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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17
Watertown Honored
At Grand Encamp-
nent Knights | empIar

The Redfield Journal Observer re
ports the Following election Of one
ers Of the Grand Commandery In ses.
sion last week:
Grand Commander Sir. Clarence B.
Wilt, Mitchell.
Deputy Grand Commander, Sir, 6.
A. Christop Sioux Falls.
Grand Generalissimo, Sir. Willard
c. Lusk, Yankton.
Grand Captain General, Sir, Henry
A Perriton, Huron.
Grand Senior Warden, Sir Gerald
w. Collins, Vermillion, d.
Grand Junior Warden. Sir. James
F.. Mather Watertown
Grand Prelate, Sir, Rev. Or. Ed,
ward Ashley, Aberdeen.
+ Grand Treasurer, Sir. NJ. r. Oil,
man. Yankton..
Grand Recorder Sir. Geo. A, Petit
grew, Sioux Falls, s.
Grand STANDARD Bearer, Sir, Arthur
G Hill, Chamberlain
Grand Sword Bearer. Sir. Thomas
r. Stoner, Lead.
Grand Warder, Sir, Cyrus 3. Warne
Redfield.
Grand Captain Of the Guard. Sir,
N. Howard ayendell. Aberdeen.
Committee on CORES pondence, Sin
Chas. q. Brockway, Sioux Falls.
Mr. Pettigrew has served for TWEEN
ty-one years as grand recorder, now
commencing his twenty-eecond year.
4 Among the Watertown Knights and
ladies' present were the following, as
reported by the Redfield paper: ". H
Mather, ]. q. Mather, Mr and Mrs
Nv. B. Cannon, Mr.. and Mrs. W. F.
Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Garle, r
Bs. Lockhart. f. M. Slater, o NJ
Whistler, H. S. Fletcher. 8. r. Car
mean, NJ. w sheafe, Jr. and 7. H
Peterson.
Aberdeen was chosen for the next
grand encampmeni.
This honors Watertown with .
grand officer. in the person Of James
D. Mather, the first in its history fol
the Commanders. :S
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17
Luther Hospital Val
liable Adjunct to the
City Business Interests

4
son in ten living in WatertoWn real
ICES the Importance Of Luther Hos
pital from a purely financial stand
point to the business interests Of Wa
tertown, and, through them, to the
city as q whole.
( The hospital has accommn dations
for about sixty patients. a consider
able portion Of the time the institution
lis taxed to its limit TO provide room
for all applicants. while at no time
is the hospital without large Gnota
of ailing friends
When the hospital was completed
and ready for opening, The Saturday
News called attention to It as a plain
business institution, suggesting that
the professional and business men OF
the city would find 1t TO be an agcep.
tionally good drawing card can,
ing that It would be the means Of
bringing 70 Watertown a large number
Of people who, because having bean
attracted hither. would spend more Or
less mones among the business raen.
1t was not thought, at the time '9f
the opening Of the institut
least, not by those who were not in
position to realize the worth Of ii
from business standpo tha. It's
influence would be SO pereeptibly felt
within so short a period But the
business houses begin TO appreciate
that Luther Hospital Is already among
the city's valuable assets in drawing
people from distance to ssthe city,
and that. based upon its work already
accomplished. it will develop into an
institution that will attract thousands
and thousands of dollars year to The
eitynot merely to be distributed
anon gthe physicians and surgeons
and the hospital attendants, which is
no Insignificant item, taken alone.
but also through the purchase oi
goods on the part Of the friends oi
those who become patients.
\ Experience has shown that during
the Temporary soiourn Of patient al
the institution, from one to three ol
his friends, on an average, VII be Ii
tha- city during. the whole lime
patient himself, it is true, is not us
ually purchaser at the local stores
but his friends almost invariable are
They not only patronize the business
houses, but they call upon the profes
sionel men-the lawyers, the dentists
etc.
Since the average duration Of a pa
tents sojourn at the hospital is bui
two or three weeks, there is con
slant stream of new" visitors to ths
city from the surrounding communi
ties, extending in distance from sev
enty-aYe to one hundred and flft,
miles with an occasional patient from
much farther distance,
These observations but indicate ii
q general way the financial benefits
accruing to the city as a result of th,
location of this splendid institution
in Watertown and the number Of pee
pie drawn hither on account OF til,
high class Of medical and surgica
services to be obtained in the city.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17
Won Hindenburg Pre-
pairing 70 Stop the
Great Russian Drive
Russian Drive Reported to pc Near
cllmax-Troops Of Gar Take
the Mountains.

