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th ram of Aberdeen th friends last week, op girls spent Sun -te.nded the Easter rural route man, will rain as he lias Jon of his dwelling, Aberdeen to St. Reports are that he the bullet wound \be expected, per and daughter, iks have been vis I. D. Tower of Ron ks. Mary boarded urday morning and bed t-j Roudell to fire year old boy of ho occupied the old rned by Lawrencc climbing into the last Friday, lost 11 into the box and managed to get he house alone in ($*'?* Vv, Frank Freeman re visiting their Saturday andSun- yea»- old daughter Howard Perry, is attack of pneu- has been a^ St. a few weeks, was home in East Gem k. ?inberg of James, "ay evening of this partners in the probably are re here. xercises filled the rogram, especially most voluminous 6 ever attempted at inment. as moved from the His parents took iveit set. mbia of Schuyler Neb siting for a short er school friend, J. a relative of l)r. sing this vicinity trees to be deliver- Charles City nur- D. of II. are re icil and paper and H\ hall on Satur- By order of the Applying water to place now, pipe |d up Lake Boulu next extension will JB place, thus nearly residence part ras over from Co He left on that na, where he will 0 went the pre will buy several ittle.—Frederick Weil in this part, oing to plant an corn and ligure ing it and have it *er big enough to prices comes in. buying one. been in town with a view of ~e is from Spink principal invest 1 regions. He is Stay E Jffi I Co.'s WEAR Qwter Test BY luff S. D. sensible enough to know that if the farms show up all right the town has got to be all right. He was very fav orably impressed by the prosperous showing the farms .uake on every hand. The hose cart was pulled out last week and hose attached to the hy drant at Moul's corner to wet down around buildings while the vacant lots and weed patches were being burned over. The old well still sends out a stiff stream and the city has an ample, supply of hose. If the hose company had a little more drill ing Columbia's fire protection would be very good. F. N. Lewis has decided to put in a first class stock of farm machinery. He will iu a few days begin the erec tion of a substantial building, 24x30 feet, on the lot west of where the old Woodman blacksmith shop used to stand, only a short distance west of the lumber yard. He will carry the Johnson harvester line, La Crosse wagons and buggies, and the 20tli Century manure spreader. Houghton Dr. Elliott of Aberdeen is again here professionally. Nels Nelson left us last Tuesday for his new home in Wisconsin, hav ing sold his farm here to a speculator. From the unusual activity around the elevators we judge that the com panies are getting ready for the asses sor. Harry Hart, of Wisconsin, but until recently of Columbia and this vicinity, is in town to-day looking after his interests in Detroit township. Mr. Dome, our pool-room man, is down with the mumps, so his business languishes and his prospective cus tomers are finding other amusement. Mr. and Mrs. Kim Taylor's baby died last week from lung trouble, following an attack of the measles. It was buried in the Groton cemetery on Saturday. Arbor Day is past and we are sorry to say we have seen nothing around the Shelby schoolhouses to indicate that it was remembered by the school board. Perhaps they forgot. The oid Just place immediately east of town is being broken up for crops. In the early days when crops were booming this land raised No 1 hard for several years then it would not raise a crop worth cutting so was permitted to go back to grass to feed the cattle lor the last fifteen years. Now everybody sees millions in crops, so the dust will fly until, as one of our old neighbors said the other day, you won't be able to see the horses you are driving down the road. We are sorry to see the sandy land in this immediate locality plowed up, as it will make it very uncomfortable for housekeepers. Keep to grass and cat tle is our motto. Liberty Chas. Eygabroad was looking after his business interests in north Brown county the forepart of the week "Unser" Fritz Ellinghausen is lead ing the crowd in the hog business this spring. He now has about 50 spring pigs and the end is not yet. Rev. J. F. Meyer, of Aberdeen, officiated at the confirmation exer cises held at the German church in stead of Rev. Knoll, as stated in last week's item. Monday morning there arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Meino Bruns a baby girl of the regulation weight. At last accounts mother and child were doing finely. Miss-Alta Guernsey finished a very satisfactory