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May Call Special Sessira Pierre, S. D.. Dec. 12.- On account cf the busy season on the farm extending through April and well up to the first of June, it is probable the ligisla ture will be opposed to moving fte regular primary date ahead more than one week—changing from the first Tuesdy in June to the last Tuesday in May. The primary date question was under discussion last sping, when the measure was adopted. At that time Governor Byrne urged a date in May and if this suggest ion had been followed the pres ent complications would tUIVe been avoided. Palace Hotel Serves Free Cbristmas Dinner ffct Palace Hotel observed their annual custom on Christ mas day of serving a big free Christmas dinner to all who' wished to partake. This is a cus tom that was established by the old Palace Hotel Company in the Mrly days and each year on Cbristmas day the public is in cited to dine on the best of vict uals at the expense of the hotel #»ngement. Chefs Lambert and Ehrman Presented a menu on the occa "on that did full justice to this un-to-date hostelry and all in at tendance were delighted with »e delicious cooking. print herewith the menu that those who were not S?? the diners at th* ilT The There i strong probability that an extra session of the state legis lature may be held next month [or the purpose of fixing an ear lier primary date thus doing away with the necessity of a Governor Byrne may take the question up with the members of the legislature soon after the holidays for the purpose of se curing an expression from them. He would not be disposed to call the session unless the 'mem bers pledged themselves to ad just the primary date and ad journ without attempting to transact other business. totel know what was servtyl: Consomme of Beef Palace Hotel Special Celery taffed olives Green Onions Sweet Pickles Dill Pickles *oast \ermcnt Turkey, Strain °d Cranberry Sauce watt Domestic Goose, Baked Apple ^t Young Duck, Oyster Dressing. Spring Chicken, Sage p. Dressing '•ccasse of Chicken, Southern Style Rout Prime Ribs of Rftf, Aux Jus Pork' Candied Jam ManhVo 'n Mayonnaise hed Potatoes Potatoes Nat ur*l S^eas Saute Au Bourre Suet Pudding, Brandy Apple Pie SaUM fiannana Cream Pie ruit i ii Cocoa Custard Pie Tea6 Whipped Cream 8 C^ee Milk Coeoa County Auditor's Books In Sbape For the first time in the hist ory of Perkins county, the books of the county auditor are right up to the minute at the closing of the year. Auditor Michelson has done his utmost to get caught up be- ipecial primary to select rlelega- fore the first of the year and testo the republican national tonvention. It is claimed that the extra session, if held to mak ing this one adjustmen would cost only about one-third as much as the special primary. his effoits have been rewarded with success. Great credit should be given to the auditor for his conscientious endeavor to give the people of the county records that are complete and always ready to be gone over up to the last minute. Never before has the county had such conscientious and hard working men in the countv offi ces as it has at the present time. Each and every one of the offi cers are giving their entire time and ability to th° duties of the county offices and are making a showing in economy and efficien cy beyond the greatest expecta tions. Sheriff Collects $11,000 Taxes SherrifT A. A. Axtell came up from Bison on Monday of this week in the interests of his offi cial duties and while in the city he was questioned by the Herald concerning the collection of de linquent personal property taxes. The sheriff stated that already $11,000 has been collected and that they were working hard to get the remainder of the taxes collected before the first of the year. Sheriff Axtell deserves great credit /or the untiring manner in which he has collected these back taxes that have been on the books of the county, some of them, for four or five ye?rs Axtell shows no favors in the collection of the taxes and be cause of this method has made a few enemies in the countv, but when a person takes into consid eration the fact that the sheriff is doing his duty without fear or favor, he cannot help but re spect his conscientious perfor mance of the duties of the sher iff's office. Mrs. 0. E. Rodenbour Winner of Gialonola The Lemmon Herald contest closed on Friday noon of last week and the finish of the con test was a scramble for coupons. Only 200,000 points separated the two leading contestants and not until the last coupon was counted could it be ascertained who the winner would be. Mrs. O. E, Rodenbour and A. A. Jones, each had over 900,000,000 votes and only a few coupons left to count when the judges discovered a packet of ballots that brought both contestants up to nine and a quarter millions. After the final totals were made, the judges declared Mrs. Roden bour winner with a total of 9,581 890 to a total for Jones of 9,30', 415, a difference ol only 214,475. In all there were five contest ants entered in the contest but none of the others went over 2,000,000 and the main fight lay between Jones and