Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-22
From the Rural Precincts

beams, great white sails when breezes
were fair propelled her, a simple rud.
der guided her, in her captains room
no well routed maps outlined her
course, she possessed no staterooms
with baths and electric lights, she
had no gorgeous. saloons. She indeed
was a frail ship, as we today know
ships, an easy prey to wind and wave
the monster leviathan could have
heaved her from her bed. But. ah.
she was sailing on a mighty import
ant voyage, on her untried path she
was guided no doubt by Destiny. she
and her sister ship, the man and his
fellows Were the instruments in en-.
larging the world vision of the race.
The name of the ship? If memory
after a lapse of twenty years and more
proves true we quote the first words
in a certain U. S. History as follows:
"On the Bird of August, 1892, three
small vessels sailed out of Palos, a
seaport town of Spain. On the deck
OF one of them, the Santa Marie, stood
a white haired man of perhaps fifty
years of age: this man was Chris
TOPPER Columbus, sailing on that Won
derful voyage which resulted in the
discovery of a new world"
Since that sailing, that dare in the
face of the unknown and the belief
OF h time, what a miracle has taken
place, what ~stupendous strides the
race has taken in knowledge and
equipment!
The editor of this nifty weekly saws
he is totally at a loss to know whether
to a us a rural correspondent or a
country contributor. That he has al
most concluded to fire us off the lob
and get som n who will tend to
business and send in some items and
not fill the paper with a lot of stuff
He states he would throw the whole
shooting match of vile material that
we send in away but for the fact that
Miss Grinols keeps the waste basket
} so chock full all the time with state
ments of bills sen in which he is un-
able to pay and of written requests
for the News that he finds no room
for it and he hates to litter up the
floor of the Office with such truck.
QBe patient, sir; spring work is near.
ly at hand.)
Mr.. William Toms spent a night the
first of the week in the city, coming
out Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Rice,
of the Peoples Savings bank, accom-
panied him out as far as the corner
of the Geo. Croft land and walked
from there, calling on us enroute. Mr.,
Rice visited his farm and Mr.. and
Mrs. West and back to Watertown in
the evening.
Miss Grace Clegg closed her school
Thursday and Friday of the past week
because of the death of her uncle. Mr.
Joseph Clegg.
Messrs. l.. e. jain and August Mel.
ebert called at Prairie Lawn Wednes.
day afternoon. Mr.. jain called in the
interests of the New York Life Insur.
ance Co. No doubt every man can
we'll carry life insurance and every
young man ought to take out insur
ance when young.
Mr.. and Mrs. Y. Wishard called up.
on Mr.. and Mrs. A. F'rentz and fam
lily Thursday evening.
Mr. Fred Frentz called at the home
of his parents Wednesday Mrs. Fred
Frentz has been visiting with friends
in Grover.
Mr.. Carl David and Paul called at
the Frentz home the middle of the
week.
Mr.. Sam Dean and Mr.. Carl Zweig
We're business visitors in the county
seat Friday.
Miss vici Wheelock is helping care
for her aunt, Mrs. e. d. Wheelock, at
this time.
Mr.. William Murray spent Sunday
with his parents in Watertown.
Mrs. N. w. Porter, Master Weston,
Miss Winnifred, Mis-. Kendall and chill
dTen and the scribe spent a pleas.
ant afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. Dean
and Tim Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. IT, II. Oleson called
upon Mr.. and Mrs. Dean an afternoon
the middle of the week
MIR. A. a. Carnes is in the city at
this time spending a week with his
daughter and her husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. g. Tracy.
Mr.. Frank Wellington, Miss Blanch,
ICarl, Fred and Miss Florence Brown
ell and MI. and Mrs. Frank Carnes
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs, John
Molln Sunday.
Mr.. Wing and Cecil were Sunday
, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Molln.
Nj. Wing and family now reside ten
miles north Of Waterfowl. All are
we'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Lewis have
changed their plans some and now in
tend to go to Montana some time In
March. They expect to take up a
claim. Not a bad idea at all, we take
its not that the community is at all
anxious to see them go but for their
own good. Montana is a great state
with some fine opportunities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Purcell, Mr..
and Mrs. George Williams and Sidney
Burk and Miss Mae Siyerts attended
d party given at the Bond home the
first Of the week.
MI. Joshua Purcell was q business
Visitor at Clark the middle of the
week. Mrs. Purcell didn't state, but
We feel possibly 1T was to get a. shave
as the WATERFOWL BARRIERS were afraid
tostackle the job.
MI Alexander Purcell@spent a part
of the week with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Hrumbaugh ana family north OF Wa