Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-04-27

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will gladly furnish you with further
particulars.
Mrs. JAS. A. Fife took the train
Friday morning for Toledo, Iowa.
MIR. and Mrs. p. A. Randklev
started Monday morning on their trip
to Germany and other European coun-
tries. They expect to be absent about
six months and perhaps longer.
Miss Blanche Whiting gave a
party Friday evening to a number of
friends. Cards and dancing We're the
amusements of the evening. AT the
midnight hour refreshments were
served.
1T is reported that the Hanford
Produce Co., of Sioux City, has gone
to the wall. This is a concern that
has been taking considerable cream
from the south part of the county.
We are not informed as to the details
of the affair and therefore cannot tell
whether the farmers suffer much loss
through this failure. These produce
companies organized to buy the farm
ers' cream seem to be organized
for the purpose of busting" at a con
venient time. There never was a con-
Germ of that kind that helped the
farmers as much as does a local
creamery, and yet there never was a
concern operated on that plan that
has not been able to get more or less
patronage away from a local co oper-
alive plant, The promise to pay
more than an article is worth always
attracts some people, although they
know that the end is a failure.
In our item last week concerning
the instructions to assessors to place
a valuation of Is per cent of the act
ual value on buildings in the country,
and a valuation of 80 per cent of act
ual value on buildings in the towns,
we did the state board of assessment
and the county auditors an injustice
by implying that it was in accord with
the agreement reached at the meeting
at Pierre. Neither the state board,
nor the county auditors were respons-
ible for this difference in valuations.
County Auditor Purintun informs us
that ii was the result of a discussion
between the assessors from the coun-
try and the board of commissioners.
Some of the assessors maintained
hat buildings in town paid a greater
return on the investment han do build
ings in the country, and they stood
firm for making such a difference.
Finally the board told them to go
ahead; one member %remarking that if
all buildings in the country were re-
turned at Is per cent. of their value,
it would be higher than ever before.
In fairness to all concerned, we make
this correction.
Gov. Elrod and Supt. of Public
Instruction Kramer are stamping the
north part of the state together. There
is nothing unusual in this fact, but it
is of considerable interest to INDEPEN,
DENT readers as it has a considerable
bearing on our local situation and is
a menace to the prospects of a Kings
bury county candidate, Supt. G. E.
Swanson, who aspires to the Office
now held by MIR, Ramer That Mr..
Kramer should be taking an active
part in the machine campaign is but
natural. He had sufficient pull to
secure the appointment against a
strong movement in favor of Mr..
Lang, of McCook county, who was
then deputy in that office. Having
such a strong political pull, it is only
reasonable to presume that he was not
only given the office for a half term,
but that he was also promised the
nomination for a full term if the ma
chine controlled the state convention
in 1905. All precedent is in favor of
a second term, and more especially
for a full term following an appoint
ment to fill an unexpired term. The
policy of the machine since the be-
ginning has been a second nomina-
ton for all officials. There are also
two machine candidates in the south
ern part of the state, one at Elk
Point, and one at Beresford, making
four machine candidates in all. TAX
ing the situation as it exists, we see
no hope for our Kinsbury county can
didate from a machine standpoint.
On the other hand. the lnsurgent ele-