The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-04-30

M1lDanK ReVleW:--Ihe klmhall
GRAPHIC has just celebrated its six
teenth birthday. The GRAPHIC, under
the guidance Of its ever popular and
versatile editor and publisher. Clate R..
Tinan, is as bright and charming as the
provprbial Sweet sixteen" of charming
young w%onanhood Bro. Than says he
can count on his fingers the papers Of
the state which have been so long under
one management. The Review will
come under this enumeration, having
been under the sole ownership and
management OF its proprietor for very
nearly eighteen years.
The Kimhall Dramatic Company de-
sires to announce the powerful modern
society drama, The Iron Hand, for Friday
evening, MAY 18th. The play had prev
iously been announced for tho last Of
this month, but absence of part of the
cast necessltatpd a three weeks delay.
Rahearsels ars progressing nicely now
however, and the young people who, by
the way comprise some of the hest dram
attic talent OF the city, will use their
every effort to give the people Il credit
able performance. For benefit Of GAR.
and ". r. c. Remember the date.
Full announcement and cast next week.
1t is rumored that G. r. Owen and
Frank Cilly are to start another Repuh-
J lican paper in Chamberlain. Cilly
started n paper in Oacoma with The
beginning Of the town, afterward
selling out to the Gazette. II the pro-
posed venture is a go it Will give
Chamberlain four newspapers, or seven
in the county against three in Aurora
and four in Dawson, both Of about the
same population as Brule Oh, we'll.
this is a free country-and lots OF
people are not getting scratched where
they itch the most. Newspapers Gil n
long felt want sOmetimes-and the poor
devils who start them for that purpose
about as often have a long felt fill.
The southern women, young and old,
are showaring flowers and sweetmeats
upon .ha c. S. seasoned and bronzed
regulars from the western plains, now
encnmped at Chicamauga. When we
get the true blue southern hospitality
woke up there is nothing like it, any
where, and what a difference now from
when this same northern army invaded
the south in the sixties. A new genera
ton has arisen in the south since then
and the women at least are showing in
unmistakahie wavs their love and
loyalty to the flag. II the war with
Spain wipes out the last trace OF sec.
tional feeling in this country it may be
worth in itself all the loss OF life and
treasure.
Milbank Review:-H. C. Smith, OF
Kimball, this state. was a Milbank
visitor Wednesday afternoon and even
ing while on his way home from
Browns Valley where he has been visit.
ing relatives. Mr.. Smith is an old
soldier and served three years during
The war in the Fourtneth PeensYlvania
Cavalry. he is ono OF the old settlers in
this stale. In the legislative session OF
1891 he served on the Honso enrolling
and ~engrossing force under the editor OF
the Review. and at the last session was
a clerk on a Senate committee. This
was the first time Mr.. Smith had ever
visited this section of the state and he
was so pleased with what he saw oil
Milhank and the MILESTONE Valley thai
the probability is that upon his return
to Brnle county he will advise every.
body to move over to Grant county.
Farmers have been telling US tina t
the ground was soaked deeper with
moisture than for years, notwlthstand-
ing the light rainfall for the past yeal
and an almost total absence Of snow last
year. We thought our farmer friends
were talking through their hats; that
their ideas in tile matter were Target,
taken from surface indications. W.
have changed or mind within the last
few days; we thing those who insisted
that the ground is thoroughly satur
atGd are correct. This week, the writer
has had two cisterns dug, one at thu
creamery and the other at his barp
!, They are ten feet deep. and the snb.soi
all the way down is so wet that dirt
sticks to the spade. We have beer
around a good many excavations il
Kimball during the past fourteen years
and have never seen the soil show III
like that at so great a depth. Thu
%cistern dug at the barn is in a piece o
, around where water never settles ant
{ we have never seen inches OF snow there
AT the creamery it was necessary Il
! stop work al. 10 feet because Of the water
seeptng in.