seven-months' term of school last Friday, and will start for her old home at Avoca, Iowa, to spend tier summer vacation, about May 1st. K'aus Holen, Jr., met with a very painful accident on Easter Sunday morning. While handling a revolver of small caliber it was in some way discharged, the ball passing through the fleshy part of the iiand above the little finger. About two weeks ago a couple of Hecla Nimrods posted themselves very early in the morning on a part of a certain gentleman's premises, and with a view to deceiving a flock of foolish geese planted a lot of decoys in a low spot and then sat down and waited. I'n due t.ime the gentleman of the farm appeared and espied the decoys and also, a little beyond, the aforesaid Nimrods. He proceeded to stalk the supposed geese and drive them over the Nimrods. When he found his mistake he had business in another part of the field. For further particulars inquire of Herman Hass ler. IB Rondell Delia Parker is visiting friends in La Prairie. Walter Miller returned from Ed munds county Tuesday. Miss Olive Robinson attended the Rebecca lodge at Warner Thursday. Mr. L. W. Miller, who has been con fined to his roam for several months, was out of doors Sunday. IfiifS Miss Reed spent Saturday and Sun day with her rrieud. Mrs. Glen Gould. Miss Hassen went to WarnerThurs day to visit her brothel-, A. E. Ilassen. We are all glad to learn that Mrs. Bell Slack is decided'y better, though still at the hospital. Freda Dunker is spending a few days with her sister Tenia, who is still at St. Lukes hospital. In the absence of Walter Miller, who is in Aberdeen, Herbert Olson is assisting in the farm work. Win. Buckley, who has for some time been an employee in the Sher man House, i.s again, following his old occupation, farm work. Bertha Hassen took the train Sat urday for points south. She will visit at Wessington Springs, Letcher and other places. She hopes to reach her home at Elk Point by Saturday. One of Rondell's school teachers, and the neighborhood's nurse, has taken a leave of absence. Many friends will miss her cheery smile and loving ministration. We wish her Godspeed. II. Olson is spending some time near Napoleon, N. D., where lie is re pairing the (spacious?) claim shanties now occupied by Mrs. Strong and Miss Olson, lie will also build a sod barn on said premises, which no doubt will loom up in the distance like a castle. Oneota Mr. Lansing has hired out to H. H. Tooker for a year. Everybody is very busy these times seeding, gardening, etc. Miss Aileena Keeler visited with Miss Morgan Sunday afternoon. Miss Edna Keeler has returned to tier school duties at the Normal. Ray and Roy Fletcher are assisting F. B. Johnson with his spring work. Hogan Bros, will ship in 1800 head of cattle from Montana this week over the Great Northern. Ilenry Fletcher has just purchased two fine milch cows and an Aermotor windmill from Mr. Howard. Mrs. Hiram Cobb will assist Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Halihan in their house and dairy work during the summer. It's like Chas. Mackay's "Random Thoughts." "It's old, and yet it's new A simple fancy of the brain, But strong in being true." Chas. Holihan is milking 23 cows and will milk 43 during the season. This breaks the record in this and any of the surrounding town ships. Two of the families that went to Oregon have returned. This shows you can't subsist on flowers and cli mate and speaks a good word for South Dakota. The (Dakota) Oregonians have been humming a plaintive ditty for the past year or more. It runs like this: Oh! Dakota land, sweet Dakota land, Oil! how I wish I was back again. Miss Susie Moran gave a party to the school children at her school house Saturday, April 22. Refresh ments and a general good time are reported by all the children who at tended. Berne Mr. and Mrs. George Stone attended Easter services at Leola at the M. E. church. T. J. Stone spent Easter with his daughter, Mrs. Ila Hulbert near Westport. Miss Ethel Rhoberts is spending a week with her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Walker. Mrs. G. M. Stone and Miss Fanny Harmon drove to Westport Thursday to call on the mother of the latter. Arthur Broadbent spent Easter with his parents and also attended services at the M. E church in Leola. Abraham Martin of Wisconsin, is visiting at the home of his daughter in-law, Mrs. Ilattie Martin of Frank lyn. .J.A.Lovelace and wife of West port spent the day at "Pleasant View Farm" with Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Stone recently. School has closed in No. 3, Carlisle township, until fall. Although it was along term a