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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, August 08, 1919, Image 8

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
jo Stefflre is the new proprietor of
]the Oxford Cafe. „v
Mr. and Mrs. Al Casey of New Ef
fington were Peever callers Sunday.
For Sale—Two Ford Touring Car».
John Stucki, Peover. P. Oi
Mrs.' Nels Beck and äsirbrotliei
Carl Axness were in Peever Monday.
Earl Richards is the owner of a
pew Ford Sedan
Harrison Murray is the present
"Peever mall carrier.
Miss Rebecca Greely is the new
member- of the. O. R. Aney clerking
staff.
Lost—Dark winter coat with fut
collar in vicinity of Peever. Reward
|s offered tor return to this office.
Dr. and Mrs. Pearson motored tc
Wahpeton Thursday to visit the lat
ter's mother.
Mae Clymer and Alma Nikstad were
callers in Wilmct between rtains Fri
day.
Mrs. Stucki expecting her sistei
Alvlna Thursday. Miss Rogers will act
as assistant housekeeper.
Mrs. W. Hines and Mrs. Chas.
Evans visited friends in Ortonville on
Saturday.
Mrs. Charley Berg underwent ar
operation at Penbody Hospital in
Webster Thursdcy.
George Selkirk has resigned dis
position ip O. R. Aney's store and h,5
Springs, Minn., will act as principal
Lawrence Nelson, Lila Math. Esth
er Larson. Mabel Evans and Rev.
Bede of Peever 2:tended the Metho
dist caiap meeting at Brighton Sunday
15« EEiEj" friends of Miss Xor? you have
Tkaasr *151 regret bearing that she doughboy,
ao* smSeriag with typhoid fever an 3
Iber reters koaia is postponed inde
fsiseiy.
Flaj- and Playgroeads
Organized play has become a
featsre of progressive community
work in a great many places. T) the
oM timer it seems all poppycock. The
ckiidm djdn'i have to be taught to
play In their days. I
true- A'so
Idle and roaming children used tc
A group of children under a well
trained play leader learn a great deal
more than the rules of the games.
?hey learn How to play fair, tike d
without sulking, to show good
sporting spirit, and above all, to co
0)UlU With each other. Young peo
Si* who learn these lessons are infln
Itsljr better equipped for after life.
There can't -be much wholesome
•,:**d education# play, without good
play ground facilities. A town needs
not merely, open park spaces as cen-
Ot beauty and rest. It also needs
Playground» with adequate chance for
baseball, tennis,, and the child-eu'E
MM«. Every neighborhood shuild
have some open lot where the child
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THE PEEVER PILOT
moved t(j the Agency where he ha? busy times" when the grain starts
charge of the government buildings
Miss Veronica Berger of Cole1
HAMMER XKWS NOTKS
The hum of the thresher is lieri
all 'round.
..Mr. and Mrs I!. A. Dahl were an
Lldgevwood over Sunday.
Iver Hammer's new residence is
in the hands of the carpenters.
__Henry Krogstad was down from
La Mars, X. v., over Sunday.
A large number of our citizens at
tended the churcr convention at Xew
Effington last Sunday.
Buyer Hansen has made some
needed improvements at the elevator
the past week in anticipation of the
to move.
Hammer has some very good horse
she
of the Peever schools for the comin* come "and measure swords with
a
Chas. Dahl is excavating for hiv
After a two weeks vacation spent,
a
at Aberdeen visiting her sister Agnes,
Margaret Keaa has resumed her ieast town.
Andrew Nordstrom and sons havv
nt es at pi s.
Burnam Coffaa motored to—but.
why give' you away Burnam? Suffi
cient for the public to know that
amb'tions worthy of a
The fertility of the back yard gar
den is at least demonstrated by the
way the weeds grow.
'What about a creamery for Ham
mer? It would seem that the time is
ripe for the agitation of such a pro
ject. The number o| milch cows is in
creasing every year and as the coun
try gets older diversified farming
must needs receive more attention.
The history of all sections has been
that when the raising of wheat has
*n tbose days the I ran its course other branches has had

TMrt their energies by mischief. Andia„d cows and bogs has been the In
whea Iber did Dlay. thev would show —..i. *v.
they did play, they would show
ao tame spirit. It was every kid for
bimself,, and in about lO^ninutes he
would get mad and qujt. The kid wnc
kicks on the ball game and won't
Play, grows, up to be the man who
knocks his home town, and won't co
operate in community plans for its ad
vancement.
r- can resort. Sisseton is not tu'ly Short Tinte Farm Credits
flipped in this particular. The poo Agricultural development has been
pie who object to the expense of vlay greatly held back by the lack o£ ade
grounds are frequently the sanv ones quate financing. The farm mortgage
who are always ordering the yours- system has been built up on the idea
sters off their private land. of permanent loans for periods o1
11 is the general testimony (hat some years. But. 60 per cent of the
provision of playgrounds diminishes farmers of the country also need loans
the tendency of the children to in- to carry them through the crop pro
dulge in mischief. It is one means tor
keeping them from beginning the
downward path of crime. The hoy
who is rapping baseballs is not taking
his first lessons in lawlessness.
