The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-12-25

nesday morning for Shenandoah, Ia,
to spend several weeks with her par
ents. Master "Budd" Ross and c.
K. Iinan accompanied them.
When a certain young nan kissed
his girl as she alighted from the pas
senger train a few evenings since, q
%bystander jumped from the platform
into a mud hole ten feet distant. He
thought..an air brake had "busted,'
Fact.
Henry Gushing has reconsidered
his determination to leave for the
East at present and Mr., Southgate
was obliged to start Sunday on his
pilgrimage alone. We are pleased
that "Cush" concluded to stay yet
awhile.
Physicians say that parents should
be careful Of children at this season
of the year aud see that they are
comfortably$clad and not u~nnecessa-
rily exposed to the cold. a little
caution in this respect may save them
from an attack of diphtheria.
Mitchell Republican, 10: Truman
Pattee, Esq, Of kimbal), came in
yesterday to meet his brother, Alden
Pattee, Of Dell Rapids. The latter
with II. NJ. Green, Of Dell Rapids,
and John Bingham, Of Wentworth,
was here On a land cate in which
Green was specially interested.
IN addition to the holiday supple
ment sent out with this issue, a larger
part Of The GRArHtc,s.locaI ana editor
ial, is devoted to holiday reading,
Christmas comes hut once q year;
and a change from the ordinary ncws
matter usually published viii, We
think, be acceptable to our readcr>,
For the information Of The n2auy
absent readers Of the GRAPHIC, who
were once former residents Of Kim
ball,1,we will state that the artesiau
we'll IS locatcd'at the corner of Nain
and Third streets, on the bali grounds.
The waste, water rams west down into
the old lake bed. The latter will be
turned into a skating park this winter,
There is a fellow lying oGt back Of
this Office a mangled mass Of flesh
and bones. If anybody has missed
anybody they car get the corpse by
calling at this Office and paying for
this notice. Deceased was the one
hundred and first fellow who came
III and asked: 'has Tinan gone East
to be married" We had to draw the
line somewhere and we drew it at
one hundred.
On Monday night J.. Il. IIowde-
shells chestnut mare was stolen from
his stable. Nothing else was taken
but a bride. Several parties started
ont on the following morning il
search of the stolen property and
thief, Sheriff RYAN taking the east
bound morning passenger train. On
Wednesday the stolen animal wa.
brought to town, having been found
estray on the prairie near Il. II. Hiatt:
nine miles south of town. The mare
had the bride on when found.
"Ben Butler says he has a pump
kin on his farm which has beer
scooped out, and in which $50 heat
Of cattle are wintering. Oh, he has
a great farm, "Butler" has, says b,
has got an artesian well on it 1905
feet deep, and it flows ~l,675,o9l bar
rels a minute, dug it himself with
pickax. Somebody asked him how h'
got out of the well when he strucl
water. Said he wore a life p~reservor
and came up with the water, and i
shot him out Of the well to q distanc'
~
of ll6 feet in the air, and the pressurt
was SO strong that it kept him u
there tossing around Oh the top 0
the column of water for six days ant
six nights. We don't doubt his state
ments, not at all, he is q very larg
man.
AS announced in the GRAPHIC las
week DIR. G. j. Ross gave an oyste
supper at his residence on Saturda
evening last. IN addition to th
three members of the CITY council.
MeSsrs Wctherell, Richards and Calts
: and the artcsian we'll employee.
Mcssrs Birdsall, Cowan, Corlte:
Fisher and Murphy, there were pre-:
| ent, Messrs Wells, Miller, Warnc
Smith II. c, Long, Grippen, Week
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