Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-13

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In all his activities he has shown re-
markable enthusiasm and energy, and
should do wen at the University of
Wisconsin, where he goes next fall"
The county board is in session this
week as a board of eaualization-to'
hear complaints regarding assess
ments and to adjust the same. The
work has been somewhat reduced as
to details because Of the decision of
the courts to the effect that the coun-
ty board is not empowered to equal
lie individual assessments in the
same class-that Is to say, as between
buildings and real estate within the
city of Watertown the county board
is powerless to change the individual
assessments but may change the to-
tai assessment of this class SO as to
equali1e it with the assessments of
the same class in other parts of the
county. Hitherto the board has ex-
ercised the power to change individ-
ual assessments upon the assumption
that such power is vested in it, but
the supreme court has decreed other
wise.
st. Paul authorities have enacted
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mobiles shall be equipped with dim
mers'n for use under certain pre-
scribed conditions. After-dark traffic
between Watertown and the lake has
become dangerous, in the opinion of
many experienced automobile drivers,
on account of the glazing headlights.
Some autos are provided with such
powerful Illuminating lamps as to
Hind tho Ir<iuar lnf on N a nnrn9ohinp
vehicle. In some cases drivers have
been forced to stop because of their
inability to see the roadway between
themselves and the oncoming ma
chimes thus equipped. The driveway
between the city and the Country
Club grounds has become a. veritable
metropolitan street these pleasant
evenings, and the danger of a clashing
collision is imminent.
The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader refers
as follows to MI. Schlosser's assump-
ton of his duties in connection with
the Chamber of Commerce. In Or
der to acquaint Mr.. George Schlosser
the new Chamber of Commerce sec
rotary, with the membership of the
organization upon his assumption of
office, a dinner meeting was called
for today at the Kampeska hotel.
| Negotiations have been pending for
some time between the board of di-
rectors and Mr.. SchIosser who has
been prevented from accepting the
position until this time owing to his
connection with the national newspa-
per association which met in June.
MI. Schlosser has been picked from
numerous applicants since the reor-
ganization of the chamber last spring.
From now on the organization ex-
poets under the direction of Mr..
Schlosser, to keep the ball rolling for
the interests of a bigger and better
WATERFOWL and to have from on,
the aggressive booster organization
long desired. A well-planned, con.
sistent building campaign will be
waged to put Watertown on the map
and secure manufacturers and IN
creased population"
Professor Palm thought to evade
all the folderol that usually attaches
the trunks and suitcases and vehicles
Of conveyance of the newly married
pair by running his auto into the barn
belonging to the father Of the bride
and having the door locked. But he
had not properly reckoned with
Young America. Although the door
was unlocked only after the bride
and room had climbed into the auto
it was found necessary to back the
machine out. During the interval oil
a fraction of a second while the pro
| lessor was manipulating the levers
from the motion to the for
ward gait a couple Of timber chaps at
tached a big banner bearing the
Newly Married" inscription in large
letters of carmine. Only one side o.
the banner, however, was securely
fastened and it at once assumed the
appearance of a big flag f%uttering II
the breezes. Palm was so busy think
, ing how he had outwitted his friends
that he was unaware of the presence
of the banner, and the last sight thu
wedding guests caught of the brida
party was when they We're running
over a hill a half mile away, the ban
ner waving from the e life the tai
of an army mule in full retreat,
The Watertown Printing and Bind
ing Co. has experienced some difficult.
in getting its orders for supplies filled
This is a general complaint, anyway
among retailers and even wholesal
ers. An order for Office chairs, giveI
more than two months ago, has JUS
been filed, the chairs reaching Wa
tertown yesterday. An order for Ger
tain stel filing devices given NOR
than sixty days ago, is still untitled
Later an order was placed with an
other company for the same kind @
goods, the hope being that n o.
the other of the orders would be illee
late in June or the early part q
July. One house informs the com
pany that the goods will be shipped
August 10th; the other that the ordel
given early in May will be filed this
week. Orders for typewriter desk:
(the folding kind, converting the desl
into a hat-top continuance Wher
closed), goven in May, have not We
been filed, although the company hal
assured the WATERFOWL institution
that the desks will be shipped soon.
Practically all of the dealers are en-
countering similar troubles in gettini
I goods.