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

q carpenter, was blown from a sca1fold
by a high wind and suffered injuries
from which he died.
Guy Patton, a r%ecluse, who for a
good many years has lived in a sod
house north Of %Iroquois, has disap-
peared and his home has been de-
stroyed, as far as possible, by fire.
Thorwald Ditmansan of Webster
was reelected president of the Lu-
ther league Of the James River valley
at the final session held at Aberdeen.
The 1918 meeting will be held in Web
ster, probably in March.
The city commissioners of Sioux
Falls have awarded the contract for
a $4,000 coliseum to be completed by
Oct. Is.
A war draft registration care on a
body recovered from Lake Michigan
last week identified the victim as
John Smith Starkinski of Ramsey.
officers and directors of the Farm
ers' Cooperative Packing plant, re-
Gently incorporated at $1,000, 900, have
aCSiuCd L iSNdIS thSll Piull II IN
South Dakota set a standard for a
safe and sane celebration of the
Fourth when not a single fire was re-
ported as caused by fireworks, &C
cording to S. e. Grams, state fire mar
shall.
Led by Mayor j. r. Dalton, the peo-
pie of Woonsocket have raised $500
of a $1,000 fund to be employed in
solving the mystery of the murder
Of Miss SThecla Gerken of Woonsocket
in Sioux City the night of June II.
Governor Norbecf has selected DR..
H. P. Kenny as chief of the medical
staff of the new South Dakota. cavalry
regiment with rank of major. DR..
Kenny is a Spanish-American war vet
eran and served with the medical
corps on the border last ear.
A medal Of the date of 1926, bear
ing the likeness and name of Andrew
Jackson, was plowed up by Dirk Will
Jams on a farm near Colome recently.
It is presumed to have been the sym.
boil Of a peace treaty entered into be-
tween the government and some Of
the Indian tribes.
The Pacific elevator at Florence
vas burned to ground recently to-
gether with the contents. An attend
ant, attempting to fix some machinery
In the night, dropped a Lighted LIANT
ern into a bin Of grain, which instant
lg ignited and all efforts to save the
elevator were futile.
David E. Bronson and his sons, who
have PUBLISHED the Webster World for
the past twelve years under the name
OF S. e. Bronson G Coz have. sold the
paper to w. S. q. Adams, who has
published the Webster Reporter and
Farmer for many years. Mr.. Adams
win consolidate the two papers.
Caught under an avalanche of huge
poles as they rolled from a fiat car
from which they were being unload
ed for a power company at Belle
Fourche, Conrad Maui was crushed to
death. Maui had come from st. Paul
in May to work in the sugar beet
fields. A widow and five children
survive.
twenty-five good roads supporters
from this state attended a meeting of
King of Trails delegations at Kansas
City to resist what they say is a
scheme to divert the route eastward
from Sioux City so as to strike Min.
nesota towns and to avoid South Da-
kota. Ehe route is from Galveston to
Winnipeg.
bon Livingston, state market COM
missioner. Jointly with John T. Belk,
president of the Farmers Cooperative
association, has issued a call for a
meeting at WATERFOWL this week to
discuss cooperation In the handling
of the products Of the state on the
part of shippers. transportation CON-
panies and dealers.
Five South Dakota boys, who have
passed preliminary examinations for
admission to the aviation corps and
have been ordered to California or
Illinois universities for ground work
are Harry N. Watt Of Armour, s. r.
Hoiley OF Rapid City, Ralph J.. John
SSoIAB J&t@Ol@ A1CmdId, tAOt1Ge JQilGS Ol
Mitchell and Harry A. Smith of
Brookings.
To have their automobile turn tar-
tie into q diteh and escape fataf in
jury was the experience Of the three
sons and a daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
August Miller of Meckling, while re-
turning to their home from a trip to
Wakonda. AT q dangerous place on
the highway their car skidded and
went into the ditch, tsEning com
pletafys over.
Authority FOR the tri-state flood con
troll agreement between Minnesota,
North and soufh Dakota Is given in
the rivers and harbors bill which will
be reported IN the senate. Senator
Knute Nelson succeeded in inserting
the amendment when the bill was CON
sidered BIZ the commerce committee
last week. An appropriation 81 $685..
600 Is made Ter the secretary 81 war
TO make : sarvAy n estimates of
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