Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-17

tJh SdA Oids
The people of Interior are enthus.
astic yer the arrival of the maehinsr
for drilling their proposed ell well
They believe that they have ell pres
poets in the Bad Lands.
Bailey Noroom of Sioux Falls ha,
been elected editor of the Coyote, tn,
South Dakota university annual, pub
1ished at Vermillion. Elmer G. Trot
zig of Howard 10 business manager.
High school seniors at Breoking,
who have left school work before grad
uation for war emergency service or
farms or elsewhere will be accepted al
freshmen students at the state college
next fall.
Reynolds B%jorklund, a farmer living
near Meriden, Iowa, was Killed instant
ly and Ellsworth Ware received min.
or injuries when the automobile in
which they were riding overturned at
Sioux Falls.
The number of cattle in the Rose
bud territory this year is double that
Of 1916, according to reports from the
ranges. P~asturage is in fine condition
and small grain seeding has been
largely completed.
Postal authorities have taken steps
to suppress chain letters that have
bee circulated in South Dakota con.
tanning requests for money that is sup
posed to be used for the purchase of
medical Cllnr1inc Gov Tho n -, h.- .
A supreme court opinion holds the
rural credits act of the last legislature
is fully within the constitutional pro-
visions and the right of the legislature
and is valid in all its provisions as to
the use of the states credit.
Rev. d. p. French of Erie, Pa, has
been elected assistant superintendent
of the Anti.Salcon league of this state
to succeed Rev. e. e. Hunt, who was
promoted by the national league to
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the Idaho Anti
Saloon league.
Blackleg week is to be observed late
this month in several counties Of the
state, according to information re-
ceived at State college at Brookings.
An effort will be made to have all cat.
tie vaccinated with the free govern
ment vaccine.
After several of the best ball play
ers of the town had signed up with
a machine gun company the hackers
OF the Ipswich baseball club, whoNhad
raised 800 to start the team, decided
to refund the money. There will be
no baseball in Ipswich this year.
The state supreme courts ruling
sustaining the rural credits act as
constitutional has made available
$780, GOO to be used by the state rural
credits board as capital of the land
bank, which will lend money at 10
per cent interest to farmers who wish
to expand their acreage.
The work of changing Spencer from
a village to a city form of government,
in accordance with the result of a re,
cent election. now is about completed.
The change in form of municipal gov
eminent Will enable the city to make
a number of needed public improve
ments which could not be made under
the old form of government,
The privilege of milking ewes after
the lambs are two months old is being
sought among breeders by a Chicago
man, Who say he wants the milk to
manufacture a product hitherto i'm
ported from Italy, but now cut off by
the war, and which can only be manu-.
featured with a certain percentage of.
ewes milk. He says the product
into tsiiiiions OF dollars and he desires
to establish plants where he can Sc
cure enough ewds in a vicinity to
make the use Of the milk practical.
yard at Canton, Earl Royce was sur.
when his spade struck a me.
tallic substance at a depth Of three
feet. He had uneartled a robbers
cache. In the cache was o than
800 worth of hardware, including
knives, boxes of shells. bolts, razors
etc. The goods had been buried in
the ground for so long that they had
become worthless by rust. 1t is be-
lieved that the goods were stolen from
one of the Canton hardware stores
and that the thief, after bnrying the
stolen goods, was afraid afterward 10
go to the spot and ecover his loot.
Work OF the newly -orgaaized South
Dakota defense council, as announced
through It's publicity bureau. will. he
along the following lines. Promotion
nf the patriotic spirit and education Of
the people to the magnitude OF the
task ahead; aiding in filling the ma
tienal guard to war strength; assisting
lin enrolling the draft army; maintain
Ing labor standards and establishing
labor clearing houses, aiding the gov..
ernmentsto collect revenues; floating
the liberty loan organizing central
food production committee to work
with thesdefense council; aiding crop
production III All ways and reducing
iwastein the homes.
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