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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-04-03
the state. We have not learned wheth.
er it was decided to give him a call.

the state. we nave not ledTHeu WnebH-
er it was decided to give him a call.
Five contributed $40 each to the
w~aterworks fund Monday as the re-
suit of a little jamboree Saturday
evening. Iroquois booze seemed to
be largely responsible.
Ducks and geese have been very
plentiful the past week. Geese have
been far more numerous than for
many years in the past. Our hunters
have had good success in bagging a
goodly number of the noble birds.
The Farmers Elevator has sold
several hundred bushels of seed bar
ley cleaned and ready to put into the
seeder. Foul seed and light barley
are taken out of the seed grain sold
by this elevator. Some of the barley
already put out has tested over 81
pounds to the bushel.
"A farmer advertised in our last
weeks issue for a man to work on the
farm for eight months, and referred
applicants to this office for particulars.
Up to the time of writing this item,
Tuesday forenoon, we have had six
applications for the job. 1t certain
ly pays to advertise in the INDEHEN-
DENT.
Among the political announce.
ments will be found that of Thos. p.
Goodwin as a candidate for sheriff
subject to the will of the democratic
voters at the June primaries. Mr..
Goodwin is now serving his first term,
He is making a good sheriff and nom
nation by the democrats is a fore.
gone conclusion.
At the Congregational church
Tuesday evening a reception was held
for the purpose of old and new mem
bers becoming better acquainted, A
musical program was rendered which
was highly appreciated. The balance
of the evening was spent in social con,
versation. The ladies served ice cream
and cake. There were more than one
hundred present and all enjoyed the
evening.
j. l.. Gebman has returned from
Pewaukee, Wis, and will operrte his
fathers farm neal Erwin. j,
L.. called at the INDEPENDENT office
Saturday. In the course of the con,
~versation he stated that a vast amount
of labor was idle in that section. In
fact, in all of the cities it is SO, and
especially SO in his line of work, that
of machinest. At Milwaukee a great
many of the shops are closed. 1t was
only a short time ago that the rail.
road shops opened up to anything
like their full capacity. The money
stringency was felt by all classes in
the industrial centers.
Personal property offered at auc'
tion has brought exceptionally good
prices this spring, which proves con
-
clusively hat the money stringency
from which industrial centers are still
suffering, has had little or no effect
upon our people. Horses have sold
high, good animals bringing from
$50 to as high as $l85 in some in
stances. Chickens sold at the Thos
Mears auction in this city last Satur'
day at 81 cents and we have heard oil
sales this spring when they went still
higher. At the sale of the persona
property at the late Colin g. Pater
son we understand that barley in thu
bin sold as high as 80 cents, more
than II was in Milwaukee at that time
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-04-03
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natural RED CLOVER and TIMOTHY BEL of the United States at ie ranging from $40 $40 per acre
aud nexepionMym easy terms These hndnnI located pnndaym bayfield, county Wis.,, and are strictly
hard wood lands hemnt eq quality the lb f the very best and produces wonderful crops of all kinds
and the extreme heavy grwh hay mst the greatest stock unhym heg globe to-day The lay of the
is gently rng gnnghh the eayd rmage and is reversed by great many trout streams which are
fed bys sparkling springs There are also number Of sf fringe wthe elegant shores and timber These lakes
are also hvlys stocked with the very ft wnMs of fish. The knd is what would De called cut Orf dh ut
there's dmbn moughb upppo ones use rfud md fence posts md in some cases there is hmbTs suitable for
pupoes AnIer very mptmtf feature our location oHew very b@tn markets wei aven then Worth
vest Our lda are centrally ceh to Minneapolis st. Pau, Duluth ,Supnor Wshbun,A Ashland Milwaukee,
Thea venget terms we sell our ds on area fhw: $6down on ch 40 acres bought and IS pam ahh
ey cal adt the expiration of one year We ewamnod eiand taken mortgage hmkf i've or tny years
with optional pYmnsm tnsa 6n cent You certainly cannot object 40 um terms or the land after you
scent The reason of such exceptionally easy terms nht We sci our own hds henoe we can make
that suit purchased nehaf interest in 1900 acres of hhlM dw with a Minneapolis party and with
what he had the time ms us 1ONOac acres malt therefore We can satisfy the ranT wholesale tnde0 en-
tire htshhn.F For rhem fmatonr regarding these lands wnhe me or cn at my ofme.
also have onh hand at all times Ee list of South Dkoa lands for sales dt trade. | buys sell and e-
change all hndsof high class road horses Matched tamsd single dnvrsr race horses of ay gait and stations
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, December g, 1908.
Resolutions Of Respect.
Mrs. Sally Wingard was born :

