Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-11
be a booster when you go to the
Chautauqua or talk it up.

go 49, IL NhE9ooh IL
states that his crop of small grain
is killed by the excessive hot and dry
weather that they have been having
there this spring and that he is nav.
ing to haul water to save his toma-
toes. So in a portion of the country
where they generally have an abund-
ance Of moisture they can have a
serious lack Of it and in a portion
where they often have a lack of rain
there can come an abundance of it
as we have full proof by the most
water that we have ahd for many a
water that we have had for many a
what he has in the way of water
standing around on top of his land
in Dakota and killing portions of his
crop here he would have a plenty
for his fruit and vegetable farm in the
South. He could at the present time
have thousands of barrels of good
rain water for the taking from the
farms around here. However, what
the soil has absorbed in this period
may be needed right here before the
season is over.
quite severe and the cloud was quite
a sight as it approached us from the
southwest. Hail struck around the
Fred Heathcote, Schwandt and Car
mes homes and would have done dam.
non ho1 ~ not haor Gov th> f,ot +bo4
the crops as yet are not very far ad.
vanced. AS it wa it only destroyed
the garden stuff and pounded the
trees up some. At the Carnes home
glass was broken out of the house.
The rains have occurred almost each
| succeeding t~wenty-four hours and
have been heavy rains indeed. No
little dews by any manner Of means,
but regular bridge lifters. To work
in the fields has been out of the
| question and to go to town about
the same unless you wished to take
a ducking before you could get back
home. These d%uckings, by the way,
have not been very desirable as the
rains have been, the most of them,
accompanied by strong winds and
| some of them by scattering hail
stones. Quite a number of people en-
route to or from Watertown have
been forced to seek shelter on the
way to avoid a storm. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hal Lemon in fact were tied up over
night at the Lille home Saturday
night. VIII. W
The Ben Greet players, the lecture
of Sen. Cannon, the Dunbar people,
the Redpath opera quartette, and
the gyroscope man all are talent that
you can well afford to put forth an
effort to see and to hear.
Mr.. Simon Olson's new barn partly
constructed, was badly twisted and
otherwise damaged by the storm of
last Saturday evening.
The bartender at Pete and Eds
Eve all know where that isl and a
friend were on the west side of the
lake when the gale of Saturday struck
them and they MADE q analn f1sh'
~thefe8ano amer the stoFm |as@oSel
they hlfed MI tracy 20 saAe thetn
70 fhe CITY.
MI and Mrs. John Molln We're fore
ed 70 stop enroute from Waterfowl
Monday Of this week and we enjoyed
a pleasant little visit with them while
the storm spent itself and passed on
We were pleased 70 know that theil
son and daughter recently operated
upon for appendicitis We're doing SC
well and ready to come home in a day
Or tive:
Mrs, Fred Brown, we believe, takes
the palm on q garden this year, but
does mot claim the entire credit fo1
the splendid garden to herself bu-
states that there is one called MAJ