Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-04-13

kAMPEskA AND HIGHLAND.

While at the Z. H. Oleson home
the other day Mrs. OlesOn spoke of
her hospital experience somewhat
She spoke with feeling of the friends
who came to see her and help her to
While away the hours. Was so very
kind OF them, aud so thoughtful,
she said. She showed US three fine
potted plants which among many 9th
er flowers, were given to her While
she was in the hospital. One was
presented by the Ladies Aid society
of the church at kampeska, n by
the ladies in Watertown and one by
Mrs. B. ]. Jacobs, of the city.
Received a letter from my brother
in-1aw at Beaver Dam, Wis" remark
ed Mr.. Geo. Croft the other day. and
he states that the roads there are
almost impossible, and have been for
weeks. They have had rain and slush
and mud all winter
Wednesday, last week, we stepped
into the store at Kampeska and We
noticed a fine bunch of cut flowers on
the show case. Those are from Min
neapolis, George" said Mr.. Wheelock
"and We're sent to me for my birth
day. /" We asked how old he was
and "sixty-nine" was the reply. Not
overly old we told our friend. NO"
said E. D., right in my prime" (this
with a wink of the eye and a chuckle.)
Mr.. Wheelock looks good for a lot OF
birthdays yet and here's hoping he
sees them. Mr.. Wheelock remembers
the time well when as a very young
lad he signed papers that made him
a soldier in the volunteer army of
the United States then engaged to
put down a great civil war.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Wheeloek and
Miss Winona spent a part of the
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Wheelock at
the store.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Tigner were in
the county capital, Wednesday.
yes" said Mr.. Fred Brown, "a late
Easter means a late spring. Hardly
ever falls, it seems.
"Oh, yes" shouted Mr.. Sam Dean
across to us Che was out plowing in
the cold and damp. Il expect to
farm some this year. Have to put in
a lot of corn, / guess"
Mr.. A. M. Tessier was calling on
old friends in Richland the past week
in the interests OF the Mccormick
line of machinery and Irvine.
A little boy came to us the other
night or latter part of the afternoon
and, we thought we were fixed out
with a boy. He was a good looking
boy. too, and of a healthy look and
sturdy build-5ut, pshaw, like all our
hopes Of a boy to be a staff to us in
our declining years, our hopes this
time vanished. Another home, an
other man and woman claimed him
and took him away. Truly 1t is said,
or has beer written lin the Good
Book, we believed. that ito him that
hath shall be given" 1t was Master
Gerald Burke who got lost while af-
ter his fathers cattle.
"Well,'' said Mr.. Earl Tigner, per
haps we will not have a very long
spring. but We'll have a hot summer,
a good corn year.
Mrs. A.. G.. Lehman, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Kendall, for
a week, left Sunday morning for her
home in Garden City. Mrs. Lehman
states the G. NJ. & st. p. will shortly
build a road through Garden
City and perhaps enlarge its depot
to accommodate the increased bust
ness. She remarked that the little
city was growing quite rapidly and
bids fair TO make a nice town. Mr..
art Mrs. Lehman and Hiss Gertrude
plan to leave about the middle OF
May for a visit of a month or six
weeks with relatives and friecds in
Iowa and Minnesota. Mr.. Lehman
and father plan to invest in some land
in Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Skoglund were
callers at the Ben Oquist home, Sun
day afternoon,
Complaints have been heard, time
and again, from farmers trading in
WatertoWn, of the fact both of the
inability 70 gain access to pavements
In front Of stores where they had to
load supplies purchased, the automo.
biIes having taken all the room, and
of the fact that outside of a livery
barn there was not a place where d
man could tie a horse or team and
feel at all safe to leave Them. On
Occasions. which happen frequently,
when the barns are full d fellow with
hOfses is almost up against 1t. The
farm q rs q large part of Water
towns business, vet, and fl might be
well for Ats merchants to think these
I'VE a. little
M. and Mrs. Peter MoIln called
upon Mr. Milln,,s parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. John MOlln, Sunday evening.
Miss Muriel Croft spent Sunday
evening NTH Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Lew
S
ffrs.eSsand Mrs. Geo. Brown are the
believe I'D man Who
has family 81 the country and can
00fdon0 at all can afford mot -