Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-03-09
Correspondence
kAMPEskA AND RicALANp.

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Nj. Fred Brown is in receipt Of a
letter from Howard Blackjack, Of
Vergennes, H., whom some OF ouI
readers will remember as having
helped Mr.. Brown and the writer
some in harvesting and %threshing
Mr.. Blacklock's home is in the ex
trene southern part of Illinois, neal
where the correspondent vas born
He mentions in the letter floods hav,
ing visited that part of Ilionis and OF
helping rescue chickens, hogs, etc,
from the food for some of the neigh
bors. You will see that other parts
of the world have things with WHICH
to sontend as well as South Dakota.
MI. and Mrs. Toms now have help
in the shape of a young gentleman
and his wife, a Mr.. and Mrs. Storey,
we believe, from Henry.
Mt. and Mrs. Joshua Purcell spent
a portion Of the week with relatives
in the city and attending the supper
and home talent play Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Oquist spent
Thursday evening at ye scribe's home.
Mrs. Oquist states that her sister,
Mrs. Stromberg, whom some of our
readers will remember, met with an
experience recently while attending a
lady in confinement. The who
was quite strong, became crazy while
she was aloIte with her after The
hirtk and but for the husband who
heard the calls for help and who was
large and strong, Mrs. Stromberg per
haps would have lost her life as the
woman had secured a butcher knife
with which to attack her friend. Mrs.
Stromberg is confined to her bed as
a result of the terrible experience.
Miss Ellen Wishard returned home
the first of the week from the hos
pital where she has been for some
time.
We learn that the marriage of Earl
Wishard and Miss Marie Carnes was
10 have taken place the last of the
past week, Saturday, we believe. We
have no particulars Of the event. The
well wishes OF their friends go with
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Purcell and AL
e2ander called upon Mr.. and Mrs.
Perry Burk last week,
The r line of the %telephane eX-
change has a new number or phone on
it, in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Sci
vert, living east of the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Zene Tobey.
Joe Croft had a pretty fine looking
driving team in the city last Satur-
Cay.
Same of these days March is sure
marching on all right.
While IN Watertown last Saturday
we dropped into the Herald office and
found Lou busy as ever at the limo
type. ~Trving to- make a dollar"
Faid Lou. AS much as we have warn
this young la about the constant
wearing of his fur cap and the dan
ser OF his becoming like we are on
top OF the head we caught him with
il on just the same. Lou says it is
hot stubbornness: it's just habit.
Also we called upon the friends in
The Saturday News plant. We often
wonder il the other rural correspond
e91ts always drop into these places
when in the city and bother the editor
md his force. Well, won ought to
tthat is, If you don't happen in town
too %often); you need not be afraid
of the editor as he is not so fierce
nntured as be seems-it's his job and
the responsibilities, etc, ETC., that
make him look SO formidable, but
sometimes you will catch him off
Guard and will find out he has a heart
Ike other people, and eve a sense
OF humor. 1t is said that the papers
Of our little city are especially ia
vcred and the editors thereof thereby
'sSIsYed Of grave irritation and the
sypesettsfs srom cuss words nd quit
Tag tIelr jons, Smoking and irlnNing
to excess, etc, in that their country
correspondents write but very little
CD. The philosophic flights,
physic fancies ami the poetical
of the country correspondents
being in some places the bane of the
business. Oh, we'll, from the country
Is where the poetry comes from. isn't
sure it is; how much of our best
verse has for it's theme urban mat
All, it's the flowers, the fields,
The bees. the birds, the brook, the
hills and dales, the sky, etc, etc, that
the heart to sing; it's noture, not
art. mister. the country correspond
ant is amidst these things, so he
sings, shows he has a soul, doesn't its
Sure it does. If the editors would get
out in the country more they might
surprise you by singing a verse or two
Ell? Too, he'd appreciate
more the soul and cause of the rural
poetry. OF conrse, the CORE