Gulbrand Be' visited friends a(
Xew Bedingten last Sunday.
__A trainload of cattle passed thru
town last week, shippeu'.o the graz
ing lands west of here from the
parched prairies of Montana.
__Wampum Coffee at J. K. Johnson,s
—50 cents per lb.
__0. Beistad and children were busi
ness visitors at Sisseton last Friday.
throwers and invites utsiders tc
a new
Mr. and Mrs. Alec Campbell mot-1 which to do their threshing and plow
ored to Morton. Minn.. Monday where jng
they expect to spend the- week visit
It* relatives.
gas tractor and thresher with
A few more laborers can be em
ployed in this vicinity they are want
ed to help thresh the grain.
be taken up. Clover, corn, silage
vi table result. Jugding from the
amount of cream already shipped
from this station, a creamery could
not only be supported but be made
to pay its patrons not only the origin
al price of their cream but also .1
dividend at the end df each business
year. This is a matter, it seems to the
writer, should receive attention
the farmers of thin community..
Dr. R. N. Hay has returned to Sis
seton and has established her offlcc
in the residence one block north of
the Commercial Hotel on the west
side of the street. Her tettg rest- has
benefitted her health greatly and' aha
will take up her work here perman
ently again.
DR. WALTER F. YOUNG
Graduate Veterinary Physician
and Surgeon
-High-Grade Vaceines
Day and Night Calls
Phone 22 F# Wilmot,S. D.
TIME OF SHOWSi
£& 8:30-10:30 P.
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SISSETON WEEKLY STANDARD
ducjng season. They commonly need
a good deal of accomodation thru the
crop season that they don't require
and don't wish to carry all the year.
There are large amount of capita'
in the rural districts, but a great deal
of it goes into the cities to buy bonds
and build up manufacturing enter
prises. Xow if that capital could bf
kept, at home to develop the country,
the lender could get more for it than
in cjty enterprises. Under a good sys
teui it would be safer, and he could
afford to let the borrower have it foi
a lower rate than the latter commonly
pay.
Xine states already have laws
which farmers may organize co-opera
live local credit unions to lend
money to each other as needed. Xorth
Carolina has IS such organizations
already.
As a purely home affair the man
agers of such a union can be sure the
money is being efficiently used and
lent only to capable and reliable men.
It is supervised with but very little
expense, and with full understand
ing of local conditions. The unions
usually find officers who do their work
with little or no salary, for the bene
fit of the community. They do not
usually need offices, and a desk room
in some store often serves.
There may be objections to these
unions on the ground that they com
pete with the banks. Vet so muo'i
money is needed to develop the lands
of this country, that this competition
will not be much felt. The banks will
be able to lend all the funds they can
get, and still there will be call foi
much more.
Reliable Crop Reports
Speculators make a lot of money
out of misleading information regard
ing crops sent out to affect prices.
The circulation of crop scares and
stories of crop failure is one of the
most standard games for manipulat
ing the produce and stock markets.
Farmers suffer the most by such
misinformation. They are often influ
enced by it to close deals that are not
advantageous considering actual con
ditions. The more accurately tile con
dition of the growing crops is reported
the better the chance for all who buy
and sell food products to base their
deals on fair prices and actual condi-.
tions. And the less the chance foi
speculators to get their hauls.
The government has a rather well
developed system of crop reporting,
and is constantly trying to improve it
The states and local agencies co
operate largely, and they should gc
the limit to make the report com
plete and accurate.
The fact that misleading crop re
ports gain a good deal of currency,
and influence the markets to a large
extent, would seem to indicate that
the official reports do not cover the
situation thoroughly or frequently,
enough. The official reports should be
so exhaustive and accurate and fre
quent, that they would be clearly sup
erior to any existing reports compil
ed from private sources. Then buyers
and sellers would feel that the im
partial government reports could be
depended upon and that reports. cir
culated for an unknown purpose
could safely, be disregarded.
The farmers in the section •around
Sisseton should ge glad to co-operat*
with the crop reporting sew vice, by
giving when asked frank and im
partial estimates of their own crops
or those of the neighborhood. In sc
far as they do this they perform
public service of great value.
The Art of Swimming
Swimming usvd to be regarded as
a kind of athletic stunt enjoyed by
the kids as a means of cooling off
hot weather or as a means of display
ing fancy diving stunts. But of recant
years it is seen to be one of the vital
elements of education. Many thous
ands et drowning «iccldents occur an
nually. most of which would be aver
ted by a familiarity with the water
and knowledge of simple strokes
Many of the colleges now refuse
to graduate students who can't swim
Public schools with access to swim
ming pieces mlgh^well take the earns
stand.
Sojme Inland towns of course Have
no editable swlmmming place avail
able But most of their resldents oc
caislobally visit.other plates wtthjoöd
bathing resorts. They should make It
their principal buaaess on such vlslte
to see that their children learn howto
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Our Double Moral Standard
In summer the man whose regular
Sunday job during the winter months
is passing the collection plate jn the
church where his is a faithful attend
ant, piles hjs family into an automo
ble early on the Sabbath and hies him
to the country for a picnic, or sits all
through the day at the business end of
a fish pole out on the lake where he
is spending the heated term.
