Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-24

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eleven girls.
The ~ten-year-old son of Fred Ma
u quardt, a farmer residing near Bridg
water, was killed and an older sc
was seriously injured when a seve,
wind storm carried away the barn
which they had taken refuge.
, Alexandria high school debatel
} won the state high school champio,
ship at Alexandria by defeatin
Pierre. Alexandria supported the ne;
alive of the question, Resolved. Ths
there should be military training fc
all youths between the ages of fou
teen and t~wenty-one."
The coroner's jury which has bee
investigating the killing of c.. L
: White by his wife at Platte on he
return from a visit in Sioux Falls e,
onerated Mrs. White by returning
verdict Of accidental shooting. 1t hat
been alleged that Mrs. White free
at another woman and that Whit,
stepped in front of the revolver.
Large numbers OF inexperienced
city men seeking jobs as farmhands
have arrived in South Dakota in the
expectation of receiving %exorbitant
wages at the start from farmers who
do not exist. They have in many
cases paid INSCRIPTIONS labor agen-
c1es in Chicago and in other cities
fees for jobs and have been given ic-
titious m as being those of the
fl rmarG whn will np,r1Nx, tIo,,
Rev. Carl Daniels, one OF the most
widely known ministers of the Finn
nationality in the Northwest, died at
MS home near the state line bridge
III Portage township recently of heart
trouble. He came to this country in
1877 and came to Dickey county, N.
d., thirty years 6 and seven years
ago purchased the farm of 200 acres
where he had resided since. He was
known to nearly every Finn settle
ment in the Northwest and gave what
time he could to settlements that had
no regular minister. He leaves a wife.
three daughters and six sons.
The family of Rev. and Mrs. Albert
Mclean of Alexandria is well repre-
sented in national service. One son is
at the Fort Smelling training camp for
officers. Another is connected with a
guard company. Their only daughter
has enlisted as a Red Cross nurse. A
brother of Mrs. Mclean, Robert Prest,
is an enlisted man on the battIeship
New Hampshire. A nephew is in the
trenches in France. The mother of
Mrs. Mclean is president of the Sol
diers' Knitting club in Canada and
her grandmother has knit numerous
pairs of socks for soldiers.
Samuel Avery, chancellor of the
University OF Nebraska, will deliver
the address of the thirty-first annual
commencement at South Dakota State
college at Brookings on May 90. The
p~accalaureate sermon on Sunday. Nav
~, viii be preached by Rev. H. r..
Best of Sioux Falls. Degrees will be
conferred upon s~ixty-three State col
lege graduates, four master of sci
ence, fifty bachelor of science and
nine pharmacy graduates. The grand
total of those who will have been
graduated from the various depart
ments of the college for the year is
IA.
IT the usual grain crops show signs
of failure then plant prose-. suggests
Professor n. e. Hansen of the South
Dakota State college at Brookings.
Prose- may be sown up to July 1, al
though any time during the first half
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OF June is probably better. Prose is
a large seeded millet,' SAYS Professor
Hansen. and it is an excellent O
for both man and beast in fact. II is
a staple food for millions of human
beings from India n~orthward to the
dry parts of Asia and through Mon.
golia, China and extending westward
into Russia. It may be sown with a
press drill and cut like n other
small grain
Residents OF South Dakota, esne.
ciallN business men in the cities and
towns, have been warned to look out
for two alleged swindlers who disaps
peared from Wyoming a few days ago.
They We're traced as far as the Black
Hills. where the trail was lost by the
officers. They nov are he.
lieved to be working northwara ar
eastward in South Dakota. Their all
leeed graft is the taking of subscrip.
for advertising signs, which
they proposed to attach 10 d govern.
mem Thermometer. clock and some
Kind of apparatus, to be IN.
stalled at q central point In tile town
and ~canyassed by the alleged
sWindlers. The charge was $40 for
each advertisement.
South Dakota vital statistics cover.
the period from 1909 to 1919. in.
and including $4,000 births.
q relationship between the mat.
Of youth with age and the sex Of
The offspring according 10 figures al
bounced BY Pr. Thomas Emery McKins
Iley, head Of the department 81 man. |
eInatics at the South Dakota uniyar.
sity at Vcrmiilion. Mothers giving
birth 10 daughters showed less yaria,
billy IN age than those giving birth
to 2 fathers of SONS were less