Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-11

, Liberty Loan drive, although for the
ninth federal reserve district the for
mallty of soliciting subscriptions was
postponed until Monday, April Is.
The stores of the city were closed
from noon until 4 o'clock. and +he
entire citizenship was concerned with
the observance of the occasion. Thu
order of the parade, which occurred
at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon, was as
follows:
Represented in Parade,
Home Guards under O,
Lieutenant Colonel Walter F Miller
with Captain Claire W. Larson com
handing the company.
Food and Red Cross floats. repre
sented by a corps OF little girls.
Grand Army of the Republic and
Woman's Relief Corps, in motor cars.
Spanish-American Veterans.
Sons of Veterans.
Peck's Fourth Regiment band
Grover Cornet band.
City officials.
School children.
Woman's Council of National De.
Tense.
Commercial Travellers.
Watertown Elks.
Liberty Loan committees
Red Cross nurses.
Boy Scouts.
CIVIC organizations.
Citizens in general.
over the Top.
The indications are that Codineton
county will go over the tor in sub
scriptions, for reports from various
sections of the county show that pat
riotism is predominant everywhere
and that there is a full realization of
the necessity of providing Uncle Sam
with sufficient means to maintain the
American boys at the front.
The state of South Dakota has been
allotted a greater sum in proportion
in the third Liberty Loan than in any
Of the previous offerings for the rea-
son that, according to the generally
accepted theory, there has been a
greater measure of prosperity per
capita in South Dakota than in most
other sections.
/ 1t Is true that in the western part
OF the state he crops were exceeding
ly light, but in the eastern section.
and especially in the Big Sioux val
ley. farmers and business men have
been reaping a fair degree of remun-
Grafton for the labors expended
The exercises of the day concluded
with a patriotic address by Rev. Faith
er Stewart, of Minnesota, a Catholic
priest of more than local reputation
and n of surprising e%loquence.
The address Was originally intend.
ed TO be delivered in the court house
square, but owing to the unpleasant
weather the large Methodist church
auditorium was used instead.
The following rule relating to the
amount OF wheat flour which may be
sold to farmers in South Dakota has
been promulgated by C.. N. Herreid.
federal food administrator for South
Dakota. The more stringent wheat
conservation rules Just recently is
sued from Washington. providing for
a maximum of one-eighth barrel (241h
pounds OF wheat flour to a city Gus.
TONER at n time and a maximum OF
o~ne-guarter barrel sl49 pounds to
rural customers, it was feared, might
hinder spring work on the South Da-
kasa farms By forcing the farmer to-
go very frequently to ..town for the
small mount of flour which he was
permitted to purchase at one time UNI
der the Washington rule. The rule
which follows gives rural customers
an opportunity to purchase a larger
noun of -four (up to SO pounds3 at
n time and ranchers west of the
river excepting Gregory county, up to
a full barrel at n time. City custo-
mers, however, are not permitted to-
buy more than 24h pounds at one
time. The substitutes, of course.
must ne sold with the -four in every
case: On account of the spring farm
work now in progress that part oil
the recent order which limits the sale
of wheat -four to rural customers IN
South Dakota to one-quarter barrel
ga ponndsl quantities at one time
~lexcepting west OF the Missouri river.
| outside Of Gregory county,, is hereby
suspended until further notice. There
fore In this state wheat -four may now
be sold as follows: To residents Of
towns, villages and cities IN not to
exceed one-cighth barrel quantities
(24h pounds to rural customers ID
not to exceed one-half barrel GUAM
Titles, excepting IN that part OF the
state west Of the Missouri river, out.
side ot Gregory county, the sale 81
Hour to rural customers Is not to 3
coed 0nesbarrel quantities.
a large crowd attended the funersl
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Fort Ssislitng.
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