The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-08-07
Eggs and butter are "

IN New York, or l6 cents on track
mere. Somebody must have been
monkeying with the tariff.
This part of the state got another
splendid rain a week ago today-a slow.
drlzzling, all day rain that went right
INTO the ground. TIE precipitation
at Kimball was Ito inches. which
made q inches Of rain within a week.
I. A. Berry put tifteen-cent ad in
the GRAPHIC last week which sold
him a $40 road wagon in twenty.four
hours. II you have anything to sell or
II there is anything you want to buy.
put a small ad in our want columnn
and it will do the biz.
The street commissioner started to
lay a new plank sidewalk in place Of
the old one turn up at the upper end
OF Main street, but was ordered to
disist by the council. The council
have decided to put in nothing but
cement walks hereafter, and a new
one is to be put in at this crossing.
Services at the Presbyterian church
Sunday as usual. Morning subject,
1.-The Right Companion" Evening.
sermon on home missionary work.
The G. E. meeting will be led by the
pastor; subject, ga Passion for Souls,
Lessons from Paul. Be prompt at
the meeting and come prepared to
take some part.
Homer Sampson, the erstwhile
freight conductor on this end, is up
from Texas visiting his Mitchell
friends. His wife has been there
with her family-the Conants-for
some time. Homer has lost consider
able flesh since he began %railroadmg
in Texas, but looks we'll, and feels
well, and likes his job.
P%lankinton Herald: In company
with Mayor Furchner, Gustav Stein
feldt and I'll. e. Fellows, the writer
attended the sale of town lots at Lane,
the new town in Jerauld county,
t~wentr-seven miles northeast Of this
city, last Friday. The Main street
lots sold from 500 up to $3.50. Mike
Gozie purchased two and Gustav
Steinfeldt one.
LA. Weeks says that he killed
every one Of the pesky prairie dogs on
his 800 acre farm in Wilbur township
and there was about a million OF
them. He sent off last spring and
got a preparation that kills the pests
by a poisonous gas. The first dose
killed ninety per cent Of them and a
second one effectually disposed of the
remainder.
A crowd of nearly one hundred
White Lake folks surprised Mr.. and
Mrs. Lovinger at their home in that
town a week ago Tuesday night, the
occasion being the sixth anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lovinger's wedding.
To look at that man and talk with
him one would never imagine he had
been a benedict six years. Must have
a mighty nice wife.
Canton News: Those people who
are being induced to tile on land
which they never expect to occupy
and agree to prove up and sell their
lands to the cattlemen should remem.
Der that Uncle Sam will not stand
for frauds Of that character and this
sort of speculation will be likely tc
bring the ones who indulge in it lots
of trouble and may land them in the
penitentiary.
Huronite: The old line insurance
companies which feel aggrieved be-
cause the legislature passed some
hostile legislation are withdrawing
from the state, believing like u goret
bull. Conclusive evidence thai
they are very badly hurt. The state
can spare them. A half million
dollars in excess Of losses is prett,
heavy tax for insurance which doe!
not insure on what a policy calls for.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Craft ant
MYRTLE arrived last night for a few
Gays visit. Frank is limling arount
with a sprained ankle, the result OF
runaway accident with his brother
Eds team back in Indiana, where h
was visiting. Ed is sheriff now AM
doing we'll generally; and we were glat
: to hear that his father-that old
j Jackson Democrats as line as
t fiddle and eating his three squar'
! meals a day Just like a three-year-old
Mitchell Gazette: Mr.. Orlan Wrigh
who has been connected with the Mil
waukee r. r. since spring has resigne'
7 his position on account OF bushes
Interests on his farm near Whit
Lake. The family will move TIL
!, week. Mrs. Wright has been offered
3 school for the winter. Although onl
q resident since spring Mrs. Wrigh
|, was not a stranger in Mitchell, havinl