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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
DIR. 0Str0m and His Work

from some Methodist member.
Mister, whether in political party,
in lodge, club, Or church or business,
don't carry a little hammer for the
other fellow or his crowd, unless you
are mighty sure they need its use
and are fully able TO take such treat
ment in return. A booster is worth
a hundred knockers.
For the sake OF the argument adj
NIT the Methodists are simply build
ing in order thai they may beat the
other sects a little land We truly
doubt if this be true iii any censur-
able sense at an, we would not give
much for a man in any business, in
any party, in any lodge, in any club.
in any church. who didn't have a
reasonable, n proper, Il healthy royal
loyalty in him. We would rather
have a company of patriots to fight
a battle for their land and homes
than five regiments Of hirelings or
men with no loyalty or zeal,
There is nothing wrong in a decent
amount of lively, Jealous, energetic
anywhere, ut any time in any
proper thing. II spells success, 1t
means progress.
But, be that as it may we do know
that every fine church edifice, every
good schoOlhouSe. every hospital,
every hall, every nice building of any
kind, office, business, professional, ed
lcational, religious, for homes or for
recreation that is equipped and used;
every block that is paved every park
that is beautified, everything done to
improve any public facility; every
rec that is planted, every rose bush
set out and cared for, is just that
much an improvement to the city,
boosts for Watertown just thatmuch,
I'D Rertises sometimes nightly, and
enhances every dollar of public or
property in the city limits or
he surrounding territory.
And, Mr.. Editor, we are through.
That which we had in us, is out. If
because Of length or because of un-
OF thought this letter is
deemed worthy of a place in your
paper, the waste paper bas-
is at your elbow, yawning wide
o receive it; and, ah! what tales
he waste baskets of editors and pub.
could relate.
Sincerely.
Geo. P. B. Kendall.
|
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
BLIND GIRL SUDDENLY
RECEIVES HER SIGHT

Al veritable miracle has come to
Miss Maud Emerson Lincoln of Mar
hlehead, Mass, who after twenty-one
years OF life in almost total darkness,
says a dispatch, suddenly gained the
use OF her eyes. Practically blind
from her birth, she now sees clearly.
In an instant, one early afternoon,
she felt something suddenly snap in
her eye and the veil that had dark
ened her blue eyes throughout her
youth was swept away and sight came
first to one eye and then to the other.
She had always been able to distin-
guish between light and darkness but
today she can see as we'll as any
normal being. When the girl began
to see, she almost fell into nervous
prostraton. Her whole nervous sys-
tenn had a reaction from the miracle.
The sight OF people frightened her,
the sight Of food was strange every
where she turned she saw strange
things.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25

was to assist her ally, Great Britain;
vet the latest dispatches indicate that
England is now greatly concerned
lest Japan help herself too freely CT
Chinese territory, even before the pie
counter has been set.
It is likewise intimated that, if Rus
STA should become firmly installed in
Constantinople, she might suddenly
plead exhaustion, and make a sepa~-
ate peace. There is no harm to re-
call, though, that Russia's humanit
arian reasons at the outset had sim
PTS to do with the protection of little
Seryia.
The brutality and the s~elfishness If
war is only equalled by its hypocrisy.
Minneapolis Journal.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
it made in this period Of eight years

it made in this period OF eight years
was eight-tenths of / per cent.
1t is interesting to read the state
ment OF J. p. Morgan, that all the
house of Morgan made out Of the gi-
gantic transactions with the New Ha-
ven was but one-tenth of 1 per cent
of the par value of the securities ham
died.
But the question is, is this every
thing the bankers got out of the tran
sactions? The public has the impress
sion that in each case there was a
big bonus, beside the regular and le-
Ultimate commissions. AS a matter
of fact, are not these shown profits
SO small that they tend to increase
the public suspicion that they were
supplemented by bonuses of formid-
able size?-St. Paul Dispatch.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
GERMAN SHIPPERS.
How British Are Gradually Getting
Rid of Them.


