The herald-advance., September 16, 1921, Image 1

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HERALD VOL. XXXXIII No. 1
GOV. McMASTER HITS
EXCESSIVE FREIGHT RATES
DISCUSSES TRANSPORTATION
Q1 ESTION IN LETT El? TO
GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
Gov. MeMaster and the railroad
com mision are making a valiant en
deavor to bring the railroads to time
on the exhorbant freight rates now
charged. The rate- on some classes of
freight are practically confiscatory,
eating up the full prices of the ship
ments. Not satisfied with this the
"^corporations are endeavoring to es
cape payment of a just shave of tax
ation in the .state. The governor in a
letter to the governor of Colorado
says:
"South Dakota will gladly cooper
ate with Colorado and render every
assistance possible in bringing about
a redaction in transportation charges.
"As a matter of fact. South Da
kota has realized for some time that
prosperity can never be fully restored
to agriculture until the exorbitant
and unreasonable transportation
charge.?' are materially reduced.
"For several months tin State
Railroad Commission has been ag
gressively active in this matter. Some
time i.go South Dakota and other
states- filed a petition with the In
terstate Commerce Commission ask
ing for a material reduction in rates
on li'/e stock, grain, grain product-,
and hay. The hearing has been in
progress during the past four weeks
and lias just terminated and we are
now awaiting the decision.
"In addition thereto the State
Railroad commission has filed two
special complaints on behalf of South
Dakota in one instance asking for a
reduction on live stock rates, and in
the other asking for a reduction on
grain, grain products and hay, be
cause these lates, as applies to South
Dakota by the Interstate Commerce
commission are extremely oppres
sive and wholly unwaranted and
unjustified. The State Railroad com
mission has also filed thirteen other
complaints asking for a reduction on
commodities of various classes.
"The agriculture industry is th?
basic industry of the country and
particularly of South Dakota, ars
slowly being strangled and destroyed
by the unfair, unjust, unreasoftablo
and oppressive transportation charg
es now imposed. Either the rates on
agricultural products must be lower
ed or the industry will be ruined.
"We are informed that present rates
must be maintained in order to allow
the railroad-^ to earn per cent, on
their investment. The present rates
in South Dakota can never permanent
ly earn the railroads per cent., or
any other rate, for the reason thr
these rates are destroying the agri
cultural industry of the state, as well
as paraiizing and demoralizing all
other lines of business with the result
that the business of the roads will
steadily decrease. This short-sighted
and unwarranted policy will not only
destroy agriculture of the the stace
but will in the end destroy the rail
roads themselves.
"A car of slieep shipped from Ku
doka, South Dakota, to Si. Paul
brought the owner $12 net «fter de
fraying the freight charges. A car
of slieep shipped from Wyoming to
St. Paul failed to bt#»g a price suffic
ient to defray the transportation
charges. A car of cattle shipped from
North Dakota to Si. ul brought tins
owner $18 net .after paying transpor
tation thereon. Innumerable instances
are or. record of farmer:: in South Da
J&)ta shipping hides and other pro
ducts where the sale price was not
rufticient to pay transportation
charges. Oats west of the Missouri
River were selling at 10c per bush«||
and the freight rate thereon to Min
neapohs jj*as lie per bushel. The rail
roads are exacting 50 per cent, of the
total value of the corn crop raised in
South Dakota as toll for transporta
tion charges.
