Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-16
Saturday last the old soId;ar,

Saturday last the old soldiers
aud theirs wives, to the number of
about twenty five, together with a
few other friends gathered at the r.
I'll. Richardson home to help him
celebrate his list birthday. The
guests provided a picnic dinner as
is the custom among the old soldiers
in this locality. The day was great.
ly enjoyed by all present, notwith-
standing the high temperature.
Sioux Falls capitalists, or rather
capitalists from outside who are in
teresting themselves in Sioux Falls,
are beginning preliminary operations
necessary for the construction of a
dam which will divert the floods of
the racing Sioux into Lake Poinsette
where the water is to be let out as
needed to keep a sufficient flow to
furnish water power at Sioux Falls.
This will probably be a paying invest
ment for the capitalists, and it will
have a tendency to reduce the dam
age by food to the inhabitants of the
Big Sioux bottom lands.
State and local police officers
have received information hat a
large number of expert bank and
post office burglars and hold-up men
are coming into the state in the
guise of harvest hands, but with no
other purpose than to pursue their
criminal vocations, says the Sioux
Falls Press. Harvest hands will also
be their victims. Warning is sent
out that farmers and inhabitants of
the small towns as well as larger ones
may not be careless about their banks,
stores and postofhces, as the dis
polling of these is the harvest labor
performed by these criminal clssses.
R. w. Levitt, who has charge of
arrangements for the county exhibit
at the state fair, wishes everyone to
take an active interest in the matter
and contribute whatever they may
have that would add interest to the
"a
exhibit. Grain, vegetables, fruits,
grasses, etc, are particularly desired.
If you have anything else that might
be of interest, or if you are undecided
as to its value as an exhibit, write to
Mr.. Levitt at Arlington or call on
the county auditor at the court house,
All articles intended for this purpose
can be left with the county auditor.
Do what you can to help the work
along.
The many friends of Miss Pearl
Fallon will extend to her their heart
felt sympathy in the double bereave
ment which has fallen upon her. 1t
will be remembered that a few weeks
ago she was called from this city to
her home at Ramona by the death of
a brother. In a day or two it devel-
oped that diphtheria vas the of
death and the mother and a sister
came down with the disease. The
family was placed under quarantine
and after a couple of weeks it was
thought both mother and sister were
well on the road to recovery. On
Wednesday of last week they were
told that the house could be fumigat-
ed and the quarantine raised on the
following Saturday. But on Friday
the sister died from the effects of the
disease.
As we stated last week, there is
some early threshing being done this
week. One of the first crops to be
put on the market was that of Ed.
Ruskell, who sold oats Monday. His
was only a small field raised on Geo.
Moody's land on the north side of
town. The first crop of any size to
be marketed was the barley from the
G.. l.. Dawley farm, which is operated
by George Dierks. They threshed a
fifty acre field and secured 1920
bushels. There were a few low spots
in the field where the grain was killed
by water early in the season. They
estimate that the yield was fully
forty bushels to theacre. The barley
is of good quality and sold on the
local market at better than fifty cents
per bushel. A crop hal pays $1,000
an acre is pretty good.
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