The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-12-04

Mrs. II. S. Dains is on tie sick list.
Mr.. Whitaker, the elder, is quite sick.
We are now on The home stretch OF '97.
Christmas falls on Saturday this year.
A. II. Wheaton was in town Thursday.
The Pate creamery, Clas. Mix, has
closed for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. i. Jones returned
from Iowa Tuesday evening.
4 Ex-senator Ingalls, lectures in Nit
cllrll next Wednesday evening.
Jas. Bvrne took a car of hogs and one
Of cattle to Sioux City this week.
The Missouri became ice-5ound S;,tur-
day and teams are now crossing Oh the
ice.
A full train Load of yourg stock came
IN from the east Thursday and vera un-
loaded at Puk%ana.
Mr.. Jenison, J. A. Smiths manager
here, expects to spend Christmas in
Florida with his parents.
Miss Kate PaZour met with a bad fall
a few days ago, while defending the eel.
lar stairs, and is confined TO her bed.
4 A. Reynolds sold the Gilbert farm
to Delbert Mead OF ilawarten. Iowa. MI.
Mead expects TO come out III the spring.
We don't think tho farmers are re-
greting the work it took to put up a lot
of hay. 1t will come handy before
spring.
A turkey was raised at the Minnehaha
county poor farm this fall that weighed
50 pounds. 1t was OF the Mammoth
Bronz breed.
Mr.. Freeman, who drives the Gam
Valley stage, was presented a nice fur
overcoat and robe by citizens Of KIM
ball. Gam Valley and Duncan.
The supreme court decides that a tax
title Of two lots or other parcels of lend
sold together is void. Each lot must be
taxed and sold FOR taxes separately.
+. Cook Smith orders the GRAPHIC sent
to him at Sioux Falls. The Chamber
lain Register reports Mr.. Smith as being
in Chamberlain Wednesday with DR.. Rea.
The Bradstyeet statistics slow that Of
one hundred men VITO start in the sirug-
gle fer success, forty->ix fail utterly,
fifty barely make a living, accumulating
nothing. aud four succeed.
Notwithstandi ng the cold weather o
the past week-aEd pretty fair sleigh
ing too-W. Il. Ochsnpr saws that the
big herd of cattle under his care have
out every day picking a good living on
the prairie.
1t is said by many who have tried it
that dry flour mixed with plaster OF
paris has cleaned out rats thoroughly.
II the rodents can get water the mixture
will tie them up inside worse than corn
stalks sometimes do cattle.
With the exception OF last year, we
haven't had as good sleighing in years.
Not much snow on the grcund-about
six to eight inches-but then has been
no wind 60 drift it and leave bare spots,
j. w. Sanford writes Mr.. Morrison
that lie has the three Joints Of 4 incl
pipe thrown up by the Brule we'll and il
Kimbail wants them she can have them
by proving property and paying charges,
It's our pipe. all right enough.
Levi D. Wait. editor OF the Howard
Democrat, was shaking hands with OLE
friends here last Friday. He had bcel
: to Wisconsin and came here OH his re
turn to see his wife and babe. We EN-
joyad q pleasant old chat and hald shake
City Auditor Cross sent samples o
drillings from the new artesiaa we'll t
several biologists. None so far pro
nounce the samples granite. State Geol
ogist Todd says that the Sioux Fall
granite does not underlie Kimuall.
With the exception OF the record
breaking month OF a year ago, Novembe
brought colder weather than any Nov
emher since 1898. The mercury nere
got below zero Ia November of 1891 or
TIT was 13 below Sunday night and l
yellow Tuesday night. On the three las
days Of November last year the mercur
got down to 10, 10 and Il below.
Mrs. James Brown left the YanktoI
asylum Tuesday cured in mind an
body. She went to Nermillion to visi
friends a few days before returning
=, her home in Chamberlain. Judge Brow
a r,frranI . TpncJav . THO rnofnrnfinr n
Mrs. Browns health is a source OF grea
pleasure to the many friends OF Mr.. an
Mrs. Brown in Kimbali and Chamber
lam.
The Union Pacific has made anothe
record for fast running and that, to-
n with a regular passenger and mail trail
Tie train made tile run from Chpyenn
to Council Bluffs, $40 miles in $50 mir
q utes. All the regular stops were mad
and one extra. Tie average running
time was G2l5 miles an hour. On
stretch Of 1C0 miles wac covered in S
minutes.
= A man down III Texas has been re
tanned as postmaster Of his town for tn,
past eleven years because his wife lat
presented him with two pairs Of twin
and a set OF bankruptcies. An effort Wa
made TO get the office for a Republica,
this fail, but lie put in as his recomen
= cation that he has been successful ii
raising the two pairs OF twirs and thre
OF tho bankruptcies. He has been rear
. pointed.
A story comes from Arkansas that tw,
r young people,. betrothed to each Other
were caught in d storm and took re
y, fuge under a large tree. A bolt Q
VI lightning struck them and They wer
killed in each others arms. Their friend
found them aud buried them in III
same grave. Now it some one had writ
ten that in a hook it would probabl