Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-15
Occurrences Of the Week From
All Over the State.
NUMEROUS INTERESTING ITEMS
Events ChronicIed in Brief Form in
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid Perusal.

About one mile of street paving
will be laid in Madison this year al
a cost of about $50, 900.
Olaf Nelson's head was blown of
by a premature explosion OF dynamite
which he was using in drainage ditch
work near Memo.
Trip high school defeated Canton
high school in a debate al Trip on
the universal military training issue.
Trip upheld the negative.
Brookings State college botanists
have offered to assist farmers OF the
state by testing for disease all seed
potatoes suspected" by the farmers.
Professor ". Franklin Jones will be
director of the summer school of the
University of South Dakota at Yer.
million. which will open June IS and
close July u.
There will be no rise in the price
Of haircuts or shaves in Aberdeen, as
the barber chieftains cannot agree on
a scale. We feel that a rise would
AS Z AlA2Ct q ~ WIG CSSc VI WI
business" one barber said.
c. L, Dotson, editor OF the Sioux
Falls Press. has resigned as a member
of the state board of charities and
corrections and Governor Peter Nor
beck has appointed A. o. Ringsrud OF
Elk Point as his
The state commission which fixes
the standard price OF binder twine
manufactured at the state prison fac
tory has established the carload price
al IL cents a pound and the less than
carload price at l2h cents.
Carl Fowler. chief of the Mitchell
fire department. and Mrs. Leo P. Reih-
sen fastened half way across the con
tinent in an effort to reach the bed
side of their mother at Pomona, Cal,
before she died. but arrived @ late.
Insect pests in South Dakota collect
a tax of 10 per cent on farm crops
of the state. the total loss occasioned
by them being about SIS. 600. a0e. az
cording to a statement issued by Pres
ident e. G. Perisho of the state col
lege of agriculture at ~Broogings
The Pierre rife team is feeling
rather good over their record. In q
contest with liz other teams all oseT
the United States they are tied for
the sixth place and they are going
after a record to break that tie before
the next bulletin OF range worg lis is
sued.
When the sheriff attached the stock
of a store that had been conducted al
Elkton by j. Olive and NJ. Meker, on
behalf Of creditors. 1t was found that
all the boxes on the shelves were
empty and that there was nothing to
attach. The proprietors have disap
peared,
Hope of ending war in Republican
party of South Dakota is seen by poll
ticians in the appointment of c. NJ
Day, a Sioux Falls editor. to the state
board of charities and corrections by
Governor Peter Norbeck. Day has al
ways been a "stalwart." Governor
Norbeck is OF the progressive wing.
Triplets have been born 10 Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Ondricek, well known
residents OF the vicinity OF Highmore.
There are two girls and one boy and
all three and the mother are reported
doing we'll. This is the first set OF
triplets ever born in Hyde county,
thus establishing a new birth record
for the county.
Gold production worth 1853, 633 for
South Dakota last year is shown By
State Mine Inspector Elierman's re
port Just filed with Governor Norbeck.
The Homestake Mining company
produced $~6.530,360. Among the other
large producers in the Black Hills
were Trojan, $353,55x; Golden Re.
ward. $311,242; MoguI, $1ss, 1856; Wasp
10. 2, $780, o7, with many others show.
Ing smaller returns.
immigration Commissioner McCaf.
free lays that there Is considerable In
4uiry through his department Ia re.
gard to farm laborers this spring and
that the demand is In excess Of the
supply. He Is working through the
NOrthWestern branches OF the federal
bureau OF labor la an attempt to Id.
Just the matter to supply the neces.
sAry farm labor for the state at the
opening 81 spring work.
The expressrate hearing, on which
the state railway department has been
compiling ! huge mass OF figures for
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