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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
1
Senator Dowdell returns from Chicago and Detroit where vast coal stockpiles fill yards. Detroit embargoes carload freight. Chicago has ten acres of side tracks stacked with coal. Cars are rebilled to evade time limits, raising prices as companies profit. Railroads blame coal shortages for delivery delays.
The English chancellor says peace terms will be considered once formally submitted. He notes it is impossible to tell if any lasting peace basis exists until submission. He hopes the proposal may lead to an agreement, but acknowledges greater difficulties than before the war.
Gov elect Norbeck and W A King visited Washington and Hampton Virginia to inspect the industrial institute there to gather information for building a similar facility in the state.
The heirs of the late John T. Campbell of Avon face an inheritance tax of 11 062.82. County real estate appraises at 375 000 with substantial personal property to be probated in Illinois. South Dakota railroads seek a new freight rate schedule with a hearing set for January 19. The plan would raise some mile-based rates and slightly cut the 100 mile schedule.
The piece urges President Wilson to oppose post office rate hikes on newspapers and periodicals. It notes zones to regulate rates would mainly hit large dailies and periodicals, and recalls Taft proposing higher rates on advertising sections that influenced his political standing.
The article marks the shortest day of the year with emphasis on daylight hours and seasonal significance. No specific people or places are detailed in the fragment.
Railroad company officers and labor leaders push toward a nonjudicial settlement of the Adamson law as a souring issue for both sides. The Federated Council of the Churches of Christ of South Dakota met at Salem and urged the legislature to pass an enforceable prohibition law and to strengthen Sunday observance to curb commercial Sabbath amusements.
Professor C Lar sen of South Dakota State College notes the 1915 dairy cow output in the state surpassed 12 million dollars in products, exceeding the value of all mine products. He cites 70 000 dairy farmers with over 400 000 cows producing 400 000 calves and dairy goods feeding families, pigs, and thousands of young children.
The December distribution allocates $180 per pupil statewide, totaling $1,004,657 for the year and $578 per child overall. The State University Home Economics department touts buckwheat pancakes as a universal remedy, wryly noting science can turn necessity into virtue and hoping they do not cause itching.
Father Karel Gross will oversee the parishes at Leeterville Vodnany and Iripp with a home in Lesterville and monthly visits. In the John T Campbell estate hearing the heirs must pay inheritance tax of 11862.86, the largest in the county since 1918. Judge Tripp and John Berringer exchanged unintended handshakes at the station, causing worry.
Freeman and Yankton connected by telephone with railroad help to recover a grip. John felt judicial carrying the judge's grip as friends in Tyndall mourn Miss Beatrice Burns of Avon from uremic poisoning.
The focal post office rose from fourth to third class since October, but details only surfaced now stirring faithful Democrats. Yankton County Record notes Sioux City interests hold meetings in northern schools urging a railroad from Sioux City through Viborg to Scotland, with farmers expected to fund and a large line likely to follow.
A movement forms to organize a Springfield stock company to take over the electric light plant so the city gains modern service possibly twenty four hours. Don Mader a Norman alumnus now at the power house suffered a severe gas pipe explosion injury Monday evening breaking a leg and causing severe burns. He was hospitalized in Yankton the following morning.
The La Crosse Steam Laundry Co. Basket departs Treiber's Tuege day December 26 at 8 a.m. Ady.
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