Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-12-18
CAUGHT ON THE FLY
BY THE PuFFEp ONE.

medicinal purposes. That water at
Bitter Medicine Lake is the best wa
ter in the world for any kind OF q
skin disease. know this to be a
fact as / lived near the lake for "a
number of years and have seen hun
dreds of people cured in few weeks
by drinking and bathing in the water
of that lake. Some day some man
will come along who has little fore
sight and he will start sanitarium
at that lake and it will not be many
years before he will be a millionaire.
Don't really need a doctor out there
the water will do the business.
H. R. Davlin: Eyes, we like our
new home in Minneapolis. In fact I
like Minneapolis SO well that believs
II will settle down right there the
balance of my life. Minneapolis is
growing all the time and there is all
kinds of business there for the fellow
Who goes after 1t. s3
M. j. Brennan: Il have just re-
turned from Montana and everything
seems to be moving pretty good out
there in the line of real estate. Mon
tana had splendid crop last season
and it makes times very good there.
One city in Montana that had some
municipal work to do advertised for
$50 laboring men and the employment
agencies at Seattle and other coast
cities sent two thousand FIVE hundred
men to the Montana city to find en-
ployment. / met a man on the train
just returning from California and he
fsaid that there We're at least twenty
five thousand idle men in San Fran
cisco alone. These men are practie-
ally all broke and the city finds 1t a
difficult task to care. for them. The
man said the city had built stockades
and were herding the men in them
like cattle.,'' 81.
J. o.. Johnson: Yes, the Dakota
Central telephone exchange was burn
ed al Vienna last Saturday Ing
and telephone communication has
been cut off from that town for sew
eral days. The company will soon
have things in working order, how
ever
Jim Welsh: "Yes, | knew young
Frisky, the Watertown boy who is
alleged to have shot man in st.
Paul last Saturday night. / always
considered him harmless young fell
low and did not even suspect that
he ever packed a gun. The young
mans father and family reside in this
city,
Roy Ritchfe: "Yes, sir, i have had
that little Hup' all to pieces and
have gone over every part in it, ana it
ran the first time tried it after Wnt-
ting ft together again. Maybe !
ought to quit the carpenter trade and
start an automobile repair shop"
Officer Makepeace: I'VE are grad
ually teaching auto drivers and driw-
ers of other vehicles to observe the
traffic law of this city. 1t takes a
little time and patience TO do this
but when it is once accomplished it
wiIl have reduced the probability OF
accidents on the streets of this city
TO minimum
States Attorney A. L. Sherin: The
1914 plates for automobiles are ready
for distribution They are red with
white figures, and must be on your
automobiles by January LIST. The
price is 5000 per pair. :"
Mont BaAnister: Il have just gone
through the hardest eight days rs my
whole life ] was called to the bed
side of my friend Ralph Fargo who
died at Sioux Falls of pneumonia.
Ralph and have been close friends
all OF our lives we were more than
friends were like brothers to each
other. No man could hold another
man in higher esteem than ] held
Ralph Fargo. His was a heart of
gold. He was one of natures noble
men in its truest sense brave, gem
erous, manly. His was the soul OF
honor, and his friends and friend
ships were sacred to him. It is sad
at any time to stand beside the bed
of the dying and watch life's ebbing
tide drifting the loved one slowly but
surely into the great eternity, but
when there comes whisperings from
parched lips from your old friend and J!
he asks for you every time you leave \
the room, / tell you it is doubly hard
He was the best friend 1 ever had |
or ever expect TO have
4 w. H. Stokes. notice that the
city commission has given an invita-
ton to the public. Tor expressions as
to the proper manner Of laying out
the parking and paving for the resi-
dence portion of the city In my
limited travels. have, to q certain