The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-12-19

1t is only a question OF a short
time, and a very short time at that,
when Klmball Will have a grist mill.
The money has been raised and the
land donated to an extent that meets
the approval Of two different parties
who are thinking of coming here to
build a mill. If those in Kimball
who are moving in the matter cannot
make any better terms with others,
one of the two propositions to build
a mill, now before them, will be &C
cepted.
A tramp will take a dead cat under
his arm and go to the front door,
ring the bell and ask for salt. The
lady will curiously ask him what he
intends to do with the cat. With
tears in his eyes, lie will say that he
has had nothing to eat for a week,
and intended to cat it. She must be
a hard-Eearted woman that will not
give him a square meal, and furnish
him with her husbands cast off gar
ments. "-Vallejo Times.
If she gave HIM a square meal she
would do differently from the lady
we know of, who upon going to the
front door espied a tramp down on
all fours nibbling away at the grass
in the front yard. "What are you
doing there ?" asked the lady of the
house. "Please, nam, I'm so hungry
I was trying to eat some grass"
"Well," she says, "You will find the
grass better in the back yard" and
when she went in slamed the door so
hard one of the chimneys fell down.
NJ. A. Bartlett went home to Shen.
andoah last week. He took with him
a bottle OF medicine prepared by f.
E. Miller with full directions for tax.
ing the same. The instructions said
to take a dose at Mitchell, at Canton,
at Sioux City, etc. etc. We hope
Mr.. Bartlett did not run across Scott
Derrick on the trip, for if he had he
might not have lived to reach home.
How so? Well, as the readers of the
GRAPHIC have never heard that story
about Scotty we will have to tell it tc
them.
We will take it for granted that
all know the popular conductor Scott
Derrick. Not many moons ago as
he was bringing his train through
from Mitchell to Chamberlain, II O
his passengers, an old gentleman
seemed very anxious to know JUS
when the train would reach White
Lake. About every time Scotty
would pass through tie train the anx
lous old gentleman would ask how
much farther it was. After beins
politely answered he would sink bacl
into adoze. When the train reached
White Lake the brakeman called GU
"Yorktown' and slamed the door. |
was as so much Greek to the ole
gentleman, however, and he neve
stirred. After the train left the sta
ton, Scotty, in his round of tlcke
gathering ran across the old gentle
man fast asleep. He thought at one
that he had been carried by throug.
his (Scott's) negligence, and tina
when the old fellow awoke he woul,
make things hum, and afterward
very likely send in a complaint t
the company. AS the train was onl
out about a mile Scotty signalled tn
engineer, the train was stopped an
backed back to White Lake. Upo
the train reaching the station Scott
awoke the old gentleman by shakin
him and called out "White Lake
White Lakem The old fellow rouse
up and says Cali right! All right!
"Well" says Scotty, faint you goin
to get OFF," ooh no, the doctor i
| Mitchell told me to take anotherdo
of my medicine when l got to Whit
Lake and l wanted to know when
reached here" The passengers sa,
at once the joke and fairly roarc'
: while scotty went out on the p%}atfor,
of the car and swore so hard he cracl
, cd the glass in the doors. 1t is ne
safe to say medicine to Scotty nov
so the boys say.
Bert Howdeshell got himself I'M
a sweet scrape the fore part of til
y week by an injudicious mastlcatio
. of honeycomb stored temporarily
the depot. A iack-knife, with son
l of the delicious compound sticking
|, it as tight as a country girl sticks
a her lover on circus day, was VIII;
gave him away. Young men cann'
be too careful about washing the
knives after stealing honey.-'ndex
y The Iudex was a little soft" la
week, when it stated that l got m
;, self into a "sweet scrape," | mere
got my knife into the delicious hone
and neglected to scrape it off-as
older printer would have done.
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