"Nov/ the raihoads are not satis
fied with maintaining rates that are
crushing the life out of the greatest
industry of the state, are not satisfied
with the arrogant arbitrary and in
competent service they have rendered
live stock shippers the past two years
—a service that has financially ruined
hundreds of live stock growers of the
state, but they now come ami bring
a court action to restrain the state
tax commission from levying an as
sessment deemed fair against the rail
road property. They claim that the
tax commission has assessed their pro
perty at ISO per cent, of its value, and
that farm lands are assessed at only
66 per cent, of their value, and the
Northwestern Railroad with
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Former Grant County
Boys Honored in West
Pierre, S. D.—Governor W. H. Mc
Master last week announced the ap
pointment of W. F. Eddy of I.emmon
to be circuit judge of the twelfth dis
trict to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of R. L. Dilirrmn cf Tim
ber Lake, who became attorney with
the state railroad commission over a
month ago. Practically every attor
ney with several years' practice in
the twelfth district, was after the posi
tion. Eddy resigns as county judge
of Perkins county to become circuit
judge, ami W. D. Hickman, also of
Lemmor. is appointed by the gover
nor as county judge. Governor Mc
Master also announced the appoint
ment oi Charles Milner of Martin as
county judge of Bennett county.
Both Judge Dillman and Judge Eddy
are former Grant county young men,
and their old friends here are pleased
to see them receiving these honors in
the communities where they reside.
HE "CURED RHEUMATISM
Sisseton, S. D.,—Michael R,eiser, a
bachelor farmer of Robetfts county,
was conducting quite a large sized
rheumatism sanitorium when the au
thorities swooped down on his farm
and arrested him on the charge of
manufacturing whiskey.
As a yo'inr in in he worked in a
distilieiy in tlie-old country, ard when
Volstead put John Bar'oycorn to sleep
the rheumatism which had previously
afflictcd h-m, and which required a
number of drinks of whiskey per day
to alleviate the pain in his joints, re
turned to annoy him. Rather than
suffer from his old ailment, accord
ing to what he told the officers after
his arrest, he decided to install a
whiskey still on his farm.
After he had practically cured him
self oi iheumatism by frequent drinks
of the hard liquor, a neighbor devel
oped a bad case of rheumatism and
went to Reiser for relief. Reiser as
sisted him to a sneedv recovery. In
formation of the "cure" reached other
neighbors and soon practically all
the farmers for many miles around
developed cases of rheumatism ami
went to Reiser's "sanitarium" for re
lief.
Reiser worked day and night and
sold whiskey to his friends until ho
found his entire crop of old corn
gone,, and all the time she rheumatism
was petting worse and worse and
spreadnig far beyond his immediate
neighborhood. It is said that the
afflicted finally became so numerous
that thev stood in line about Reiser's
threshold, resembling the bread line?
in citits where there is much unem
ployment.
It vas at tills juncture that the
hardhearted officers of the law ap
peared on the scene and put the
"sanitarium" out of commission by
arresting Reiser and confiscating his
still ami other appliances for making
his "rheumatism cure."
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Sunday, September 13.
Sunday School, 10 a. TO.
Morning Service—11 a. in.
Subject: "My, Brother's Keeper.*
Soprano solo, y
Senior Endeavor—7 p. m.
Topic: "Sins of the Tongue."
Leader: Viola Eoerger.
Evening Service—8 p. m.
Subject: "The Purpose of the Para
bles."
This k an introductory Sermon to
v. series of Sermons on the Parables
of bur Lord. Do not fail to hear Oiese
as they will prove inspiring, helpful
and insti uctive.
Eveiyone is most cordially invited
to attend these services.
Carl P. Bast, Minister.
METHODIST CHURCH
Mrs. J. P. Hauser, a South Dakota
girl who has spent the past several
years in Mexico as a Missionary will
speak in our church next Saturday
night at 8 o'clock. As Mrs. Hauser
has spent a number of years in Mex
ico she is qualified to give first hand
information regarding the people and
conditions in this South Land. She
will give this information which will
be full of interest to all. No admis
sion charge will be made. All are wel
come. Come and bring your friends.
Sunday services as follows: Sun
day School 10 a. m. Morning worship
and sermon by the Pastor at 11 a. m.
Evening worship at 8 p. n»
id-week service of prayer and
Bible study Wednesday—8 p. m.
We extend to all a very cordial wel
come to all oar services.
Rev. Fied Kay, Pastor.
