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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29

in this neighborhood last .unday.
Are you courteous when you tele-
phone? Etiquette is simply courtesy
and naturally we can be as cour-
teous over the telephone as any
where else, but how many of us are?
Many people have an exasperating
way of asking who is thisg when
someone answers their call whose
voice they do not recognize. Now, it
is really none Of their business who
it is, and if it is a strange The reply
will not enlighten them much. Ask
for the person with whom you wish
to speak. Say, please tell Mrs.
Jones Mrs. Smith wants to speak to
her a moment. In most large bust
ness houses the switchboard operat-
or never answers a call by saying
Hello but repeats the number Of
her phone to show that no mistake
has been made in the connection
And this little bit of business efic-
iency is a very good rule to follow
IN private life, as it often saves much
time and confusion. In talking to
business people, be as brief as pos
|sible for their time is valuable. Do
not impose upon your friends good
nature by telephoning from house or
office without offering to pay for the
call. Above all else, when You phone
,'cut it short Personality. / never
could see the pleasure of gossiping
into a hole in the wall, but 1 know
1t is a temptation to many. Say what
you have to say and get through
with it. Don't keep the wire occu-
pied with aimless chatter when. per
haps, it is urgently needed for an
important message.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29
PARKING THE AUTOMOBILES.

The police in Minneapolis have issued regulations requiring that
automobiles be parked on certain streets in accordance with the
suggestion made by the Saturday News last season for Watertown.
Autos must back to the sidewalks at an angle of about fifty degrees.
This manner of parking cars is sensible-besides it permits a
far larger number Of cars to be lined along the street than when
parked parallel with the curb. line.
The Saturday News has observed with pleasure that for the most
part the people who park their ears in front of the opera houses
are following the system suggested. The ears are either backed in
or headed, in towards the sidewalk at an angle of forty-fve to fifty
degrees. ~
This enables any car to leave without disturbing any other car.
There is no tanning, no deadlocking, no moving Of ears in order to
let the first arrival pull out.
IN all regulations with reference to auto traffic Watertown is in
the Forefront excepting with regard to parking the ears, and in this
it is about eleven years behind the times.
But IL is making progress, even without official action. 1t will
soon get to parking cars according to modern methods.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29

Peter Peterson is the proud owner
Of a new Overland automobile. Hope
you will enjoy 1t, ePte.
Louie Scott Sundayed at home.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. Fred Steele Friday after
noon, May Z.
Mothers Day Will be observed
at the Grace1and church Sunday,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29
BILLY SUNDAY AND JACK JOHNSON.

Some criticism has been INDUCED in concerning the amount of
money which Billy receives for his evangelisic campaigns. For In
stance, at al recent campaign the contributions for Bily,s benefit are
said to have aggregated over fifty thousand dollars.
But we haven't heard any complaint about the amount Of money
which Jack johnson got for standing up for twenty-five rounds be-
Tor Jess Willard. Jacks rounds were three minutes each in dura-
ton. Jack fought u little less than an hour and d hall, and got
thirty odd thousand dollars for it.
Billy Sundays rounds with the devil are generally about two
hours each ~ duration, and Billy manages to get in about seven
rounds q week. Altogether he usually puts in about as much time
u each round IN each campaign as Jack put in with Willard at
Havana inside Of two hours.
Billy Billy fought the devil in Philadelphia recently for several
weeks, ana got hfty odd thousand. Jack fought jess for an hour or
so and got thirty odd thousand.
We are not herein saying whether Billy got more than he de-
served at Ph1iadelphia or whether Jack got less at Havana, but for
the hours actually spent in fighting il appears that Billy hasn't
been getting as much as jack.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29

Mrs. b.: They had their wed
ding rehearsal last evening"
Mr.. b.: sYes; they are now sup
posed to be prepared for the worst
Record.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29

May g.. Services begin 1T II d. M.
"A cordial invitation is extended to
lall to attend.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-29
RfcHLAND.

