Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-24

OF this city we're united in marriage
lat the Baptist parsonage by Rev. f.
III Stockton Tuesday morning. The
happy young couple will make their
home in this city.
In the 20 year ago Items of the
ArgusrLeader last Saturday the fol
lowing prices + quoted on grain,
stock and produce: Wheat 45c. flax
Ssc. barley so to 40c, oats &c, corn
26c, hogs $3.50 to $500. hay SIS, but
ter lie, eggs 10c.
Jim Welsh is now nicely located in
his new restaurant at the old stand
formerly occupied by Geo. ChristioE
as a shoe repair shop on north Oak
street. Mr.. Welsh is a first-olass res
taurant man and his large acquaint-
ance in Waterfowl and Codington
county will give him a good business.
Chas. w. Larson, head of the job
department at the Watertown Print
ing and Binding Co, is the latest vic
ttlh W SuSSOHIu " oil dtldSh VI LIE
'automobileitis." He joined the ranks
of boosters for John d. this week.
Miss Edna Rutan is in the city Wis.
ting her father, Geo w. Rutan. Miss
Rutan was a former resident of Wa
tertoWn, but has been residing in
Michigan for several years. She has
been visiting friends and relatives qn
the Pacific Coast and is now on her
way to her home in Michigan.
Jim Welsh opened his new restau-
rant on north Oak street Wednesday
noon and was eaten out of house and
home in less than an hour. Jim now
has one of the best eating houses in
the city and will do a good business.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. A Neill returned
home Wednesday morning from West
field, N. Y, where they have been
visiting or several weeks. They were
accompanied by Ransom Babcock,
who drove their new Ford car the en-.
tire distance. They spent a most en-.
Dennis F. Solberg, formerly con-
Injected with the Saturday News, but
who has been staying with his father
at Pierre for the past three months,
is in the city visiting his many
friends. Mr.. Solberg underwent an
operation at Rochester last spring
and will be compelled to returns to
Rochester in a few days for : second
operation.
For Saie-One new 1913 5000 Rum
ely Oil Pull engine This engine is
absolutely new. Price, F. O. B. Wa
tertoWn S1,750 cash, or $1,000 on two
falls time. This engine is $1,000
cheaper than it can be bought for at
the factory. We also have a number
of other tractors and %threshing en-
gines in good shape which are Just
as cheap in proportion. Hanten Ma
chine Co. 60
q. C. Olson, of Brookings. has pur.
chased a clothing store in Sioux Falls
and will shortly remove his family to
that city. He has taken with him
Lon Mcdowell who has been connect
ed with the OIson-Lee Clothing com
pany of Watertown for several years.
Mr.. Mcdowell has developed into one
of the best clothing men in the state
and his new field of labor will give
him a chance to forge rapidly to the
front in his line. He is a splendid
young man and his host of friends in
Watertown will wish him unbounded
success in his new position.
A southern Illinois private bank
went broke the other day on account
of the drought in that vicinity. There
are wv interesting features in con
~neetion with this announcement. 1st
that the great state OF Illinois should
allow private banks-institutians that
are run by individuals without any
state or national supervision and sec
ond, that the great state Of Illinois
with it's high priced land should have
a drought. If these two incidents
had been connected with South Da
kota there would be columns of hare
stories in the papers telling about it
A law was passed by the state leg
islature which will affect numerous
merchants and other employers of the
i state. Chapter 240 fixes the hours fol
women and children and defines
standard days work as ten hours, ex
!; cept in cases of farm laborers, domes
tic servants Or those engaged in car
ling for live stock. For failure to fol
sllow the provisions of the law the EN-
I, pIoyer is subject to a fne OF $10o OF
imprisonment in the county jail TO,
a period of thirty days. The law was
not passed with the emergency clause
and therefore became effective on the
first Of July.
Henry NeiIl, crop compiler for the
] South Dakota and Northwestern Min
nesota Millers' clubs, has compiled {
preliminary report for the counties II
1.-THE eastern part Of the state. Mr.
Neilrs reports have always proven
remarkably accurate, his preliminary
report lest year, issued July 22, being
but 100000 bushels different from thf
government report, In a total Of NOR
than s., 0 1000 OF bushels Of grain
: MI. NeilTs estimate shows that whea'
in the region covered by his report
will average 35 per cent less than las
wear, while oats and barley will shos