Mrs. Sally Wingard was born --
and died -- 1908.
In early life she joined the Evangel-
ical Lutheran church, and at its Or
ganization united with Pilgrim con-
gregation, and was until her death a
faithful, useful, and beloved member.
In church and Sunday-school work,
in the neighborhood social circles,
and in her home, she was always kind,
cheerful, self-sacrifcing, and helpful.
Especially was she interested in and
active in the work of our missionary
society and our Sunday school; there
fore be it resolved
1st. That in the death of Mrs. Sal
ly Wingard the missionary society Of
Pilgrim congregation has lost a men,
ber whose activity did much to pro-
mote the welfare of the society, and
whose counsel did more to strengthen
the hands and the faith of it's mem
bers.
End. That our Sunday school
mourns the loss of teacher who al
ways brought to her work the sum
shine of her own cheerful disposition,
one who loved the work and the chill
dren of the Sunday school, and one
who freely gave whatever she could
of time, strength and means to pre-
mote the interest of Sunday school
work.
3rd. That we extend to the be-
reaved family our sincere sympathy
in their sorrow, and assure them that
we, her associates and friends, share
their sorrow and bid them to be con-
soled as we alo in contemplating her
life so cheerfully spent and so we'll
spent in the service of her family, her
church, her community and her God.
4th. That copy of these resolu-
tions be sent to her family, and also,
for publication to the Church Visitor
and the Lexington Dispatch.
Mrs. Matte Hegman.
Mrs. Eula Wingard,
Ms. Inez Efrd,
Miss Lizzie Corley,
Miss Mary Connor,
Committee.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09
Farmers Union.

The Farmers Union of Lexington
county holds it's 4th quarterly meeting
at Lexington Dec. 18th 1908, being the
second Saturday.
A full delegation is requested as,
business of Importance will come be-
fore the body.
G.. W. Smith
CO. Sec & Treas
Chaplin, S. C.
Nov 80, 1908.
Full Blood Jersey Cow for
$3.50
Would be about the right price COM
pared with the large Oak Suit of Fur
niture advertised in this paper for
S19.9S by
THE LION FURNITURE CO.,
Columbia, 5. G.
Trade elsewhere and lose money.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

Coughs that are tighk or distressing
tickling coughs, get quick and certain
help from DR.. Shoop's Cough Remedy
On this account Druggists everywhere
are favoring DD. Shops Cough Rene
dy. And it is entirely free from Opium
Chloroform, or any other stupefyine
drug. The tender leaves of harmless
lung-healing mountainous shrub give
to DR.. Shoop's Cough Remedy its cura.
tive properties. Those leaves have the
power to calm the most distressing
Cough, and to seo<he, and heal the
most sensitive bronchial membrane.
Mothers should, for safety's sake alone,
always demand DR.. Shoop's. It can
with perfect freedom be given to even
the youngest babes. Test it once your
self, and see! Sold, by Kaufman Drug
Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09
Man Beat to Death By His
Wife.

