Dakota farmers' leader., June 11, 1915, Image 1

About Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??

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TWENTY YEARS
AGO THIS WEEK
Miss Rebecca Gehoa returned to
Canton from Omaha, last Saturday,
where she has been teaching.
In discussing the big silver wedding
of Math Hanson and A. L. Syverud
the other day, a gentleman remarked
that the big, handsome, genial mana
ger of the Farmers Lumber Company,
Mr. Dean, would be entitled to a sil
ver wedding on the 12th of July, 1895.
Some of his friends might like to
know It.
Gus Fowles. the genial granger
down in Eden, caught up with his
48th birthday last Friday.
Maude Miller arrived from Dodge
Center, Iowa, Friday last, and will
spend the summer with her aunt,
Mrs. Thns. Thorson.
Miss Belle Pelton is very much
pleased with the Demorest medal con
test at Land's Church. She says it
was a splendid exhibition of talent.
O. A. Rudolph left a sample of al
falfa in the Lkadkb office last Satur
day morning, cut in his garden, which
measured 30 inches. It was In blos
som.
A. J. Wimple and his daughter,
Miss Dilla, came to Canton from their
Brooklyn home last Friday. Miss
Wimple came to be examined in the
8 year work of our county school sys
tem She is a bright intelligent
young lady and a closestudent. Frank
Norton, David Jacobson and Alfred
Olson also from Brooklyn came along
with Mr. Wimple. They were also
examined in the 8 year work.
Prof. Tuve and wife, and Prof.
Lawrence and Petzel have gone on
their annual vacation.
Pickups Around the County
HUDSON HITS
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompt and
daughters, the Misses Pearl, Deslah
and Palma came down from Canton
on Monday to be present at the
Memorial Day exercises, and to visit
for a day or two with Oscar Thompt
and family at the old homestead in
Eden township.
The Misses Helen, Mabel and Edith
Johnson went to Canton on Monday
to be present at the Augustana Col
lege Commencemeiy exercises. All
are graduates of the college.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wolf, of Can
ton were Memorial Day visitors in
Hudson.
Hudson had a real burglary on Fri
day night, the burglars breaking Into
Andrew Jackson Waterbury's store,
stealing several pairs of shoes, all his
pennies, ail his flash lights and bat
teries, a lot of cigars, and the two
nice pearls that Andrew fished for,
one whole, long hot summer, up to
his neck la the seething floods of the
Rock river day after day until he
found them. Andrew is so mad about
it that he says that he will give $25
to anyone who will catch the burglars
and prove it on them. They gained
entrance by breaking out a panel in
the cellar door, and it was a mighty
slim chap who crawled through and
opened the door.
FAIR VIEW FACTS
H. E. Thayer, of Canton was In
town on business Tuesday of this
week.
Mrs. Chas. Reynolds, of Canton
visited at the T. T. Smith home on
Friday afternoon of last week.
G. G. Dokken, of Canton was a
Fatrvlew visitor Tuesday of this week
and made The Eagle office a very
friendly call.
A. G. Pond and Chas. Groth at-
€J If you are thinking of re
plenishing your tableware, or
desire to buy a wedding pres
ent for the table come to us*
I tended the meeting of the directors
of the Power Co., at Canton Wednes
day afternoon.
Claude Klnnman, the able watch
repair man of the Wolf jewelry store
at Canton was in town Wednesday
forenoon meeting old friends. Claude
is one of our home boys and we are
all glad he Is making good in his new
line of work.
Lyric Theatre Coupon Contest
Six beautiful Skudder Cars will be
given away free every Monday lad 8 p.
m.
HOW TO GET COUPONS We give
a coupon with every ticket you buy.
Get your father, mother, neighbors
and friends to come to This Theatre
so that they can give you the coupons
which we give them with every tic
ket they buy. When you have col
lected 50 coupons bring them to our
ticket window and we will give you a
receipt for them. Do this every time
you get 50coupons. Keep the receipts,
as they will count as 50 coupons.
Come and bring your friends to see
the beautiful Skudder Cars.
Everybody wins! 30 days tree pass,
to the mother of the child who wins,
and again, 5 extra coupons to every
person who buys $1 in tickets at one
time. Sell 'em to your friends.
LYRIC THEATRE, CANTON, S. D.
Congregational Church Notes.
Morning worship at 10:30
Sunday School at 12
Young Peoples Society at 6:45 p. m.