The young woman who in midwin
ter would be embarrassed beyond ex
pression if ever so little of her ana
tomy above her shoe tops was reveal
ed to the vulgar gaze of a curious
male, dons a one-piece bathing suit
and disports herself with the opposite
sex with an abandon that brings a
blush to the cheeks of the unaccus
tomed onlooker.
Demure maids who entertaip the!:
gentlemen friends from a safe dis
tance when they call of a winter even
ing, in the summer think nothing of
bundling into a canoe wth a callow
youth and billing and cooing unmind
ful of the hour or who may be in the
vicinity.
With the first sugestion of spring
there comes a let up in the more or
less rigid standards of midwinter that
harries the sensitive souls of those
staid motals who profess to see in
this abandon a moral decadence that
is sweeping the nation on to an un
speakable dire fate.
Every summer there is heated dis
cussion among the purists of the pror
er length of bathing suits for women
and a considerable portion of th?
clergy who remain on the job wax vir
tuously indignant over the empty
pews to which they are forced to
orate.
Then with the first touch of autumn
they all come trooping back to towr
and there is a tightening all along the
line that evens matters up as usual.
Morals like flannel underwear are
seasonable and a large share of hum
anity takes them off and puts them
on wjth the same regularity that they
change the weight of their apparel
And somehow, with the fifty-fifty
average we manage to get along pretty
well, in spite of the outgivings of
alarmists,
The of Thanks
Some supercii-ous persons poke
fun at the so-called "card of thanks",
ihe brief newspaper notice by whic.'i
uereaved friends express gratitude
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those who have helped them through
.•erio'ds of sorrow Yet those who
have been ttuough sad experience
ha'i.e come up against places where
they finu the use of these cards ver*
helpftl.
I4, is not from any feeling of cm
vontinal polite .»s that a man is h.i
pelk'd to visit a newspaper officu and
insert a sard of thanks. He has been
through the experience of a distress
ing loss, is upset with grief and bur
dened by the n.any things that have
tc be done at such a time. A great
number of fr'cnds and neigh bore
have done acts of kindness and offer
ed sympathy.
He wants to recognize all thie
friendly spirit, it finds it difficult tc
do so. He migl'xt sit down and write
letters to everyone. But few people
have time for tl at. Many persons
v/rite letters w. ft great difficulty
Some people have printed or engrav
ed cars distributed, which is thorough
Jy appropriate. Yet there is always the
likelihood that some people would be.
unintentionally omitted.
It is a simple and approprate thing
in such cases, for a family to. resort
to the newspaper card, in which they
can make their gratitude clear to all
their friends. Thus they relieve them
selves of a. hea .-y burden in a time of
strain,, and. sh^w that appreciation
which everyone feels on rezviviin,
kindly acts.
Newspaper people have helped
great number •$ cf bereave«! families
to formulate, rese notices, and a..
glad to offer their services to prrt the
same into shapo. They should do it
not as a mere item in a. day's businos.3
like taking in a Want ad, but with
some feeling tha' they are helping in
the exchange of human sympathy, anl
doing a bit to iclieve the suffering v.I
the world.
AN INVESTMENT
NOT AN (OTENBE
A course at the Aberdeen Business
College Is an investment not an ex
pense. It yields big dividends. Big En
rollment Day, September 2.
AM
N'ok PoUnd-QuMS
Where the Big Ones
Grow
We Mare a choice lot of yqpng
rtriT fdr sale at the pmwet
UM Uta wed of aaytkiBft
A'M'M If
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EvwjrtU^ lBaaimteed
ai.iHBTtFMnr,8.D.
One Million Dollars
to loan on good improved farm land in
South Dakota
for particulars see
ALFRED NELSON
Start an account at the Farm is ScurityBank.
And w'U hip you do your fighting.
We pay 5 per cent on Time Deposits
Deposits guaranteed by the Guarantee Fund of South Dakota
Farmers Security Bank
Peever, S. D.
Alfred Nelson, Cashier. A. W. Pearson, Vice Pres.
S. K. Frostad, Asst. Cashier
Build Your Own Home!
Ask This Batik How
To Do It
If you want a large farm for a smaller
farm or a smaller one for a larger one
let us know your wants and maybe we
can assist you.
By all means get busy and help to
give employment to returned soldiers
and others by
Building Your Own Home
First State Bank of Peever
J. F. Fredrick, Pres. Carl J. Rice, Cashier
A. F. Ertsgaard, Assistant Cashier
Fresh and Cured
MEATS
C. E. HULL, Prop.
We will buy your Poultry, Hides, Pelts, Furs
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THE MOTOR INN
Byron Dickerson, Proprietor
Repairing and Accessories
Gas and Oils
WE SELL UNITED STATES TIRES
Because They Are Good Tires
Agency for the Diamond Grid Battery
Bei^ Frietirich, Ptop.
Fresh and Salted Meats
Our Sausage a Specialty
We buy Poultry, Hides, Furs, Wool, Etc.
Leave Your Orders for Job Printing
at this office
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