The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-04-03
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Official PAPER ii Ito City and Count
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TWENTY YEARS
Twenty years ago last Tuesday even
ing, when the mixed train, composed
OF passenger, mail, baggage, freight
and emigrant cars OF movables stopped
at the Kimball station, q slimish built
young man got out OF the baggage car,
leading a black, Write and tan Llwellin
setter and a beautiful liver and white
cocker spaniel. With the two dogs
in leash In one hand and gun-cases and
gripin the other the newcomer thread
ed his way through the throng of ten
derfeet just arriving like himself aud
butted up against thu curious crowd
of sightseers who waited the coming Of
every train.
The station grounds were packed from
end to end with chattels of the. incom-
ing settlers-household goods, wagons.
farm machinery, seed grain, horses,
dogs and what all lying where they
were hurriedly unloaded, with the side
track filed from switch to switch with
more cars just in and the railroad
employees at their wits end for track
room. Some Of the incomers were
waiting to load up and get started in
to the country for their claims, while
others were waiting to be located"
Lumber was brought from the yards
and shelter improvised and under the
rough covering; cnoking stoves were
set up and the tenderfeet slept and
ate where the Milwaukee pitched
them.
It was a heterogeneous scene, the
like of which is met only in the west
and given but few men to experience
more than once in a life time. To the
ycung man with the dogs and gun
cases, fresh from the cities of the east,
satiated with balls, parties, picnics,
billiards, baseball and all that goes to
make up the life of the thickly settled
portions of the east, it was a novelty
that appealed to his natural love of
change and excitement rather than to
a sense of inconsistencies at so radical a
change from former scenes and asso-
ciateS.
Within a few short weeks the new.
conner Of which we write was unex'
pected plunged in the country news
paper business job not of his OWE
seeking-for be had expected to con,
tinue his work with Chicago and othel
eastern publications-and what was al
the inception of the undertaking look
ed upon as but a temporary makeshift
for the time being eventually became
The turning point j his life-for ht
hasn't been doing anything else since
"Tommorrowi is my fifth birthday,
} said a little CRITIC her grandma, on
day, .'and I'm going to have a BIZ
cake with five little teeny candles or
It," what would you do if you wer
ffty?" asked her grandma. "I'd hav
fireworks" answered the little mite
Twenty years is not long in the news
paper business-though it by n
means marks the limit of this man.
] newspaper work-and 1T is hardly t
the period when fireworks are Gale,
for. 1t is chiefly noteworthy in tn,
fact that, in this comparatively Younl
commonwealth the number is fe,
. who have been SO long identified wit
a single newspaper in n communit!
NOT over three or four in the state
It is worth something in ever
: mans life to 90 through the early es
perience of assisting with what effor
x is given to him in the building OF
\ commonwealth out of the rough an
crude gifts which Nature left fc
mans development; to be closely ider
titled with those of his kind who Sc
cred home, relatives, family ties an
all the associations Of early manhoc
for a new life in the great west. 70
tune may not come from it; but wha
is better yet, health and rugged mai
hood may, and with it the new foun
friends that cling closer than a brotl
er and who, though tried by adYersit.
are as true as steel and in whose han
] clasp there is a bond of affection an,
esteem which lets the old ties of tt
! eastern home fade into a misty past.
Salem Register suggests that Go
- Herreld seek out the decendent OF tt
first white child born in South Dakot
and upon her confer the honor
christening the new cruiser South d
!. kota, whether she turns out to
rich, poor, the daughter of a RepubI
1 can, Democrat, Populist or what,
4 long as she is a true and respectful