Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-03-03


feature Of the stock industry.
Mrs. G.. E, Mallcry visited rel
atives at Pierre over Sunday.
Mrs. L. E. Sasse went to Pierre
Friday morning to visit over Sunday
with Mrs. III. c. Durham.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. HI. Hodgson
entertained a number of friends at
cards Friday evening of last week.
Old time residents Of this city
will remember Hiram Yeaman. He
is now chief of police at Lewistown,
Pa. a city of about $4,000 inhabi
tants, having in charge a regular
force of seventeen men.
Nat Stimson fell from the track
leading to the coal shutes Thursday
afternoon and received a badly
sprained ankle. When his father
gathered him up aud carried him
home Nat was sure his leg was bro
ken. He will not have much use of
his limb for a time.
Willow Lakes creamery paid its
patrons Is cents for January butter,
and FEBRUARY promises to do as well
or better, from present market indi
cations. During the past winter the
creamery had held its own better than
ever before and new patrons are now
beginning to come in. The prospects
are good for the most prosperous
year in its history.-Willow Lakes
News.
Sunday brought the heaviest
fall of snow of the winter, about
eight inches on the level. Monday
and Tuesday didn't do a thing to the
"beautifull," however, and the streets
were covered with water and slush.
1t must have been equal to at least
an inch of rainfall, and the fact that
there was no wind to pile the snow
in drifts allowed the water to remain
as equally distributed as would have
been the case if it had been a heavy
rain.
II. r. Lovett, our local weather
prophet, says South Dakota will have
the greatest crop of twenty years this
season. And the farmer who grows
wheat will be the man who is on the
top wave of prosperity. Il have watch
ed hard winters accompanied after
lots of snow had fallen, aud invari
ably there was a tremendous wheat
crop the following season. The cold
kills all germs, destroys all worms
and bugs, and the snow covers the
soil and gives it a much needed
rest. There will be no rust this year,
no ''army of worms" and the heavy
snow will make lots of moisture. Just
watch and see If this prediction isn't
true to the letter" Huron Herald
Democrat.
An Indiana clergyman, preach
ing on cleanliness, mentioned that
he had seen a brass monkey in
Indianapolis set up in a store with a
cigarette in its mouth. 1t was auto
matically arranged SO that when the
cigarette was lighted the monkey
would draw in the the smoke aud
puff it out again. The works stopped
on one occasion and the monkey
was taken apart to discover the cause
when the works were found to be
clogged and in a filthy condition.
The moral was drawn thus: "lf
smoke from ac~;garc..e will step the
works in a brass monkey, what will
it do for you?"
The creamery company at Het-
land will sell its building and ma
chinery. There is not sufficient
patronage in that locality to warrant
a further attempt at operating a but
ter making plant. 1t may be that the
recources of that locality are such that
people can afford to allow the cream
cry to die out for lack of patronage.
Often beef cattle and hogs will make
as much money for the farmer as
dalrying, and especially may this be
true where pasturage is scarce, but
on general principles it is folly to
neglect that which makes a sure in-
come for the farm, ard the creamery
certainly does that. We predict
that within FIVE years there will be
efforts made to establish creameries
in some of>the localities where such
institutions have been allowed to die
out during the past five years. AL
most any branch Of the stock indus
try will beat wheat raising in the
end, and where conditions are favor
able to the creamery the people must
again turn to the creamery or suffer