- ts u
Petrograd, Aug. 16. General Let
chitzky's advance toward Lemberg is
still making fast headway from the
southeast
General Won Bothmers army, which
has held the Tarnopol lines for sew
Seral weeks while the rest Of the Aus
trian lines broke before General Brus.
silof's advance, is retreating is dis
order.
The westward horn OF Geenral Let
chitzky's advance has reached Miriam
pol on the Dneister, and is only eight
miles from Halicz, while his eastern
horn is Strengthening the concave line
west Of Bucacz.
To Stem Advance.
Field Marshal von Hindenburg and
his staff have arrived In Lemberg and
are concentrating their energies to
ward stemming the Russian advance.
There is 40 longer any pretence
that Austrian soldiers and stan ofac-
ers are defending western Galicia.
The German lines have now been
extended clear from the Gulf OF Riga
to the crests OF the Carpathian noun
tains. "
In spite Of the nndouhted bravery
which the Russians freely concede to
them. the Austrians are beaten. Aus
trian officer prisoners acknowledge
that the Russians would be III Buda-
post next month were not the Ger
mans doing their utmost to render
assistance.
The work of construction has com
menced on a fine new Methodist
church building which Il. to be erected
at Alpena this summer.
Howss farming I,
Fine You know that abandoned
farm 1 picked up
That prompted my question. I,
sold quarry rights to one crowd
and rented the ssirface US golf nks.1
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17
LONG ENTERTAINED
suspicious PROVE
TOBEWELL FOUNDED
Known Abstractions Amount to $l3 90 to $15OOO0O
Unknown Peculatons Merely Matter Of Speculation;
Spurious Warrants and Stuffed Accounts Form the
Principal Basis for Robbing the City Of Watertown;
No Bonds Found for Last Two Years

The known peculations Of O. NJ
Lane, former city auditor approx
mate $4,000 to $4,000 The unknown
shortage is purely speculative.
For instance, the amount of money
turned into the city treasury for Ii
censes, such as peddlers' licenses
etc. for 1915, aggregates an amount
in excess of $4,000. The amount
i turned IN since the present alderman.
is form assumed the reins last spring
is about 100000. The assumption
therefore. is that Mr.. Lane got away
with $1,000 to s1,5oo OF the license
money in 1915.
Another thing. the expenses ira
CURED in the municipal court are
charged mp. In part. to the county
That is to say, in cases in which the
county is involved, the Jury fees and
witness fees and other legitimate ex-
penses are charged to the county
Some of these have been traced, and
it is discovered that Mr.. Lane has
been knocking down. on these fees
simply forgetting to turn the
money received from the county into
the city treasury
Hence. the amount of Mr. Lanes
actual peculations is matter OF
speculation Some of these matters
may be disclosed later. but many OF
them, such as license fees and re-
ceipts from similar sources, may
never be known.
Suspicious Abound
During all the agitation, which con
tinued Tor more than q year, concern
ing the changing of the system Of gov:
ernment from the commission form to
the aldermanic, there was more or
less suspicion that Mr.. Lane had been
defrauding the city. It was felt in
many quarters that no one drawing
his salary, with his known resources
could live in the style in which, he
had lived since becoming city auditor
without dipping into others purses.
This suspicion was one Of the fac
tors in overturning the commission
form of government-not so much be
cause of the desire to change the
form as because of the wish to rio
the city of Mr.. Lanes services. TAX
( ing the two together, the sentiment
for change developed into some
thing Of a landslide.
Investigation Ordered.
Notwithstanding two Investigations
by w. "A. Shurtleff. and a very fiat
I teriag report by him to the city com
mission, in which he declared he had
examined the books. records ane
vouchers and found everything il
first-class condition and c6rrect, the
city council. soon after assuming the
reins Of 4 government, ordered an In
vestigation and asked. the auditing de
partment Of the state TO send an ex
aminer here.
The officer chosen for this task was
p. I. Lampy. formerly auditor of Cod
ington county. whose ability to delve
into official records and accounts had
been proven in seyeEal instances.
Mr.. Lampy had been working but
/ q few days when he discovered sus
picious Irregularities. AS soon as he
commenced work. some Watertowu
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17
| | Former South Dakotan
Succumbs 70 Linlgle'r' "a
Affliction at Capital
Prominent IN Dakota Affairs FOR 4
Quarter Of Century Chair.
man Of ConH,ittee.

