Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-10

1hn0S oUOQt ll6. IUlUUiG OF
october in a special draft call which
mas reached the local exemption board
tor the spruce production. The men,
who are to be taken from the class
qualified for special and limited sery-
Ice, will report to the commanding
OFFICER at Vancouver barracks. Van.
%couyer, Wash.
Letters from many South Dakota
BOYS indicate a current m that
the state colleges quota of students
IN the student army training corps at
Brookings has already been filled.
This is not true. The state college.
mas yet room for probably as many
young men as care to enter, although
" IS advisable that those desiring to
enroll should sSNknd in their applica-
ions at once. II the quota is exceed
ed, a waiting list will be drawn M
1t has been decided by the city cop,.
mlssioners of Madison to submit to
the voters at a special election the
proposition Of issuing bonds in the
sum of s150,000. OF this sum 100000
VIII be Used for rebuilding and equip
ping the electric light plant. which
was destroyed by fire some weeks
ago; $4,000 will be used for the ex-
tension OF the sewerage system, and
the remaining s25, 900 will be used
1or extending the mains of the mum.
cipal water works system.
Although he is still but a lieutenant
Royal G. Johnson, Of Aberdeen. con-
gresham from the Second district.
mas at last gratified his wish to be at
the front. Word from there to his
wife speaks of his strenuous work in
the officers training school in France
He wrote on August Is that he had
another week there before he would
be assigned to the front line trenches
Lieut.. Johnson was recently offered a
captalncy in the ordnance department.
but declined it because it did not OF.
fer enough fighting.
ON AyTes, candidate for congress
OF the nonpartisan league of Perkins
county, was refused the use of the
hall in Witten in which to speak. Hs
then took up at one of the garages.
from which he was ordered by the
town board, also not to speak in the
town. But he refused to abide by the
order and an officer was called tn
stop him; he still refused. The home
guards from Winner were notified and
they came up later and went I'D to
the hotel and notified Ayres to get
UP and get, which he did. He stated
that he was going to Gregory county.
and was going prepared for trouble.
No wonder they refer to South Da.
kota as "the b%readbasket of the
world" for no state in the union has
quite the same record this year on
crops. South Dakota is rated in per-
centage of crop for 1918 at the ton
OF he whole list of forty-eight states,
according to the South Dakota immi-
grafton department. The United
States department Of agriculture ex.
perts' report for August on the staple
m food crops credit South Da.
kota with 1898 per cent the nearest
other state having 113.1 per cent and
only a few states showing better than
100 per cent.
Mabel Williams was the victim OF
a peculiar accident. M. d. Candy was
working on the automobile when In
some manner the clutch, which held
the rim was released while the tubeI
was inflated with a pressure of aboutl
eighty pounds. There was an explo.I
sion n the steel rim struck Miss
Williams with such force on the neck
and breast that she was rendered UNI
conscious. Candy also was knocked
down and rendered unconscious and
suffered minor injuries. It required
The efforts of a physician for mora
than an hour before the two victims
Were brought back to Consciousness.
Their escape from death was a narrow
one.
A recent letter from France tells OF
an impromptu Pierre celebration. ON
the front not long ago. A battery or
field artillery containing 9 ls-ge mum.
Der OF boys from old Company A. OF
Pierre. which has been changed intol
the battery. We're being guarded by an
airman. After several days the bird
man was compelled te come down on
account of engine trouble and landed
among the boys of the battery, reveal.
ing the fact that their air scout waa
Walter Smith, a high school boy and
football star of the class in which
most Of the boys of the company vera
members. From that time on their
air scout had a different individuality
to them than he had before they knew
who he was.
What is known as the Maxwell Men.
onite colony, near Scotland, was the
latest OF the Mennonite colonies in
South Dakota to be sold in a~ccordanca
with the determination of the Men,
onites Of the state to move to western
Canada because they do not want their
young men to serve as soldiers. The
Maxwell colony was one CT the most
progressive in the state. The build.
lngs are large and substantial and are
equipped with electric lights from
central plant operated by power at the