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f fully equipped to handle all the cream youcan bring us. we do our own testing and

“ will guarantee to give you a fair test, hon-_ est weights and the highest price for your =

butter fat that the market affords. Try_

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Also remember'tfs when you haEggs, But-_

ter or any offifrm produce to dis-" pose of. we are in the market for anything390 you have to sell and v wis always give you a =

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Bread Baked From f.2 Elkhorn Flour won First Prize

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\ HIHKHSU MI!ISMUMAOR' §Elkhorn $1.50. Niabrara $1.40. Big Loaf $1.25 »

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U. S. Weather Bureau ReportFor Week Ending; June 17.

Mas. Min. Per.Thursday 79 ° 58 ° 0.(X)

Friday 81° 58° 0.00Saturday 81 ® 61 ° 0.00

Sunday 80° 59° 0.00Monday 72° 50° 0.00Tuesday 80° {*l° 0.00Wednesday 84° 59° 0.00

Total precipitation from JanuaryIst, 1914, to date, 9.43Total precipitation for 1913 17.96

Fred C. Kirch, Observer*

( LOCAL ITEMS )

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And Jotted down upon slip; .And Ifsomeone has lied to us, al'lease shun this office when you cus. I

Three weeks from to-morrow is theGlorious Fourth.

Ed Welch is at Deadwood this weekattending U. S. Court. »

Dr. Griffith went to Murdo afterhis Ford car, Monday.

What a shame tc keep congressworking all this time.

Merrle Kaufman is now chief clerkin the post office store.

Better be a whale in a country townthan a tadpole in a big city.

Elsie Place is takeing in the bigdoings at Murdo this week.

G. L. Watson is attending U. S.Court at Deadwood this weelr.

There were several flags floating inthe breeze iu Wood Sunday—flag day

Herman Bode, county attorney ofLyman county was a Wood visitorMonday.

Thomas H. Green is in charge ofthe meat market during the absenceof Henry Nelson at Deadwood.

The Old Settlers and Old SoldiersReunion of Lyman county is beingheld at Murdo today aod to morrow.

The Wood and Butt* Valley bailteams will play a matched game onthe locol diamond next Sunday after-noon.

Martin Anderson aud wife, HenryAnderson aud sister Miss Carrie areattending U. S. Court at Deadwoodthis week.

The Wood base ball team will goto Carter on the Glorious Fourth audplay a matched game with the CrystalSprings team.

Scott Merrill is taking in the Homesteaders picnic at White River audthe Old Soldiers and Old Settlers Re-union at Murdo this week.

Errick Schlaikjer aud son fromnear Carter were in town a short timeTuesday on their way to White RiverThey returned Wednesday.

Quite a number of Indians arecamped about town, this week. Weunderstand they are makeing arrangements to celebrate the Glorious Fourth

While takeing blood tests at theslaughter house Tuesday Dr. Griffinwas kicked between the eyes by amare. Dr. says he saw stars for awhile.

B. H. Watson, district exchangemanager for the Nebraska TelephoneCo., of Gregory, accompanied by hiswife were business callers in Wood,Tuesday.

The Wood Mercantile Co., put upa neat canvess awning in front oftheir store the first of the week, whichadds greatly to the appearance ofthat establishment*

Win. Becker left Tuesday morningfor White River, from there he goes

to Murdo where he boards the trainfor Scotland, S. D., to visit withfriends. He expects to be gone aboutten days.

Kenneth Mellott and his crew ofhaymakers ou Tuesday finished har-vesting the first crop of alfalfa on theWood ranch north of town. The cropwas au exceptionally heavy one thisseason.

Theo. Fibn, Henry Nelson, Geo.Howard and John Atkinson went toValentine, Nebraska, Monday, wherethey boarded the train for Deadwood,there to attend the United StatesDistrict court.

Edward Pi than, of Winner, repre-senting the United States Annuityand Life Insurance Co., was here Fri-

da/ making settlement on a polio/that the late John Jordan carried onhis life in thnt company.

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STRAYEDLight colored gray mare, weight

1200 to 1300, about 8 years old, nobrands. When last seen had halteron with 20 feet of rope. $6.00 rewardwill be paid for return. First StateBank, Wood, S. D. 19-tf

Carter Takes Another From Wood.

The Carter base ball team came toWood, Sunday accompanied by agood bunch of rooters from that me-tropolis and proceeded to win anothergame from the Wood team on thelocal diamond by a score of 9 to 16.There was a good crowd iu attend-ance and judging from the rootiugand yelling that was done by thosewho witnessed the game all enjoyedthe sport. The home boys made a

better showing at this game thanthey did at the first game they playedwith Carter and it is our guess thatif they play one or two more games

with the Carter bunch they will finally

get their hides yet.

Annual School Meeting.

The annual school meeting was heldhere at the school building Tuesdayafternoon. J. T. Hocking was re-elected to the position of clerk. S. A.Hill, chairman of the board, tenderedhis resignation and D. G. Miller waselected to fill the vacancy. It was decided to have a nine months term ofschool in Wood, and the length ofthe term in the country schools was

left optional with the Board. TheBoard was instructed to make a taxlevy sufficient to raise $2,000 forschool purposes the coming year.

The District was found to be in verygood financial condition and with theincreased valuation of the taxableproperty in the District there ic no

doubt but that the tax levy for sohoolpurposes in this district will be ma-terially reduced this year. The at-

tendance at the meeting was com-paratively small in numbers and every

thing was harmonious.

This is the brides month —likewisethe Junebug's.

Some men s minds are smalfer thana chiggsr, and dont create half asmuch stir.

A round up of Bad Nation mares is

here this week while Dr. Griffin iskept quite busy taking blood tests.We understand the returns receivedby the Doctor thu* far from the De-partment, places a death sentence onsome sixty head of mares.

Remember Rev. Keepers will preachat the school house in Wood nextSunday both morning and evening.The Rev. will probably give his sec-oud lecture on the five kingdoms onthis date. You should uot fail to at-tend the?e services.

Leslie G. Fox who is homesteadingsouth of Wood, was in town Moday.He has been acting’ in the capa-

city of foreman in the Winner Advo-cate office, but resigned his positionlast Fridav. He is now busy on hishomestead taking care of his crops.

“The Land of Broken Promises” isthe title of our next big serial storythat willbegin soon. This is a storyright up to the minute and will besure to please you, dealing with theMexican war. You should not fail toread it. Tell your friends al>out it.

Mrs. Francis Coleman took chargeof the Calumet Resteraunt here lattSaturday. Mr. Scholl who has beenconducting this place of business forthe past several months, moved hisfamily to his homestead some tenmilea west of Wood. He expects tocontinue doing freighting betweenhere and Winner.

Wr e received a letter from LeonardEllmaker this week inclosing a re-mittance for a years subscription tothe Pioneer. Leonard is now locat-ed at Lakeland, Florida, where hehas a position with the Southern Ex-press Company, and says that halikes the country fine, but that hehopes to be in Mellette county againsome day.

The SherifT of Lyman county ac-companied by Mr. Roberts were hereSunday on the trail of some horsethieves who had stolen some horsesfrom the latter, ft is reported thattwo arrests were made north east oftown, two brothers who moved toMellette from Lyman county. Weare also informed that one of thestolen horses was recovered. $ 4

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