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J. F. STAHL. Proprietor.
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STATE NEWS
Heights.*—One hundred and
twenty acres of land near this place
was recently sold for a price averag
ing $120 per acre. This is one of
the highest amounts on record and
a food Indication of the land boom in
this vicinity.
Lead.- Kobbers, who entered th«
J, H. Keuster Hardware store in this
city escaped with $32 in cash which
they secured from the cash register,
and a six-shooter. A number of
checks in the cash drawer wt-re left
untouched.
KissWon.—The business men of
this city have presentedthe Edward
Otto* post. American Legion, with n
beautiful flag and standard. Many
of the business and professional men
attended the presentalinn ceremonies
anl addresses were made by each.
Egan.—Preparations are beini
ttMnpleted for a harvest festival to be
lkild in Egan Thursday and Friday.
Aug. 16 and 27. There will be ball
games and other sports, In addition
to many other features. It is ex
pected thousands of persons will at
tend.
Hot Springs.—Unknown thieves
4B*de a raid on the basement of the
Lutheran hospital in this city and
escaped with one-third of a barrel of
grain alcohol. The robbers are be
lieved to be moonshiners, who wilt
utilize the alcohol in the manufac*
lure of
TRedfi
|||re of booze.
dfield. The 14-year-old son of
a
farmer named Leonard, living near
Mellette, was the victim of an acci
dent which may cause his death. He
was riding a pony at a gallop when
the animal stepped into a hole throw
ing the boy over his head, he strik
ing the ground on his head. He was
rushed to a hospital, where many
hours later he had not recovered
consciousness.
Mansfield.—Robert Erdman, aged
SO years, was the victim of the ffrsti
threshing machine accident reported
this year. Erdman was making re*
pairs on his own machine when it be*
came noticed that the water in the
boiler was low. He filled it with cold
water, causing an explosion. Erd*
man was badly scalded and died ft
few hours later. The engine wat
completely wrecked and a new sap*
arator waa^buragd beyond repair.
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Juvenile Laboratory Latest
Court Innovation in Denvtr.
ftfclalonf Bated on Manner in Which
Juveniles Pate Mental and
Physical Testa.
Denver, Colo.—A Juvenile laboratory
la a new addition to the machinery of
the courts of Denver, through which
wayward boys and girls pass before
Judge Ben R. Llndsey. Upon the man*
Bar in which the boy or girl liussen
the mental and physical tests depends
the ultimate disposal of his or her
case.
Judge Llndsey asserts that a wny
Wtrd girl has three ages. He explains
It in this manner: A girl may be
thirteen years old, have the physical
development of a girl of eighteen and
the mental development of a chJld of
tan years.
The judge says that whenever a girl
appears in his court, the first proce
dure is to obtain her three ages,
through methods developed by med
ical men and psychologists. lie de
dared he intends to make the Juvenile
laboratory available to the mothers of
Denver so they can obtain the three
ages of their children and use this in
formation In providing against indis
cretion and possible criminality.
An appropriation has been granted
for the conduct of the proposed lab
oratory and the Judge is seeking to
obtain the services of expert psychol
ogists to take charge of the work.
The Judge describes In this fashion
how the department already has aid
ed one mother
**A mother came to me the other
«*y and complained that ahe. had a
daughter of nineteen who gave her no
trouble and a daughter of fifteen who
desired social privileges that no moth
er could give a girl of her age. I told
her that her flfteen-year-old daughter
was nineteen biologically and had all
the Impulses and emotions of the old
Cf girl without any of the good Judg
ment that comes with later years.
"The younger girl is the one who,
obeying mature Impulses without ma
ture judgment, gets Into trouble on
automobile parties and at dances.
"We have been accustomed to
classifying girls as good and bad.
8ometlmes the difference is merely
that one who came Into mature life
when ahe was possessed of good judg
ment la the good girl and the other
who came Into mature physical devel
opment when she was young and fool
tth Is the bad girl."
