Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-09-14
Happenings


A press dispatch states that a boy
at BRYANT, trying to learn the rudi-
meut of operating an automobile, ran
the machine over five of his tutors,
smashed into a horse and buggy, caus,
ing it 10 run away and iniure the
woman driving it, and raised consid
cradle eycttement to top out the days
proceedings. But the boy learned!
Mrs Chas. Kreger, president of the
lIocal equal suffrage association, is
said to have aroused considerable en-
thlrsiasm at the recent meeting Of the
surragists through her pointed re-
marks, in addressing the meeting, con-
cernlng the needs of suffrage from the
broad standpoint of the betterment of
governmental affairs. Many favor
able comments on her speech have
been heard from ladies who
present.
The Wells-Fargo and American ex-
press companies says the Pierre
| CapitaI-Journal, have forwarded to
| the stale railway commission a new
| schedule Of rates to go into effect
September Is, for the cities Of Aber-
deem, Watertown, Mitchell, Sioux
| Fails and Yankton. The commission
declines TO allow the rates and has
| sci a hearing in the Offices Of the
commission on the same for the 4th
OF December"
The Henry Independent reports the
death Of a farmer citizen Of the west
side Of the county, as follows; &C.
II. NJ. Anderson, formerly q pioneer
settler in the vicinity of Hazel but Of
recent years making his home at Dali
las, Texas, died Saturday, August 26.
The news Of his death was received
here by Mr.. Brando, clerk of the
| Workmen lodge of which Mr.. Ander-
| son has been a member for a number
Of years, also carrying $4,000 life in
surance. He was a cousin of Mrs.
Brando."
WATERFOWL people who heard Mr..
James Gray lecture in the Methodist
| church in this city some years ago
will deeply regret to learn Of his
death, which occurred at Washington,
D. c., last week. Mr.. Gray was for
merly mayor of Minneapolis. For
many years past he has been associ-
ated with the Minneapolis Journal
and for the past several years he has
represented the paper at Washington.
Death was unexpected, Mr., Gray not
having been sick at all. He was
born IN Scotland, came to this coun-
try in 1866, and was ffty-four years
Of age.
October 2 to Saturday, October Z,
has been selected as pay-up week
when everybody is supposed to make
an especial effort to pay his obliga-
tions about town and elsewhere. 1t
goes without saying that if everyone
owing The Saturday News, for in
stance, would walk up to the captains
office and deposit the cash to wipe
out the obligation, The Saturday
News could pay every debt that
stands against it and have enough left
to buy a few pounds of print paper.
If all Of The Saturday News readers
will try to pay up during this par
ticular week-October 2~7-there'H be
rejoicing on both sides.
Mrs. E. {. Jacobsen Of Pierre was
in the city last week, interviewing
some of the anti-suffrage women of
WATERFOWL. Mrs. Jacobsen has long
been an anti-suffragist. The women
opposed to suffrage, she said to a Sat
urday News representative, are not
organized as the s~uffragists are, but
q large proportion of the women, she
declared, are opposed to the measure
now pending. we don't think she
continued, that equal suffrage will
bring about the. millennium, by any
means, nor do we think women them
selves will be benefited by the adop-
ton of the proposed amendment to the
constitution. In fact, my " opinion
is that to accept equal suffrage would
be a backward step, SO far as the
women themselves are concerned
The Castlewood Republican, com
menting on the death of Thomas Mad
den, says: Word was received here
Sunday announcing the death OF Mr..
Thomas Madden at his home in Brook
ings on the morning of that day. The
deceased was one Of the early pio-
of Bookings county and was a
former resident Of thi place during
the early eighties. He built one Of
the first buildings Ia Castlewood the
one occupied as "a laundry and de.
stroyed recently 81 IRE. He was d