Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-05


I course for 20 or 80 minutes. when
another tautening 81 the cable indie
Gated the presence of a mine. We
were now in a field where the Ger
mans had sown destruction with an
extravagant hand. We knew we rode
continually hand in hand with death.
The members of the crew lined the
rails with drawn faces. for they knew
by experience that only a few sec
onds. remained for escape in case we
struck. The average light vesleli
sinks within nj minute after being
mined.
Again there leaped to the surface a
horned destroyer, and again the
marksmen's guns spatg fire until it
sank from view a half mile astern.
Two companion trawlers whistled a
warning that they had made a catch.
and dimly through the mist could be
seen another black, horned object be-
tween them.
Giant Sea Geyser.
Only a few shots had been fired
when the air beat upon our ears and
the decks quivered. Then there was a
mighty blast that almost stunned and
blinded us. Between the following
trawlers a great column OF water rose
steadily skyward, drawing the ships
toward it. 1t seemed as if some UNI
seen hand had showed up a great lei
ton of the North sea and kept it sus-
pended hundreds of feet in the air
for the space OF perhaps 80 seconds.
This spectacle defies description.
Its terribleness holds one breath1ess,
until the giant column of water re-
cedes slowly, apparently showing it,
self back into it's element and leav-
ing only a wide space of worried wa
tiers.
These sights alone should be enough
to throw a fear of mines and their
awfulness into the men who daily
hunt them, yet at least half of those
in the captains trawler had been en-
4 gagged in this work for 20 months with
little respite, sailing 10 or 10 hours
every day over water that they knew
contained "a sudden and a frightfuI
end.
In the course of the next few hours
our fleet swept up and destroyed other
mines with the same hardy, unrefent-
ing courage, until their allotted course
was safe for the passage of ships.
whose comings and goings must not
for n hour be delayed if England is
to fight successfully against. an en-
envy who knows no rules of war, and
whose fendish ingenuity knows no
limits.
Now that the king of Greece has
been aethroned the wal, On the Mace
4 don;op front ;e osa,,,,;nr a,;o, nro
portions, but it is not yet certain
whether the king was a deterrent to
the entente or the Teutonic side
Florida Times-Union.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF The State Bank of Grover, of
Grover, S, D., at the close of bust
ness on June 20, 1917.
Date of call by Examiner, June %;
dRte Of report by bank, June %.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts -..s..s5S,7 1886
Overdrafts 83.l2
Expense Observation-Disclosures 1,S72.19
Banking Fixtures .-.-. 1,367.75
Due from Banks $21,914.S4
Checks and Drafts
for Clearing 1854
Currency ..s2,02s.0o
Gold ..s 10000
Silver 67s,S0
Minor Coin 1854 2,e37.44
Total Cash Assets $24. 1922 24,929.2R
Total -..sSs.015 s75
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock $40 10000
Surplus Fund . 10000
Undivided Profits s-. 784.K1
deposits Subject
to Check |, OO6.40
Savings Deposits 1.945.O4
Cashiers Checks. so
Time Certificates 45.3s4.52
Depositors' Guar-
anty Fund - 1928
Total .-s76,53 1s04 76,5s1.04
State Of South Dakota. County 81
Codington. Il.
!, Fl a. Fromke, cashier Of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement Is true to,
the best Of my knowledge and belief.
II. A. Frumke.
Cashier.
Correct, Attest:
{. q Frink.
Subscribed and sworn 70 before me
this 50th day ~ June. 1e17.
John p. Hurt
Notary nunlIc.