Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-04

in Spirit Lake township. The bereav.
ed have the sympathy of all.
Arthur Warning was up from
Yankton last week for a visit with
friends.
Rev. Hardcastle, a former pastor
of the Congregational church in this
city, but now located at Lincoln, Neb.,
was a De Smet visitor the latter part
of last week. He occupied the Con
gregational pulpit Sunday.
We expected to be able last week
to the decision of Judge
Whiting in the matter of Healy VS..
Hardy, the contest over the office of
county commissioner in the De Smet
district, but the Judge was unable
to give the decision owing TO his hay
ing to hold court in Deuel. county.
The claim of DR.. Jones, of Man
chester, that he gets so drunk that he
does not know what he is doing part
of the time will very likely cost him
his license to practise medicine. The
evidence produced in behalf of Jones
at the hearing last week has been
submitted to the state board of med
ical examiners.
This friday evening at the
opera house will occur the fourth
entertainment of the series. Ash
Davis, the cartoonist, will entertain
with illustrated songs, human car ca
lures, clay modelling, representations,
etc. Mr.. Davis is one of the best in
his line, aud is highly recommended
by all who have seen and heard him
F. p. Inlay and wife, of Waite,
spent Christmas with the family of
his brother, j. w. Inlay. Mr.. INLAY
owns the principal hotel at White,
but has the property leased and is
working in a hardware store. In
conversation with a reporter Mr.. I'm
lay stated that A. Brainard had been
very sick for a time, but improving.
Mr.. Brainard was one of the earliest
settlers in this community and the
pioneer general merchant of Wi low
Lakes.-Willow Lakes News.
Geo. H. Leighton took the pass
enger east last Thursday evening to
spend three or four weeks visiting
his aged mother and other old
friends at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.
He first went to Chicago and while
there took time to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
S. F. Greenleif at Waukegan. Re-
ports Mr.. and Mrs G.. more than
glad to see any old Lake Pre- ston
friends and interested to hear how
this country has been developing
since their removal some ten years
ago.-Times.
Miss Mary Wright was taken ser
iously i'll of appendicitis Saturday
and was taken to the hospital at MINI.
eapolis Saturday evening, being ac-
companied by her mother, Mrs. An
son Wright aud her sister, Mrs. F.
M. Andrews. An operation was per
formed and Monday Mr.. Wright re-
ceived a message saying that Mary
was not so well. Arson took the train
Monday evening for the city, Later
-Anson has returned and reports that
Mary is much improved and complete
recovery expected.
DR.. Jones, of Manchester, men
ton of whose arrest was made last
week, was bound over to the circuit
court. The hearing Was held before
Justice Durham Friday, having been
taken from Justice Hall on a change
of venue. The defense set up by
Jones was that he was drunk at the
time of committing the act of in
decent exposure. The evidence sub
stantiated the claim, in fact. it seem
ed to be unanimous, but the justice
held that drunkenness did not ex-
empt a man from the penalty of the
law. The bond was fixed at $500,
but Jones failed to furnish bail and
in default of which is confined in the
county Jail.
David Ross of Pennington, Wash.
sends a clipping from a Washington
paper giving an account of a strike
in a Touring mill at Garfield. The
mill is owned and operated by f. g..
Leonard, who built the first mill at
Arlington, this state. The strike came
at a time when the mill had a large
order for -four and Miss Mable,
daughter of Mr.. Leonard. donned a