This is just what should happen to
some men, who could make their
home comfortable by spending just
little for Furniture and will not do it.
Furniture can be bought cheaper now
than ever at THE LION FURNITURE
COMPANY'S Store, Columbia. Those
boys are usually clever, they never
charge you. See their advertisement
in this paper.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

The old-fashioned way of dosing a
weak stomach, or stimulating the heart
or Kidneys is all wrong. DR.. Shoop
first pointed out this error. This is
why his prescription-Dr. Shops Re-
storative-is directed entirely to the
cause of these ailments-the weak in
side or controlling nerves. It isn't so
difficult, says DR.. Shoop, to strengthen
weak Stomach, Heart, or Kidneys, if
one goes at it correctly. Each inside
organ has it's controlling or inside nerve.
When these nerves fail, then those or
gans must surely falter. These vital
truths are leading druggists everywhere
to dispense and recommend DR.. Shops
Restorative. Test it few days, and
see! improvement will promptly and
surely follow. Sold by Kaufman
Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09
Law n eeded.

G. D. Lee, of Lee county, Ca, made
this year 1875 bales of scotton on 100
acres Of land. There ought to be
law to keep man from bearing the
market in such a manner, eh?-An-
derson Mail.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

Every case of backaehe, weak back,
bladder inflammation and rheumatic
pains is dangerous If neglected, for such
troubles are nearly always due to weak
kidneys. Take DeWitt's Kidney and
Bladder Pills. They are antiseptic and
soothe pain quickly. Insist upon De-
Wits Kidney and Bladder Pills. Regu-
lar size 5oc. Sold hare by Kaufman
Drug, Go. >>'
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

DR.. Thornton's Easy Teether has
saved the lives of hundreds of babies
and will safely carry your baby
through the most trying period of it's
life as it is guaranteed remedy for
Teething, Summer Diarrhoea, Flux,
Indigestion, and all stomach and
bowel troubles Of infants. Is cents.
For sale by Derrick's Drug Co.; or
Easy-Teether Medicine Co., Hartwell,
Georgia.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

The Savannah News says that ste-
nographers make excellent wives. II
that be true the resson must tie that
because they are expert in shorthand,
they cannot get into deep pockets.-
Augusta Herald.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

Of course married women live long
er than single women. 1t is extreme
ly rare that an unmarried woman is
found who is over twenty-eight years
old.-Augusta Herald.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

The -four wafer, composed Of -four
and water cooked, is used in Italy
much more than in the United States
for medical purposes. 1T takes the
place of the capsule to certain ex-
tent.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

Every home with children should
have box of DR.. Thornten's Easy
Teether in it. A guaranteed remedy
for all bowel and stomach trouble in
teething children. For sale by Der
rick Drug Co.; or Easy Esethsr Medi-
cine Co., HartWell, Ga.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

= Ex-Governor Hayward will soon
move his family from Columbia to
Charleston. He desires to be in
reach of his farm in Colleton county.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness. .ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09
For That Dull Feeling After
Eating.

1 have used Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets for some time, and
can testify that they have done me
more good than any tablets I have ever
used. My trouble was heavy dull
feeling after eating ng.-David Freeman,
Kempt, Nova Scotia. These tablets
strengthen the stomach and improve
the digestion. They also regulate the
liver and bowels. They are far supe-
rior to pills but cost no more. Get a
free sample at the Kaufman Drug Co.,,
and see what a splendid medicine it is.
A &. Douglas who was indicted by
the Audubon Society for selling the
wing Of an owl on hat, was tried in
the Magistrates court in Columbia,
and was acquitted.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

WANTED-To buy every pound OF
beeswax in the country. We will pay
the highest market price in cash at
The Bazaar, Lexington,S. C.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-12-09

A negro was shot and killed at
Clemson Thanksgiving night while
calling figures at dance.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
Billions on Deposit in the Mud Banks of America

