The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-09

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defstood, will run a restaurant and
saloon. Mr.. Latehem will vacate the
store the first of next month, but
Just what room he will occupy is not
known at this writing.
A birthday party was given in the
opera house on Saturday evening of
last week, in honor Of Bert Franklin
and Lew Hirth, in which about fifty
young people participated. Skating,
dancing and games constituted the
program of the evening".
Eugene Jameson met with a seri-
Gus accident on Saturday morning
last. lie was coming to Kimball
with a load of grain on which was a
loaded shot gun, and in some way
the gun was discharged, the whole
charge of shot taking effect in his ell
bow. DR.. Hollinger dressed the
wound in good shape.
Frank Thomas, of Cherokee, Iowa.
has taken charge of the lumber yard
of j. A. Smith in Kimball. Mr.. ca
cult who resigned his position as
manager of the yard a short time ago,
will go to Rapid City about the first
of May. Ofcourse everybody will
miss "Brad" but are pleased to have
SO genial a mar as MIR. Thomas
among us.
During our absence from the Of
flee one day this week Irve Weeks
came in and wrote something across
the bottom of a piece of copy lying
on the table. What was it? Well.
the foreman, assistant foreman and
"deyil" all gave it up, so we took it
to a good lawyer and this is what he
made out: "For Gods sake, Jack,
announce me as a candidate for in
spector of the city water works.
As was noted in the GRAPHIC last
week Henry Bocktinger received a
box of fine cigars from M. E. Conan,
and to play a joke on Henry two of
the boys went and bought a lot of
genuine "stinkers' and emtying the
box Of the good cigars replaced them
with the poor ones. Conlan came in
on the train that evening and helped
smoke the cigars, and it is rumored
that he did some very good swearing.
Persons who have a superstltlous
dread of Fridays will not be pleased
to learn that this. lis a thoroughly
Friday year. It clpain on Friday,
will go out on FridayAand will have
fifty three Fridays. There are four
months in the year that have .:e
Fridays each, changes of the moor
occur five times on a Friday, and
the longest aud shortest day in the
year each falls on q Friday Custaliu
Republican.
Brother Tinan, of the Kimball
GRAPHIC, ls a champion wing shot
and an amateur sportsman. He takes
issue with the Nal upon the feast
bility Of propagating successfully in
Dawson county, the bonny little Beb
White, for the reason that the cover
is insufficient, and the sentiment in
enforcing the game laws too inactive
for the preservation of this game bird.
The absence of deep SHOWS is admit
ted as a favor OF the quail. Our friend
of the GRAPHIC is mistaken as to the
insuficiency Of cover. 1t is abundant
and outrageous along the jim. AS
to the brutality of the pot hunters, we
admit it with humility and indigna-
ton. Last summer, we heard the
whistle Of a few Bob Whites, who
were colonizing the thickets along the
east of town. They did not
survive the season. The inhuman pot
hunters killed the entire brood. In
the words sf the ancient mariner "d-m
em!"-lhtcheN Mail.
At El-Paso, Texas, the Mexican
dollar is worth eighty-ive cents in
American. At Paso del Norte, Just
across the river the American dollars
are worth e%ighty-fye cents in Mexi-
can coin. One morning a car driver
started from the American side with
a Mexican dollar. On his arrival at
the Mexican town he took a drink of
chain lightning, which was. I'll teen
cents, and received an American dol
lar in exchange for his Mexican. On
his return to the American side he
took a drink of equally bad liquor
liquor and received a Mexican dollar
for his American, and so, repeating
the intervals during the day, at night
he c losed up business with the Mexi-
can dollar he started with in the
morning. The bar keepers at both
sides of the line We're of course salts
fed with their share in the business
ard the car driver was not out of
pocket a penny. Who paid for the
drinks?.
An exchange says that it is all very
well, when YOU have nothing to do
but to kill time, to talk about keep
ing the boys IN the farm; you might
as well spend your time splitting at a
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