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MARYLAND CASUALTY COM
PANY LOSES LEGAL BATTLE
TO GRANT COUNTY
The settlement made during the!
week by the county commissioners
with the Maryland Casualty company,
of Baltimore, Md., brings to mind the
various phases of the litigation and
incidents in the constitution of the
court house.
The contract for the building Ws
let to the J. B. Evans Construction
Co., of Mexico, Mo., on the itol day
of July, i 915, for $74,!?00, and wa
signed by J. B. Evans as president of
the company, and on behalf of the
county by John Maxwell, George Mit
chell and C. A. Berg as county com
missioners and E. M. Harper, countv
auditor. C. E. Bell of Minneapolis
was the architect.
When the contract let to the
Evan company, there had been sev
eral other bids in competition, but all
of them were for much larger sums,
and it was realized that the margin of:
profit to the contracting firm would
be a narrow one. The Evans companv
started the construction of the build
ing with J. R. Haswell as forman in
charge of the work. Butler Smith
was appointed superintendent of con
struction by the county and work con
tinue 1 under this arrangement until
March, J'JIG, when the Evans Con
struction Company defaulted in its
contract and work ceased. The ris
ing prices in material and labor had
commenced to make itself felt, and
the construction company was unable
to go ahead with the building The
company, however, had been placed
under bonds to the county to complete
the building. The Maryland Ca^ualtv
Co., of Baltimore, Md., through J. L.
Humphrey, of St.. Louis, Mo., had is
sued and oxecuted a bond as security
for the performance of the Evans
contract. Win. F. Atkinson an offi-
over the completing oi the building
but the latter replied that ihev were
not in the business of building co:ut
house:.. The construction company
had received from the county and
paid out something like $51/75, and
it ws-, evident the balance on the con
tract price would r.ot anywhere near
pay for the completion of the build
ing under the contract. On August
4th, JPlfi, the county took over the
building and proceeded with the con
stiuction work, engaging J. II. Has
well as foreman and superintendent,
and the building was completed In
June, 1917.
Suit was brought by Robert D.
Jone.., then states attorney, in Febru
ary, 1917, against the Marvlard Cas
?a)t* Comoany and the J. B. Evans
Construction Company to recover for
the county .the cost of the comple
tion of the building oxer and above
ihe
contract price ami also for the
amount ofaims made by the various
material men and laborers against
the county orf account of the failure
of the construction company to pay
for the material and labor furnished
to it ard u-ed in the construction of
the building. There were about sixty
suits
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MILBANF, S. DAK. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1921
COURT HOUSE I COUNTY FAIR
LITIGATION SETTLED CLOSES IN RAIN
eer and stockholder of the Evans com- "looked for a time as if the locals weie
pany, a grew I to indemnify the Casual- likely to sjiut out the visitor* .but in
ity company on its bond. Atkinson
attempted to take over and fulfill th.?
contract but a as unable to accomplish
anvthlng definite. The county au
thorities notified the Casualty com
pany of the failure of the construc
tion company to complete their con
tract and ask**! the latter to take 1 Vernon 7, La Bolt *—10 innings
Revilio 7, Twin Biooks 9—11 innings.
Following are the lucky ticket
holders at the fair who drew $10 on
their admission tickets. Where resi
dence is not named the parties wer*-?
from Milbank or suvrounding ecMmtry:
7—Erni» Kiueger.
20-'.V—Mrs. Gar. lienning.
57'M—Mrs. Geo. Clark.
by these various claim­
ants against the county, most k'
whom were represented by Thad L.
Fuller. While these, suits were being
litigated* all being tried in Circuit
Court and five appeals to the Supreme
court being taken, the case of th?
County against the casualty company
was continued until a final determina
tion of all other suits.
In February,^1920, the case of the
county against the casualty companv
and the construction company was
tried at Milbank before Judge Frank
Anderson. On September 15th, 19i!0,
Judge Anderson entered a judgmem
in favor of the county against the
casualty company for thfe sum of
142,858.97, from which the casualty
company gave notice of its intention
to appeal to the Supreme couit.
