Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-12-31
State News

The state association OF abstract
.ors will hold its annual meeting at
Pierre on January 8 and 6.
Governor Byrne gave Henry Han
son OF Corson county a Christmas
present in the way of q pardon from
his sentence of two years on a con-
viction of embezzlement committed
in that county.
Mrs. Merle Fox of LeBeaU, suffer-
ing from a severe headache, arose in
the night and took a quantity of what
she believed to be headache medicine.
She got hold of the carbolic acid bot
tie instead. and died in a short time,
The Masons OF Howard have just
completed their e temple at a cost
of approximately $4,000. 1t is two
| stories and basement, with matted
brick front and Kasota stone trim
mings. 1t Is 74x3a in size.
L An automobile and trade show is
to be held at Huron January Is to %.
Practically all OF the available space
in the auditorium, the largest hall in
ClIys dlItduyS udS Occu CSSis co
Iby automobile dealers, jobbers Of auto
accessories and pure food exhibitors.
Henry Kahl claims to have the rec
ord in the matter of husking corn in
which viii be eQualed in very few inc
stances in South Dakota He huskeds
144 bushels and 16 pounds in one day,
Iur,rrG;po oy11y @d,,rfnp dav{iphf q" E 8
r. F--
The new $4,000 city hall building
Fat Clear Lake has been completed
and now is ready for occupancy.
Members of the commercial club and
tthe local volunteer fire department
are arranging for the suitable dedica-
ltion of the new structure.
Judge J. d. Elliott of the federal
lcourt has appointed William Paulton
lof Sioux Falls to be receiver for the
carpenter hotel property at Sioux
lFalls. 1t is understood that the ac-
ton grew out of an effort on the part
of interested parties to have q change
ofGmanagement of the hotel.
Redield sportsmen are backing a
plan to sink two artesian wells 6or
/ the D Of supplying Cottonwood
flake, near Redfield, with water, after
which it will be stocked with fish;
iCottonwood is a. perfectly good lake.
Iifsit only had some watersin it. The
cost of sinking the artesian wells
Twill be about $4,000
THE marriage of statefSsnator Glen
Waters andsssMiss Carolyn Waite oc-
Icurred at Miller Monday afternoon.
i The bride S. an elocutionist and q
! suffragist speaker of considerable
inote. They departed for trip east
aud will return In time;forfthe slegist
latiye session. assa
The town Of Huffman is no more. It
was situated not far from Lake City.
1sthe new town on the extension 81
1.-THE Fairmountt q Vebien railroad ana
4 soon after the railroad reached Lake
tCity, the business institutions Of Ian
| man, started to move overland TO the
new town oss's. stadI3sI rev none p the1n
are l Aehs Il Il Ma
Dick Halliday Of the Iroquois Chief /
Hcomplafns that he vi q a
IDeSmet as q witness In case ~ Jus
tice court the other day, and that ne ne
Il received but $15Sfor the day, though
witnesses In circuit court receive ",
/ Dick cannot see why b q 4
witness In justice court isn't as val
liable I'D the time OF q witness ~ CIT
cult court.
Circuit court at Yankton has beer
busyth past week with ditch cases
to theIlmber of forty-tWn, ca1Tyahg
a total damage claim 81 SsV.gVV a
growing outspf the proposed fanKlon:
IClay county ditch mllss
Long. -Four cases Inry & any nno
verdictE varying ron $2.oov g to. b, Ivy ~
for cliaAlnantssWere 1a,s
ance 1f the cases were ols IIn9
settled out Of court.
The Mitchell Republican claims g
Rave discovered the champion LONG
ldistancecorn hiisker ofstne sass ~
lives onsrural route number serVeo
by a Mitchell carrier, accordlng "
the report In thirty days ne haskeo
100 acres OF corn, without ASSISTANCE,
THE Il 8 totaled 3,Sb4 busaeis anu
his average was l1fk q Say
his highest days work pelng -
bushels and his lowest Ivy BUSINESS
His name Is Waugh. Who's the next
Fort Pierre reports a hummer 81
the Identities In the hohss g
that place. whose homes are giefii
the boundaries OF the counties 8
Jackson and Haakon, as out MAXIM
Hal hustia o positions as olficers g
the new counties at the electlon &