Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-20
TIE ELKS MECCA NEXT WEEK.

THE ELkS MECCA NEAT NfIEk.
In today's edition of the Saturday News is presented a
synopsis OF the elaborate program to be carried out by the
EIks Of WatcrtoWn and vicinity next week. Watertown, the
home of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge
No. S3S, will be the mecca of all loyal Elks residing i'll this part
of the state.
For want Of space in the regular issue, ordinarily com
posed Of eight to twelve pages, we publish and distribute the
Elks' booster supplement of sixteen pages, containing matter
pertaining to the order Of Elks and Memorial day, and the
activities of the Watertown Elks and Sons of Veterans in con-
nccti0n with presenting the Elks minstrel show and the OBJ
serving of Memorial day.
The order Of Elks is American in origin and membership.
1t has come to be regarded as one Of the most prominent Of
have been noted in all metropolitan centers, and especially is
this the case in Watertown and vicinity where special but I'M
ostentatious efforts are put forth during the holiday season
to provide for something in the way OF substantial remem-
brance for those in need.
The Watertown lodge has a membership of business and
professional men and farmers running close to one thousand.
The three days program this year will undoubtedly attract
a large gathering in the city next week: ~
The Italian populace appears to want to become mixed up
IN the hghtng'
With undersea fighters and midair fighters, it will soon be
unsafe for a man to live. "
The man who has political patronage to bestow is al
ways at a disadvantage. There isn't pie enough to go around.
The Federal league is an outlaw-but do the regulars
ever think of the time when George Washington was called
"a rebel and an outlaw?
Well wager a peanut that not a single reader Of the Sat
urday News knows the name Of the president Of Mexico. Re
member we said knouS.
Woodrow Wilson is showing that he has a master mind.
Even Henri Watterson ought to begin to give the 'school
MASTER credit for brains.
If Teddy We're in the White House we'd be already en-
gagged in war with Germany, says somebody. No, we wouldn't
Teddy was IN the White House for approximately eight years
and didn't do a thing!
France is about the only nation engaged IN the war which
isn't Dragging about what it's going to do to the other fell
lows. This indicates one Of two things: that France may yet
win or has run out of typewriters.
AS Colorado court and a Colorado jury has sent a laborite
to the pen for shooting a member Of the national guard. Now,
if the fellows who shot d few laboring men could also be sent
to Join the laborite for the same sort Of offense there might
be some Indication that Colorado intended to deal ont even
handed justice.
The newspaper which discloses its subscription list to the
advertiser is the paper that at pays to advertise In. If a
newspaper refuses to open its subscription books to the most
thorough inspection Of an advertising patron, and invites him
Ito pursue his own course IN ascertaining the reliability Of the
books, it needs to be looked upon with suspicion.
IN Colorado Springs the grand jury deliberated and re-
such things should be done. The commissioners called ii pub
he meeting and met the taxpayers face to face. The whole
Situation was gone over, and the taxpayers resolved that the
commissioners should pay no attention to- the recommends
lions Of the grand jury. The grand jury is a sort Of Law unto
itself. 1T can even submit recommendations for the govern
[ment Of the universe albeit it may have no knowledge Of the
governing forces thereof. Al grand juror, while serving his