J. H. Voorhees of Bailey A Voor
hees of Sioux Falls, represented the
casualty company, and Robert D.
Jones had direct charge of the case
for Gnat county and was assisted by
Case & Case of Watertown, S. D.
The litigation was of the character
that rffjoired consmnate skill and (he
Inert painstaking care in details, and
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FAIR THIS YEAH ONE or BEST
IN THE HISTORY OF THE
FAIR ASSOCIATION
While the county fair this year
was perhaps the most salt ^factor y
that has been held for several years
it is not yet definitely known what
the result is financially. The secre
tary is endeavoring to get in all the
bills this week so that a complete ac
counting can be made. The atten
dance and consequent receipts would
have been much larger but for one
day of threatened rain, and for a
heavy downpour on the last day of the
fair, all the evening attractions on
Friday having to be abandoned.
While the live stock exhibit was
nu as large as might have been e\
pected. because of reports of hog
cholera among swine, nevertheless
theiu were some good animal shown.
One of these was an immense hog of
the Poland-China Mg type, exhibited
by L. M. Davis, and which attracted
considerable attention.
The flying circus with it* various
stunts, Wednesday and Friday, was a
very :.tti,acti', e feature and entertain
ed the crowds in a"h excellent manner,
and the fireworks in the evening were
also line features.
One of the commendable features
of the fair was the rest roorr provid
ed by Miss Beagin, the Red Cross
nurse, and it privileges were greatly
onjoyod by many of the women from
out-of-town localities with little chil
dren. Miss Beagin as health nurse
tfeiirhed and measured some 4"0 chil
dren during the days of the fair, call
ed attention to physical defects that
could be remedied, ami gave a number
of talks to mothers on the care of
cl'ildiT-n. The rest room proved a very
helpful feature of the fair.
The baseball game bet-ween Orton
ville and Milbank on Friday afternoon
was a good exhibition of ball, and it
the last few innings the OrtonvUl
boys polled themselves together and
the score at the close stood $ to 6 in
favor of Milbank.
The scores of the games on the pre
vious (iays between the various teams
were a« follows: Milbank i, Nassau
B03 —Fred Leske.
J72—Nels Lundberg.
6HH —Mrs. John Huben.
29J i —Mrs. A. Holke.
2&i!>—Airs. Wm. Schuller.
1 —U- E. Elliott, Collins, la.
250:'—Ethol Sioverson.
fi35i—P. L. Gannon.
28:*.—Barney Peschong.
10482—Ruth Nichols.
147r'— H. C. Essington.
10811—-Eron Lauster, Big Stone.
2§Si-— Mrs. Jack Rommel, Waubay.
156S—Mrs. Chas. Emrebretsen.
1000!—Earn Hull.
130—Wm. Wagner .Nassau Minn.
160-1—Max Lad wig, Albec.
1864—Wm. McDonald.
5S77---Ella Giuse, Corona.
The lady's hat given by the Lov
enstein store was awarded to Mrs.
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Farmer Residents go to Florida
The Sumnnt Independent I,as th*»
following to say in regard to two
former residents o fMilbank:
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schmeltzer are
beginning to make preparations for
their journey to Florida. They hope
to get away the latter part of Sep
tember. They will drive the entire
distance probably going via Washing
ton, D. C., ami then down the coast.
They have some land in Florida ami
they may improve it, but'if the grape
fruit and oranges do not look premis
ing Mr. Schmeltzer will get busy at
the automobile ousine -.»- They will
hav« an auction sale of househol-1
goocfei before they g*
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persons having bills aj?£inct the
Fair Association, are requested to
place these musts in the hand* of
the weretary, F. C. Rockwell, before
his Friday event**. Sept. 16th.
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WtiUk if KJttwy, Brown and Green!.
