Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-23

yFFEo ONE.
have lived here which Is over thirty
years Al Is 81
J. ]. Baalou: Where have / been
all summer? oh. I've been out on
the farm In Brookings county Yes, T
am feeling very much better in health
than did last winter. may make
up my mind to 80 after some county
Office this winter ye:. .es! .;:s7 III
ways thrown my coat and boosted for
the other fellows and never asked
for anything myself. could use one
of those county jobs to very good ad-
vantage about this stage of my life.
! have been sheriff in the county
where came from before coming to
Watertown and am pretty well postel
on the duties OF that office There is
hardly a farmer in Codington county
that do not know personally and I
think l would make pretty fair show
ing ii | made up my mind to get into
the game / may not be candidate
for sheriff, however, It may be one of
the other county offices, l will decide
when return home about the first Of
November
Pat Foy- I'VE are going to have
a cheese on exhibition at our store in
a couple OF weeks which weighs 1047
pounds. We had one last year that
weighed over 500 pounds and sold 1t
all in two or three days. This cheese
is the real thing and will be the larg-
est cheese ever shipped into the state
of Soath Dakota. How much of it
do you want--it is only rs cents pei
pound. Did you say five pounds? All
right, we VIII deliver IT. before Thanks
giving
john Mitchell: You can change
the address of my paper to the city
instead OF the country as we have
moved In for the winter No, Il am
not feeling very much betterI have
lost about thirty-five pounds since i
got sick last summer and I don't gain
flesh or strength. | thought it best
to get off the farm for wtIle at least
and see if l can't build un.''
j.. H. Peterson: II am going to
have an auction sale at my farm nine
miles northwest Of Watnaown on
Saturday. Nov. list, in the afternoon
Here is "a chance for people to pick
np fine bunch of young stock at
their own prices. have lot of
young pigs toe will also offer few
COWS Ter sale-I can't say jnst how
many, hut some. Ny stock is all
good. have rented my farm and
want to dispose of this stock"
Frank Michaels: Il was oalt in the
country last Sunday with my auto and
Gan onto file largest flock of prairie
chickens that ever saw La my life
They We're in millet field and were
on the shocks and all over the field
great big ones and tame too. could
have shot dozen of them easily. r
have lived in this county a good many
years but this was the largest flock
of priarie chickens ever saw in my
life. There must have been thou
sand
Dan Mertz: d saw a couple Of wo-
men driving a horse hitched to hug
gy the other day and as they were
turning the corner on one of the
paved streets the horses feet went
out from under him and he fell fat.
The horse tried to get up but as there
was little snow on the pavement
he could get no footing and was un-
able to get mp santil man came along
and spread blanket down for him
to get bis front feet on"
c. H Lester: Your paving liz fine
but it viii be just like every other \
kind Of paving when it gets wet and
the snow and ice aecumulates on it.
saw six horses killed on the slippervI
pavement at Ell Paso. Texas, one dayI
last winter. Down there when the
pavement is slippery they put moe
sasins on the horses. An old gunnY
sack or anything Of that kind will
Keep the horses from slipping and
hey can haul q pretty fair load shod
n that manner. Z
Chief of Police Dick Jones: See
hat automobile in front q. the city /
IAN, You Will notice that Il Is head
ID the wrong way. Miles Makepeacet
las gone down there to tell them
bout f. Who Is in the auto? MOL