Dakota farmers' leader., August 27, 1915, Image 1

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

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Volxjme 20. NUMBKR 11.
JOHN GEMMILL WRITES FROM
GALVESTON
Canton Boy In The Recent Gulf
Storm
The following letter received by
Mrs. W. 0. Uemmill from her son,
John, who is traveling In Texas for a
rubber cnpipany, goes far to show
just how terrible was the recent storm
that swept the gulf bordering on the
state of Texas.
The letter is as follows:
Houston, Texas, Aug. 19, 1915.
Dear Mother:
I don't reckon that when you
read the papers about fifteen years
ago that told ou about the awful
storm at Galveston, you ever thought
that you would have a young and
ambitious son that would see one
still worse, did youV
I went to Galveston Saturday to
spend a nice quiet Sunday and when
Sunday was over and 1 wanted to
leave—I couldn't. I just got out of
there this morning by paying $10 for
a boat to Texas (Jity and then $18 for
an automobile to Houston. We sure
did have an awful time. I was at the
Gal vex hotel when the storm came on.
They sent cars out to bring in all the
people living in the bottoms and in a
couple of hours instead of having
about five hundred guests, we had
nearly five thousand, two thirds of
which were women and children. The
storm lasted till Wednesday morning
about ten o'clock. We couldn't even
get down town over the telephone.
The store room in the basement flood
ed the water cut oil and no lights.
Every window in the hotel was broken
and the women were perfectly frantic.
All the food we had was bread and
coffee. We had a "bread line" I can
tell you. Every body passed thru the
kitchen for a hand-out.
Yesterday morning I saw a big
schooner dash against the sea wall
and believe me, I was about to give
up, so was every one else. It made a
crack about one hundred feet in the
wall and the water came thru some
thing awful. It rose to the lobby of
the hotel (about twenty feet) in less
than a half hour. Then the women
were all the worse to take care of.
There was nothing left to eat and
nothing to drink and the wind blow
ing a gale of a hundred miles an hour
so nobody dared go out. They esti
mate the dead, so far, at three hun
dred, but before they get through, it
will be closer to three thousand. The
sea wall is all that saved the island.
One's bat must certainly come off to
the people there for sticking together.
When I got here this morning,
things were nearly as bad as in Gal
veston. There is not a store or a re
sidence in the town that has not suf
fered more or less damage. They have
had no lights nor water since Monday
and the Lord only knows when they
will have any.
I am going to hike to Dallas to
night. I wish I could take the time
to tell you all about it in a way that
would half express the way it was
But I am too poor a writer to even
attempt it. But I'll say this, that I
wouldn't go through with it again
for $25000, at the same time, now
that I am out of it, I wouldn't take
that much for the experience. I am
going out now and try to get a little
business for a change.
John
School Starts Monday Sept. 6th
Our city schools will open Monday
September 6th, so prepare ye all chil
dren for another nine months of
knowledge seeking.
President Jennings of the school
board, and the board itself, have
worked long and hard in securing a
suitable staff of teachers and have
dually succeeded in building ud a
staff of teachers that will be hard to
find an equal.
At the East Side school. Miss
Bertha Tosseland will have charge of
the 4th and 5th grades and will act as
principal. Miss Pearl Ward well will
have the 1st grade and Miss Gertrude
Holmes will have the 2nd and 3rd
grades. Miss Edna Lee will have
charge of the 7th grade.
At the West Side school, Mrs. May
Whitehead will have charge of the
2nd and 3rd grades and will act as
principal, while Miss Mineva Laxson
will have charge of the 1st grade.
Miss Ruth M. Meyer will have charge
of the 4th and 5th grades while Miss
Mary Anderson will have the 6th
grade.
At the Central building, Miss Cora
Slagg will again have charge of the 8th
grade, much to the satisfaction of all
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for her past record is one that is an
envy of any teacher
The high school faculty will be as
follows: Mr. L. Hockstad, Principal,
Physics, Mathematics Mr. Walter
Demlng, Science Mrs. Edna B. Meati
er, Latin, and English Miss Lorena
Dell Young, English Miss Laura Ber
gan, German and History Miss Vio
lette E. Johns, Music, Physical Cul
ture and i-ublic Speaking Miss Beu
lah E. Meikle, Domestic Science and
Art Mr. C. G. Lawrence, History,
Normal Training.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Andereon were
visiting relatives at Baltic Sunday.
Pickups Around the County
FA11WIEW EAGLE
Mrs. W. I'. Manning attended the
camp meeting at Canton a few days
this week.
F. J. Iseminger, wife and family
drove up to the county seat last Sat
urday afternoon.
Ilenry Swanson and John Noonan
were passengers to Canton with G. J.
Moen last Saturday morning.
