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,g\ •IOHT Jm 41 tm Col. Gray cited losses suffered in the war up to the present. Casualties jn killed and totally disabled1, in all the belligernt -countries, he said, ex ceed the combined population of Swe den, Norway Denmark, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro. The total is placed at 1'5,000,000. Note, please, the figures denoting the disabled and killed by this war to date, 15,000,000. Can you grasp, reader, that "figure? At 'i!?e end of our great rebellion the world stood agast when it was estimated that a million men hud so been disabled or killed. Here is fiften times that num ber, and the end is not. yet in sight, apparently^ -v Another clipping sayB, in part "Autocracy is the same dread mon ster it has always been. It remains unchanged, even in the light of 20th century progress, it is responsible for all -ware, and if it is crushed now there will be no more wars. The right of might is, the only right known .to autocracy." ThJs declaration was made by Dr, Frederick Perry in an addl-ess before a Y. M. £. A. Dr, Perry recently re turned from six months' service for the Y. M. C. A. in France. "Like the Jows of old,' the lecturer concluded, "the ruling class of the German people think they are the chosen people of God, and this blas phemous belief prompts all their acts. A great federation of democracies is Jfcthing against this autocracy, and if America, 'the*-champion of democracy, ^id not'ake part tin it the curse of God Y' 3 toould be upon us.!^ News of Neighboring Localities KAMPEoKA AND RICHLAND. M? AGATES AND ASHES. (By Agricola. It is hard for nie to believe the tales of crime and cruelty on the partj of the German army that comc to us from the scenes of warfare, yet one is forced to accept them as true when press and persons assert them again and again as very facts. This war, these deeds of shame, this inhuman ®orlun,t' conduct will stamp Kaiser Wilhelm,!,l his officers, his army, and, very un-j*00^ fortunately, thousands of his people'*'0 who sincerely decry any such pro ceedings. If to besmirch one's name and rank, one's associates, an army, a people, a country, is patriotism, may God rob America of patriotism. If it is religion may we dispose, rapid ly, of religion. If it is conquest of arms, heaven grant to keep our fair land from the conquest of arms. It it is needful for commercial supre-' macy, may God grant these United .. States will never know supremacy. I have clipped the following item bearing upon the German army's evil doings. It is from an English army officer in this country for a short time. Mind you there is no vital rea son, no just cause, no inducemnt whatever, making it at all necessary to vilify the German army. They are vilifying themselves. "Britain will secrifice its last man before it will allow the Germans to win. We who have had some experi ence with the Germans know them pretty well. The crimes against wom en and children which they have com mitted in occupied territory have never been surpassed by any barbaric people. I have been in contact with cannibals and head-hunters and prim itive people in all parts of Africa, In lia, the Malay Straits, Java and Su matra, but I have never heard of con duct tcr prisoners and non-combatants that was anything near as vile and viricked as the conduct of the Ger mans in Belgium, Serbia, and other occupied regions/' The beast sure th$ word thought- r-Wwk ?rs aCt~a' 4 ».A ftnu^trated attempt on the life of her aister nations France, alarmed by the t\- against, hep, German autoc at wirfajre of the beast Wwest of devasation ^Bolutev deadlyf ^n. ^Such waa the fos'e4~ l#o t% army by the 1 terribly, how •ullyi Jt Ms Worked jmhatic com a#y|vthe jeeBtftet&l |He«"d^tnow ••••••••.••«.••••* ciple for future generations." And 1 feel that our editor has but stated the solemn truth. If he has, our duty, and that of our associated nations ,is clear its performance n10S'- saclp'» binding and imperative, Joe Purcell was a Watertown visit or the first of Iho week, (iiyjreg Kendall accompanied him to the city. On returning home they had the op- of helping lift a Ford out of ditch on the road- was Mr. E. H. Oleson and son, Glen, are among the grippe sufferers, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wheelock left for Minneapolis the later part of last week to spend the remainder of the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Brown, and family. Warren Wheelock is in Winona, help ing in the Wheelock Bros, plant. The Wishard young people spent Tuesday evning at the E. H. Oleson home. Mrs. Rogers, who lives on the L. G. Tracy farm, has just relumed ffrwaa a visit with relatives in Missouri. Mr. August Meichert sad sisters, Edith and Augusta, spent Sunday eve ning at the Jno. Shuiis h&jnft. Mrs. Shults is a sufferer from the grspj Mr. Frank West was alive city vis itor Monday Mr. and Mrs. E. H.. ©He son and J. J. and Lester PareeH were also in the city, Monday. Miss Eva Johnson and brother, of near Florence, were Sunday visitors at the Peter Molln home. Mr. Harold Wing was also a Sunday visitor there. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wishard have a new boy. born Friday morning, Jan 25. Mr. and Mrs. Roberds spent a cou ple of weeks in Missouri, near Kan sas City, visiting Mr. Roberds' people They returned. Friday to their home near Henry. Miss Lucy Riley, teacher in the Will Ostrander district, gave a dance for the Red Cross benefit. The pro ceeds from it amounted to $22.75. The aomunt cleared for the Red Cross was $15 00. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carnes and the Misses Neva Soule and Margaret Alns worth were supper guests at the John Molln home, Friday evening. Morris Burk is home from Minneap olis to take his examination for mili tary service. Jerome Pugh is in the Bartron hos pital, convalescing from an operation. Mr. Pugh's family visited him today, also M5. Oscir Oleson called ^upon him. #4 fStfg Grant Peterson has purchased a new car M£ Gus Barr has a new car also. Mr. John Shultz was in the city Monday Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Oleson were callers at the J. J. Purcell home, Sun day -, Messrs. Ashton and Ray Lappier were visitors in Watertown, Mon^C- FOLEY. Telephone lines have been badly. mixed up since the recent storm. ,, *A doctor was calld out, Monday, 13' see Miss Barbara Makepeace, ,~.w ... .. grippe. ing brothers, Friday evening, jk®** has beefa given full sway, it as, Mrs Dpke ikln Jading spirits behind the Teuton! club fa«a was (ana"] jj Freeseman left Monday fcrt* Iowa ior a visit with relates and friends. Bev. Mr. Qldeoburg,-of "Watertown,' and Mr, M. E. Henning were callei^ the H. Krull and H- FreesemM ^eans Home^ Friday. Mini tending scoUe»ft at Watei^Mtt ifa Md Ur*:, fv r- „V fr.i-Oi v'™ Mr. Cyrus Whee- driving tl)e Ford. In trying around a *eam on T1 & the grade east of the H. C. Tigner home he slid into the ditch. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. McDougal were in the city shopping, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Shultz were in the city, also, the fore part of the week On the way home from Watertown we passed the residence of Fred Frentz and hailed him as we drove past. Mr. and Mr. has been on .the sick list.- the Wens- members at her home on Friday afternoon. .Miss Laura "Wink- Seller, sister of Mrs M. Carr, and Mrs. Bailey, who is staying with Mrs. F. Art THE SATURDAY NEW8, WATERTOWN, S. O. Pr,T"' "wnl M""",y with Mrs. Lyman Dean. Chris Engel is taking care,, of the farm work for H. Freeseman during his absence. Miss Delia Gronewold relumed home Tuesday after spending three weeks with Mrs. Virgil Long, Mr. and Mrs. Rich Vetter and chil dren and Miss Esther Lundgren were visitors at the Schuelke home, Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Will Dean and Mr. Greer of Watertown were business visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Dean, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Montoothjwere Sunday visitors at the A. M. Briggs home. Miss Berniee Vetter is spending a few days at the home of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Schuelke. Mr. and Mrs. H. Freeseman and daughter were Sunday, evening visit ors at the H. Engel home. Mrs. Uthe was a visitor with Mrs. Virgil Long, Thursday. Mr. M, Carr was a caller at the H. reeseman home Monday. John Chambers, of Watertown, spent from Friday until Saturday at the H. Schuelke home. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Dean visited at the S. P. Loesch home, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Elfriug arid Mr and Mrs. Langendor fer and Wayne and Maud spent last Tuesday evening at the Kerssen home Chris Engel was a caller at the H. Freeseman home Saturday. Air .and Mrs. H. rull and son, Ei sner, and Mr. Frank Stoick spent Tuesday evening at the J. Krull home Mrs. Yocom and children spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. H. G. Kerssen. Mrs. H. Schuelke and the Misses *m« and Clara and Messrs. Billie sod Alfred were Sunday guests at the Rich Vetter home. Mrs. Thomas Chandler, Harry and ning eLona, spent Sunday eve at the Virgil Long home. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bradley and and Mrs. Bailey and Mr. and Mrs. Kerssen and children were entertain ed at the Ray Makepeace home Satur day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carr and family and Miss Laura Winkler spent Monday evening at the A. Hemp home. Messrs. Emil and Albert Mishlce, of Grover, were callers at the H. Deke home Friday, on their w&y home from Watertown, where Mr. Mishke purchased a new car. GARDNER. A number from here were pres ent, last Monday, at the sugar beet growers* meeting in Watertown. Doc Walker called at the Walter Zerfas home, Tuesday Miss Pearl Ellsworth'sfpent'Tuesday visiting at the Cerdner school. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Kirsch, of Wa verly called on home folks, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davey were guests at dinner, Thursday, at the A1 Tessier residence Mrs. Augusta Wallner returned from her Minnesota visit, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Severs auto ed up from Hazel, Friday, for a brief visit with the Herbert Bevers family. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wallner and Dork- visited Friday afternoon at the M. Bell home. »s Renal/la Schraedcr spent from FriclQ unf.'l Saturday at the Nicholas Wrsch "home. A large crowd turned out for the dance, Friday evening, at the Adolph Wallner home. WJth the splendid music furnished by Leona and Em mett Foy, all enjoyed themselves to tmmost. who l£evernl froth here had a dandy good entertained the Lar- R0ger Abley Is staying at present tlie ]rrn Abley farm home. ge}j A ad re of A he a 'Mrs. Uthe is to entertain at .meetln|i||:': A surprise ^a^gi'^en Mr. Ket^BSji on his birthday at his home, last iFt1! dfvy night, about forty invited giiests being present. The ladies came pre pared and assisted Mfs. Kerssen in 'serving supper #^e:cdmpanj^i^ wAs A Dale Zamow were the Klatt home visitor, last week, at the Beil homee. mIbs Delia Olsen, of the city, was day until Sunday. ^Harry and Clarence aBuer called 5t the C. T. dafv. ^the Jonklns residence, Sjin- -y -'m 4, |& snow. Paul Scherer was a business trars acter at the Boxelder farm one after noon the past weekj Mrs. Zamow and son, Roy, Miss Hallauer, Miss Haradon and Master A. T. Klatt spent the greater part of the past week in Watertown, tak ing osteopath treatments and huvine dental work done. Airs. Frank Lebert has been confined to liev home on account, of sickness the past week. She is much improv ed at this writing. The Lutheran Ladies' Aid will be entertained by Mrs." Chas." Marotz on, Thursday afternoon, Feb. 7. Mrs. Frank Lebert will entertain on a lat er date. Some of our Pelican folks attended the play, "Mutt and Jeff," at the Met ropolitan theatre last Saturday eve ning. John Hacker was a Grover caller the latter part of the week on busi ness. Ed Amacher called on neighbors one day the past week on business affairs wTohn Kuhlmann, of the Oxford dis trict, was a Watertown caller on Wed nesday of the past week. Mrs. Peter Scherer, who htis been confined to her home on account of illness, is much better. Walter Vogt spent a portion i:f last Sunday with the Fuerstenau boys. Carl Zamow, who has been away on a pleasure trip, returned home the first of the week. Walter Klatt spent Sunday eve ning with Walter Vogt and Herbert. Klatt. The Misses Ruth and Golda Mc Laughlin spent Sunday afternoon and evening visiting with the John Le bert family. A great- number of our local grain dealers are planning to attend the eleventh convention of the South Da kota Co-operative Association to be held at Watertown Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday. An interesting program has ben arranged, with ad ^s3es by the governor, officers ot the association and others. bell^and Ira Darling called at the H. L. Morgan home, Sunday evening. Miss Effie has enlisted and expects to be called soon. Miss Maggie Johnston spent Satur day atfd Sunday with her parents, re turning to her school at Bradley Mon day morning. Anna and Josephine Hallauer are spending a few days visiting their brothers here. Quite a number of the young folks from this vicinity enjoyed the dance given at Willie Hallauer's, Friday' night. Dan &r 4:m peasant callers at 011 Thursday evening of the past week, combining business with pleasure. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Stoltz and son, Clayton, returned to their hoiriC near Plainview, Minn., on Wednesday after spending ten days here visit ing relatives and friends. Groves has been quite ill with la grippe,, the past few days. George Groves has been doing his. chores. George Falsk and Wallace Huppler autbed to Watertown last Saturday. FLORENCE. Mr, and Mrs. Soper, Misses Conway and' Erdman and A. O. Skogstad at tended the "Mutt and Jeff" show at Watertown, Saturday evening Jas. Welch spent tie first-part of the. week in Minneapolis. Henry Hanten, of Watertown, at tended to business here, Tuesday MeSdam.es Larson and Heintz were Watertown visitors Friday A. C. Burnstad transacted business at Watertown, Saturday. Henry Olson was a Watertown vis itor the first of the week. Mrs. Dalve, ^Who has been visiting her brother, Q. Dase, went to Clark last' wek, w.here -s»h^ tiveat caller in this immediate -vicinity the hote^iuriyrtrlo Ugr w^ptctcms nAture, middte faf to Grover S* ttw fort pttrt rela- ^rfafci»0 No fchanert.' a little anecdote that was rel&tet'&K? C^gressmati John M. J5v ans, rtgMonA«na^ when the conversa tion ilPth^ lobby of a Washington^ ofjaome? SpB the to a de^tist in have a hat^$ndltful 9ka*A ta|- •Vijr The Truthful Editor and His Newspaper A west Taxts editor got tired' of being called a "liar" because of an' somebody's feelin's from being hurt. His sermon was punk and uninterest ing except some stuff he quoted from Bob Ingers^ll, for which he failed to give Bob any credit. He also recited a few passages from one of William Ebert Munsey's sermons and had the gall to palm it off as his own. Otto Wilhelmshaves, the yillage pro-German, is going to be hung some of these days for maldng pro-German remarks in public. Dave Cearter died at his home two Hr miles north of this place last Thurs day night. Dock Holderness, who i3 an old friend' of the family, attended him a few minutes before he died. Combinations CJ Don't faiLto see tbe occasional typographical error orj Willow Grove, died Wednes^ slight disarrangement of the facts ^ay munity, says an exchange. In his!paper wrath he announced the fact in bold!?a^ face type as follows: "A lot of people in this town fall out with the editor and brand him as a liar when the ordinary human mis takes. of life show up in a newspaper, You have a little charity and fellow I feelin' for every man in town but' your editor. You claim that you want" the the facts and be damned if I don't give 'em to you. Read the next issue: have been a liar, an editorial liar, ever since I have been editing this sheet, but I have never printed a lie in these columns except to save Domestic Gas Maker ^Burning Common Kerosene E. A. PUTNAM __ South Midway »'i'» lie gave out the statement that he^ died of heart failure. That is a darn lie. Dave died from drinking too ,much of a very poor grade of mail order licker. This paper prints the truth. vrr, R°Ser da^y I'm not afraid of any of you, and I'll went to the county seat and just be dad blamed if I don't print the before starving to death accepted a.f plain truth from now on, or until you :^'^GUNN'Sectional fit. ,?*Cti68 atrthe tackle Lloyd, cashier of the state even'ng an^ was in publishing a commonplace news jthe Fellows in Pleasant Mound item to shield some one in his com- cemetery' us a 01'ainary as get out of the habit of'Calling me a As soon as his ma found out liar every time I make a little unavoid able error. Watch my smoke." Here are some paragraphs culled from the next issue: John Coyle, our groceryman, who voted with the republicans in 1896 and consumes more mail order whiskey than any other member of the Bap tist church in the country, is doing a poor business. His store is dirty and dusty^ It. is a wonder lie has any business''at all. /.. WALLACE/ The Rev. Mr. Sty preached last is E an O iv Camp-,Sunday night at th^brislian-'^utch SaveYoE that huried Friday by He had been seven cent we Mothodist James town &ir! the of this sheet and you'll see some facts'together in her whole life. She. with the bark off. I'll' admit that I who flirts traveling men she meets and nev- er helped her is anythinS but a a fefef -fm 4ttf| taking this- years and so far hasn't thinking that he,. being a banker, would pay some time! We will sell the account for two bits' worth of fresh greens. Married: Miss Susie Schock and Horace Guffin last Saturday at the parsonage, the Rev. C. S. °mciating- The bride, is a very in with all mother three days all beauty, resembling Kiavel pit in the face and walks a duc^- na'ural The bridegroom is a born loafer and bum. He nev-^ er did a lick of woi:k until his step? run him off the place last falls chambermaid in a livery star^ where he was she went and brought him home. He now resides at the home of his wife's father, and says*/! that he has no definite plans for thep. future. Susie will have a hard ro*&\ to^oe.^v Cfci" mm r-i^. _Z Bookcases ^re.just what th« ward implies—Sectional. With thssa Soctio«s are cnableJ to mtie many combinaUcns^ euch tp mUSI3UTK»i A Ladies Desk A Wind^'Se^fJ^ what thai "beau i.' SEE laaSISATtGN ... ..4., or^i^af.frocr tekm, or hovr ajKast ttcw.jjMtw.taio. thu-SVNAI&mwUV.i. tb for fomitore JtMOtaW. KoUer-^sar^: -».«*£. 3 yr %t