Dakota farmers' leader., January 01, 1891, Image 8

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BAILBOAD TIME-TABLES
Until further notloe, trains on the C. M. & St.
P. By, will arrive and depart at Canton station
as follows:
GOING WEST.
No. 1, passenger Monday excepted, 11:00A. m.
No. 8, passenger, Sunday excepted, 11:40 A. M.
No. 7, way freight... .: 12:30 P. M.
GOING BAST.
o. 2, passenger, Sunday excepted, 3:45 A.
o. 4, passenger, Saturdays excepted,4:4R P.
o. 0, freight..*.. .. 2:60 P.
ilOING NORTH.
No. 1, passenger 11:00 A. M.
No. 5, accommodation 11:30 A. m.
No. 6, freight 4:40 P. M.
GOING SOUTH.
No. 4, passenger. 4:48 P. m.
No. 0, freight 6:35 A. M.
For tickets and rates to all parts of the
XTnited States and Canada, inquire at ticket
"office. "W. V. HOWARD, Station Agent.
THE NEWS AROUND HOME.
See Donoho & Wilson's price list for the
new year, in another column.
George Byres has a number of half
breed Oregon horses to trade for work
horses.
Ticket number 789, drew the music box
at Helmey «fc Kelman's. The holder is
cquested to call and get his prize.
The Holiday editon of the Yankton
Student, a copy of which has been sent to
this office, is the finest periodical of the
kind in the state. It does great credit to
the students of Yankton college, by whom
•, it is published.
THE LEADER has not time to write a
lengthy editorial on the new year and it
would hesitate in doing so even if it had
the time, but it is none the less glad in
wishing all its readers a happy and
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In its last issue, THE LKADEB was
mistaken in its statement that Henry
Bradshaw'was-elected president of the
Riverside Alliance in Dayton township,
Henry Brandon is the man, and a better
•looking and more efficient president can
not be found in the county.
Ow,ing to the fact that last week was
Christmas, this Week is New Years day
and the. foremai) of the office has been
"laid up" with .an attack of sickness,
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comes out late this week.
'Still, 'better- late than never. Many
«papers. aie not issuing At all this week.
Riverside Alliance, of Dayton To wo
rship, held an interesting meeting at the
v, new school house in Dist. No. 8. last
Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was
open and was addressed by J. P. Gooley
editor of THE FARMERS' LEADER. The
'V attendance was good. Thia is a new Alli
A^ance and is doing some excellent work.
RasmusB. Aaderson, of Madison, Wis.,
will lecture at Bedford's Hall Friday
evening, January, 16th on the subject,
"Was America Discovered by the Nor
seman" The lecture will be. in Eng
lish. Mr. Anderson is said to be a good
speaker, and his lecturs will be an inter
besting one, Admission, 35 cents tickets at
Helmey & Kelman's.
A resolution was adopted at the meeting
of the stockholders of THE LEADER com
jpany, a few weeks ago, in which they
pledged themselves to support those busi
ness houses in Canton who are patroniz
ing the paper. Let every stockholder
stick to this text in the future as most of
them have in the past and the paper will
get its share of business.
During the last week Mr. Thos. Thor
son has been busily engaged planting
out shade trees about his residence in
this city. Pretty good for South Da
kota, a supposed blizzardy wilderness.
Reckon if some of our eastern people
could just spend a week here and enjoy
our beautiful summer like weather they
would certainly locate and imagine they
had truly found the garden of our first
parents.
THE LEADER has received a eopy of F.
H. Haggerty's official document of the ag
ricultural and general resources of North
and South Dakota, a work that stands at
the head of anything of the kind yet pub
lished in the state. It contains a vast
amount of vil^abie. information, on all
questions concerning state affairs ^and
every citizen should possess it. Mr.
Haggerty, as an immigration com
missioner is a success.
