The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-18
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We refrain from description,
FOR perhaps. gentle reader,
That man might he you.
Selected.
l. A. Weeks is in Iowa.
Harvest will soon begin.
Talking Of a juvenile brass band.
Earnest Mohr celebrated at Alexun-
dria.
The commissioners arc in session this
week.
July mud and any amount of it is a
novelty.
Mrs. G.. j. Maynard returned from Iowa
Monday evening.
W~anted-Girl for general Homework.
Enquire Of II. +. Harvey.
Arthur Mckee is c%ultivating so acres
OF his W corn this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Wolf left Tuesday
for Richland Center, Wis.
The +berdeen delegates and wire
pullers returned Thursday evening.
Miss Cricket Ochsncr is in Sioux
City visiting her sister, Mrs. Orcutt.
DR.. II. P. Carson will preach at the
Presbyterian church Sunday July 10.
Superintendent Jimmie Lawless is a
daddy and he must send tho GRAPHIC a
smoke.
Messrs Ochsner, Stuver, Maynard and
Foote have been attending the Aberdeen
convention this week.
Atthe l. 0. O. +. installation Monday
night, Henry Herrlein was installed N.
e., and Frank Stoneberger. v. G.
Geo. Siddons' advertisement in the
GRAPHIC found his three colts, n near
Ola n the other two northwest.
Editor Taubman left his new baby
long enough tie Fourth to drive up
from Plankinton to see the ball game.
Indications point to a very short hay
crop except in the west. In Iowa ever
farmers are now planting corn fodder.
ST.. Snyder arrived from Sioux Falls
Wednesday for a weeks stay. He has
sold his grocery stock there, but will
make that city his home.
Brule county appears to have not been
recognized i'll any shape at the Aberdeen
convention. 1t did not even get a
representative on any committee.
The wheat crop i'll Clas Mix is in very
poor shape. Some OF it will not be worth
harvesting. The corn, however, is good
and as a rule farther advanced than in
this county.
Rev. Mr.. Potter has found his boss. A
galoot rode it to.Plankinton, picketed ii
out and stole another horse. He was
captured at Mitchell and is now behind
the bars at P%lankinton.
Seventeen postmasters in this state
had their salaries increased 500 each on
the first Of the month and only two had
a decrease. This shows a decided in
crease in business and population.
To find the gear OF a bicycle when you
do not know it multiply the diameter oil
the rear wheel by the number OF teeth
on the front sprocket, and divide the re,
suit by the number of teeth on the real
sprocket.
Patrons at the creamery are only en-
titled to one-tenth the amount Of butter
milk they bring in whole milk. The
man who brings 200 pounds of milk pei
day is entitled to about a pail Of butter
milk and no more.
The aermotor at the artesian well
demonstrated Tuesday night that ii
could pump lots of w%ater-and not pump
the we'll dry either. A casting broke
Wednesday morning and another one
will have to be put on.
The GRAPHIC had already gone to press
last week when the telegram came from
Tom Taubman that he was daddy to a
bouncing boy. We stopped the press,
you bet, and the interesting item went
into the forms.
The G. NJ. & st. Paul have offered the
use OF their we'll at this station to the
creamery company. The we'll is 65 feet
deep, about I feet in diameter and has
30 feet oil Water in it. The offer will
probably be accepted unless a good we'll
is found at the creamery.
At Marshall, N. G., Lafayette Sheldon,
a boy sixteen years old, was hauled to
the state line to be married. Sheldon is
a deformed boy, can't stand, sit nor
walk. He married a girl by the name
of Mary Hall. She is deaf and dumb
and about thirty years old.
Cornelius Miller was in town Wednes-
day and reports grain badly in need of
rain in Torrey Lake. That part OF the
county and a large portion of Chas Mix
has been left out in the moisture distri-
button this year. AS a rule they get it
when there is any rain to be had.
IL uhu Nlolully dpptdl w uc
specially favored this year in the matter
of rain. 1t rains here when 1t doesn't
rain anywhere else, and not once has
any serious dry spell hit us. 1t IS the
first year that this has ever happened.
Usually it rains all around us and leaves
us out.
Lewis w. RunyOn died at Dixon, Wis,
June 20. of hemorrhage of the lungs. W.
G. Richards received word of Ills death
Monday evening. The deceased was for
many years Il resident of Kimball, leav-
ing here last year for Hampton, Louisi-
ana. The climate did not agree with
him ana lie returned to Wisconsin.
Our exchanges tell a story about an
old fellow who was importuned to buy an
encycloEedia. He surprised the agent
by telling him that lie would not have