The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-09-11

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Tie Indian ball nine from Crow Greet
cannot be present at the tournament
Agent Treon and their manager, Mr.
Everest, both write us that on account OF
some of the boys going back to schoo
the club has disbanded FOR the season.
Guy Lmith has opened up a barber
shop in the building next door north O
Parker building. where he will bt
pleased to ste his friends and acquaInt
ances and give them a neat shave o.
hair cut.
Under a recent act Of congress Sons o
Veterans camps are no longer supplied
with guns by the government. The adj
jutant general OF the state recently for
warded 600 of the guns to the United
States arsenal at Rock Island, Ill.
The GRAPHIC went to press day late
last week-and, incidentally, almost
set the postotlice people crazy answering
where's The GRApHlc?'-and it is is
sued a day earlier this week to make il
up-and to give all hands a day off fol
the blowout.
The weather took a sudden change
Wednesday night. After a week OF
blistering hot weather and strong soutl
winds, the wind whipped around to the
north and the temperature fell from the
nineties to the sixties. Cool aud cloudy
to day.
The new government artesian we'll re-
Gently drilled at Lower Brule agency
and one Of the greatest spouters in the
state has been throwing UP coal. stones
and sand to beat the deuce and has be
come partially clogged. 1t may be
necessary to drill it out again.
White Lake Wave:-It beats all what &
big price a little bovine will bring these
days. John just OF Robey, sold a buncl
of yearlings last week for S24 a head
John says if the money had been in one
dollar bills it would have made blankets
for the whole of them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hubbard, Mrs. Ben
Ochsner and children, Mrs. Will Ochsner
and children, Kate Miller, Anna Wentzy
Tom Quirk, C. R. Tinan, C. S. Blodgett
and son Arthur, AM. Bowlas, Aaron Doty
and Henry Henrichs were among those
who took in the excursion to Chamber.
lain Thursday.
The GRAPHlC'S Brown Leghorn spring
pullets are already laying. The little
ROSTERS wont lay; that's why we want
to sell them-at % cents each-if taken
at once. Out of thirty odd less than
ten are left. Some folks will be kicking
themselves because they waited too long.
It's that way every year.
The Volga Tribune SAYS that threshers
in Bookings county complain that
crickets are eating the Irvine around the
bundles OF grain. In some fields the
sheaves are as loose as il never bound
Ii the farmer doesn't get 1t in the neck
from Il direction he is dead sure to
from another.
The wheat crop is light all over the
state. The yield i'll Brule county is as
good as any and better than half the
state. If the price was as low as last
year most of the farmers would come
out q loser on the crop. II does not pay
to raise small grain in this country ex-
cept to supply home needs. Three years
out of four it's a losing game.
2. 7. Barnum once said: az YOU
have $40 to put to good use put up one
for the article and the other nine for the
advertising. can outtalk any man on
earth but the printer. The man who
can stick type and the next morning
talk to a thousand people while / am
talking to Il is the man who | am
afraid of: | want him for a friend"
John Parker went to Minnesota last
week in search Of q buach of calves, but
could not find what he wanted. Most Of
the calves lie ran across were not beefy
enough in breed for steers. They were
a mixture Of Holstein and Jersey breeds.
The steer calves were priced to him at
about $3.50; the lleifer calves he could
not buy at any price, the farmers want
ing them for mich cows.
Aurora Times:-Dr. T. G. Tweedy and
E. Gregory came from Winona Tuesday
for a few days sport with prairie chick
ems. They were about to yetnrn by this
mornings train with some Of the re-
suits of the chase in a box. when Game
Warden Ben RGddle appeared and took
charge of the EOx and the doctor, too.
Our State law does not allow chickens
shipped out OF tho State. and it took $50
or $40 OF the DOCTORS money to settle
with the court.
The average citizen who goes away
fir ON home but seldom dOcsn't notice
it perhaps, but kimbaIl's business street
Is getting to be & rocky looking thorough
iuio UHu StONluS ulVit SU cfcly ytul.
The delapitated buildings owned by
non-residents cannot be bettered per-
haps just at present, but the sidewalks
are within the jurisdiction of the city
and should be brought into %presentable
condition. A native may anble them
all right, but a stranger is liable 10 be-
come knee-sprung. string.halteI and
throw out a spiint or two with one pro-
menade. Many planks do not rest OF
stringers, others have spikes sticking
out to catch the uDwary and on the
whole are anything but a credit to the
town. There are exceptions in spots
but most uf the walks have not been
touched for ten years or over. The
hitchipg posts and rails are lit company.
There should be a systematic overhaul
ing all along the line before the street
resembles q Ciiilkoot pass-aai it is
within tho power Of tho council to
bring it about. The walks should be
leyeied up. brought to grade, loose
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