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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
OYSTERS IN RIBS;
MAKING THE PEARLS GROW

VI the many strange farms to be
found in various parts of the world.
the most extraordinary are the pearl
oyster farms OF Japan. Here the pearl
oyster is made to produce the pre-
c1ous gems in a reliable and method
lcal manner, while another interest.
ing feature of the venture is that the
oysters containing them are brought
to the surface by women divers. II.
was DIR. Mikimoto, a well-known and
wealthy japanese scientist, who dis
covered how the p~earl-oyster could be
made 70 work for man and produce
the much-prized stones at his will. 1t
took years of costly experiment to
produce this result. jThe farm
where these precious stones are pro-
duced a a water area of some fifty
square nautical miles, varying in
depth from five to fifteen fathoms.
Small pieces of stone are placed near
the larvae of the oysters have been
found to be most abundant. Soon
small oyster spats are found attached
to them. These are then taken up
and removed to special beds, where
they lie till their third year. Now an,
oyster will not produce a pearl unless
II is irritated inside the shell by some
foreign substance. 1t then proceeds
at once to make good the defect BY
covering the irritant spot with bead
tiful layers of nacre. The oysters are
taken out of the water, and q surgical
operation is performed on each Il
of them which consists In PRODUCING
foreign substance and by the end
Of three to five years the animal has
covered the inserted nucleus with
many layers of naere, or in other
words has produced a pearl. Women
divers bring up thirty to fifty of these
per m1nute.-The christian Herald.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
Mrs. Don Livingston
Summoned by Death

Mrs. Mary F. Livingston, wife of
Don Livingston, died at her home in
this city Monday morning after an
illness covering many weeks. Mrs
Livingston had been suffering from
cancer, and for several weeks proceed.
ing her death she had been confined
to her home.
The deceased was born in Monroe
county, Wis, fifty years ago. With
her parents she came to C%edington
country in 1884, thirty-four years ago,
SO that she had practically spent the
greater portion of her life in Water
town and vicinity.
The funeral was neld Tuesday af-
ternoon from the residence, conduct
ed by Rev. c. Il. Kcarns of the Pres
byterian church. The remains were
laid TO rest in Mount Hope cemetery.
She was united in marriage with
Mr.. Livingston in November, 1890.
son. Walter, and a daughter,
Georgia Ruth. who. with their father.
survive the wife and mother. and to
whom the deep sympathy of the en-
ire community Ia extended in this
hour of loss and grief.
Mrs. Livingston's home life was
such as to command the admiration
OF associates and friends. Kier con-
ception of wifehood and motherhood
was carried out in her everyday mode
OK living in the model home over
which she presided, and in the pre-
she e as a wife and a mother.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
SLIPS OF THE PEN
UNDER STRESS or EXAM

No one, of course, says a writer,
likes to take an examination. And
often many Of us are so excited during
the ordeal that we really cannot do
ourselves justice.
But Just imagine how scared. or
nervous, Of ignorant, the boys and
girls must have been who wrote
down these answers to certain exam
nation papers:
Parallel lines are the same distance
apart all the way they will not meet
unless you bend them together.
King Henry 1st died of eating too
much palfreys. And King Louis XVI
was gelatined during the French rev
olution. But King James I died from
the argue.
Tennyson wrote In Memorandum
The lowest kind Of a Christian Is
a deacon.
The state OF suffering to which wo-
men were born is called woman suf-
frage.
Air that contains more than one
hundred per cent carbolic acid is In
furious To human beings
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
Our Teachers For
Next Years Work
Those Who VIII Teach the "Young
Ideas How to Shoot" in Water
town During 19t4-15.

