Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-10-25

will make electric roads common in
South Dakota before a generation
shall pass away.
Mrs. F. w. Warning and Mrs. d
HI. LOTUS visited friends at Brookings
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Warning left
De Smet Tuesday morning for Rapid
City for a short stay. From that city
they will return to their home at
Yankton.
Frank Timm left Sunday for Elk.
ton, where he expects to stop for a
while before going to Chicago, ILL.,, for
a visit with relatives. While there he
expects to take examinations for a
position as teacher in the PHILIPPINES
in the public schools. - smond Her
aid.
w. B. Yoegeli will hold an auc-
ton sale at the farm four miles north
of De Smet on Wednesday, Oct. 30th.
Mr.. Voegeli has sold his farm and
will dispose of his personal property.
He has secured an option on a stock
of hardware at Madison, this state,
and it is his intention to go to that
city as soon as he can arrange to leave
the farm, which will be within a few
weeks if the party who purchased the
farm will come and take possession
Mrs. Clark, mother of Mrs. Chas.
Greenman, died at the home of the
latter in fhis city Sunday, Oct. 10th,
at the age of SO years. Mrs. Aminta
Ewes, of Hickey, Mimi, another
daughter of Mrs. Clark, was present
during the last days. The remains
vera taken to Lake Preston Wednes-
day for burial. Mrs. Clark was a
woman well known to the older resi-
dents of De Smet and one held in
high esteem by all acquaintance.
The sympathy of all goes out to the
bereaved in this hour OF affection.
w. r. Bliss, JAS, Wright, F. Nc.
Cullough, VIM. Mitchell, Geo. Mel
son, G. Turner, A. Nelson, F. McCul-
Tough Jr., John Larson, and Otis Long
were the members of a party who
went to Pierre last week to register
for the land drawing on the Brule
reservation. F. Mccullough, ST., was
the only one of the company who was
successful, No. % falling to his lot
when the drawing took place. He
made another trip out there Wednes-
day night to make the proper filings,
and it is expected that he will be able
to get a pretty good piece of land -
Esmond Herald.
The writer dropped into one of
general stores the other morning
and found the room full of queer
smelling smoke. The clerk FASTENED
to prevent US from giving the fire
alarm, assuring us that the smoke
was purposely made as a sort of
counter i%rritant.' TIL house had
been buying some strictly "fresh"
eggs, but a slight jar had set one off
like dynamite. 1t seemed to have as
much gas in it as that tank in the
gas house when Pat Hunt went on a
voyage of discovery with a blow torch
three or four years ago. The only
difference was that all that was left
of the egg was the smell, while they
picked Pat up all in one piece and
put him in a pretty fair state of re-
pair. The smoke we spoke of was
caused by the burning of a mixture
of all kinds of spices they could find
in the store. Those strictly fresh
eggs gathered yesterd,y with the
aid OF a garden rake from under the
granary where the old speckled hen
forgot it last spring are a constant
terror to merchants at this time of
the year.
Conrad S%taudenmaier was in De
Smet Monday. He has not been a
regular visitor to this city since TAX
ing up his residence in the south part
of Clark county. We expect to see
more of him in the future, however,
he will soon move back onto his
old farm in Spirit Lake township,
having purchased the same last sum
mer. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
S. sold the farm three or four years
ago. He rented for a year or two,
and then went to St. Paul where he
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