Editor Goble and wife, W. P. Mann
ing and wife and son Owen, Hoy
Dougherty and wife and baby, and
Mrs. Webber and Miss Lulu, attended
the camp meeting at Canton last Sun
day.
Chas. Morgan and Ilolver Brands
gaard of Canton were in town last
Wednesday lining up and repairing
the electric motor at the Farmers
Elevator which has been undergoing
some repairs the past couple of weeks
and is now in fine condition to take
care of the abundant crop of small
grain which will soon be coming to
market, for if the weather is good all
the threshing machines will be busy
early and late.
The Misses Frankie and Emily Ver
milya are attending the teachers' in
stitute at Canton this week.
HUDSON1TE
Frank Be 11 wood was a Canton visit
or today.
Miss Ida Denison attended camp
meeting at Canton over Sunday re
turning home yesterday afternoon.
"Ye have a foine bunch av boys,
Mike," said one Irishman to another.
"Indade I have, an' I've nlvir had to
raise hand against 'em excipt in sllf
defence."—Yankton Herald.
Judge Fred Cuthbert, Attorney A.
B. Carlson and Carl and Will Tank,
autoed down from Canton yesterday,
and ate dinner with the Herbert
Fitch family in Eden township. Judge
Cuthbert started for his home in
North Dakota again yesterday after
noon, in his car, he and his bride hav
ing made the trip from there to Can
ton in the car. A number of Judge
Cuthbert's friends here did not get to
see him, much to their disappoint
ment.
HARRISBURG JOURNAL
Henry Wiggln came up from Canton
Sunday evening, for an over-night
visit with relatives.
Charlie Kundert was in Canton Fri
day, to meet his wife and children,
who were returning from a several
weeks visit with relatives and friends
at Kearney, Nebr.
The Misses Pearl Wardwell, Eva
Miss Annie Abbott was in Canton
last week, making arrangements for a
course at Augustana College, the fall
term of which begins Sept. i4th.
WORTHING ENTERPRISE
The Misses Anna Peterson and
Judyth Aus, of Canton, were visiting
Worthing friends the middle of the
week.
Etting Johnson and Aleck Engeness
and mother, who left here about a
year and a half ago for a visit in their
native country, Norway, returned
last week Monday and have been
stay
ing at Canton since. They report
having had a very pleasant time while
away, and their return trip was some
what exciting, owing to the fact that
the ship on which they had taken
passage was stopped in the Atlantic
ocean by a British cruiser and search
ed, and of the twenty-three Germans
on board all had American citizenship
papers except three, and they were
removed and made prisoners of war.
TEA SIGNAL
Mr. Geo. Lamm, John Cruse and R.
E. Schmidt autoed to Canton Satur
day. Mr. Schmidt says the roads a
round Tea are golden compared to the
mud holes around Canton. Mr
Schmidt purchased his supply of
school books while In Canton.
Mr. Perry Wilkinson left for Can
ton, Friday. He will run a threshing
outfit near there this fall. Perry has
had some experience in this business.
The Misses Groneveit and Nickel
left for Canton Monday where they
will attend the Lincoln County Teach
er's Institute. Supt. Dale has ar
ranged a very fine program and we
feel sure any one will be benefited
who attends.
Last Friday Canton was nearly de
serted it seemed. Large delegations
going to Sioux Falls and Sheldon.
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Phelps and Ethel Ward well went to
Canton Sunday evening, the two
former to attend Teachers' Institute,
and the latter for a short visit.
Mrs. O. B. Jones and two children,
Miss Matilda Thorson, Mrs. J. P.
Eliason and son, all of Worthing,
have been visiting the Thorpe family
for a few days.
J. L. Kehm's aged mother, Mrs.
Jacob Kehm of Canton, was a visitor
at the Kehm home Saturday. Miss
Beulah Tuttle returned to Canton
with her Saturday evening.
Miss Verna Chrisler was a Canton
passenger, Saturday, for the purpose
of attending the Camp Meeting and
teachers' institute.
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It May Work
The Editor of this paper was rudely
startled the other day when one of our
young "slickers" about town, came
Into our sanctum and In a halting,
weepy voice asked us "how to win a
blonde."
Now we are not up on the art of
winning blondes, and the experience
of others has taught us, they are the
most dangerous of the female specie.
They are reported to be absolutely
without heart, cold blooded as a fish
and very flighty as to where they keep
their attentions.
But the young fellow looked so sor
rowful, that even his nose heavily
plastered with talcum powder and his
"movie hero" hair did not move us to
mirth, even if the odor of his perfume
made us sick in the region of our ab
dominal cavity. One look at his "Billy
Sunday's longest face" and we str
aightway set our teeth hard down on
a perfectly good El Royal cigar and
handed him a line of "sister talk"
that caused us to go behind the office
and talk to ourself for an hour after he
had left the office.
