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HI .#A 1 11 (forsettlement i*t '^a^^^Jl^, Sfe^TaSHw -&L •j"' ... Sworn ation 1,675 ^?*.w*ags8 VOL. 6, NO. 34. Taft and Glass Local Candidate was ifin -%, thupiastically Endorsed Without a Dissent- a§® *£&£}* ing Vote Cast At the meeting-of the Republican Central committee of Codington county held in thissity Monday afternoon, sev .eral interesting things, happened and some poUtical fireworks were let off. One of the most surprising things was the apparent unwillingness of the com mittee to endorse Gov. Crawford's can didacy for the U. S. senate, tho the committee is dominated by the insurg ent party. A motion was made by ate Burt of South 'Shore favoring rawford's candidacy and seconded, and ^j^then the meeting begau^to express itself Jpig distinctly against the motion, because it *4%g| was felt that if such a motion was passed it would interfere with the local candidacy'of Glass ftir congress. After some*discussion the motion^was wijth drawn for the reason stated. ^t-JWDOBSE TAFT JUTO GLASS ||||j T^'candidaicy of f, HviifcforpS- c' dent and W. S. Glass for congress was ^heartily endorsed, the. voting in each lease being altogether unanimous, The. g^cajj$$acy of Mr. Glass was enthuias ticallv supported and the feeling of the 1, meeting was altogether in his favor. ,i TO BE ELECTED AT PRIMARY dhe of the important things brot up was whether the delegates fto the state .convention, to be held at -Sioux Falls, April/7, and'which chores 4 delegates'to the national convention, 1*bhould be appointed by the committee or elected at the primary on' March 10. •ItjwssJ argued that the primary law an option on this^pointii the com is unanimously agreed. It-' was •la? urged on the fiore of* expense' to th* dounty that the'dolegates should'be appointedj by the committee, bQt on the mattei'^iijf^put to vote it was decided: by a large majority that the delegates 'Should be e^Sted at ttje primary. i»k4S«ra»ra}il9tesbioo question of the appointment of delegates ^amongst the ^virions precincts, and "it ^fcwas finally agreed to appoint one at *^T?flarge and one for every twenty or major 4 'fraction. Both Wallace and Florence fe'Nwere given one.delegate at large and :,5. two others. 8PEE0H FROM GI.AS8 ...... W. S. Glass was called] upon for a .... speech. He responded with and address ijin which he outlined the policies which .jj&^form the planks of his platform in his candidacy for congress. & ft J^'fji.sSW wo r«*v* •"fcrv FIGHT EVERY INCH OF WAV City Council and Water Works Company Take Breathing pell Between Bounds. mm. PRESIDENT ZENDER WILL BE HERE. -fe/ ^riSj'wSuse^ion the fe Js£ Foley's Orino Ziaxative 'is va .new remedy, and an improvement on the laxatives of former years, as it does not gripe or nauseate and is pleasant to take. It is guaranteed. A. Duffner ore Sale *300 lOe 5c pictures, framed, regular $150, now 13 pictures in color, size 19x24, by Fiaher. Kitnball and Goodwin, BE color pictures,'ihoat ^scenery, reg. 35c, t»ow yseful Gifts •it-.. ForttlietSiride, relative or home "The Halbkat Jewelry Store" ar rays a splendid varietyJf irift-ieiv ing goods. You know, too, in dealing here you get just what you think you get, ana at the smallest margin of profit prices. Special Sale ICJ The Quiet Baby Gels WATE Vc^-?l¥ IsSklSVxi The Water Works and City Council Have Been Doing Fast Work on the ,Mat. .... yf 4faP?-* -sb?" ——'ii «.