Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-01-27
State News

The school house in the Two Bits
district. near Lead, in the Black Hills,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
The cause is unknown.
The state insurance department has.
been taking an inventory of the SCI
curities, principally farm mortgages
filed with their department by South
Dakota fire and life companies, with
a showing of $~2,372,330.
One hundred and ten thousand bush
els of wheat were shipped from the
Doland station to the city markets
during the month of December, and
much more would have been shipped
had it not been for the shortage of
cars.
AT a mass meeting of the citizens
of Lake Norden, it was decided to-
submit to the voters at the regular
spring election a proposition to issue
bonds for installing al electric light
system and a system OF waterworks.
Mrs. Mcbride, mother of Mrs. Mer-
lritt Harmon, of Carthage. was found
dead in bed at the home of her daugh-
ter, death having evidently resulted
from a blood clot forming on her
brain. The body was taken to Mount
Bernon, Ia, for interment.
The regular annual meeting of the
Evangelical | Mutual Insurance COM
pany was held at Milbank and was
largely attended by stockholders and
representatives of the company in the
two Dakotas. The official reports
show a good increase of business by
the company.
The successful applicants for physi-
clan certificates at the late examine
ton by the state board of health, at
Pierre are: Herbert e, Allen, Fort
Yates, N. D.; Charles v. Canoe, Terra
vile; L. j.. Cook, Faulkton; William
D. Heaton, Huron; Edward E. Davis,
Cherry Creek.
The county commissioners have
purchased two more tractor gas en-
gines which will be utilized for road
building in Bon Homme county.
Graders will also be purchased. With
the tractors and graders, roads, on
an average, can be built for $50 per
mile, while under the Ole method the
cost was from $50 to $3.50 per mile.
1t is expected Bon Homme county
next spring will have four complete
road making outfits. Charles Mix
county, which adioins Bon Homme,
has six such outfits.
M. Witte, the man who disappeared
from Pierre in November, has been
discovered by relatives, in a hospital
at Kansas City. This after a search
of about two months. Witte went to
Pierre and registered at a hotel and
after paying his bill walked out, leav-
ing his coat and suitcase, which con.
tanned valuable papers, and failed to
return. He claims now that he was
slugged and robbed while in the city,
and has no further recollection of his
movements from that time until he
Iregained consciousness in a hospital
in Kansas City.
A cannon ball made in England
during the colonial days. and bearing
on it the kings trident, now peace
fully reposes on the mahogany desk
in the Office of General Mark w.
Sheafe, of Watertown, a descendant
of English and colonial stock. After
having been buried in the earth at
Bunker Hill from ITS to 1852, this
ball was unearthed while workmen
were excavating for the erection Of
new buildings. The ball was fired by
the British during the attack on Bun
ker Hill.
The nine year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Klaas Wander Woude, living on
a farm in the New Holland district
linear Platte. had his head cruches by
the wheel of a wagon, causing in
slant death. The father of the boy
was taking a load of wheat to mar
ket and had taken his children along
on their way to school. They walked
beside the wagon to keep warm, when
the little boy slipped on some ice and
fell under the wheels in such a man
ner that one of the wheels struck his
head before the father could stop the
horses.
At a meeting of dry" advocates of
shall county Anti-Saloon League, aux
/ HID rItD III tuC n lloblOld
League, was organized with a large
membership. Superintendent Hol-
saple, Of the state league, Mrs. G. S.
Thorpe of Britton, and d. p. Nash of
Aberdeen, were among the speakers,
the latter telling of the benefits Abb
erdeen had derived from being a dry
town and stating that many former
wet advocates at Aberdeen are now
enthusiastic over a dry town.
Al county spelling contest, In which
the pupils in all the schools in Mar
IshaH county will participate, has Just
been arranged for by the county SUI
perintendent. Ira Howell. First, under
the plan, contests will be held in each
school. Then the winners Of the To-
cal school contest will participate in
a township contest, and the winners
in the township will go to the county
seat to participate in a county con