Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-10-28

ids Monday and will set up at house
keeping at once. They will be- cat
home" to their friends after Nov.
9th.
Reserved seats for the Colum-
bian Male Quartet may b. obtained
tomorrow at Bradley's Pharmacy.
-R. Fl, Dosden has rented his
farm and moved into Willow Lakes.
X. III. has a position as manager OF
the Chase elevator and lumber yard.
Judge Abel was wearing a nice
little chin whisker Of sticking plast-
er and cotton batten Monday. He
had been having a fracas with a COW
that did not entertain proper re-
spsct for the probate court.
The disgust that Clate Tinan
and Harry Brass will fesi after they
End their efforts at blackening the
reputation of a large part of our
state have failed would drive an
ordinary man into a buck nunnery.
Hon. J-H. Carroll received a
Philadelphia paper the first of the
week containing an account Of the
celebration OF the 50th year served
by Prof. z. Hopper as head of the
mathematic department of the Cen
trail High school of that city. Prof.
Hopper has been connected with
the school for 81 years.
Large attractive posters are up
around town announcing a public
sale of 46 head of recorded Short
horns which four northwestern Iowa
breeders,are going to sell on Wednes-
day, Nov. 2, at Madison, S. ID. No
better opportunity will be offered
farmers in Kingsbury county to get
an animal to improve their herds as
pure bred cattle are cheap now.
John Bell has received a letter
from HI. l.. Boyd, former principal
of our city schools, which states that
he is now at the head of the depart
ment of science at Occidental Col
lege at Los Angeles, Cal. The eel
lege employs twenty-seven professors
anu Instructors. A good salary
goes with the position. In the
spring the institution will erect an
$4,000 science hall. Prof. Boyd, a
short time ago, was rendered super
intendency of the high school at
Long Branch. Boyd is Q hustler
and can show the western web-feet
something in s~cience. De Smet
friends are glad of his success.
During the past couple of years
the people of De Smet bave become
much clearer Unidentified with the
commercial and industrial life of
those in the surrounding country
through the medium Of it's rural tele-
phone lines and mail routes. This
modification should extend to mat
ters OF entertainment and social con-
corn, and therefore those ia the sur.
rounding vicinity of De Smet should
avail themselves Of the privileges Of
fered by the Entertainment Course
which will be given during the fall
and winter in the Opera Hall ia De
Smet. A course of five Numbers has
been selected, each number of
which will abound with merit, and
give entertainment to any who attend.
Those within a few miiss Of DeSmet
who will attend this course will feel
amply repaid for the effort.
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The creamery closed it's doors
this week for an indeinate
period. II has struggled through
a number of years, sometimes making
a fair profit but more often merely
making expenses, and the stockhold-
ers have at last decided not to keep
it in commission any longer. the
condition at the present time not
justifying its maintenance. The
farmers will not take an interest in
dairying so long as the crop ccndi.
tions in this vicinity are favorable TO
the growth of small grain, and it is
likely that it will be a number Of
years before they can be awakened
to the advantages of a good cream
cry, but the time will come sooner or
later, for this is q diary country,
and will pay good profits for the
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