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A Forfeited Distinction.
don't you write another letter
the paper and sign tt "Taxpayer?'"
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CUe Wailv JUaDet FEAR IMPURE WATER QQQ yyflR |y|£ty
Supply of Many Cities in United
States Menaced.
Impossibility of Getting Necessary Pu
rMyjAf Chemicals Alarma Fed
eral Health Officer*
Washington, I). C.—The water sup
ply of more than 30,(XX),000 city resi
dents Is in imminent danger of becom
ing disease infected, because of the
impossibility of obtaining the neces
sary purifying chemicals, the public
health service announced.
Emergency appeals have been re
ceived by the service from ten state
and numerous city boards of health,
It was said, for railroad priority on
the movement of alum and chlorine,
the chemicals largely used In ridding
water of dangerous disease germs.
Due lo the congested traffic situation,
the announcement said, an acute short
age of these chemicals has existed for
several months, and at one of the larg
est chemical [Wants only eight cars of
raw material for the manufacture of
alum are being received a month, al
though 120 cars monthly are required.
"Officers of the United States public
health service view the situation with
alarm, as do health officers throughout
the country," said Surgeon General
Cummlng. "The summer Is always a
critical time In dealing with water
borne diseases, for the demands on
municipal water systems are then so
great that usually every available
source of water 1ms to be utilized."
JUMPS AHEAD QUICKLY
To be made assistant secretary after
being with a banking house for only
six months is the record of Mrs.
Nathalie Schenck Lalmbeer. former
social leader, who has been promoted
with the U. S. Mortgage and Trust
Co. of New York. This position
places Mrs. Lalmbeer at the head of a
number of women managers of various
branches of the bank. Her duties will
be much the same as those of any
junior officer.
SAILOR WHIPPED TWO KINGS
Capt John Johncox's Death at Van
eotiver, B, C., Reoalla Unuaual
Incident.
London, England.—The recent death
In Vancouver, B. C., of Capt. John
Johncox, once a well-known English
yacht skipper, has recalled here the
story of two encounters the akipper
had with the late King Edward when
he was prince of Wales.
The (Jerman crown prince, after
ward Emperor William, and the prince
of Wales had disagreed and were set
tling the argument with lists on the
sands at Cowes when Johncox sepa
rated them and stopped the fight. The
crown prince was said to have been
so enraged that he boarded his yacht
and returned to Germany.
On another occasion the prince of
Wales playfully tripped up Johncox
at dusk on the royal yacht squadron
green, and the skipper used his fists
freely against the future king. It
was said Johncox failed to recognise
the prince.
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Flyer With Summons
Overhauls Fast Train
Denver, Colo.—Harry G. Saun
ders, attorney, chased a Union
Pacific train in an airplane to
serve a summons on J. D. Bird,
who Saunders says, was fleeing
jurisdiction of the Denver
courts.
Learning that Bird was to
leave the state, he hurried to
the Union station, but missed
the train. In a friend's airplane
he chased the train, speeding
120 miles an hour. They
readied Hudson ahead of the
train and served the summons.
The Perils of Cherry Picking.
Lawrencehurg, Ind.—Tlie buzzing of
a honey bee about his head resulted
in serious injury to Anthony Steln
metz, aged 04, a retired fanner.
Steinmetz was picking cherries, stand
ing on a stepladder, when the bee re
sented his presence. While trying to
fight the bee off his nose, Steinmetz
fell twelve feet. His injuries consist
of a cut head, both wrists broken and
three ribs fractured.
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'STUDY FARMING
Disabled Ex-service Men Placed
Agricultural Training in
Various Institutions.
1,500 READY FOR COURSE
Many of the Men Are illiterate and
Mutt Be Given a Course in Ele
mentary Work to Fit Them
for the Farm Course.
Washington.—More than 4,000 dis
abled ex-service men have been di
rectly placed in agricultural training
ind in addition there are probably 500
engaged in prevocntlonal work pre
paratory to a course In agricultural
training. Perhaps l,f»00 more have
been approved for the course.
