Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-03-30

Will Hiu good lOcatlOn from u Dusl-
ness point of view.
Miss Hildgard Teuber from Huron,
visited with Vesta Savage Thursday.
Dan Thompson and Thos. Tyrell,
of Bancroft, were De Smet visitors
Monday.
DR.. and Mrs. L. F. Straight re-
turned Friday last from spending the
winter at points in California.
In the Napoleon, n. D., Home
stead we notice the advertisement of
the Hardy Drug Company, which is
managed by Rufus l. Hardy.
They We're holding midyear exam
nations in n of the public schools.
The subject was geography. One of
the questions was: "What is the
equator?" ''The equator read the
answer of a 9-year-old-boy, lis a
menagerie lion running around the
center of the earth"
Miss Ida May Cottrell and Miss
Hazel Waldorf, of Hazel, were guests
of Mrs. HI. Perry during the w. G. t.
u. convention. The former is presi-
dent of the young women's organiza-
ton at Hazel. The later was the
winner of the grand gold medal at the
contest Wednesday evening.
The pupils and teachers of the
high school will hold a basket social
at the f. G.. Bradley building We'd
nesday evening of next week. A short
program will be rendered. A charge
of 10 cents for admission will be made
which, together with proceeds from
sale of baskets, will go to pay for an
organ recently purchased. All are
invited.
II. p. Norman, August Walstron,
and Matt Kane returned the latter
part of last week from their trip to.
Minneapolis and to points in Wiscon-
sin. AT Grantsburg, in the latter.
state, each bought a piece ofland. We
understand that Walstrom intends to
move to that place some time this
Kane may go in the fall.
Mr.. Norman may go there to live, and
then again he may not. You can
never tell. If he moved onto every
piece of land that he buys it would
keep him on the wing most of the
time.
The Lake Preston Times, in com
menting on the vote on license in the
different towns, adds that it believes
hat De Smet and Arlington will place
themselves in the no license column.
AS to Arlington there can be little.
That town always votes
against license. As to De Smet the
condition is somewhat different. Here
the vote, for the past few years, has
been close. Last year license carried
by about IA majority. During the
past year there have been a number
of changes in III population, togeth-
er with the natural increase. The
matter depends largely upon the
amount of work done by each side
and at this time there is no certainty
which way it will go.
Jesse Warner and Martin Kop-
perud started from De Smet Monday
of last week for Canada where each
has a piece of government land. They
got back to this city Friday last, be
ing away from home a little less then
five days and four nights. They
went by way of Winnipeg and west
to within something like 50miles from
their claims. 1t was bitter cold and
no hotel accommodations worth
mentioning could be secured. They
tried to hire a team to drive out to
see the garden spot of the great North
Country, but Were informed that to
hire a team was to put up the price
of the horses in advance. They saw
a scrub team sold for $4,000 cash
and concluded that they had better
to Yankee Doodle land as fast
as possible. They say Jesse couldn't
wait after he got as far as Brookings
and started to walk home when he
was overtaken by a freight train. At
any rate he appeared in De Smet
after the arrival Of the way
freight in the afternoon of Friday.
Both Jesse and Martin still have
their claims in King Edwards domain
but it's dollars to doughuuts that
neither of them will ever go up there
to live on the land.