Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-27

Miss GeorgiaVanx came home from
Aberdeen where she Is attending the
Nerthern Normal, i spend Christmas
with her parents, MI. and Mrs. 81. F..
Yaux.
Miss Margaret Olson, who had been
visiting friend in Minneapolis, visited
over q day in this city with Mrs. "a:
r. English, en- route to her home at
Florence.
Clarence Bonner, in charge OF the
chemical department of the high
school at Ashland. Wis. is spending
the holiday week with his parents,
Rev. and Mrs. g. p. Bonner.
The sale 81 Red Cross seals by the
different schools OF the city, reported
Christmas eve. was as follows: Cen
trail school. 6,337; Lincoln As27: Gar
field. 4,571: Catholic. 1000; Mellette.
1922: Grant. 1,832; Mckinley, 1910:
total. 26.040.
Dolan Kreger and Andy e. Foley,
who recently enlisted in the aviation
corps. are home for the holiday sea-
son. They are awaiting the call to
join the training camps and rather
expect to be assigned to Berkeley.
Calf. within the near future.
For three years we have sold the
Boston dollar pencil sharpener IN a
guaranty of satisfaction or your
money back-and up to date we have
never been called upon to refund the
money. Gould there be q better rec
ommendation? WATERFOWL Printing
and Binding Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Sebring left
last week for Mason City, Ia, to visit
friends. following which they will
proceed on to Chicago and other
points where Mr.. Sebring Will COM
hine business with pleasure-visit
friends and attend to business mat
ters.
The Sioux Falls treasurer recently
refused to honor a warrant issued
by the board of education in payment
OF Libery Loan bonds. The school
board had provided that a part of the
sinking fund should be invested in
these bonds, but the treasurer refused
to pay the draft, on the ground that
he believed the diversion of such fund
is not warranted by law. An applica-
ton was made to the supreme court
to compel Elm to issue the warrant
and the application was granted.
M. r. Baskerville was the head of
a committee which disposed OF a
large number of Red Cross seals to
various merchants. Mr.. B~askerville,s
committee went to Florence last week
where several thousand seals were
disposed of, the merchants of the
town taking his entire supply. Find
ing that there was a balance of SO, 600
of these seals still on hand which
had been apportioned to the local
schools, MI. Baskerville and his as
sistants sold the entire balance Fri
day afternoon. these sales aggregating
$4,000, which was turned over to the
Red Cross committee.
There is a minister who appreci-
ates the editor. At a recent editorial
convention he offered the following
toast, ITO save an editor from starya-
ton, take his paper and pay for it
promptly. To save him from bank
Eruptcy, advertise in his paper liberal
lly. To save him from despair send
him every item of news of which you
can get hold. To save him from pro-
! family write your correspondence on
one side of the sheet and send it in
al 500 as possible. To save him from
mistakes, bury him, Dead people are
the only ones that never make mis-
takes"
Among the recent acquisitions to
the population of the city are MI. and
Mrs. Fl. d. Pulscher, formerly of Sib-
ley, Ia, who have farming interests
in the vicinity of WATERFOWL. They
reside at 415 Third avenue s. e. Their
daughter, Mrs. II. J.. Freesman, lives
southwest of the city, and their son,
about 16 years Of age, lives under the
parental roof The editor OF The Sat
urday News already feels sort O. "at
home" with Mr.; Pulscher, whom he
had the pleasure Of meeting a few
days since, for the Pulschers are ac.
quaintances of Mr.. and Mrs. q. A.
Minton OF Sibley. who were, near
neignbors OF the EDITORS family ID
Colorado some years ago, when both
Mr. Minton and the latter were horny.
listed o n OF toll.
ME. hUu MIS-. - s CGTy Spent
Christmas at the home of their daugh.
ter, Mrs. d. D. Prouty, residing south
of Hazel. Nj. Prouty, by the way. is
spending a few weeks at Hot Springs,
Ark, in hopes that he may rid him;
self Of rheumatic troubles. His faith.
er, #. M, Pronty, formerly treasurer
of Hafn1in county, is also at Hot
springs. They expect to return next
month. MI. Cory, II may be paren-
theticany remarked, had the mission.
time to permit his Ford radiator tc
freeze. He hadn't any more sense
than To let his car stand for a few
minutes facing a raw southwest wind
with the power shut of, with She re
suit that one Of the small pipes In
the radiator split open along towards
the bottom of the cooling system.
The Brookings Register, referring
to the appointment of Lieutenant
LoBey Williams to the position OF in
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