Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-30

n. a. Earl OF LAX Preston is on thu
Canadian casualty list among thost
killed in action in France.
Frank Kunert of Montana walked
into the office of the United States
attorney at Sioux Falls and announced
that he was a registration evader. He
was arrested and word was sent to the
Montana authorities.
Self possession and quick thinkins
on the part of the victim, the prompt
administration of IN emetic anc
| speedy arrival of a physician saved
the life of Mrs. S. NJ. Lindley of Bone
steel, who swallowed q corrosive subj.
taking it for a headache tablet.
Saving their way through the back
door and pulling out the bolts that
held it, thieves were able to enter the
store OF Koth Bros. at Midtown, an
inland village eight miles east of
Parkston, and make away with s1T2,3l,
the funds contained in the store and
the ~postofice run in connection.
= Ire u6SIEOSe luG pdln anu clilCi
outbuildings on the Ray Sweet farm
near Mansfield, causing a loss OF
$4,000. Six horses were burned to
death and valuable machinery and
1000 bushels of grain was destroyed
in a blaze which RACED a large barn, a
smaller barn, a granary, chicken
houses and sheds. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
AT a meeting of the Rapid City
board OF education, bids for erecting
a new ward school building, for which
the voters recently authorized the is
suance of the necessary amount OF
bonds, were rejected because they
were considerably above the archi-
tect's estimates and could not be &C
cepted. New bids are now being ad-
vertised for and will be opened Aug.
81.
DR.. Mort Henkin, a young dentist
who has had his offices in WATERFOWL
for the last two years, has received
formal notice from the war depart
ment that he has been commissioned
first lieutenant in the dental officers
reserve corps of the United States
army. No orders accompanied tht no.
tice of his appointment and DR.. Hen
kin is still unable TO tell where he
will be assigned or what his first du-
ties are to be.
Mrs. Eliwood C. Perisho of Brook
ings has begun active work as head
of the South Dakota Women's Liberty
loan committee. to which position she
recently was appointed by Mrs. w. G.
McAdoo of Washington. at will be
the policy OF the South Dakota COM
mitfee,'' said Mrs. Perisho, TO work in
close cooperation with the chairman
of the federal reserve banking district
and the state council OF defense. as
well al with the county chairnen Of
the council Of defense
AS a result of a preliminary hear
ing, Dick Matwig Of spearfsh was
held for trial In the circuit court ON
the charge of throwing poisoned grain
about his premises with intent TO kill
liye stock belonging TO his n~eighbors.
Neighbors were the complaining wit
nesses, charging that a number OF
their chickens had died from eating
eofn treated with strgehnine which
Matwig is alleged TO have scattered
over the ground near a line fence.
Death brought an end to the suffer
ings of Evan II. Thomas, p-ressrnan at
the Aberdeen American office. Thomas
died following severe injuries o his
foot, received az he was operating the
press. He had been employed at the
American office almost since the es-
enlistment or the paper and he had
draaeed from eaEsias boy 70 saperia-,,
tsndent Of the ,resgroors. The de.
ceased leaves a wife and two little
children aged two and foiir years, his
mother, her sister ami sfrs- Thomas
father also remain to mourn his death.
Fifteen Germans fiaYe been arrest
ed at Trip BIZ federal officials
charged with violation of the espionr
age act. The taes were taken to-
YanEton5 and aYraIgnea before United
States Commissioner Il. I. White Tor
q preliminary hearing, Officials re-
fused To diyuige the exact nature of
the complaint filed against the men.
HoweTers it is understood that they
signed h petition to the county treas-
urer protesting against the draft. On
Aug fifteen otier Germans, Social.
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