The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-04-28

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of the Kimball City Pharmacy IN name
as well as in fact. A. G. Pond having
retired from the business Saturday. Mr..
ponus future plans are not jet settled.
lie Is a very pleasant and courteous
gentleman and has made many friends
here.
Supt. AiAsworth says that the 100 acres
of rye put i'll by the industrial school
last fall will he a failure. A. crop Of
something else will be put in in place of
it. The rye crop on the farm has usually
been good. The dry fall is, Of course, the
cause of the failure in the present
instance.
The ladies Of the Presbyterian church
are making arrangements for a mer-
chants carnival for the benefit Of the
church. These merchant carnival enter
tainments car be made exceedingly
attractive when everybody takes hold of
the matter. No reason why the one con-
contemplated should not be a great sue
cess.
Masons along the line gathered at
Chamberlain Wednesday night to assist
the local lodge in degree work. Fourteen
went from Plankinton and about half
that number from Mitchell. Those who
attended from here: Messrs Weeks, Lum-
bard, King, Drips, Hewling, Stuver,
Pattee, Duclos, Miles, Whitaker and
Prof. Savage.
That most truthful and witty paper
commonly called Exchange" strikes
another point generally applicable.
Happening to notice arrival OF a carload
of baby carriages at a small station, a
stranger inquired if they were all for
home consumption. A wag heard the
inquiry and promptly answered: II
couldn't tell you sir, as l wasn't at the
last society meeting.
Capt. w. II. Curtiss returned from Kan
sas, where he has been spending the
winter. He reports winter wheat in
many sections Of Kansas as almost a
total failure on account Of the dry
weather. When asked what the people
OF Kansas thought Of the "rainmakers"
the captain said, that where he had been
spending the winter a "rainmaker"
would be drummed out of town if he
showed up.
WIG. Richards arrived Thursday. He
left Eureka, n. d., the 18th with a little
over 400 cattle of all kinds and had a
rough trip. The stock is punched around
at different places to pick up a little be-
fore being delivered to the Indian agen-
cy May 20. viii says he wouldn't take
the contract to supply 100 head of COWS
with calves for $50 a head-this in spite
of the terrible hard times and low prices
of n Democratic administration.
Work on the Chamberlain artesian
we'll has not progressed as favorably as
hoped. The inside curbing does not
stand the outside pressure and work is
rather at a standst1ll. 1t seems to be the
opinion now that the leakage comes
from the joints of the 10-inch pipe, as
Mr.. Miles said. There is talk of encas-
ing the 1C-inch pipe with q 12-inch
pipe. Although the town doesn't own it
it has just spent nearly 1000 in trying
to stop the leakage on the we'll. The
town is now after Miles again, but they
want to make a no-cure-no-pay contract.
The freight Saturday brought another
lot of horses for Walter Rhodes. While
on the cars watching the horses being
unloaded, Fred Wlttkop lost a pocketbook
containing a $50 bill and a note for 800.
A man who came in from Iowa with
some Of the horses found the pocketbook
and made inquiries for the owner, but
no II knew anything about it as Witt
kop at that time had not discovered his
loss. The finder of the money went
through to Puk. ON the freight, to visit a
relative, it is said, neal that town. But
no Il knows his name or address, as he
was sent through with the horses by
Iowa parties. The funny part Of it is,
Wittkop went through to Chamberlain
on the same train the finder Of his pocket
book was and neither knew Of the
presence of the other. Meanwhile Fred
is trying to find the whereabouts Of his
wealth, which Is evidently SO near and
yet so far.