,
King Solomon was able to summon a
demon who helped him to build the
temple of Jerusalem, and every day
carried the king up to the armament
where he learned to understand the
secrets and wonders of the universe.
Ancient authors describe the cele-
brated ring of the Greek Polykrates,
tyrant of Samos. This jewel was a
large emerald, upon which were en-
graved Tyre, bee, bulls head and
a dolphin. According to legends, Polyk-
rates was so fortunate in everything
he undertook that his friend, the king
of Egypt, who was visiting him,
warned him that this unprecedented
luck would invite the envy Of the gods,
who never permit mortal to be en-
tireIy happy.
Beware the jealousy of the immor-
tails warned the Egyptian, "and sac
rifice to them whatever is dearest to
you"
Polykrates, awed by the kings adj
vice, took the ring, as being his most
precious possession, and threw 1t into
the sea, but next morning it was re-
turned to him, discovered by the royal
cook in fish he was preparing for
MS masters luncheon.
Upon this proof that the gods would
not accept the sacrifice from Polyk-
'ates, the king of Egypt left him, but
history records that Polykrates was
lfterward slain in an uprising of his
subjects
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-28
Reflections Of a
Bachelor Girl
By HELEN ROWLAND

JUDGING from the infant mortality
J amongst them, the gods must love
these early-blooming spring romances,
There appear to be two kinds of
preachers: those who teach you how
to live so that you will not fear death
and those who want you to live so
that you will cheerfully welcome
death.
Oh, miraculous youth To be able
to live on the memory of kiss for
"a hours and to warm the memory
over again the next dayl
The first kiss always brings lump
in mans throat-but it's the last
kiss that leaves lump in woman's
throat
No matter for what unconscious or
unconscionable reason a woman may
glance at man. he always interprets
her look as glance of admiration.
somehow, the smaller mans neart,
the more trivial and foolish little love
affairs he seems to be able to pack
into it.
There are three kinds of men in the
world the kind girl dreams of
marrying; the kind her mother ex-
poets her to marry and the kind that
she finally succeeds In marrying.
A mans idea of diplomacy Is to
do as he pleases, and then stay away,
until. In her anxiety to know whether
he Is dead or alive, woman has com
pletely forgotten her indignation.
The hardest words for a man to
utter and the easiest for a woman to
believe are-I love you !"
Copyright by Hslen Rowland.)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-28
NopeIisfs Best Tenants

eve like to have tenants who re-
ceive as few callers as possible said
the manager of big office building,
according to Fred Kelly, writing In the
Nations Business. "Those who have a
stream of people coming all day long
help to longest the elevator service.
ION this basis a high-priced surgeon
is more desirable than a dealer In
cheap building lots, for fewer people
are able to consult the surgeon than
might wish to talk about the lots. The
ideal tenant, though, would be novel;
ist. We once had one. He wanted a
quiet place to work and didn't let any
of his friends know where he was.
His name was not in the building d.
rectory and he didn't even receive
mail there. 1 don't believe he had a
single caller the eleven months he was
with us. I'd like to manage building
for Woodworking novelists."
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-28
The Romance of Words


& nNE of the most interesting
- and best-phrased explana-
lions of this title occurs In a.
book written, strange as 1t may
seem, In 1857 orstegan's RES
titution of Decayed Intelligence"
"This honorable name of Of
fice," says the author, ''in the
chief and most famous city In
our realm is written In divers
wales. Some writ 1t major
some mayer and some Marie
And because major In Latin sig
nifieth greater or bigger, some,
not looking any further, will
needs from thence make 1t ma
jor. But, seeing the names of
sheriff and alderman cannot be
drawn from the Latin, why
should it be thought that mayor
cometh from major? Certain 1t
Is that as the other names of Of
fee are not derived from the
Latin, no more Is this. For the
etymology thereof we are to
note that In our own English to
may Is as much as to say a
'haver' or possessor of might
one that hath and may use au-
thority."
20 by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-08-28
Order TO Show Cause Why Order OF
Sale of Real Estate Should
Not be Made.


In the probate court of Lewis coun-
ty. state of Idaho, in the matter OF
the estate of Herbert A. Chalker, de-
ceased.
Edna L. Eckersley, the public ad-
ministratrix of the estate of Herbert
A. Chalker, deceased, having filed in
this court her petition duly verified,
praying for an order of sale of all Of
the real estate of said decedent for the
purposes therein set forth,
It is therefore ordered that all per
sons interested in the said estate of
said decedent, appear before this said
probate court on the 9Th day of Sep
TENDER, 1924, at the hour of 10 o'clock
a. M, of said day, at the courtroom
of said court at the courthouse in the
village of Nezperce, county of Lewis,
state of Idaho, to show cause why an
order should not be granted to the
said public administrative to sell all
of the estate of the said deceased,
and that copy of this order be pub
lished at least four successive weeks