Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1910-03-18
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1 IL Islsnd
The Rock Island Lines 81 again
nave become large buyers 81
freight equipment to- provide tor
Its CONSTANTLY increasing needs.
THE last orders. which have just
been placed, are for Z. COO cars.
These orders contain q reflection
LOT the vast amount Of freight that
lis being offered these days that
requires cold storage travel Ia
| 1.-The purchases are $50 rel rigerator,
ears of the newest designs and
these are not to replace equipment
going to the Junk heap, but are
| 4 complete addition to that now
lin use. S,sss
The balance Of the orders are
Ifor 825 box cars. OF so 900 pounds
capacity each, 500 aut omobile cars
lsof the same capacity 400 ballast
ears and twenty-five cabooses:
IAll these are Of steel frame con-
struction, thus giving the Rock
Island Il huge number Of these
steel vehicles The fact is that
10y u far the larger part Of the
Rock Island 8 freight equipment
now is Of steel frame construc-
ltion. that type having been adopt
| ed several years ago, almost as
soon as the manufacturers began
putting them out and their SUI
|perior value had been Demon
|strated.
De livery of these cars will be-
completed at an early date, all Of
them being very much needed to
handle the business being offered
turnout the Rock Islands produc-
tive and prosperous territory.
man with an iron will naturally
has a temper. :5s3s
a man with crow feet on his face is.
MOI, necessarily a bird, vs. s:45
No man is willing to die for girl
who is willing he should
Tall people may have some excuse for
being uppish at times. 5s
At the present price Of pork it is a.
compliment to be called hog.
The price of pork is awaiting. It has
reached s 800 hundred on foot.
The peopl who bring their children
up on the streets are liable to reap a.
harvest of trouble.
It's claimed that artificial eyes can
be made to move very naturally. We
can't see through that.
Every time woman hears Of al
widower who has taken second wife
she treats herhusband little meaner.5.
The old saying that an idle brain isl
the devil s work shop and idle hands his
tools. Oh how true this saying is
1t is to this shop that the tattler GOES
for material where with to blight some
happy home or attempt to ruin the chars
acter and reputation OF their ellowman,
by classifying his good name and forever
destroying his bright prospects forthe}I
future You cannot realize how low
down and contempt bic village tattler
is until you have seen some ofithe results
|of their tattlers tales.
There are too many boys and girls in
/ the country and city, more in the latter
than in the former, who are prone 10
louk upon work as Beneath them. There
are thousand s,of them on the threshold
Of matu rity " no retain the same views
and habits winch found encourag ement
in their earlier years. w That becomt S
of this class Of people? Some of them
awaken and after a desperate struggle
overcome the habit and learn to work,to
save, and TO prepare for the inevitable
rainy day. Many Of them however
drift and drift until they become accept
able recruits ii the hobo army
Then they speedily reach the conclu-
sion that things are mighty unequalin
this world; that the advantages are all
with the rich, and thata poor man has
no show.