Miss Edith Savage has Just closed
another successful term Of school in
district 80.
Bert Lewis and family, A. D. Os-
trander and children. VIM. Dstrander
and family and Hal Lemon and fam
fly were entertained at the Z. G.
Lewis home Sunday.
". Wishard and family We're cali
+ at the John Molln home Sunday.
RiliIl! rain, plenty Of rain these
days.
Fred Brownell, who had the meas
les, is able to be out again.
The members of the Wellington
family are all able to be out again.
Lulu Lemon is among the sufferers
with emasles. as also is Georgia
Croft.
The Misses Almetta and Nina
Molln spent Sunday at the G. Wing
home, the guests Of Miss Margaret.
Mr.. and Mrs, Eli Oleson went TO
the city Monday.
Harold Wing wen to Troy Satnr-
day to bring home his sister, Anna,
who closed her school Friday.
Jas Reddy and family went to the
city Monday.
A1metta Molln Is assisting Mrs.
Jas. Reddy clean house at the pres
ent time.
An kinds OF WATERFOWL city prop
erty and farm lands Tor sale or ex-
change. S A Shnpe. Watertown,
D.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
Cash in Bank Vaults.

Cash in the vaults of the 1871 ma
tional banks representing their con
dition to the comptroller of the cur
rency at the close of business October
81, amounted to 1925, 1853, 1895, an in
crease over the amount of September
12, of $21,S46, 026.
Individual deposits on the same day
amounted to SCOTS, S94,617, a decrease
of $50, 1S6, 662. The u and la
bilities of the reported banks were
placed at $11, 492, ASP, 722, with loans
and discounts of $6,316,47S,470, a de-
crease since September IL, of $s4,2SS,-
915.
The amount of clearing house GER
~tificates outstanding in liabilities was
given at $49,911, 900.
The total reserve of the United
States shows a percentage of 21.76 or
$8,059,918 above the legal require
ments compared with $30,396,264 be-
low legal requirements on September
12. In the central reserve cities OF
New York, Chicago and st. Louis, the
deficiency of reserve was reduced to
$2,05O,641, compared with $45 ,209,36
on September 10.
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General Trade Conditions.

Bradstreet's says: Trade currents
run along irregular lines. Retail
trade has been helped by two factors,
holiday buying and cold weather, but
in the larger lines the immediate sit
uation is quiet, rejecting preinventory
conditions plus seasonal slowing down
in Industrial pursuits. At the same
time optimism as to the future is
more in evidence, thanks to lower
rates for money, improvement in finan-
cial markets and the rendering of a
decision in the eastern freight rates.
Incidentally, buying of finished steel
as well as of cotton goods for future
delivery has expanded somewhat, quo
tations being sufficiently attractive to
induce business.
Bank clearings for the week aggre'
gate 1897, 662, 900, a decrease of 12.9
per cent from this week last year
Business failures for the week were
466, against 37s in the corresponding
week last year.
Wheat exports from the United
States and Canada were 9,707,13;
bushels, against 1894, 1o2 in the same
week last year.
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Autocracy in Russia.

The Russian officials are usually
pleasant gentlemen. There is gener
ally an air of Incidence and indiffer
ence present in the Office. There are
many people about, smoking cigar
cites and slipping at their tea, While
this is being done, there may be a
crowd awaiting their attention OF
that of the chief. 1t takes about
three men to do the work OF one.
Each one waits for the orders from
some one else; If orders do not come
it is safest to do nothing. Initiative
will likely be punished. Each one
feels that he is only bound to loyalty
to his chief. In the government It.
self he has no part. II he is ambf
tious, obsequiousness is an excellent
quality. But salaries are small,
money is necessary, and opportuni.
ties for making money out of his of.
fee open up. The official is only
human. Were local self-government
established, there would undoubtedly
be less corruption, for there would
be responsible officials lee at hand
The bureaus in Petrograd would moi
have to be consulted. The bureaus
and ministries would not only be
freed of much detail and annoyance
but blame would not be placed or
them for every fault or neglect Of
lower official.-North American Re
view.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
Shoes for the Student.