z s..a
The death Of Frank Crane is an-
nounced from Washington. Mr. Crane
had been Ill for long time, never
having fully recovered from a stroke
5of paralysis which occurred about
two years ago.
1t is needless 10 dwell apon the cass
reer Of Mr. Crane In SoIth Dakota
He was for ten years 81 more super.
intendent Of schoSJss Of Codingtons
county 4
subseqye entity he was state snperin-
tende,sr for four years, afterwards
Serving as the clerk OF the state su-
preme court for several years. aE
He was three times Chairman 81
1.-THE republican state COMMITTEES ana
Ihad charge Of the republican CAM
lpaign ia the state. He was chairman
during the ca.npaign which resulted
in the defeat Of SEM or Pettigrew and
the swinging of the state 10 McKtns
ley.
The title Of .coI0neln was conferred
upon him by the governor who named
him as colonel os the governors stan
He experienced no service il either
ne national guard 81 the regular
army beyond his service Oh the gov
Iernor.s stan. S. 4
M Crane was . man of much
mental vigor Up To the time 81 his
departure from the state he had made
Watertown his home for many years
Even after removing to the state
capital to become clerk Of the supreme
court be continued to designate wa:
tertown as bis home He frequently
came here % cost bis v,te notwiths
standing he had not actually lived
A. the city for years.
Friend What il the strsneest
case that yoa ever had Id life insur
ancef
Agent li1s sdbud. she took
ont . 2oyear endowment 81 policy Il q ii ii |
1890 when MA was 19 pears 81 age,
and 4 natglres year iaea sl,s ~ ~
22s. iick.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17

prosecution on criminal charges We're
not instituted.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17

The work of construction has com
/ menced on a fine new Methodist
church building which Il. to be crested
Eat Alpena this summer.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17

n Common sense Il ii spite d. not the
result 81. educati ion: visitor Hugo.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Pointed Paragraphs.

For each disease there are a
dozen cures that don't.
There are lots of good women
in the world in spite of the mer.
A mans always satisfied to be
out when a bill collector calls.
Truth in nutshell is not al
ways what it is cracked up to be
A man usually has to change
cars several times on the road to
success.
Some girls have the whine
habit almost as badly as some
married women.
Ever notice how you appreci-
ate the company of people who
admire you?
Nancy may make the mare go,
but it takes more than that to
start a stubborn mule.
When. a man tells a woman
she is all the world to him, she
doesn't blame hin: for wanting
the earth.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Why Wilson?

Because he is the greatest
leader of Democracy since An
drew Jackson.
Because he is the most popular
Democrat in the country, as an
evidence of which there is no op
position to his denomination.
Because he is an executive who
does things.
Because he has redeemed all
of the important pledges of the
party made in the Baltimore
platform.
Because he has given the coun-
try a banking system which pre-
vents a panic and prevents any
bank from failing that is solvent.
Because the country is more
prosperous under his administra-
ton than ever before.
Because he has kept the
United States out of war and is
the great peace President.
Because he is the greatest dip
lomat who ever sat in the White
House, forcing Germany to agree
to his ultimatum in regard to
submarine warfare.
Because he is honest and capa-
BILE.
Because he has not allowed the
money power to control and die
tate to the business of the coun-
try.
Because he has been fair and
just in dealing with all the great
problems of the dry.
Because he has had more
great questions to settle than
any other president and because
he has settled all of them right.
]-E-town News.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Fairly Fooled.

At a charity bazaar in a small
provincial town a lgreat attract
ion was a tiny gray suede glove,
which lay on a rose-pink satin
cushion. Above it was displayed
a notice reading:
"The owner OF this glove will,
at z o'clock this evening, be
pleased to kiss any person who
purchased a ticket before that
hour.
1t was such a sweet little glove
that it could only belong to a
lovely girl. At least, so thought
the long line of young men who
were waiting eagerly as the
clock struck z.
Promptly to the minute old
Maydock, the local butcher. ap-
peared. Maydock is a worthy
person, but not a beauty He
calmly picked up the glove and
remarked:
well, gents this glove be:
longs to me. l bought it this
morning. Pm ready for you,
so don't be bashful. One at a
time pleasen
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Kentucky Fair Dates.

