The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-11

The harvest has commenced.
Will Davis was up from Pukwana
Tuesday.
|. A. Weeks returned from his Iowa
trip Monday night.
MIR. and Mrs. j. o. Gray have returned
from Minnehaha comfy.
Arthur Mckee has boughta new Plano
header Of Geo. W.. James.
They tell us that Jack Foster has
Topped back into the Democratic party
The Carpenter we'll Is down $50 feet
and Mr.. Kaufman expects to complete it
next week.
Rev. Mr.. Jenney of Chamberlain and
Rev. Mr.. Camfeld OF the Ward academy
were here Monday.
Rev. David s. Brown will preach in
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
morning and evening.
j. W. Smith will sell a binder and two
header boxes at public sale on Main
street to-lay-Saturday.
The Chamberlain ball club aud tho
Plankinton nine try conclusions again
at %Plankinton the 31st.
DR.. King arrived Thursday night, 60
ing through to Chamberlain and back
here the next morning.
1t appears to be the general opinion
that no n ever saw the flies more nu-
merous and generally cussed.
Tue G. B. & Q. road offered Bryan a
special train to convey himself and
| wife to Lincoln. The offer was declined.
Martin Smith has his artesian
we'll completed, and the flow is ample
for all purposes. The we'll is about $50
feet deep.
The First National and the Security
bank of Mitchell have consolidated and
hereafter the FIRST National will do the
business.
Frank Craft was here Saturday. lie
likes his new home in Watertown very
much and reports his sewing machine
business good,
Alexandria Herald:-Kimball and
Mitchell prohibited the shooting of fire
crackers or other explosives on Main
strees the Fourth. Sensible.
Copies of the bylaws of the Kimball
Creamery company have been left in the
weigh room and every patron is requested
to take one and read it carefully.
George Pilger last Sunday made a 100
mile ride on his wheel. He went to
Plankinton and back to Chamberlain,
and the temperature 103 in the shade.
j. f. Klingaman sends the GRAPHIC a
copy Of the Waterloo Courier containing
an account Of the elopcment of a Rev. G..
f. Scott with fftcen-ycar-old Daisy Dor
Ian.
Scientists have figured out that the
Niagara Falls will only last thirty-seyen
thousand years longer. This will give
plenty of time, however. for everybody
to see them.
Tho fact that whisky has killed more
men than bullets is probably ac-
counted for from the fact that the aver
age man would rather be filled with
whisky than bullets.
Editor LaFollette of Chamberlain has
been at Huron all the week attending
the populist convention. 1t is under
stood thct the Journal has bolted and
will support Bryan for president.
Pettigrew has been at Huron all the
week manipulating-or trying to-the
P0pulist convention. He made a speech
declaring that he was through with the
Republican party and ready to join the
POpulists.
Some Democrats thou gilt the GRAPuIC's
comments on the Chicago convention
last week were rather severe. They
should read the opinions of seventy-fye
or so more pretenti0us Democratic sheets
of national reputation.
Y. Kendall, who lives south Of the
Hills, just over the line in Chas Mix,
brought the GRAPHIC, Monday, some very
fine samples of wheat and oats. Mr..
Kendall says he has not had but one
failure OF crops in tho thirteen years he
has lived in La Roche township and that
his crops are immense this year.
A Sioux Falls weather prophet pre-
diets a dry spell for the Northwest from
now until the first of August, about
which time rains will set in. He ad-
ylses farmers to put up al! the hay and
grain before that time. This is Il free
country and any man can be a weather
prophet.
A Winnipeg lady protested against the
appearance Of the female bicyclists on
the streets OF that city clad in their rae
ing knickerbockers. ITS a great ad-
they're great drawers" responded the
manager. The Winnipeg lady. CHANGING
at Dottie F%arnsworth's snit, Indignantly
replied, Eyes that's just what they are,
and nothing else"
A big Democratic ratification meeting
sook place in Chamberlain Monday even.
ing. speakers stand was erected on
Main street and an immense crowd
gathered. Among the speakers was DR..
Hammill who has bolted the Republicans
and will work and vote for Bryan aud
Sewali this campaign. A large number
OF prominent Republicans at the other
end Of the county have expressed them
selves the same way.
The first three days of the week were
scorchers-lW in the shade Sunday, 80
Monday and 96 Tuesday. There was no
wind, however and the crops aud yege-
tables stool the heat fairly we'll. When
the soil was moist the corn seemed to
thrive wonderfully, The poor COWS and