The following will constitute the
corps of teachers in the Watertown
schools for the ensuing year:
The High School.
1. b. Parsons, Superintendent.
r.. B. Newman, Principal of high
school.
Margaret Turnbull, English.
Elizabeth Van Denburgh, History.
Catherine Osia, German.
Ina Rowe, Commercial.
Clara Fraseur, Domestic Economy.
Alice Smith, Domestic Economy.
Bessie Hodge, Latin and Mathemat-
les.
Vera Nicholson, Latin and English.
VIM. Simpson, Mathematics and
Athletics.
Arson Hayes, Sciences.
w. n. Tydeman, Sciences.
Nj B. Kavanaugh, Manual Training
r. Frances Crosse, Manual Training
Anna hammers, English.
Grade schools--Central Building.
Edith Shipke, LIST grade.
Sara Beckwith, 1st and End grades.
Nellie Barker, End grade.
Nina Nelson, Bird grade.
Pearl Dye, 4th grade.
Ollie Puffer, 3rd and 4th grades.
Winifred Keegan, 9Th grade.
Waunita CARRIER, 6tk grade.
Grace Rogers, Tth and 8th grades,
Grammar and Reading.
Esther Pierce, 7th and sth grades,
History and Reading.
Iva Packard, 9TH and 9Th grades,
Arithmetic and Geography.
Lincoln Building.
Jessie johnson, list grade.
Adah Minard, End grade and prin-
.cipaI.
Orrie johnson. ard and 4th grades.
Mary Buck, 9th and 9Th grades,
MelIette Building.
Edna Hukae. 1st and 2nd grades
and principal.
Fannie Jaqueth, ara and 4th grades.
Myrtle Burge, 5th and 9Th grades.
Anna Templeton, tn and Sth
grades,
Grant Building.
Emma Peterson, Int grade.
Lucy TrMsler, End and 3rd grades.
May Brown, 4thand Eth grades.
Ereida Reichert, 18Th and gth and
principal
Garfieid BuiidlnS.
Selma Carlson. list grade.
Anna Butterfiesd, and grade.
Hattie Maxfield, 3rd grade.
Hilda Lundberg. 4th grade.
Mable Holf, 6th g7ades
Ma61c Hanson. 9Th grade.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
Real Estate Transfers
Reported by codington County Alb.
stract Co.

Susie J. Marsha to Lois Walklin,
lots - and 90, block IA, Kemp Bros.
Addition; $1.00.
a. w. Ransom to Edward Al. Hecka-
thorn, lot 81 and boat house lot 54.
block 1, Quota Beach: $4,000.
John Walklin to +. G. Wiggin, SEA
1S-11T-54; $40, 10000.
Kenneth i. Goss to Mary e. Goss,
two-ninths intrest in lots 6 and q,
block a, Watertown; s1,00.
Minnie G. Way to A. G. Anderson,
lots z and 5, block 4, Daylin's Addi-
ton; $500.
City OF Watertown to d. n. Walker,
Ma lot AS. sec. F, Mt. Hope Gene
terry; $500.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
WHAT 1T COST TO DIE
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

AT the term of court held here Dec!
ember IA, 1901, says the Hopkins
vile Kentuckian. we find the follow
ing IN record, attention to which is
called 70 comparison with what it
costs to die now:
Ordered, that John Clark be al
lowed for boarding and finding and
attending upon Francis Leafftus when
sick q days, the sun of $40.
For keeping a horse, %drenching
and doctoring ofshim when foundered,
50 days, s12.
For wriding 3 days on Leafftus,
business, SO.
For paying the doctor for wriding,
s1.67.
For finding for the doctor, soc.
For all my trouble in burying of
him, finding plans, getting the coffin
made, and for liquors and yictuals
furnished at the burying, the sum OF
$17.r
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
Caught UnaWareS

ID. F. Jones: mo, | went up on the
train to Aberdeen to attend the meet,
ing of the state druggists ~associa.
ton. You see, / was in no hurry, so
] didn't go with the auto"
H. M. Hanten: "Your reference to
the war prompts me to suggest that
if those crowned heads of Europe
could be made to fight out their bat
ties among themselves, | would not
so much object to the war, for If
they eliminated one another they
would be getting only what they de-
serve, but the great burdens of the
pending conflict will not rest so heav-
lily upon the crowned heads as upon
the millions of poor, innocent people.
They are the ones upon whom the
chief suffering and the heavy burdens
will ultimately fall
r. p. Jones (chief of police: YES,
they are doing fairly well, | think,
about making the proper turns at the
street intersections and with regard
to speed. But, of course, there are
a few reckless ones even yet, after
all that has been sail and done in Wa
tertown concerning automobiles and
automobile drivers--chauffeurs. | sup
pose we should call EN-. On the
whole, however. with the few keep
lions noted they are doing fairly
we'll"
Harry Jones: Referring to early
times, when we could stand on the
front porch which We didn't have and
shoot prairie chickens from our grain
shocks when we needed a little meat
for our tables, / am reminded that
whea the Jones family, composed
prisssipally of myself at the time, first
saw this region roundabout there was
nothing to obstruct ones vision but
the waving grass and a few Indians.
When we settled on that farm north
west of town and got our sod shanty
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20