}' The city council met in regular ses sion last'Monday evening with all members present with the exception of Alderman Luck who was out of the city. Mayor Thomas presided. President Zender of'the .water works company has expressed a desire to come to Watertown and confer with the council on the water works franchise proposition. He is expected to be present at the next meeting and in the meantime tlje council is busy whetting up their scalping knives. The council transacted the regular routine business and made their "get away" early. rf At -fa 1 ,it Because we are overstocked and will invoice soon, we'll give 20 per cent off our Regular Prices which are already lower., than elsewhere, on Cat 6(983, Band Painted China and 1*4 Silverware '••laiaaSB Everything guaranteed satisfactory Chas. F. Halbkat Jeweler apdOpticiao Watertown iy 19b v,. if* The Cyfamittee's Report Eeportivg on the results of the three days conference of last week, Alderman C.H. Lester read the following: Your committee to whom was referred, as conferees with the waterworks com pany, the matter of attempting the ad* justsnent of a new franchise, beg leave to report as follows: g.:: That since the last council meeting and especially during the past week, they have been in almost- constant con ference with the reprerentuives of The waterworks company and wish to" report as follows: That, taking the franchise &s pre sented by the waterworks company as a basis, they have agreed on m^ny: of the minor propositions in that franchise and that so far as these agreements go they have been in line with the report of this committee ae made at a fortnef date. This Committee, owing to the volume of a report covering all of their laboj^and a recital of all the reasons, arguments, pro and con, are substantially estopped from giving to this council at this" time the argument that has been presented in regard to this matter Briefly, thrn committee wishes to report that the water company has conceded, and agreed tp a number of the minor prop ositions that this committee has asked for. There are several propositions, however, of considerable importance, in fact the matters of prime importance in the judgment of this committee, to which they have not agreed. -First: They are still holding out for a 20-year franchise the committee offers them a 10-year franchise. Second: The committee, insist by reason of receiving a new franchise, they shall remove, at their expense, mains, etc., on vacated streets and in 'addition thereto shall install the mains already ordered by the city council, which at this date they have not Htailt, and that the hydrant rental shall be fixed by this committee for o!3 mains and that this shall be absolutely precedent before this franchise shall go into effect and be me operative. That in regard to tbe extension of new amiss we should prac tically go oack to the terms of the orig inal franchise and should not require the property owners to pay such an amount, or any part of such an amount as will in five years pay the first cost' of the construction of such mains. In re gard to hydrant rental, the committee wishes to state that in itB judgment .when it offers a rental of $25 per annum !for all hydrants now located in the city that it considers that, as a committtee, it has offered all that this service is worth, In this respect the committee have tried to be fair, that: is has con ceded the general principle that the city should pay for all the water that it uses: that tbe committee have conceded to the, waterworks company, as a commit tee'Oniy-,12 ceflte Her thousand gallons watering -puDlic parks and school grounds, and for the consumption of the Bchools themselves. Third: We also agree as to the length of/time in which they, tho water com pany, shall be prepared to give an ex treme test of their plant for firo protec tion purposes in case of a bad fire. In the judgment of your committee, they Should be prepared at any and all .times during the course of any twelve months, to give this test upon, thirty minutes notice. In this matter your committee and the Water company disagree, they having previously asked, three days' time': but now having modified it to one day's timo. Fourth: A further matter of dis agreement is in the price of water to be charged to the city. The water com pany deminds 12% cents per thsu?.aud gallons the committee is not willing to concede anything greater than 12 Cents. Fifth:' Another matter of difference is in regard to lawn rates on a flat rate schedule. Your committee after care STILL CONTINUES Prices quoted below will be in effect until February 20th. Jardinieres Buy your Jardinieres For sjJritjg now. All new goods. 