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Hl«, Vol. 2o SISSETON MILL E. }. Vaage and E. N. Jud kins to Have Charge. The Sisseton Mill will re-open next week after being closed down since January 1st, when J. H. Mc Keever's lease expired. E. .!. Vaage and Ii. N. Jndkins who have been employed in the mill fo the past few years have leased the Mill and expect to open next week. These two hustlers have interview ed the business men of Sisseton and are assured the support of all. And all groceriers in the city will handle their flour. Mr. Judkins is a man who has made milling his life's study and will put in every effort to produce first class goods. Mr. Vaage will be book keeper and have charge of the business end of the matter. That the Sisseton Mill will re open is good news to all. The Mill is one ot the best in the country and is located in an excellent wheat territory, and with these boys back of the proposition, people need not be skeptical about buying Sisseton made flour. Seems to us we have heard or read somewhere a quotation some thing like this:- "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You.'' This may be taken here that if you want to help boom Sisseton and keep one of the chief industries agoing, patronize your home institutions and ici'vRla'Hr.-s take cure of themselves. Kenney—Keeney. Mr. Ray M. Keeney of Co'-ona S. 1)., and Miss Lulu B. Kenney, Narrow Escape from Death by Gas Poisoning. Francis Kable and hissonGeorge, living about nine miles southwest of NewEfliugton had narrow esca|)e from death by gas poisoning on last Monday. The Record of lastissuesays they were grinding feed, using a gaso line engine for motive power with the engine exhause emptying into the same room. After working for some time both were suddenly stricken at about the same moment. The father got to the door and fell unconscious outside in the snow. George dropiied unconscious inside the building and both lay there for thirty minutes before being dis covered by other members of the family. They were carried into the house and a physical! summoned from New Effitigton, who revived them shortly. Both have recovered. The wonder is that the young man survived after lying in such an asmosphere for thirty minutes. Too much care cannot be exer cised in handling gas engines and the exhaust pipe should never be permitted to empty into the same room- The same precautions ap ply to automobiles. Several cases having been recorded recently where a man has started the car en gine running in a closed garage, the fumes quickly proving fatal. Unlike other gas, the gasoline exhaust appears to catch its victims very suddenly without warning symptoms, and unless help is at hand death is almost certain. of this city, were united in mar- delegates accredited to each state in riage at, the Presbyterian parson-1 the Republican national conveu age on Tuesday evening January IK Kev. C. E. Fulton spoke the words which united them lor the balance of life's journey. The bride is a daughter of r. and Mrs. Jas. Kenney who reside just south of Wheaton. She has been very successful in her work as a school teacher and is a young lady whose friends are numbered by her acquaint ances. The groom is a success ful young farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Keeney depart ed Tuesday evening for Corona S. Dak., where they will make their future home.— Wheaton Gazette Reporter. Have you awakened to the fact that tills is leap year and that it behooves you to get busy, for time is moving on a Hying ma chine now days. If you see a young man looking disconsolate, and kind of frayed out, at the edges, just nab onto him, trim liiui up and make him look like a birthday present, and before you are through with the job lie will forget himself long enough to say the words that will snare him for life. Don't waste your time oil such old fossils as we are, for it's no go. We are still tangled up with the girl that throwed sand in our eyes over thirty years ago, and she keeps a watchful eye on us all the time. Just the same, we liate to see a lot of nice girls wasting their sweetness on the desert air—Ex. For Sale or Rent. The house formerly occupied by L. S. Babcock including good harn. Easy terms. Inquire of H. L. Spackinan. Farmers State Bank of Hammer, [32-33] Owner. Andrew N. Volstad of Minne sota township returned from Minneapolis Wednesday. Dates of State-Primaries., The primary in Indiana will "open the ball" in the primary states. A list of state primaries to be held, with dates and number of tion, under the call issued Mon day follows: Indiana, first Tuesday in March, iiO delegates. Minnesota, second Tuesday in March, 24 delegates. North Dakota, third Tuesday in March, 10 delegates. Michigan, first Monday in April, 30 delegates. Illinois, first Tuesday in April, 58 delegates. -HA New York, first Tuesdayi^ in April,87 delegates. Wisconsin, first Tuesday in April, 26 delegates. Iowa, second Monday in April, 26 delegates. Massachusetts, last Tuesday in April, 36 delegates. Nebraska, April, 16 delegates. Maryland, first Monday in May, 16 delegates. Ohio, second Tuesdav in May, 43 delegate.