Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-30

make. ! have just finished building
large barn and expect to have things
pretty handy around the Is farm. What What
is my land worth per acre? would
not take SIS per acre. It makes me
good home and / always seem to
have pretty good luck raising a crop.
A good farm is not bad thing to
have nowadays"
Geo. Briggs: II notice that a fell
low has got to be pretty careful what
he says when that Saturday News
man in around in hearing distance"
DR.. L. G. Hill: $50 you think that
minute hand could have climbed the
grade on the big clock if we had put
it into low gear. think we did
splendid work as it vast will be an
easy matter to raise the balance to
make the 100000 for the building of
the new Methodist church. We will
never stop 'now until the full amount
has been raised. $4S,0O0 was not
bad for two weeks"
S. H. Ohtness: 81 expect to erect
a store or Office building on that fif-
teen feet west of my block next
spring. That ground cost me $1OO
IL
something-can't afford to let it lay
idle"
DR.. Abbott: "On October 28th,
1896, 1 am informed by reliable au-
thority, storm started just like this
one and the snow never left the
ground until the following spring. /
would not be surprised to see this
snow stay with us until some time
next spring. The winter of 1896, /
am told, was very severe with plenty
of snow and many billiards. during
the months of January and February .
Mark w. SheafG Jr.: 'I believe
we will have laan4g eeyy esioW this
season. If you, will notice the lakes
and sloughs are very low this year
and have been for several years.
About every SO often we have a win
ter with plenty of snow which fills up
these places the next spring. l thiniS
winter has set in for good"
Sam Welch: Eyes, my wife and /
are back from west of the Missouri
Where we spent four years on our
claim near Faith. like that country
very much, but have discovered the
fact that it is not an agricultural
country. The soil is rich and I have
seen some wonderful corn and other
grain grown there, but, taken as a
whole it is not adapted for a grain
growing country. I had as fine a
field of corn as any man ever wished
to look at and it was all tasseled out
and in the middle of July that hot
windy weather came along and Just
simply cooked it right in the field
In two weeks you could set a match
to the corn and burn the entire field.
Now, you will understand that I am
not knocking that country-it is all
right for what it is intended fora
stock country. That buffalo grass is
the best grass on earth to fatten cat
tie on. 1t is certainly a great cattle
country. If ! had fifty head of cattle
would rush them right back on the
next train and would never leave that
country again as know / would be
well fixed financially in a few years
if | could have that number of cattle
ito start with. / proved up on my
land and expect to hold it until the
country develops a little more. We
made the trip overland in covered
wagon and were on the road three
{ weeks. Near Doland one of my
horses took sick and was forced to
borrow another horse from a farmer
to finish the trip to Watertown. One
OF my horses was injured in board
ing the Terry across the Missouri
river, which is the poorest excuse for
ferry that ever saw in my life.
My horses We're good and fat and
were fed nothing but buffalo grass
out there. am not knocking that
country am only telling you what
think of it-for stock raising 1t has
got every other country in the world
beaten but would hate to depend
on it as a grain raising proposition
Z. J. Shaw Il had a good time Al
Milwaukee where j attended the Ma
tional Undertakers Association CON
Yention for several days Milwaukee
is fine city and We were treated fine
while the city's guests,
Geo. Farrell: Il have already GOT
plans for building second story on
the old telephone building on Midway.
VIII make a modern six room fat Of
the second floor and will have 1t
ready for occupancy BY the first of
next May
Arnold Ro;cha,.t. ssyyI,or, L -, ~,