Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-06-13

tFIgut Eye, LIDS ucStTOycu LIE tlSiOA,
1t is feared AS the Left eye was lost
4 years ago in an aceident, Irr. Fe3far
lis in great danger of remaining stone
bind.
F'oscmcEt sIcgg tie womcp's meet
iilss to be held in Huron this year was
the school of methods to be conducted
under the auspices of the South Da-
kota Equal Franchise league for the
women Of Beadle, Sphinx, Hand and
/ Kingsbury counties.
/ Nick Karos and Grace Craig, OF
Mitchell, were arrested in Sioux Falls
and taken back to Mitchell on the
/ charge that they obtained marriage
license by making false oaths as. to
| their ages. They We're married short
ly after procuring the marriage IL
cense The arrest of the two resulted
when information was received by the
authorities that the girl was only II
years old
| Julius Kersting, farmer living near
| Mt. Vernon, as the result Of his pre-
liminary hearing before United States
Commissioner Conway at Sioux Falls,
was bound over to the next term Of
| the federal court under bond Of 3d.
| 900, which was furnished by his father
| and another man. The defendant is
accused of having violated the espion-
age act by making disloyal remarks
concerning the war.
/ A number of claimants for govern
ment lands in the western part of the
! state have been given the privilege
OF making filings for which they have
waited for several months. On June
10 there was opened for filing $4,000
acres of designated lands in the Pierre
and Timber Lake land districts. On
/ these tracts practically all the good
| land had provisional filings covering
them, and those who have such filings
will have 90-day preference right to
complete their claims.
The new executive committee of the
Black and Yellow Trail association
| met at Pierre for organization and out
lining of a policy for the coming year.
The questions of advertising, publicity
and finance for the coming year were
chiefly discussed The policy was
adopted to direct most of the efforts
of the association in this war year
to caring for the tourists who come
through the state over the trail. and
| assisting county commissioners to get
state and federal aid in keeping the
roads in shape, rather than to make
any extensive financial campaign at
this time when money is more needed
elsewhere.
Complete election returns to the sec
/, rotary of state show the following to-
tails on contested Republican nominal
| tons: Byrne, 17.0oS; Sterling. 1919.
| for senator, Congress. First district.
Christopherson $3.50, Dillon 5.266;
Second district, Johnson 1896, Nc
Lean 3,sss9 Attorney general. Payne.
1851; Fuller. $3.50, Bushfeld. 6.a14;
Jorgenson. 1854, Sherrin. 4,64S Sec
rotary of state, Burkhart. as ,IS9;
Hurch, 6,6s4;; Norby. I2.sT5. Auditor.
Reeves. 1890; LANCE. 10.602; Carter,
10046. Superintendent OF schools. Ak
ford ,10,970; Coulson, 9,44a: Shaw, 49,.
| $751; Judge Of Sixth circuit, nonpar-
tisan, Hughes. LAPS; McCord, ssT;#
O'Brien, 743
Charles Peck, a Perkins county boy,
who is serving as a corporal with
the American army in France, writes
Of an unexpected meeting he had re-
Gently in that far OFF country. Young
Peck's father is one OF the leading
cattle men and horse raisers Of Per.
kins county His meeting was with
| an army horse, bearing his fathers
well known brand, the animal having
been raised on his fathers ranch and
/ sold some months ago to the United
+ States government The Peck brand
II N o, and when young Peck spied
the animal and saw the brand he rec
7 ognized the horse. 81 was SO glad to
see something from home, writes the
young soldier that I Would have
gone right UP and Rugged II, had it
not been for the fact that a brigadier
Il general was riding It.
machine gun company of which
Ham i9iinll, n Lead boy, IS a meM-
4 4 her, Is expected ts make an unusual
record when 1t gets TO France and par
tieipafes in the lighting with the Ger
mans. All the men in the company
are giants in size. Dunn himself is
7. a six-footer. He writes ID part To rels.
! lives: n am now IN be machine gun
& company Of the Three Hundred and
. Fifty fifth infantry There are 17f
men in our company all big men
!. Twelve are taller than I, SO y0u know
/. What they are, We don't have I'd CARR
: = gun On our shoulder or stand Suard
when ins action, The idea n nne
move the gum reset q quickly ~ nos
: sible. Tor four minutes ri s n1echin.
4 sun nres, the enemy III lisry Shslll
are dropping there. q W fnust q
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