The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-02-06
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Small Talk.

""eh Mitehell HASN'T anything else
to do it has a fire.
Mrs. t. j. Ryan arrived from Memo
Tuesday for a short visit.
The directors of the creamery compa-
ny meet to-day-SaturdaY.
It's the last month OF winter, anyhow,
and only % days in it at that.
We hear that John Ryan has lost thir-
teen head Of stock this winter.
The girl to be in style this sea son
VIII wear Scotch plaid stockings.
our country correspondents appear to
be showed unler-most of them.
Atraveling MAJ checked his grip and
hoofed ii to White Lake Wednesday.
DIR. and Mrs. Drake are here this week,
and the doctor is kept unusually busy.
Miss Elenora Rebsr caught some nice
views OF the.snow plow with her kodak.
The weather this week has been quiet,
foggy, damp aud with a mild tempera-
ture.
Cliff Somers, Chamberlain, lost his
team and wagon through the ice. below
lower Brnle, Tuesday.
As usual, Arthur Mckee has hay a
plenty and to sell. When the grass is
good that man never sleeps.
The big ten wheeler 451 has been
transferred to the run west of Mitchell
until the weather is better.
We are to have a late Easter this
spring ana 1t is an old saying that a
late Easter means a late spring.
Something like four hundred bills
have been introduced in the legislature
and only a dozen have become laws.
John Sherman, in a letter 10 a Gin
cinnati friend, says that the greenbacks
Will not be retired if he Can help it.
Stockholders in the Kimbau Creamery
company can get checks for their divi-
dends by calling at the secretary's Office,
The state senate passed a bill Monday
establishing the contract rate OF inter-
est at III per ccLt and the legal rate at Z
per cent.
New York city wa 2li years old Mon
dav. When Kimball is as old az that it
may not be so big, but it will be u
blamed sight more moral.
Yes, it was a pretty cold January but
nothing like that Of 1883. In that wear
there were "a days IN January in which
the mercury never got above zero.
The purse containing money found by
Nelson Perkins and brought to this office
aud advertised belonged to Sidney
Waterbury,. and he was very glad to re-
@coyer it.
Ihesnext time there is II magnificent
crop OF the finest grass in the county a
good many farmers will-do just what
they did last summer: let it 90 to waste
and take their chances.
1t takes the South Dakota solons to do
business. A bill to fine the wearers of
large hats at theaters was introduced
this week Which makes the penalty from
81 to So according 70 the size OF the hat.
Representative Weeks has introduced
a Oil to reimburse Treasurer Phillips
1or bringing the state cash to Pierre.
lie has also introduced a bill ap%propriat-
Ing money for certain criminal trials in
Lyman and Presho countries.
1-,.
Editor Kirk of the Castalia Republican
would like to handle the mail of the
burg. As the publisher of the best
newspaper in the state sent out from a
town the size OF Castalia. Kirk should be
given the place without any effort on
his part.
The west bound train Tuesday night
struck the hand car OF the Mt. Vernon
section crew and smashed it to kindiine
wood. 1t was very toggy and the en-
glneer did not see it. The crew saw the
approaching train just in time to save
themselves.
+. E. Miller and Louis Richards OF
K1mball and Geo. Anderson and N. w,
Eggleston Of Chamberlain are grand
Jurors for the next term Of Z. S, court
at Sioux Falls. G. u. Tidrick and II. w.
Lawson of Chamberlain are dra WIN on
the petit jury.
The amount of water that will run of
and to waste this sprlug from the melt.
ing snow, would. il damned in the
draws, ill the county with ponds all
summer long. The farmers who have in
previous years made these dams will
have an abundance of water.
Ground hog day wa one OF the most
charming OF the winter-bright and
clear-and il there is anything in the
W0odrhuck legend we are to have six
weeks more Of winter. But it so han
pened this year that the g%round-hogs
were buried under ten feet IT snow. 50
we have only Hicks to go by.
Chamberlain Register: The follow.
ing from a letter from Western Missouri
shows how things have been there. 81
rented 10 acres OF ground this year fol
hay and farming for cash rent, and all
the stuff l got from the land would moi
pay one-half the rent and it takes hard
%cratching all next year to pay This
years rent"
Harry Wentzy returned from Pierre
Tuesday evening. He SAYS he had a
great, big round time and We guess
that's about right-running uD against
such fellows as Tom Taubplan. Volkmar.
and AL. Carter. The boy tells lis that tbs
trio representing Brule county at the
capital are on to their JOB all right and
are inst as big pumpkins as any Of
them.
The agency Indians, born and raised
on these pralries, don't know ant more
about the climate of the country than
tho greenest tender-foot. As weather
prophets they are worse. The winter
finds the most thrifty OF them without
hay FIR fhoir ..o4fl, ond rnn;.-