Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-10-11

Tribune.
Miss Blanche Whiting visited in
Sioux Falls over Sunday.
-.Mesdames T. I. and W. NJ. Rob
inson spent Tuesday at Huron.
The M. E. Aid will meet with
Mrs. Lancaster next Wednesday af-
ternoon.
MIR. and Mrs w. H. Albright
spent a few days at Sioux Falls the
past week.
Prof. Jack, of Arlington, was in
the city to witness the basket ball
games Saturday.
The M. w. A. lodge of Erwin will
give a dancing party at the Erwin
Hall Friday evening, Oct. 18th.
Read the challenge sale adver-
tisement of the De Smet Mercantile
Co. on the reverse side of this sheet.
Pearl Long has purchased the
Mowbray Transfer Line. Mr.. Now
bray will move onto a farm near Es-
mond.
Miss Matte Sleeper came down
from Andover Wednesday for a visit
of a few days with Mr.. and Mrs. O.
A. Taylor.
Andrew Simonson, living on the
r. Fl. Richardson farm south of Err
win, will hold a public sale of person
al property on Friday, Oct. 18th.
Have you secured your seat for
the lecture by Father Vaughn, the
prince of dramatic orators7 This
will be the greatest event of that ma
ture eve in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Peterman
were up from Lake Preston Tuesday
and Wednesday to ship their house.
hold goods to the latter place. Cars
are so scarce that they were compell-
ed to load their goods into a stock car.
Owen Kelley returned the first
part of the week from a trip to La
Crosse, Wis, where his sister Mrs.
Carrigan. is receiving treatment at
the hospital. From that city he
went to points in Iowa for a short
stay.
20. A. Taylor has his two new
houses nearly finished. Two or three
days more will have them ready for
occupancy. o. A. has constructed
and equipped these houses with more
conveniences than are usually found
in houses offered for rent. AS soon
as it was known what he intended to
build he had several more applicants
than he could accommodate. Both were
leased long before they were com
pleted.
j. A.. VanVranken, a former resi-
dent of De Smet, was here Wednes-
day and Thursday to renew old ac-
quaintances. j. A. sold the farm
south of Miller to which he moved
from here a few years ago. He hen
spent a year in Michigan, but he
could stand it no longer and had to
come back and buy a half-section
south of Harold. j. A. looks as if
the world had dealt kindly with him
since he left De Smet.
"A freight train set the grass aire
along the right of way in the west
part of the city Tuesday afternoon.
A strong wind a blowing and the
chances were excellent for consider.
able damage. 1t was discovered soon
after it started and the hard work on
the part Of several men confined the
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the road when it died out. The
growth of grass was heavy the past
season, and the recent dry weather
makes the danger from prairie fire
greater than usual.
Go. Supt. Seymour informs us
that we misunderstood him in regard
to the need of more teachers in this
county. On Monday of this week he
stated that out of about 1876 schools
there were still eight or ten that had
not yet secured teachers, at least he
had not been informed that they had.
In some instances the school officers
have been rather lax in the matter.
After being notified by the superin-
tendent Of suitable teachers to be had
some officers have neglected 70 take
steps until several days later when