Evening worship at 8:00
Irl. R. Hicks 1915 Alamanac
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Reading Circle Notes
Thursday June 3rd. The •'^Reading
Circle" held a lengthy business meet"
log at the home of Mrs. Anna Brag
stad, one member absent. All were
pleased to entertain Mrs. F. P. Rader
and Baby, of Manhattan, Kansas, sis
ter of Mrs. Florence Syverud. Our
delegate to the fourth district federa
tion meeting in Sioux Falls, Mrs.
Bessie Anderson presented an inter
esting report of said meeting, at which
she, Mrs. Anderson, had the honor of
being elected to the position of
"Treasurer" during the convention
and also elected to membership on
the "Credential Committee." After
roll call, Jesson, regular business and
a dainty lunch. "Club" adjourned to
meet June 17th for the last time this
season, with Mrs. Estella Bragstad.
It is earnestly requested that each
member be present at this meeting to
close books and finish a most profit
able year. (Sec.)
To Sleep Well iu Summer
Slight inflammation of the bron
chial tubes causes a distressing cough
and makes sleep impossible. Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound stops that
annoying tickling and relieves the
racking, tiring cough. Good for all
coughs, colds, croup and bronchial af
fections.
We carry all the latest designs in solid silver
and plated ware for the table.
IJThey are very pretty and elegant. They surely
will reflect your goqd taste and keeq judgment,
(g Our silverware is used on many tables in this
community and has given satisfaction.
4| People have come back to us often to complete
their sets or buy new designs.
itC. WOLFE, The Jeweler
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Memorial Address by Mrs. Murner
Veterans, Sisters of the Relief
Corps, Citizens and children: Do we
realize that the time is close at hand
when the Veterans of the Civil War
will be no more? One by one, and
rapidly, they are passing the death
line their leaders have already cross
ed the river to their tents at the last
grand Encampment one by one the
rank and file, the men who touched
elbows thru dust and mud and blood,
the men who saw their comrades piled
in the great win-rows of battle are
passing to that division beyond. Grant
Sherman, Hancock and Logan are
now with that division.
Much water has gone under the
bridge since the days when these
men challenged the administration of
their contemporaries, fifty years ago.
This generation knows them but as
tottering relics of bygone days their
age has passed, it was the heroic age.
It is a long ways back to the time
when the beardless boy took the last
sweeping look around the old place,
the last drink from the old well, kiss
ed mother's iips and with a clasp
from father's hand and a "God bless
you my boy," marched down In the
line of the Blue that went to meet
the line of the Gray does this gener
tion realize what this meant? Do we
honor these aged Veterans as they
deserve? History will do them jus
tice, God has recorded their noble
deeds, but let us teach our children
that this day, Memorial Day, most
sacred day of all the year was set aside
by a grateful nation to commemorate
the memories of our brave heroes and
to scatter the spring's choicest blos
soms over the graves of their lives
that we might enjoy the blessings of
a free country. Children do you un
derstand what this means? A free
country—and the flag for which our
heroes fought, and for which they
died. It means equal rights, it means
free hands, free lips, self-government,
it means that the Nation has been
dedicated to freedom it means univer
sal education, light for every mind
and knowledge for every child it
means that the school house is the
fortress of liberty that each man is
accountable, to and for, the govern
ment that responsibility goes hand
in hand with liberty it means that
it is the duty of every citizen to bear
his share of the pupllc burden, to
take part In the affairs of his frown,
his county, his state aqd ills country
it means that the ballot box is the
political "ark of the covenant," and
that the source of authority must not
be contaminated it means that every
citizen of the Republic, native or
naturalized, must be protected, at
home in every state, abroad in every
land and on every sea. It means that
all distinctions based on birth or blood
have perished from our laws Hhatour
Government shall stand between la
bor and capital, between weak and
strong, between individual and cor
poration, between want and wealth
and give and guarantee simple justice
to each and all. Our flag is the em
blem of Superior will, of a Nation's
power beneath its folds the weakest
must be protected and the strongest
must obey. It represents the suffer
ings of the past, the glories yet to be,
and like the banner of Heaven, it is a
child of storm aqd sun.