Rodenbour. In all there were approximately 40 000,000 coupon points issued and these were scattered all over {Continued on page eight) A Live %,#^y Newspaper, Published With The Interest In The Development of Perkins County Dominating Lemmon, Perkins County, South Dakota, Wednesday, December 29,1915 The Reporter Has a Sob Same old wail, an' it's gettin' my goat: Nut a gol durn member sent me a note. Begging for news has warped my brain. Till I want to stand up in front af a train. I've begged for news, I've wrote and wired. I've cussed and raved, till I'm gettin' tired 1 dream I am hunting for news all night Ami the the way I ask questions is surelv a fright. If I find a small item the first thing I do Is chop it in halves and use it for two. If your heart has been touched by this pitiful tale, Send mn ^mc newslets by registered mail. Miss Mertie Nelson, postmis tress at Bowman, has resigned with the request that she be re lieved of her duties on January 1st. C. C. Nelson, Miss Nelson's father who has been acting as assistant postmaster, has been around with a petition asking to be appointed in his 'daughter's place. A deal was made this week through the Cory & Burnson ag ency in which W. H. Anderson, of Whittemore, Iowa, purchased a thirty acre tract north of town for fifty dollars per acre which is, we believe, the highest price yet paid for property in this county. The tract is a part of the Johns-Farrington addition and Mr. Anderson will build on it in the spring and make it his home.- Hettinger Journal. Since the law reduced coyote bounties complaints from stock men and sportsmen in the Hills country concerning ravages of animals have been constant. Charles Larson, a vetran pros pector of Rockford, Pennington county, says he saw a pack of 1 coyotes attack a :20 pound buck deer and kill it before he could drive them off. It was one of the largest deer of the whitetail variety seen here in years. Lar son killed several of the* coyotes. The summary of the reports of state banks for the call of Nov ember shows that there was an increase of practicallv five mill ion dollars in the deposits from the time of the September call, the total of the state deposits troing up to $03,299,227. Ol this the individual deposits, included in those of checking accounts, savings deposits and time depos its, were $59,591,298, an increase of $3,853,453 from the date of the Septemoer call. The report of the national bank call is not yet out, but with the same ratio of increase from September to November, as is shown by the state banks, the total depositc in the state banks it the November call will be practically one hundred ten mill ion dollars. 1 Iiemmon Herald H. A, Tipton. Wyo. Northwest News Notes Congress has been asked to spend the following sums for the Indian Service in South Da kota, during the coming year: Flandreau school, $08,995 Pierre school, $55,000 Rapid City school, $51,000 support of Sioux $200,000 support of the Yankton Sioux, $11,000 insane asylum at Canton, $45,000. There is an annual fight to abolish the assay offices in vari ous places, but the secretary of the t.i usury has submitted esti mates for the appropriation of $7,500 for maintenance of the of fice at Dead wood. A strenuous campaign has been carried on in Belle Fourche irri gation project to have farmers sign an agreement to put in a to tal of s,0o0 acres of sugar beets next season. If 8,000 acres are guaranteed the Great Western Sugar company has agreed to build a refinery in Belle Fourche. To date more than (3,000 acres have been assured and it is be lieved the required acerage will be secured. A day has been set on which to wind up the socall ed "beet sugar" campaign, and the business men of the towns in and near the project are co operating to this end. Chamberhn, S. D., Dee. 20 The long cherished dreams of this city for a permanent bridge across the Missouri at Chamber lain is about to be realized, ac cording to recent advices from an apparently authoraiative source. The Milwaukee railway company, so goes the story, is about to double track its road be tween Sabula, Iowa, and Savan na, III., and that necessitates a new double-track bridge across the Mississippi river between these points. The bridge now in use there will be taken down and re assembled at Chamber lain where it will be thrown across the Missouri, solving a traffic problem which has been most perplexing and annoying both to the management of the system and its patrons for many years. —«i- The Management of the Herald Wishes to extend to all of the readers of Best Wishes For A Happy New Yestf this paper Lemmon May Get A Floor Mill The flour mill proposition is the chief topics of conversation among the business men of the city at the present time and the indication.", are •hat befofe long, among its many other industries, Lemmon will have a Hour manu facturing plant. A concern from the east has made a proposition to the busi ness men of the city to install a Hour mill at thia place and a com mittee has been appointed to look into the matter to see if the proposition is suitable to the people of the locality. All of the