The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-04
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AsStory u an Old soldier.
What has become Of Lenoir?.
Yes, where Is Lenoir2"s
Thephalanx Of solid business men,
comprising the bulk ofthe membership
OF Garfield post, No. 8 Grand Army Of
the Republic, had regarded as q down
right grievance q call to attend meet
ing for the transaction Of special bust
ness, appointed atthe very inconven-
lent hour Of two in the afternoon.
They had responded tosthe order I'M
der protest, taken part inthe proceed
ings With an distracted air, tuned at
the break in their daily routine, osten-
tatiously consultedt their watches with
the anxiety OF men who were neglect
ing important engagements, and when
the meeting at length adjourned gath
cred into cosey knots here and there,
and settled down for d comfortable
chatsand the revival Of old Army rem
~iniscences.
The first speaker, Jim Brewster, was
alumber merchant who had acquired
extensive tracts OF land covered witha
forest growth second only to the big
trees of the Galaveras and Mariposa
groves He had 30 prospered in his
business ventures that his name had
become identified with the. natural
product he ruled in the commercial
world, and hehadgained the sobriquct
OF the Prince Of Redwood. He had
lately purchased q large piece Of land
at the foot Of Sixth-st., including with
III its boundaries that unsavory but
claseicalregion on thebanks Of Mission
Creek known as the aathe Dumps
where the Italian scavengers had from
time immemorial deposited the con-
tents Of their carts, and raked the
patrid andsdecaying masses Of paper,
scraps OF old iron, and other articles
Of commerce, as we'll as the pieces Of
plate b~eheyolently dropped into the
astf-barreis by careless servants. Mis-
sion Creek, at high tide, is for a very
considerable distance a navigable
stream, audit Was generally conceded
that Brewster's branch yard was q
ahrewd venture, and would soon turn
the tide of4trafic from the crowded
thorolghfare Of Steuart-st. The
Prince Of Redwood himself had
felt allsthe glow of a prudent mans
compiacency over this evidence OF his
own sagacity, but 81 stormy interview
j the underwriters, Office that noon
had disturbed the serenity with which
he had hitherto viewed his new acqui-
sition. Meeting some old comrades,
men Of his " regiment, who had
fought side by side with him through
the four years Of the civil war, he cast
aside the perplexities Of the day and
plunged with eager zest into an ami
mated discussion of past campaigns,
in the course of which he made the in
quiry that heads this chapter. The
question was repeated by an echoinp
chorus.
ttLeAOir??u The speaker who volun-
teered 81 reply was a member Of that
very agreeable and highly entertain.
ing class Of individuals who r com
monty accredited with the possession
of universal knowledge, and whose In
formation is about as diffuse and In
exact as the average encyclopmdia OF
biography. tLenoir's wife died lust
before he was mustered out in '65.
Broke him all up for a while, but he
rallied and went down to Florida, in
vested ia an orange grove, and lives on
the fat Of the. land.
aHe was an Observation-Disclosures re-
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