Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-26

car Holmquist. who will be pleasant
ly remembered by Henry people as
Miss Susan Aldous.
Following a most paiatable II
o'clock dinner, the party, headed by
Mr.. Holmquist in his car, inspected
the Dakota side of the lake for sew
eral miles up from Big Stone city.
This lake, by the way, is Sc miles
long, with an average width of per-
haps three-fourths of a mile, widen.
ing in places to approximately a mile
and a half.
The shore, for some miles, is bluffy.
the bluff extending back from ten to
twenty rods and is covered with
shade trees of various sizes. The
hillside contains a double row of cot
tages-one just above and back Of
the driveway and the other further
up the hillside, with an almost indis'
cernible roadway as the dividing
line, This roadway starts from no.
where and ends at the same place.
A Dinky Driveway.
Let us pause here long enough to
express our opinion Of the l~ake-shore
driveway. A chauffeur-to drive any
thing but a Ford-needs two bracers
from TIE modern non-intoXicant con-
tainer, or three Swigs from a bottle
of pop pulled through a straw, to be
able to guide his machine along this
crooked and narrow way, especially
If he is going to be allowed an oc-
casional glimpse OF those classic but
abbreviated bathing suits which as
aume to encase but a very small part
of a girl above the belt line and
scarcely anything al all below Ut,
which we saw posing here and there
but which we might not have no.
ticed If Sykes hadn't called our atten-
ton to EN-.
In the midst OF dense shade stands
the big c~hautauqua pavilion as If it
were nailed TO the hillside, the nat
ural slope of the ground furnishing
the floor for the elevated seats, one
row above another.
A summer hotel Is Just beypnd,
walled in by cement construction on
the lake side.
Gloomy Shade.
But the gloom of the shade in the
midst of this stretch of natural tim
Der is almost oppressive to u who
has spent his days in the sunshine of
the Dakota prairies and his nights be-
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heaven.
If we owned a cottage therein we'd
borrow a post-holt auger and bore
thorugh the shade SO as to let in a
few rays of sunlight.
But people don't go to the sea-
shore or the lakeshore to be seen, of
course, excepting in their bathing
suits.
Nevertheless, it Is a nice place in
which to spend a quiet vacation. One
can get the cool shade il he wants it.;
he can get the sunshine by going up
the hill or out on the beach he can
get a good water bath or a good sun
bath; boating and fishing are good;
motors ply the waters every day dur.
Tag the season; people are constant
ly crossing and ~recrossing.
Glimpses Of Familiar Faces.
One fails to realize what the mod
ern automobile has enabled people
to do in the way of visiting and sight
seeing and pleasure-riding until he
gets away from home and catches
gltmpses OF familiar faces. Among
the Watertown people who were
seen, some Of them at a distance, a
few Of them face to face, were q. III.
Chenowith, j. E. Alexander, Ernest
BOYD, j. G. Vincent, William Schmael-
ing Fred Cook, Jim Riley. Lee Tracy.
Cleve Falyey, Will Toms, v. G. Wish
ard, William McKool, Roy Richie;
also, Mrs. 3. r. Hopkins and daugh-
ter. Caroline, who met her mother at
this place en- route home from the
twin cities, there with the L. D. Ross
family from Henry; the Misses Pot
ticary. and others whose names may
have temporarily escaped memory.
Other well-known people there for
the day were the Hubbards from Hen
nv. accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs, j.
Wood, OF Mitchell, S. ID. Mrs.
Wood is a sister Of Mrs. Hubbard,
and MI. Wood is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kendrick N. Wood. OF this city.
The Minnesota Side.
hut the Minnesota side. from the
STANDPOINT OF scenery and sightsee-
Inc, surpasses that Of the Dakota
shore, -in u opinion.
The driveway Is more pleasant to
travel over, the contour Of the blaff
more variable, the cottages and
grounds more pretez1tious and show
ing d greater degree of landscape
skill, due, very likely, to the better
adaptation oil the shore land TO the
purpose.
So, too. ono gets a broader view
81 the surroundings than IN the Da-
kota side while the beach approaches
more nearly like that of the eastern
shore of Lake Kampeska whereas the
beach on the Dakota eide IS more
abrupt and stony.
timber on either side extends
along the shore Gor several miles, and
then hayland and meadows and
inte view, hut, as summer resort.
khe ACTIVITY III confned largely to
aafxx6t few miles on either side
ss1ake from Its foot, out Of which
1owss Wei Minnesota river
ssSs #8 coNtineftat Divide.