Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-09-13

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days, four of them in four days, in
which structures and prairie were
burned, have startled the residents in
the country north of Chance. All the
fires started without any apparent
cause and each did considerable dam
age. The people of that section have
called upon the state fire marshal to
go out and investigate the situation
and learn, if possible, the cause of the
fires, which are doing damage to their
buildings, stacks and pastures in that
vicinity.
The state Industrial department at
Pierre reports the filing of ITO ACCT
dent reports in the state for August,
of which two were fatalities, one at
Aberdeen and one at Sioux Falls. The
first month just a hundred reports
were filed and there was an increase
as the employers became better ac-
quainted with the requirements of the
law. While the threshfng season is
expected to bring an increase in the
number of accidents Zach year 10 far
tiieIe nave DSSH uut L"O SuSu dSGI
dents reported and neither of them
serious.
South Dakota is going to have the
finest Red Cross organization of any
state in the Union" said George
Douthit. manager of the South Dakota
Red Cross, in Minneapolis recently.
I'VE have every county but one, which
is located way up in the Deadwood
hills. efficiently organized, with a cen
trail station and branch stations. Some
OF our counties have as many as four
teen branch stations, all doing active
service. There are sixty-eight county
chapters Of the Red Cross in South
Dakota and we will organize the one
remaining county. The South Dakota
Red Cross organizations in each eoun
ty keep a card index of all the sol
diers in that district, SO each soldier
will receive at least n letter a week
and his home town paper"
Despite the prevailing conditions
among the college young men of the
country who may be called to the col
ors athletics will be resumed as usual
at the State college at Brookings. The
manager of the football team has al
ready arranged for six football games,
while several other games have not
been definitely decided. Oct. 20 the
team plays Dakota Wesleyan at Brook.
ings; Oct. 81, University of North Da-
kota at Grand Forks; Nov. "a, Mac
alester college at Brookings, and
Hamline university at Brookings, the
last game not having a definite date
as yet. The annual training camp for
the boys began Sept. II, just before
registration. Charging sleds, tackling
dummies and other modern devices
used in intensive football training will
be used in the effort to build up a for
midable eleven.
Representative Royal Johnson OF
South Dakota, one of the fifty mem
hers OF the house who voted against
war, threw down the gauntlet to the
pacifists in the house at Washington.
His speech was prompted by seditioas
literature received from the Peoples
Peace Council. 1T is time. Mr.. John
son declared, that ONE Of us who OPP
posed the entry of the United States
into this war answered these treason
able attacks and do not put it up to
you who favored the war to make the
reply" Here is Mr.. Jofnson's mes
sage to the pacifists, pro-Germans and
other agitators. This congress, no
matter how its individual members
voted on the declaration of war. is go
ing to support the government to the
end and until the United States is
victorious The South Dakotan is
the first of those voting against war
who has come out openly in support
Of 1t.
The South Dakota Direct Legislation
headquarters at Huron has received
requests for copies OF the amended
Richac.ds primary election law for
twelve public Libraries in the East
The fifteenth campaign year for the
enactment of this measur into law
by a direct vote of the people under
the initiative and referendum has just
opened. This measure. which carried
in 1912 and which the people refused
to repeal by d second vote in 1914.
but which was repealed by the Iegis
lat,re Of 1916, Is to be voted upon
again for the third time in its amend
ed form at the coming November cleo
lion, 1913. The state OF South Dakota
was the first state in the Union e
adopt the constitutional initiative and
referendum, soDn after which the in
i~tiatsye Tor The proposed Richards pri-
mar election Law was invoked and
continued as the FIRST attempt at direct
Legislation
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