Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-26

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of Milbank about $4,000 in cash, which
will be used by the club in promoting
public enterprises designed to build
up Milbank and the surrounding coun-
try. Work has commenced on several
important projects.
Burglars, suspected as being semi
professionals in their art. broke into
the Jewel theater, the Queen City
pool hall, Murphy Bros saloon and
the Reliable tailoring establishment al
Sioux Falls and made away with cash
amounting to more than $50 and a
small amount OF merchandise.
Bill Buck, who left Aberdeen under
a cloud several years ago, has written
to state authorities confessing he set
fire to a barn while intoxicated, stat
ing that he has been forgiven by the
owner; that he has reformed and is
making good and that he is ready to
come back and eXpiate his offense.
MAY / has been fixed as the time for
paving work which is to be lone in
Madison this summer. Thus far con
tracts for nearly 800, 900 worth of
paving have been awarded. 1t is eX-
pected that when the work starts a
block Of street per week will be paved.
The 5000 steer has arrived. John
Stronpe, a k~ingsbury county farmer,
has the honor of having marketed the
first steer ever sold in South Dakota
at this price. The animal weighed
LAO pounds and was sold at the mar
ket price of $11.50 per hundred,
Stroupe receiving a check for s200.10.
Nine sons of j. G. Peterson, q Revil-
10 man born in Germany, are in the
military service of the United States.
Two are in the regular army. One Is
in the Second Iowa infantry. Six are
members OF the South Dakota nation
al guard. Several brothers Of the
elder Mr.. Peterson are in the Ger
man army.
Forty-five persons were killed in
motor vehicle accidents in South Da-
kota in 1916, according to figures an
nounced by the state department.
Fifty-hve cases of drowning occurred,
twenty-six were killed In railway acct
dents, thirteen were struck by light
ming and died and were killed
by animals.
Saving of potato eyes for planting
purposes and their use to start gar
dens Is urged in bulletins distributed
NV fhn Sfofn o~1Iaun NJ pro01rtnuc AS.
sertions that shiploads of bacon, not
bullets, will win the war are contain
ed in pamphlets sent to farmers of the
state by the agricultural department
Of the college.
William Drockman, ST., aged sixty
five, a prominent pioneer resident of
Lennon and vicinity, was perhaps fa-
tally hurt as the result of being
caught under a section of concrete
wall which was being torn down. He
@as assisting another a when the
wall suddenly toppled owe upon him,
partially burying him.
Planning Of farm work 81 rs to be
Independent of seasonal and outside
labor is urged On South Dakota farm.
ers by the commissioner of immigra,
ton. Guarantees Of minimum wages
by the government and detailing Of en-.
listed men to farm work were held
out in the bulletin as a possible
means OF overcoming the shortage.
Increase to the greatest extent the
acreage Of food and feed crop and the
maintenance of the largest possible
herds of live stock is urged by Gov
ernor Peter Nosbeck of South Dakota
in a proclamation Issued. Boys and
girls gardens are advocated with the
utilization of all available vacant lots
for this purpose. Careful conservation
of all food products is urged.
Bridgewater citizens voted a 1 mil
tax for the maintenance of a munic
ipal band; Vernaillion voters. by q
majority of IA, turned down a $4,000
bond issue to build a high school ad
dition and Mitchell, by 29e votes, de
cided to maintain a municipal band
w. Fl. Leighty won aAwsrm mayor
atty contest in Brookings oyer two
opponents.
DIR, j. r. Foster, who was state vet
erinarian in South Dakota from 1901
to 1907, but WHO for the past ter
years has been III the employ Of ths
United States department Of agrscul
ture as an inspector IN the bureau q
animal industry, has returned tx
South Dakota and may relocate IL
Huron. He is d graduate Of Huron
college with the class OF 1897.
Existence Of a powerful radio sta
ton d washington Springs capa
BILE of receiving messages from either
seabcard, Was revealed at the unitei
States naarsllaI,s Office at Mitchell OF
return Ut 4. w. Taubnlan, a fedora
oficer, who disrnantled q wireless out
at near there operated BY a farmer b
4 German birth. No evidence was dis
covered which would Indicate that ths
station had been misuseas