Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-12

IA. uAAN VAAS ~. III AOlSA dAIu AdA1lAs
and Miss Lydia Walstein departed
ssother Canadian points, for a visit with
to visit friends in Minnesota before
returning home.
Mr. and Mrs. HI. H. Mailman, ac,
companied. by their daughter, Miss
Agnes, Of the SchaIler department
store, left the fore part of the week
for Chicago and other points for a
visit with friends. They expedite be
absent two weeks.
G. b. Collins, representing the Dali
ton adding machine, arrived in the
city yesterday for a days %sojourn.
The local agency for this machine is
the Waterfowl Printing and Binding
Co. Those local parties who are us
ing the Dalton pronounce it a nne
and speedy machine.
Mr.. aud Mrs. baylor and family
were down from Revillo Sunday, Mrs.
baylor remaining over, a guest at
the home of Mrst E. P, Hopkins.
where their son, Dick, is also staying,
while taking a summer course at the
Watrtown Business University. Mr..
baylor, who is Revillo's banker, and
the two daughters returned home
Sunday evening, s88
MI. and Mrs. Guy Il. Mcintyre were
guests last week at the home of Mr..
McIntyre's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
N. Mcintyre. Guy has been attend
ing to business matters for his big
music house in this section of the
state, having visited several of the
surrounding communities. Mrs. Nc
Intyre returned to her home at Chi
cago last Sunday morning.
Mrs. G.. L. Deck, of Fargo, N. D.,
arrived In the city the fore part of
the week, accompanied by her three
children, for a visit at the home of
her father, Jerry Watkins. Mrs. Deck
will be pleasantly remembered as
Miss Rose Watkins, and she has a
large circle of friends in Watertown
and vicinity who will be glad of an
opportunity to renew school-day ac-
qu%afntance.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Park returned
Tuesday from Nebraska and other
points where they had been visiting
and sightseeing. TheE made the
trip by auto and had a most enjoy
able OCCASION. While in Nebraska they
left their machine for a few days, TAX
ing a railroad into Colorado, visiting
Colorado Springs, one of the beauti-
full cities of the Rocky Mountain
state.
FLORIST MOVES.
Christensen, the florist, moved on
Monday to rear Of Kreiser's drug
store. Adv. S
Hon. A. G. Burnstad, of Florence,
coming to town last week, had the
misfortune to have his car overturn
ION a grade, resulting in considerable
laceration of one of his arms. He
was obviously making speed toward
the city on account of an injury done
his eve in handling sheep dip, and
when his car struck a high grade it
failed to respond to the pressure on
the wheel, but went over. Mr.. Burn
lstad, however, his numerous friends
will be glad to learn, is getting along
nicely.
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Some of the automobile drivers,
~confronted with the necessity of DIM
ming the headlights and not having
an electric DINNER at hand, took to
painting the lower part of the re
Hector in each lamp. It's the lower
third of the reflector that sends the
light into the ayes of an approaching
person; hence, by coloring the re-
fector in a sort of fan-shape beneath
1.-THE lamp the glare is avoided, since
the balance of the reflector throws
the light down and ahead instead of
up and ahead.
The agricultural extension work in
Codington county for the year ending
June 80, 19l7, aggregates as follows:
county agents expense, s31.S2; sal
airy, same, $2204.19; stationery and
postage, $56.23; phone and telegraph,
$6a!96; stenographie work, $277.50;
boys and girls clubs, $196.49; state
fair exhibit, $140.08; field equipment,
S45.64; Office equipment, $3.50; mis-
cellaneous, So Bel; total, $S3,340.98.
There is a balance of $196.81 in the
treasury. The state pays a portion
of this expense, the county pays a per
centage, and the balance comes from
membership fees.
The Barnum & Bailey menagerie
and circus last Thursday drew 9
rather smaller audience than on some
former occasions, dNe, in part, to the
failure of the railroads to operate
special trains. The automobiles
however, capable of travelling fifty
, miles with greater ease than the
horse and carriage could 90 ten
serves to attract large numbers from
distant places who formerly awaited
thefnselvesAof the opportunities offer
ed blythe special train. The afternoon
crowd, nevertheless. was fairly large
the seating capacity of the main tent
having been well occupied.
OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAIL
ROAD co. GRANT LAk:DS.
Legal fight over land at last ended
Title reyested in United States. land
by Act OF Congress, ordered to BIZ
opened under homestead laws for set
tlement and sale. Two million, thret
hundred thousand acres. CONTAINING
4 r0non4pf hncf 8rf<,ho $50 AZ -, ,,14.,, ~