Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-24


your job. Oar goods are or the best.
We employ skilled workInen and our
prices + reasonable. Watertown
Decorating Co, s. Midway. Adv. ItfI
AS this paper went to press last
week, Sheridan township was voting
on the proposition to make q levy
of agfew hundred dollars for the pur-
pose OF lowering the grade on Car
.penter hili--fhe Iii which Is known
far and wide as the mi on which au-
tcmobiles were formerly tested to as
certain their high?gear power as hill
climbers. The hill lis but a mere
knoll compared With some OF the az
cents In the Rocky mountain regions
through which the writer hereof
drove his car last summer, but 1t lis
the longest steep hill In this vicinity.
The proposition to cut down the
grade carried. Mr. Robert Schulz
was mainly instrumental In bringing
this question to q vote, resulting In
an appropriation Of $500 to which
may be added certain automobile;
funds, bringing the whole up to Ave
or six hundred. The city has already
graded the road leading up to the
foot Of the hill. IT Is expected to cut
down the hill top and to do more or
less filling Immediately south Of the
crest.
We expect to have a new show
case out shortly so that you can find
us more easily. We are oyer Duff
ner's drug store on Kemp avenue
the place to get LIS pictures In three
styles TOR $3.50. Gray's Studio. 4stf
Brookings merchants are emulate
ing the example OF those OF Water
town and some of the other cities
regarding advertising. The mer-
chants OF Watertown, so far as the
Merchants association is concerned,
do not contract or arrange for adver-
Using or accept advertising solicited
by other than newspapers unless the
advertising scheme lis first approved
by a committee OF the association.
This system was adonted to head off
Ia lot Of advertising fakes, engineered
for the most part by outside solicit
Iors. Nothing but newspaper adyer.
tising and personal advertising gas
with association members. All OF
the schemes to get q number OF adj
yertisers on cards, so-called time Ia
b1es, programs, etc, etc, are given
the go-by by the Watertown Merch.
ants association, and that's what the
Brookings merchants are seeking TO
lido. AT a recent meeting OF the as
ISOLATION in WATERFOWL, after trying
the present system for two years, IT
was unanimously voted to continue
this policy.
Our 81 soft Hat lis the best hat
value for the money we have ever
seen. Match II, IL you can, for the
money! Calmenson Clothiers.
a. card from Miss Mabel Grinois,
under date of June 20, from Colorado
Springs. Colo, says: Am having d
glorious trip thus far. The grandest
weather and most wonderful rocks
and mountains. Have been here four
days. Go on towards Salt Lake City
tomorrow morning Miss Grincis,
who is the bOokkeeper and chief as
sistant In the Saturday News Office, is
accompanied by Miss Adah Minard
and Miss Tacy Brown Of this city. and
Miss Alice Traverg OF Gary, and
Mrs. Bertha Helmer of Ohio. But,
speaking Of mountains, at the date
of writing the card, 1T may be said
that the party had not yet seen any,
to speak OF. It,g after one leaves Colo.
RADIO Springs and got into the heart
of the great Rockies that real noun.
tains show up fn all their yastness
and awe. The writer hereof has tray.