The new board of directors of THE
FARMERS' LEADER mean to make things
red hot in their work of pushing the pro*
press of the paper this winter. They
have rolled up their sleeves and gone to
work with a vengence. They have divid
ed the county into five districts
with one director in cach district, and
acli director will make it a personal
matter to see that his district is thorough
ly canvassed for the paper. The division
of th« county into districts is as follows:
Pleasant, Brooklyn, Delaware and Lin
coln: embracing one .district in charge of
Henry Bradshaw at Maple Qrove Eden,
Fairview and Norway townships, com
.pose another district to be worked by
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Nels Larson, of Eden Canton, Pleasant,
and Highland, one district in charge of
J. ft. Holter Canton, Grant, Perry, La
Valley and Lynn compose the district in
charge of O. M. Iverson of Worthing and
Dayton, Springdale and Delepre a district
to be superintended by Ed. Wardwell,
Canton.
THE LEADER job department is amply
equipped with the best material that
monev can buy, and the most skilled
workmen that can be had, and can turn
out as fine apiece of printing, on as short
a notice and for as little money as any
job office in the country. Do not believe
the yarns you hear at a snap shop em
ploping two-for-a-cent men, but come and
get prices, examine our work for your
selves and place you:' order for work.
Then if we fail to please, it will not cost
you a cent.
Rev. H. E. Norton, of Sioux Falls,
preached a splended sermon at the Bap
tist church in this city last Sunday even
ing. The sermon was delivered before
the regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
and was listened to by a large audiance.
It was one of the most original and most
forcible addresses on the subject that the
writer has ever listened to, and was
most appreciated for its fearless and out.
spoken truth and directness. THE
LEADER is a great admirer of Mr. Nor
ton's way of telling things.
The Golden Days is a handsome and
most entertaining publication for the youth
of the country. Its sketches, stories, anec
dotes and general fund of bright reading
matter is such as excites the vivid imag
ination of the young, without leaving a
trace of wind and unbridled adventure to
torture their minds to a longing for bor
der acts of cowboy heroism. There is a
moral precept in every page, and an
abundance of thrilling adventure to
awaken the lethargy of any boy or girl,
We cheerfully commend it to parents'as
a valuable adjunct to the children's par
lor.
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The Sioux City Journal's account of
the proceedings of the National Farmers'
Alliance convention, at pcala, Florida,
was the best and most eomplete of any
paper in the northwest. The Jourhal
has an excellent corps of editors and its
special as well as associated press reports
are jis perfect as the most skillful editori
al management can make them. There
is not a superfluous word or line in the
whole paper from the first of January to
the thirty-first of December every par
ticle of it is solid, clean, sound interesting
matter even to the advertisements. No
paper in this section can outdo the Journ
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SATURDAY'S ALLIANCE MEETING,
The Oouaty Alliance Meet and Discuss Important
Question*
The special meeting of the
eounty Farmers' Alliance, which
was held at the court house last
Saturday afternoon, was quite
well attended. President Sheldon
called the meeting to order at
two o'clock, and he presided over
the deliberations.
Mr. Leavitt called up the reso
lution presented at the last meet
ing by Mr. Carlson, concerning
a meeting of Alliance people to
be called at Sioux City, for the
purpose of entering a system of
co-operation to place an Alliance
commissionQmerchant upon the
Sioux City market. Mr. Carlson
said that he had not presented
the subject in the form of a reso
lution, but he talked for some
time in support of the idea and
showed that something could and
ought to be done in this direction.
The practicability of the matter
was then considerably discussed
by Messres Sheldon, Brandon,
Syverud, Carlson, Young, Han
son, Leavitt, Holter and others,
most of whom seemed to think
that even if it should be that no
thing could be accomplished that
would aid the farmers interested
in the project in a direct financial
way, it would demonstrate that
the Alliance is actively at work,
stiring up the lions. A committee
consisting of, C. A. Carlson, G.
B. Young and F. A. Leavitt,
was appointed to prepare appro
priate resolutions to be adopted
at the next regular meeting on
Saturday, Jan. ioth, calling for
the co-operation of the Alliance
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people in southeastern South Da
kota, northwestern Iowa and
northeastern Nebraska, in this
matter with a view to holding a
convention at Sioux City, for the
purpose heretofor mentioned.
The question of appointing a
county legislative committee was
also discussed at length and a
committee consisting of A. L. Sy
veru^, A. T. Sheldon, and J, F.
Cooley, was appointed to have
charge of all legislative matters
that may require attention from
the Alliance. It is requested that
all local Alliances forward their
petitions and other legislative
matter to this committee, who
will see that they receive the co
operation of other Alliances in
this county.
