The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-10-09
The Editor rraye,s.

the frying pan into the FIRE. Talk about
heat, dust. dirt and general nastiness
over-sDreadlng the face of all nature:
South Dakota ist't in it. should have
gone north, guess, il heat and dust was
to be- avoided. The farther one gets
away from home the worse it is. The
whole western country appears to be as
parched and dry rs bone. Down
around Yankton the country Is a sight
or was at least when passed through a
week ago. The trees, schrubpery aud
foliage were completely covered with
fine dust-and 1t is the same htre- 30O-
miles south of Kimball-and all the way
between. The country looks as though
1t had not felt touch OF rain in years.
The heat here at this writing is oppres.
sive and has bsen so for this week,
Pastures are as barren OF grass as a rail-
road track. 1t is the same all over the
state, and like reports come from Indi-
ana and Illinois. No wonder that but
ter Is climbing skyward.
This is the greatest corn section in
lowa-and possibly on no spot IN all the
wide world is as fine corn produced
This is bad year, however. The yield
will not be over So per cent OF a normal
yield, and some tarmors put it as low as
so per cent.
A poor stand to begin with is the prin-
cipnl cause. The yield OF wheat is good,
however. and fortunately there is a
much larger average OF wheat in this
Year than for many years. Ten cent
corn last year was the cause OF it.
Prosperity does not seem to hayo hit
this section to any appreciable extent.
do not find business any better-nor as
good-as on several other years l have
visited here within the past ten. In the
Office of business man put the usual
question to him: "Well, hcw's business?
Taking out a bundle Of notes running,
anywhere from thirty days tosix months,
lie said:
Il never knew it more promising"
The more you travel the more you find
oat. | struck tailor shop in Ed.
BreBne's new town-Omalla-in which
was displayed tho sign: "Pants made to
order while you wait" 1t afterwards
turned out that you left your measure
and deposit and then waited till you
got your pants.
have found something else new
frequently told about but rarely seen-a
woman barber. There is one ia this
town-the daughter Of tile proprietor.
1t was just my Internal luck to be
scraped by a horrid man before l dis
covered this interesting latest edition Of
the new woman.
There are railroads and railroads and
l rode on two Of them getting down here
in addition to our own Milwaukee. One
of them was the air line Sioux City and
Pacific which connects Sioux City with
Council Bluffs with hundred miles Of
The finest road bed in the country The
passenger trains on this line cover 40
miles an hour with ease and when it is
necessary to do so reel off so miles an
hour without jar. On the other road
south OF Council Bluffs Icaught local
freight to save time, and thou the lis.
tarce was only 4S miles and the amount
Of work done less than half that OF tile
mixed train cut Of Mitchell it took five
solii hours to make the trip and pretty
nearly had the dayligits jerked out Of
ne. Our so called "llog train" is a
palace on wheels compared to it.
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