The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-05-06
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Small Talk.

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Small Talk.
Today-FridaJ-is Arbor day.
John Parker is driving a new phaeton.
II these rains had only come Before the
terrible fires.
Mrs. Mr.. john Parker went 10 Sioux
City Monday.
&c. Smith was up from Clstalia
again Sunday.
Edward Brenne returned 10 Omaha
Wednesday morning.
Peter Engbert is back from Mime
apolIs with a cork leg.
The foundation under the opera-house
Is being repaired this week.
The Republicans hold their judicial
convention at Redtield June %.
Editor C. E. Neyin OF the Plankinton
Standard was a pleasant caller Thurs.
day.
Charley Lowe of Bijou Hills has been
granted an increase Of pension from S.
to SIS per month.
Now is the time to set out the merits
Of your stock horses through the columns
Of the GRAPHIC.
Capt. W. v. Lucas delivers the Memoir
ial day address at Vermillion. The Cap
tain will give them a fine address.
There is no loss without some gain
to someone. The Indians have been
having a great feast on the burned cat
tie and sheep.
The first ball game of the season will
occur at Plankinton Monday afternoon
when the University nine of Mitchell
and the Plankinton boys will contest for
honors.
DR.. A. w. Goodale Of Watertown. N. Y,
arrived Monday evening to look after
his lands and business in this vicinity.
DR.. Goodale was president Of the old
Farmers & Traders Bank.
Bonesteel News: Peter Delire, a bro
ther-in-law to Joe Patry, an old Charles
Mix acquaintance Of ours, is in town to-
day and we acknowledge a call. Mr..
Delire now resides in Kimball AID con
ducts a hotel.
Miss Emma Harker, entertainer and
impersonator, will give an entertain
ment under the auspices of the Ladies'
Aid Society Of the M. E. church next
Tuesday evening. Admission 10 cents;
children 10 cents.
Acyclone in northern Missouri last
week destroyed more lives and property
in thirty minutes than all the prairie
fires in the Dakotas since settlement.
This particular twister killed fifty peo-
pie and terribly injured twice as many
more.
Considerable property has changed
hands i'll town the past week. F. A.
REYNOLDS has bought the Brenne r5si-
dence property on Second street, and
George Rose has purchased OR. i. Jones
the house now occupied by B. F. Och
sner.
Among the South Dakota boys killed
in the march on Calumpit last week was
Harley DeJean, son of Thos. DeJean a
farmer near Plankinton. AS soon as his
death was learned, flags in Plankinton
were run up at half-mast. 1t is a death
that comes pretty near home to us.
John Talich is trying to rectify that
little prairie fire Of his, too. He has
either paid, OF rendered payment. Of
sums approximating $500 to Jos. Kor
zan, $3.50 to H. Z. Austin, $165 to Oar
Roberts, $175 to Jas. Rozum, a certain
sum to Mr.. Wattawa. and amounts Il
others, we understand.
w. L. McCreary tried to make natter
right over the fire started on his farm
? John Tallch will probably shell out
thousand dollars to settle the prairie fir
set going from his farm, and now, il Nc
Nary can scraps up a hundred Thousand
dollars or SO he might make a starter OF
his little Fourth OF July.
Robert Mclean Cumnock, Director o
Northwestern University School of Ora
tory, says of the coming elocutionist
Miss Emma Harker graduated from on
School OF Oratory in the class OF '93
She is a superior reader and speaker,
faithful student, and a young woman o
Is i naOElna ahoropfnr H rraAfnf fnr tn,
great success in the line of public read
ing. She Will entertain and delight an,
audience"
Last week the Ochsner company pulled
'front.' we'll east Of town, a string o
500 feet Of 4 inch casing which was pu
in temporarily when the we'll was made
The work wa accomplished with a der
rick, block-and-tackle, and two teams 0
horses. Just after the work was 6nishe,
the high wind Of Friday blew down. tn,
derrick, wrecking it and and damagin,
their steel aermotor tower.
MIR. and Mrs. A. q. Whitbeck. children
and Miss Anna Whitbeck left WednAs
day for Nashua, Iowa, where they will
visit friends and relatives for a few
weeks and from which point Miss Whit
beck will, after visiting relatives Ell
route, return to her home at Sodus, New
York. Miss Anna has made man,
friends in Kimball during her year.
%sojourn, all of whom regret her depart
ure and hope for an early return.
Mrs. Jennie Henderson has re6tted til,