Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
TAKE NOTICE.
Apples for sale at the Midway
at 100 per bushel.

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APPLES APPLES-Fine varieties
and grades of apples grown anywhere
in the world, for both appearance and
flavor. Get q box.....U. A. BabcOck. tn
We have a beautiful line Of "Royal.
Rochester" electrical appliances includ-
ing perculators, coffee machines, chat.
ing dishes and table grills. Nelson &
Reed. N0-9G)
Mrs. Ellsworth Ro;ye and son George,
are leaving today for Bookings to be
home over Christmas. Mrs. Rowe has
been with her mother, Mrs. Robertson,
most of the time since her fall, some
weeks ago, when she sustained a broken
limb.
If you have tried all other places for
useful and ornamental Christmas gifts,
without satisfying yourself, just kan
inc the fine stock at Nelson & Reeds,
where youll be sure to find something
that will please both yourself and the
recipient. (9O.96)
Only n few head of mich COWS We're
| Nil9Ic'NNi VI ~ Liz f''hS ~ AN
side farm yesterday. and the sale Of
the balance of the stock advertised has
been postponed indefinitely. Reports
from the sale is hat the mich cows
brought a good price.
Chas. Maxwell expects to depart for
Los Angeles, Calf, the day after
Christmas, where he will spend the
winter. Mr.. Maxwell is IS years old and
is a pioneer resident of WATERFOWL,
having conducted q grocery store in
this city in the early days.
a. P. Crandall of Florence was rams.
acting business in the city yesterday.
He embraced the occasion to drop into
the Daily News office for the purpose
of leaving a little of the whereWith In
the till, so that the daily would pay
him regular visits hereafter.
S. S. Hammond, residing about mid
way between Hayti and Bryant, was
attending to business matters in the
city yesterday, paying, among other
things, his respects to his office. Mr..
Hammond is one of the numerous reg
ulaf readers OIL the Ddlly news IN
Hamlin county.
The epidemic in Water town has
shown no signs SO far of increasing.
Comparatively few new cases are re-
ported. WATERFOWL has been particularly
fortunate in the low death rate,
among the lowest in the state. and
health officers are hopeful that the
record can be sustained.
Mrs. Sarah De Graft, on her way up
that a car caught a loose piece of wire
stretching across the street near the
Electric Co. office, fell and sprained
her ankle quite badly. 1t is presumed
that a car caught a loose piece of iwre
and in some manner pulled it taunt
across the street. Mrs. De Graft Is con.
fined to her home.
Patrick Walsh, newly elected COM
missioner from the second district to
succeed J. A. Patterson, spent the morn
ing hours meeting several county Of
ficers. Mr.. Walsh attended the state
meeting of he county commissioners
at Sioux Falls and stopped over night
on his way to Henry.
The High Shcool are enjoying a SER
Ter Of talks by representatives Of the
different lines of business and activities
in the city. The addresses given each
Friday afternoon are limited to fifteen
minutes. County Agent Palm spoke to
the students this afternoon, talking
on the subject, Agriculture as a
life work"
Rose Jennings, who has been en-
ployed at the Vogue hat shop, plans to
leave the last of the week on an ex--
tended visit east. After spending the
holidays in Minneapolis she will go to
Chicago. where she expects to take up
designing at me OF the wholesale
houses. She will remain until about
the first of February. wriieT she expects
to resume her position with the hat
shop.
Word from the vicinity Of Bradley
and Garden City is to the effect that
Sam Shupe is burning two grooves In
the ground wherever he drives his Tir
Lizzie. 1t is easy to trail him by means
OF these burnt streaks. That reminds
us Of a peculiar thing hat happened
to Sam while he and his family were
visiting in Iowa a year or ago They
had been e~ncountering not the best d
roads. and all at once when they hi
that famous turnpike in the northern
part OF the Hawkeye stale, The littI,
old machine felt SO coltish over 1t tina:
Sam had to keep his foot on the brak,
pedal for upwards OF three hundret
miles-so he said.
Mr.. John Veteran OF New York 1
an over Christmas guest at the HON,
OF Mrs. Cora Bonesteel and daughters
Mr.. Veteran is enjoying a fifteen
day furlough from Camp Lewis, Wash.
where he has been engaged in Y. N
g. "A. work for the past few months
haYtng come to the western coast direc
! from Schoefield Barracks, in Hawaii
where he has been pursuing the In
line OF duty for two or three years
For the last four years he has devoteI
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