Special placement has been suggest
ed and Is being sought for tuberculous
men In hospitals and sanatoria.
The men approved for agricultural
training may be classed into three
central groups:
(a) Men who went Into the war
from college or high school, and, re
turning, hare entered the agricultural
c«lleges.
(h) Men with an eighth grade
preparation who are admitted into
*ubcollege two-year courses. Smithy
Hughe* or other schools of agricul
ture.
(c) Men of elementary grade, rang
ing from Illiterate to the seventh or
eighth grade, who of necessity must
have prevocational Instruction In order
(hat they may receive scientific train
ing intelligently and benefit to the
greatest degree.
The first ami second groups have
given the federal board and the Insti
tutions tc which they have been rec
ommended very little trouble, as they
enter the classes If sent to the institu
tion at the beginning of the school
year or a term, and if not they fre
quently can be brought up to clasa
wurk by coaching.
Third Clasa Troublesome.
The third group has given the fed
eral farm board and all the Institu
tions gr.-at trouble. Insurmountable
difficulties seem to have arisen. In
varying numbers they form the prob
lem at every state agricultural col
lege and school, and they constitute
from to as high as 50 per cent of
the men approved for agricultural
training.
This large percentage la due to the
fnct that these men for the most part
are from isolated country districts
where the opportunities have not been
so great for early education.
Farmer parents have been unwilling
to allow the boys moi* than a very
ordinary education, for fear of losing
them from the farm. Many have had
no opportunity. Such are usually old
er men, 15 or 20 years past country
school age. Many of the men are
therefore practically illiterate, and
to this number must be added
the foreign illiterates that la, for*
elgners who are illiterate from the
English standpoint
These difficulties constitute a real
problem to the federal board and the
institutions to which these men are
sent. State Institutions are not al
ways prepared to do the elementary
work necessary to advance the men to
a knowledge of English and mathe
matics where they can receive and be
benefited by the agricultural training.
Ilowtver, without exception, tne
state Institutions are convinced it la
their patriotic duty to assist the fed
eral board in making preparation to
extend the necessary prevocational
training, and have changed wonder
fully In favor of training disabled men
In spite of their educational handicaps.
As students the Institutions are be
ginning to appreciate them.
Forme a "Guidance School."
Dr. Walter J. Quick, training oA~
cer, wcrked out an elementary school,
which he termed a "guidance school,"
where such men were collected and In
structed in the elementary com
mon branches and In elementary agri
culture. The school has been made
prerequisite to certain courses that
Dr. Quick has designed as agricul
tural unit courses. They are divided
Into units of one month each, cover
one year continuously from month to
month and may be entered any month.
A man may take one or several
unit courses, one as a major and
others as minors related to the ma
jor, while at the same time he contin
ues in the common branches of the
guidance school.
Nearly all the state institutions will
allow the men credits for the work
done in the unit agricultural courses,
which now include a two-year course,
as well as the one-year.
These plans of the guidance school
and agricultural unit courses were
reduced to definite form and mimeo
graphed for the benefit of all institu
tions offering agricultural training to
the disabled class.
Stops Court for FartMT.
Anderson, Ind.—The Madison county
circuit court has a judge who appreci
ates that production should come be
fore litigation If there is to be plenty
of honey for buckwheat cakes next
winter. He proved it when he ordered
a recess In a Jury trial so that James
M. Forkner, one of the Jurors, could
go back to the farm. Forkner got a
telephone call from his wife that his
bees were hiving and urging him to
hurry home. The bees were hived be
fore the case was resumed.
PROUD
OF
THEIR CLIMATE
Resident* of Eastern Shore of Mary.
land Relate Pretty Legend in Con*
nectlon With It.
I went over to Baltimore to speak
to a Methodist conference some time
ago. I met there a splendid looking
man, with a long, flowing, white beard,
and I snld to him, "Do you preach In
this section of the country?" lie said,
"Yes, sir I come from the eastern
whore of Maryland. Have you ever
been on the eastern shore?"
