Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-09-08

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kind to delevop our great state.
Miss Hofstad returned Tuesday
from undergoing a successful opera
ton for appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Jurgenson
arrived Wednesday morning from
Osakis, Mimi, for a short visit with
old friends and to look after their
farm interests in Spirit Lake town
ship.
Coke Poppen returned to his
home in Iowa Monday, after having
spent several weeks in Spirit Lake
township looking after the crops on
his farm and erecting some new build
ings. We would like to see him be-
come a resident of this county but
he says that he has no intention of
moving here. He might as we'll for
he has made three trips to this local
ity since the month OF May.
The cooperative elevator at Het-
land will be managed this year by
Chas. b. Parmelee, formerly a resi-
dent of Arlington but'lately engaged
in the real estate business in north
ern Wisconsin. We never knew any
thing wrong with Charley, aside
from politics, and we a assure him
that old friends will be glad to well
come the family back to Kingsbury
county.-Lake Preston Times.
Last year the teachers of the city
schools were troubled by the con-
slant call of the telephone for some
pupil. More often than otherwise
it would be some child who made
the call for the fun of it. Such calls
interefered with the work of the
teachers and with the pupils. To
avoid this in the future a rule has
been established making the time
for telephone calls 1870 to l0:45 a.
N. and 2:30 to 2:45 p. M, and during
the noon hour. An exception to this
rule will be made in case Of sickness
or some other emergency, but for no
other reason. Parents should bear
this in mind as we'll as children who
do not attend school. The school
house will be closed until the ring
ing Of the first bell each morning.
This rule is made necessary by the
fact that the teachers cannot always
be present before that hour to look
after the pupils.
C. HI. Tinkham returned Tues
day morning from a visit of a month
with friends and relatives in Boston
and Brockton, and at the old home
at Norridgewock, Maine. In the
first named cities he found a great
change from what he saw on his
former visit twenty-five years ago,
Boston, of course, had spread out
" a much larger territory since
that time, but the change that struck
him most forcibly was that in trans
portation. Twenty-Five years ago
the mule car was much in vogue,
followed a little latter by the cable
car. Now the immense traffic Of the
city is handled by electricity. There
are miles of elevated track and mile
after mile of subway track. Another
change is the electric lines that
cover a great part of Massachusetts,,
and southern New Hampshire. A
quarter of a century ago there was
nothing of the kind. Labor seems
to be all employed and wages are
good. The cost of living, however,
is higher than here, excepting fuel
and clothing. Produce rules much
higher, while canned goods are
about the same. Rents are high,
and while labor ,,5eives a good wage
the working man, as a general thing,
only plays even at the end of the
month. Up in Maine at the old
home he found many changes of a
different nature. Farms in, that To-,
cality where lived his boyhood
friends, farms that were under a
high state of cultivation then, are
now largely grown up to timber,
mostly birch. This is accounted for
by the fact that the farms are in the
possession of old people, the younger
element having moved west TO grow
up with the country. Occasionally
a farm is seen where some man has
built a modern mansion. This is
where some nan has m AIDE his for
tune in the city and then bought the
old farm and become an ''agricul-
turalist"on his fortune, instead of
tilling the soil for a living. There
are farms that a be bought for Sl2
to SIS an acre that have buildings on
them that could not be put up for
the price asked for the land. All
soil must be fertilized one year out
OF three. Thinkham noted few