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A i ^v •V LYRIC To-Night Only P. T. Baiiium bmicu'-d the world with a white elephant. She went him one better. "Come and aee." Also comedy, Pathe Review. Admission lO hikI 2.V Sunday and Monday D. W. "The Fall ol Babylon' with Norma Talmadge And an all star cast. One of the largest and most notable companies ever assembled by Mr. Griffith will enact the prin cipal parts, the foremost play ers including Constance Tal miadge, Tully Marshall, George IFawcett, Mildred Harris, Paul line Stark, Seena Owen, Alma Jlu bens, Kate Bruce, Alfred Paget, Elmo Lincoln and Ruth Darling. More than 125,000 men and women appear in the spectacle. Itlalto Orchestra—Monday AdnilNsloii 20 and 35c To-Nlgbt Only Thomas H. luce Hit ipoctoll Improvised pro duction "Dangerous Hours" An all slur cast, a gigantic story about you. you and your job, you and your wife, you and your home. Human, dramatic, spectacular. And comedy "A Lion Allium©." Admission IO and 12.V Saaday aid Monday Will Rogers IN *1.1, 11.. "Water, Water Everywhere" Some fine drama, some pa thos, some romance, some pic tar*! Also 3reel comedy, "Light Heart* and Leaking Pipes." Admission l) and 2.V THE CITY, WKATHKH »ORi«^NT Generally fair tonight and Su&day Mi much change in temperature. BUSINESS LOCALS. Watch for Has void's big removal sale ad in Monday's paper. Lost. Lady's hat, also baby's petti coat, on meridian road north of city. •Leave at this office. The Training school of the normal will hold half day sessions during the first term of summer school. Pupils of the second to eighth grade inclusive will be received. This s an excellent opportunity for making tip any deficiencies in the work of the school year, and also provides an ex cellent place to have young children for the forenoon. They will be well taken care of, provided with useful employment, given instruction in sewing and cooking together with other branches. Parents should take advantage of this opportunity and have the pupils enroll Monday, June 14th, in the forenoon.— B. M. Law reftce, Acting President. Watch for Hasvold's big removal Mile ad In Monday's paper. j. NOTICE. 'Canton members will meet at I. O. 0* P. hall at 2 p. m. Sunday, June 13th in full dress. Memorial services. —-V. O. Ball, Comdt. K''' LOCAL NEW*,, -j4, v Dr. i5. S. Baughman made profes sional calls at Canova today. Mrs. Geo. M. Johnson left this afternoon for Vienna for a week end visit with her parents. Mr. Gregorson, freight agent and station master, is at Albert Lea to day transacting business. Miss Ida May Jacobs and little daughter Jean, leave tomorrow morn Z/t. lv- i ^4 ing for a week's vacation with friends at Merrill, Iowa. William Jennings Bryan, the peer less orator of th*» Platte, will giv an address at the Lake Madison chautauqua auditorium oa Tuesday evening, June 16. Tomorrow aft«rnoon the municipal band will give a concert on the pave ment at two o'clock. They also play for the ball game occurring an hour and thirty minutes later at the ath letic park. Mrs. H. H. Holdridge starts on Monday for eastern points. She will visit at Naragansett Pier, Boston. New York City and other large cities She will .be out of the city for a month. Her daughter, Miss Gene vieve, is expected to arrive home to day from Iowa City, Iowa, where sh has been studying at the university. Miss Janet Hae and her sister, Ksther, arrived this afternoon from Yankton to spend their summer vaca tion with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Hae. The former is an instruc tor of elocution at Yankton collet and the latter a student of that in stitution. A. F. Laity has announced his In tention of leaving the farm soon and taking up again hi,s former duties of supervising manager of the state hos pital farm at Yankton. Mrs. Laity has accepted the position of librarian and will have charge of the medical library and the clinic records. There was a big barn dance last night at the Ayer's farm ten miles northwest of thiB city. Nearly a huu dred couples tangoed on the new hard pine floor. This barn which is modern.in every way Is an immense structure over one hundred feet Ion. and neatly topped off with a fin colonial roof. It is built of hollow tile and is fully electric lighted, th« current being furnished by a Delco unit. The farm buildings are illumi nated by night by a large electric globe on the windmill. The members of the Gayety orchestra furnished the music for last night's event. Sixteen young people assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Tut tie, 322 Eighth street N. E., at 10 a. m. yesterday complimentary to Miss May Keyser and Miss Margaret Tuttle, whose engagement announce ments are already out. Breakfast tables were set for the number men tioned, decorations for same bein.4 in green, and white. Bridal wreathe were in evidence and the event spoke of a happy event Just ahead. Out of town guests present were Miss Blanche Johns, of LeMars. la., and Mrs. Lee Lawrence, of Honolulu Miss Keyser taught in the local high school the past year. Next Monday, June 14th, J. