PAGE TWO THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1913. LAKE COMO. Lako Como, March 12. The infant son of Corliss G. and Mabel P. Holcomb died very sudden ly of pneumonia at the home of C. E. Campbell, Shehawken, Pa., and was burled rom the Shehawken M. E. church, appropriate services be ing held by Hev. "Wm. S. Gorman. Corliss Edgar Cardey Holcomb was born Jan. 18, 1913, and died March 6, 1913. He was a very bright lit tle fellow and will be greatly missed by the parents. The Buckingham High school held the senior class entertainment at the school house in Lake Como on last Friday evening. A very large crowd was present, and the performers did great credit to the reputation of this school. One of the features of the evening was a mock trial consisting of a breach of promise case. The or chestra played several good selec tions. The best performance was a drill by the classes under the direc tion of Mrs. Carey, who deserves great praise and crdelt. Hefresh ments were served by the Seniors, the proceeds amounting to about $35.00. Tho Epworth League will give a Saint Patrick's social in the hall on the 17th of this month. Richard Randall is still very sick at this writing, with no hopes held out for improvement. EQUINUNK. Equtnunk, March 13. The ladles of the M. E. church are preparing for a supper to be hold In the basement of tho church Wed nesday evening, March 19th. Harry Knapp, of Chicago, spent the past week at the home of his grandparents, A. Knapp and wife. 'Oakley Tynor and Elmer Chapman were visitors in Allentown last week. Joshua Pino is confined to his home with lagrlppe. Margaret Dillon spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of Delos Lester an dwlfe at Hancock. Horton Lord is a guest of Blng hamton relatives. Mrs. Thomas Slater is ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Stafford returned to her home here Friday after a several weeks' visit with Callicoon relatives. Philip Plnnegan and family will move to Binghamton the first of April. Sylvester Knapp -and family will occupy their home here. Marcel Branning, of Inglehart, is visiting his brother Paul. John Tompkins and John Barrett are In Honesdale attending to court duty this week. Edw. Osterhout, of Hancock, is spending a few days with his cousin, Lee Knapp. Little Frank Thurston met with an accident Saturday which depriv ed him of the ends of three fingers on his right hand. The following pupils of the pri mary school were present every day of the fifth month: Kenneth War field, Prank Thurston, Leon Lord, Granville Prisbie, Arnold Emrich, Willie Bleck, Leonard Joy, Myrtle Ewain, Roberta Lord, Edna Wood row, Florence and Dorothy Chap man, Wanda Lord, Thelma Hada way and Sybil Tyner. Wm. Hornbeck and Halsey Youngs of Hancock, spent Sunday at the home of J. K. Hornbeck. Blanche Prisbie, who is attending school at Hancock, spent the week end with her parents, Dr. Prisbie and wife. INDIAN ORCHARD. Indian Orchard, Mar. 13. Several persons have been added to the sick list during the past week. Among them are Joseph Henshaw, Mrs. O. D. Henshaw and Mrs. W. E. Avery. The Ladles' Guild held at Mrs. Samuel Gregory's on Thursday last was well attended. Twenty dollars were received at tho meeting, fifteen dollars of which was donated to ap ply on the shed fund. Samuel Gregory and brother of East Honesdale, were the guests of W. H. Marshall, of Altoona farm on Sunday. Mrs. Richard Ham will entertain the Ladies' Guild on Thursday tho 27th Inst, when a good social time is expected. W. D. Buckingham, iW. E. Avery, E. C. Ham, J. Wogge and W. H. Marshall called on friends at Adams Lake, East Berlin, Welcome Lake and Swamp Brook on Friday last. E. C. Ham will resume work this week at hauling lumber for F. Hol lenbeck. Mrs. Russell of Claredon, Warren county, was tho guest of her niece, Mrs. E. C. Ham, on Saturday last. Inspector Olver, of East Honesdale was calling on and scoring tho Ber lin dairymen last week. As usual he favored them with considerable val uable information. J. W. Reining and wife, of Vino Hill, were calling on the sick at this place on Sunday. O. D. Henshaw, who is teaching school at Galilee, came home on Wednesday last on account of illness of his children and wife. Joseph Saunders of East Hones dale, was a recent visitor at the home of W. D. Buckingham of Chestnut Grovo farm. Joseph Jay from near Bay City, Michigan, is expected to arrive hero about the middle of the week to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jay. Mr, and