cuss ways and means of utilizing the SKINNED
milk. That is the attitude which has kept the
reserve of mud fuel practically untouched in spite
of half a century of agitation in favor of drawing
Immediately upon 1t to the saving of forests and
coal mines.
In Europe it is different. People have to
economic in the land of northern Europe. Con-
seQuently Holland scrapes annually out of it's boys
about a million tons OF vegetable mould, and in
cidentally brings IL to cultivation about 1000
acres of new land. excellent for market gardening.
Sweden makes each year a larger draft upon
its quaking equivalent of 5000, 600, 900 tons Of
steam coal. About 1000, 900 tons of peat is now
consumed annually in Swedish industries.
The Irish are considering ways and means of
making a hole faster in the S,972 900, 900 tons
of ~inhammable turf and mud that cover about one
ninth of the total surface of the Emerald Isle.
The whole industrial future of Ireland may lie in
the utilization of this hitherto neglected source of
power.
The Germans, with their many inherited uses
of the material and their continued experimental
ton, are drawing rapidly, but not wastefully, upon
their comparatively limited supply.
The various uses of peat multiply abroad, as
Messrs. Bjorling and Gissing have noted exhsus-
lively in their recent book on Peat" About 100
factories in Germany are each producing annually
in excess of 100000 tons of briquetted peat. In
Bavaria for some years locomotives have burned
mud fuel.
Producer gas from peat is employed in many
Swedish metallurgical works and elsewhere. In
various quarters IL has been found feasible to Sc
cure not only gas suitable for fuel and illumina.
tion, but charcoal and such by-products as are
familiar In gas manufacture everywhere-tar, IL
Illuminating oil, parafin, benzol, ammonia, sulphur
and all the rest.
Methylated spirits have been evoked out OF
foreign bogs in salable quantities, and paper is a
possibility, although the factory established in
1903 at Celbridge, Ireland. for making wrapping
paper from peat has not proved successful and has
been dismantled. Peat is cooked by electricity al
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

of motive power, after a short trial, quickly re-
stored the standard fuel on all the locomtives.
This New England railroad, operated at a dis
lance from the Pennsylvania coal fields, might
conceivably be run somewhat less extensively by
burning up the swamps adjacent to its tracks.
But it won't in all probability be 80 run until the
price Of coal becomes absolutely prohibitive.
Even the minor industrial uses of dried and
compressed mud, such as are common in Europe,
are hard to develop 1 nthis country, simply because
ingenuity has not yet solved the problem of get
ting the peat out in the American way. That
means on a large scale, with labor-saying machin-
cry for every process and with an elaborate system
of distribution.
In countries where peasant labor can be en-
ployed to supplement the machine briQuettes and
other peat preparations in comparatively limited
quantities can be produced cheaply with machln-
cry that is admittedly imperfect. But labor costs
are such in the United States that until a prac-
tically perfect mechanical system has been devised
coal will not have a formidable competitor in peat.
The problem of an invention to revolutionize
American industry by utilizing the riches of the
swamps is in fact somewhat analogous to that OF
aerial navigation. There are all sorts Of flying
machines. Everybody knows that sooner or later
a type will be produced that will really fly, in a
commercial sense.
Numerous processes and special types Of ma
chinery have been devised to put peat econom-
ically into the manufacturers and householder's
coal bin. Some of them are already good enough
for European use. But the practically perfect
system is yet to come.
How to get peat out in commercial quantities
from the wet, quaggy bog, to drive from 1t the
very high percentage Of moisture II contains with
out in 80 doing also driving away some OF its val
liable chemical constituents which are chief fac
tors in its heat-producing value. and how to pre-
pare it in a form such that conservative engineers
and hremen will prefer it to the convenient lump
OF coal to which both they and their machinery
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

