The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-23
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| A big artesian well has been strucl
at Miller.
An artesian well is going down al
Redfeld.
A Masonic lodge is to be instituted
at Castalia.
Huron business men shut up shop
to attend base ball matches.
Alexandria is one of the towns
that is crying for an artesian we'll.
A stock company is being formed
at Tyndall to sink an artesian we'll.
The Mitchell club won't play any
match games until they get prac-
ticed up.
The little one-year old son of
Attorney Stroube, Of Chamberlain,
died last week.
Mitchell is busy preparing her
grounds for the big fair this fall.
All of us are going.
Farmers near Red Lake are :agitat-
ing the question of sinking an artes-
ian we'll on the border of the lake.
A careless Indian came neat burn.
ing up Gam Valley last week, by
starting prairie fire near that place.
"a bushels of barley was raised on
J acre of ground by a farmer living
in the southwest part of the county.
A gentleman who signs himself
"Capt. Maurice F. DelaBarre" is a
candidate for county surveyor in Chas.
Mix Co.
The lessees of the Yankton cream
cry have skipped, leaving the farmers
of the adjacent country $4,000 out Of
pocket.
Mr.. Gilman, the new postmaster
at Chamberlain, has been confirmed
and will probably take charge of the
Office next month.
The Mitchell Mail puts it this
way: The Plankinton artesian per-
foration is 900 feet in mother earth's
bowels, and the people there yearn
for profuser evacuation.
The reliable Alexandria Herold
says: A Mitchell policeman had his
pocket picked while valiantly pass
ing in the circus free on the strength
of his uniform and star.
Instead of celebrating, Alexandria
remained quietly at home on the
Fourth and attended te business.
Result-three new babies. 1t is such
towns as this that get ahead.
Mr. Hardt, Brule County farmer,
raised ll75 qts. of strawberries this
year OH 35 square rods CT ground.
The berries were of excellent flavor,
He will have an acre of plants next
year.
The Grafton artesian we'll is down
900 feet and struck granite-when
work was stopped. A few of salt
water OF twenty-five barrels per
minute was stuck at a65 feet, which
is to be utilized.
A game protective association has
been organized in Mitchell, with a
membership of AZ to start with. The
association will make an earnest
effort to put stop to illegal shoot
ing. There should be an organiza-
ton of this kind in every town in
Dakota.
The artesian well contractors, at
PlankintOn. seem to have A run Of
bad luck. For several months but
little progress in the we'll work has
been made, owing to accidents and to
the nature of the rock being drilled.
The we'll is now down about 900
feet, with small flow of water which
we are afraid will not be increased.
Watertown Journal: A woman
went into dry goods store in town
last Monday and enquired for jer-
sey. Selecting one she asked, "Will
it fit?" "Try it on" replied the young
clerk, jokingly. And the woman,
without word, did that very thing.
She peeled off her sack and jerked
her Jersey on over her one remaining
garment without an intimation that It
was anything ont Of the regular line
of procedure. The clerk tainted dead
away, and the lady customers in the
rear of the store stuffed their hand
kerchiefs into their mouths and
laughed till they cried.