Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-12-27
durum, re; oats, 44c; barley, SEC;
fax, S1.00.
-Chas. Rehfeld returned Tuesday

-Chas. Rehfeld returned tuesday
from his eastern trip.
Misses Wayne and Kittie Lyngby
are home for the holidays.
MIR and Mrs. John Nolan of Ca
your, spent Christmas at the /. j..
Miller home.
Miss Blanche Whiting is spend
ing the holidays with her sister, Mrs.
Archie Wurtzler, at Minneapolis.
= Morton Lark returned from Min
neapolis monday after having spent
three months in that city. He will
work in Tackaberry's cigar factory for
a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Plowman
went to Madison Tuesday to spend
Christmas. H. H. intended to return
Thursday, while Mrs. Plowman was
to remain a few days longer.
On New Years morning at the
usual hour for service Rev. Leonard
X. Smith, of Huron, will preach in
the Episcopal church. The Christ
mas music will be used. All are in
vite1.
DIR. and Mrs. Dyar ate Christmas
dinner with the doctors parents at St.
Charles, MINI. The doctor returned
the next morning, while Mrs. D. re-
manned to spend a week with her
mother.
Postmaster Wilmarth informs us
that nearly twice the number of Christ
mas packages were sent out through
this office as compared with last year.
The packages received exceeded those
of a year ago, but not to so great an
extent.
Mrs. l.. Z. Sasse took the train
Wednesday night for St. Charles,
Mimi, where her father is in a critical
condition.
LATER "A message was received
Thursday morning stating that Mrs.
Sasse's father was dead.
The Christmas gathering at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. S. Whit
ing was composed of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Whiting, of Arlington, L. K.
Whiting and daughters, Della, who
is teaching at Washington Springs,
Hazel, who is attending school at Sioux
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Fargo, n. d..
1t is reported that Charles Olson
was married at Lake Preston on
Christmas day to Miss Nellie Pattee,
of that place. The groom is a son of
l.. l. Olston and well known to De
| Smet people from his residence here
while his father was county auditor
The bride is a young lady who is
highly respected in Lake Preston and
vicinity. Congratulations.
Albert Henney came from Beach,
n. D., Tuesday for a visit with his
parents and old friends. Albert has
a claim near that town and reports a
very successful year at farming. His
crop was nearly all on last springs
breaking, and it brought him very
handsome returns. He cleared up
from the season S work, notwitL stand
ing an illness of several weeks during
haying and harvest, an even thousand
dollars, which he put back into his
farm in the way of fences and build
ings. He now has the place in good
shape and is feeling jubilant over his
success. Albert is one of the steady
and hard working young men who
deserve success, and his many friends
here rejoice with him,
-Chas. Mullen arrived from Chi
cago Monday to spend Christmas with
his mother. He will remain a week
or two. Chas. says that South Dakota
people do not know how to appreciate
their good fortune this year. In Chi
cago the financial furry has been felt
severely. Fifty thou>and men were
laid off from work, and a man looking
for a job could not buy one if he had
money. Clearing house certificates
were about the only money to be seen
for a long time, and still circulates at
this time. As for the weather, he says
it has been aboninable. During and
after the storm of a few days ago
tt inns We're delayed, street cars block
ed and traffic by team abandoned.
Three thousand men were employed
by the city to shovel snow out of the
business section of the city and dump
it into the lake. For two weeks there
was not a day of sunshine. This is
Gods country says Charles,
Millions of bottles of Foley's Honey
and Tar have been sold without any
person ever having experienced any
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