Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-01

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today where he will deliver an adj
dress before the high school gradual
ing class this evening.
Our usual market quotations do
not appear this week for the reason
that there were no quotations on the
boards Of trade Wednesday, being a
holiday.
Herbert Waldron is another stu
dent sent out by the South Dakota
School of Telegraphy to take a job
with the Omaha railroad. Herbert
expects to be located at Lake Crystal,
Mimi.
Mrs. j. III. Robson entertained
a party of young lady friends Mon
day evening in honor of Miss Doro~
thea Miller. Miss Miller has been
one of our successful teachers in the
city schools the past year and is
about to leave for the summer vaca-
ton. She will hold the position of
principal of the Oldham school next
year.
The Mallory Mercantile Co. store
has been the busiest store in the
state the past week. Clerks and all
have been decorating and rearrang-
ing stock and marking new goods
preparing for the June Carnival,
which promises to be something new
in merchandising. The store certain
ly is being put IN festive attire and
with good weather it looks as if there
would be something doing in De
Smet during June.
Those are certainly attractive
signs in the window of the Mallery
Mercantile Co, the product of Archie
White, the painter. One of the ban
ners announce the appearance of the
Goo Goo Carnival Co. every night
next week. One thing is certain. il
the manager of the carnival company
Chas. Holiday, is turned loose he
Fan put up an attraction in the way
of comedy that will put 'in the
clear" anything we ever saw in the
way OF street carnival entertainments
-. G. Braun, the genial gentle
nan who presides in the grocery de-
partment of the Mallery store, return
ed Wednesday from a two weeks
stay in Minnesota. AS we predicted,
j. {. did not return alone, but brought
his bride. The happy couple are
nicely located In the new house ON
Fifth street recently erected by Ed
Eckersley. De Smet people extend
a hearty welcome TO the bride and
best wishes for the future happiness
and prosperity of the newly married
couple.
The city board of equalization
will meet at the city hall, Tuesday,
June 10Th, for the purpose of equaliz-
ing the city assessment. There is
one matter we want to bring to the
attention of the board, viz: the assess
ment of the local telephone exchange.
Heretofore that property has not paid
a city tax. The telephone lines OF
the state are assessed by the state
board on the mileage basis. 1t fol-
lows, Of course, that the local ex-
changes of a large escape
the local tax. Here in De Smet we
have ain exchange of a considerable
valuation, and it is not assessed with
other city property and does not pay
its proportion of the expense of main
tanning a city government, making
public Improvements, and supporting
the schools. That it should be taxed
on an equal basis with other prop
erty in this city is apparent to all
who win give it a thought. The
property is here, the business that it
enjoys is here, and here is where 1t
makes its profit. Why, then, should
Il es1aree sAAe e=4sa tax paid by lie
owner Of real or personal property
within the city limitsi We would
suggest that, when the city council
meets al Il board Of equalization, it
determine the valuation Of the local
telephone exchange on the same basis
ID other property and enter Il for AZ
sessment.