4 X? 7 in. fancy, rtg. 55c, now 83c 8 in. fancy, reg. $1, noWl,!)? 56c, 9 in. fancy, reg. $1,20, now 71e 8 in. green mat Jardinieres, reg. $1.50, now 99c 10 in. Imitation Rookwood ware,' ®L50, now 99c 12 in. Iinitation Rookwoodware $225, now $1.33 ome-if5AT ONCE be^Te everything is gone, ttis sale has been an unprecedented succes^j You can't afford to miss \ihe bargains we are offering^ Compare the size of this ad with week's to see the great success of our wonderful bargains. •M-tiAVHi.W^V^'V jBfTHflp Jisp mmi dveriise ^FN, SOUTH DAK0T41FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1908 fully (oiisideriiigthi^taiatter, does not believe it right nor ^raper that sur pet) pie should b® r6qiilir0d!t6:^ay for some thing which they, cu» not need and in order to pr6tect oar. people in this re spect provide that 6U^lawn ratea shall be payable quarterly'at the rate of $5 per quarter on a fla^«M»'bafits^thereby relieving them .the nenftoj&y-- Qf paying per quarter during qtt'srters which tnejr do no$ need tbe water for lawn purposes. Sixth: Your coiqtoittee further be lieve and insist thafe in the'.matter of minimum meter 'r|tus the property owner should not bejifeqmred to pay for any more water at J.the regular mfter rate Bchedulethan msnleter, ifin prop er- working order, shows that hfr has actually consumed. In other words, inasmuch as the property on ner has paid allot the expense of putting the water into his property, even to the ex pense of boring the huDle into the main itself and inasmuch as through a meter water can be measured tiie same as any other commodity, that it is unjust to him that by reason df a minimum rate he may be forced lo j(ay for something that as a matter of fact he does not re ceire. --S' Respectfully, submitted. HS.t —Ok H. Lester T. JH. Pritchard l" Wffi. Iiuck JfiSuenther The following billa Were allowed: Wm. Qunn, janitor.'. Mrs. J. A. Williams,(Salary Mrs. P. G, Schmidt,ialary FClrhn.nrav. hohto Kampeska Mlg. Co., boal.... .. Frank Elkins, salary:,...... .'i... J. McLanghlm, salaly B. S. Craig, salary. ...:...,.. Wm. Olson, salary.t v...v. Lee Bros, sharpening tools. E. M. Barker,printing Wright Tarbell, work for water committee Fahler & Ralls, hack hire..,. .u& 100 .•*f s?r 't -V 'i? V^' A Night Alarm Worse than an alahn of fire at night is,the met Ulic cough of croup bringing dread to the household. Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey and Tar in the house and give it at the first sign of danger. Foley's Honey and Tar has saved many little lives and it is the only safe preparation for children as it con tains no harmful drugs. A. Duffner. Can you s^ive"$5 a month? Beat and safest investment ever pffered in Watertown ia one of those Kemp lots. 33-35 You could have purchased that lot three years ago for just one tenth what it sold for yesterday. "Sure Mike," but the world moves on. It will be the same with Kemp lots. Get in while you can buy right. 33-35 Bargains In jChamber Sets 12 piece seta -ft, $12 ee if" 8.10 $11 set $7.80 $16.50 set $7.25 $10 set $6.75 $8 set $5.00 $7 set $4.25 ^All of Funke's Chocolatee 40/jsd 50c grades, this sale 29 Cents per pound j," "fl *jp** IBSFI 15 00 25 00 30 00 25 00 37 25 85 00 75 00 75 00 75 00 35 t..i,, 149 85 30 00 163 05 80 48 70 49 20 49 25 49 25 30 70 8.70 5 20 2 00 48 00 5 00 G. W. Carpenter, engineer. Kirlm-Gray1, lights for Jan:..... Woodward & Searles^sugpliss.. Hayes Lucas Lumb. Co. lumber C. M. Kranz, insurance...,..... W. B. Ryalla, insurance H. M. Hanten, insurance C. K. Snyder, insurance. ........ James Lavique, work on streets Geo. Croziarv wiwk onv streets... Martin Belatti, work, on streets.. Frank Moran, work oifstreets... M. Belatti, work on city hall.... J. H. Bruns Foundry, supplies. .105 08 Hess& Rau, sewer assessmectt:-^.. 30 10 Frank Lyon^ewed flag. 7 50 E. J. Sederstrom, boapI^vfU... 6 50 M. A. Hock man, ins. Troetf bldg. 14 10 Mre. B. P. Trofhi'vfork for city attf^Eey .*4 50 Florence Bougbner, work forcity attorney 3 50 •bell, work for water 1 00 Will Owsley, formetly of this city but now residing at Aberdeen, where he is manager of the big candy factory of Ward Bros'., was in Watertown the first of the week on his way east on business for his. firm. Will has hosts of friends in Watertown who are always glad to know that he is -still maintaining hiB reputation as one of the bestv hustlers in the state. Jjj Great improvements' ar4't'*u!ader way at Lee Towne's confectionery store and barber shop.. A partition MIL be_ptutihit Jth® rear aof.the^pn» fectionery store and the room formed will be used as abath room with entrance from the barber shop. The present bath room will be turned into a shining parlor. Several new chaira will be placed in the barber shop, and ptjher .im provements made. E. Little. whofiUs been fore man in Smith's plumbing shop for a long time, has severed his con nection with Mr. Smith and em harked into, the plumbing, steam and hqt Water heating for himself. Mr. Little is a first-class workman and will no doubt receive his share of the public patronage. We re spectfully call the attention of public tq his advertisementj^this issue. The Harmony cUft will meet next Monday eve^fng in the city ball at 8 o'clock^^ paper on "The progress of ^sic from the tenth to the sixteeqUrcehtury," by Mrs. B. O. Tankenney, will be read also a yocal nraiber by Mr. Frank Lyon and anynstrumental number by W. S. Few. Choral rehearsal at 9 o'cloA. Members will please make ah oport to be present. interesting debate will, be giv^n in the High school building th!^ Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock between the Seniors and the Jun iors of the high school on the question: "Resolved that the policy of free trade is inore beneficial to the U. S. than the policy of protec* tion." The Juniors take the affir mative and the seniors the negative. Tbe public is cordially invited. The debate is leading up to the inter-scholastic debate to be held at Pierre before long, for which the debaters here are practising. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Brickell, Jr., re turned from their wedding trip Tuesday morning. They have been absent about five weeks, visiting various points in Texas and Mexico. While in Mexico Mr. Brickell con tracted poisoning with live oak, causing great pain, breaking out injo a kind of erysipelas. A return was made for home, but on reach ing Omaha he became so sick that it was necessary to stop. Here he spent.a wee? in a: hospital until it was deemerf advisable for him to move, whe4 be came on home'. H&: isimproVi«fejteadily, but wiil not be able to.b$ about for «ome little time yet L. G. Hat, M. 0. *r'':'"$?#& LOCAL NEWS •,.§ Th^attendance at the Harmony club choral practice Wednesday evening was very small, and very disappointing to those in pharge, Pres. Ainsworth says, unless some radical change for the better tarns up, something will have to go. A. B. Hemp and family have moved from Clifton, 111., on to their farm about seven mflea south of Watertown He has been renting the farm for the last few years, but thinkB it will pay him to run the farm himself. A big republican r«lly will be held on Feb. 21st, to organise the political supporters of W. S. Glass ii his candidacy for congress. 