The following are the dates
fixed for holding the Kentucky
Fairs for 1916 as far as reported
to this office. Officers of fairs
are requested to report to us any
omissions or corrections.
Mt. Sterling, July 1874 days.
Winchester, July 26-4 days.
Harrodsburg, July 25-4 days.
Taylorsville. August IA days.
Henderson, August Is days.
Danville, August 2-3 days.
Berea, August 2-3 days.
Blue Grass Fair, Lexington,
August 7-6 days.
Uniontown, August 3-5 days.
Fern Creek Fair, Buechel, Au.
gust "a days.
Mt. Vernon, August 9-3 days.
Burkesville, August "a days.
Perryville, August 9-3 days.
Lawrenceburg, August l5-4
days.
Shepherdsville, August 15-4
days.
Broadhesd, August 16-4 days.
Greensboro, August 15-5 days.
Tri-County Fair, Sanders, Au-
gust 16-4 days.
Ewing, August 17-3 days.
Knights of Pythias Fair, Stan
ford, August 23-9 days.
Columbia, August 22-4 days.
Frankfort, August 29-4 days.
Bardstown, August 29-4 days.
Nicholasville, August 29-9
days.
Pennyroyal Fair, Hopkinsville
August 29-5 days.
Elizabethtown, August 29-
days.
Barboursville, August 80
days.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
ireland and America.

Thank God for freedoms
martyrs in every age and in ev-
cry land" says the New York
American in an editorial which
is accompanied by a cartoon in
which it is pointed out that had
the signers of the Declaration of
independence failed they would
have been shot as ruthlessly as
the leaders of the Dublin rev
olution. F."
The State Journal observed at
the time of the occurrence of the
Dublin outbreak that a rebel is a
revolutionist who fails and a
revolutionist is a rebel who sue
ceeds. But the difference be-
tween the leaders of the Amer
lean revolution and the Irish Re-
bellion was that the Americans
had a reasonable hope of existing
as an independent country if
they could throw off the British
yoke. There could be no reason
able hope of the existence uf Ire
land as an independent country
at the present period of Eu-
ropean history. To mislead the
ignorant class in Ireland into a
revolution which promised moth
ing wa a bad business. We SYM
pathize with the leaders, but the
enterprise in which they lost
their lives was as mad an enter
prise as any one ever engaged in.
Had the Irish had behind them a
country with the resources of the
new continent of America the
only question would have been
whether they could defend them
selves against England. They
were without such resources.
Their financial and geographical
situation forbids the thought Of
independence.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Newspapers.
There are a great many fool.


There are a great many fool
ish folks" says an old news
paper man, who will tell you
that money is all that is>necessa-
ry to make a successful newspa-
per They hold that money may
command brains, IS it will; and
that the two, working together,
makes Ithet great and powerful
journal. But there is another
quality, the lack of which makes
your newspaper as important as
tool without a handle, and that
quality is character, and without
characterize newspaper can be
influential"
Newspaper character" isn't
the character of the editor no
the owner nor yet of the busi-
ness office. The makers of a
newspaper must have character,
of course, or they will fail mis-
erably. But the character of the
paper itself is a thing that is
built up slowly, a little at a time,
day after day-the tendency of
the paper to tell the truth, to
protect no one, to oppose that
which is bad and to champion
thst which is good.
Newspapers, even as human
beings, err. They may, thru
faulty judgment, at time, es-
pouse causes that are not the
causes which should have been
espoused. But, month after
month, year after year, taking
the right side of questions and
displaying unselfsh fearlessness,
gives the newspaper its charac-
ter and it's standing in the CON-
munity. 1t is not a thing that
can be purchased, it is not a COM
modify that money will but, it is
not a thing which any one man
controles, or has a COPYRIGHT
upon. 1t is the spirit of the
thing, this newspaper character,
and it prevails as certainly with
the newspaper as with the indi-
vidual.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Special Offer.

For a short time will furnish the
daily Evening Post, Louisville, Home
and Farm. Kentucky Governors War
map and the Adair County News, all
one year for 1926. The map itself is
worth $l.5o, but by accepting this Of
fer you get it for almost nothing.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Rheumatism.

If you are troubled with chronic or
muscular rheumatism give Chamber
lain's Liniment a trial. The relief
from pain which it affords is alone
worth many times its cost. Obtain
BILE at PAUL Drug Co. Adv,
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

Sir Rogers Easement was COM
mitted for trial on the charge Of
high treason at the examining
trial held in London.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
Good for Colds.

