The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-09-21

shown in Kimball, OF As, 50 and &C, cents
each at Mathies.
We will receive during the last days of
August $4,000 worth of goods which we
intend to dispose OF at prices that will
eclipse all competition. j. n. Wolf.
Just as the GRAPHIC is going to press
Mrs. ]. B. Long receives a dispatch from
Dell Rapids bringing the sad news of
the death of little Dollie Smith.
Bonnie Ryan says that the GRAPHIC
has not prodded the commissioners
about anything that would hurt them
the least bit. Bonnie is dead right. The
commissioner are impervious to assaults
from any source. It's like butting up
against n stone wall. Bonnie found this
out last January. We found it out years
ago.
There is a clipping in this issue OF the
GRAPHIC telling something about what
a creamery is doing, that of Iroquios. Our
farmers who handle stock at all are SO
wrapt up in raising $40 three-year-old
steers that it is hard to interest them in
dairying. Yet a we'll managed creamery
would make a three-year old heifer more
valuable than a steer.
Agentleman, who has been camping
at Clear Lake, Iowa, says that ii. the
present rapid rate evaporation Of the
water in Clear Lake keeps up, in ten
years the lake Will be a mud puddle.
Farms are now being cultivated on
grounds that were once a part of the
lake. All over it lots of weeds grow
ing, and the dlminution Of water is
alarming. Last years drouth caused
a considerable fall and 1t is falling just
as fast this year.
No one %hereabouts ever saw a hotter
September day than was Tuesday. The
eatly morning was delightful and gave
no evidence of the glazing heat which
followed later and which sent the mer-
curry up to 102, the highest point any
day this season save one. A remarkable
feature of the day was that the wind
was from the northwest, a direction
from which it rarely comes on an ex-
tremely hot day. A cold wave during
the night ran the mercury down to 80, a
change Of 40 degrees in 10 hours.
Tho Castalia Record-R Republican, in
the first Issue OF the 18th year, makes
some practical comments. among which
we select the following as possibly hav-
ing some interest to Kimball people:
During the past year the entire pat
ronage of the town for advertising, job
work and subscriptions, has been little,
ii any, above $3.50, and almost every
dollar of this amount has been traded
out. This would pay the actual expenses
of the business just about two months in
the year. The rest we get we rustic for
outside, and it takes lots of rustling,
too. We don't want to be understood as
kicking, but on the occasion of the
papers birthday simply mention the
fact for the benefit of a few who may
think that a town supports the paper,
instead of a paper the town.
THE man of the standing adj" says
the Sumeryille, Mass, Citizen, sis the
backbone of the newspaper and the solid
man OF the community. In summer or
winter, in sunshine or rain, his name
greets the public eye with every issue of
the paper, and people come in time to
regard him as we'll established in a sue
cessful business, whether they have been
his patrons or not. Nothing succeeds
like success and the public, once getting
the idea that a man is a flowing well,
stands ever ready to patronize him and
turn to him naturally when they hap
pen to want anything in his line. In
this simple fact lies the whole secret of
success Of persistent Advertising"
The state OF Illinois has an insane
asylum at Kankakee. A farm is run in
connection with this asylum, and last
spring they put in an irrigation plant
which has proven highly successful. The
results have been such that those who
have carried out the experiments see no
reason why irrigation is not feasible for
farm lands throughout the middle states
where farmers have suffered SO severely
from long-continued drouths. Last year
the crops Of the insane asylum were
ruined by dry weather and the institu-
tion had to pay out $4,000 for vege.
tables. This year, with an equal dry
season. there is such an abundance that
not a dollar will have to be expended.
Not only this, but SO great is the yield
that 1000 bushels Of turnips alone have
been fed to the cattle. Irrigation has
wrought the change. The expenditure
Of $1,000 for the plant has made the
watering possible.