Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-08-04

any consequences, dhu uTuuhS "cic
conspicuous by their absence.
DIR. j. w. McRoberts, of Edge.
mont, this state, was in De Smet
Tuesday looking over the city with
the view to locating here for the prac'
tice of medicine. He had visited
~severil towns but was more favor
ably impressed by De Smet than
any town he had visited up to that
time. However, he intended to visit
two or three more towns in this part
of the state before deciding upon
a location.
"A. w. White and family, Of De
Smet, and Mrs. f. w. Rice, who has
made her home with them for some
time, are now located in Lake Pres
ton, having moved down on Friday
last. The new barn on the F. w.
Rice place has been fitted up for a
temporary home and is being used
until the house is completed. Work
upon Mr.. Rice's new residence COM
menced on Monday and the two
families hope soon to be located in a
nice home.-Lake Preston Times.
We would like to ask the Iroquois
Chief aud De Smet Independent
where they got the figures which
placed Lake Preston's population at
900? The figures for the May census
given it at 94l and it is not decreas-
ing-Lake Preston Times.
1t is not our business TO answer
for the Iroquois Chief, but we strong
ly suspect that Editor Halliday ex-
tracted til ose figures from the same
Pierre dispatch that arrested the
attention Of the INDEPENDENT editor.
We admit the corn-Lake Preston
has a population of GAL.
Mrs. w. r. Heating is the cham
pion chicken raiser Of this locality.
The lady set a hen last January and
tle chickens were Matched on Feb
ruary l4th. On Wednesday, July
18th, two pullets from that flock of
chickens laid eggs. That just about
beats all records in that line. Mrs.
<~eating feels especially good over
her success in raising the. chickens,
especially as all the neighbors made
fun at her expense. They kept the
telephone warm for two weeks last
winter informing Mrs. X. hal she
ought to knit stockings for the chicks,
and offering all sorts Of advice. The
lady laughs last, but it is best.
The joke is on Tom Hamilton,
marshal of Oldham, or on Pat Xii
dee, our nightwatch, we don't know
which. Hamilton was in the city
one evening last week and failed to
give a satisfactory account of him
self to Kildee, to whom, we suppose,
the former was unknown. The re.
suit was that the De Smet limb of
the law marched the Oldham limb
to the city bastile, but Hamilton
thought he had gone far enough
and proceeded to enlighten Kildee
as to his identity, which saved HamsI
ilton the choice of lodgings. Kildee
that if the Oldham police force
were really working a joke on him
they want to look a little out when
they visit De Smet again.
The Sioux Falls Daily Press is
one of the cleanest papers in the
The Press has the full Asso
ciated Press reports and is one of
the best papers published in the
northwest for market reports. The
Press takes but little interest in poll
tics and is a clean, fair, nou political
paper. The Press has made a great
bit by its universal fairness in its
treatment Of all public questions
Two bright young m-n travel con
tinually for the paper aud they cover
the entire state. The Press owns its
horse and buggy for rural driving
and today The Press has 80 people
on its pay roll. The daily is $500 "a
year. Dotson a. Bowen, the publish
ers, also own and publish the South
Dakota Farmer, a bright Is pr, e
paper. 1t is issued every week at 50,
cents a year. Write for sample copy
of either paper.
Judging from reports by reliable
farmers and from samples we have
seen o. the wheat in this section, we
are safe in saying the wheat crop is
sick, that the yield will not be up to
what was expected two weeks ago.
The crop differs in localities, Of
course. All agree that there is con
siderable red rust, and some black
rust, but it is the prevailing opinion
that black rust has caused but little