good attendance was had all through and all regretted when the time came to say good bye to their teacher who had been with them for seven months and taken great pains in instructing and teach ing them which the pupils seem to appreciate very highly. Frederick From Frederick Free Press. J. W. Hurst left for Montana Tues day to buy about 500 young cattle for his McPherson county ranch. Otto Stromberg went north to Edgely Monday morning. He ex pects to spend a month touring North Dakota on his bicycle. ABERDEEN DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1905 Miss Green reports that the at tendance in the primary school has been demoralized by measles, only 15 out of 41 having attended recently. W. H. Morgan was up from Aber deen Monday looking after his farm interests. The Judge is just as full of theoretical farming and Ralston ideas as ever. Brainard The Misses Aleena Keeler and Susie Moran spent Sunday afternoon at D. Straclian's. We are grieved to hear that Nute Atkins has been under the weather for some weeks past. We wonder if it can he the "Morangrip" that is troubling Nute. If so he has our most sincere sympathy. Ilenry Bates is rather an exception al farmer in these parts. Early in the spring he decided he would only sow about forty acres of wheat, but has decided now that he will sow none, but put in feed gr ains instead. We are pleased to state that Mrs. Will Daulton, who has been ailing for the last six months or so, is slowly improving. We hear that Mr. D. is looking for a girl for general house work and will pay the best of wages. The Gilborne well rig finished the well at D. Strachan's on Saturday last, striking a strong flow of clear, soft water at a depth of a little over a thousand fept. They are at present putting down a well for an Iowa party ou the old Ross Steves place. Leola Frank Boyd was a Leola visitor last Sunday. Frank Broadbent called on home folks last Sunday. Mrs. Amos Hoffman who has been very sick with rheumatism is report ed some better. County Treasurer Fred Piety and Mrs. Piety spent Sunday visiting friends and relatives in Eureka. Ed Moulton agent for the Clinton Falls Nursery company of Owatona, Minnesota, arrived in town last Wed nesday and will begin canvassing this territory for orders at once. There is more catarrh in this sec tion of the country than all diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incur For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease and pre cribed local remedies, and by constant ly failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F, J. Cheney & Co Toledo, Ohio, is the on ly constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfull. It acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimo nials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggist0, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. 1 Northern Wheat S3l4 Nortnern Wneat 78^ 3 Northern Wheat 68j| 4 Northern Wheat 58J^ Rejected 45^ Barley 29 Flax 1.23 Oats 20 Mran 14.00 Macaroni. 74 Shorts 14.00 Butter 20 to 22 Eggs 15 Poultry, live to 9 Hogs, iive 3.75 to 4.00 Potatoes. 15 to 18 Flour 1.(50 MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, April 25.—Wheat— May, 96c July, 94%@94%c Sept., $3c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.00% No. 1 Northern, 98%c No. 2 North-, era, 94c. Duiuth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, April 25.—Wheat—To arrive —No. 1 Northern, 92%c. On track— No. 1 Northern, 921/£e No. 2 North ern, May, 92^c July, 92%c Sept., 83c. Flax—To arrive, on track and May, |1.40% Sept., 11.28 Oct., $1.27%. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, April 25.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.00 common to fair, $4.E0@'5.25 good to choice cows and heifers, $3.75@4.75 veals, $3.00@ 5.00. Hogs— $5.20(0)5.40. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $5.00@5.75 good to choice native lambs, $6.75@7.00. 1 Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, April 25.—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $6.00@6.S5 poor to me dium, $4.50@5.20 stockers and feed ers, $2.5G@5.10 cows and heifers, $2. 50@5.75 calves, $3.00@6.00. Hogs Mixed and butchers, $5.10 @5.55 good to choice heavy, $5.50@5.57^4 light, $5.30@5.45. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $5.25@5.50 Western sheep, $4.5O@5.50 native lambs, shorn, $4.50 @6.50 Western, $4.50@7.60. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, April 25.—Wheat—May, 93c July, 85 %c Sept., 81c. Corn April, 46Vic May, 46%c July, 47c Sept., 47J.4c. Oats—May, 29%c July, ,29%c Sept., 28%c. Pork—May, $12. 174@12.20 July, $12.50 Sept., $12. 