Mrs. E. C. Ham attended their uncle, James Mullen's funeral at Honesdale on Thursday last. Edna Toms, who is teaching school at East Beachlake, is at the home of her grandparents for several days owing to the smallpox scare at Beachlake. li, R. Garratt and wife entertained guests from Torrey on Sunday last. The Sunday school at Christ church has donated ten dollars to be nnnlied on tho shed fund. w. H. Colwell and son of Torrey were the guests of Mr, and Mrs. L. R. Garratt recently. Mrs. Joseph Swnrtz and son Eddie, were recent visitors at the home of Mrs. Levi Ostrander of Atco. W. E. Avery of Brook road, waB the guest of his parents, E. E, Avery and wife of the Bethel Fruit farm. LAST GREAT LAND T PLAt A Million and a Third Acres I of Rich Homesteads I For Settlers. tT. iK A A tti ii A A A tt A ti ti iti iti Atfi IIEN spring suns melt tho snows now covering Montana thnt state will be the theater of a typical American sceno itaged for the last time. Thousands of tromcn and men from all parts of the country will assemble in Poplar to ben fcilt by Uncle Sam's last great distribu tion of farm land. It will be a home stead crush rather than a rush. The picturesque race of n former day that marked the throwing open cf govern ment land to settlers has given Tray to the more prosaic method of draw ing lots. He who draws No. 1 is en titled to the first (election of a 320 acr allotment, tine winner of tho second ballot gets the next choice, nnd so it goes until all tho land has been award ed to the lucky ones among the contest ants, for there will bo several times more applicants than farms. There will be excitement a-plenty In spite of the new manner of distribu tion. Success will depend not on fleet ness, but on luck. Under tho former system th prospective homesteaders were lined up. jnd nt a signal they be gan a rush that was one of the most thrilling sights in the modern west Oklahoma was settled In that way. It was a race assuredly to the swift Men on horseback yes, men and wom enspurred their mounts to distance others who sat In buckboards or farm wagons behind fleet trotters or gallop ing bronchos. Ho who reached the goal first staked out the best claim. Those who followed took tho leavings. For the majority, Including practical ly all those who traveled afoot, noth ing was left. Million and a Third Acres. It is no small section Uncle Sam will give awny in Montana this spring nothing less than a million and a third acres. Tho tract is the major part of tho big Port Peck Indian reservation at Poplar. Wise men In Washington have decided that Poor Lo has had the place to himself long enough. Thoy think he will bo better oft with a few thousand white neighbors, and they nlso deem it time to lower tho cost of living for the hundred million or so of palefaces sprinkled over tho United States. It is figured the necessaries of life will bo made n little cheaper by opening the reservation to homestead ers,, since tho quick agricultural devel opment that is sure to follow Is ex pected to add 20,000,000 bushels of grain to the nation's nnnual production. There are 2,008,093 acres in the Port Peck tract, but tho interior department has allotted 723.093 to tho Mandans and Sioux now settled there, leaving 1,345,000 acres to be taken up by the descendants of the pilgrim fathers and other immigrants. It is nbout tho rich est land In the dry farming region, as Is proved by tho results obtained in the 3,800 acres now under cultivation. Two years ago tho whole tract was bare pralrlo, and even last yenr the cultivated area was only 1,500 acres. In twenty-four months tho land has been Improved, without irrigation and with little rain, to the point where flax has run eighteen to twenty-six bush els to the ncro, wheat twenty to twen ty-five and oats sixty to eighty-five. Tract C6uld Supply Nation. Professor Thomas Shaw, agricultural expert, Is authority for the belief that the million and n third acres to bo given to white men will grow enough grain to feed a nation. Tho big yield thus far is a result of cultivation by Indians alone. What the harvest will be when palefaces get busy with the soil makes Interesting reckoning. That it will be far greater than tho redskins best achievement Is certain, although It must bo admitted that Lo has made fine progress as a farmer In recent years. "On tho supposition that tne unoccu pied land were devoted to tho growing of wheat on the summer fallow plan," said Professor Shaw a short time ago after a visit of Inspection