Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-20

McCllne, OIe Johnson, lvef GrOtta
s. B. Griffin, j. Fl. Porter, James
Roberts, John Knudson.
A ten foot disc drill for $4,000
at Henney's. Call and investigate.
Rob. Moody has been hired as
superintendent of the De Smet cream
cry plant.
Judge Chas. S. Whiting went to
Sioux Falls Monday to hold court for
Judge Jones.
Miss anna Johnson is doing the
stenographer work in the Office of
Foxton q Braun.
&C. P. Swanson was down from
Pierre Monday. He was on his way
to the northeast part of the state on
business for the educational depart
ment.
Henry Eberhard, an old resident
of Esmond vicinity, has closed out
his interests in that locality and will
leave within a few days for his claim
near Ash Creek, west of the Missouri.
Il will sell at auction at my half
section farm, 36 head of horses, 8head
of hogs and farm machinery on We'd
nesday, March 25th, 1908, one mile
west and one mile south of Bryant.
d. III. GUTH.
w. j. Ryan's auction sale occurs
on Tuesday, March oath, at the farm
two and one-half miles northeast of
this city. He will sell all personal
property used in the operation of a
section farm and all the stock now on
the place, as well as some grain.
of the % applicants for teachers
certificates at the last examination,
fifteen passed at the required stand
ing. Supt. Seymour informs us that
the percentage of successful applicants
in this county is way above the aver
age of the state, and only equaled by
a very few counties.
At the opera house in De Smet,
Friday and Saturday, March 20 and
81, Dieter Bros. worlds greatest and
latest moving pictures, illustrated
songs and advanced vaudeville show,
singing and dancing with the best of
music. Mae and Charlie Monro in
old plantation singing and dancing,
and Bert Dieter, Dutch comedian,
keep the audience in good cheer from
the rise of the curtain until the close
of lthe show. Entire change of
program nightly. Admission, % and
35 cents, reserved seats, so cents.
The state auditor and the com
missioner of school and public lands
were here Monday and appraised the
lands of this county at from $50 to
over $40 an acre, according to location
and quality of the land. Very little
of the land is placed at the lowest
figure. 1t is the intention of the de-
partment to sell the school lands at
no less figure than other lands in the
same locality are being sold for. The
appraisement has been made after a
careful inquiry by the officers charged
with this duty. Commissioner Dok-
ken spent a day in De Smet about two
months ago looking up the records of
sales as to prices, and also visited
other points in the county for the
same purpose.
City finances seem to be in fine
shape. There is now in round fig
ures, $1,000 in the general fund. The
sinking funds for the water and gas
bonds, for the greater part, have been
loaned to the artesian sinking fund
and all but three of the old artesian
we'll bonds have been taken up. With
still a balance in the water and gas
sinking funds the city owe practical
ly nothing save the $l9,OO00O of wa
ter and gas bonds. At the present
rate of creating a sinking fund the
bonds will be paid in due time, and
not left for the next generation, or
those who come here a decade hence,
to pay in a short time by heavy tax
alton. The school district has no
bonded indebtedness. The 100000
in the general fund will undoubtedly
all be used this season in current ex-
penses and Improvements. There
are a few things in the way of i'm
provements of which the city is in
great need. One of the first should be
the construction of a drainage ditch
from the lowest point on the east
side of block two, being opposite the
co,,rt honSe which would conduct h