Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-05-11

jschoolmates and had not all met uns
der n roof for many years. Mrs.
NV. w. Downey, wife of the editor IF
1.-THE Herald-Advance, was hostess. Be
sides the hostess and Mrs. Snyder,
there were present Mrs. Walter San
gran of st. Paul, Mimi, and Mrs.
Howard Babcock of Sisseton, s. ID.
Editor G. j. Ronald was up from
Like the fore part of the week.,
attending to business matters and
l~hobnobbing with friends. He called
lat The Saturday News to liquidare an
indebtedness of forty-seven cents he
had been owing for almost a week.
Mr.. Ronald is one of the o1d-timers in
deuel. county, having conducted a
successful and newsy paper for many
Years in the county seat town.
Editor w. B. Andrus of the Henry
independent was in the city Monday,
ATTENDING to business matters. Hell
lsaid that a c~hautauqua had been ar
ranged for to be held next month,
with a weeks interesting and in-i
structive program. Mr.. Andrus, by
the way, is conducting an aggressivel
and neatly printed and well edited
newspaper at Henry. 1t is said that
the people of his city are much pleas
led with the paper. Mr.. Andrus said
Ito The Saturday News that he enjoys |
living in Henry more than in anyl
lother place in which he has ever re-,
lsided.
Mr.. and Mrs. HI. S.. Fletcher enter
tanned the Indian club at a seven
O'Clock dinner last Monday evening.
THE members had a very enjoyable
%Ievening, following the sumptuous res
past, which was highly relished by
Those ~partaking thereof. One of the
QUAINT features of amusement was the
writing of brief sketches of the va
lrious guests, each guest being given
lsome one of those present as the sub
lject of comment, describing him or
her from infancy to the suffragette
age. Mrs. D. r. Jones, Mr.. Case and
1.-THE hostess distinguished themselves
las authors.
Jake Ritz has purchased the Loucks
ranch in Deuel. county, referred to as
follows by the Clear Lake courier:
ia land deal of considerable magni-
Itude was closed up here this week
when G. L. Waldo sold what is known
las the old Loucks ranch, in lakewood
valley, to Jacob Ritz, Of WATERFOWL.
The consideration for the two sec-i
ltions Of land vas $75 an acre, it isl
rumored, but the price is too low
when the quality of the farm is conf
lsidered. Mr.. Waldo is now a resi-
dent Of Los Angeles, Cal. and %conse-
quently was too far away to give the
farm the attention it deserved, CON
lsequently decided to sell while here
on this trip. The farm is one of the
best in the state, and has always paid
dividends Of good proportions when
properly worked. The MITCHELL
brothers are working the place this
year"
In the early days Of auto traffic,
when gasoline vehicles were few and
far between, the drivers of the horse
carriage were more or less ornery
lchaps-that is to say, they were not
accommodating, seeking now and
then to hold an auto back behind theI
horse-propelled carriage for miles, if
possible. The drivers of the faithful
1old steed, however, have become, as
a rule, friendly to the AUTO and are
quite inclined to give a reasonableI
portion of the road. But there are
some auto drivers, who used to kick
like bay steers on the way the horse
carriages treated the gasoline convey
er. but who seem utterly to fail to-
remember that road courtesy is an in
dication of refinement and good
breeding. We rode behind such all
fellow some months ago. and we re-
joice to say that while he was keep
1ng a weather eye on us he lost CON
Itrol of his machine for a moment or
two M went into the gutter, right
lside up with care. He's more consid-
Elerate now.
Chief of Police Keegan calls atten-
tion to the rules and regulations gov
eTning uto traffic in the city, with
regard to passing and meeting other
Iautos. While it does 0 excuse a.
collision between autos, it should be
remembered that the auto on the
chauffeur's right has the right of way
that is to say, if a driver going
west on Kemp avenue, as an Illus
tration, see an auto coming down
Broadway, going south, and the two
machines appear likely to reach the
intersection about the same time, it
lis the duty of the machine on Kemp
Ito slow down to permit the machine
on its right to pass in front. If the
lear on Broadway were going north,
then the machine going west on Kemp
would have the right of way, it being
to the right OF the Broadway car.
THE driver who remembers that the
vehicle On his right has the right Of
way, and governs himself according
ly, will avert danger Of collision.
IN passing a vehicle going in the
same direction, the turn should al
ways be made to the left, passing
the other machine on its left side.
'IOf course, where the driver of the
machine ahead sticks so close to the
~center of the road as to make a turn
to the left impractical or dangerous,
la dart to the right is warranted by
fall the rules Of fairness. This, how
lever, is not Mr.. Keegan,s statement,
but rather the statement of an OBJ.
server of auto traffic in the streets
and on the highways, and in some of
the byways.