'here will be speeches and all kinds of political bon-bons, and everybody is requested to turn out and boost for Glass. A couple of wrecks tied up the traffic on the Rock lBland and M. & St. L. roads for some time Tuesday. The Rock Island freight was ditched near CactuB while the M. & St. JL, big freight engine left the rails at Gardner. Crews were sent out from Watertown to cleajr the track. A farmer called at the Andy Foley building with a horse to be shod, tand was. rather surprised to find a well fitted tailor shop. Mr. Deveney is the tailor in, question, and has a very nicely fitted shop, and #ith improvements to be put in in the near future will have one of the best equipped shops in the city. iSvS^ ,*u. '-ij^.-v., I Hl 1 I tS&T'&ct j8s^&»£Rgfe£ ews WPr&M wmjw ?f if 1? f: 5. AVB19TV iJgkmf?-. *&&>* 81.00 m& SHA^P3 AND FL4JS iSHto^ra acre's many a damn jTwixtthe doi Q.Oj$|nd thejatub Where ignorance is bliss it is blittef t6 be wise/ Many a glad hand tarns out to fee the "hook," Son»e promises won't keep-not even in cold storage. There is a sucker born every sbjnutc—and aoiqe It is said that nothing is impossible, but theft ^«re lots Of people doing nothing every day. Some mean old maid, without a doub Who'd never ta$ted(bliss, Was first to start that Ue^aJioiiJlC, The microbe in a Iriss, 1 Open confession may be for the*o«l but it the rfeputation,. .• 'y mm "Investigation by any other name would smell just aa loud."—-Aldennan Lester. When you see a man pushing a matrimonial irait basket, it a a a a Sister promises to inflict the Elks' lodge witha"&ouvwen"J!,' edition of her paper, If it is-as fine as the program she isMed fQf' the Elks' mmstrel show several years ago, it will be a beantj ajoySre^1' W is 't^^ijfcrencl^bfetween rtpa and a "stalwart" republican? The former has a^^rotner-lock on the public teat ami the '"stalwaft" is trying to break- liis hola _,so that he can throw his lip over it. It is really nice to rtin a newspaper th&^lS^dl by any political ring and then the editor is in a position to handl either side a jolt in the short ribs without fear of .having ihe^ "choke-collar" put around his neck and kicked back into the field by the bosses like an unruly bird-dog. The Saturday News is in a, herd by itself—like anything yon read in^^'1 this paper is ti^g^peeFffWuclemthout^liy^NetilattozMp?'.7 The following lines .were written on reading a repor sale of Public Opinion to the insurgents in last week's News. THE STORY OF CORY-O'-TAH Cory-o'-tah was a warrior Of the mighty tribe of Stalwarts Brave was he, and waged'fierce conflict On the race of the Insurgents. Shot be swiftly many arrows, Shot he man^ death-tipped arrows, And with blood-congealing war-cygr. Struck his enemies with terror.' W Thus the valiant Cory-o'-tah Gained the fear of all his foemen Many were.tile bitter foemen Whom he met in deadly conflict, With them constant warfare Waging: Many sought his scalp, but vainly. Foremost in the ranks appearing Was the ruddy haired Insurgent, The fair Amazon Siss-o'-tah, Known thruout the two Dakotas, For her savaj e.fikill in battle, For her deeds up3n the warpath There was also the great warrior Sock-a-Kneedy the Insurgent Known was he in man^r nations For the- brightness of his sayings, For his wisdom in palaver. And Bark-o'-nah the avenger Was another weighty foeman Worthy of brave Cory-o'«t^h And in many a well fought conflict Proved the value of his courage, I Proved the mettle of his daring. But, alas! the doughty Indian, Cory-o'-tah, son of thunder, In an hour of weak surrender Met the Insurgents in palaver, Smoked with them the &tal And for many beads and trinkets^ Which they held before his vision, Sold his tomahawk and weapons To his crafty foes the Insurgent Handed o'er the &tal hatchet Which he had so oj&en wielded To the terror of his foemen So the Insurgents tot p^t jS# Counted ou#thS beads and w&mi Counted out tbeshmin^ trinkets, Which, had liu^a^the I^uTwl theOTighty Cdi^-o'-tah. Thus the •gafaant:Stalqkrt8fi^|^i ii"""''' V- AU things come teS^im.who gem after theft?. V" i" A "C J. .,-1 A poncTi ill the bowl is worth'two in the face. 'hf\? J"'s Wi ffl. 7* Wmi y*» M* 1 Va*. **4 Vs 3 r- Wim'f 'Zty/T I