Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-06-14
return for home Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Bartlett is a brother in.law and
Mrs. Hess a sister of Mrs. Gehm.

Mr.. Bartlett is a brother in law and
Mrs. Hess a sister of Mrs. Gehm.
= Mrs. F. Schaub and daughter,
Frances, returned Tuesday. Miss
Frances has recovered nicely from her
operation for appendicitis.
From Minneapolis comes the
word that Christian Foss is dead.
He was born in Norway May B, 1858,
and was therefore 81 years old at the
time of death. He came to America
in 1867. He took a homestead south
east of Lake Preston in 1880 and for
eight years was a resident of this
locality. The old settlers will all
remember him and and will regret to
hear of his early death. While liv-
ing here he served as justice of the
peace and at one time was county
assessor in the territorial days. Nov
ing to Minneapolis in 1888 he has
since been engaged in the real estate
rental and insurance business. He
was quite successful in business.
He suffered an attacked of typhoid
fever about six weeks before his
death, which weakened him and
heart trouble set in causing early
death. Besides a wife and one eight
year old son, two brothers, John and
Peter Foss, and one sister living in
Minneapolis, three sisters in Wiscon-
sin, and n sister, Mrs. George Jar
man, of B~rookings, S. d., mourn his
seemingly sudden death. To them,
many old Kingsbury county friends
extend sincere sympathy.-Lake Pres
ton Times.
Notwithstanding the grounds
were in poor condition after the rains
and that the celebration had been de-
clared off, it was decided to pull off
the ball game between Madison and
De Smet Monday afternoon. A crowd
of some 600 people gathered at Ath-
letic Park to witness the event. Mad
ison has a team on a salary,and has a
record of winning IL out of 18 games
played against salaried teams. In
view of this fact De Smet people WENT
to the ground with very little hope
| for the home team. The fact is that
nearly everyone conceded that Madi-
son would be a winner. The game
opened and resulted in a goose egg
apiece the first inning. A close de-
cision on a batted ball that dropped
on the foul line resulted in giving
Madison two scores in the second in
ming. This took the sand out of the
home team to some extent but the
game continued without further
scores until the eighth inning when
Madison cut another notch in its tally
stick. About this time the De Smet
boys began to get together and did
some better work resulting in three
scores in the ninth inning making the
game a tie. To decide the game
eleven innings were necessary to be
played with De Smet a winner in
the eleventh by a score of 4 to 3.
Van Hook, the De Smet pitcher, made
one or two poor plays and seemed a
little wild at times, but when the
pinch came he got down to business.
and did some good work. The Madi-
son boys found Van Hook a hard
man to bat. He also fields his posi-
ton unusually well. Fuller behind
the bat made n mighty poor throw
to first, but soon redeemed himself
by running after a foul ball. He
held the ball, although he rolled over
the Madison boys and their bench.
He got up with his mouth full OF
farm land and proceeded to play a
better game. Rehfeld made one poor
play IN right field which was partly
due to the high wind that happened
to carry the ball. The fielding by
the DeSmet boys, both in and out
can be called first class. At the bat
they did better than the Madison
team, having more safe hits to their
credit. The game pleased the spec
%tators, the more especially as the
home team proved the winner against
such odds. The visiting team is COM
posed of gentlemen who play good
ball, and conduct themselves as gen
tlemen on the ball ground and on the
streets. Geo. Brooks, of this city,
acted as umpire and we think was
fair in all of his decisions.
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