Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-09-25

J. E. Bird"No sir, there is not
very much stirring in real estate now
days and especially farm property in
Codington county. Real estate men
all around us seem to be doing a good
business but right here it is rather
duli 1t must be because Watertown
real estate men do not advertise and
set forth the advantages Of Water
town and Codfngton county
S. F. Spencer: Eyes, this has been
a good corn year but as a matter of
fact almost every year in this coun-
try is good corn year if people would
plant corn. have raised corn in this
county almost every year for the
past twenty-five years. Corn and hogs
are what this country need to give it
its own. OF course, it is a little more
work to raise corn than small grain
but our farmers have got to come to
I it some day or take back seat -5
R R. Crabb: II moved to Olmstead
county, Minnesota, when / was boy
four years old and am no spring
chicken now. can remember when
people said in that county that 1T was
impossible to raise corn there that
it WAS too far north and that the frost
would get it before it got ripe. Look
at that county now. 1t is oae of the
BEST corn counties in the state of
Minnesota now. 1t will be the same
i'm this county some day"
Jim Welsh: "The other day a man
walked into my restaurant and said
he was looking for the place where
butter could be bought for and 10
soents per pound and beef stesk at 10
land 12 cents. He said abona q year
ago some people said this would pc-
|nur If Wilson was elested. 4 told him
he had struck the wrong town. i also
informed the fellow was docking for
just that kind of place InyseH .as i
could use it in my restaurant 4busi-
ness" a
": d Z es.s
II ID.>%o
f,tysfive cows on my farm aind am now
milking eighteen of them. find the
dairy business a very praHtable one,
During the month of July this year
my cream check amounted to $500
from the twenty-five COWS, besides !
had the buttermilk to feed DO my pigs
/ also raised thirty-fiye acres of las
fine corn as any man Wishes to see
I had couple of fellows from Kan.
sas working for me this haI%Eest and
one of the men said the conn would
I:gp fifty bushels to the acre while the
other man contended that my corn
would yield sixty bushels tn THE acre
/ have no kick coming at adj ON any
of my crops this season and am very
we'll satisfied. ] have made enough
money out of my COWS to pay all OF
my expenses, both for living and
hired help and have money left. The
easiest money | ever made i'm my
whole life made this season with
the twenty-five COWS and raised
every one of the cows myself with
the exception of one"
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R. L. Kemple: Eyes, sir, have
concluded to become candidate for
the republican nomination for con-
gress from the second district. be
iieve my chances to win the repub-
lican nomination are as good as any
candidate who has entered the race
up to the present time. / will say
one thing and that is that the other
fellows will know they have been in
fight after the smoke of battle has
cleared away. When go into any
thing | go into it heart and soul and
/ will be right on the firing line every
minute Of the campaign
Robert Schulz, who resides five
miles south of Watertown:: 7 paid a
bet today Along last summer made
wager of $40 with NJ. r. Basker-
vile that my wheat crop this year
would average 20 bushels to the acre.
l got through threshing my wheat the
other day and the average was 1S1s
bushels to the acre on $50 acres.
.Bask" took my word for It and now
has possession Of the money. :,
Mayor n. a. Wagner: 4 have had
very good luck hunting prairie chick
ems this fall. The first day out we
all got the limit. The second day 1
was 30 tired that l never got out Of
the wagon but succeeded in bagging
a respectable number of birds shoot
ing them from my seat"
NJ. o. Poulson: The business men
|of Watertown have done business nm
der great dificulties on account Of the
streets being torn up this summer.
We might have got along for snany
years longer Without paving but /
suppose 1t ii like fellow with the