For footwear the college girl will
require heavy-soled tramping boots OF
ton calf, two pairs Of buttoned boots.
one pair having contrasting material
in dressy style, mi pair Of evening
slippers to match her evening frock
and a pair of smart black pumps for
wear on ordinary evenings with the
dinner costume. 1t Is better to pro.
vide buttoned boots than pumps for
day veal with all costumes, for the
little freshman will be apt to dash
out of doors in all sorts Of weather,
perfectly regardless of her f~oot-cover.
ing. Sometimes the uncarpeted floors
and the halls Of a large school or
college building are drafty also, and
the buttoned boot offers more protec.
ton to the ankles Besides these
items of footwear the various shoes
for athletic sports must be included In
the list.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
JAIL CITY OFFICIALS.
MOST EVERY MEMBER OF ADMIN
ISTRATioN AT TERRE HAUTE,
INDIANA, ARRESTED.
CORRUPTED LAST ELECTION
dictments by WhoIes aIe-IncIudes
Sheriff, Mayor and TWO Judges
Sounds Like Political Spite.

Indianapolis, individually every
member of the city administration OF
Terre Haute, Indiana, was in the
hands of United States authorities
Saturday night as a result of the
wholesale arrests on indictments
charging a conspiracy to corrupt the
election of November 3 last.
Ninety-three men were under ar
rests and more warrants are to be
served.
Over q persons, including Mayor
Don M. Roberts, who is a candidate
for the democratic nomination for
governor in 1916; Dennis Shea, sheriff
of Vigo county; Circuit Judge Eli H.
Redman, City Judge Thomas Smith
and other leading Terre Haute poll
ticians we're taken into custody.
Failing to furnish bonds of 100000
demanded by United States Marshal
Mark Storen, Mayor Roberts was in.
cluded in a party of the prisoners who
had to go to Jail. The others we're re
leased on bonds ranging from $500 tc
$1O,0 900 each. Sheriff Shea and Judge
Redman were given their freedom Oh
bonds of $40, 900 each.
Almost the only important officia
of Terre Haute that has not been ar
rested by federal authorities is Ed
ward Hotter, chief of police. Chic
Hotter is now serving a sentence IL
the Vigo county Jail for contempt O
court. Frank c. Daily, United States
district attorney for Indiana, who con
Quoted the investigation which re
suited in the Grand jury indictments
said that Hotter vas among those in
dicted, and that he probably would no
be arrested until he had completes
his sentence in the Vigo Jail.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
Americans May Buy Ships.

What is to become of the $50 or
more German merchant vessels Great
Britain has seized? Some the prize
court will release; others some man
or company that has capital will be
able to buy in part or entire. In the
shipping circles of Liverpool and of
New York men are talking of an An
glo-American alliance, in which Amer.
leans will furnish a large part of the
money for the purchase of the vessels,
The plan provides that the new own
ers shall place the vessels under the
American flag and establish new
steamship lines, especially in South
America.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01

guarding in their depths silent pools,
where rare waterfowl nest, their harsh,
unfamiliar cry borne on the wind to
the p~asser-by. Finally this reedy wa
terway gives place to an open mere,
and here the boatman deftly raises his
sail and skins acros to the village
silent, shrouded in its trees, and hav
ing an ~inexpressible sense of remote
ness Of all the delightful experiences
that a visit to Holland holds in store
there is nothing quite like the passage
of the gray cleaning waters of this
Friesland mere, which divulges, as ii
were, the village of Giethoorn.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01

houses. prosperous-looking, well-kept
and of a fair size, seclude themselves
each one in it's W garden. A narrow
path runs beside the water, which is
crossed by high rickety-looking wood
en- bridges, raised above the water. SO
as to allow of the passage of a punt
pole beneath them. The whole place
is like a bower of green. The people
themselves are no more apparent than
some woodland animal; h only
events that ever happen here are a
wedding or a funeral procession, which
both alike must make their way down
the silent green streams. The village
has it's moment of life when the chill
dren come out of school and play on
the narrow footpath, or run and crowd
with a skill born of long practice over
the narrow plank bridges which cross
the intersecting canals.
Not the least attractive part of the
visit to Giethoorn is the journey there,
The point of departure is the charming
little town of Meppel, halfway be-
| tween Zwolle and the more northern
towns of Friesland. Without having
any historic or antiquarian
lions, Meppel has an engaging lndl'
viduality of it's own, and it is surround
ed by pleasant country and many
hedges. Some distance from Meppel
is a village called Wanneperveen, and
here a boat must be taken to Giet.
hoorn. The boats are rough punts that
will take a mast and sail, and are
manned generally by a delightful old
fisherman, picturesque and primitive
as his tarry little craft. At first the
stream winds among meadows. her il
slowly widens into a broad expanse OF
reeds that whisper and bow in the
wind, apparently inaccessible and
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
ONE VIEW OF DiHAN

