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LEMMON I is on the route o e Yellowstone Park I Auto Trail Perkins Makes Good Showing at State Fair The Perkins County Exhibit at the State Fair, just closed at Huron, ranked well with exhibits of the other and older counties of the state, as demonstrated by the score and position accredited to it by the judges. Every year since Perkins county has been making exhib its at the State Fair has seen her outclass all the other count ies west of the Missouri river, ?nd score very close to some of the eastern counties who were out after the "money". Being a new ounty. it has always been hard to compete with the older counties, because they had all the advantage in being able to locate and secure samples from the various varieties needed to to make a complete exhibit. In addition they got on the job and planted much of the stuff jrhich they expected to use, and thus were able to obtain a sam ple when it looked the best. This is the ideal way in which to make It takes time and experience to do these things and it Huron, Sept 18:—Special With Art Smith furnishing the grand finale with the most spec tacular flight he has made this week, Friday evening's program was brought to a close, at the •ametime the 26th annual South Dakota fair being ended. After rather poor start Monday and Tuesday, due to weather condi tions, the fair came into its own on the last three days and with •xcellent weather prevailing the attendance for the week was bought up to normal, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday all b°ing large. Iriday night was Huron night, Raveling men's night and news Wper men's night, and the most eUborate evening program of week was given. Smith's %nt was one continuous loop 1°0P, and with his plane en 's oped in flames he wrote the Word Huron" in the sky at the ^clusi n of his flight. eventy-three babies a in Jfi were ex- ^ined in the Better Babies con .Bruce Hubert Ketelle, son Rev. and Mrs. Ketelle of Jr)n. was the highest ranking o a s s e s a n awarrUwt1 CIa SeS and was Warded tha gold medal. medal* Sc0r" Vol. 9 Lemmon, Perkins Gounly, bouth DokoU). Crop Reports The Past Week1 Special State Metoerologist M. E. Blystone has issued the following report on weather and crop conditions for the past week: The weather during the past week was cool and rainy, with deficient sunshine, these condi tions being more pronounced during the latter part of the week. Threshing and haying were interrupted by the rain, al though some progress was made I with this work. The week has been too cool and rainy for corn, checking its advancement and lessening the prospects for a good crop. While pome fields are nearly past the point of danger from frost, the greater portion of the crop is re o e a s e u i i n o o n e to two weeks of favorable weath er to place it beyond such danger. Pastures are fine, and stock continues in good condition. In some localities plowing and s e e i n o w i n e w e a a s commenced. Ludlow, and prepare an exhibit and until some such plan as this is followed. Perkins or no other county can reasonably expect to win a top position with the com petition as keen as it usually is, when such counties as Brookings, Spink, Yankton, Davison. Clay or Hanson go out to win. Times a s a v e s e e n a o e s e counties at the State Fair, with exhibits that kept the Judges busy for considerable time de ciding the matter, and when the score was announced, not to ex e e 3 0 o i i s s e a a e e lowest county from the highest, and the winner was barely 3 points ahead of the nearest com petitor. Perkins county will yet win first place at the State Fair and bring thathonor to the west side of the river for the first time in the history of the Fair. Sept, 16:—Special This part of Harding county was visited by a frost Tuesday morn ing. but from information re ceived from different sections, the corn was not greatly damag ed. The leaves show some ef fects of the frost, but farmers claim that this will not injure the crop, as there is sufficient nour ishment already in the stock to mature the crop. Some of the early corti has ready been cut. Timber Lake, Sept. 19: Special. A s e s i n o e n e s e greater are the crop returns com ing in. The past week, despite inclement weather conditions in other parts of the state, has been good growing weather here al beit a trifle chilly. Corn is still growing, and with another week will prove a wonder crop. Walter Huff near here reports a field of marquis wheat going 47 bushels per acre and a field of velvet chaff adjoining which is making 36 bushels. Oats is running as high as 76 and rye up to 37 bushels per acre. also costs money and with the past few years experience, it will not be hard to raise the money in the future. Messrs Finch, Hoffman and Seidschlag have done well this year ar.ii will do better next. Potatoes and all garden crops are doing splendid with the ex ception of melons. Lots of hay has been cut this year, and alfal fa is better than ever before. William Enright has a field of al falfa which will cut at least five tons to the acre. The meeting of the South Dak ota Home Coming and Pioneers' association was a feature of the fair. Annual business was transacted and a nnmber of ad' transacted ana a nnmuer oA dresses made, the officers Jrom la8t year being reelectf.d' z the basis of 100, Master Van Osdel of Mission Hill, pres-( of -'.lie recpivorl Q7 K nnwrfcU of Ar-- n„ received 97.5 points. |ident, and R. E. Dowdell of Ar-, •18 J-an Hurd, Rapid City, tesiaa, secretary. I The Lemmon Herald The Paper of County-wide Circulation My