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, of Wash ington, D. C.t is to speak at Brook ings. Several other noted agricultur al are to appear also. A fine ban quet is to be held at the State Colleg« for all visiting farmers and friends. The following Lake county farmers are going over in cars, leaving Madi son early Monday morning: Frank Krug, L. G. Atherton, George Kehr wald, R. J. Baxter, E. C. Grimm Ilichard, Robert and George Westall and the county agent. M. H. Shearer Miss Beatrice Blinkensop, who has been doing student work at the nor mal. departed yesterday for her home at Bowman, N. D. o. USES NEEDLE TO BREAK JAIL Two Convicts Escap« at Rawlins, Wyo., by Use of Small Tool One Recaptured. Rawlins, Wjo.—With a needle ob tained la the prison shirt factory as his only tool, Bert Loftou has escaped from the state prison here. William Smith, his companion, was captured while trying to scale the prison wall. s Lofton and Smith were confined to the death house cell because of their known desperate character. Lofton found that a soft piece of steel cov ered a drain. With his great patience and skill he slowly cut a hole through the steel with tin* needle. After re moving a pipe and a plate they crawled through the hole, picked the lock of a steel door connecting with the niuin corridor of the prison, sealed the tiers of cells, cut holes through the slate roof and dropped to the ground, in the prison yard they found a steel bar, which the prisoners bent into a hook to fasten an improvised rope on the prison wall. Loftou escaped, but Hwtth was caught by a guard. Woman Labors Years on 6,016-Piece Quilt. Suranac Lake.—In the matter of patience, the Adirondack region boasts a resident, Mrs. Adelhert Ward, of Hague, who has Job's record faded to a deli rate mauve. She has completed a bed quilt if elaborate design which con tains the trifling matter of 0,010 pieces, upon which she worked for several years. World's Currency. From official data supplied fcy the director of the mint the monetary stocks of fifty-six of the principal countries of the world have been esti mated in terms of American dollars. The computation shows the money of the world was approximately $50,686, .158.000. iiii lul & Iii III lii iQl III tiu'iul VLuZHi INDIANS COMING INTO THEIR OWN Hastening to Acquire Citizenship as Soon as Competent, Says Cato Sells. GREAT PROGRESS Become Citizens. "Under my administration the In dian bureau has made special effort to extend citizenship to the Indians and prepare them for Its duties and responsibilities. In the declaration of policy issued April 17, 1917, I an nounced that every Indian as soon as found to be competent to transact his own business affairs would be given full control of his property and have all his land and moneys turned ov£r to him, after which he would no long er be a ward of the government. In furtherance of this movement I in structed the superintendents of the various reservations as follows: 'You are requested to submit to this office a list of all Indians of one-half or less Indian blood, who are able-bodied and mentally competent, twenty-onl years of age or over, together with a description of the land allotted to said Indians, and the number of the allot ment. It Is Intended to issue patent* in fee simple to such Indians.' "Under this broadened jwlicy In dians, both mixed and full bloods, are being released from government su pervision as rapidly as their condition warrants. Whenever an Indian is found to be as competent as the av erage white man to transact the usual vocations of life, he is given a patent fee, full control of his lands and mon* eys, and made a citizen of the United States. About LIT) .000 allotments of land have been made to Indians, and during the last three years lO.Ofrfj fee simple patents have been Issued, or 1,082 more than in Ltye ten years pre ceding." Mr. Sells has gone further In this direction and has taken the position that the citizenship of Indians should not be based upon their ownership of lands, tribal or Ui severalty, in trust or In fee, but u^n the fact that they are real Americans. Favorable report has been made on a bill Introduced in congress having for its purpose the JILL ILL IH 7 YEARS Not Only Numerically and in Wealth, but Also In Education and In. duatry—Individual Deposits Show Big Increase. Washington.