Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-02
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Near Reyillo it's path was consider
ably wider than IN the vicinity Of this
city. am informed By our son-in-
law, DR.. Church, whose home is IN
Reyillo, that many dead cattle and.
horses IN to be seen scattered about
here and there south Dc Revillos One
man, am told. lost nine head o.
stock
H W Schalles responding TO
an INQUIRY Eyes, the heavy rains
of the past month have undoubtedly
affected trade to some extent In Wa.
'tertown. Ordinarily we Would get
many customers from fifty TO sixty
miles out, and even furtherswh visit
the city in their automobiles, FOR the
purpose Of shopping here, but ! have
noticed that fewer OF them have been
coming here since the heavy rains
set in"
Billy" Mclaughlin: Zone Of the
amazing p~eculiarities Of the late
storm, 50 far as my observation has
extended, was the pulling OF a tele-E
phone post from the hole in which
it had been set. while all of the oth7
Ter posts that had been attacked at
all had been twisted d broken OIL.
This pole OF which 1 speak had been
pulled out as clean and clear as III
a derrick had been used for the pur
pose, with no ~perceptibie injury to|
the wood, no spiintering. NO break
ing
Martin Belatti putting the finish
ing touches on the pruning In the
court house square,: Well, this will
close up the work we began two
years ago in trying to get the trees
in this block in such shape as to-
render clear vision through the
court house square possible. W. be-
gan with the north and west side,
and this year we have completed the
job then undertaken. Now all that
is necessary to keep them#in such
condition is to rub off the sprouts
that thart on the trunks Of the trees
each spring. You observe that we,
have trimmed the trees W about ten
feet high
Oscar vaux lrural mail c~arrier1
seThe roads have been the worst this
spring that / have rel seen them
since the early days when began to
deliver mall over the rural route. Up
north. about eleven miles from the
stokes mill and one mile west, there
is a turnpike which was made some
years ago. On either side there Is
quite ad eep ditch, and for the past
few weeks the water In these bitches
has been meeting o. the turnpike
ID other words, standing IA the road
way. MY daughter, delivering the
mail on my route while / temporarily
took Kinsman's place. has got g horse,
down twice. One Of the strange
things about 1t is that no effort what
ever has been made to fix it SO that
1t would be decentIy passable.'
EfE-s&
b. r. Jones: 1T some Of you news
paper men will nose around In that
direction you will find q growing sen
tinnent In favor OF linking the city OF
WATERFOWL with Lake Kampeska By
means Of a water route. In my opin-
ion it would be d Of the greatest
Improvements that could be made, so
far as making this q pleasure resort
lis concerned and with respect to
furnishing a playground not only for
ourselves but for future generations.
You know, perhaps, OF at least real
lie, that u Fairgrounds in this
great and broad America, where we
boast Of land and to spare, / wholly
Inadequate. It was but q week Or
10 ago that Mr.. Barr and Williams
ran tho Barr launch from the lake to
the city BY way Of the river. It oc-
ours Il me that 1t would not require
a vast expenditure to connect the
city direct viii the lake by means OF