The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-09-16

Samuel Gullickson brought up Il
pelican that he shot eleven miles south
on one OF the lakes, that measured
I feet 10 inches from tip of wing to
tip.
All persons who are indebted to the
n. NJ. Warner & Co. firm will please
call and settle at once at their office
n door south of Myrtle Smiths
millinery shop.
Nels Olson has opened up harness
shop in the Matson building. NelS is
a good harness maker, having worked
for the Ochsner Hardware company
for the past two years.
Rev. c. w. Williams, who has been
pastor of the NJ. T.. church, for the
past four months, left Monday norm
ing for New Jersey, where he will con-
tinue his theological course.
When a sidewalk is land in this town
under the direction OF the city, or
anybody else, why are not both edges
laid or sawed straight? Leaving the
inside edge ragged makes "A slovcnly
looking job.
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. A. B%utterticld
drove down from washington Springs
Saturday for a visit with their son
Ernest. Mr.. .Buttertield returned
home Sunday and Mrs. Butterfeld
left Monday for visit with friends
and relatives in Iowa.
On board cars west bound Wedncs-
day night re DIR. Clevingcr, en- route
bone from st. Louis; w. II. Ochsner.
from his trip to the Black Hills: Col.
j. NJ. Green from a day at the Yank-
ton far and j. w. Sanford from a
business trip to st. Paul.
The entertainment by Mrs. Hayes
and Miss Eta Morris music class at
the opera house Tcusday evening was
not as largely attended rs the merits
of the program deserved for some
reason or another, but it was really a
high class recital-eXccllent every
body says.
Any subscriber Of the GRAPHIC can
cur a years reading of the twice-a-
week Sioux City Journal or the Sue
cess Magazine by simply inducing a
neighbor or acquaintance to subscribe
for the GRAPHIC year at the regular
subscription price. Just a little effort
will bring it. Suppose you try 1T and
see how easy it con be accomplished.
Somebody is authority for the state
ment that during the black rust
plague i'll Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Iowa fourteen years ago hundreds of
cattle died from eating the straw and
that it was a long time before the
cause of the deaths was discovered.
Maybe there is something in it and
maybe not. We simply give it for
what it is worth.
The revised code of the state pro-
vides that the terms of the county
auditors expire January 1, instead of
March ], as the old law provides. but
Attorney General Hall says that the
present encumbents OF the offices
were elected for two years and will
hold their offices until March l, 1905.
The new auditors will therefore, be
elected for twenty-five months.
We sometimes wonder how many
more wedding notices the GRAPHIC
will write for Kimball brides and for
the pleasure Of their friends and ac-
qualntances. The same hand that
strikes Off the wedding announce
ment that appears III this issue also
penned the announcement Of the
BRIDES birth. Oh hum, makes one
feel cld-as well us tired Of the news
paper grind.
While the city authorities have the
fever OF they might do worse than
condemn the walk along the real of
the Noyotny store building running
west on First street. That is about the
rockiest stretch of sidewalk in town
and has been for SO many years it is
tlresome tn think back when it wasn't
This writer has been forced to tear
up and repair twice a better walk
than that eyer was. Winter is COM
ing on and that walk would make
nice kindling.
When the train passed Mt. Vernon
Monday morning a lively fire was con-
suming five big stacks of grain on a
farm just east of town. a threshing
crew had just got to work and it is
presumed that in setting the engine
a spark started the conllagration. a
high wind was blowing and u great
crowd of neighbors had gathered from
all directions to be of assistance if the
fire got to spreading, but luckily it
was confined to the stacks.
We speak OF Little Japan" but
the London Spectator points out that