—Answering a criticism on the legal status of the American Indian as contained in resolutions re cently adopted by the Women's (Jlvlc center of San Diego, Cal., Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs, in a lengthy letter sets forth the general progress of the American Indians un der his administration. Mr. Sells is decidedly opposed to the withdrawal of federal supervision over all Indians at this time. The result of such a step, he points out, would be that a large number of old or incompetent Indians would soon be fleeced of their prop erty and thrown upon the states as paupers and mendicants, and public protest against neglected conditions would surely follow. "Confusion as to the legal status of the Indian," says Mr. Sells, "rests largely with those who have not studied the subject. The general allotment act of 1887. provid ing for the allotment of lands in sev eralty, with the amending provisions of the Burke act of 1tK)6, made the is suance of a fee-simple patent the pri mary legal requirement for citizenship of Indians, but also provided for the citizenship of any Indian by his vol untary separation from tribal rela tions and the adoption of the habits of civilized life. The later act of June 2f. 1910, also provides for the allotment of lands to Indians from the public domain with the issuance of a fee patent as provided for In the case of reservation allotments. iQZ Sir IiifTQl iQnQl iuZ £L conferring of citizen shlpon all Ind If in tuit retaining control of the estates or incompetents. Says Restriction Is Wise. "I am fully convinced of the wis dom of this restriction, and that com petency must precede the control property, otherwise great injustu •.« would follow to thousands of Indiana In my last annual report I said tn tiii« connection: "'Of the large number of Indian-, still under the supervision of this !u reau, it should be understood tl: i! more than 7.r,000 are situated practi cally the same as the reservation N t\ ajo, llualapai, Hopi and A patl.' whose property cannot now, nor t•. 1 many years to come, be wisely ai lotted. There are thousands of full bloods and near full-bloods wh«»s. personal possessions and prospe are suggestive of a capacity for lnl. pendent self-support, but who are inn qualified to withstand the compel live tests that would follow a wi drawal of federal guidance. To alin don these at the point in their pr^ ress where elementary requiremei.' are shaping Into self-reliance and .1 comprehension of practical methoN would be to leave them a prey to ery kind of unscrupulous trick» that masks itself in the convention of civilization.' "Few things have been more structive to Indian welfare than !H professional agitator who claims 'in abolishment of governmental sup- 1 vision as the salvation of the Indian "The Indians are growing In know 1 "••'-re and general int«»!llgence. Tin« fourths of their children eligible for attendance are enrolled in son. s o o federal, state or mission. Nt? a ly two-thirds of their entire population speak English and about one-half rea-l and write English. Their gain in tin use of civilized speech has been n markable In the last seven years. "Too much has been said about In dian sch(Mil graduates going back the blanket. Any assumption tl a: more than a negligible percentage such students are non-progressive is unwarranted. In some instan-»* where pupils not long in school liuv. returned to backward.home condition the results huve been disappointing but by no means an entire loss. I! these boys and girls carry no mt than a speaking use of English In*" homes still under the thrall of bar baric ignorance, they have started lifting force and planted iniperishaM seeds of civilization. Considering I I e e o e v i o u s e n v i o n e n a n and prejudice, the school-trained In dian compares favorably with the a\ erage white student whose home sur roundings as a rule are genMwU# to his advantage. Evidence of Progress "The Indian's progress is too fre quently measured by his garb. W w a n e I n i a n o u i s a i a i w e a i i z e n s o e s W e u e i to live In a white man's house, but it he does not entirely and promptly re spond in all of these respects it is not proven that lie is not a progressive man. Sometimes young men return Ing from our schools to the reserVa tious resume certain outward forms i of tribal 'fashion as a matter of ex pediency or social deference to their JUNE REDUCTION SALE We shall continue our June Reduction Sale all next week, when we shall offer you some splendid bargains in what is left of previous sales. Also some new items. iOrSsl iiiT 2LT«.J Ir£ iOl iiil TultfjlM u First Ward Captain—Mrs. R. S. Westaby Assistants—Mrs. N. B. Porter Mrs. P. J. Hoidal v Mrs. E. C. Corbin Third Ward. Captain—Mrs. Frank Millard Assistants—Mrs. Hans VVestby Mrs. Eva Farmer have addi'd $1.'