A mother should deem it one of her
foremost duties to make patriots of
her children, the voice th^t sings the
lullabys should also make the Nation
al songs familiar to the children's
ears, she should tell them, of the lives
of great men who have made our
country, and to whose principles suf
ferings and deeds we are indebted for
our liberties and opportunities. Her
attitude toward the issues or the
Civil War, should be, whether she
lives north or south, free from bitter
ness and misunderstanding of the
past, that she may fully impress upon
their minds the worth aud sincerity
of the men who took part on either
side, hut this should not be done in a
way to permit them to think they
need now keep alive or revive the old
Strifes. No mother In America Is
justified in Injuring her children's
future by injecting into their minds
the old bitternesses of Civil War
times. She should aim tc make them
Americans, the child has a right to a
free view of its country's greatness
teach then? whatever the mistakes
have been. Amprica has made pos
sible a home for liberty and equal
rights. How many can repeat the
American patriotic salute, to, the flag?
It reads thus"W^ give our heads and
our hearts to God and our country,
one country, opje language y*d one
flag." (Salute.)
These lessons of patriotism can
more easily be Impressed on Memor
ial Day than on any other.
We have a mixed population repre
senting every nationality and every
religion, and now when we look upon
this field we see possibilities such
were never placed before any other peo
ple there are difficulties in the way,
possibly dangers, stlil there 18 a great
opportunity before us as a country to
mould all of these masses, to eddcate
them in the proper use of the larger
liberty they have come to enjoy, and
to unify them in the great principles
of a free Government, a high morality
and a pore religion. Oh what a field
THE PAPER WITH THB L.ARQBST PAID-IN-ADVANCE CIRCULATION
4 LEADER in the Oauta of Eoonjmif and Reform, the Oefender of Truth and Juttloe, the Foe of Fraud and Corruption
CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11,1915.
for thot, for courage, for sacrifice and
for work, and the great battle now Is
to be one of ideas and principles and
not of swords, of ballots and not of
bullets.
When we are decorating the graves
of our departed heroes, let us not for
get the thousands of brave men who
sleep in unknown and unmarked
graves, and when I say do not forget
I think of others who should not be
forgotten. Who were the brave, the
bravest of the brave? Were they men
alone who at the call of country gave
their strong manhood and laid down
their lives for freedom's sake, or were
they the mothers who in the time of
woeful need, thos» husbands and sons,
who in the stillness of a broken home
lived and pressed hack the grief and
who gave their heart of hearts and
still lived on to bless and comfort
others?
Let us teach our children to dis
courage the disposition on the part of
some to make this a day of pleasure
seeking, but make it literally and
truly a Memorial Day, to our aged
Veterans. This day is far from one
of pleasure. Think of it friends, the
number of men wjio till soldier's grav
es today, who were killed In battle or
died in prison or hospital-pens, are
greater than the entire population of
the state of South Dakota, Including
every man, woman, child, Indian and
all can any true American see in
facts as serious and solemn as these
any justification for basing upon them
a day devoted to boisterous and unre
strained hilarity such as Is proper on
the Fourth of July?.
And now let me say before I close
that every loyal woman, who has the
opportunity, ought to be a member of
the Relief Corps, and that instead of
our local Corps numbering thirty
members it ought to have at least
two hundred on that list. Show your
colors, show your patriotism, show
your appreciation of the Grand Army
of the Republic, don't wait until the
last Boy In Blue has gone to meet the
Army on the other shore.
BIG CIRCUS
Coming This Way Soon
The Barnum and Bailey Greatest
Show on Earth wi:i exhibit at Sioux
Falls on Saturday, June 26 and this
good news -Is heralded every
where by the many agents of this,
the biggest and foremost amusement
institution in the world. The Bar
num and Bailey Circus has always
been the largest that travels and this
season the management has found it
necessary to add many more cars to
their trains in order to provide for
the great equipment. It requires 85
double length railroad cars to trans
sport the big show, 1280 people are
employed, there are 700 horses, 40 ele
phants and a menagerie of 110 cages,
480 world famed artists take part in
the greatest circus program this world
has ever known.
A fitting introduction t? the won
derful performance this year, Is the
presentation of the new, magnificent
spectacular pageant, "Laila, Rookb"
In which nearly 100Q characters take
part.
In the circus proper? which is pre
sented in three rings, four stages, the
hippodrome, and in the dome of the
largest tent ever erected, 480 per
formers from every nation in the
world take part and present a vast
array of foreign features entirely new
to America. A wonderful trained
animal exhibition is given by the
Marvellous War Elephants, Palen
berg's Wonder Bears, Madam Brad
na's Angel Horses, Thalero's Dogs,
Ponies and Monkeys, and the Barnum
and Bailey Statue Horses.
