Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-13
Correspondence
kAMPESkA.

Four $1.65, corn soc, wheat $1.15
hogs $S.25! Gee whi2! must be {
time of high prices, and good porter
house steak or sirloin-mister, We
haven't Seen Qet alone tasting) such
a thing as that for so long that We
have nearly forgotten how one would
look stretched out on a platter. Some
fair day when we feel real flush VIC
are going TO surprise u wife by buy
ing one. But, then, fried chicken
isn't bad.
The thermometer showed At de,
grees this tMondayl morning. Pr1t-
ty cold for the 10th of August. Quite
likely soon n OF these cool spells
will cause us to blanket our musk
melons and tomatoes, etc. This
seems to be a tomato year. Well, J.
Frost can have the garden if needful,
but please give us the soc corn.
The war dogs OF old Europe are
actually busy in real fighting, bat 1t
would appear, rightfully or otherwise,
that n dog is the under dog pretty
badly. He put up 4 sturdy front and
pitched right in, but apparently is
unable to cope with the bunch. Well,
n can only watch the fray and see
how it IN out.
Death seems to visit us all when it
calls at the nations capital. Our
splendid president and his daughters
have the sincere sympathy of every
true hearted American.
The needed rain is still deferred.
July was as hot and dry as June was
cool and wet. The two extremes
have indeed been very sever on plant
life. We marvel that Natures plants
stand it as well as they do.
Soon Wen hear the morning call
of the iron horse and see his smoke
curling up as he helps to thresh out
the crops DER these vast fields. A
while ago we thought he would have
a good heavy task this fall. but alas,
it is heavy only in the bulk of straw,
not in the weight of grain TO be hand
led. We must change our plan, gen,
tlemen, for a few years and plant
more grass, corn, potatoes. clover. etc.
We must build more silos, milk more
cows, raise more calves, feed more
pigs, set out more trees-nOt much
rust on these things. We will have
to kill out, in this way, this chronic
tendency to rust.
III you ever get fG feeling blue or
down and out" just go to the tele-
phone and call a long, a short and u
long and ask for the lady of the house.
She is a fine tonic with her lovely.
motherly, CHEEKY voice, She ought
to have been a central girl.
We We're Just feeling thankful In -,
our heart that our friend Mrs. Fred
Brown and her niece, Miss Shaffer,
We're so nicely recovering from their
recent upset, when here came the
startling neWs that one of them, Miss
Hortense. had had q second similar
experience. Mr.. FalInestock aud she
were returning home from a visit to
the city Saturday afternoon and were
just west of the lake, nearly home,
when they CHANGED 10 meet Mr.. Rice |
and men enroute toward the city. |
Again the steed SHE'D, pitching man
and maid out h%eadlong into the wire
fence by the roadside, but outside OF
aifebumping her head and q feRtl
scratches Miss Shaffer was luckily
again no seriously hurt. However,
she feels she will remain at home
or else change horses after this. Mr..
FahnestGck, outside of a few severe
scratches and small cuts, was like
Wise nfinjured, The carriage, how
ever, was badly damaged No blame
IN any way Is attached to Mr.. Rice.
Mrs, Sired Schwaadt called upon