Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-07-05
Correspondence
DRAKoLA.

we OF lie Smet Is DONG
the mason work on the foundation of
like barn to be erected by T. |. Robin
son.
Miss Bertha Brown is heBe keeping
house for her brothers Frank and
fred. If more of the good residents
Of Bachelorville would get somebody's
sister to keep house for them, condi-
lions would doubtless be materially
improved.
MIR. Henney, of De Smet, was here
one day last week and got a load of
corn of Andrew Hetland.
Mrs. Dick Geigler and children, of
North Dakota, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. ana Mrs. A. G. Martin.
They are expecting to remain about
Il month.
Albert Martin is back from Canada.
He comes a full iedged "Kenuk."
He was fortunate in securing a
quarter section Of land neal town,
that had been covered up for some
time, until the rush of emigration had
gone by and land values had risen to
good figures.
Messrs C. b. Leis and Byron Her
rick with their families were in De
Smet Saturday last. Probably the
children went to the circus.
AS is generally known, many of the
section line roads cannot be used be-
cause grades in the depressions are
under water and too soft for purposes
of travel. As a result travel must
more or less be over private property.
In the main owners are considerate
and give their permission, but at
times that permission rs claimed to be
abused, by driving through grain
fields needlessly, and in such cases
owners seem justified in Withdrawing
that permission. A case of that ex-
lists for three miles southeast of De
Smet. The other day, we don't want
to say circus day, because people
might think we went to the circus,
this writer and his better two-thirds
were going to De Smet, and reached
the quarter line running north and
south through the farm formerly
owned and occupied by David Ross,
where we found the owner, the genial
George Herbel, putting a fence
Across the track used for a road for
reasons above stated and wholly
within his rights. He kindly per.
IN ted us to go through, but request.
I'D that we come back along section
line north and east. We felt bound
ITO respect that modest request and
on our return undertook to do so.
When forty or fifty rods east of the
house we came to one of those de-
pressions, and the road grade vas
covered with water, which was four or
five rods across either way. On one
side is a wire fence and on the other
i field Of grain and a sign to keepoff
As we had only a carriage and a good
strong horse, we felt confident that
we could go through and started in.
Before reaching the middle Of the
pond we thought we had made a
mistake and when we got there we
knew we had, The whifiietree broke,
the horse went out of the thills, and
we went over the dash board into
them. in eighteen or twenty inches of
water and mud. We did not strike
on our feet, our arms were long
enough to keep part Of our anatomy
out Of the water, until we could get
otr feet under us, which we did at
earliest convenience. On reaching an
upright position, we undertook to.
take in the situation and view the
surroundings, but found that we
could only see through a glass darkly.
As soon as our vision became sufi
81 ntly clear to look into the buggy,
we saw q woman not In convulsive
spasms because Of our liability to
drown but instead. she had put on
one Of those ~bewitching smiles that
she used u wear regularly before we
were married. Just at this point