it as Athena Parthenos protected Ath-
ems. Parame, Saint-Enogat, Saint Bri
&C, Saint Lunaire, Saint-Servan are
around ~grim-looking Saint-Malo, like
so many delicate, dainty flowers
grouped around an imposing old oak.
All these last named places are, in the
warm season, filled with summer
guests.
But the most ~frequented, fashiona'
BILE and delightful place of the emer'
aid coast is Dinard, where hordes OF
good hotels, rich villas and gardens,
and any number of pleasures attract
the best American, English and
French people, both in summer and in
winter. AS soon as the ason at
Deauville is finished, it is to Dinard
that the social functions progress.
Dinard is filed with charming villas
and resembles a landscape from
dreamland. 1t is the laughing city
where the fashionable ones, both
French and foreign gather to enjoy
life at its best. There are dinners,
receptions, five-o'clock teas, artistic
matinees, galas and soires-altogether
a whirlwind of elegance with pretty
women wearing the latest novelties In
gown and all else that charms and
fascinates ones Imagination. Mrs.
Hughes Hallett, who has lived in Din.
ard for a number of years, is the soul
Of the fashionable life there.
There is a charming new casino at
\ nfnarI uIN,1 La11- a@ao@-A- 1r1 hnn.
carat parties are given and which has
a good restaurant attached. There
are also any number of first-class no
tells, among the best of which is, OF
course, Mr.. Ruhls Hotel Royal, stu.
ated right on the sea front, with
charming grounds, beach and garden.
The Bretons are an Alpine or Celtic
race, very dark and short, They have
brown or black hair, light or lark
brown eyes, rounded faces and .hick'
set figures.
Brittany's Place in History.
In ancient times Brittany, under
the name Armorica, was the seat o.
~confederated Armorican tribes, who
were of Celtic and Cymric origin
Traces of them remain in the ole
Cymric dialect of the three most west
erly departments, and the numerous
so-called Druidical monuments to be
found in that section.
Under the Romans, the country was
made the Provincial Lugdunensis; anC
for two centuries was prosperous I'm
der the Roman peace" But in tn,
disorders of the third century A. D. i
suffered severely, and was reduced al
most to a wilderness. 1t was repeo
|, pied by numerous immigrations from
Great Britain caused by the Anglo
Saxon invasion of the fifth and sixth
!, centuries, and then it's name wa
changed to Brittany.
, The little province suffered severe
ly from numerous invasions for Ger
turtles, and the question whether Brit
/ tany was a vassal state of France wa
, the cause of many battles.
t Finally, after many treaties Britain
} was declared incorporated wit
, France in 1882 by Francis I. 1t RI
tanned a local parliament until the oui
} break of the revolution. During tn
revolution, Brittany, which was In
{ tensely loyal to the Bourbons, wa
the arena of sanguinary conflicts, an
especially Of the uprising of the Cho,
ans. who last r%eappeared in 1880.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
400 Men Killed in Poland Wreck.

London.-A Reuter- dispatch from
Warsaw says that 400 men were killed
and 500 wounded in a collision be.
tween troop and hospital trains at
Kalisz, Poland. An investigation dis
closed that the railway switch had
been changed at the last moment.
The station master, switchmen and
others are under arrest.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
War Has Hit Colombia.

Europe's war has caused trouble in
Colombia. Exchange rose 10000 per
ZEN ($10S in paper to 81 in gold, and
still shows a tendency to 60 up. All
prices for goods are high. There il
believed to be opportunity for the
United States here.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
How Electric Shock kills.