I said, "No I am sorry to say that
I have seen every other beauty spot
in this country, I believe, but I never
have seen that."
"Well," he said to me. "we love ..hat
country. I have been preach'ng there
for wixty-six years. We are a strange
people and we have some strange leg
ends, and one of them Is that a long,
long time ago when Adam and Eve
lived in the Garden of Eden, they fell
sick, and the Lord was very much
disturbed about them, and he called
a council of his angels and wanted to
know where they should be taken for
a chiingc of. air, so that they might
Improve.
"The angel Gabriel suggested that
they should be taken to the eastern
shore of Maryland, and the Lord s: Id,
'No. no that would not be sufficient
change!"—Franklin K. Lane In the
National Geograph Magazine
NAPKINS NOT JUST SUITABLE
But Man Meant Well, and Fortunately
the Teachers Had a Sense
of Humor.
The parents of the pupils of a large
Indiana ward school decided to give
the teachers a surprise dinner party.
Accordingly they took charge of the
building one evening, herded rhe
teachers In one room and made rend.v
the table for the dinner. But just
as everybody was about ready they
found that they had forgotten nap
kins. One of the hostesses accord
ingly telephoned her husband who
worked in a department store. "The
colors are pink and white so bring
something appropriate." she told him.
He bought them —pink and white.
But when they were opened they dis
played storks holding in their mouths
the time-honored new babies. The
hostesses were horror stricken but
the teachers, ready to grasp the awk
wardness of the situation, led In laugh
ter. But that man says that he will
move out of that school district be
fore there is another banquet for
teachers.—Indianapolis News.
Pkfln't Look Like Police.
Sport Is making great strides in
France, but the police occasionally
make strange mistakes when they see
a long line of runners sprinting along
the roads and across country.
Not long ago nt Vincennes a number
of young athletes from the military
I school of sport were Indulging in a
paper chase through the woods when
they were arrested by gendarmes? for
being Improperly dressed. They were
all In white vests and running shorts.
The gendarmes, however, had appar
lentl.v not heard of such articles of at
tire or of the military school of sport.
Protests made by the colonel in com
mand had no effect.
A few days later, however, when the
local gendnrnies made a fresh haul of
a dozen athletes, they realized their er
ror. for the leade.r explained that he
was an Inspector of police and that
the runners behind him were all Paris
policemen enjoying a fortnight's train
ing. —From the Continental Edition of
the London Mall.
Side Whisker Back in London.
The London exquisite Is doing his
best to cultivate side whiskers, a fash
Ion that was somewhat frowned upon
a few years ago when Lord Rocksav
age attempted Its resurrection. But
that was in the days before the war
and probably it Is as a change from
the regulation military mustache of
the last five or trlx years that British
young men of today are growing tufts
of hair In front of their ears with most
hideous result.
The earl of Lonsdale and his broth
er, the Hon. Lancelot Lowther, have
always been famous In the fashionable
world for wearing "sideboards," but In
(his hirsute face fitting they are usual
ly credited with a desire to suggest the
"sporting" atmosphere in which they
•re generally to be found.
A Passing Je*t.
We should have thought of this Joke
before, but even yet, if we hurry, a
gentle reader here and there will know
what we are talking about.
Itlggs—You might not think It to
look at him, but there la a great deal
In that young man.
Diggs—No he carries it well, but I
smelled It on his breath.
Can't Make Knife Handlea.
Hie scarcity of camphor, the output
of which Is controlled by Japan, Is
having a serious effect on the cutlery
trade In Sheffield, England. For cam
phor Is an essential Ingredient of cel
luloid, and the cutlers find It Impos
sible to get enough of thUi tm knife
handles.
A Paradox.
"It It die vote that does the talk
teg."
"Yea, and they say it la the silent
vote, too."—Baltimore American.
Experience Teaches.
®tncher—"Jimmy, give an example
of minority ruling." Jimmy—"When
there Is a baby In the family."—Boys'
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