Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-29
Local Happenings.
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Masked ball at the Degree Of Honor
hall next Tuesday evening. April g..
You don't have to- mask to have the
privileges of the dancing floor. Dance
anyway.
DIR. H. M. Finnerud has returned
from Pittsburg. Kansas. where he att
tended a meeting of the board of di-
rectors OF a wholesale grocery house,
in which he is financially Interested.
While away he embraced the oppor-
tunity to visit Excelsior Springs. NO..
and Rochester, MINI.
The following Codington county Of
ficials attended the meeting of county
auditors and review boards at Pierre
last weeks County Commissioner D..
M. Bannister, County Auditor J.. ST.
Johnson. and City Assessor j. Hunt
ticker. The gentlemen report a we'll
attended and a profitable meeting at
the state capital.
Chairman G.. M. Henry of the state
tax commission will be in this city
on Friday, April 6, to hold a meeting
Of instruction for the local assessors
and review boards of the county. All
persons interested. particularly all
assessors and all members of the
boards of review, are earnestly invit-
ed and urged to attend.
4 Now is the time to order your East
er Flowers of the WATERFOWL Flor
list. v. Christensen. Phone 1855.
Adv. 42-43
The Advocate is in receipt of an
Deborah Slocum and VIM. Luck, Jr.,
at WATERFOWL, on March 20, 1917. The
ceremony occurred at the home of
the brides mother and Rev. Fred e.
Stockton, Baptist pastor, pronounced
the mystic words. The happy couple
will honeymoon in Minnesota and
then return to the live city where
the groom has a position in a shoe
store and they will reside with the
brides mother. Sincere c~ongratula-
tions are extended from Clear Lake
friends of the bride.-Clear Lake Ad-
vocate.
The Degree of Honor will give a
masquerade ball on the evening of
April g.. Tickets, so cents each. la
dies admitted free. 1t is not neces-
sary, however, that parties be masked
to enjoy the privilege of dancing.
The Superior Degree of Honor has
recently sent "a check to Mr.. Ole Han
son, formerly a resident of this city,
for one thousand dollars, on account
of the death of his wife, Emma r..
Hanson. Mrs. Hanson carried a poll
icy in the Degree of Honor in this
city. Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson went from
Watertown to Marshalltown, Ia,
where Mrs. Hanson died some time
ago..
When the trees begin to blossom,
and the violets to bloom; when the
bhllfrog in the meadow MARBLES
boom-ah-boom ah-boom; when the
ducks are flying northward and the
butterflies are out, mad when the rob-
ms go Housekeeping in the broken
water spouts; when grass hoppers are
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night and venture in your bedroom
attracted by the light; when birds fy
down the chimney, and hens walk in
the door, beetles hold conventions in
the center of the floor; when the mud
is Ger your shoe tops as you cross the
new plowed land-you may count on
it as certain. sweet spring is neal at
hand.-Exchange.
The Wolf garage will be doubled in
capacity during the coming season.
1t occupies a fine site fronting on Sec
ond street S. E., and extending to the
alley, 165 feet deep. The walls are
brick throughout, the front part of the
building being Two sloTies nlsn VIII
living room suites on the second floor.
The addition to be erected will be on
the south side, extending from the
street to the alley. fifty feet wide.
This will then be the largest garage
ID this section of the state. The
Wolf people have done a thriving
business from the establishment Of
the plant here, and the enforced en-
largement to accommodate the de-
mand is an evidence Of superior man
agement.
Mr.. G. NJ. Henry, Redtield banker.
who is the head Of the state tax COM
mission, and who will be in this city
on April q to conduct q meeting Of IN
~struction for the assessors and review
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