THE LEASES 00MPAMY'S CODE.
By-laws Of the South Dakota Fanner*' Publishing
Company aa Beviged and Amended.
The following are the by-laws of the
South Dakota Farmers Publishing Com
pany, oweners and publishers of THB
FARMERS' LEADER, as revised and
amended at the last annual meeting of
the stockholders: -$
Sec. 1. The annual meeting of the
South Dakota Farmers' Publishing com
pany, shall be held in the city of Canton,
Lincoln county, South Dakota, on the
first Tuesday in December of each year,
at one o'clock, p. m. Notice of such
meeting shall be signed by the president
and secretary, and be published in THE
FARMERS' LEADER. Special meetings
may be held at any time by order of a
majority of all the directors by giving the
same notice as is required for the annual
meeting.
Sec. 2. A number of stockholders rep
resenting a majority of the subscribed
stock of the company, shall constitute a
quorum for the transactian of business at
any meeting legally called. Any stock
holder having the proxy of another stock
holder shall be entitled to the privilege of
voting. Whenever one-fourth of the
capital stock is subscribed, the stock
holders shall organize by opening books
of stock wherein shall be placed the name
of each stockholder and the amount of
stock subscribed and paid for.
Sec. 3. At their annual meeting, the
stockholders shall elect by ballot from
their number, jive directors, who shall
hold office for one year and until their
successors are elected and qualified but
no two directors shall be chosen or serve
from the same township or precinct at
the same time.
Sec. 4. Immediately after the election
of the directors, they shall organize, by
electing by ballot, from among their
number, a president, a vice-president, a
secretary and treasurer, who shall hold
their offices until the next annual meeting,
and until their successors are elected and
qualified.
Sec. 5. Regular meetings of the board
of directors shall be held on the last
Saturday in May and November of each
year the secretary shall give a two
week's notice of such meeting by publica
tion in the FARMERS' LEADER. Special
meetings may be called at any time by
giving one week's notice by publication
in the aforsaid paper. The compensation
of the members of the board of directors
shall be two dollars per day for all time
necessarily spent in the discharge of their
duties.
Sec. 6. The president of the board of
directors shall preside at all meetings of
the stockholders and at all sessions of the
board of directors, and he shall sign all
orders and contracts made by said board.
He shall receive as compensation two
dollars per day for all time spent in the
discharge of his official duties.
C-Sec. 7. The vice-president shall preside
at meetings in the absense of the presi
dent and in that event shall jpreform all
other duties devolving upo\t the presi
dent.
Sec. 8. The office of secretary and
treasurer shall be held by one person,
who shall attend all meetings and make
correct minuts of all business transacted
and record the same in a book kept for
that purpose he shall receive all monies
belonging to the company, and shall
faithfully record the amount received,
from whom and for what purpose he
Shall draw and sign all orders and con
tracts made by the board of. directors
shall keep an accurate account of all
monies receieved and paid out shall pay
all orders signed by the president and
secretary and shall preform such other
duties pertaining to his office, as the
board of directors may prescribe. He
shall give a good and sufficient bond,
with no less than four sureties, in the
sum of double the amount of money in
his care at any one time, the amount to
be fixed by the board of directors, signed
and approved by the president. He shall
also render an itemized account to the
board of directors at their regular meet
ings, showing all monies received and
disbursed by him and remaining in his
possession, and his compensation shall be
fixed by the board of directors, not to
exceed $2 per day for all necessary time
spent in the discharge of his duties
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the
board of directors to audit all accounts,
to make such contracts, pass such orders
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as may be necessary to properly transact
the business of this corporation and they
shall have the control of the SOUTH DA
KOTA FARMERS' LEADER, both as to the
subject matter to be published therein
and the political principles to be incul
cated but not to conflict with the resolu
tions that may be adopted .by the Nation
al or State Farmers' Alliance.
Sec. 10. Any person being of lawful
age and a citizen of the United States or
having declared his intention of becoming
such, who is engaged in practical and
operative farming, has the necessary
qualifications for becoming a stockholder.
Sec. 11. A majority of two-thirds may
alter or amend the by-laws at any annual
meeting or at a special meeting called for
that purpose.
