Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25

much better for the rest.
The Elks will hold their first
meeting after the summer vacation
on Oct. 9Th. At this time plans
will be made for the winter work.
Della Wood and Helen Query,
Bloom < Martins fast race horses,
each pulled off a first at the races
held last week at Bird Island,
MINI.
Miss Beatrice Sherman, daugh-
ter Of the president If the S. D.
Central, WAS here couple of days
last week end visiting Miss Gladys
Williams at her home on the north
side.
Mrs.Q r. McMulIcn returned to
her home at Henry last Sunday
evening after a pleasant two weeks
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Rob
Vetter and her friend Mrs. Arthur
AinsWorth of this city.
The high school seniors enter
tanned the juniors last Friday even
ing al dance given in the K p
hall. This was the first social event
If the high school season, and was
a very successful and enjoyable
affair.
Miss Nettic Hodgson returned
with her mother from short visit
in Minneapolis last Friday. She
reports an enjoyable time, and says
the many auto rides she took while
in the city were very fine. Beats
buggy riding all hollow.
The oldest inhabitants of the
state cannot rcco1lect when South
Dakota has experienced as warm
September as the present month.
There will be no danger Of the
frost damaging the corn crop this
season.
F. y. Prugger, the head contrac-
tor for the Northern Construction
Co., who are building the new fed
eral building in WATERFOWL, is
pushing the work rapidly on the new
federal building and expects to
have it ready for occupancy in about
fifteen months from the time the
work was commenced.
The following birth notice re-
Gently appeared in an exchange:
Born to the wife of Jim Jones, a
boy The boy favors his dad in sew
eral ways, viz: He is bald, has
a red nose, takes to the bottle like
a humble bee to a clover blossom,
and makes a lot of noise about
nothing
The Ward Bros. Candy Co. OF
Aberdeen is the leader in the north
west They are now manufacturing
a cough candy put up in neat five
cent packages which promises soor
to become famous all over the land
Will Owsley, manager Of the com
pany, informs US that his firm viii
) Immediately exncnd several thous
: and dollars in advertising on thi
? branch of the business alone.
A young lady of this city wen
) into a dry goods store the other da,
, and blushingly asked if the hea'
clerk if he "had any of those elias
! tic bands, capable of being elonga
ted and adjusted at pleasure, an
used by the feminine portion O
mankind for putting around tn
. lower extremities Of their locomo
tive members to keep the prope
e position and the required altitud
hahiliments of their tibias.' Th
> clerk is now on a sheep ranch.
Y A Nebraska farmer, writing
a friend back here, was trying
give some idea of the productive
ness of the soil out there. He sal
/ that they had to NOW the grass O
Il the sod house floor every day
g find the baby. One family nes
a him had twin babies, with only on
o cradle, and the kid that had to slice
on the floor grew twice as fast 8
the other. Where the soil is riche
% a man dares not stand on one foe
any length of time lest that lie
:. become longer and bothers h
= walking.
At Dallas, S. D.the preparation
for the land opening are progress
3 ing with all possible speed. Bulk
: ings are being erected on evel
hand to be occupied by hotels, re
taurants and sleeping houses. Thel
are perhaps today in that city mo-
!, than $50 carpenters, and they al
: working over time endeavoring
do the work which is necessary
= be done to be in readiness for Il
opening and to care for the 75, OF
people, who, it is anticipated, wi
g register there during the registr,
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