The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-04

We've got an addition to the photo
graphs that adorn IL desk-an editor
man and his two mascots: a charming
little girl and a handsome collie.
Thorn" looks DIS natural as life and is
wearing the same collar he had when he
left Kimhail to stir up the Colorado folk.
The Milwaukee road ran an excursion
train Sunday for the benefit of some
Mitchell people who wanted to go to
Chamberlain for a picnic ana arranged
the schedule of fares SO that Klmball
would pay the bill. The fare from
Mitchell aud return-136 mlles-was 81.
From Kimball-4O miles-75 cents.
The blistering hot weather this week
began to tell on the crops as we'll as up.
on humanity. But Thursday night
brought a welcome relief in a splendid
rain of 63-100 Of an inch. 1t was purely
local in character and extended south
less than three miles. More rain fell
north.
John H. King, while looking oyer tie
records of the Des Moines land office last
week. found a quarter section of land
four miles from Orange City which had
never been homesteaded or pre-empted.
He offered to file on it and the filing was
accepted. The land had been overlooked.
1t is worth about $1,000.
The buttermaker at the creamery is
not permitted to deliver butter except to
patrons without an order from the gem
eral manager. He has not the time,
either, to deal out butter in small lots.
Leave your jars and he will pack them
afternoons when he does that work.
Price IA cents. Sweet cream, Is cents a
quart.
A Chas Mix county farmer while east
soliciting aid for the poor and needy G.,
was given What he supposed wa two
bushels OF Hungarian millet seed. Wish.
ing to surprise his neighbors by not let
ting them see it until it came up, he
sowed about two acres of it. He has the
finest field Of pure mustard in the state
The l. & D. division Of the Milwaukee
is now pretty we'll filled with creameries
at Kimball, White Lake, Plankinton
Mt. Vernon, Mitchell, Blidgewater, Par
ker and Canton. Chamberlain has one
building and when completed every i'm
portant town between the Missouri and
the Iowa line on this division exccp'
Alexandria will have Il creamery.
The Iroquois creamery separates abou'
$1,000 pounds OF daily. The larges
amount brought in by one patron for 6
month was 1l,203 pounds. Tho Kimbal
creamery has n patrod-John Smith
whose monthly delivery will run clos
to $4,000 pounds, and a dozen Of then
equal to the big man at Iroquois-an,
the Kimball creamery not two week
old.
Volga Tribune:-Benson & Myhr ar
making a great success of we'll borinj
with the Dempster Hydraulic Tubula,
well machine, purchased from Z. C. LIE,
& Bro. At first. the boys did not under
stamp their machine. but Mr.. Lee got
man from the manufacturers to work j
for a few days. In about ten hours II
put down a hole 152 feet with ease, com
pleting the we'll at 167 feet, with 10 fee
of water.
1t is impossible at present to oparat
the creamery Oh Sunday-even if ther
was not a strong objection to 1t by
majority Of the directors. The plant j
taxed to its utmost capacity and a larg
amont Of milk reaches the factory s
late that it requires the use Of tn,
machinery all day instead OF a part 0
it. This leaves not an hour for repair
and boiler cleaning-the latter an abso
Lutte necessity once a week at least. |
becomes necessary, therefore. just no,
to shut down one day completely. Late
on with more conven1ences and hell
these difficulties will DO overcome. In
cidentally, none Of the six creamerles OF
this line OF road run on Sunday.