London.-The annoyance of snipers
TO which the British troops have been
subject ever since they began ooer.
a1ions in France, has now been prac-
tica]ly stopped. according to eye-wit-
ness accounts from British General
Headquarters.
The activities of the eneny's snip
ers," he writes, nave diminished Of
late. owing to the craftsmanship 0.
our aharpshooters. These snipers fire.
quently cover themselves with ferns
or straw so as to render themselves
less easily distinguished when crawl
ing on grass or stubble. At one place
cut Of five German snipers who had
craWled out in front of their trenches
and were trying to annoy us three
were promptly shot dead. At anoth-
er point one of our markSmen recent
ly accounted for six, s~ingle-handed.
Similar rounding up of Shippers by
our patrols is taking place on other
parts of the front and is an encour-
aging indication that this nuisance
is being effectively dealt with"
He adds two other interesting para.
graphs:
"A part of u officers had an ex-
vr%aoTdinary escape. They were on
the point of sitting down to dinner in
a dug-0ut when a bomb from a Ger
man trench mortar landed in their
midst. When the smoke and dust of
the explosion cleared away the dinner
had completely disappeared, but not
a single man a hurt.
AN incident recently occurred on
the left which serves TO show the ma
ture of the present underground fight
ing. An old disused communication
trench which led from one of our
trenches towards those of the enemy
had been blocked by US with a barbed
wire ENHANCEMENT. One night a
party OF Germans cut the entangle-
ment. When this was discovered one
of our men repaired it, and on the
next night lay in wait in the hope
that the enemy would com again.
They were not disappointed. Six
Germans came cautiously up the mar
row trench to the ENHANCEMENT and
were all shot dead at point-blank
The endeavor to get the bet
ter of the enemy in all sorts of little
ways such as this makes up the daily
life of the soldier"
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
WERE THERE NO BONUSES?
What Became of the "Loot" in Ger.
tain Stocks?

tain Stocks?
Some of the big financial concerns
of the east r adopting publicity
methods to get from beneath the load
of accusation that they have made
enormous profits in handling the
large railroad problems of finance.
If they can dispel such belief in the
public mind, it is well that they un-
dertake it, for the impression surely
prevails that more than one large
system has been "milked" or .loot.
ed" by the bankers.
For instance, the concern of Spey-
er & Co. makes the showing that be,
tween 1904 and 1912 it handled $780,.
409. 200 of bonds and notes of the
Rock Island system, and all the profit
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Fruits-Bananar, SC ID.

Fruits--Bananar. SC 10. or.
anges, 81 box. Lemons $500
$50, Cali. grape fruit $3.50.
Pineapples, sc Id; currants,
$1.25; cantaloupes, 81 crate;
loganberries. ST.; aprIcots, 75c
Yakima cantaloupe. 25c@$1,
plums, s1.35 @1.50; water
melons, 81 cwt; harvest APP
pies, $3.50 full sized box; Yellow
Transparent apples, $1.75; Yaki-
ma pears, 09c@$1; grapes. Red
Treming, $1.25 crate; Huckleber-
ries, Sc; prunes, soc box; crab
apples, goo soc box; oranges.
$3.50 box; lemons, 81; Bartlett
pears, 50@75c box; Gravenstein
apples, 75c box.
Vegetables-Onfons, red. $1.2s;
yellow. $3.50; lettuce, 81: ruta-
bagas. s1.S5 sack; carrots. SITS:
potatoes. Canadian. $35: cab
bages, NC Id; Ore. cauliflower,
$2.35 crate; chill peppers. $2.35:
green corn. zoe doz; potatoes, ec3
cwt; tomatoes. 35c box; egg
plart. SC.
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exchange. The show Is held
after breakfast Sunday morning.
The convicts own an elaborate
motion picture machine, together
with the screen, piano, phono-
graph, 100 large records, and all
their baseball paraphernalia. They
even have uniforms for the two
ball teams.
These articles have been pur-
chased from an entertainment
fund which is built up from the
bank interest on money brought
to the institution when prisoners
are committed. Six per cent in
terest on all the money of the
prisoners, has swelled the fund to
goodly proportions. And Uncle
Sam has no claim or title to any
of the prisoners recreative ma
chimes or paraphernalia.
The prison pianist is a profess
sional musician. For several
months Tacoma bank clerk, an
accomplished pianist, held the
place, but he turned the job over
when the musician arrived.
Convicts keep up with modern
affairs by reading all ate maya
zines and newspapers-if they
are No. prisoners-and the
principal desire of the 240 pris-
oners now is to view the famous
Mt. Tacoma film-"Four Hours
From Tacoma to the Glaciers"
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No prison officials take part In
the games, the players, umpire,
coaches, water boy and bat boy
all being prisoners. And there
never yet has been an unruly
scene. at game, according to
guards.
Baseball isn't the only recrea-
ton that the convicts at McNeil's
island federal penitentiary enjoy
They have moving picture
shows concerts, photograph re-
citals, and amateur theatricals.
And although it may seem at
first glance that these men who
have been sent to McNeil's island
asa punishment are being given
too many enjoyments, Warden
Halligan has found recreation is
the most successful means of
maintaining discipline.
Prisoners are ranked by num-
ber-on,e two and three, accord
ing to their conduct. A prisoner
who has violated some minor
prison rule is given mo. g." A
prisoner not allowed to leave his
cell, is no. g."
There is only one No. 3, and
only two No. 2 conviets!
Five reels of latest motion
pictures are sent to the prison
free each week by Seattle film
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-01
Prisoner Throws Ball So Hard
He Breaks Arm; Amusements Are
Best Means Of Discipline, Say