SMi the Uerald-A4fMice
th* office at 6 cents
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Shoots too Early Brot
Before Milbank Judge
While Theo. Olson was threshing
south' of town, early in the week, an'
auto drove on the field, a man got out
and shot three chickens. Gee. Will
ard who was working at the machine'
noted the nurrrher of the iar and the
matter was reported to Robt. Tones
head of the Grant County Sport sman's
association. The car was tiaced to
H. C. Schafer of Watertown and he
was charged tvith illegal shc/jng.
The case came up in Milbank Tuesday.
Schafer claimed some one hiui taken
his car out without his knowledge and
he found it north of Watertown. He
produced witnesses who said Schafer
was in W'atertown the day the chic
kens were shot. Olson and Willard'
identified Schafer as the n an who
shot ihe chickens. The jury disagre
ed but the case will have a wholesome
effect.--Summit Independent.
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THIEVES BUST AT WAUBAY
Ab three o'clock iast Thursday
morning- as Policeman Knudson wa*
making his rounds up the back alley
he noticed a man trying to close a
window in the back of A. T. H. Bos
land's store. Knudson fired a shot
and ordered a halt but the thief drop
ped on the inside of the store ani
made a hasty get away through the
door which he had pried open. On
investigation about $500.00 worth of
dry goods had been piled up near the
front door which they expected to get
away with, and the cash drawer was
rifled of all its contents amounting to
$7.00. It is thought throe thie\e? wero
in the deal, and an alarm was sent
to other towns. A report came from
Summit that they were seen in a
com field near there and a number of
autos went out to apprehend them,
but at this time they have Aot been
capturcd. —Waubay Clipper.
Sheriff Wilson and Deputy Craw
ford and Tbos. Finley went up into
Robei ts county, and the burglar*, were
rounded up and captured a few miles
north of Summit. Thev had abandon-
ed their car and were making theii
getawa through pastures and fields
w"here they eould not well be pursued
by auto.
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HIeks lleRdrlckuin Nnpflift
Las':
Mi. Eloise Hicks was haid of hon
or and wore a dress of gold iaee over
pink orchid satin trimmed with gold
of Ccctie Brunner roses
Misst s Helen Fitzgerald and Rn?ftl
Hicks v i e bridesmaids and wore Mti»
satin with silver lace ar.o French blue
taift a trimmed v.ith silver ribfyon and
wreaths of French flowers. Both car
ried French bouquets,
H'-rbert Popenoe was best man
while the ushers weve Romaine Wat-
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wedding bell of white flowers fell.
The rest of the house was decorated in
white flowers and ferns. The couple
left for a trip through Canada includ
ing Lake Louise and Banff and will
reside in Minneapolis.
The bride is a graduate,of'the col
lege of oratory at the University of
Southern California and is a member
of the Chi Delta Phi Sorority. The
bridegioom is a member of the Phi
Delta Kappa Fraternity,- Lo^ An^ele
Time*. Sept. 7th.
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a nibHc Aacltoa Sales
D. Devries, the well-known farm
er noith of town is advertising an
auction sale of all his farming im
plement^ and live stock, hay and corn
on Tuesday, Sept. 20, commencing at
noon when a free lunch will be served.
See tyi advertisement page four.
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On Saturday, Sept. 17th, there will
be an auction sale at Carl Matthes
farm, at which all th machinery,
horses, cattle.and grains will be di«-
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evening at the home of her
patents. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hick
of 2515 West Twenty fourth street,
Miss Florence Hicks became the
bride of Carl Hendrickson of Minnea-
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polis, a professor in the (Jni»Teisity of,
Minnesota. Rev. Allen Gei. singer, Scotch ancestry, and of kindly social
formerly of the University Methodist disposition, he ,will greatly missed
church, officiated in the' presence of
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fifty guests. »n which he was wont to enjoy
The bride wore a frock of cream
Canton crepe ami Duchose lace made
with a train of the same kind of lace.
Her v««il was of tuile and was pearl
tiin" »"L Her shower bouquet was of
Ofth^'11 roses and lilies of the valley.
