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

The hot weather, really hot wealth
er like the past week or ten days,
does rather get a fellows goat. Don't
matter how cool and collected he tries
to keep and dress, etc. Sure a nice.
poise of mind and soul helps, but
hanged if old Sol don't get almost any
old poise pretty warm when it's about
95 in the shade.
That is, if you're in ordinary loca-
ton and vocation. If you are motor
ing, ETC., or in a properly located
parlor or porch with a servant and
automatic fan you can keep your
poise fairly well-if you're o too
badly in debt and your stomach and
liver are healthy. Howsomever,
there is sound philosophy in the poise
and when it's alfred hot in going
about your work with interest and your
thought on some pleasant subject else
than the weather. Besides it takes
heat to grow corn, hatch flies and de-
yelop bacteria.
Some needed rains have fallen in
several localities, but have all so far
missed the writer, Eli Oleson, Geo.
Croft and Lee Tracy. A good rain is
desirable for almost all the crops.
Corn will do better for a good soaker,
garden stuff, and early potatoes espe-
cially. Small grain, too, will fill much
better with a rain and a few cooler
days. You people, of course, who
have had your rain are not included
in this. You can just drink your
Bevo, fruit nectar or whatever you
use and keep quiet.
One motor party returned from a
visit to Florence and reported the
crops all looking fine. Another party
said everything was dried up up
there We don't know whether it
be one party deceived us or one re-
ferred to the crops and the other to
the town.
And now begin to come in some re-
ports that everything is not going to
the dogs by the saloons and intoXi-
,cants taking leave of us, especially
the liquor (the saloons seem as busy
as ever). Even some reports remark
that the conditions are better than
with reason Jogging liquor being dis
pensed. Sure, Mike! You needn't
fear everything will go to the dogs
just because we stop the booze. Quite
the reverse, my dear sir. Better state
of things has followed the demise of
the booze business in every place
where they have actually stopped it.
Why, mister, we wouldn't believe in
God, man, right or N if it were
not SO. Sir, there is not a single item
! of argument for Intoxicating liquor
that can stand the test of reason,
sense, facts or experience; it is
wrong, sir, totally, absolutely, utter
ly, fundamentally wrong; it's one OF
worst travesties, shams on the God
given intelligence of the genus homo
ever the race has seen. To hell with
the stuff!
Methinks that, some day in the fu.
ture it viii be a matter of pride on
the part Of many a gray-haired man
that he helped with his own hands in
the fighting of the worlds battles in
the vast network of trenches in the
lands across the sea-. Many an aged
mother will look with increased pride
and loving tenderness upon some boy
because he was a brave and patriotic
boy, because he was with the armies
across the ocean; many a boy OF the
yet unborn boys will in the years To
be point with a greater respect and
devotion to his father, because father
dared and did answer the call of his
country in her time of need 1t VIII
be but the past and present repeated
As sure as you live sir this wal is
becoming a war for liberty. a right
eous war, a patriotic war. How we
love today the old fellows, heroes
every one, who battied Tor q union
in the days of 81 to '65. How we
love the sturdy lads who wore the
blue in the days after the sinking OF
the Maine. And you, my boy friend,
viii be so loved and respected and
admired in the days of the future if
YOU freely, fully give now your serv.
ice to your country and the world.
Those who did not go, sir, Will be in
the background.
All! methinks if one would get a
proper glimpse of real beauty and
glory and meaning of his country's
flag it will come most acutely to him
when he follows that same flag into
the smoke and din and death OF
battle for humanify,-then it will
come to him.
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. III. Oleson spent
Sunday with Mrs. Alexander Dawson
at her home in W~atertown. Present
also was Mrs. Hopkins and little
daughter. Of Mitchell. Mrs. Hopkins
was formerly Miss Iva Dawson, OF
WATERFOWL. Mrs. Dawson was re
Gently Eve failed to hear previously
a guest of the Misses Melchert. Mrs.
Hopkins is spending several weeks
with relatives and friends in Water
town and vicinity.
Hr. and Mrs. Leon Tracy. Mr.. and
Mrs, Cleveland Falyey, Miss Kelly
Miss Sarah Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Wishard and Miss Coda and Glen
M. and Mrs. Phillips and daughter,
Edith, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cook, MI:
and Mrs. Riley and daughter, Helen.
MI. and Mrs. w Toms and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Beach and Miss Irene
Patterson formed . jolly auto party
the first Of the week which visited
Big Stone Lake, Chautauqua Park and
Hartford. Chauta1qua Park is lit,
tie summer resort a short way from
Big Stone City Big Stone Lake Is 4
long, narrow lake. The party took
dinner At Chautau0ua Park. supper al