to tho reser vation, "whlsh would mean that ono balf tho area would bo in crop at one time, and on the further supposition that the wheat would yield twenty-five bushels per acre, which Is n moderate estimate for yields on land thus pre pared, tho aggregate production would be 10,312,500 bushels. "If this land wero entirely devoted to tho growing of barley on tho sum mer fallow plan the yield would be 30,000,000 bushels, as barley grown on such land should average forty bush els per aero. If tho entlro area wero devoted to tho growing of oats on tho same lines the total production would be 38,025,000 bushels, ns fifty bushels per acre would not bo an extravagant estimate for land thus farmed. "There Is another way of showing fie Immensity of the" possible produc tion of this fertile tract of land," the professor continued. "On the suppo sition that one-fourth of the entire acreage were devoted to tho growing of fodder corn tho yield'' at tho mod erate estimate of two and a half tons yer acre of cured fodder would nmount A) 840,625 tons. If wlntor wheat were drilled In the fodder at tho proper sea- w MK t -l"V !" TO Great Tract Could Produce Sufficient Grain to Feed the Nation. on, which Is August, and If tho ylold were the same as on the summer fal low. tcVilrh wnnM h reasonable to look for, tho production In wheat would amount to 8,400,250 bushels. Great Flax Crop. It one-tenth of the land were de voted to the growing of flax and the yield were ten bushels per acre th flax crop would amount to 1,345,000 bush els. If one-tenth of the land wmo also devoted to the growing of barley, put ting tho yield at thirty buBhels per acre, which would be high enough for land not summer fallowed, the produc tion would be 4,035,000 bushels. If one-tenth of tho land were devoted to the growing of oaU at forty bushels per acre the yield would be B.380,000 bushels. "This," Professor Shaw added; "would still leavo one-flfth of the land for other kinds of production, such as alfalfa, vegetables and panturnge. The estimated possible production, then would stand ns follows for each year after the first year: Fodder corn 840,825 tons Wheat 8,40,2M bushels Flax l.Sto.OOO bushels BarUy 4,035.000 bushels Oats E,S0,009 bushels "This," ho said in concltiKlon, "would still leave ample room for other lines of production." Poor Lo's progress an n farmer has been forwarded by a man who not only Is n great believer In the future of the northwest, but who also thinks the one time sarage can be made a really use ful member of civilization instead of being herded In reservations on a foot ing of mere tolerance. This promoter of Indian advancement is Louis W. Hill, son of Jnme J. Hill, founder of the Great Northern railway. Ho him self is chairman of that road's board of directors. Young Hill, with Ure. Hill and their four children, passes much of his time in tho big outdoors. He has made many visits to the Fort Peck reservation and has studied closely the possibilities, of the Sioux and Mandans. To Instruct Indians. The result of his observation was a conviction that it would pay In a so ciological sense to have the Indians In structed in the agricultural methods of the whites. He obtained permis sion from tho department of the In terior to send n delegation of redskins to the land show in New York a year ago. The Indians were bo much Im pressed by the evidences of advanced agriculture they saw in New York that on their return to the high plains of Montana they voluntarily becamo in structors of their brethren in scientific farming, with the logical outcome that the reservation yielded a bumper crop last autumn. "The figures nro rather surprising," said Hill to tho writer in St Paul re cently, "for they show that since these Indians returned from New York twice as much acreage has been cultivated on tho Fort Peck reservation as was plant ed last year. It simply goes to show that almost anybody will Improve his condition If ho gets a helping hand in the right direction." That comment was made when Louis Hill and his Interviewer had returned from the first county fair ever held by Indians, at Poplar, which Is about as prosperous a little town as can be found In the country. A big agricul tural exhibit had demonstrated what Lo could do as a farmer, and at the same time a great gathering of chiefs and braves nnd squaws and pappooseR had shown what n tribal reunion meant, More than 2000 Sioux, Mandans nnd Blackfeet wero camped in a circlo a mile In diameter. For five dayB they