Read with care.
Blondes are the most peculiar of the
human race. Their rare coloring,
(conr-urnlug face and hair) is the mar
vi of scientists. In fact specialists
sie most of their time working out
iior schemes for blondes. They make
an excellent piece of movable house
furniture, although, they are apt to
be transplanted in some other man's
house through the first aid to the
married, the devorce courts.
To win a blonde, you must be able
to tango, fox trot and be able to do
Sioux spread backwards. You must
own an auto, Fords barred,and let her
smash It up two or three times. Her
family must object to your presence
about the premises, and you must
smoke cigarettes and wear a cane,
perferably Charley Chaplin style. To
marry her, take her to the preacher
when she Is changing moods but. do it
in a hurry as blondes change, some
rapid. When you have won your style
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of blonde, keep up the same pace as
you did when you were "fussing" her
or some other nut shop product will
do lb for you. The best way to keep a
blonde at home Is keep her from wear
ing the latest fashions. There is an
other way to win a blonde and that
is grab her by the hair and drag her
off to your cave, but this method is
not always safe as sometime you get
only the hair.
After this lengthy "how to win a
blonde" talk the young man left, af
ter heartily thanking us, but our ad
vise seemed to have little or no effect
as we seen him that night with a re
gular brunette at the Lyric.
Stung In a New Place
A man and woman dropped Into a
new town, and put up at the best ho
tel. The next morning they secured
a rig each, and started out over the
country boldly asking the good farm
er folks for a chicken for an orphan's
home in St. Louis. After two days'
begging they sold the chickens to a
local produce man for $30, and left
town. Their loot Included several
cash donations.
A variation of the scheme is for a
man wearing some sort of a badge to
call on the farmers under the name
of the department of health and de
mand to see his poultry. After ex
amination he condemns twenty or
thirty hens and tells the farmer they
will have to be killed because they
are diseased. He very kindly offers to
take the chickens, and do the killing
himself. If the farmer consents, the
man takes the chickens to the nearest
commission merchant and sells them.
The scheme Is being worked all over
the country. If a man or woman calls
on you with a demand that looks sus
picious, call up your local authorities
and ask by what right they are asking
to inspect your stock or poultry and
when you get the answer, turn them
over to the police. [Vermillion Re
publican.
C. Ed. Anderson was
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Lake Madl­
visitor Sunday.
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WE ARE READY
WE ARE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE TO THE PUBLIC
THAT OUR FALL SUITINGS IN ALL SHADES
ARE HERE FOR YOUR INSPECTION
WE HAVE THE NIFTIEST LINE FOR YOUNG MEN
EVER BROUGHT TO THIS CITY AND WE
INVITE YOUR OPINION
OUR FALL SPECIALTY WILL BE A $15
ALL-WOOL SUIT—THE BEST THAT HAS
EVER BEEN SHOWN FOR THE MONEY.
LET US CONVINCE YOU!
THE WHITE FRONT CLOTHING STORE
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Augustana College
The fall term begins on Tuesday
September 14 th.
We offer the following courses to
High School Graduates:
A College Course of two years, pre
paring the student to take up the
study of law, medicine or theology.
An Intermediate Normal Course of
one year leading to a first grade certi
ficate without examination.
An advanced Normal Course of two
years, leading to a state certificate or
life diploma without examination.
A Commercial Course of one year
training the student for actual busi
ness In any line.
A StenograpbicCourse of one year
training the student to become a com
petent typist and stenographer.
Several Music Courses in Voice,
Piano, Organ and Violin.
We offer the following courses to
The Eighth Grade Graduate:
An Academic Course of Four years
preparing for college.
A Business Course of four years
preparing for actual business.
A Commercial Course of one year
with bookkeeping as the main study.
A Shorthand and Typewriting Course
of one year training for office work.
A choice of several courses in Nor
mal training preparing for second,
first or state certificates without ex
amination.
And several Music Courses adapted
to the advancement of the pupil.
Write or phone the president, A.
G. Tuve, Canton, S. D.
Brakeman was Cared.
F. A. Wootsey, Jacksonville, Texas,
writes: "I was down with kidney
trouble and rheumatism had a back
ache all the time and was tired of liv
ing. I took Foley Kidney Pills and
was thoroughly cured." Thousands
have written similar letters. Foley
Kidney Pills are tonic in effect and
acts promptly.
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SILOS
Now is the time to prepare for
building Silos. It has been clearly
demonstrated that the Stave Silo is
the most econm leal preserving the
ensilage better than any other. We
are prepared to fill orders for Stave
Silos of best quality at least price.
Using a double anchorage that will
hold silo when empty. Enquire of The
Farmers Lumber Co.
Bargains: 200 suits to be
sold at 1-2 price at Seely &
Tank, Canton, S. D.
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