Great interest is already being
shown In this neighborhood and great
crowds will no doubt go to Sioux
Falls for the biggest and most enjoy
able holiday of the year. Everyone
is advised to gut an early starb in or
der to be there in time for the par
ade which starts promptly at 10 A.
M., and which Is, said to eclipse any
thing of its kind ever before attempt
ed in the history of circus business.
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INSURED?
That's the question first pro
pounded after a destructive
fire had laid to waste the home
or other property. A fire' in
surance policy is an honest
investment and wise one.
George 6. Johnson
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Abstracts of Titles
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For Parents & Teachers.
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GASSED!
The following extract was taken
from the London Dally Mail and tells
how the gasses the Germans are using
effect the men:
ALL POISONED
"Good Heavens," you say, "then all
these men are poisoned!" Poisoning it
is, and slow suffocation and the tor
tures of the damned. Fine, healthy,
strapping fellows till last night and
now without scratch or wound—poi
soned. About three score here nine
dead, dying, or likely to die nine more
suffocating—drowning! Drowning on
shore, surrounded by help and friends.
And never a grumble or word of com
plaint. They are soldiers. But what
can you call those who are responsi
ble for this tieudish, devellsh cruelty
that makes the blood boil?
Where one of these gaps Is lay a
plucky fine young fellow, making a
magnificent and desperate struggle
for his life. One of bis doctors (and
these are many, with nurses passing
Incessantly from patient to patient)
said to me: "I should like to see that
fellow pull through be Is game he
has been fighting every minute of the
day since seven this morning. It was
then 3 p. m. He was sitting, propped
up and helpless, still cheery and ap
preciative of what was being done for
him he was being bled no blood could
be got from his veins, so an artery was
cut and a pint and a half taken off—
it was no good and he sat there with
heaving chest and grey face and star
ing, helpless gaze, game and grateful
to the end—and so he died.
Now for your questions. The men
were as usual In the trenches about
7:30 p. m. when "Look out" was
shouted and the gas came slowly
pouring along the trench and hung
there. It had a sharp, bitter taste
and smell. It caught them In the
throat, and made them gasp and choke
and take deep breaths—they could
not get their breaths and went giddy
—and remembered little more.
Nexb morning early they reached
the hospital, and one man was dead
by 5, a. m.—ten hours. They did bet
ter In the open air, and did less well
In the ambulances. At the time we
have been looking at them, about
thirty-three hours after exposure to
the gas, the worse ones are In a pro
cess of slow drowning, for this reason,
as you will have guessed.
SUFFOCATION
The effect of the intense irritation
of the bronchial mucous membrane is
to produce quantities of clear fluid
which fills the tubes and cannot be
expelled. Death is from suffocation
with almost full consciousness you
may see one man signing to a nurse
by turning his head vigorously from
side to side. I am told, but have not
myself seen It, that one post mortem
showed the mucosa and more to be
destroyed by the corrosive action of
the gas. Very little coughing is
heard, hardly any.
Can nothing be done for them? Yes,
something can. They are being given
quantities of salt and water to drink
to make them sick. Even if they on
ly retch, quantities of clear frothy li
quid are then expelled from the lungs.
When the tubes are empty, oxygen is
given if possible, and heart stimul
ants. Patients are best laid on their
sides. Artificial breathing Is done.
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You are appalled, horror-struck at
the devilishnessof it all. Think! Done
on purpose, the results calculated.
Yes,( there have been distinguished
oltlctrs through this, and they have
nevet seen such diabolical cruelty In
thirty years of campaigning in many
countries. To think that so-called
soldiers should do this- and white
men—and Europeans- and the Hea
ven-sept humanitarians of the world!
There are the facts.
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But let no one complain. There is
no sense in complaining of a tiger or
other treacherous wild beast. The
fact should be recorded and left at
that.
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We should keep our breath for
sterner work get for reprisals. No!
but for justice.
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Material is fine 'Steekex" batiste,
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corsets.
Shape is the latest,, giving, the
modish military lines of current
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Wide bust-gores give ease end
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one way. I will tell you. There is no
use in saying "Something must be
done" and working our energy off in
talk and abuse. Nor should we ap
peal to any Government of Power.
They cannot help us. The only way
to secure justice lies with each in
dividual man. In no other way can
Justice be had.
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