Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-08-04


81 claims u and that Id the counties
81 codington. clark. Sphinx, Brook
ings. Beadle, Hughes. Minnehaha,
Mccook, Hanson, Davidson, Union
and Yankton the increase for the de-
cade has been seventy per cen
Rapid City Journal.
Z Advertising Is no good, a said the
man in old clothes. It peyer helped
me none, = The millionaire merchant
smiled, that is because you tried Ii
John, as the Indian tried the feather
bed ID Is: A n India fnnk a feather. Mac
ed 1t on stone and slept on it all 4
night. In the morning he growled:
'Paleface say feather heap soft. Pale !
face heap fool, ugh D
Clyde Owsley, who was called
home couple OF weeks ago on ac-
count of the serious illness OF his
father, Frank Owsley. has returned
to his farm vest of the Missouri.
Mr.. 0wsley is very m UGH improved
in health and was able to take an
automobile ride the other day, THIS
will be good news TO his many friends
in this city and county.
Occasionally one will hear the re-
mark, q wish I was out Of this town.
And then one feels like saying, 4
wish you We're, for a man who stands
on the street corners chewing and
splitting, telling obscene stories, ours
ing the town finding fault with his
grandmother because she was II wo-l
man, claiming that the merchants
are lot af thieves, that the lawyers
and newspaper men would skin a
man to finish, and whole lot more,
is a nuisance and an abomination.
A law passed at the recent session
OF the legislature permits each school
district to choose a name of Its own.
The law reads as follows: Each
common school district may choose a
name and record the same in a book
to be kept for the purpose in Office
of the county wherein such district
is located. z. The respective school
districts are hereby empowered to
contract and sue and be sued by the
name SO chosen and recorded. ="
GA. Petit was down from Water
town this week looking after his farm
ing interests. He has leased his $40
acre farm to Joseph Whittle for the
coming season. Z. Some people, evil
IDENTIFY not familiar with the game
laws of this state, went to Kuhnert's
grove, short time since, frightening
away one pair of Chinese pheasants
which were recently placed there by
the state at considerable expense.
Willow Lakes News.
One feature OF the new liquor law
which went into effect Saturday In
this state as well as in Iowa, is that
in cities of less than 5000 inhabitants
there can be only one saloon to every
300 inhabitants. AT Carter, one of
the new towns Of this state with a
population of only 600 inhabitants anu
five saloons, three had to quit bust
ness. At Bonesteel, with It's three sa-
loons,two out of the three have to go
out Of business. Fourteen saloons in
the country towns of Woodbury. Co.,
Ia, closed their doors Saturday and
now the only wet town in the county
is Sioux City with its eighty saloons.
Two physicians called at the Press
Office last evening and suggested that
the attention Of the people be called
to the danger of permitting children
making use of medicines which are
just now being left at the doors of
the homes Of this city. One of them
stated that he; had had three calls
that day where small children were
sick. He found their stomachs poi
soned with over dose of pills and one
case in particular, little girl was
in rather precarious condition. In
each instance it developed that the
child had eaten the samples which
had been left at the house. Sioux
Falls Press.
10000 grasshoppers were caught
and killed in one hour during an ex-
pertinent with a small hopper-dozer
at the state college at Brookings re-
Gently. Professor A. N. Hume esti-
mates that half of these grasshoppers
were egglaying females and that such
insect deposits one hundred eggs per
year, therefore. in the one hours ex-
pertinent the grasshopper crop for
next year has been reduced by 2,671,-
200. The professor has worked out
direction for the making of simple
hopper-dozer which will be furnished
to anyone writing to the college.
Bill Nye said: A man may use
a wart on his neck for collar but
ton, ride in the back coach of a rail-