Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-12

The unofficial issue of the session
laws Of the 1917 legislature are print
ed and being sent out. The new vol
ume contains 691 pages of new enact
ments, making it a larger volume thar
the big 1915 session with it's sos pages
The official laws will not be printed
until some time in June.
The receipts of the department OF
the secretary of state for March were
the heaviest ever received in any one
month by that department, the re
ceipts being from corporation fling,
S2,264; notarial commissions, 1910;
miscellaneous receipts, $2s2.76, and
for certified copies, 1874, a total OF
$3,190.75.
w. p. Kingston, a pioneer settler at
| Warner, is dead at his home in Seattle
of heart failure. He entered a home
stead a mile east of Warner in 1882
and the next year established a lum-
Der yard in the town and continued
the business for several years, finally
selling to the st. Croix company and
moving to the coast.
The faculty of the State Agricul-
tural college at Brookings has sent a
telegram to President Wilson approx
ing his address to congress. Patriotic
demonstrations on the college campus
brought from Captain Joseph Matson
of the college cadet corps the state
ment that between 800 and 400 stu
dents will enlist for service.
Watertown closed it's business insti.
tutions during the ceremony present
ing $4,000 cash to Mrs. F. G. Crow as
first prize in the contest conducted by
the American Eveready works for a
novel trade nam for a fiashlight. Mrs.
wife Of a printer and mother of
eight children. suggested the name
"Daylo." There were 10000 contest
ants.
Heinie Scharnweber, who has
aged the Vancouver team of the
Northwest league, during the season
of 1914, when it won the pennant, will
pilot the Mitchell professional base
ball team this year. Watertown and
Huron also will have independent
teams and Sioux Falls, Yankton and
Scotland are expected to have dia-
mond representatives.
A female rat fed on a rat poison"
that was sold widely in the state last
fall grew fatter every day and finally
gave birth to a healthy litter in the
laboratory of the state food commits
sioner at Vermillion. Analysis showed
the compound consisted of -four and
two deadly poisons-plaster of paris
and barium carbonate. The poisons
neutralized each other and the -four
was n%onrishing.
A special election will be held by
the city of Milbank on April II to de-
eide whether or not to issue the bonds
for the construction of a filtration
plant there to purify the city water.
The extent of the bonds is to be s12,-
Geo. Milbank has long needed some.
thing Of this sort, as the water there
is of q poor standard. Early indica,
lions seem to show that the measure
will pass by a comfortable majority.
A. movement TO make Mitchell q
city beautiful" through the ~cultiva.
ton of trees and plants, has been in.
stituted there. Assistance will be
given all property owners desiring to
improve their homes by the municipal
park superintendent and an appeal to
all citizens to make Mitchell "a city
OF shade, beauty, GOODNESS and health
by planting and %nurtnring trees has
gone forth. Civic and juvenile organ.
izations are taking up the project.
The commissioner of school and
public lands will offer for sale be
tween April II and April 2s tracts Of
land in eleven counties at from 81
to SIS an acre. One-fourth cash down
is required. The sales will be as fol
lows: Gregory county, April II;
Charles Mix county, April Is; Douglas
April 10; aurora, April 2f; MeCook
April Eli Lake. April %; snink, Apri
"a; Edmunds. April %; Mcpherson
April rs; Brown, April ~. and Hand
April %.
Owners Of reclaimed land on which
the government holds a first mort
gage are made eligible to The heae
fits of the federal land banks in a BIZ
prepared by Senator Sterling OF soutf
Dakota. The measure is INTENDED tt
relieve owners of land In the Bellt
Fourche dam project in South Dakota
Since the government holds first mort
gage on these lands ii virtually Il
impossible to borrow from pgiyat,
concerns, Senator Sterling said. TIL,
debt to the government is made a sec
ond MORTGAGE BY the bill. Fedora
land banks can lend only on frs
mortgages.
Will A. Fox of Sioux Falls wa
elected foreman of the South Dakotl
Yeomen for the next ~conclaye at tn
q~uadIrenniai session held al aberdeen
e. Wilson and g. O. Berdahl wer
elected delegate at large and alter
nate, respectively, to the national cor
clave. EIGHT other delegates chose,
are i. Hahcock of Deadwood. .