Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-19

10 a close. but it may be that they
will get their share OF the glory. AT
any rate. some of us are going to
Try for it, you see
p. I. Jones; Il WAS much interest
ed in The editorial in The Saturday.
News concerning the action of Con-
eressmen Dtllon and Johnson with
reference to the war resolution. |
have known Mr.. Dillon in an informal
way for many years. and | have es-
tcemed him very highly. | think
1 that. Notwithstanding his adverse vote,
he is assuredly an American who
loves his country, As / view the sit
uation. | entirely agree with The Sat
urday News that if those who voted
against war henceforward do all that
they can to assist in the prosecution
of the war they will fulfill their duties
to their country and to themselves.
IL occurs to me that the rest of us
will have no real cause for com
plant
L. n, Erickson CFlorence): Il
want to leave enough of this root of
evil with you to pay my subscription
another year. I regard The Saturday
News as the very best paper in the
county for the farmer to have in his
home. 1t may be that | am mistaken,
but it seems to me shat the paper is
getting better all the time-at any
rate, like it better and better. 1t
seems to recognize the needs of the
country and the Importance of deal
ing with those great questions affect
ing the rank and file of the American
people, and it manifests the courage
to speak it's mind. | don't see how
any farmer can well get along with
out The Saturday News, and | know
that a great many of them take it in
the northwestern part of the county
f. R. Little (editor Of the South
Shore Republican,: Yes, work has
actually begun on the oil well. The
machinery was started last Tuesday.
understand hat the first thing to
be done after cleaning out the piping,
is to pull up the six inch piping and
enlarge the hole to eight inches down
to it's present depth, and then to con
tinue with the six-inch drill. Oh
course, the people of South Shore are
hopeful that oil in paying quantities
1 IN. obIlo aS tc oSiiSitLay
will be the case. The prevailing be
lief is that the drill has gone to g
depth of 500 to 900 feet, and it is
stated that work will be continued
until either oil is struck or bedrock
(meaning granite) is encountered.!'
l.. w. Stoeckel: Judging from
such information as comes to me,
~ -, ,n1;,pl "a fhinly that thorn will
be few German-AmericanS-few, in
} deed-who will not lend the full
weight of their influence and ability
to Uncle Sam in this crisis. o
l course. no one can blame them fol
having entertained a sort of sympathy
for their mother country, but, speak
ding generally of them, they are pat
! riotic American citizens. They have
2 come to this country to make thei.
homes and to become a part and par
eel of the body polite Of America, ant
of American institutions, and 1t viii
be found that, with very few excep
tons, they will stand by the countr.
of their adoption country in which
, they expect to live during the balance
of their lives and where their chill
t dren and children's children, and 81
on down through the coming genera
tions, expect to become loyal citizens
1t is no Indictment against them tina
those of German birth have been lott
to enter this war, hut it is decided.
i to their credit as citizens of tn,
j greatest and most liberty-loving coun
try on earth that when the land o
their adoption calls them they s.
NEARLY unanimously respond Ready
J Father Woodrow, with all gu
strength"