entertained visitors with pony races. war dances, medicine making and oth er features of life in tho open and then switched to a football game be tween the Mandans and a team of Blackfeet from Glacier National park, The palefaces came away with Increas ed esteem for a race that could grow In n generation from tho savagery of tho tepee to the civilization of tho fron tier farmhouse. DETECT CHECK RAISING BY ULTRA VIOLET RAYS. New Method Shows Up Faintest Signs of Erasures. Changes in documents or checks made after tho use of a chemical ink eraser may be detected by photogra phy with tho aid of ultra violet rays, according to Dr. Robert W. Wood of Johns nopklns university, who an nounced his discovery recently. Dr. Wood exhibited a check raised to $2,400. Tho words originally were "twenty-four dollare." Tho change Was made by an expert In a manner that made It impossible to discover the change even with a high power mag nifying glass. The slip of paper was placed under tho ultra violet rays for a ten minute exposure. The result was that a heavy smudge appeared after tho words "twenty-four," clearly showing that there had been an erasure and Rimethlng 'else written In. (HA A SOON LAKEVILLE. Lakeville, March 13. Mrs. Matilda Bishop returned home Monday after spending a fort night with her daughter, Mrs. A. K. DoGroat. Mrs. Mary Utt, of this place, went to Scranton Tuesday last to visit her sons, Spencer and Floyd Kimble. Miss Hazel James, of 'Lakeville, spent last week at Elmhurst visiting her friend. Miss Lena Osborne. Whilo away she will visit friends in Scranton. Miss Julia Welsh entertained friends from Hawley Friday and Sat urday last. Wm. Welsh is at the county seat this week serving ns a traverse juror. The Ladies' Aid of Ledgedale was entertained at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Harloe on Wed nesday last. Quite a number from Lakevlllo met with them. A good time was enjoyed by all present. Mr. and Mrs. D. Smith, of Ledge- dale, spent Sunday last with the lat ter' s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. James of this place. Hardly a family In this vicinity has been slighted with tho grip and somo have been gripped pretty hard. Mr. and Mrs. S. Miller entertained the following on Sunday last: Miss Hannah Levy, of Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. D. Flnklesteln and daughter, of Hawley; and Lewis Miller of New York. Ladies' Aid of this place will hold a variety supper In the P. O. S. of A. hall 'Wednesday evening, March 19th. Everybody welcome. Proceeds to apply on minister's salary. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Alpha is enter taining as guest this week Oscar Martin of New York. Mr. Martin has sold his home near Bronx Park. On his return to the city he and Mrs. Martin will go to Germany. Mrs. Berton Daniels, of Wilson- vllle, spent Sunday last with her father, Mark Killam, of this place. F. Bergman left Wednesday last for his new home In New York. Mr. iPago and family have moved on Mr. Bergman's farm. "Wo wel come our new neighbors. Mrs. Spencer Daniels spent Sunday last with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Alpha. Chas. Frisbic has been confined to the house the past week with tho grip. He Is improving. Hildegard Rebekah Lodge request all members to be present at the nxt meeting, March 19, as there Is im portant business to be transacted. Mrs. Chester James, of Lake James Hotel, was called to Brooklyn on Monday last to attend the funeral of her grandfather, Mr. Plath.- BETHANY. Bethany, March 10. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smith and son, Grnydon, of Honesdale, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Rush Kimble of 'Pleasant Valley spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hauser. The Methodist Junior choir met Sunday afternoon to practice for Easter under the direction of Mrs. E. S. Bierly and Miss Alice Ward. Rev. Pritchard announced Sunday evening that he would hold services every evening except Saturday of Holy Week and would preach eacn evening appropriate to the time of the journey to the Cross, celebrating the "Last Supper" Thursday evening. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Mrs. J. J. Hauser Is giving a din ner to-day in honor of Mrs. Rush Kimble's birthday. Those present were: Mesdames Bryant, Webb, Amy, E. W. Gammell, Hawker and Rush Kimble. Those who had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. N. W. 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