-, Pennsylvania, third Tuesday in procured. May, 7k' delegates. New Jersy, fourth Tuesday in May, 2M delegates. Oregon, forty-fifth day before first Monday in June, 10 delegates. South Dakota, first Tuesday in June, 10 delegates. West Virginia, first Tuesdav in June, 16 delegates. Ainund A. Kvestad of Prelate, Saslc, Canada, formerly of Sisse ton is visiting his cousins Agnes and Hawkin Larson of this city. Mr. Kvestad states that wheat this year yielded from 40 to 60 bushels per acre, flax from 18 to 25. oats from 80 to 100 bu. pet acre. For Representative. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for nomination for the state legislature from Roberts county subject to the will of the republican voters at the primaries June 6th. Ole Mo, Summit, S. D. AND HE WANTS TO BE GOVENOR One Raw Deal Egan Could Not Got By With Judgement was entered in cir cuit court in favor of Jacob Hat land through his guardian, Tlios. Gangsuess, which requires that G. VV. Egan restore money aud other considerations amounting in all to §1,275 claimed to have been wrongfully acquired by Egan while acting as attorney for Jacob Hatland. Hatland is insane and it was charged in the suio that Egan knew the man was incompetent when he obtained from him a mortgage—secured note for #1,000 and $1*75 in cash and that in return for cash and note, Egan gave Hatland no profes sional services. It is claimed that Hatland im agined detectives were after him, that people were talking about him, that he went to Egan to get him to relieve his distress and that Egan took advantage of Hatland's obviously incompetent condition to o'jtain the money and note. Hatland's friends became aware of the transaction and Thos. Wangsness a well known banker of Garretson was appoint ed guardian. In February, last year, Hatland was judged insane and in March summons and complaint ..were sewed on Egan by R. W. Parliman, as attorney for Mr. Wangsness, demanding that Egan return the insane man's property. Egan sought to have the complaint made more specific, and was overruled by Judge J. W. Jones. He then de murred, which was also over ruled, and he was given five days in which to answer. Egan ap pealed the demurrer to the state supreme court, where he again met defeat, and the case was ordered to be tried- The case did not go to trial, Egan not having tiled his ans wer. Upon affidavit of Mr. Parliman that Egan was in de fault, Judge Jones so held yes terday and entered judgement against Egan. The judgement including costs which were as sessed against Egan, amounts in all to §1,150.00 The court held that Hatland was insane and incompetent to transact business when on Jan uary 29 and 30, 1 1115, Egan in duced hiintotnrn over the cash and note and that Egan had per formed no service to Hatland in return for the property lie had This case is one of the counts called against Egan in the dis barmeuet action now pending in the state supreme court. Egans dealings with the iusane man were exhaustively explored b.v the committee of lawyers ap pointed by the supreme court to hear the charges during their sessions at the court house here last summer. Rev. S. S. Heghin of Wilmot preached a wonderful sermon at the Installation Service Tuesday nightat the Presbyterian cliu rch. Mr. Heghin is an Armenian. He has not heard from his people since last July and he believes they were all massacred b.v the Kourds. At The Unique Theatre. Manager Miller of the Unique Theatre has made arrangements to put on a first class vaudeville every Thursday evening. The first will be put on Feb. 3rd. SISSETON WEEKLY STANDARD SISSETON, RC)i3ERTS COUNTY, s. I)., FRIDAY, I A N A 2 8 inc. CLOSE CALL FROM BIG FIRE. Last Saturday evening, St. Philip's Catholic church at Han kinsou escaped destruction by fire with a very narrow margin. The usual Saturday evening devctions were held, and the afternoon and evening being very cold, a spe cial effort was made to have the church comfortably warm. Af ter the congregation was dismissed, by mere chance, smoke was dis covered to be tiling the church rapidly. A hurried investigation proved that from an overheated steam pi lie above the boiler, the asbestos packing covering the steam pi lies was on tire which was quickly communicated to the floor of the church. Prompt aud hurried work on the part of the priests, and a hurried response by the file department extinguished the fire in a short time. Within seven minutes after the fire boys were called they were on the ground and busy. Had the tire been discovered ten minutes later, only a few bare walls would have told the tale, were once stood one of the most beautiful church edifices in our state. St, Philip's church was dedi cated in June, 1909, after an outlay of nearly §100,000 and ^destruc tion would have been an irreparable loss not only to St. Philip's con gregation but to the City of Han kinsou. Buried Under Vile of Wheat 3 Hours Webster—Buried under a pile of wheat 'or over three hours, with f.iunder foot and the temperature close to freezing, George Engebretson of Lynn township had a close call from death as the result of an acci dent while hauling grain to Holmqiiist. Mr. Engebretson started out in the morning to haul wheat in his sleigh, loaded three boxes high. In a difficult part of the road he was walking by the sleigh to relieve the horses. Suddenly his feet sank in the snow, the sleigh turned over and the box and grain piled on top of him. The wheat was heavy as quicksand and it was almost in.possible to get a foot ingas the snow was so soft that he sank down with every effort. Mr. Engebretson managed to free himself after a three-hour struggle. He walked to Holm (juist for assistance ANCtENT SEED BRINGS UP A LARGE SQUASH Los Anwies.