Mr. Hicks gave his daughter away.
ribbon and rosettes. Her bouquet was by the side of those of his mother and
of a Mister, Mrs. John Chapman* who'
died seme four years apo.
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WITH MILWAUKEE ROAD
On Sunday evening about
o'clock, William Ross, one-of the" old
time residents of Milbank, and an em
ployee on the C'. IvI. & St. P. railroad
for the past forty-eight years, pass
ed away at the hospital in this city.
He was stricken with acute appendi
citis ome two weeks ago, but on be- 4
mg taken to the hospital an exami
nation disclosed the fact that the ap- 4
pendix had broken, and that the stric
ken man was in a serious condition.
I'-very effort was made to draw thu
scattered pus from his system, and
for a time the efforts of the physicians
appeared as if they would prove sue
cessfui, notwithstanding his age, as
he had been a man of the most ab
stemious habits, but the poison had
spread too far over his system and
he gradually lost strength until the
end came.
The deceased man was born ift Flo4
den, Province of Quebec, October ?t,
1847, and came to the states when a
young man, engaging in railroad
work, and for forty-eight years he
had been in the employ of the C. AL
& St. P. railroad, working on the ex
tension of the road as foreman of
bridge constitution when the roal
was l^einf built through Minnesota
and Dakota. He came to Milbanic
when the town was first laid out, and
had made his home here practically
ever since. He was united in mar
riage on June 2nd, 1898, to Miss \n- s
nie Roonev of Chicago, and is sur
vived by his wife and two children,
William H. and Esther Elizabeth, both
grown to young manhood and woman
hood. He is also survived by a sis
ter, Mrs. Joseph Ni\on, of Neau
drcnil, Province of Qubec, Canada,
who with her daughter Ella was on a
visit to the Ross family here, when
the deceased was taken til, and re
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METROPOLIS OF THE
FAMOUS
WHETSTONE VALLEY
Consolidated April 1890 .-?
WILLIAM ROSS
PASSES
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VETFKAN RAJLROAO MAN DIES
AFTER 11 YEARS OF SERVICE
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Mr. Ross was a life member of the
Railroad Bridge and Builders Assn., a
member of the Veterans Assn. of the
Milwaukee road, a member of the
Yoemans lodge and was an active and st
interested member in al! of the Ma-
sonic bodies in this city as well as a
member of the Scottish rite and
Schrine bodies in Aberdeen, and *%.
member of the Congregational church
of this city. A man of fine character,
inheriting the sturdy virtues of his
s
the social and fraternal circle*
was wont to enjoy tho
fellowship of kindred spirits, as well
as by his fellow workers on the rail
road
The funeral service was held at the
Congregational church Thursdav af
ternoon, Rev. Carl P. Bast officiating,
and the Masonic bodies also conduct
ed a burial service at the grave, th«j
Knights Templar acting as escort to
the lodge. His remains were placed
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Two Sunday Trains Dlsconllnue*
The railroad agents have received
notice that the local passenger train,?
No.' 1 and No. 4, the former due her
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son and Curtis Ca^sHl. •'.•fattfeV from the west at 10:20 a. m.,
The couple walked through an aisde ''e discontinued on Sundays.
of fems and stood under an arch of These trains will run at
ferns white asters from wh u n hmirs on week days.
4:10 r. m. and th
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.Rural Rentes Changed
Postmaster Johnson has received
word from Washington that the rural
routes of the county are to be chang
ed con dderably, the change to take
place Nov. 16. Parties who are affect
ed, by the change can secure Retails
by applying in person at the Mi%*nfc
postofiice.
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Notice has been sent to the awdi- r.,
tors of Ieon Jay C&ae that iMiliftB
of his creditors haa bmm
referee in bankruptcy it
the 24th of Septexaber. tkl
gives the assets as nfl.
Trains were ddb^red
last Tpeadav
went of aa east