Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-06-24
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individual who displays such devil
try.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Warning
depart Monday for a visit at the
fair at st. Louis.
VIM. Bulow, of Lake Preston,
was in the city between trains We'd
nesday morning.
&C. l.. Ostrander, who has charge
Of A. N. Waters branch land office
at Miller, was a visitor in De Smet
Tuesday.
BY way of Brookings we learn
that Rev. Elliott has purchased a
nice residence in that city, and the
same source of information states
that the gentleman is to assume
charge of the local Christian church.
"A drive to Spirit Lake the first
of the week convinced the writer
that the condition of crops is all
that it has been represented to be.
Prospects are good for a bumper
crop in this part Of Kingsbury
county.
We failed to mention last week
that Rev. John f. Hogan departed
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| Sunday night for Rochester, n. Y,
for a visit of FIVE or six weeks with
relatives. During his absence the
affairs OF st. Thomas parish will be
in the charge of Father Coin, of
Dell Rapids.
"A. III. Hart, of St. Charles, Mimi,
arrived Tuesday evening to look
after his interests in this locality.
Mr.. Hart has concluded to sell his
farm northwest of this city and will
remain at st. Charles, instead of
moving onto the farm as he intended
this spring.
States Attorney Chas. P. War
rem has taken into partnership in
the practice of law his brother
William H., and the firm will be
known as Warren g. Warren. The
Warren brothers are a Kingsbury
county product, having lived in the
northwest part of the county where
they grew to manhood. Each fitted
himself for the practice OF law by a
thorough ourse in law schools, the
former graduating from the Mime
sofa university, and the latter attend
ing the same institution for several
| years and then taking his last year
| at our own state institution where
he obtained his degree. Warren d
Warren will make a strong law team
-Thos. Ruth, Jr., returned from
Brookings last week after graduating
from the agricultural college. Thos.
spent four yea RS at that institution
and from reports we have received
from there is credited with having
accomplished good work. As near
as we can learn he has proved of the
old fashioned variety that attend a
college for the purpose of obtaining
an education, instead of making the
principal object the development
of those faculties deemed p~articu-
larly essential to the prize fighter.
He graduated with honor, and has
the supreme satisfaction of knowing
that he is held in high esteem as a
student by the faculty Of the institu-
tion at Brookings.
1t is reported that a severe cleo.
trio and rain storm visited the north
part Of this county and more partie-
ularly the south part of Clark county
Friday morning of last week at about
3 o'clock. We have not learned all
the particulars, but over near Ban
croft several people are said to have
been severely shocked by lightning
and that a number of horses and
cattle in pastures were killed. At
the home of Frank Hoffmon, in
south Clark, Miss Nordlund was
severly shocked and the hearing of
one ear temporarily destroyed, al
though at last reports the use of the
ear was gradually returning. In the
vicinity of Bancroft the rain was
so heavy that a creek bed that is
usually dry was filled to a depth Of
nearly five feet and for soma was a
running stream.
Mr.. George Reid, the noted pro-
hibition speaker, is travelling over
South Dakota by team, pitching his
tent wherever he e an opportunity
to advocate his doctrine. He struck
De Smet Saturday and pitched his
tant IN fha uacant lot batwaen fba