Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-11-20


and every now and then meeting an
old acquaintance of pioneer days.
Fl. M. Andrews this week pur-
chased the Dowden quarter, making
him a solid section farm.
Thanksgiving dinner will be
served in the basement of the
Evangelical church. Price, 35 cents.
Annual sale of fancy work and
rummage sale by the Royal Neigh
bors will be held Saturday, Nov. 21st,
at Society Hall. A 10 cent lunch
will also be served.
AT the hearing in bankruptcy
court the wife of j. &. Cantonwine,
the Armour merchant who claimed to
have been robbed of 3 100000, adj
mitted that she had on her person
$4,000 in cash, $1,000 in her purse and
$1,000 in her hustle. The creditors
claim that Cantonwine robbed his
own safe, and the fact that his wife
carries around $4,000 in cash, which
was admitted to have come from
Cantonwine as payment of a debt to
her, will be conclusive evidence SO
far as the public is concerned.
A very quite wedding occurred
at the Catholic church at Carthage on
Wednesday, Nov. IL when Mary E.
Curley was married to Percy E. Brown,
Rev. Father Stecher performing the
ceremony. Only the immediate family
and a few close friends were present.
Immediately after the ceremony the
wedding party repaired to the Palmer
House of that city, where an elaborate
wedding breakfast had been prepared.
After breakfast they departed on the
noon train for the Black Hills where
they will spend a few days sight see
ing, after which they will return to
Esmond, which will be their future
home. -Esmond Herald.
L. S. Murdick intended to de-
part Thursday for the state of Oregon
where he will look for a location. l..
S. has had the western fever for some
time, but has always given it up just
before starting. 1t is not his inten-
ton to S Il the big farm in Spirit Lake
township, although he may dispose
of the smaller farm neal town. He
will keep the big farm as an invest
ment, and he is not at all sure that he
wants to live in the coast country
indefinitely. On his trip west he will
be accompanied by his son Roy, who
has spent the last two years in North
Dakota and Canada, and who surpris-
ed the family by his return Monday.
Measured by the wide interest
rather than the number of peopl4 who
shared in the celebration itself, the
wedding of Miss Anna Eliza Baker
and Frank G. Hoover, celebrated at
$50 last Saturday afternoon, in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.. Mears,
eclipsed all other social events in the
vicinity for a long time, says the Ban
croft Register. Only the immediate
friends of the contracting parties wit
messed the ceremony which was per
formed by Rev. Aten of the Presby-
terrain church. Following the cere-
mony was an informal reception which
afforded an opportunity for congratu
lations from friends of the bride aud
groom. During the evening an
elegant wedding dinner was served by
the hostess, Mrs. Mears. The happy
couple were recipients of many hand
some and useful presents.
On the first page appears an
article regarding the recent decision
of the federal court in the matter of
the City of Huron's attempt to GUST
the Dakota Central Telephone Co. at
the expiration of its franchise. The
matter is of some interest to De Smet
people as the ten years for which the
same company was said TO have a
franchise in this city will expire next
spring. However, for some reason no
record has been found of any franchise
granted to that company by the city
of De Smet, and it looks very much
as if that then important matter
was overlooked. The telephone matter
will come up for settlement by the
council within a few months and it
would be well for our citizens to con-
slider the question 20 that they may
know just what they want the local