Honey, Pine-Tar and Glycerine are
recognized cold remedies. In DR..
Belle Pine-Tar- Honey these are COM
bined with other cough medicine in a
pleasant syrup. DR.. Bells Pine Tar
quickly stops your cough, checks your
cold. sootheS irritation of the throat
Excellent for young, adult and aged.
Its one of the best cough syrups made
Formula on every bottle. You know
just what you are taking and your doc
tor knows its good for coughs and
colds. Insist on DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-
Honey. Only 25c at PAUL Drug Co.
Adv
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31
MOTHERS DUTY!
Is Your Daughter
in Good Health2

The responsibility for the perfect wife and
mother Of TOMORROW rests with the
mother Of TO-DAY.
How are YOU rearing your daughteri
Are you fitting her for the responsibilities
that are sure to come to her?
Are you endowing her with a sound body,
robust health and a clear, forceful mindS
Or, are you, by neglect condemning her to
life Of suffering invalidism3
Argue as you will, plead as you will, YOU
CANNOT DODGE THE RESPONSE
BILITY-your daughter viii be just what
you make her.
STELLA-VITAE is the happy combina-
ton of harmless but wonderfully effective
natural remedies that give to the budding
girl that assistance so necessary to pass her
successfully from girlhood to womanhood.
Are you awaiting yourself of its remarkable
virtues to give your daughter the assist
ance she needs so much?
Or are you allowing prejudice or reluctance
TO try remedy you have never tried be-
fore, rob your daughter Of her right to re-
ceive every help you can give herr
unworthy Of you.
II it is because YOU have never tried
STELLA-VITAE, remember that untold
thousands of women today bless the hand
that pointed them to health through the
use of this greatest of remedies for women.
1t is GUARANTEED TO BENEFIT-H
it don't you get your money back. All to
gain and nothing to lose.
DoYOUR duty. TRY STELLA-VITAE.'
You don't need to buy a second bottle il
the first bottle fails to benefit.
Your dealer sells and guarantees this great
remedy in s1.o0 bottles. See him TODAY. Don't
delay the start to good health.
Thacher Medicine Company
Chattanooga Tennessee
For Sac By Page & Hamilton.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

The population of Lexington
has increased from IS, 900 in 1910
to $4,000 in 1914.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

w. ]. Bryan has announced
that he will not attend the St.
Louis convention.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

President Wilson has replied to
Pope Beneeicte's peace message
but the reply is not made public
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

Black leg among cattle in Mer-
Ger county is causing severe loss.
es to farmers and steps are being
taken to eradicate the disease.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

Mrs. George Weller, aged SO,
died at her home yesterday near
Shepherdsville.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

The Austrians have captured a
whole line of the Italian trenches
and taken more than $500 pris-
oners.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

l keep on hands full stock of
collins, caskets, and robes. 1 also keep
Metallic Caskets, and Steel Boxes and
two hearses. Prompt service night or
day. Residence Phone %, Office
phone 90.
45-1yr J. f. Triptett,
Columbia. KY.
The Adair County news., 1916-05-31

The road bonds of Daviess
county amounting to $500, 1000
have been sold at premium of
$4,000 to Cincinnati purchers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-12-06

bilities of intelligent work, backed
up by intelligent thought and inves-
tigation. p.
And this leads us to say that it
would be better to have one demon
stration agent in q congressional
district with salary Of five thous-
and dollars, if thereby We might get
a man like Mr.. Hodges, OF Major
Long or Mr.. Wakefield to take the
position, than ,underpaid men in ev-
cry county of the state. The boys
who are just out Of the Agricultural
Colleges may know good deal about
farming, in a theoretical way, which
the average farmer does not know,
and he may be able to advance and
advocate good ideas, which if follow
ed would be worth while, but these
agents do not commend themselves
to farmer, who when he questions
the agent, finds that the. agent has
never successfully planted either
corn OF cotton, oats OF wheat, vetch
or crimson clover, and who knows
about them only from the books.
It may be the idea Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture to get these
agents in the counties first, and then
undertake to secure better men by
advancing the pay, and the plan may
work out in the end. But practical
results will be reached sooner by
putting the right kind of educated
farmers, men who have made good
as farmers, in the positions, and by
increasing their numbers.