(This Is the third of a series of
articles about life at the big Nc
NeiFs island prison. Out of con-
sideratiOn to the prisoners, many
of whom will finish their terms
soon, names are Ommitted. - Ed
itOr.)
BY Il. A. PETERS.
Did you ever hear of a base
ball player breaking his arm by
oyer-ambition to throw a ball
swiftly?
1t happened at the McNeil's ISL
and prison a few days ago, and
it has been a big topic of con-
versation ever since.
Convict No. -, right fielder
on the Giants" team, caught a
slow grounder and tried to hurl
Star" runners out at first. He
made such a terrific heave that
his right arm snapped between
the elbow and shoulder. The
game was stopped until the
player could be taken to the pris-
on hospital.
Convict No. - had only a
few days to serve, and his arm
was in splints, just beginning to
knit, when his time was up. The
prisoner was so tickled over the
expiration of his sentence that he
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started at once for Tacoma, tell
ing prison officials that he would
take a chance on his arm healing
later.
The "Giants" and STARS" are
two crack baseball teams at Nc
Neil's. The Giants" are COM
posed of the best players of Cell
House No. 1, the original peni-
Tertiary, and the STARS" are
formed of players in he new cell
house, No. 2.
Every Friday afternoon the
two teams clash for honors on
the diamond. Every prisoner In
the institution who wears a No.
/ on his prison suit-the number
standing for his rating as good
prisoner-sits in the grandstand
and roots for his favorite club.
During the last six months a
crew of civil engineers, graders,
landscape gardeners and baseball
experts-all convicts-have built
ball field inside the pen en-
closure that has anything of it's
kind in the west beaten a city
block. The diamond is smooth
as floor, and the grounds are
one-half larger than Athletic
park in Tacoma.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.-
The medical profession is extend
ing its wonderful healing pousya
to the dumb animal world.
The old idea that a brute must
die IL 1t were MANNED or famed,
or suffering from any physical i'll
is fading with the old-time hallu-
cinations born of thoughtfulness.
One of the most remarkable, ~.
stances of surgical aid applied to
a four-footed creature took place
In Los Angeles.
The patient was an elephant.
The operation was a difficult
one upon the great, awkward an
imaPs jaw.
Two growths which threat
ened to prove fatal to the unfor-
tunate beast, and which gave him
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many hours of intense suffering,
were removed by aid of the knife.
The creature, ton and half
of him, wasn't the easiest patient
the skillful surgeons ever oper-
ated upon. But he was one of
the most grateful.
After the wound had been
dressed and the poor beast under
stood. from the cessation of pain,
shat he had been wonderfully
helpsd, he dropped down ON his
knees and pushed his great
rough-surfaced head out to be
scratched. This is a fashion he
has learned from his keeper fol-
lowing special treat of sugar
or other favoned dainty.
"Tweedledum". Is the name OF
the elephant who II q valuable
trick animal.
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Canadian War Prisoners Are
Happy, Light-Hearted Bunch
BY HARRY PAYNE BURTON
Passed by the Canadian Censor)