runaway in which two were injured,
Mike Waldner of Yale faces trial on
a criminal charge. The complaint
against him was made by Mrs. Law
n Carlson, who asserts that she
suffered a broken leg and other in
juries in the accident.
The Potter County Telephone com
pany has purchased the Dakota Cen
trail company's lines at Gettysburg
and Lebanon, and will build a new
line Gro the river from Forest
City, and relocate the line extending
eastward from Forest City, greatly
improving the telephone facilities
there.
While experimenting the work at
the New Elm Springs colony, near
Alexandria, Deputy State Game War.
den f. A. Martin caught a monster
spoonful scavanger icatfish in the
seine. 1t tipped the scales at only a
few ounces below 50 pounds and
measured 5 feet4 inches around the
body.
The wildcat. that caused such a
furore among Miller sportsmen that
an organized hunt was made for it
in the grove south of town turned
out to be a large domestic cat of
a tiger color belonging to T. r. VIM.
Last year the cat lost it's tail in a
moving machine and the .bobbed.
effect added to the theory that it was
a wildcat.
Stunned by the shock from alb olt.
OF lightning, which killed a horse in
an adjoining stall to that in which
he was milking a COW, Charles Ray, a
farmer south of Armour, recovered
consciousness In time to extinguish
q IRE which threatened the destruc-
ton of the barn. The lightning
Knocked both Ray and the COW e
setting fire to the hay in the build
ing.
In The Argus-Leader office down at
Sioux Falls every one has to be as
careful as a Servian in Vienna, all
because of the representatives Of
different nationalities employed On
the paper. The Argus-Leader saws.
The associate editor is d Canadian
the foreman and the ad setter are
Germans, the p~roofreader Is French.
the machtnist is Swade, the stereo-
typer is g Norwegian, the advertising
solicitor is Irish, the collector is Eng
hsh, the assistant mail clerk is 4
Dane, the city editor is Scotch, and
the business manager is a Mayfloweri
Yankee. Under these 4 nnnS
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
Metropolitan Theater
Redecorated, Refitted

The Metropolitan, which has been
closed the past two weeks, undergo
ing repairs and renovation, will be re-
opened next Monday evening for a
weeks engagement Of the Clint and
Bessie Robbins company, which will
present a change of program every
evening as stated in aonther column
of this issue.
The Metropolitan has undergone re-
decoration throughout, including the
lobby and the entrance.
The general color scheme is a COM
bination of old rose, dark green and
ivory, with gold borders and gold
trimmings.
The auditorium is finished with
panel effects, bordered with gold, the
panel proper being in old rose, with
ivory background. The same general
scheme is carried throughout the en-
tire interior.
The effect is exceptionally pleasing
to the eye, and shows an artistic de-
sign in keeping with modern sug-
gestions.
The concrete floors, too, have been.
thoroughly renovated and repainted,
and all chairs have likewise been gone
over.
No more sanitary theater could be
devised, in the opinion Of experts.
We are pushing The work to com
p%letion,' said Mr.. Hess to q Saturday
News representative this morning, in
order to have everything in readiness
for the Robbins who come here next
week. They are the most fun-mak-
ing and fascinating pair Of stage art
lists that we know of in the west and
northwest.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20

The Methodists Of Irene, says the
Vermillion Republican, ARE building
a new church, the structure being
patterned after the bungalow style.
Domes and towers, spires and steep.
les, seem fast going out of fashion,,
The proposition to issue $1,000 for
q municipal lighting plant carried at
Mcintosh by vote Of 63 to- 4. The
ciyt council has already arranged to
dispose OF the bonds, and bids Tor
the construction OF the plant VIII ut
once be advertised for.
George W. Esan has started his
sirth ilDel suit against the Siouu
Falls Press, and Dick Halliday 81 the
lrcquois Chief thinks II ii hot ciubby
for George to gobble up Ill 81 Dot
sons surplus cash. Dick would have
Is divided m among The newspaper
boys OF the state. MI
One year after frightening l hprse
With bis ~mOtorcycie and causing 4
EHffE%
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
NOTICE TO PARENTS.