The valuation placed on tho city's homes and the private prop
erty of individuals is therefore only a little more than $4,000, 900.
This is the report of the tax commissioner and may be read as low
enough.
To accommodate the business involved in corporations of such
magnitude, South Omaha has four national banks; the Union Stock
Yards National, the South Omaha National, the Packers National and
the Live Stock National. In the four banks &c., 900, 600 is deposited.
The first one established was the Union Stock Yards bank and the
others in the order named.
The packing plants, the Union Stock yards and the banks be-
long particularly to South Omaha. All the public service corpora
lions are Omaha institutions. South Omaha depends on Omaha for
water, light, power, gas and street railway service. Further, South
Omaha has no hotels which may compare or compete with Omaha.
The theaters n small
The city lately erected a good city hall at an expense of $4,000.
1t boasts a strictly modern and new city Jail. 1t has one large ee-
vator, an alfalfa food products mill, a mating plant and a brewery.
One hundred small retail stores and markets supply the ctys needs.
To chronicle the works of the individuals who have figured
prominently in the affairs of South Omaha would be to produce vol
umes of interesting history. All of the men who have been promi-
nent enough to be remembered have been constant in their faith to
the city and untiring in labors in It's behalf. For this reason the
city has always been mounting to a higher level, with none of the
usual ups and downs of the ordinary city.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Fifty years ago the peat fuel propaganda was
started in this country with the publication of a
widely circulated pamphlet by George H. Pollock
of New York, who urged that in view of the rapid
destruction of the North American forests and the
high price of coai-anthracite then retailed at SO
a ton In New York-the practically inexhaustible
peat boys should be drawn upon.
Since then the enthusiasm of scientific and en-
cheering theorists on the subject has hared up on
an average about every half decade.
Just the other day a government publication
called attention to the commercial possibility of
~gouging out a swamp or a mud puddle almost any
where and producing limitless quantities of methyl
alcohol suitable for running automobiles. The
usual line of valuable by-products could, of course,
be predicted. During the coal strike of 1903
there was talk of digging warm comfort out of the
cold swamps of the eastern and central portions
Of the country.
That was the time when experiments at the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology proved the
theoretical points that had been alleged frequently
in favor of peat. About 1S9S-99 magazines and
newspapers published articles descriptive of peat
progress in Germany, Holland. Sweden and other
countries of Europe.
So 1t goes back through the memory of the
years in which there was always an Edward Atkin-
son or a Thomas H. Leavitt to tell the American
people how much they we're missing by preferring
TO use coal at from SO to IS a ton when they
might just as well have briquettes of moulded or
compressed mud that would be three-hfths as good
at certainly less than half the cost. Between
1850 and 1875 ~forty-six peat fuel companies are
known to have started business.
And the stubborn fact has always remained
that Americans have not wanted something that
is three-hfths as good even at one-third the cost.
So long as there is coal. why monkey with mud?
After the cream is gone then it will be time to dis
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Bergen. Norway and other places in the leading
continental countries.
Meantime American boys, the deepest and
widest In the world, not even excepting those of
Ireland, some of them of a depth of eighty or
ninety feet, continue to quake undisturbed. A
good many peat fuel companies have been organ
lied in the last few years. One with an ambitious
prospectus was incorporated in Massachusetts, last
spring. Some few of these companies are going
concerns, but not many of them have gone in very
deeply-unless into the pockets of investors.
Reasons why this great fuel reserve Of the
United States, whose unknown value might as
plausibly be set at 800, 900, 900. 900 as at $780,
600, 000,O 900, remains practically intact after fifty
years of agitation are partly psychological, partly
mechanical. If the psychological cause were not
uppermost Yankee ingenuity might have solved
the mechanical difficulties long ago.
Americans are not ready to burn mud yet. not
because the mud will not burn reasonably well.
Peat fuel at its best is just something that is
nearly as good, and the average American engi-
neer grumbles If he is not supplied with the best
Peat fuel has been used experimentally on
railroad systems of the United States. An early
experiment was in 1866, when briquetted mud
was used on the old Western ailway of Massa-
chusetts. It has been found to develop a good
heat. and to make no smoke, SCOT, dust or clink-
ers. but the engineers are accustomed to coal, the
railroads are equipped for receiving and distribu-
ting coal and a complete Standardization of opera
ting practice has been made possible, the use of
coal being universal.
Three years ago a New England railroad COM
pany burned peat fuel for a time on some of its
shifting and suburban locomotives. The locomo-
tiYes moved satisfactorily upon the impulse Of the
unaecustomed fuel, but the engineers and hremen
objected to the bulkiness of the big perforated
cylinders of dried mud. There were various
minor objections. A fuel. in short, which to sup
plant coal would have TO show its superiority in
practically every respect proved inferior in so
many respects that the railroads superintendent