Task io live each moment to its fuh. to make Ita essence and elixir part of iw. To glimpse God's purpose ir futility, To flout the tit-earns that lull fo hopes that To charge each daily task I ui. ?. i take With buoyant joy of servic unl to be Unfretful of the rut, with power to wee The goal through nerve revolt and muscle aehe. To know, unsmujf, the bestial .nd unclean, Nor let that knowledge smttvli life's loveliness, To guard through doubt and iead that faith Mrcne Which lights bright tapers ru an altar's shelf To rise from harnessed lusts ai uosuccess Tnto a loftiM iprener mil —Dorothy Some days ago an executive of one of the New York reserve banks of a southern district was reported as having said that it was possible now to issue three times the volume of the emerg ency currency that went out last year. A recent address by John Kich, chairman and federal re serve agent of the reserve bank of the ninth district, of which Minneapolis is the center, con tains earnest monitions against the spread of any disposition un duly to expand the currency. Mr. Rich said that while the is sue power is ample, nevertheless it should be held steadily in re serve until we need it. In the spring, one of the leading inter national financiers, possibly the best informed of all of those who have relations with the great movements of finance back and "forth across the sea, said that there did lurk a danger in the federal reserve system. It was the danger of overinfiation due to overspeculation. That opinion, Benjamin Strong, Jr., governor of the federal reserve banks of this district, voiced in an address delivered to the bank ing association at Saratoga. Some of those in authority was the highest ranking baby in over the system in the city class, outside of the gold have been Jo h,t ttaMi medal winner, and was awarded of th a bronze medal. Her score was 97. From the rural districts, Eugene Hoy of Carpenter, rank ed highest with a score of 9.55. He also received a brcnze medal. In addition to the medals pre sented by the Womsn's Home Companion, the fair board gave prizes to the amount of $120. Jerauld county won first place among the county agricultural exhibits with a score of 952 out of a possible 1,000. Hand county was second with 890, Sully third with 807, Minnehaha fourth with 801 and Perkins fifth with 788. In the county exhibits in the Woman,s building first place was won by Sully county, and second went to Stanley. ist and that there should be con stant watchfulness. That view is also taken by Frank A Vander lip president of the Naticnal City bank. All of these author ities, including Mr. Rich, profess not to be afraid of inflation under the federel reserve system unless it comes through the ill advised failure of the federal re serve banks themselves to hold down the volume of rediscounts to the level demanded by the sound and reasonable require ments of the home localities of member banks. Mr Rich re cently stated that he had observ ed some disposition to persuade the public that the reserve banks have unlimited money which can be called for whenever anybody wants it. The effect of en couraging the public to take this view and of the reiterated state ment that the government has vast currency isgue er which may be used by the I people will be very harmful, Wednesday, September i»i, aiorh. The Federal Reserve Act Portions of John H. Rich's South Dakota Address on The Federal Reserve System in the northwest, the great body of the people are eager to learn all that can be taught about the operation of the new federal re serve system. It was for this rea on that Mr. Rich was in vite 1 to speak before the South Dal.ota Bar association at Water tow a, S. D., on Sept. 2. He ob served great interest among the people of the northwest, and es pecially in what New York re gards as faraway South Dakota. 1 lie people want to know why a change in onr federal banking system was necessary and what was sought by those who draft ed the federal reserve banking system bill. Mr. Rich told his hearers A. S. Tubb* returned to Ia-iii mon Saturday last, having spent some three weeks in Bowman county surveying several roads for that countv. Bowman is alive in the matter of improved highways and the Yellowstone Trail which passes through the county and town of Bowman is said to be the lest improved of any of that popular road west of the Missouri river. A direct mile of the trail com pletes a mile of main street for that city which the enterprising businessmen of Bowman have marked at each end of the street with beautiful solid ce ment blocks some seven feet in height and gradually tapering to the top which is crowned with fretted work upon which is inscribed the year the trail was completed through that countv. 4 The Yellowstone Trail ha.s call ed out the best material in both the country and different towns, for the upbuilding of a gigantic piece of roadwork which will each year be sujiervised and looked after until it is placed in the condition necessary, to be come known as the liest trans continental highway from ocean to ocean. not available as it is now. All sorts of artificial and original financial mechanisms were cre ated just after the war began in order to enable the United Slates to meet the emergency. I hat is explained by the fact that, under the old national banking system it was practically im possible to mobilize at anv point [resources and reserve. Mr. Rich said to the people of South Dakota that he is per suaded that Europe's demands upon the United States will for sometime be very heavy. Yet he has no fear about our ability thoroughly to meet