Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

From our state exchanges we
gather that Decoration Day was very
generally observed.
w. H. Warren has purchased the
Congregational parsonage from that
society. He is improving the prop
erty by the construction of cement
walks on the south and east.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Leach were
over from Bancroft Friday. Mr.. L..
has added a gasoline engine to the
equipment in his blacksmith shop.
He reports that business is good in
his line.
jerome Burdick, a former resi-,
dent of this vicinity, visited with his
brother, j. W., and with his brother
in-law Fred Long, from Thursday
until Monday. Jerome has been liv-
ing in Charles Mix county for a few
years past, but recently disposed of
his interests there and went to North
Dakota where he filed on government
land.
Sunday afternoon, June 10th, at
the Lake Henry Congregational
church, the following truths will be
presented: christian Science, a
menace to the home, a destroyer of
human happiness, an enemy to the
Bible, and a foe to Christianity. Let
there be a large attendance to see
how this greatest of modern frauds
looks under the searchlight of Gods
Word. Pastor
Theron Fisk, of Sioux Falls, state
organizer for the American Society of
Equity, was in De Smet Saturday
and addressed a small gathering at
the court house. The meeting was
not well advertised. Mr.. Fisk will
be here again on Saturday, June 30th,
at which time he will help to effect
a local Farmers Union. This society
is assuming large proportions and
has a considerable membership in
every agricultural region of the United
States. The object of the society is
to make prices for farm produce on a
more equitable basis. Certainly there
is room for work along these lines.
But come and hear Mr.. Fisk present
the case Saturday, June Both.
Reports of mad dogs came from
different parts of the state. While in
many instances investigation proves
the stories to be unfounded, there is
no doubt about the disease existing
in some cases. The matter is worthy
of the attention of De Smet author
tiles. Here in this city we have a
large number of dogs IN the scayen-
ger list-they subsist entirely upon
refuse found in garbage heaps. Such
dogs are certainly easy marks for all
kinds of diseases known to the canine
race. A bite by a sick dog is a mighty
dangerous thing, whether the animal
is suffering from rabies or not. III
many other ways these ours are a
nuisance. A man owning a dog which
he considers valuable, should be will
ing to keep the animal from contin-
ually running at large, both day and
night. Dogs of no value, and having
no owner when the tax collector APP
pears, should be killed by the author
tiles.
Hillside cemetery never looked
more beautiful than it does this
spring, says the st. Charles Mimi
Union. The grass is kept in fine
shape, the trees and shrubbery neat
ly trimmed, mostly the careful and
painstaking work of Ted Persons.
There have been several handsome
monuments erected the past year,
among them being an elegant granite
monument on the lot of DR.. G.. N.
Clark to mark the last resting place
of his beloved son, DR.. f. c.. Clark.
On the south side of the monument
are inscribed his name, the dates of
his birth and death together with EN-
blems of a 32nd degree Mason and
Shriner. A nice vase filled with
beautiful flowers adorns the lot, max
ing withal a most attractive picture.
This is but one of the many beautiful
lots in this cemetery and kept SO by
the willing hands and loving hearts
of the surviving relatives and friends
of the dear departed. And it is well.
AT the home of the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tobey, four