Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-26
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Occurrences Of the Week From
All Over the State.
NUMEROUS INTERESTING ITEMS
Events Chronlcled In Brief Form In
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid Perusai.

been appointed physician on the
nurses examining board of the state.
A proposition to consolidate the
four school districts of Canova town
ship into one district was defeated at
a special election by a vote of So to 90.
Farmers of Brown county are urged
to take every ~precaution against crop
destruction by prairie fires in an ap-
peal issued by the state council of de-
tense.
Rarchers in the Pins Ridge country
are stocking brooks with trout fry. If
the movement there is successful it
will be taken up in other districts of
the state.
Two daughters Of Paul Shoefelder, a
farmer living near Ethan, were fatally
burned at Mitchell when a fire started
In the kitchen as the result Of a gaso-
line explosion.
Mrs. Johanna Ufken, an old time
pioneer of Huron and Beadle county.
is dead at her home at Huron of heart
failure. She was of German birth and
leaves a large family.
Garretson Catholics have taken pre-
liminary steps to build a new church,
which will be of brick and cost from
$4,000 to SIS, 900. The congregation
has oatgrown the present structure.
Said to be demented on the subject
of purity Klass Lequist painted every
thing on his farm near Geddes a daz-
ziing ~white-house, barns, trees, hen
coops and fences. He has been placed
In a hospital.
1t is estimated the attendance at
the Farmers clab picnic at Lake Hem
ry, near De Smet. held for two days,
exceeded 5000 people. More than l.
900 automobiles We're counted on the
grounds in one day.
Twelve alleged slackers have been
removed from the county Jail at Aber-
deem and taken to the state prison at
Sioux Falls because of the crowded
condition of the Aberdeen Jail. Their
cases will be heard late in October.
Mrs. George Dillon of Colome was
INSTANTLY Killed when her twelve
year-old daughter accidentally dis
charged a pistol that she had found
under her fathers pillow. The bullet
passed through Mrs. Dillon's heart.
More than 90 per cen of the men
eligible to draft in Jackson county,
the newest county of the state, al
ready have enlisted. On registration
day Jackson county already had enlist
ed more men than called for by the
draft.
According to the report of Recruit
ing Officer j. B.. Zimmerman, Pierre
heads the list If all other South Da-
kota towns in nav recruits, this re-
gaTdless Of size. At that city there
twenty-eight applicants for en-
Hstnsent, Of which twenty-three were
accepted.
A physician cannot carry liquor III
his medicine chest to supply patients
individually. according to the state le-
gal departments Interpretation of the
liquor laws. All he can do If he thinks
liquor is needed by a. patient is to
write a prescription to be filled at a
drug store.
Rev. George Norbeck, father Of Gov
ernor Peter Norbeck Of South Dakota,
died at Tyler. MINI, while visiting
friends. Rev. Norbeck was aighty-one
years old and came to South Dakota
in 1868. He was q member of the ter
ritorial legislature and later of the
state legislature.
Samuel Shinkie, arrested at Huron
by Chief OF Police John Boyle recent
" on instructions from Ernporfa, Kan,
and who Was held n the county jail
pending word from authorities there,
has been taken back by Sherif Owens
Of Enaporia. where he will answer the
change of wife desestion.
IN order to help meet the shortare
OF t~eiegraphars for the first increment
OF troops South Dakota State college
at Brookings is about to offer a free.
course in telegraphy, elementary pay-
sizes and electrical engineering for the
instruction OF prospective volunteers
for the uaited States signal service.
Mrs. Lynford Narregang, seventy
two years old. one of several Aber-
deem women who pledged themselves
to earn ST to be given for patriotic
causes. accepted the offer Of her D
to give the $1sif she would spend 4
hour In trousers watering the front
lawn. She donned the trousers and
earned the money, but she did 1t at
) q. "a.
The South Dakota state council 81
defense. at meeting 81 Pierre, took
% discussion % /. Wv, activities
md considered the organization 81
hon1s guard units to guard property.
4 IS hoped intiis manner to prevent
recurrence of such situations as
arose last fall, when posses Of citizens
IA The eastern part of the state took
III arIns aud controlled the situation.
The reqaeet made of the government
for arms fof the home guard VIII b.
pushed and home guard organlzedl
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