Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-22

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Methodist church at. Brookings. tel
twenty feet when = tree limb to which
was attaching a rope gave way
The rope was intended to guide ths
fall OF another tree which the minis
ter was chopping down. He was had
" injured. but will ecover.
The controller OF the 4,
Washington has issued q charter to
the First National bank Of Faulkton
with a capital of $4,000. This was
formerly the Faux County State bank
An application for a charter for the
First National bank of Burke has also
been received by the controller.
At the annual meeting OF the Huron
Commercial club R. e. Gone was elect.
ed president, Albert Robinson vice
president and 3. j. Miller treasurer.
All the travelling men with headquar-
tiers in Rapid City have been invited
to be guests Of the Commercial club
March % at a banquet. A big time is
anticipated.
Redfeld five, 1916 champions, were
put out of the running in the South
Dakota high school basketball cham
pionship tournament at Huron by be-
ing defeated by Sioux Falls, rs to n,
in a game of two extra periods. Elan
drau eliminated Elkton by a % to 1s
victory and C~enterville defeated Gro.
ton, A to 10.
Clarence Dunning OF Sioux City, Ia.
was found guilty Of assault with intent
to commit robbery in connection with
q boz car holdup between Burbank
and Vermillion, Aug. 20, 1915, in
which James Brown, a harvest hand,
was killed and Edward Griffith was
made a cripple for life. The trial
took place at Vermillion.
Albert Bass, though somewhat un,
der weight, won his way into the
United States army when he told
Ansheim at the recruiting
office at Aberdeen that he had walked
the forty-five miles from Tulare to
to enlist. The lieutenant
decided the army wanted such nix
ers" and sent Bass to Jefferson bar
racks.
Senator Thomas Sterling OF South
Dakota has been assigned to the COM
mittee on the judiciary and retains
place on the committee on insular
and conservation of natural re-
sources, immigration, mines and min
ing, Mississippi river and its tributar-
les, postofice and public lands. He
has relinquished membership on the
committees on civil service, District
Of Columbia and pensions.
.. b. Wilson, appointed milk in
spector and sanitary police officer by
Mayor A. T. Hopkins, began his Off
cial duties by calling on Watertown
milk dealers relative to the enforce
ment of the new city milk ordinance
providing that no milk can be sold
the city limits except that pro-
cured from cows which have been
tested and found free from tuberculo-
The ordinance became effective
1s.
The University OF South Dakota,
a showing Of seven victories and
n defeat in the state, claims
The basketball championship OF South
Dakota. Yankton defeated South Da-
kota, but lost four Of its eleven games.
Normal at Aberdeen Won
aine and lost three, its victories in
= win over State college. Tho
Yankton wins included two over Sioux
Falls, . team that walloped Huron.
Aside from these twoadefeats Huron's
record a as good as Yankton's.
While it has been understood By
South Dakotans that none OF the pro-
Of the dry law enacted ~ the
state legislature will be effective be-
lore July 1 IN Interpretation has been
siven out from the state an~ti-saIoon
headquarters at Mitchell that is max
ing tho "wets' very anxious. The
.eaguers declare many provisions OF
he AZ law are effective now. I'M
among these is the prohibit
ion Of the sale OF liquor in clubs TN
Ter penalty OF jail sentence Or fine.
Inc attorney generals department
holds that lands in the Belle Fourchs
irrigation district cannot be accepted
Is securities for school fund loans.
The provision under which loans ma
made is on first mortgages only
Ind all the lands under that project
ire held first by the government for
he claims for water and, while these
,laims are not mortgages, in fact they
ire held to be prior claims and OF
,uch standing that the lands are not
n q class which the state school fund
be loaned upon.
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