Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-28

NEWS OF STATE

CHER EVENTS 81 THE WEEK
CONDENSED FOR BusY
REApERs
Postmaster Theodore BsWerner, OF
Rapid City. reports that there are no
alien enemies In that city,
Fire destroyed the grade school III
Chamberlain. The loss was about
$4,000. covered Nv Insurance.. School
work will be continued In the churches
of the city.
Farmers In the vicinity Of Pierpont
and Groton have neen losing cattle
and horses presumably from the use
OF tsdoped" feedstuffs purchased from
outside concerns.
AL q meeting held by number Of
the young men OF Alcester and vi
entity preliminary steps were taken
70 organize g local company 81 state
national guard.
A large number Of the farmers Of
the southern part Of McCook county
held q meeting III Beresford and organ.
lied q live stock shipping association.
with 9 charter membership of las.
A general campaign to make war
on stock diseases was planned at
conference held at Pierre BY Or. n.
III. Cohenour, of Bismarck, supervisor
in charge for the federal bureau Of
animal industry.
Postmaster Coffman reports the reg
istration OF 10 alien enemies at the
Dallas postoffce. Most Of these aliens
had taken out first papers, but purely
through neglect had failed to ON
plete their citizenship
A few hours after d Red Cross sale
at st. Lawrence, unknown parties COW
cred the front of the D. W. Johnson
store at Miller, a neighboring town,
with yellow paint. It is supposed to-
have been done because 1t wa allegTYSS
ed johnson had not given anything to
the Red Cross sale.
Ten thousand dollars war realized
at q Red Cross sale at st. Lawrence.
Townspeople and farmers contributed
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and pouls
try, besides every imaginable article
Al young calf was sold and resoid I'M
til 1t fetched yer $500. "A IS bill
brought nearly 800
IA most successful auction sale for
the Red Cross was held at Vermillion.
when donations for seven Of the ~
townships Of Clay county, Including
Vermillion city, were sold for q total.
Of $4,000, Three ~auctioneera were
kept busy for six hours. Three thou
sand people were present.
When the city council Of Beresford
opened the bids for the construction
OF q municipal waterworks system, for
which the voters at a special election
authorized the issuance OF bonds In
the sum Of $25, 900, 1t was found that
all the bids were too high and all
were rejected. New bids now are be-
ing advertised for.
A private telegram received at
Flandreau from Washington is to the
effect that an amendment has been
added to the Indian appropriation bill
In congress, providing for $500 for
the rebuilding Of the machine shop
building at the government Indian
school In that city. to replace q sim
liar building which was destroyed by
fire q month or two ago.
The state will offer for sale between
10000 and $4,000 acres Of land III
Meade county on April Q, this year.
Il The lands are placed 81 q minimum
OF SO an acre, and range as high al
$36. The terms are In four payments,
onefourth down, and the balance lii
three payments OF five, ten and rs
years. ct 5 per cent. This Ii the most
extensive offering OF state lands which
has been made In any OF the western
counties OF the state, and viii mean
that . number or cheap farms VIII be
secured BY someone In Meade county
this spring.
South Dakotans are cautioned to
have nothing to do With persons rep
r~eseAting themselves to be represen.
tatiYes OF the federal food admins
tration for this state, unless these
persons have credentials signed by &.
N. Herreid, federal food administrator.
Reports have been received Of per
sons operating in the state as agents
Of the food administration. who have
no authority whatever from the state
administrator. One of these persons
sEfs said to have collected 81 ON Il
merchant Every bona fide represen-
tatfve Of this office Is given propes
credentials before starting out On any
Investigations
The sonrh Dakota council of de:
TENSE ala session held In Sioux Falls,
adopsed resolution ordering that the
teaching OF the German Language be
Immediately abandoned ID all the edu7
catioHai Institutions III South Dakota,