Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
majority vote before license can be

majority vote before license can be
granted.
-Chas Cripps, living north of lro-
quois, is building a large house On
his farm. 1t is reported that it will
contain % rooms and will be fitted
with modern improvements.
Miss Matte Sleeper, who recent
ly went to Andover to take a position
in a bank, has found it necessary to
enter the hospital at Rochester for
treatment. The many friends of Miss
Sleeper here in De Smet wish her a
speedy recovery.
&C. A. Jonson and wife, of Rock
ford, spent the past week in this
city, stopping at the Syndicate. They
were here on a little vacation and look
after some land they own south of
Manchester. Mr.. Jonson is very
much pleased with his possession here.
Friday afternoon July 18th, at
Athletic Park in this city a game of
base ball will be played by a team
composed of Willow Lakes and
Vienna players and the De Smet
team. These two teams put up a good
article of ball at Bryant and should
have a good crowd out to witness the
game.
H. A. Poppen, of Spirit Lake
township, made a trip through Iowa
and Illinois last month returning
June 21st. HI. A. says the northwest
ern part of Iowa has good crops, in
the central and eastern part the crops
are very poor. In parts of Illinois he
saw a great many fields that will not
be worth cutting. He thinks more
of South Dakota every time he visits
those states.
A large crowd from this city went
to Arlington for the celebratian We'd
nesday. Arlington had prepared for
a good time and if there was one who
who did not enjoy the day, it was no
fault of the town. The parade a
especially fine. Nearly every bust
ness house in the town was represent
ed by a float hat required some mon
ely and a great amount of work in it's
preparation. The verdict of the visit
ors is that the parade was the best
ever put up in the eastern part of the
state, not excepting any town. Ar
lington people have always done
their best on such occasions.
The stockholders of the Farmers
Co Cooperative Assn held their annual
meeting Saturday afternoon, June
Both at the opera house in this city.
Reports of the secretary and of com
mittee appointed to check up the
years business were read and adopt
ed. The stockholders then proceed
ed to elect directors for the ensuing
year, resulting as follows: j. l.. Van
Hook, r. j. Armstrong, Lewis Sterr,
w. j. Ryan, p. A. O'Hora, f. N.
Dow, and Luke Kelley. The meet
ing of the board for the purpose of
organizing should have been held
Monday, but as it was impossible for
all to be present on that day an adj
journment was taken until Saturday,
July 7th.
The ball game between Water
town and B~rookings, which was to
have been played at Athletic Park
Friday, June 10Th, was called off by
Manager Robson on account of the
heavy rain of Thursday evening. 1t
was thought the grounds would be in
no condition for a game and word
vas sent to the Brookings team to
that effect. The WATERFOWL team
reached De Smet on Thursday
evenings train before word could be
got to them. As it developed next
day the grounds were in good shape
and the game could have been pulled
off if the Brookings team could have
got here. As it was, the best that
could be done was to put the home
team up against Watertown, which
was done, resulting in a score of 5 to
2 in favor of Watertown. There was
quite a large crowd from surrounding
towns here to see the game as adver-
tised and they were very much dis
appointed.
Theron Fisk was in the city Sat
urday and addressed a good sized
crowd of farmers at the opera house
in the afternoon. His explanation of
the plans of the Farmers Union
seemed to please a great many as he
secured a nice list Of names of those
who desired to become members.
There is no good reason WHY farmers