Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-05-01

as accompanist, cannot fail to please
the most fastidious audience.
i will take orders for corn to be
delivered at Farmers Elevator about
May 10th. Put in your orders now.
This is the last car for the season.
f. III. Lew.
-Erick Hesby started last week
Wednesday for his old home in Nor
way to visit the relatives and neigh
bors of eally days. Friends hope he
may have a very enjoyable summer.
Times.
The lower Mississippi Valley was
visited by tornadoes Friday April Oath.
The loss of life IS reported as high as
500 with LOO injured. In some
places it is said to have been even
worse than the tornado of 1892 The
property loss will run up into the
millions. Five states were visited by
the twisters that day.
-Messrs. H. C. Wing and Scott
Blodgett left last Thursday for Wy
oming, where they will make a tour
of observation, looking for a suitable
location for a ranch. Mr.. Wing con
templates trying an open air occupa-
ton for a time in hopes of benefitting
his health, and thinks he may like
the Wyoming atmosphere. Arlington
Sun.
The Huron high school base ball
team played De Sm-t high school
Saturday in this city. Huron by
a score of 7 to 3. Errors by De Smet
in the first inning gave Huron the
game, SO say some of the spectators.
Our boys are not in practice and it
was not to be expected that they
would put up a very strong game. A
few weeks of practice will put them in
good shape when Huron will have to
go some to beat them. The De Smet
boys can put up a pretty good article
of base ball when they are in the prop
er trim.
The first heavy rain of the season
visited this vicinity Friday morning
of last week. 1t was a soaker, too.
The balance of the day brought fire.
quent small showers, as did also Sat
urday. The wind then turned to the
northwest and Sunday brought a cold
rain that turned to snow in the after
noon and evening, although the
ground was too warm to allow the
snow 10 accumulate. The wind re-
NAMED in the northwest Monday and
Tuesday the weather was cloudy and
raw. Sunday night it froze hard
enough to damage the plum trees that
were in bloom.
"A. Halvorson, from north of Man
chester, was in the city Saturday. 1t
was one of Mr., Halvorson's boys who
set fire to some stubble the Saturday
before where he was working with a
disc machine. A wirlwind came along
as the fire had nearly burned out and
carried it over the fire guard setting
fire to the prairie with the result as
noted last week. Mr.. Halvorson told
us that he had just finished making
settlement with those who sustained
damage from the fire 1t cost him
$4,000 in cash, besides the outbuild-
ings at the school house on his farm,
which will cost him about $4,000 more
to rebuild. 1t is quite a serious loss
to Mr.. Halvorson, but he says he is
glad that he was able to pay it. We
hope that fortune will favor him TO
the extent that he will make up the
loss this year over and above what he
might ordinarily expect.
&c. A Smith, one of our promi-
nent farmers and stock r~aisers, has
received returns from a car of Duroc-
Jersey hogs he had on the Chicago
market Tuesday, April 2lst, and which
topped the market that day at $3.50,
being 10 cents higher than any other
sale recorded in Chicago on that date.
Our readers will notice that the cattle
and hogs bred and fed on Mr. Smiths
farm have topped the market for Q
eral years. This season he has placed
new sires at the head of his herds.
| His new Hereford sire, Jasper 189395,
won the grand championship at the