Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-08-12

Bishop Biiler of the Episcopal Cal
| vary cathedral gave a lecture, The
! Task of the Church in South Dakota
at the Methodist church in Sioux
| Falls recently. He pointed out the
mistake made in sending the poorer
class OF preachers to the small towns
in the state. His opinion was that
| these less able men should be in the
! larger cities, whilsHhe better men
! should be in the sh4Ql towns.
Al a meeting of the business men
OF MIilbank steps were taken to hold
| some sort If a celebration in the
| town In the fall, and committees were
TO solicit funds for the pur-
rose. II has not yet been decided
What sort of celebration will be held,
but ii is planned to make it a good
sone, whatever it may be.
S~eyenty-ive men have signed the
petition for the organization OF a
company of the South Dakota Ma
tional Guard at Webster, and the Pc
titiou has been forwarded to Adjutant
General Norris at Redfield. The
company has been organized with the
elecl:cn of j. C. Merrick, captain, N.
c. McElvain, first lieutenant and
Walker Arthur, second lieutenant.
Manor Randolph of Redfield found
a loud talking individual on the
street and escorted him to the police
station. where he was surprised to
discover that the stranger was an
old classmate in the University of
Nebraska, and about ten years ago
was a prominent member of the Uni
yersitv football team. The mayor
gave his old classmate some good ad-
vice. discharged him from custody,
and found him a job.
Dry farming is in tn ediscard III the
western part of this state this year.
Last year the Milwaukee road sent
out machinery to several points along
its line between Chamberlain and
Rarji City to demonstrate dry farm
ing methods, but this year is hauling
the same machinery out of the coun-
try as ii is drainage instead OF moist
ure conservation which is the chief
desire Of the west river farmers at
this stage in their farming operations
AS an evidence of the cream indus
try in South Dakota the receipts from
licensed cream buyers for the quarter
ending July / shows payments OF over
$1,000. which at the rate of 10 cents
per thousand pounds, the license I'M
posed. demands the handling OF an
immense amount of cream for that
quarter. The average quarterly coll
lections range from 5000 to $500 prior
to this year, and the increase SHOWN
means a big increase in cream pro-
ductiOn.
The people of Fort Pierre are maxi
ing preparations for their big annual
event of the Stanley county old sett
tiers meeting to be held on the 18th
and 18th of this month. They have
arranged a program of sports 1nciud-|
ing ball games and races OF various
kinds. They have secured Or-l
VILE Rinehart, of Rapid City, prom
inently mentioned as a democratic!
candidate for governor; and George
w. Egan, of Sioux Falls, on the re-
publican side for their speakers.
South Dakota holds an unusually
good record for productivity, but It
is claimed by many that all records
have been broken in this year OF big
crops. And a Roberts county man
claims to have broken the record for
twenty-four hour period. On the
P. a. Dahl farm, of which James a
lage is foreman, there recently ar
rived, within a period of tWenty-four
hours. One boy, twelve chickens,
calf, one colt and fifteen duck
lings.
One of the new wooden caterpillar
tread contraptions for use on the bulf
wheel of a binder in cutting grain IN
wet and muddy fields was made at
Parkston and put in a field west OF,
town for use, but was made too smali
for the binder, so could not be used.
This difficulty is being overcome, and
it will be used again. There is no
question but that it will work perfect
" when the right size for the bin
der, and the farmers there are In
terested.