Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-01-10

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r. w. Levitt and H. M. Keene were
up from Arlington between trains
Tuesday.
The county commissioners met
Tuesday for the first regular meeting
of the year. The board organized by
the reelection of L. I. Olston as chair.
man.
s. B. Owen came up from Brook
ings for a visit with his daughter Mrs.
d. Dwight last week. Uncle Sam looks
hale and hearty and he says that he
doesn't look any better than he feels.
-Ex-mayor j. A. Cleaver, of Huron
was a De Smet visitor Monday. He
was here upon an invitation of the
Masonic lodge to confer the third de-
gree upon two candidates. Mr.. Cleav-
er is n of the best posted Masons
in the northwest and his equal in
comforting the work is bark to find.
d. M. Cantonwine Wednesday
last received four handsome fullblood
Barred Plymoth Rock roosters from
Theo. Goehle, of Fender, Neb. Mr..
Cantonwine intends to engage in the
poultry business on an extended scale.
The breed is one of the best and the
strain from which he is breeding is
said to be one of the Lest of the
breed.
Hicks started out his weather
forecasts for January by saying that
no one SHOULD be surprised if one of
the greatest cold waves of the winter
appears from about the Bird to 7th,
progressively out of the northwest"
Perhaps no one has a right to be sur
prised if a cold wave does appear in
January-it is the season of the year
for cold waves on this end of the
earth-but if Hicks warning against
surprise at such an event was to be
considered at the time it was made as
a prediction of what we were to have,
he could not have been futher from
the real thing if he had tried.
In summing up their business
for the year 1907 last Tuesday, E.
Kelley q Son found the year to be a
record breaker in their line. The
amount of butter, eggs and poultry
handled by their Lake Preston house
during the year was $136,333.96. In
May, June and July the footings
were eighty thousand dollars alone,
The stringency interfered with the
amount of business the past two
months or the figures would have
been considerably increased. AS it
is, we doubt if there is a produce
house in these parts with a better re-
cord either in amount of business d.
better or more prompt returns to pa
trons.-Lake Preston Times.
BY a new ruling of the postoffice
department a daily paper connot be
sent at regular second class rates to a
subscriber more than three months in
arrears, and a weekly paper cannot be
sent through the mails to a subscriber
more than one year in arrears. This
makes it necessary for the publisher
to get onto a cash basis and that in
advance. The publisher of the INDE-
PENDENT is therefore compelled 10 ask
all in arrears even though it be only
for a few months, to remit at once
As the price of the INDEPENDENT is
only Sl.O0 per year, less than any
paper of its size in this part of the
state, the request to remit sc that the
subscription shall be paid in advance
is not an unreasonable one. Don't
put the matter off until you come to
the city-that may be longer than
you think, and that is the reason nine
tenths Of those who are in arrear1 are
in that condition. That a subscriber
is behind in his account is seldom be-
cause he intends TO be but almost in
every instance is due to thoughtless-
ness or to an intention to pay when
be can make a personal visit to the
publisher. Send us a postal money
order, draft, or check, and edo it now"
Lars Garstad, living three miles
east of Erwin, died Saturday, the 3rd
inst. of cancer of the stomach after
an illness of only about three months.
As soon as he felt himself to be ailing
he went TO the hospital at Rochester,
but the surgeons could do nothing
and gave him no hope. The disease
worked rapidly and death followed in
an unusually short period from the
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