Sec. 12. Any stockholder, failing to
pay his assessment in sixty days after
proper notice given by the secretary, shall
forfeit his stock to the-company.
Sec. 13. Any stockholder, who may
at any time desire to dispose of his stock,
shall first offer such stock to the com
pany.
Sec. 14. The board of directors shall
be authorized to make such additional
rules subjeet to approval or repeal
by the stockholders, as may be deemed
necessary for the proper transaction of
business.
HIGHLAND HAPPENINGS.
Mr. L. Olson, returned Sunday from
Lodi, where he had been Visiting rela
tives.
Miss Nellie Mungcr came up from Cen
treville, Tuesday where she is teaching
a nine months term of school, to visit
with her folks during the holidays.
Mr. Olans Olson, left Tuesday for a
couple of weeks visit, at his old home,
near Paint Creek, la.
Chris Sandvig, Andrew and Frpnk
Steensland are home from college for
the holidays.
John Eneboe, of Canton, the prince of
decoraters, has been beautifying the
interior of John Steensland's residence:
lately. ,v
A FAV0EITE PAPEB.
The publishers of Youth's Companion
have issued a beautiful calendar for 1891,
unique and convenient, which contains
also the announcements for next year,
Among the new names which will grace
this model young folks' weekly paper are
the Lord Chief-Justice of England—
Coleridge, Hon. Seth Low, the venerable
Hannibal Hamlin, Camille Flammarion,
Sir Norman Lockyer, Gen. O. O. How
ard, Rev. Lyman Abbott, Jules Yerne,
May O'Rell, Julia Ward Howe,. Walter
Besant, Benson J. Lossing, the eminent
historian, and Carl Lumholtz. Truly a
host of names in themselves, sufficient to
warrant the success of a paper.
Five serial stories are promised^ by
Molly E. Seawell, Rebecca Harding
Davis, Julie M. Lippman, H. H. Boyesen
and Elizabeth W. Bellamy. A popular
series on the latest discoveries in science
will treat of the stars, the sun, the moon
the earth, the ocean, and the Gulf Stream.
There will be another popular series on
music by Mme. Albani, Emma Juch,
Mme. Nordica, Marie Van Zandt, and
Emma Nevada, while Amelia E. Baar,
Mary A. Livermore, Jenna June and
Marion Harland will tell what a girl of
sixteen can do when thrown on her own
resources,
Full Prospectus and Specimen Copies
sent Free, on application. New subscri
bers who send $1.75 now will receive the
paper to January 1, 1891 and a full year
from that date. ,.
THEPOWEBOF GOLD.
(BY MI.I.IB GUPTIIJ,.)
Years have oe'r the union circled,
Since her heritage was gained
Liberty for all her children,
Deep with blood of heroes stained,
As a sacred trust decended.
It was ours to guard and keep,
To preserve it pure and spotless,
That its blessings all might reap.
Hare we tireless watched the treasure,
Foiled each menace that assailed
Or like sentinels, unworthy,
Were our eyes in slumber veiled?
That today our boasted freedom,
Hath a bitter mockery grown,
And the laws that pass for justice
Area farce we blush to own.
Are there more who, true and noble,
WiU corruption's bribe defy,
Men, so dead to home and country.
Wealth can ne'er their honor buy
That to guard the nation's welfare,
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To enact the laws we need,
By the p'ower of wealth are chosen,
Men whose ruling thought is greed.
Men, who sit in stately chambers.
Prating loud "the people's" cause,
Building'up colossal fortunes,
As they frame corruption's laws,
Naught care they for ruined heart-stains,
Broken hearts or toilworn frames.
Are they fit to stand as judges
Of the justice labor claims?
Do they heed the cruel anguish,
Cold and hunger bring toman.
As he sees the cheeks o^loved ones v•.
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Paler grow and still more wan
As he reads the bitter future,
Filled alone with black despair,
Knowing that unjust oppression
j. Points the heavy shadows there?
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Maiy, our misery they fatten,
Neither ruth nor pity know
Like the ghouls that follow wreckage,
Gleaning spoils from death and woe
Useless ones, whose costly splendor,
Wealth that's wrung from labor keeps,
Nature in her idle moments
Fashions such from refuse heaps.
