The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-09-18

K DeLUer.
The Mitchell corn palace is prettie,
than ever this year. The corn used
IN The decorations is so rich in colorinp
as to charm the eyes of all beholders-
especially the bright red ears, and
which serve to make the golden EARS
all the richer in color.
Mitchell folks are now ENJOYING
their new post office building audit
a beauty. Postmaster Bras has an en-.
tlreiy new outfit-furnished complete
by the syndicate that put up the
building-and the town now has one
OF the handsomest p%ostofices in the
state.
Merrill Foote returned Tuesday
night from a trip to Missouri to have
his eyes treated by a specialist. He
stopped a week at st. Joe with a
brother OF Mrs. Foote. Merrill thinks
LIS eyes are perfectly cured and that
ne Will have no more trouble with a
little care.
At the special meeting Of the cream
cry stockholders last Saturday r. II,
Cook was made secretary to fill the
unexpired term of John Ryan, resign
ed. 1t was not decided whether to
operate the creamery the coming
winter or not. 1t will depend upon
the amount Of milk in sight.
Your attention is called to the
services in the Presbyterian church
next Sabbath, morning subject: "Put-
ting On The New Man" Evening:
1.-THE Lost Sheep Found" There
will be special and appropriate music
for the morning service. The pastor
will sing, 1.-THE Ninety and Nine" at
the evening service.
HAS the climate changed?:" was a
common question last week during the
rainy days. And indeed it seems SO.
Until the past three or four years fall
rains were unknown here.-Miller
Press.
People have short memories-that
is all. Fall rains have frequently
nearly ruined small grain in shock
during the past fifteen years. The
heaviest rain this county ever had
was as late as the 2Sth Of August.
Why is it that when you meet a
great, big, fat, overdressed, jewelled
woman and fond of vulgar display Of
cheap clothes that she is almost al
ways a blonde? We met on the train
the other day-and she was a sight.
Fingers covered with diamond rings
of the cheapest sort and in her ears a
pair Of imitation stones big IS halle
nuts, She pretty near filled the
aisle of the car and attracted as much
attention as a museum freak.
We received a call Thursday from
John Bolton OF Sloan Springs, Ar
kansas, who owns a nice piece of land
in Plainfe]d township. Mr.. Bolton
has been reading the GRAPHIC Of re-
cent years and took pleasure in paying
for another year. He paid the Ora
PHO a very high compliment-saying
among other things that he liked the
tone of it and was as much interested
In the editorials as in local matters.
II like to read a newspaper" he said,
"that has sand and not afraid to say
whatit thinks about anything that
comes up" MI. Bolton likes this
country very much. "If l were a
younger man." he said, II would buy
more land and settle down here"
w. NJ. Pratt OF Greenfield, Mass,
was a caller at this Office with a. G.
Whitbeck Saturday, during the
absence of the editor in 1owa-much
to the latter's regret. Mr.. Pratt was
one Of the early residents of Kimball,
as bookkeeper in the Whitbeck bank
and with his home in the house owned
|by Peter Smith. Mr.. Pratt is the
Junior of the Goodell-Pratt M%anufact-
uring company-makers OF small
tools-with a large foreign trade on
top Of their big business in this coun-
try. MIR. Pratt has made lots OF
money at the busioess-and is now a
wealthy n1an-one of the rare in
stances Of a Young man quitting the
west, going back to the etfete east,
and amassing q fortune. Mr.. Pratt
still owns property in Kimball and
keeps in close touch with affairs here
through a weekly reading OF the Ora
PHO.
The Milwaukee road is bringing lots
of people into South Dakota this fall.
Every train is crowded. When the
Chicago-Omaha train splits at Manila,
Iowa, nine-tenths Of the passengers
get Off and scoot for S. d. There is a
wonderful difference in the class OF
travellers into this state. too, during
the past few years. They are as we'll
appearing and genteel If that's the
nropor word to uSe) as on any line OF