67%. Flax—Cash, Northwestern, $1.40 Southwestern, $1.25 April, $1.25 May, $1.25. Butter—Creameries, 24@ 28c dairies, 20@26c. Eggs—15c. Poultry—Turkeys, 15c chickens, 12c. SNIP YOU A GRAIN. w« are the only firm In ftYi city aeaifng exclusively with the former. AH Millers know tbit oar ears Art of ope grade aud not elevator mixed, *tt why oar aervice is more satisfactory than aay otter concern. Submit aa supples formdM.ctc. COOPER CO/VUMWN CO«f«MMvdl, film. For a Weak Digestion No medicine can replace food but Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets will help you to digest your food. It is not the quantity of food taken that gives strength and vigor to the system, but the amount digest ed and assimilated. If troubled with a weak digestion, don't fail to give these Tablets a trial. Thousands have been benefitted by their use. They only cost a quarter. For sale by all druggists. WW COLLEGE HOTEL Yellow dent seed corn, sure to ripen, for sale. Will exchange for broom corn millet. GEO. B. DALY, Columbia. The new $1.00 a day Hotel, one block east of the Sherman House. Out of town people stopping in the city will find it neat, clean and centrally located. Newly furnished. Nice, light rooms. Chas. laskerud, Prop. Any Wall Paper Bargain Beaten No one can sell you Wall Papers for a cent less than you get them here. We want to make this statement as strong as possible because it is a fact that substantiate at any time. We are so thoroughly convinced that it is so, that we offer to duplicate any wall paper bargain. Further, you will have no ex press to pay, you take no chances of not being able to match your paper and all full rolls can be return ed for credit. W O O W A & O RED CROSS PHARMACY llollandsworth-llart Lumber Company Builbing /Material Yards at Aberdeen, Ipswich, Faulkton, Mellette, James, Warner, Columbia, Plana, Selby, Java, Bowdle. Oregon W. S. Cooley, of Claremont, S. D., buys, recleans, and distributes all kinds of farm seeds millet seed a speciality. Car lots, and 100 bu. lots, at farm values to dealers. Write, phone or wire for samples and prices. Champion potatoes are a specimen of Rural New. Yorkers. They are one of our best late keepers and are well adapted for this market, as found by the St. Paul Experimental Station. Per bushel, 50c. per sack, 20c Washington Fast Through Trains Daily over the only double-track railway between Chicago and the Missouri River. Excellent train service and fast train schedules from all points in Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Two trains a day to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland Through service of Pullman compartment, drawing-room and tourists sleeping cars, dining cars, library and observation cars, buffet smoking cars and free reclining chair cars. Daily and Personally Conducted Excursions For tickets and information apply to agents of The North-western Line or address W. B. KNISKERN Passenger Traffic Manager CHICAGO NW4S4 farmer's Exchange Column Paid subscribers, not in arrears, to the American or democrat may use this column without charge six times in each year. All ads inserted free will be limited to twenty words, but larger ads may be inserted by paying one cent a word for each additional word. To all others a charge of one cent a word each Insertion will be made. No ads inserted for less than 15c. All ads appear iu the American and Democrat and if paid ads, for the same charge. E. RIETZ, Aberdeen, S. D. 1000 bushels of white dent seed and feed oorn cheap to sell at309-8th ave. west. A38 WANTED MEN AND WOMEN in this county and adjoining territories, to represent and advertise an old established house of solid financial standing. Salary to men $21 weekly, to women 112 to $18 weekly with expenses advanced each Monday by check direct from head quarters. Horse and buggy'famished when necessary position permanent Address, Blew Bros. & Co., Dept. 5 Monon Bldg. Chicago, 111. Order the DEMOCRAT today. A postal will bring it. We Wanted—Twenty or more cows on shares. Good pasture and plenty of water. Address, J. W. MCKENZIE, on John Chute farm, Leola, S. D. PURE BRED PLYMOUTH ROCK— For sale, pure bred Plymouth Rock roosters. Also eggs from Barred Ply mouth Rock hens, 91.50 for 15, 30 for $2.50. GEOBGE NELSON, .t iBS can Columbia. S. D. For Sale—Four shorthorn registered bulls of the best strain. One, six months one seven months one eight een months one three years old. Easy terms, prices right. •. LABS HKRSETH, Houghton, S. D. For Sale—Two registered short born bulls, one 4 years, the other 18 months. J. H. REGAN. *w 333. .••.j.-Via ?,i. $ WJM 0^