The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-09-04

VOLTS.
A car load of Cooper Wagons and
Buggies the FIRST Of the week for j. IL.
Wolf. Wait a day or two and get the
best.
Place your order for a Mccormick
mower as soon as you can. to make sure
you have it when you need it.
The artesian we'll being drilled on the
Lewis stock ranch in the northwest Cor
ner OF Aurora county is down 116O feet
or over and no water. There are two
good wells less than a mile east neither
of them a thousand feet down.
Mitchell Gazctte:-Kimball announces
that she is going to have a genuine old
fashioned harvest home picnic next
month, tho dates being September 10
and II. Ball games, horse races and
athletic sports Of all kinds will ba feat
ures.
Dave DOrwart walked off with first
money at the clay pigeon shoot in Cham
berlain, breaking 16 out of %, which was
a good score considering the high wind.
Nef Of Chamberlain broke is and took
second money. Lynch of Chandler broke
IA.
The creamery emptied the ice house
this week and a car of ice from Cham
berlain was put in Tuesday. Between
sixty and seventy tons were packed in
the ice house last winter. The ice
house will probably be enlarged this
fall.
Woonsocket News:-The Kimball
GRAPHIC says that the Washington
Spriags nine will play ball at Kimball
during a harvest home jubilee to be held
there Sept. 10 and IL. The Springs boys
are all right and we expect to see them
bring home The first prize.
In a friendly scutfle with John Byrne,
Saturday, w. H. Farnsworth had the
bad luck to break his leg just above the
ankle. 1t was a most unfortunate ac-
c!dent. The fracture was reduced and
the injured man was taken to his home
sixteen miles south of town.
The State auditor has been looking
over the dog returns by the assessor.
He finds Buffalo county, with a voting
population of 73. makes returns of 1876
dogs, while her neighbor. Jerauld, with
poll list Of 800 only admits to the owner
ship of - dogs only.
Acting Mayor Blodgett requests tie
GRAPHIC to state that the ordinance
against use of water from the mains on
gardens and lawns will he enforced and
the penalty inflicted at the first Violation.
Water is scarce just now and it doesn't
pay tc have farmers go out OF town not
able to water their teams.
There Will be some OF the greatest
baseball playing in Kimball next week
ever seen in this neck Of the prairie.
The Crow Creeks expect to skin the
Plankinton club, while the Washington
Springs nine think that the money is
just as good as in their pockets. The
Gam Valley club feels confident of max
ing any of them think that they have
been to a ball game:
Mitchell Republican:-Kimbal is ar
ranging for a grand race meeting and
bicycle tournament to be held there
Sept. 10 and II. Good prizes and purses
have been hung up for each event and
undoubtedly a big crowd will attend the
celebration given by the enterprising
people of Kimball. Some handsome two
colored posters were printed by the Re-
publican for this event.
If the frost keeps off Brule county
will have a good crop of corn, too-and
corn is the next commodity to advance
in price. Its present price is out Of pro
portion to that Of the price of wheat. 1t
is claimed, OF good authority, that corn
will advance al least Is cents per bushel
in price. to keep its relation to wheat
and that this raise cannot be retarded
as it is a natural result.
Our exchanges are publishing various
representatives. to rid cattle of flies, which
are especially annoying to mich cows at
this time OF year. We don't know any
thing about these so called preyentatives
but fish oil and carbolic acid Is about as
good anything. The oil should be ap
piled with a wide paint brush, along The
back and on the legs every two or three
days.
Mrs. Carl Rhler had a runaway Mon
day. She was coming to town with {
team and wagon and three children
with her. Her husband was on foo
ahead driving in some CATTLE. One o
the wbipple-trees came unfastened ant
the team ran away, splitting the famil,
all over the prairie. The younges'
child, seven months old. had two rib.
broken. DR.. Willy went down to tn.
Pierce farm, near where the mishap oc
CURED. and attended to the injured.
One of the greatest cases Of crimina
detective work ever accompl' shed in thi
country has just come TO light via tn,
Klohdike country. 1t evon rivals somt
Of the detective syories sold by the news.
boys on the railway trains. Frank Novaf
an alleged murderer and incendiary, lef
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last February and
was finally traced step by step to far of
Klondike and captured. The detective
G.. G. Perrine, who followed his man s.
persistently aud captured him spent $40
COO in the pursuit.
There are teachers and teachers, bu
a knowledge Of text books doesn't max,
a capable teacher. That is what instl
tutes are for-to impart instructions 4
teachers and heaven knows most O
them need it badly enough. We vii
say This, however, fer the teachers OF III
country SCHOOLS; most OF the pupils WI,
come from tl,em know what las bee
taught them much more %t.lorougbl