Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-12-11

De Smet Camp, No 1906 Nj. w.
A. elected the following officers Sat-
urday, Dec. 5th:
V. CA. d. Darling
w. Adv.-L. w. Crane
Clerk-D. W. Wilmarth
Banker-D. A. Basart
Escort j. III. Hall
Physician-B. A. Dyar
Waterman Fred Stankey
Sentry-Pat Kane
Manager-A. E. Deneyan
Fred Nuttall, a former resident
of these parts, but now of Dysart,
Sask,, Canada, arrived Saturday for
a visit at Joseph Wade's home and
with other old friends. He will re-
main until after Christmas. Fred
says that it is some cold at his home
but there is no more snow than here.
Crops we're good in that section and
but little of the wheat was injured by
the frost. The country in that local
ity is in about the same condition as
was this twenty years ago, Fred
operates a general store and acts as
the local "Nasby."
w ~ u,, ,ro,,nJ ~,
his annual debt paying trip last Fri
day. w. G. started single handed
five years ago, all farming machinery,
horses and other stock had to be
bought or raised, and paid for out of
the proceeds obtained from farming
rented land The five seasons have
netted him above his living better
than 100000 after all debts are paid,
besides leaving the winters supplies
for the house aud feed for his stock
! There may be some who can show a
| better record, but we believe they are
few. 1t has taken a lot of hard WORT,
but almost anyone ough 20 be will
ing to work for such net returns. and
in some sections of the country the
same amount of work has not made
renters a dollar. South Dakota does
well by the industrious man, and
Kingsbury as we'll or better than any
other county in this great state.
We have secured price lists from
an old lice grain company which show
that the price offered for barley at
Elkton on Nov. 10Th was Ii cents per
bushel less than the price offered at
a certain town where a cooperative
elevator existed, Notwithstanding the
freight rate is a trihe less from Elk
ton. That shows how one locality is
played against another, and it also
shows what the De Smet market
might be without the Farmers eleva-
tor. But ever at that, you now and
then find a farmer who would force
a cooperative institution to compete
with such a concern under such cir
cumstances. and once in a while a
business man who never says a good
word for the home concern or gives
it a dollars worth of patronage. This
does not apply particularly to DE
Smet but does apply to every town
where cooperative concerns exist.
DIR. n. G. Hirshy. president of
Redfeld college, occupied the pulpit
of the Congregational church in this
city both morning and evening. 1t
was Sunday school rally day and his
addresses were along that line. The
reverend gentleman deprecated the
fact that in the present day education
the main object was TO prepare the
youth Of our country to make a living
This Is good In a way, ne declared,
but more time and energy should be
expended in teaching the young how
to live. Institutions of higher learn
ing should afford an opportunity and
make a part of their course OF study,
such a line OF instruction as would
prepare the young to teach the Bible.
The need of Bible teachers was one
of the greatest needs of the country
according to his view. The reverend
gentleman must be credited with sin
cerity in this view as he is in a posi-
ton to do something along this line
and he stated that it was his inten-
ton to make some changes in the
course at Redfield college to accom-
plish that end.