Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-31
Occurrences Of the Week From
All Over the State.
NUMEROUS INTERESTING ITEMS
Events chronicIed In Brief Form ir
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid Ferusal.

- NOiLtH VI 5lAlLiti lbtlltEu u thShtt
brigade and e~Xtinguished a fire that
started in a blacksmith shop and
threatened adjoining buildings.
Willow Lake has adopted the city
manager plan and L, f. Reynolds, a
business man of the town, has taken
up the duties of the managership.
John ~Tassapoulas was arrested at
Watertown on suspicion of hugging
onle whom he found u~nescorted at
night and on conviction was lined SIS.
DR.. Oliver Ainsworth of Spearfish,
n of the pioneer physicians of that
section, died recently at his home in
Spearfsh. He had practiced in that
city since 1892.
The Aberdeen city commissioners
have authorized the city treasurer to
invest $4,000 of the public funds in
Liberty bonds. the bonds to be turned
over to the sinking fund.
S. A. Travis of Pierre. a ~newspape
man. has been selected as industrial
commissioner by Governor Norbeck. to
act as an executive officer under the
workmen's compensation act.
A committee of the faculty of the
University of South Dakota has sent
to President Wilson and congress a
petition that use of grains for the
manufacture of liquor he prohibited.
E. A, Warner, an old time South Da.
kota newspaper man who recently sold
tho Et1raE2 pIada tn AaicarE 4. .Er1h
has removed to Moosejaw, Sask.,
where he will be manager of a real
estate Office.
Alfred Bates of Sioux Falls, a pack
ing house employee, is under arrest for
counterfeiting because he pasted d
figure 5 obtained from a sigar box seal
over the figure l of a 81 bill and al
ta;fpted to pass it as So.
The Scotland company of the ma
tionai guard has decided to be merged
with the Parker company under the
command of Captain C. G.. Hackett of
Parker. BY combining the company
was raised practically to war strength.
South Dakota's complete national
guard units as ordered by the war de
partment are: One regiment of in
fantry for coast artillery support, one
field hospital company and one am
bnlance company attached to army
corps and one regiment of cavalry not
to be organized now.
A new high mark for wheat has been
reached In Milbank by Mrs. C. ].
"a HNr0p ~, ~ tx,1,N 1;,nn - x \ =,
place. She took a load Of ninety bush
els to the Milbank elevator that net
ted her a check for s262.3 80. The whea,
graded No. / Northern and the price
paid for 1t was $3.05 a bushel.
Rains, which delayed corn planting
for several days, were a benefit to the
soil, which had become dry on the
surface, and general prospects have
g improved rather than impaired.
small grain sowing is practically
over in all sections of South Dakota
n plowing for corn is well under
way.
Quantities of silke were found In the
home OF Gerard Sunninghaus at Yank-
ton in a raid by police and members
Of the family stated they had received
I It from Otto Richardson, now in a hos
pital at Blue Earth, Mimi, where he
was shot while resisting arrest. Reein-
artsonfs wife lived In the Summing
hans home,
The town board of Summit will en-
force the ordinance providing that
girls and boys under sixteen be of
the streets by s o'clock evenings.
Heretofore the boys there have hn,
altogether too much freedom and it
has been a common thing for some of
them to still be on the streets at III
o'clock or after.
After being In session two DAYS the
second annual convention of the State
Electrical association was concluded
IN Sioux Falls. The following were
elected officers for the coming year.
President. N. G.. Draper. Sioux Falls.
yieerpresidents, John r. Cameron. Ar
lnour; r. ]. Sherwood. Mitchell. Sec
Rotary treasurer, Frederick ID, Brown,
Sionx Falls.
While the grain crnpsis behind time
In the region OF Aberdeen the pros
pect has become more encouraging
I The grain il more deeply rooted than
usual. as q result OF cool weather, and
this Will make II more immune from
the effects Of any drought that may
develop late In the summer. Where
small grain is above ground ii IL tx
good safand and color.