Doctors have decided that an cleo.
trio shock kills a man by destroying
the rhythm of the heart beats and act.
ing upon the lungs like an overdose of
an a~nesthetic.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
Keep Tab on Fireman.

Electrical apparatus to be attached
to a locomotive fire box door has been
invented by a st. Louis man to record
the times that a fireman shovels on
coal.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01

Chicago.-The year just passed was
Chicagc's ~healthiest, with a death rate
of 14.17 to each 1000 population.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01
WIN Have Great Pressurs.

The worlds greatest hydroelectrio
project, planned for India. win deliver
water to the turbines at a pressure Of
csc pounds to the square inch.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01

actually put into effect till more than
ten years later. 1t took three years
continual pumping to drain the Haar-
lemer Nicer, but the reclaimed and
was quickly taken up by cultivators.
Now it is some of the most fertile
country in Holland. 1t may be easily
distinguished on the map by its being
marked out in squares with blue lines
for the intersecting canals, and even
driving through it the visitor cannot
help noticing the rectilinear character
of its roads. Straight as they are,
these roads are very pleasant in spring,
especially when they traverse the side
of a broad canal fringed with water
plants in flower, yellow iris and pink
towering rush; understanding, unfre-
uuented roads, the haunt of rare birds,
fit prelude to the enchanted village OF
Aalsmeer. Aalsmeer itself Is now In
t~ersected by a road, but at the point
where it crosses a bridge a charming
vista opens on either side. Right and
left. as far as the eye can reach,
stretches the narrow towing-path that
forms the village high-road of Aals-
meer with canals on either side of it.
The houses, which appear sometimes
To he actually encircled by water, are
connected with this towing path by
nlank swing bridges. These are SO
constructed that a touch from the
nunt-pole of an approaching barge
sends them back alongside Of the bank.
leaving a free passage on the water
NOV The houses themselves are sur
onnde by trees and trim gardens.
Nothing could be prettier than this vii
laea nothing could have a more unique
charm. The people themselves are
mite in the picture, for these remote
viuagers have preserved, in several In
s~tances. a digni1ed, beautiful type and
!. stately and primitive simplicity.
Famed for Its Roses.
like Aalsmeer, the more modern
water-yillage of Boskoop has its horti
cultural industry. Boskoop is every
wbare famous for its roses; 1t is more
accessible and far less poetic thar
Aalsmeer. Besides roses, azaleas an6
rhododendrons are grown here; but
roses are the principal product. Al
ready between three and four million
plants are annually produced for sale
and the industry is a growing M
The remote Friesland village of Giet
hoorn is of quite a different type. Here
lthere is no industry to bring 1t int
contact with the outside world, no rail
way. and, except on n side. no road
Tall trees shade its waterways oil
either side, and throw deep green re
a~ections upon their still surfaces. Tn
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-01

NolCi NAlla6Oo nave IA IdoAAJ
-utnlng else. One of the best-known
of these is Aalsmeer. 1t may be at
tanned by the prosaic means of the
railway, though the mar OF sentiment
will prefer to approach its idyllic
shores by boat, or, at least, by road,
especially as the way to it leads
through some of the most interesting
and distinctive country in Holland.
For Aalsmeer lies on the edge of the
district known as the Haarlemer mere.
a rich and fertile tract of land, which
was covered a hundred years ago by a
dangerous and stormy inland sea,
formed in the fifteenth century by
foods from the River Rhine and the
Y. Gradually this great lake spread
till it became a menac to Leiden,
HARLEM, Amsterdam and even
Utrecht, and keeping the necessary
bikes and sluices in order became a
heavy burden in labor and expense. II
was into these waters that 800 of the
citizens of Harlem were thrown, tied
back to back, in the b%utchery by the
Spaniards that took place after its
siege and capitulation in the winter OF
1878.
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Great Engineering Feat.

Draining this large tract of land was
SO great a feat of engineering that
though 1t was suggested by a Dutch
man called Leeghwater as early as the
seventeenth century, it was not under
taken till after 1886, when a more
than usually violent storm had caused
great destruction of property from
foods. Even then the scheme was not