ID HhNtI ~ ~ nsphoN
PASSED by the Canadian Censor)
BRANDON. Manitoba, Sept. 1.
i have Just been granted the
privilege-and for the first time
that 1t has been accorded an
American writer - of going COM
pletely through the great German
internment camp at Brandon.
When ! started my tour of in
spection with Capt. (deleted by
the eensor) the commanding Off
GER of the camp, the recreation
hour was just beginning for the
prisoners, who had but lately re-
turned from their morning tramp
outdoors.
Here in the arena ITSELF" said
Capt. -, as we started, you
will not get at the typical case.
You will see the mob spirit pre-
vailing, and like all other mob
spirit, 1t is mostly animal. But !
like to see that the animal spir-
its of these men is high, because
| think 1t means that they are not
plotting mischief and are light
hearted and in good physical con-
dition, all of which | want to see
here"
And in deed, judging by their
actions, these prisoners of the Do
minion are in most excellent con-
dition, mentally and physically. In
the great oval all sorts of games,
gymnastics contests and amuse-
ments were being carried on.
Come with me to Nhmber
320's home" said Capt. -,
land let me show you this case.
how (deleted by the censor) has
made his bit of Canadian skating
rink to blossom like a cottage in
tho Schwarzwald!"
Capt. was right. IS
nook most certainly represents
the greatest triumph of the Ger
man home instinct over the Ca.
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madam environment which Bran
don barracks affords. He had
left nothing English in sight ex-
cept the blankets, and even they
seemed TO have taken on a Teu-
tonic air!
You simply can't stop them
from working at something" said
Capt. -. I'VE keep them
busy most of the time with the
camp work itself, but the min
ute they get a little leisure they
are busy, like here, MAX
ing picture frames and cuckoo
yiolins and toys
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year. She is graduate of Smith
college and of Pittsburg training
school. She succeeds Miss Emily
Caskey, who recently resigned to
become married to Sidney John
ston.
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hERf$S{ANpAfL5fWhfRt

Well, well, rain In August at
last. But rainfall in Tacoma SO
far this year is Is inches shy of
normal.
Smelt are i'm the market from
Puget Sound-much better than
the Columbia river variety.
Mclean the contract mover.
Main 1850. adv"
u. S. has its greatest trade bal
ance in whole history.
Canadians accused of grating
on the government with war sup
plies held on $4,000 bond, $685.
600 of which is personal.
STANLEY BELL PRINTING co.
adv"
Cholera outbreaks are reported
in many populous sections Of Ger
many.
Real Whole Wheat Health
Bread. Duenwald's, 313 18th.
VT adv"
Kate Larber, 13-year-old girl of
Baltimore, has never had any
food but coffee. She drinks 20
cups day. She has never been
able to attend school, and does
not care much for play.
Cut flowers and floral works.
HIM, florist, So. 9TH and X. adv.
u. 8. will put out booklet next
year, edited by experts, which will
tell all about Mt. Tacoma.
Bill Taft tells Japanese Mt 'Fris-
co fair that this country and
theirs must always be good pals.
Genuine Flynn's Health Bread.
sold mt Crescent Butter Store,
f1O4 Market Sc. adv. !"
- 4.
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fearing, in the German way, that
he had spoken too freely in the
presence of an officer. We did
also, and. out of hearing, Capt
--- said. 1T really is pretty
hard on them. Most of these
chaps here are all right at heart,
I'm sure. But you know they
talked too much or tried to get
to the States to get work and
there was nothing to do but shut
them up. God knows there ARE
so many real spies about that we
cant afford to take single
chance
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IL get me SO lonesome
here smiled conf
dentially. ~ make these
things, and l think me then
on my home. There where
Is my mudder and my four
brothers - maybe. And
maybe again they are now
all shot in the krieg. I can
not know. They make 1t
now i'm Canada so no letters
come from Coburg. IL is
hard for me, YOU think So
yes?"
lie turned away, suddenl
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Wholesale Hay and Grain
Prices

Glover. s16@17: alfalfa. $14
@15; corn, $39; wheat, $50
81; whole barley, $50; rolled
oats, 500; bran, $28.
Hops, 1915 contracts, nominal.
100 lac; 1914 crop. lie; olds.
12@13c.
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WHOLESALE
QUOTATIONS
Prices Paid Producers For
Meats, Butter. Eggs, Poultry

Livestock - Cows, 406hc;
hogs. ga q Sc; lambs. &c; dress
ed hogs. 12c: steers, 7@7hc;
heifers, 6h07Ac; dressed veal.
col
Butter and Eggs-Ranch but.
ter, 29@30c; strictly fresh ranch
eggs, 2S @ 30c.
Poultry - Chickens, dressed
16@ 1Sc; ducks, 12c; squads,
$3.50; rabbits, 5000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-01

SEATTLE, Sept AFTER lively chase blocks.
who thought
after attempting to hold street
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Single mill re-opens at McIn
tosh, near Centralia.
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a3!!SsuRkTED.
MAGNESlA.