The following resolution was unani-
nously. adopted by the Board of Edu-
cation at their regular meeting OF
July 18th, 1914.
That in order for pupils to enter
the WatertoWn Public Schools they
must have certificate of medical In
spection, signed BY d physician and
that cards will be in the hands Of
each physician for the purpose.
The physicians Of the city have
made a special rate Of fifty cents per
pupil for this examination to be paid
by the parent.
Maud Elkins ,
Clerk.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
THE MODERN NEWSPAPERS
ARE TERRIBLY "scoopEp'

The EncycloediA Brittanica ID its
18th edition, says
aLiege is fortified position Of tar
greater strength Than Is generally ape
prenIated.
tsAsco0p for the old reliable eney-
Eclerediaa says 90 eastern newspaper.
sArgussIseader
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20

Elizabeth Loucks, 7th and Sth
grades and departmental.
Alta Johnson, It'll and Sth grades,
departmental and principal.
General.
Bertha Cosgrove, Supervisor of
Music.
E1iese Dietz, School Nurse.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20
State News Notes

The wheat yield Id Hand county il
running from 70 to 19 bushels.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20

J.. Carl Southwick: Speaking of
shooting prairie chickens from grain
shocks, to which Jones refers, I re-
call that in the early day IL was not
at all uncommon to see this wild
game on The shocks, but they seem to
have been educated. We never see
them thus p%arading any more. And
the geese! You know, we didn't use
to consider the white goose as worthy
of our notice. When | used to live
on the farm north Of Arlington, |
believe l have seen forty acres of
white geese sitting on the ground at
one time. If we wanted goose meat
for dinner, we used to get up early
in the morning and go out in the
field and await their coming. We
paid no attention to the white variety
but waited for the big honkers to
come along, and we could always de-
pend on getting some. But those
halcyon days for the hunter appear
to have gone forever"
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20

itompleted, and a little sod stable, we
had as neighbors only a white family
now and then besides the redskins of
the plains"
DR.. B. II. Slower (haying listened
to Harry Jones' reference to the In
dians Of pioneer days.: Eyes, | have
noticed that, according to the best
information o~btainable, it didn't take
the Indians long to comprehend, after
certain of the Badger state fellows
arrived, that their health would not
stand a chance of remaining good un-
less they got out of here-and they
got. Now that Jones has sold out
his farm property west of town, I sup
pose he'll be going back to Wiscon-
sin, thinking that perhaps the people
back there may have forgotten his
former misdeeds. It's no wonder
that the Indians got out when Jones
moved in-his reputation had obvious
ly preceded him.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-20

runaway in which two were injured,
Mike Waldner Of Yale faces trial on
a criminal charge. The complaint
against him was made by Mrs. Law
n Carlson, who asserts that she
suffered a broken leg and other in
juries in the accident.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-09


hurt the Cubs the most.
Byron was away off, apparently, on
balls and strikes. Johnson seemed to
be calling them properly at the bases,
but he was a bit too hasty in canning
athletes. He sent both Evers and Zim
to the clubhouse, and it did not ap-
pear that either athlete had made a
very strenuous kick.
1t looked like old Cub days to see
both Zim and Johnnie canned in the
same game.
Wilbur Good famed three times be-
fore Tyler. Once the bases were load
ed, and second time men were on
second and third. Good seems utterly
at sea against southpaws. Jimmy
Johnston might be good bet against
left-handed pitcher.
At the close of the game Bresnahan
was playing center field, Heating was
on third, Mollwitz was in right, and
Hargraves was catching. Players
canned and lifted for pinch hitters
made these changes necessary.
As Old Doc KipIing might have
said, if he was baseball writer, it's
forward, Mr.. Faber, when the other
fellows hit.
White Sox won twice from Bos-
ton, and Red Faber was prominent
participant in each pastime. He res
cued Reb Russell in the first game,
and performed like service for Joe
Benz in the second. Altogether, he
Ditched fOur and tWO-thirdS innings
was hit safely once, and didn't allow a
run, even from the remains that the
other pitchers left.
He picked up the second game for
Benz in the eighth inning with two
out and men on second and third. No
scores. He relieved Russell in the
seventh of the forepiece with two on
and two out, escaped from that situa-
ton, and was never in danger there
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-09

