Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-15

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Railway station. The Pacific Electric
Railway system is the largest in the
world and consists of over l 1000 miles
of track. centering at Sixth and MAR
streets.
A trip to Los Angeles is not com
plete unless one has visited Mrs,
Kemp, especially to the older resi-
dents of Watertown, AS she still
lives al the same address on Soto
street she is easy to find. Her fam.
lily has grown and increased until at
Christmas time thirty-fve of her own
folks sat down to dinner and it took
their first course. Frank, her Oldest
son, is trying to take his fathers
| place in the home. Oscar, married,
has one child; Monroe, who married
Nita Holden, has three; Caroline has
two and Genevieve one.
After the arrival of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kemp from Sparta, Wis, Mrs.
Kemp entertained a group of Water
town people at dinner, her guests be-
ing besides the John Kemps, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Brock and Mrs. Brooks
sister, Miss Watson, and DR.. and Mrs.
C. W. Stutenroth. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Dodds were invited but he was not
well enough to come.
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Mr.. Dodds, by the way, called on
us at the Arlington hotel one day
when he was over in the city on bust.
ness.
Speaking of the Arlington reminds
me that the lady who has charge of it
a born in Yankton, S. D., and her
father has lived there IS years. We
ran across South Dakota people at
every turn and when we came down
to San Diego two weeks ago and reg
istered at the hotel the couple reg
istering just on the line above Us
gave Artesian, South Dakota, as their
place of residence.
Guess l better tel! you about the
South Dakota picnic held al Sycamore
Grove in Los Angeles, Jan q. There
are always several hundred present
and this years gathering was no ex-
ception to the rule. C. B. Johnson,
brother of A c. Johnson, who came
TO California Eve years ago for his
daughters health. is president. being
reelected again 10 this Office. He
holds the position OF passenger agent
of the department of tours of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad cona-
pany, Mr. Jehnson's daughter is not
recovering as they had hoped and
they are not encouraged over her
condition, so he told me His father,
Mr.. Johnson, who liz well known by
his old Watertown friends, is here for
the winter and is staying with his
sons family at Monrovia, reached by
electric cars. or the twenty-five
hundred present at the picnic fifty
were from Watertown now or recently
lived there. as follows: Mr.. and Mrs.
T. F. Nisbet, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Lee and son. Mr.. and Mrs. J.. /. Monks,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Spencer, DR.. Lyle
Spencer and friend, Mr. and Mrs. P.
w. Reed, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Good
man, Mr.. and Mrs. John Brock, Mrs.
G. A. Dodds, Mrs. A G. Gilruth, C..
C. Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. P. A
Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. John Kemp
tSparta. Wis.,. Mrs. Oscar Kemp,
three SONS and daughter. Mr. and
Mrs. Clair Kemp, Mr.. A II. Loomis,
Mr.. and Mrs. O. n. Richards. Rev. A.
d. Traveller, wife and son, Herb, Mrs.
Fanny Seaton Reeves, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Stokes. Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Bronson, Charles Little. A. C. John
son. Mrs. Belle Dewey Harper, Mr..
and Mrs. Holden and Miss Holden.
There have been and are a few Wa
tertown people in San Diego. When
came the Nisbets were here but
left to attend the picnic. They will
pass the remainder of the winter with
Eiabet Buck Of Venice, Calf
Jos. i. Wilson, a farmer WATERFOWL
who has a brother there, lives
here. Then there is Mrs. Pierce and
daughter. Kota. over at Coronado
Beach. They have III called on us.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. N Wood have been
h San Diego severst weeks. He
,alled this morning The Heilmans,
rho left Watertowr geraI years
agn for his health. are doing well. He
s now in the Imperial alley in real
estate business and fpitag well. so
Ne understand. E~varvhpay who went
the imperial vnliay nine or ten
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