Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-12-11
Local Happenings.

"SlSiiI VI oCllLilIlclI, dilu LuU
pounds of deception, artfully ap-
piled.
Grocery peddlers are again
securing the country for orders.
If our farmers know when they are
wise they will give these fellows
to understand that there are mer-
chants in the towns who pay taxes
and in hundreds of ways help to
keep up the country and the price
Of farm lands. while these travel
ers do nothing but drain the coun-
try Of money. Be honest and fair
with those who are part of the
community and have their money in
vested for your benefit.
If the old brindle COW should get
out many nan or woman would
walk the streets half the night
looking for her, but let a twelve
year old son or daughter fail to
show up and the parents retire for
the night. We dare not be too
hopeful over the future of the hu-
man race as long as mothers and
fathers think more of rounding up
a 500 cow or a SO shoat than they
do of corraling their sons and
daughters at reasonable hours in
the evening. Exchange.
Wilt thou take her for thy
"pard, for better or for worse; to
hold, to fondly guard, till hauled
off in the hearse? Wilt thou let
her have her way, consult her many
wishes, make the fires up every
day, and help her with the dishes?
Wilt thou give her all the "st..ff''
her little purse will pack, buy her
a money boa and muff, a little seal
skin sacque? Wilt thou comfort
and support her father, mother,
Aunt Jemima. Uncle John, thir-
teen sisters and a brother? At
this his face grew pale and blank,
it was too late to jilt; as thru
the chapel floor he sank he sadly
said, Il wilt. Elk.
A lady in this vicinity who ad-
vertised for a girl for general
homework, received the following
letter from the first applicant:
Dear Madam: l have seen your
advertisement in this weeks Sat-
urday News. l want a place to
work in a small family where there
are no young men. | am good
cook and neat and handy and pleas
ant to get along with, and only %
years old, going on "a. Every man
thinks | am extra good looking and
| have been bothered most to death |
at nearly every place l have worked
by men running after ME. | want
to get place away from the village
where men won't chase after me.
| worked for two ladies at w and
lost my job because their husbands
took me out driving nights. If /
your husband is an old man l can
get along with you.' The lady t
will not even give the girl trial I
as her husband is young and hand I
some.
Someone who likes to monkey |.
with figures has estimated that
approximately $40, 900, 900 was spent
by land seekers who wanted to get
a chance at Trip county lands. In
other figures, $500 for each farm
was spent. Perhaps it is all right,
this legalized lottery. It helps to
get people away from home, and
creates good times in the towns
where the registration takes place.
But the sticker is, that the govern
ment, which enforces with great
the laws against lotteries,
even to excluding foreign newspa-
pers which contain advertisements
Of them, would be SO inconsistent
as to conduct lotteries in the dis
posal of public lands. It should
be easy to devise a different and
indeed more equitable system of I
allotment Philip Review.
Remember, my son, you have
to work, = say says Bob Burdette]
whether you handle pick or wheel
barrow or a set of books, digging
bitches or editing newspaper,
ringing an auction bell or writing
funny things, you must work i
Don't be afraid Of killing yourelf11
on the sunny side Of 80. Men die
but it is because they
quit at 9 p. M, but don t get home
until 2 a. m. It's the intervals
that kill my son. The work gives
you appetite for your meals; it
lends solidity to your slumber;; it
gives you a perfect appreciation
Of a holiday There are young men
who do not work, but the country
is not proud of them. 1t does not
even know their names, il only
speaks of them as old So and Sos
boys. Nobody likes them, the
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