The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-06
Our esteemed neiphbor the Index

Our esteemed neighbor the Index
announces it will soon issue a dai.
ly to run until after election, Nov.
18th. Kimball wants a daily, and
wants it bad, and we are glad the
Index relieves this office of the under
taking. Some people want a hemis-
phere with a fence around it. We
don't. The Index may have the dai-
lYs our best wishes and any assistance
from the GRAPHIC they may need
to make it hum.
1t is with feelings of regret we an
nounc the removal this week of Rev.
b. F. Humphrey and family to Clark,
Clark Co., Dakota, where MIR. Hum
phrey has accepted a call from the
Congregational church. MI. H. is a
talented man and we congratulate
Clark on obtaining hun as a citizen.
During his stay in Kimball, himself
and estimable family have made hun
dreds of warm friends who as they
now regret their departure will wish
with us: a happy and prosperous life
to them all in their new home.
Mounts & Brady, the painters, are
dong some of the best jobs of paint
ing and paper hanging eve cen in
Kimball. At present they are busy
on the opera house, F. U. Niller's store
and Sheriff Ochsner's residence, the
latter of which shows some very fine
work and excellent taste. They make
a specially of executing the finest of
decorative or ornamental work on in
teriors, and We can assur IL readers
that any job entrusted to them will
give the best of satisfaction. AT pres
ent, orders may be LETT at Z. E. Mil
ler's drug store, which will be prompt
ly attended to.
Decoration day was well observed
in Kimball under the auspices of
Reno Post G. A. r. The opera
house was kindly furnished by Cooke
Smith. 1t was beautifully festooned
with flags and evergrcens. The lar
gest gathering ever seen in Kimball
witnessed the beautiful services of the
G. A. r.. which was followed by an
address by CD. Maynard. A beauti-
full white monument draped in black
stood at one side of the stage, at the
foot of which the school children, 100
in number, laid their offerings Of
flowers, calling as they did SO the
name of some fallen hero. The OBJ
serving of decoration day is a beauti-
full custom and one that we are pleased
to see is being more generally OBJ
served eacn year.
In the interim between the arrival
of the Milwaukee at Chamberlain and
the departure Of the excursion train,
last week, Judge G. C. Morrow kind
ly called for us at the Brule House,
with his nobby little phaeton turn
out, and drove us out to Major Kel-
lum's farm and beyond, giving us a
fine opportunity of seeing the country
thereabout. Major Kellum has one
Of the finest sights for a residence we
have seen in Dakota. Mr.. Skerry
also owns a fine farm adjoining. The
view from this point, at t his season
Of the year particularly, is a beautiful
one. To the west: the winding Mis-
souri, fringed with foliage and sugar
Loaf shaped knolls, covered with a
rich emerald green, looking as though
just clipped with a lawn mower. To
the east and north the most beautiful
spectacle in the Western world,a roll
ing prairie in the month of June and
to the South, the Red Lake country
resembling a sea of emerald Just set.
ting to repose, the long low waves of
land presenting the most graceful
outlines. Such a drive would cause
the most skeptical eastern man to
think Dakota was not such a barren
waste after all.