Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-19
Occurrences Of the Week From
All Over the State,
NUMEROUS INTERESTING ITEMS
Events Chronlcled In Brief Form in
Order to Facilitate Their
Rapid PerusaI.

Mrs. Ephraim Miner, who had lived
at Yankton forty years, died there of
burns received.
Ten students of Redfield high
school have enlisted in the South Da.
kota national guard.
Spring field work has begun at Park
ston and farmers are busy putting in
their crops. The ground is in fine
condition.
Nearly fifty citizens of Armour have
signed Il message to Congressman Dill
lon repudiating his yote against the
presidents war resolution.
Recently at Sioux Falls seven men
were sentenced to the federal prison
at L~eayenworth, Kan. The charges
were white slavery and robbing the
mails,
Mrs, Ben Baker, the wife of a farm
er near Hudson, saved her baby's life
by throwing it from a buggy when
her team ran away. Mrs. Baker was
injured,
Emmett township, near Elk Point,
claims the state championship for pro-
duction Of twins. There are twelve
healthy pairs of infants in the town
ship now.
One hundred and fifty Aberdeen
men have formed a minute men, or
ga%nization whose function will be to
defend business houses and other Alb
erdeen establishments.
A good flow of water has been struck
at a depth of l,915 feet in an artesian
well which was drilled at Arlington
for the purpose of increasing the sup
ply of water for the local w~aterworks
system.
Word has been received in Sioux
Falls from George Schlosser of Water
town that Mrs. lille, who recently died
inN california, has left her South Da-
kota property to the Children's home
of Sioux Falls.
The First Christian church of Sioux
Falls has started a months campaign
of eVangelistie services. Rev. Mr..
Pinkerton and his daughter will have
charge OF the special music to be
given each night.
A series of race meets will be held
at Hot Springs during the summer
and fall. They will be under the
auspices of the Black Hills Racing
and Stock Growers association, recent
ly organized in Hot Springs.
at HEt9E-E E-E-
After three veterinarians had failed
to save the life of a $4,000 bull owned
by T. f. Tormey near Letcher an au-
topsy showed the cause Of death to
have been the presence OF a tenpenny
nail in the animals stomach.
Governor Noraeck has appointed
Alfred Zoske, banker and stockman Of
Draper, and J. =. ziebach of Gam
Valley to the rural credits board. The
two appointees. with c. nj. Henry,
commissioner, and Governor Norbeck,
will constitute the board.
The people of Byron township,
northeast of Pierre, have decided that
one of the needs of their welfare is
a community hall, which they have
decided to build this spring, and they
are raising funds for that purpose by
selling stock at SIS a share.
Neil Mckay, a freshman, has been
elected captain Of the 1918 Huron
college basketball team. He plays
guard. or the FIVE letter men-George
Longstaff, Joseph schoof, Carl Voight,
Robert Glennon and McKay-all but
School are expected to return next
year.
The Business Mems club at Custer
has taken up the work of improving
the public highways and a committee
has been appointed to ascertain the
amount Of work required to place them
in first class condition. Active good
road work will soon commence under
the direction OF the club.
a pair Of English sparrows which
built a nest In the terminal box Of the
main aerial cable Of the Moody Coyn-
ty Telephone company, put all the
lines out of commission for q time.
The nest In the box held the snoW
that sifted through and whensthe snow
melted II injured the cable.
The state game department has
closed the fish hatchery at Rapid City
temporarily and will begin the hatch,
ms q eggs other than those 81 trout
4 a point near Watartown. Some aol
The trout fry hatehed it Rapid cts
have neenStaken to spring brooks II