Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-12
Occurrences Of The Week From
All Over the State,
NUMEROUS INTERESTING ITEMS
Events Chronicled in Brief Form in
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid PerusaI.

DIR. p. H. Schoonmaker, for thirt!
years q physician at Arlington, il
dead.
Governor Norbeck has selected L
i. F1eeger of Parker as the new judge
for the Second circuit.
Yankton county residents have sub
scribed $4,000 In a campaign to aid il
relief of European war sufferers.
Fire destroyed barns and fancy
stock on the Welland ranch near
Bridgewater, causing a $4,000 loss.
Voters at the Canova city election
on April II will decide whether to
levy a 1-mill tax to support a town
band.
A prizefghter killed in a saloon at
Panama. in the canal zone, is thought
to have been Jack Barry, formerly Of
Montrose, this state.
Miss Gwymethe Upton won the an.
nual ~declamatory contest at Mitchell
high school and will represent that
city in the state event.
George Blum of Freeman tripped
while helping his wife hang out
clothes, causing a nose hemorrhage
that nearly killed him.
Otto Johns of Bonesteel was attack,
ed by q bull and severely injured, but
saved his life by crawling through a
small hole in a manger.
Farm laborers are asking shorter
hours, better board, a room in the
family domicile, $40 or more a month
and many other comforts.
Bower Thomas Whitehead, fifty-six
years old, for twenty-one years profess
sor of pharmacy at South Dakota
State college at Brookings, is dead.
1t liz reported that M. J. Smiley of
Belle Fourche has refused an offer OF
100000 for his prize winning Holstein
COW. He recently sold one of his
calves for $11 900.
The first insurance company to file
its application to write workmen's
compensation insurance in this state
under the workmen's compensation act
is the Millers' Mutual Casualty com
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pany of Chicago.
South Dakota university has turned
down a dual track meet proposed By
Carleton college of Northfield, MINI.
for May II, because of a prior ar
rangement for the same date with
Yankton college.
DIR. A. Sampson, a prominent physi
clan of Ashton, and his driver, whose
name has not been ascertained, were
drowned when the buggy in which
they were riding went into Snake
creek near Ashton.
Following the example of the Uni
versity of South Dakota faculty ,tht
citizens of Yermillion, headed by for
mer Governor Andrew e. Lee, have
forwarded to President Wilson a res
olution of support.
Sioux Falls employers have unitet
In an agreement to stimulate recruit
ing by promising that they will holt
open all Jobs relinquished by youns
men who Join the national guard ant
enter the federal service.
Miss Carrie Johnson of Garretson
who refused to eat because Of grief a
the death OF her mother, died aftel
twelve days of fasting. She wal takei
to the state hospital at Yankton, bn
could not be induced to eat.
Rev. G. Il. Van der Maaten OF Nit
chelI has announced 1t is his intention
to enlist as soon as troops are askes
for He declared that for ten year
Germany had been plotting, through
agents in America. to destroy this na
ton by civil war.
AS an indication Of prices thi
spring, ait a sale held in Perkins eour
ty asfew days ago. seed flax sold at $
a bushel and seed corn at $3.50
bushel. Cows sold at $S7 and veal
ling heifers at SCI each. with horse
running as high as sl95 a head. 4
This state game warden calls after
tion to the state game law which pr
hibitR bird dogs from running al llars
IN this state for the months OF Apri
May and June OF each year, which wa
enacted TO prevent these dogs from d,
stroying the nests Of game birds.
The estate Of John Mcclellan, fc
which there are many claimants, Ia
groWn from $4,000 fifteen years al
Maen the litigation began, to- twic
SAsaRt aneurnt. The case Il before til
&ettate supreme court When MeCle
nlsdiedf ia Sioux Falls was though