Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-09-14
Mr.. and Mrs. g. E. Mallery spent
Thursday last at Huron.

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Thursday last at Huron.
II. V. Foxton went to Artesian
saturday with three land seekers. He
made the trip by automobile.
Leslie Gunnison was down from
Bancroft way Saturday. He made
the INDEPENDENT office a call.
Mrs. Jencks, of Bancroft vicinity,
(, pent Saturday and Sunday with her
daughter, Mrs. j. o. Purintun.
j. +. Miller and wife, and Mrs.
larry, of Benton, Wis, brother and
lister of r. Miller, arrived Wednes-
day evening for a visit.
"A. w. Kemler, of P~latville, Wis,
WAS a DeSmet visitor Thursday. Mr..
Kemler owns the old Chatwood farm
in the north part of the county and
had been up there to look after his
interests. He is greatly enthused over
South Dakota and his fine farm in
particular. All crops sowed ON that
farm yielded well.
"A frost visited this locality Thurs
day morning just how much dam
age, Il any, was done we cannot say.
Much of the corn in this locality is
said to have been on of danger from
frost. There are some late pieces,
however, which needed more time to
mature. 1t is possible that the frost
was not heavy enough to %injure even
the late corn.
d. A. Gilbert on Saturday last
sold the last hog that ate the
last corn on twelve acres of the
crop raised last year. ID. A. is a di.
versified farmer, He makes a little
money from every one of several
branches. He had a desire to know
just how much that twelve acres oil
corn would bring him when sold in
the form of pork. 1t averaged &C
bushels to the acre and fattened hogs
which sold for just $320.S0. The corr
was the only feed The hogs had, ex.
cept green pasture during the season
which cost him practically nothing
This figures out S26.73 per acre foi
his corn D.. A. thinks that is about
rs good as a gold mine, and we agree
with him.
It's on Herb Rehfeld. He rugged
Ii mself up for a duck hunt and went
out to a farm not many miles from
town where he had seen a flock on the
pond the day before. When he ar
rived at the house, he put on his best
smile and asked if he might shoot the
ducks on the pond if he would bring
a good ness to the house. The ans
wer of the lady of the house was NO"
The pond was near the road SO Herb
remarked that he guessed he would
sneak up on the flock, throw stones at
the ducks and shoot them as they
flew over the road. To this the lady
replied that she didn't care how many
stones he threw. Herb stated away
and began to fill his pockets with
stones as he went along Finally he
was overtaken by a little chap who
had overheard the conversation, and
who said "lhem's wings is clipped"
Thursday Of last week Andrew
Stankey, of this city was called to take
that journey from whence no traveller
returns. The end came to him as a re
lief from a suffering such as only those
who are afflicted with cancer of the
stomach know. For several years he
was troubled with the disease, but
the last eight weeks of. his life was
spent in constant pain, together with
the knowledge that he was confront
ing death and that it was the only
relief from the terrible torture he was
enduring. Andrew Stankey was a
pionser in this county, having located
in Spirit Lake township in 1880, where
he lived with his family until buying
the Morrison property on First street
in this city some three years ago. He
was d hard worker and an honest and
upright citizen. He leaves a wife and
i large family Of children 70 mourn
his death. Funeral services were hcssd
81 the Lutheran church in this city