Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-23
Happenings Of the Week in An
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events chronicIed in Brief Form in
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid PerusaI.

Fifty-one horses were burned Il
death in a Mitchell livery barn by
fire of unknown origin.
Gladstone Earl, youngest son of
former Lake Preston pastor. has dice
in a British hospital of wounds re
caiyed at the front.
r. Fl. Burns, alias Ed Hill, giving
Minneapolis as his home, was arrest
ed at Aberdeen on charges that he
stole an automobile in Milwaukee last
September.
Out OF seventy-four applicants called
before the Parkston examining board
for physical examination fifty-five
passed as physically fit, nineteen be.
ing rejected.
HIM Aine was exempted by the
C~laxNcounty draft board when he
proved that he had fallen from a hay.
rack while asleep, dreaming OF war.
and had broken his leg.
Oats on be Frank Wright farm east
of Parkston threshed ninety-seven
bushels TO the acre from a Twenty-Five
acre field. Wheat is averaging better
than twenty bushels to the acre.
Burglars entered the house of N. C.
Hagey and the Knott hardware store
al Bristol, taking small amounts of
money and property, including a NUM-
Der of r%eYolyers from the hardware
store.
Prices paid for hogs at the Sioux
Falls packing houses during the past
week have ranged from $3.50 to s16.-
10. the highest prices paid for hogs in
the city within the memory of local
buyers.
While on a visit to relatives in Sioux
Falls. Mrs. Axel Larson OF Minnewau-
kan, ~ D.. a young orna of twenty
five years, WAS taken I'll with pieurisy,
which later developed into pneumonia
and she died.
Governor Norbeek has declined to
issue. at the request of the /. Nv. w, a
proclamation to the people of the state
directing them To abide by the stat,
sifss and moi search any person for
arms without first procuring a search
warrant.
Lr. r. e. Perisho. president OF State
college. has suffered a stroke OF apo
pIexy which physicians pronounce Sc
rfous. He has been in poor health for
several weeks with high blood pres
snre, but his ultimate recovery was
expected.
Farmers ia the vicinity OF Huron
continue 10 report that airpianes are
heard and seen above the Huron terri
tory ali right. some assertions being
made that ali many as six planes have
been observed. Similar reports have
come from Washington.
In response to orders from the wal
department Or. ii. g. Parsons has left
WaiertoWn for Fort Riley, Kan,
s~sssser; hssHiii report at Ifie ofTicsrs
training school about to open there to
prepare for service in the medical
corps Of the regular United States
army.
Residents found q child hanging by
fts eiDthfng from the frame OF a wreck
I'd a~utonoebiIe III the road south OF
Lennox and proceeded 70 rescue Afr.
and Mrs. Harsn 81 Enait. who we're IN.
der the cal. The child was not hurt.
BIT the parents were badly bruised
and cut.
Married men With children are gem
eralIs claiming exemption throughout
Potter connty and single men
whether farmers Or not. are generally
closing their business and making All
arrangements To enliEf, Thirty-six
i are 90 bs called from Potter
county
Herman Henderson, twenty-one
year b age ne#ey Milek. nineteen.
and Katie Mick twelve. were drown
id III he government dam Id Dead
Mans gtiIchs near Sturgis. when
Dewey aEilek attempted t> save HIS
little sister and Henderson tried Us
saye him
1 . mass meeting of IrOqnUis busi.
mess me ! home guard organization
perfected With Ill good charter
dnsHnber1iip Erequent drills viii I'D
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iNacondtttcn assisf tle peace al.
6naintaInin order hou IA
elSity AffSe.
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