Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-12-28

Fin. Bertha Krumvieda.
Seargeant-Mary Squires.
Chaplain-Hattie Hoyt.
Sentinel Amelia Robson.
Picket-Martha Moody.
Rec. Keeper--Millie McCaskell.
The local creamery has not ship
ped a pound of butter to the eastern
market for a number of weeks. Its
product is made up into pound squares
and sold to the state trade and the
institution is unable to supply the
demand in this line. Last week one
retail firm in a small town ordered
1900 pounds and the creamery could
not fill the order. There is scarcely
any dairy butter being brought in by
the farmers hence the demand for
creamery product. The price remains
above the 30 cent mark.-Chief.
Christmas exercises were held in
some of the rooms in the city schools
Friday last. In Mrs. Sheets room
Eddie Rehfeld played the part of
Santa Claus. He arrived on schedule
time at the hall door amid the din of
sleigh bells, and you could hear him
for two blocks when he hollored
Whoa" to his team of seventeen
imaginary reindeer. Santa entered
and distributed presents to all, and
then held a reception shaking hands
with each pupil before departing.
Eddie makes an ideal Santa Claus.
MFR. and Mrs. r. II. Richardson
returned Thursday evening of last
week from their visit of over two
months with relatives in the Black
Hills and in Nebraska The most of
the time was spent with Mr.. Richard
sons brother in the southern part of
the Hills. r. H.. looks as if he had
enjoyed the outing and had received
good care. Says he hunted every
day in the open season, but only had
two shots at deer about dusk one
evening. OF course he did not bring
the animal down. That much was a
disappointed to r H.. With anything
like fair hunting he ought to get the
limit easily enough for he is an old
hand at the game. He likes that sec
ton of the country and says he in
tends to spend next fall there.
"A Chicago paper states that the
merchants on State street, in that city
estimated their holiday trade for the
week would amount to $22,000,OO0.00
That's some money-more han one
can comprehend at first drought.
Just to get some idea as compared
with other things, suppose we COM
pare it with coal. That sum of money
would have laid down on track in De-
Smet 1854 SGT tons of Hooking
Valley coal. 1t would have made
l34 ,542 car loads. Allowing one car
for two rods, or $50 cars to the mile,
it would make a string of loaded coal
cars from De Smet to a point about
200 miles east of Chicago. The twenty
two millions spent during the holiday
week with the merchants on State
street, if in silver dollars, would load
about rs ordinary freight cars. 1t takes
some money to prepare for and supply
Santa Claus in this country.
1t will be remembered that a
short time ago the case of f. B. Gray
VS.. the County Commissioners of Bea-
die county was tried before Judge
Whiting at Huron. Gray, at the time
of his election to the county board
was a resident of the Hitchcock dis
trict. Later he moved to Huron and
attempted to hold his seat on the
board. The majority of the board,
however, declared his seat vacant, and
would not allow Gray to act. Gray
then brought suit against the board.
Judge Whiting held that Gray was
elected to represent a certain district
and that when he removed from the
district he could no longer act, which
was, without a doubt, the intent of
the legislature when the law was en-
acted, and which has been generally
accepted by the people. The ease
was appealed to the supreme court
and the decision of the circuit court
reversed. We are not informed upon
what grounds the supreme court make
their decision, but it is certain that it
is not for the best interests of the
people to have laws on the stat,
ute books that will allow Of such an
Interpretation.