—liivnlin:: I he discov ery of the Aztec lican nearly lifteen years ago, seed has hern found In the prehistoric 1111 dwelüni-'s of Arlzomi. along the Verde river, iliat Im« hi-vu planted imd bus grown into :i huge green, extremely warty squash, whl'-li has liven nameil the ''Aztec.' The squash was grown from a seeil linn dreds— perhaps a thousand -years old and In thi' Verde emmf rv Is considered a wonder of the age The discovery was made li.v .lohn !, Allen of «'herr.v, Ariz and in a most novel manncr. Allen was fishing along one of tin' tributary creeks of the Verde, and his skill with I he mil seem iilgly failing lllm. he decided to see tf he could not. make his trip a profitable one by hunting the rains for pottery left li.v some prehistoric tribe. Making his way Into one of the lar ger rooms of the cli IT dwellings he no ticed a portion of the wall that »p pea red as if some lime or other had been closed up. Kurt her investigation proved I lint he was right, for he easily broke through the wall at tills place and discovered a small room or recess which contained pottery, corncobs and about dozen seeds that resembled ordinary squash seed. The room had been sealed so tightly that not even a mouse fun Id make Its way Into It It was too late to plant the seeds at the time of tbelr discovery last year, so they were not planted until early last spring. Of the twelve seeds but one came up. end the plant from carried one large squash which weighs twentv-tlve founds MAY HAVE EXTRA SESSION Legislature to Meet to range fur Delegates. Ar- Sioux Falls The difficulty which for some weeks has con fronted the Republicans of South Dakota as to how best to provide for the selection of delegates to represent the Republicans of the state at the Republican na tional convention in Chicago is about to be solved. A special session of the legislature will furnish the solution. The difficulty has been due to the fact that the regular primary election will not be held in South Dakota until une 4, as now pro vided by law, while the Repub lican national convention is called to meet June 7th, this not giving time, under the date fixed in the primary election law at present, for the selection of delegatus if the date for the primary election law is left un changed. In some quarters it has been suggested that a special pri mary for the selection of dele gates to the national convention be held in April, but this plan virtually has been abandoned because of the great expense, which it is estimated would not be less than §50,000. Others have proposed that a state cm vention of Republicans be called for the purpose of selecting delegates to represent the Re publicans of the state at the Chicago convention, delegates to the proposed state convention to be selected at regular caucuses the same as were held before the state had any primary elec tion law at all. There is opposi tion to this plan because it would in a way be an abandonment, for the time being at least, of the primary election principle. KM There is no doubt that during the past few days sentiment in i'avorof the calling of a special primary election law of South Dakota by fixing an earlier date for the primary election has been growing, and it now is practically assured that Gover nor Byrne will in the near future call such a special ses sion It is proposed to change the date of the primary election from .June li to some date in April or May, and Provide for holding just, one primary elec tion throughout South Dakota, at which the different parties' can elect their delegates to the national conventions and select tln'ir nominees for congressional stati: and county offices. The cost of a special session of the legislature would he only about SH,()(X), which would cost the residents of South Dakota only about one cent each. Owing to the minimum expense, a special session of the legislature now is believed to be the only solution of the primary election difficulty. JSel. tauylit I wo years ago ut I'ort Jervix. N. V., that knocked over lamp and escaped with liody partly in chim ney. has been recaptured still incased in Hie lamp chimney. A man's houie Is where his wife Is. White Plains (X. Y.) court decides in case of rami who spout six days tu Manhattan at business and the other day with wife at White flaws. Complaint that pet cat» and dog* were missing lu Bridgeiwrt, Conn., led to discovery of all cat eltlns back of restaurant In which rabbit stew has been favorite dish of police patrons. Leap Year Dance. What proved to be one of the most enjoyable social affairs at tended by the old and young of this city for some time was the leap year dance given at the Opera House Monday evening. The ball room was beautiful ly decorated for the occasion in penants, streamers and Howe is, and each of the sixty-one gentle men present was presented with a white carnation as he was ushered in by his iady. It goes without saying that all had a thoroughly good time, a t Stewart's Orchestra furnished excellant music for dancing which was enjoyed until twelve o'clock, when a delicious three course supper was served at the Palace Cafe. The dar.ee was then resumed and when the party finally broke up at about two o'clock the Sisseton ladits were pronounced as royal enter tainers. Cannot Charge Double Mileage. Pierre—That a sheriff cannot charge multiple mileage in his