{.OOO.Itn their ejijii tul in livestock. The Indian's trans formation from a game iumter and wanderer to a settled land-holder and horue-huilder is everywhere evident. Nearly U7.000 Indian farmers are cul tivating almost ],00U,UU0 acres, 47,000 are engaged in stock raising, and their livestock is worth close to $38,000,000. Their last year's income from the sale of crops and livestock was approxi mately $14,000,000. "The Indians are dependable wage workers. Their annual earnings In public and private service exceed $3, 000,000. Their number receiving ra tions and supplies not paid for in la bor has decreased one-half In the la-t seven years." i elders, but their activities show what tliey are their farming, their stock raising, the homes they build and the way they furnish them, and their de sire to have their children go to school are the best evidences of their progress. "The social and domestic life of the Indians is steadily improving. Mar riage by tribal custom is notably giv ing way to legal rites. At present there is hardly more than one-fourth the drunkenness among Indians that prevailed ten years ago. The mis» sionary workers have been a powerful aid and their number among the In-* dians has doubled since 1900, with a corresponding increase of churches and church attendance. i "The Indian's industrial progress Is i especially noteworthy. Their Individ ual funds 011 deposit have Increased in the last efght years in excess of $20,- Houses for Scotland. Scotland Is undergoing an almost ceaseless ngitation for more and bet ter houses, and the inquiries are more numerous than ever for American lum ber, hardware and machine tools. With all her war loss Scotland needs more than 100,000 new homes. In many cities six and eight families have hem living in small dwellings, sometim»H» one or two families in a room. TM Scottish program for 1920 calls' for 10,000 houses. 1 000,000. During that period they have expended for homes, barns and mod tru fanu ''"jjlMyemi qadi MISSL. B.MORSE. III ill III SL Gil ui ill III. ILL IiiTuI III ifil ILLILK III III Mrs. Wm. Huntemer Mrs. F. L. Good road Mrs. N. K. Tuttle Mrs. W. C. Brown Mrs. Will Hae in. Near East or Armenian Relief Campaign In Lake County. Madison and Lake County will be called upon to do its share towards relieving the suffering in Armenia. WE KNOW YOU WILL DO YOUR PART When our ladies call upon you next Tuesday, June 15th, show your American spirit by giving. Armenia is the oldest Christian nation and has suffered, and is suffering today, and is calling upon you for help. Shall we fail them? Not if we know our American people. The following ladies have volunteered their services Tuesday, June 15: Mrs. Dr. Nolan Mrs. Thos. Smith Mrs. Don Porter Mrs. J. J. Fitzgerald Mrs. Dr. Hovde Mrs. Thos. A. Wadden Miss Emily Glatz All teams will meet promptly at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Merchants Association Rooms.. Carl A. Stensland, County Chairman. SHE FEEX.S I.IKE A NEW PERSON bo many women sulfer from kidney trouble without realizing the cause ol their sickness that this from Mrs. S. K. Mills, R. R. r. Xenia, O.. will be read with interest: "After taking Foley Kid ney Pills I surely feel like a new per son." Achingr back, rheumatic pains or other symptoms should be given prompt attention. Sold everywhere. o MM COUX.D JTO-r 8TAKO ST*AWHr*. "I caught cold and it settled in my kidneys," writes J. C. Damond. 2tfJ5 W. 30th St., Cleveland, O. "My back and sides were so lame and sore I could not stand straight. 1 used Foley Kidney Pills and am glad to testify to their helping power. "Good for ayif or swol len joints, rheumatic paina. 8old every where. FOLEY KIDNEY PUT TOP SACKAC: K V. 1' AR I DR. H. GILBERTSON GRADUATE VETERINARIAN and GENERAL AUCTIONEER NUNDA SOUTH DAKOTA ED. GUNDERSON Tailor and Cleaner Opposite Postoffice PHONE 2316 III III III III ILL irl li iGl III III III ILJI it III ill IL\ Second Ward. Captain—Mrs. Thos. Mcdee Assistants— Mrs. Dr. Hanson Mrs. M. M. Kramer Miss Carrie Farmer Miss Margaret Toliin Miss Retta Wadden Miss Estella Runkel Miss Hazel Wilkin Miss Mae Keyser Mrs. II. H. Frudenfeld Mrs. F. L. Burnett Mrs. C. E. Olstad Mrs. Ed. Foley Mrs. John O'Donnell Mrs. E. J. Sutton Fourth Ward. Captain—Mrs. Geo. Matthews Assistants—Mrs. Percy Scudder Mrs. C. J. Warfield Mrs. Chas. Roberts Mrs. Perkins Mrs. John Eller Mrs. Ed. Knutson Mrs. II. Fangmeier Mrs. Vera Murziun Miss Margaret Seid s% em Independent Dray Line HEAVY AND LIGHT TEAM WORK ALL KINDS We Do Everything in the Way of Hanling—PHONE 2119 JOHNSTON'S Inc. SUCCESSORS TO E. L. PECK UNDERTAKING Day and Nijjht Service PHONES 2205- 2288 NEW LAKE COUNTY LAND COMPANY Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Farm Lands Phone 2208 MADISON SOUTH DAKOTA MR. AND MRS. A. G. HALLENBECK Undertakers !PHONES: House 3163 Office S3S6 AUTO HEARSE SERVICB Over Geo. Beck'a Furniture Store M*nianw am