The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-01-23
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Small Talk.
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k Small Talk. 81
Alexandria is to build a creamery at
once.
Lee COnant is back from a Two weeks
visit to Sioux City.
The worst blockade found on this d.
vision was at kimball.
The beautiful snow covers u multitude
OF disSraceful sidewalks.
Editor Maynard was down with the
grippe the first OF the week.
The big snow storms this winter have
cost the railroads lots Of money.
Chas Engle and Burt Bo WIDEN started
overland for Sioux Falls Tuesday.
Louis Richards is in Pierre this week
watching the senatorial contest.
Never boast of your blood-you may
have TO buy sarspafllla in the spring.
Geo. w. James sells the eocene illu-'
minating oll-purer than water white.
oh, yes, a married man can live on
half the income OF a bachelor-he has
to.
Salem Special:-Miss Blodgett of Kim
ball Is in the city the guest Of Mrs. E. j..
Todd.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Tritle,
Willow Lake, a boy. Sunday morning
Jan. II.
Miss Alice Beccham OF Menomonee.
Wis, has been the guest OF Mr.. anu Mrs.
II. +. Harvey the past week.
j. Ii. Volt has bought the store and
stock of John Waugh, Castalia, and has
been there the past week invoicing.
Contentment may DO better than
money. but most men Nould prefer to
take their chances with the money.
The dozen Democrats at Pierre gave
|. A. Weeks the honor OF the caucus
nomination for senator. Good for them.
There is luck in odd numbers, so it is
said. and it is fair to presume that this
heavy snow means a big crop for 1897.
People from the country say that there
is more snow on the ground than at
any time since the settlement Of the
county. There is as much a, least.
Agent Harvey at the depot has a box
OF salt water perch from the Pacific
coast that he is selling ont to pay the
express. The fish are dressed and very
choice.
The Standard OIL company is going to
make kimball a distributing point for
this section or the country and, as soon
as the frost is ont of the ground will be-
gin the construction of storage tanks
here.
A bunch of 1ifty-four finely bred
Poland China hogs sold for an average
price of sos a head at a sale at Spring
field, Ill, Saturday. The highest price
lIpaid for q single hog was $3.50 for an IS
months old SOW.
A White Lake liar sent a special to the
Sioux Falls papers that John Tovey had
bought twenty Shetland ponies and was
going into the pony business-and the
GRAPHIC made a note of it. The Wave
says there is nothing in it.
A Coddington county farmer reported
that the snow blew into his barn and
kept piling up and the horses kept
climbing up to the top Of the drift till
the roof was reached, and then they
hunched up their backs and pushed the
roof off.
A. c. WhitbecK likes snow shoyeling
for exercise so we'll that he not only
keeps the walk in front of his own resi-.
dence in admirable order, but goes far
Their up town and shovcls off a hundred
feet of three foot snow that properly be-
longs to the town 10 look after. When a
man pays 5000 tax a year he wonders
sometimes what he gets for it.
J "Ilad the greatest time out to our
; house Tuesday you ever heard tell Of"
said Louis Walker to the GRAPHIC.
9 while digging around in a 15-foot snow
$ drift l found the incest little baby boy
: you ever saw, fact" There appears to
2 be a boy at tho Walker home all right
) enough, but we believe Lew is lies about
/ where he got it.
When Jack Quillin, Jas. Byrne's
general utility man, entered the sheep
: shed Tuesday morning to look after the
flock his eyes nearly jumped from their
sockets. There, scampering around
among the three hundred sheep was a
new born lamb, n totally unexpected
visitor at this time of year-that is to
: say, Jack was willing to bet his boots
twas u lamb. But it wasn't; it was a
jack-fabbit.
y The following item has been going the
. rounds of the press for so many years
that no man knows who is the author OF
% it, but there never was written a more
% telling paragraph: "a country minister
once requested all in his congregation
who paid their debts to rise. The rising
% was general. After they had taken their
70 seats a call was made for those who
didn't pay their debts. and a solitary in.
diyldual arose, who explained that he
was an editor, and could not because the
rest Of the congregation were owing him
. on their subscription"
A colored preacher wanted 10 deliver a
startling sermon. He had heard of
sensational methods and determined to
: give his congregation a surprise. A
- small boy was taken into his confidence
as q confederate and stationed on the
roof just above the pulpit. In the lads
keeping was entrusted a pigeon, which
was to be let loose in the church through
Q . convenient hole at the proper moment
" The church was nackod and the nreache1