For dyspepsia, indigestion,
souring of food, gas, and hyper
acidity of the stomach (acid
stomach. A teaspoonful in
fourth of a glass of hot water
usually gives INSTANT RELIEF.
Sold by all druggists in either
powder or tablet form at 30 cents
per bottle.
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HE'D TAKE JOB

PORTLAND Ore Sept Col George W. Cocktails passing
through Portland said that he would
ing the of the city, by Benson
multmlonare who claims the city losing $1,000
commission form of administration
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Attorney for Joe PARROT, ac-
cused Of murder of Fred Weiss,
Olympia tailor, files affidavits to
support an alibi.
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| Selling Prices TO Retailers
For Butter, Eggs and Cheese

Cheese--W>shington. 15c; TIL
lamook, 15c.
Eggs-Fresh ranch 28@29c.
Butter-washington creamery.
80 031c.
wholesale Meat Prices.
Fresh Meats - Steers, 11h0
12c; cows. I1011hc; heifers.
11hc; hogs. trimmed sides, Ice;
mutton, wethers. 13c; lamb,
1870; ewes. 101sc.
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GET MORE WAGES

BRIDGEPORT Conn, Sept. 1.-Whle men give
eghthour Co. the strike settled
N Y, when number of machniss making shells allies
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STUDY, DEAD TIRED

capt Hyde of the u s. army coast artillery
at the
result Of Captain ens Bugges suffering
-
After hard the evening
dead tired, aisance m map
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NEW EMPLOYE OF
LIBRARY CHOSEN

-. Miss Virginia Stage, Pullman.
will have charge of the schools
division OF the children's depart
ment Of the public library this
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of Ford Motor Car Co., will visit
Mt. Tacoma Sunday.
German business men offer 10
cents pound for 100000
pounds of cotton.
w. w. Warwick, OhiOan, named
new comptroller of currency.
ALI King, wealthy Chinese mer-
chant, Seattle, who knew all the
prominent white men of early
days on the Coast, kills self in
San Francisco.
John Moe, well known to po-
lice, has leg broken in street
fight.
Kriegerband of North America,
meeting at Minneapolis, pledges
loyalty to the United States,
praises Wilson and denounces T.
r..
HOLSTERS will picnic at 5 p. M.
Saturday at Point Defiance park.
There are 400 of em in Tacoma.
American chemists meet in 51st
convention at Seattle. To study
particularly how to use by-pro-
ducts of N. w. factories.
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TROOPS TO BORDER

WASHINGTON, 1.Secretary Garrison
regiments infantry
lean border reinforce the doing
said that there the
being merely to strengthen Funston.
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RAIN CHECKS fire

PORTLAND Ore, Sept despite the heavy
fell during the
Ing 10mile being a of
bakfrng methods failed
fire. continued thought
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Genuine Flynn's Health Bread.
sold at Crescent Butter Store.
f1O4 Market SC. "adv. .
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Bill Taft tells japanese ut 'Fris-
co fair that this country and
theirs must always be good pals.
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U. 8. will put out a booklet next
year, edited by experts, which will
tell all about Mt. Tacoma.
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Cut flowers and floral works.
HIM, florist, So. 9TH and X. adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-10
PLAYGROUND NOTES.
"The Playground Is the Foundation o
Life"-Throwing the Discus.

Under the rules now in force in this
country, the discus is thrown from a
seven foot circle, the same as is used for
the shot, hammer and 56-pound weight,
The athlete stands at the back of the
circle with his back towards the direc-
ton in which he intends 10 throw. The
right arm is swung back and quick
revolution Of the body is made on the
left foot. Some performers turn twice
before throwing. The discus must be
kept back of the body and the right arm
must follow well out and through at the
end OF the throw.
Discus throwing was unknown In
America until 1890, when the revival Of
the sport at the Olympic games at
Athens and the winning Of the event by
q member Of the American team caused
its introduction on the list of athletic
sports in this country.
The discus is made Of wood, brass and
steel, and il circular in shape. IL Is eight
inches in diameter. about two inches
thick in the middle and half finch thick
at the edges. It's weight j. about four
and a half pounds.
The discusses used on the Fairgrounds