winners. On past performances Der
rick will hardly come up to specifca-
tons.
But this is the year for upsets, and
Derrick may fall in line and play some
bang-up ball. If he can play strong
defensively and bat in the vicinity of
.240 he will be worth two players, or
more. >....
The trade indicates that Herzog is
getting ready for shift. with the
Giants. He will use MollwitZ at first
if Hoblitzel is sent to New York. Viii
iams will Immediately get regular
berth in left field. Cy must improve
wonderfully over the form he exhibit
ed here to be of any value to the Reds.
Bad breaks beat the Cubs. Tyler,
southpaw, worked for the Braves.
Our right-handed batters had little
trouble getting on base, but imme-
diately the bases became damned it
was the turn of some left-handed bat
ter to appear at the plate, and all of
them were soft for the Boston man.
Bresnahan knocked line drive which
developed into a double play that
cooked one of our chances. Two feet
to either side and it would have been
a triple. Corriden was robbed of a
triple by wonderful one-hand catch,
and there were other misfortunes.
But we prefer to look on the bright
side of things. George label had his
first trial since visiting Bonesetter
Reese, and he made good with ven
geance. In the six innings he was on
the hill the Brave batsmen made only
three hits, and never came close to
scoring.
The return of label to active duty
adds another reliable HEAVIER to the
Cub staff. Now we have four men
able to go in with reasonable chances
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-05

Special conclave of st.
Aldcmar commandery, No.
II, K. T., Wednesday after
noon at Ills o'clock, for
the purpose of attending
the funeral of our late
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-05
Clean Your Furnace Now.

In the May Woman's Home Compan-
ion a contributor writes an interesting
and a practical article ON the care of
furnaces. He says that spring 10 the
time to overhaul your furnace as soon
as the fire goes out for good Many
householders wait until fall and this
is bad practice. 1t is often difficult
to get workmen at such time, and the
furnace is also likely to rust. The aver
age cellar will cause iron to rust during
the summer months. Therefore as early
as possible care should be taken to pro-
tect the furnace and piping. This con-
tributor goes on in part as follows:
First of all the ashes should be re-
moved from the fire pot and the CRATE
left entirely clean. Ashes absorb mois-
ture and if left in heater will injure
it. Then remove the smoke pipe and,
after giving it coat of rust preventing
paint, set it in dry place for the sum
mer, the attic is good place. Shake
all SCOT out of it and see that the dam
per is in good order When the smoke
pipe is replaced in the fall, just before
you are ready to light your furnace the
Joints where it enters the furnace and
chimney should be covered with as
bestos cement, applied ike mortar. Inns
is a great draft aid.
IF the furnace shows any tendency
to rust, whether it be steam, hot wat
er or hot air one, cover all such parts
with coat of paint such as is especially
to prevent rust upon furnaces.
Paint the piping also, especially at the
points Much piping these days is COW
cred with a suitable covering which pre-
vents loss of heat from radiation where
it is not needed. This of course pre-
vents rusting. Tin hot air pipes can
also be covered to advantage. If
steam or hot water furnace is not brick
set land most are not these days.
covering of asbestos, which may be APP
piled in the form of plaster, will pre-
vent much useless radiation from the
furnace"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-05
aThe Red Widow Tonight.

"The Red Widow" the delightful mus
cal comedy that was one of the past
seasons marvellous metropolitan sue
cesses, is to be the attraction at the
Barre opera house tonight. 1t comes to
us with cast of cosmopolitan favorites
who in the several song numbers and in
the dance advertisements are said to be
most pleasing All the original Astor
theatre. New York scenic embellish-
ments, stage effects and sartorial APP
pointments, the latter of a high and
pleasing order, viii be brought along.
The company numbers nearly three
score people. Frank Shea, Edna Mason,
Theodore Martin and Lillian Ludlow,
enaeting and singing the several leading
roles.-Adv.