Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-08-26

uiS iafui 10 icdecu. 1uIS Arrangement
will bring Clayton Spear, who went
to Wisconsin in the spring, back to
De Smet.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank Shaub went
to Sioux Falls Tuesday to spend a
day or two at the carnival.
Prof. O. E. Gulbranson and
family departed Monday for their
home at East Sioux Falls where the
professor will soon enter upon his
second years work as principal of
the high school. Prof. Gulbranson
must have given East Sioux Falls
a good school last year as be was
engaged for the second year at an
advance in salary, which was a vol.
untary act on the part of the board.
Some party or parties last Sun
day afternoon, for mischief or for
malicious intent, went to p. j. Peder-
sons chicken house and broke all the
eggs they could find, and killed a
little pig which he had in a box
there. They also let down an upper
window to the house. A pocket be-
longing to Mrs. Peterson was reliev-
ed of 81, and the boys bank was
broken open and the contents taken.
There is no clue as to the PARTIES
Hetland New Era.
August Walstrum has %purchas-
ed FIVE acres off the corner of the old
pasture south of the John Armstrong
stock barn, facing OF the section
line. August intends to build a
handsome residence on the corner,
reserving an acre or more for him
self and will sell the. balance for resi-
dence lots. He has already con-
menced the basement and founda
ton for a good sized house, This
will help that part of the city, which
is now rapidly building up.
The Lake Preston Times reports
that Rev. N. A. Stubkjaer has return
ed from a two weeks visit to Philh-
delphia and that he has rendered
his resignation as Pastor of the
Lake Preston church to take effect
in November, having accepted a
church in the above named city. Rev.
Stubkjaer has been one of the lead
ing Lutheran ministers in this sec
ton for a good many years and his
removal will be a serious loss to that
denomination and to Kingsbury
county in particular.
Sheriff Peterman made a good
clean round up Friday. A clothing
store at Iroquois had been burglar
lied Thursday night. Peterman was
notified and had the parties located
in the afternoon of the next day and,
besides landing the guilty parties in
Jail, he recovered four coats, six
vests, TWENTY-FIVE pairs of pants, and
two pairs of shoes, which was all that
was taken, with the exception
of one pair of shoes. The par
ties are James Lucas, aged 81; Thos.
Bradley, aged 20; and Thos. Parks,
aged II years. Sheriff Peterman
did a neat and quick job with this
outfit.
A III. Dawson and wife, of Des
Moines, Iowa, and two sisters of the
latter from Pennsylvania, were in the
city Friday and Saturday. Mr..
Dawson came up to look after his
extensive land interests in Manches-
ter vicinity. He reports cropson his
farms to be very good. Oats and
barley made good crops and the bulk
of the wheat grown was macaroni,
which escaped damage from rust
Mr.. ID. says that our prospects for
corn are as good as anywhere in the
northwest; that if our corn is caught
by the frost it will be the same in
other corn states, and that if we
mature a crop here, it is liable to be
very heavy. The party drove to lro-
quois Saturday and took the trair
south for home.
Since the cyclone visited Willow
Lakes last Saturday evening, every
little crowd that gathers on oul
streets contains one or more who arr
ready to tell stories of freakish caper,
performed by similar storms al
other places, and usually every one
in the bunch takes a hand at il
before an adjournmint is taken. A
certain party, not much given K
story telling, swore positively tina
a cyclone occurred in this state a few
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