The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-10-16

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Coming in IN the train Saturday
night, "Tony" Rozum, train dispatch.
er ut Perry, Iowa, said that the
farmers out this way ought 70 be
pretty well satisfied. GAS far as I
coultd reach with my wlre,,n he saidz
''the farmers down there have twice
been drowned out this season ana thev
have not much to show for their
years work. NJ 8l9
When we came through Plankinton,'
Saturday night, Tom TaubmaBln ster.
PED up to the car window and held nm
four fingers and a thumb on hand
and three fingers on the other. then
Iour fingers, then spread out his
Whole hand again. 1t was lust as
plain as print to a sport-thouph all
Greek to the curious locker on. The
Pl%ankinton club had been up to Yves.
slngton Springs playing ball the day
before. The finger signs meant that
Plankinton won 8 to 4 and that Tom
and his pals took home $500 of Yves
sington money.
a traction engine and separator
came In from the south one night
last week, turned at the artesian we'll
and went west. One of these days
some driver of a traction engine will
forget-intentionally or otherwise
the new cement crossings on Main
street and possibly ruin one or two of
them. We think the council should
pass an ordinance at once making it a
severe penalty for anyone to take a
traction engine across any crosswalk
In Kimballcement or otherwise
before IL is too late to recover dam
ages In a CASE Of this kind.
Exchange: Merchants should Co
operate with the local newspaper to
attract more business to the town.
Properly supported, the editor and his
paper can assist greatly in attracting
trade. Everyone should push the
circulation Of his paper into the
districts for business of which the
town is competing with other towns.
Every town in some quarter comes in
competition with other towns for a
certain amount of every desirable
trade. The town which has the news
paper with the largest circulation in
that district is the best armed for
that contest.
Editor Evans of the White Lake
Standard was in town Saturday on
business. The GRAPHIC mans first
meeting with MI. Evans was eight
years ago, when the latter drove the
former from Custer to Sylvan lake in
the Black Hills. Mr.. Evans was then
running the Custer Chronicle, the
Office and outfit of which was destroy
ed by fire some time afterwards, with
no insurance. Since that time Mr..
Evans has been connected off and on
with various newspapers-running the
Washington Springs Sieve for some
years, afterward taking hold Of the
White Lake Standard, which now
passes from the hands of a stock COM
pany to Ray Hitchcock.
No town will become a good bus
ness center as long as the majority of
lts business men rely on a few mer
chants to make the effort to bring
trade to town, says an exchange. Too
often the man in the clothing and dry
goods trade are about the only ones to
reach cut after custom, Other mer-
chants wait until the enterprising
business man induces the people to
Icdme to town and content themselves
with the trade that naturally drifts
to their places. A public spirited man
should ask himself if he is doing his
part to attract the people to come to
town. Any merchant who induces
people to come to town and trade is
helping the entire community and no
town is a success unless all lines are
working to extend the trade as far as
possible and trying to bring as larger
TERRITORY in the circle Of which the
town is the business center.
The Klmball creamery shuts down
next Tuesday, the Goth, for the winter
and probably for all time to come until
those that are shipping their cream:
Ito outside concerns begin to realize
that they were not as wise as they
might have been, for when all COM
j petition is wiped out the cold storage
jconcerns will pay the farmers any old
price and they will simply have to
take 1t. Though this shipping to OUT
side concerns was not the principal
reason that the creamery had to shut
down. The real reason is that the
farmers are getting too well OFT and