Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30

take that Cow wanted' ad out
of the paper as he had been just
simply smothered with COWS, cows
of all sizes, descriptions and milk
power, and as he has already been
supplied, he vans the public to
know that he really doesn't want
any more. He says it's real kind
of people to want to sell him so
many, but he only wanted one.
Owners of COWS please take notice.
Don't close a deal for loan on
your farm until you have looked
over our proposition. Come up
and talk with us. Hokpins & Ran
som, rooms IA and Is Goss Block.
14tf.
The County Option League held
two rousing meetings in the inter-
sets Of the County Option Bill,
one in the afternoon for men only
in the congregational church on
the subject of Carload of
Steers and the other a general
meeting in the Goss Hall in the
evening. DR.. Jordan, the little
giant was the speaker on both
occasions, and in eloquent and
logical language urged the voters
of the city to vote in favor of the
bill. He illustrated his remarks
with convincing figures, and his
arguments were received with
great enthusiasm.
While'the delinquent tax lists
being published over the state are
not so much as those of years ago,
when it took pages to present the
list in the average county. Beadle
is the only county to announce as
yet that it has no list to publish
this year. That there is not a
tract of real estate in the county on
which the taxes have not been
paid. This is a remarkable show
ing, and if other counties could
come up to it the state would be in
excellent shape. Among the lists
so far published the only one which
complies with he law as construed
by the supreme court is that pub
lished in Sully county, all the rest
being such that they would not
stand a legal test.
DR.. E. P. Hall of Brookings,
formerly pastor of the Methodist
church in this city, is to leave the
South Dakota conference according
to the Brookings Press: Last
Sunday evening DR.. Hall preached
his last sermon as pastor of the
Methodist church. He has occu-
pied that position for three years
and it is with sincere regret that
his pensioners and the citizens
generally learn of his departure
to join the Illinois conference.
While nothing definite has been
Iearea it is expected that Mr.. Hall Il
will be assigned to the pulpit at
Clinton, III. H is at Sioux Falls
this week attending the South Da-
kota conference. 1t is expected
that DR.. Boyers of Clinon will be
sent to Brookings.
Doane Robinson has been making
estimates and based his
figures upon the school census US
ing the same ratio between school
population and total population as
was show by the 1905 census of the
state. On that basis with Indians
considered to be just the same in
number as they were in 1905 the
of the state is 100000.
Stanley county leads them all in
increase showing 2649 population
in 1905 and 20,29S at the present
time. The estimates show that
while the newer counties of the
northern and western portions of
the state have all increased the
counties of the southeastern port
ion OF the state generally show a
loss. 49,. .gs
An exchange states that investi-
cation by the county recorders de-
partment of Shosbone county, Ida
no has brot to light an extraordi-
nary condition of affairs with re-
gard to the issuance of marriage
licenses. For months the depart
ment has been pulling at the non
return of marriage licenses issued |
to Finlanders, Poles and others Of
a foreign nationality, of whom
there are many employed in the
mines. No official notice has ever
been taken Of this as the depart
ment was under the impression that
many of the marriages had been
performed in other counties and
returns made here. Accidentally
however, it was discovered that
foreigners were under the impress
,i0p that oil fh OF xrys {, ;, ,<,orcn,,,, T.,