collection of delinquent personal taxes, is the holding of the attorney general. It appears that in several cases where a sheriff has made one trip and col lected while upon it from a num ber of citizens for their delinquent taxes, that he had charged each one of the cases the 20 cent per mile allowed by law for such a trip, in addition to the §1 fee he is allowed for making his return on his war rant of authority. The attorney general holds that the first person visited and collect ed from is to be charged with the actual number of miles the sheriff needed to travel to collect that tax —and the subsequent delinquents collected from were only liable re spectively for the sheriff's mileage covering additional miles actually and necessarily traveled from the last, place where a collection was made. The attorney general also rules in the matter that "the fact the session of the state legislature ., i- .i sheriff has a deputy residing near for the purpose of amending the er to the place where collection is made than the sheriff himself re sides does not require the sheriff to entrust the collection of the taxes to such deputy. Aberdeen has arranged to observe "l'ay Up Week," February 21 to 26. This is a week which has come more and more to be observed ill different parts of tile country —a week during which everybody is supposed to pay up everybody else so that, so fat as practicable and I feasible, all accounts may he squar ed during the week. This, isatgucd, gets the money more freely cir culating and everybody is more or a everybody—mind, we say every body,—owing The Sisseton Stand ard would walk up and plank down all that was due the paper and a year in advance, and if everybody owing on other accounts would do likewise, The Sisseton Standard would be able to pay everybody else whom it owes and have enough left to go to the moving picture show at least once. This would greatly, verv greatly, please its creditors and tickle the moving picture show man half to death, for we have a standing arrangement with him whereby as soon as we get all ours delicts paid with money in the bank he is to permit us to pay our way into the show. So "Pay Up Week" is a dandy affair if every body will only pay up! Only meteor Known tu bit a human being is reported from Japan, where one struck a twelve-year-old boy on the head- No :?2 DEATH OF MRS. F. BQBB Dies at Her Home at Doland January 8. The following article taken from a Mitchell paper gives an account of the death and burial of Mrs. Frank Bobb, formerly of Sisseton who died at Doland, S. D.. Jan 8th 1916— Hundreds of friends in Mitchell are grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. Frank Bobb, formerly Miss Maude H. Betts at her home at Doland at one o'clock this morning of pneumonia. Mr. Bobb is a brother of the three Bobb brothers who are practicing medicine in the city. The remains will be brought to Miichell on the midnight train to night and the funeral probably will be held sometime Monday, the def inite hour having not yet been set. Interment will be made in the Graceland cemetery. Dr. J. 8. Hoagland of the First Methodist Episcopal church will conduct the services. Mrs. Bobb died after an illness of only a week, prior to that time being in normal health. Learning of her serious illness, Dr. C. S. Bobband A. H. Betts left Mitchell on the afternoon train yesteaday arriving in Doland, which is a short distance east of Redfield, about 12 o'clock, an hour before Mrs. Bobb passed away. The trip to Doland was.made in a rail road engine. Miss Betts the deceased is re inemlfered by many in Mitchell. She was born in 1884,31 years ago. After graduating from the Mitchell high school she attended the Dak ota Wesleyan for ssveral years. On September 17, 1908 she was married to Mr. Frank Bobb and went at once to Doland to live where Mr. Bobb conducts a drug store. Besides her «husband she leaves two children, three and five years of age. Dye Getting Scarce. Have you noticed the color of the paper used by most of the city daily papers of late? Instead of be ing white it lias a yellow tinge. This is due to the scarcity of dye materi als and is what we are all coming to in the near future. Colored print paper used in the average shop for bill work, ect., is getting scarcer every day and it is only a question of time when it cannot be obtained at all. The colors at present are de cidedly dim and it looks as though the printer was cutting down on expenses and getting an inferior of paper. Such is not the case, how ever. as the poor-colored stock of today cost the printer more then the gaudy colors of yesterday.- Fox Lake (Wis.) Representative. Mr. W. P. O'Heron last week disposed of his cigar factory in this city to his brother, James O'Heron who will continue the business and supply his patrons. with a high class of cigars. For two oi three years past Mr. O'Heron has been in partnership with Mr. J.J. Nelson in the management of the opera house, ill addition to his cigar business, but relinquished his interest in that business the first ot the year. Mr. O'Heron has been in Milbank for eight years and ha» made a host of friends who will wish him success in any new ven ture he may undertake. He will continue to make Milbank his home for the present, and while he is considering two or three very pro mising business propositions has madeno definite plans for the future. —Milbank News. '•WJV it