Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-08-15
Items Of Interest

Our local threshers are getting their
outfits in order and in the wheat by
1 and bye will be a living realtty The
1 threshers can certainly look sforw
to q busy season and We are satisAesdl
that it viii be quite late in the IAN
before the threshing u all finished
Threshing should be a good profit
liable business this: year.
According to the stimates OF the
department Of agriculture, the sen.
eral crop yield in the United States
this year is better than the average
for the past ten years. on account
of the increase in the number of newt
/ products, the record Of the year ii 4
a new one. The oatS yield IA the larg-
est that ever was harvested. Corn
| viii approximate three billion, BUSH.
els and there will be $50. OoO. 900 bush
els of wheat and 81 900 900 bushels,
OF potatoes.
| "A lawyer in q court room may call
a man a liar, scoundres, villain or thief
and no one makes q complaint when
court adjourris. n II a newspaper was
| to print such al refection on mans
character there is a libel suit or a
1 dead editor, This is owing to the fact 4
that the people believe what an ed
| itor says. If
The good housewives Of Huron are
going to put their merchants through a
little examination. "a committee has
been appointed to Investigate all the
stores selling the supplies for the !
| family table and will mark up SO
many points to each merchant for
cleanliness, coverings against dirt and 4
dies, position of goods relative to the /
floor and the street. and q number Of
other things which the modern ner-
chant should observe. n The examine
ton will prove Of inestimable value In
forcing the prevalence Of sanitary con-s
ditions. 5isSs5$ 5ig
Clear Lake Courier: Judge e.
seward rendered his decision n the
Bremer. Quickstad contest last satlr.s
| day and Mr.. QuicKstad wins out in all n
particulars. This contest was brots
by d. w. Bremen is ascertain who
was legally nominated at the June
primaries as delegate to the legisla-
ture from the deuel. county district.
The confest was Il novel one as sever
3al sample lots were used to re
commodate the voters, as the supply \
lof official ballots had run out and III
new supply could not be got to the
polls to be Of benefit. This fact, ana
the further fact, based on rumors that
the polls were held open long after
the hour designated by. law when they
should be closed, prompted D. W.
Bremen to bring the contest. The
Judge however, finds that the casting
lof the sample ballots was legal, that Il
! the polls were closed in a few minutes
after 5 o'clock p. M, and that there
was no fraud Of any nature brought
out in evidence at the trial on June
21st, and as Mr.. Quickstad had a
majority of the votes cast for rep
sentative, he was duly nominated, and
the costs shall sbe taxed up against
Mr.. Bremen.
This case created consid cradle iii 4
feeling III the south part OF the coun 81
ty where Mr.. Quickstad resides, and y
the findings In the case viii no doubt
please the people Of that portion sc
the county, and change their ssnti-
ment regarding the whole republican
ticket. NJ a.s$
Pete Erickson made his escape from
the county jail last SATURDAY evening
by the help Of some one On the ont
t side Pete fixed up a dummy Ia his
bed ana when sheriff Arnold locked
up for the night he Ssas sure his
man was sleeping as usual. Whom
Ihe took him his breakfast the next )
morning the dummy was there but the
prisoner had flown. Whoever assist
Fed Erickson knew the ropes pretty
well The key to the cell was hung
Al It'll usual place ana the cell room
door was looked aa 1t Always had been.
lIp % this time 20 trace Of Erickson
Lhas been secured and n he Will keep
on going be win be doing u favor To 4
tthe resid dents cf Deuel. county Clear
Lake Courier ssss
Conduct or Chas ggas has sold His
residence n Wat rtown 70 Chris GIL \
tbertson, the travelling man and Mrs. I;