Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-08-21

The Dode Fisk dog and pony
show will exhibit in De Smet Monday
August 31st.
Gerald Fuller arrived from Cali
'fornia the first of the week to look
after matters in which he was inter
ested, and also for a short visit with
friends among the old-timers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Riddle, of Florida,
and Mrs. James Andrews, of Oaks, N.
D., arrived Tuesday evening and are
guests at the F. M. Andrews home.
Mrs. Riddle is a sister Of the Andrews
brothers, and is known to many of
our people as she visited here a year
ago
Miss Autumn Davies arrived from
Letcher, this state, Tuesday evening
and is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. d.
HI. LOTUS. Miss Autie, as she is best
known here, has a host of friends in
De Smet who will be glad to renew
her acquaintance. During the past
year she has Leen teaching at Omaha,
Neb.
Oats are light in weight this year
in this section, although we are still
better than the average. Possibly too
much rain and the consequent heavy
growth of straw, followed by the ex-
treme hot weather of a few days the
latter part of July is responsible for
the light weight kernels. However.
we believe that a change of seed would
be a good thing. We notice hat this
plan is being advocated in parts of
Minnesota where the grain is lighter
than it is here.
Saturday morning, at a special
meeting of the Beadle county board
of health, it was decided to quarantine
all persons residing or visiting in
township la, range 63. Sphinx u
ty. Until the qu~arantining is removed,
all persons from this township found
in Beadle county will be arrested and
punished according to law. This ac-
ton on the board was taken to check
the spreading of smallpox, which has
been raging in that county for the
past several weeks and from which
many persons have died.
The crops now being threshed in
this vicinity are the best that are to be
found any where in this or any other
state. Reports coming in from var
ious directions indicate some excel
lent yields several parties reporting
forty-five and fifty bushels of barley
to the acre. The way the threshers
were going for the grain this week be
fore the rain of the last two days was
not very slow. At one time on We'd
nesday the smoke from fourteen out
fits could be seer from a spot four
miles east of town. On that day Mr..
Nelson, an Illinois man who is thresh-
ing here, threshed forty-three hundred
bushels of grain for O. o. Owens, just
south of town. -Esmond Herald.
From several different localities
in the Northwest come reports Of
small pox in the old fashioned and
severe form. Mrs. Frank Haskins, Of
Hitchcock. Beadle county, died of
that disease last week. Her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Morris,
both died within the past two months
of the same disease. OF late years
this disease has been in light form
and no deaths have occurred from it
except in cases of complication with
other trouble, and our people have
got to regard small pox as a light mat
ter. Some acted as if it We're smart
to expose as many as possible TO the
disease. Parties having small pox
would push themselves into crowded
places and stand where as much dam
age as possible could be accomplish.
ed. If you see any more such work
it is your duty as a good citizen to
get a stout club and make the small
pox spreader look as if he had been
run through a corr shelter. The old
fashioned small pox is about as safef %
fool with as a life sized and healthy
buzz saw. 1N'
I'm the county court before Judge
Green Tuesday the matter of the con
test of the will of Mrs. Elizabeth
Fuller, of Connecticut, came up for
hearing. Mrs. Fuller was the mother
of the late G. S. G. Fuller, of this city.
In the will Mrs. Fuller left all her
property to her remaining son. Gerald.