these de mands. In South Dakota they are harvesting, as they are in other parts of the northwest, record making crops, and the movement of these crops from the harvest fields to the markets will entail great financial de mands, yet, in Mr. Rich's opinion that strain we shall be able easily to bear. that the foundation for the whole movement of banking reform w a s e e s i e o e n a e e commercial banks of the United States efficiently to serve the need of commerce, agriculture arid industry. Those who heard Mr. Rich may have been a little astonished to hear him say that, while he is a firm believer in the new system, nevertheless he is not blind to the fact that time and long experience are neces sary before it is developed into thoroughly efficient piece of financial machinery. Occasionally it has been re poited that the United States could not have given to the al lied nations and to the world the stupendous financial aid it has given had the federal reserve banking act not been in opera tion. But, in Mr. Rich's view, it would be hardly fair to say that the federal reserve act is the sole cause that is leading the great nations of the far world to turn toward the United States for financial aid. On the other hand, it sonable to take is rea the view Mr. Rich explained to his South Dakota hearers his reason for this view, which is that the federal reserve act has delivered o u e a a n k i n from interest to know that n the far weat, and especially we bad this power, but it s e n bondage and given it wise freedom and thor oughly elasticity. A year ago Before the end of another year there will be understanding throughout the entire country as there begins to be understand ing in the great financial renters of what the stupendous financial power of the United States is. The federal reserve banking system has been put in opera tion. Mr. Rich says, in the very nick of time. He called atten tion to a statement recently made by Moreton Frewen which was reported in one of the London i n a n i a e i o i a s i n e s e words: "Here is Uncle Sam, with the power of 100 J. P. Morgans, now in the bill-discounting business and prepared to do the world's u s i n e s s e e o e e v e y A e i a n a n k k n o w s a stringency and contraction have disappeared and that a new day has dawned. The federal re serve act is a bigger thing, by all odds, for the world's trade than the Panama cinal. The passage of that as these demands increase, as they are sure to increase, the federal reserve bank system will provide the machinery by means of which we can much more ef fectively handle the foreign and domestic situation than would have been possible a yeas ago. the measure was a greater thing than the discovery of the half dozen African fiftMa." V LEMMON: 1 o i .-c ommfrrial Cq, of the a i i s s o u i U i e 22,1915. No. 16 Yellowstone Trai jCorn Crop Here Calls More Surveying Better Than in East The Herald Kditor returned on Tuesday morning of this week from Minneapolis, Davenport, Waterloo, Webster City, Iowa Falls and other points in Iowa a n i n n e s o a a v i n s e n several days in a tour of inspec tion of the crops of the sections to our east. With the exception of some parts of Hamilton county, Iowa, no place that was visited could show a field of corn that com pared with the corn that we have here. Very little of the corn vull mature there and hun dreds of acres a e absolutely worthless because uf the heavy frosts that have visited these territories. The small grain crops of Iowa and Minnesota were a great deal better than usual this year but even they did not make a good comparison with the enormous yields of this territory. Test Soldier's Preference Law Special Dr. O W. Phelps, of Leminon, states that he is about to start an interesting proceeding at law in the supreme court of the state to test the enactment authorizing preference for sol diers of the civil war in (he mat ter of appointments. Dr. Phelps s e v e u i n e e v i w a i i the 17th Illinois regiment. He recently applied for the pe* sition of president of the state board of health and his applica tion was rejected by the govern or. He is asking for a manda mus from the court to compel the governor to comply with the law. The statutory provision on this ,subject says that preference must be given to ex-soldiers who apply for appointive positions, and there is a penalty for non compliance, a part of which is a considerable term of imprison ment. The penalty applies to the official who refuses to recou nt/." the claims of an ex soldier who applies for an appointive position. I i e s a s o i e w i all the legal requirements con tamed within the form of his ap i a i o n a n e w i a s k i e court to take action. Will Stay In The Cattle Business TIh» last of the I). B. Zimmer man cattle were shipped out from Walker thin week, the 15th, being the last day of grace. However, we understand he will continue in the ranching busi ness in this country, but not on the Standing Rock reservation. He is now arranging for the ground formerly occupied by the old Mattador outfit on the Chey enne reservati n and we are in formed that the lease is practic ally closed for same. This will give him moie room than he had in this section and he will em bark in t'»e ranching business on probably even a larger scale than in the past. Mr. Zimmer man has traveled over the states a great deal and very evidently has decided that there is no chance of beatng this country for the cattl'1 business, We dare s*y Mr. hartinger will continue in charg- of the various camps .as he has h' retofore. —Mcintosh. gold- Gk»be-Chief,