Answer now, oh fellow toilers,
Should such blighting power endure?
Shall a class, by wealth created,
Crush to earth the worthy poor?
As you love your home and children,
You must battle with a will,
If you rend all party fetters,
Join to crash.this fearful ill. i\,
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Yield it not one inch of vantage
Backward force the grasping throng,
Brush aside the false veneering,
Gold doth lend to fraud and wrong
Higher ranks that we acknowledge,.
Worth and intellect shall fill,
There we'll shrine our saored freedom
Civilization Kills the Redd*
The death rate among the Indians
who aim to live like white people is
three times that of those who con
tinue to live a semi-wild life. The
Pawaee tribe has lost more men by
lung troubles in the last ten years
than they lost in battle during the
pre «l«iw thirty.
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While we, watchful, guard it still.
Whipped 2,000 Times.
The noble sport of wife-beating
still flourishes in England. At a re
cent trial in Bristol a wife testified as
follows: "We have been married for
23 years. He beat me the day after
marriage, and there have never been
three days at a time when be did not
knock Tue down or whip me with a
strap. 1 thiuk he has beaten me
2,000 tiinea"
Bod 8A Dead?
Theve 1B something fundamentally
wrong about the man whenever gets
mad.
Business Locals.
CANTOS EXCHANGE PRICE LIST.
Tip Top per sack, $1.25
Graham, .65
Corn meal, *35
Buckwheat .' .80
Shorts, per 100 lbs, .80
Bran, -75
Ground corn & oats IOO lbs, .90
Ground screenings 100 lbs, .60
Delivered to any part of the
city free. Donoho & Wilson.
INSURANCE COMPANY.
The annual meeting' of the
Farmers' Mutual Insurance co.
will be held at the court house in
the city of Canton on Jan. 6th,
at 2 p. m. The board of direc
tors will convene at one p. m.,
on the above day and place.
C. A. South,
Secretary.
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We have been just 10 .months
in* charge of the BELOIT
MILLS- We have tried to
please you, we wish to make a
friend of every one that come to
do busiuess with us we have
not failed in this. It seems pro
per for us ati this time to express
to our many friends our thanks
for their patronage and good
wishes. thank you not only
for your fpatronage but your
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many expressions of good cheer.
Ten months ago we came here
strangers. No one knew what
we could do. Today we are
known as friends by what we do.
We wish you all a happy New
Year and may you enjoy the
promised blessing—"Seed time
and harvest," and we hope that
TIP TOP flour may be as univer
sally used as it is known.
Yours Truly, ^4}
Donoho & Henderson.
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FOUR TRIAL NUMBERS,
With great premium offete^ on
receipt of 10 cents, andL ad^Hj^ses
of 10 married ladies. 50
cents a year. Best monthly in
the world, for the price. Ad
dress Woman's, Work, Athens,
Georgia.
BEMNT MIU&
Wanted good wheat. We will
pay 2 cents premium.
Donoho Henderson.-"
J. W. HEWITT, 1
Manufacturer'^ and dealer in
Harness, Spies, Collars,
Bridles, Wbips/Combs, Brosheg.
Repairing done neatly.
All work vaunted.
Uncle Sam's Harness Oil alwayfl^iand.
E. F*pib ST.. t) .CAHTOS, S. D.
E. A TAYLOR,
Office in Mare Block
Beresford, South Dakota.
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Diseases of the
And fitting spectacles, a specialty.
)eforiheties and morbid growths treated
scientifically.
Calls In the country day or night, promptly
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Canton, South Dakota.
$100. $100.
REWARD. I
E. WENDT,
—DEALER IN— v.
and MM
A Magnificent stock of New Ms
—One Hundred Dollars
I o.ffer a reward of $100 to any person who will-prove to me that tKefe
been brought to this city, as large a stock of dry goods as I have received this-fall]
Nearly everything has been bought from the manufacturers at cash prices' and \m
will sell everything as cheap as the cheapest.
To encourage cash trade, we will give a fine large life-like portrait of yourself ot
any member of your family, free with, every $25 worth of goods bought at our store.
E. WENDT,
Opposite Op\jjnt House, ill
Canton, -4, South Dakotft.
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