Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-06
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News office last Saturday was Lyman
j. Bates, for many years the editor
and publisher Of the Lake Preston
the foremost weeklies in the state.
Editor Bates still has the appearance
of yore-that OF q well-fed man, both
intellectually and physically.
Miss Hazel FL II zone of the pop
lular young ladies' O. the city, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Eddy, was
married last Thursday evening at the
home of her parents to Mr.. w. j..
Schliesmann. Both contracting par
ties are well and favorably known in
Watertown, and their numerous
friends unite in wishing them a long,
happy and prosperous life.
Friends of the family will be panied
to learn of the critical condition of
Charles Lundgren of Madison, MINI.
Mr.. Lundgren is a brother Of Mrs. G..
w. Larson of this city. His condi-
ton was SO critical the fore part OF
the week that his mother, Mrs. G. j.,
Lundgren, of Kranzburg, was tele-
graphed for. She left on the evening
train.
The Atkinson company commenced
the 1914 street paving this morning
on Second street N. e. Under the
direction of Mr.. Wiersbeck the proper
excavation for leveisng the street had
been made. Waldo Reed, with a force
safR 49, HS Ion1l1l ALL ~ ~ ~ tD5r, -, Ma
ginning operations for putting in the
concrete mixture for the surface coat
to be applied later.
Many Watertown people know Geo.
R. tanning, for many years the pub
Usher of the Egan Express, and they
will be interested in learning that
Mr.. tanning has recently sold his
newspaper plant. Mr.. L. now and
then visits WATERFOWL in his capacity
as a travelling man. He is n of
the newspaper men against whom
Mr.. Geo. W. Egan Of Sioux Falls has
libel suits pending.
The Henry Independent reports
that L. E. Foss, one OF the local bank
ers, has just returned from LaMoure,
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formerly editor of the Independent.
Mr.. Lowe will be remembered as the
editor of the Watertown Times back
some years ago. Mr.. Foss told the
Independent that Mr.. Lowe and fam
lily are doing nicely in their North
Dakota home. Crops in the northern
state, said Mr.. Foss, are very good.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Lee are re-
joicing yer the advent of a daughter
at their household, born yesterday
morning. 1t is understood that doc"
was so elated over the event that he
forthwith ordered all the Olson-Lee'
clothing stock to be sold at tremen-
dous sacrifice, which was in conflict
with the opinion Of his assistants who
thought he might better have marked
prices up than down since he has a
larger family to maintain.
Ringling,s circus and menagerie
drew a large crowd to the city last
Saturday, but probably no larger
than has visited the town on some OF
the previous Ringing exhibits. The
show was up to the usual standard of
excellence, introducing some novel
features not hitherto shown in any
former exhibition in this section IF
the state. The special exclusion trains
brought in large numbers of sight
seers from surrounding territory.
One of the city wags observed a
day or so since, as he noticed box
of fish passing through the street on
a dray, that it must be the fish that
Yeamans, Hill. Watson, Campbell,
Stutenroth, Finnerud, Slower, Bartron
and others were going to furnish for
the Country club luncheon Wednes-
day evening preceding the concert.
Presumably those fellows were going
to catch the fish In the lake., but
said the aforesaid Wag, 1it's dollars
to doughnnts that them there's the
identical fish,
Mrs. Fred Brown, residing ON the
former Grin Jacobs farm on the west
shore of Kampeska, was severely in
jnred last Saturday ewing to the shy
ing d d horse she was driving, the
animal becoming frightened at an au-
tomobile and plunging into the gutter
beside the roadway III the vicinity II
Stokes mill. Mrs. Brown was rem
dered unconscious; but d careful ex-
animation BY surgeons failed To dis
tcover any broken bones. Her many
friends will b glad to learn that she
il fast recovering from the result 81
he severe brniaing and theSshock.
Nr.and Nh. Billy Williams 81
|Kxrnpeskay says the last fssne of the
Clear Lake Courier, Were Id the city
last Monday interviewing number