business men of the city as well as the farmers of the surrounding territory, are urged to be present at the noon day lunch at the Commercial Club rooms on Monday, January 3rd, when the proposition will be discussed and all the phases of it gone over. Grides After County Seat Geddes, S. D„ Dec. 27. That this (Charles Mix) county, will be the scene of another county seat fight is assured as the re sult of action taken by the resi dents of Geddes and vicinity at a mass meeting here. Geddes will become a candidate for county seat honors Early in the new year the campaign will be opened and an effort made to disp ssess the historic town of Wheeler of the county capital. Wheeler is on ihe banks of the Missouri River, some distance from the nearest railroad, while Geddes is one of the thriving towns on the Platte line of the Milwaukee railroad. Wheeler has been the county seat since the early days, not withstanding that various efforts have been made by railroad towns to capture the county seat from it. Failure has been due to the jealousy between the var ious railroad towns which are strong rivals of each other. Does Not Want State Land Sold Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 23. Out of 408,822 12 a res of lands belonging to the state schoo's, under th? grant of congress when the state was created. State Engineer Bliss recom mends that 265 008.35 be not of fered for sale because of valu able lignite coal deposits. Mr. Bliss has just completed a survey of the state owned lands in the western part of the state, mce particulary in DivVie, Dunn Mercer, Burke, Starke, Williams Morton and Bur'eigh counties. The purpose of making the sur vey is to give the beard 'nfor mation as to the extent of lig nite deposits and these, the re port indicates, are more exten sive than was estimated. Frank S. Henry, state land commissioner, with whom the re port for the board has been filed says the hoard doubtless will withdraw f-om sale all the lands indicated and the sale of those ultimately will be made on the (Continued on page eight) No. 30 Arrested For Wile Desertion Rather a peculiar family en tanglement will undoubtedly be unraveled sonu time this week in municipal court resulting in the arrest of Kmil Schwartz of Iiemmon on a charge of neglect ami refusal to maintain and pro vide for his wile, lledwig Schwartz, she l*einj{ as a result, in a destitute condition. The date ol the alleged offense in the complaint is .luly 29, 1915. Schwartz, was arraigned in municipal court yesterday, asked for a preliminary hearing and was bourn! over for an examina tion under $2Kl bonds. It is understood that Mrs. claims that she came here to see her father and that in the mean* time her husband sold all their property near Lemmon. It is also claimed that she received a letter from him sayi.-.g he was coming through here and would stop off and beat her up. He was arrested while talking to hia wife in the rear of Wood's res taurant where the woman is en* ployed. Schwartz, has a different story to tell. He savs that they had 25 cows and were making good money off from them, she help ing him with the milking, until her father advised her that she was working too hard and ad* vised her to leave her husband. Th is, h« claims, she did. Schwar'/. claims that he came here several times o get his wife to return home with him. but that she refused. Finally he sold h's stock and went to work by the month eight miles north of Lemmon. Me says he came here to attain try to effect a reconciliation when he was ar rested. Aberdeen American. Needless Loss By Smut In Wheat Recently in Northwestern Minnesota, we called at a local elevator and while there, a far mer brought in a sample of lufl wheat. It was promptly reject* ed by the buyer. The buyer naid he could not handle the wheat under any conditions. We examined the wheat aft* found the worst case of stinkinj? smut we had ever s en. Fully 10 per cent of the sample was smut balls and the whole was dirty looking and foul smell ing. At best the sample of wheat was worth no more than feed prices, and it is doubtful whether any kind of stock would have cared to eat the stuff. Here wa« a case where a far mer uh 'had done all the work necessary to produce a crop of wheat and hai harvested it and threshtd it, probably secured 15 bushels ol wheat per acre worth no more than 00 cents a bushel, whereas it he had sown good see 1 he migot have harvested 20 bushels of wheat worth 90 centfl a bushel, in other words, he could have gotten $18 per acre for his crop in place of $9. The entire loss could hate been prevented bv the formalin treatment at a cost not to exceed a few cents jer acre. A pint bottle of formaldihyde costing from 35 to 50 cents and a few hours of labor would have treat ed enough seed grain to sow 50 acren. Tin r• is no excuse for such a loss except carelessness. Anv drug store, general imple ment dealer, experiment station or farm paper will cheerfully furnish the information concern ing the treatment of grain for smut. No farmer is wealthy enough to afford to sow grain affected with smut.- A. D. Wil son, University Farm, St. Paul.