Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-02-21

ruary 25th.
Mrs. Jira Payn vas i'll of heart
trouble the latter part of last week
and the first of this.
"A basket social will be held at
the Collin Patterson school house Fri
day evening, February 2Sth.
The snow of Monday night cover
ed the ground with from eight to ten
inches of the beautiful. There was
just enough wind with it and on the
following day to make it drift to
some extent. The roads are such that
loads cannot be hauled and it is diff
fcult for light rigs to make much
progress.
Senator Gamble has named a
principal and three alternates from
South Dakota for midshipman at
the Annapolis naval academy, namely
John p. Wilmarth, Aberdeen, former
ly of De Smet, principal; George
| Woodruff, Miller; Fred E. Pew, An
dover, and Grin /. Stringer, Parker,
as a~lternates.
"A message from Mrs. j. H.. Hall
states that she underwent an opera
ton Tuesday at a hospital in Chicago
and that she was doing as well as it
was possible for one to be doing 50
soon after the operation. The ply
s~icians give her every encouragement
to believe that the operation will
effect a permanent cure of her long
standing difficulty.
jay Stewart and Charles Cum
minis started out Wednesday with
five dogs on a wolf hum. They went
south and when out a mile and a
half started up two wolves out of a
hay stack on the Wilkinson farm.
The animals went different directions
and the hounds divided each bunch
landing tueir wolf in about ten min
utes. The n Jay secured weighed
3S pounds.
The Jackson's Virginia Jubilee
Singers will appear at the opera house
Tuesday evening, February 25th.
This company has for a number of
seasons stood on an equality with the
leading companies of the United
States. The lover of fine music will
appreciate the work of this company.
1t will be the musical treat of the
season. Do not miss it. Prices, 25,
35, and so cents.
The sermon by Rev. Lowry en-.
titled, Popular Amusements," drew
a crowded house last Friday evening.
Before the opera house was opened a
crowd filled the stairway, and after
the doors were opened it was only a
short time before some fifty people
were refused admission as the room
could hold no more. From seventy
to one hundred people came up from
Lake Preston to hear the sermon The
second time. Evidently this is con-
sidered one of Mr.. Lowry's best, or it
was expected to be more sensational,
as it drew the largest audience of any
of his series. The position taken by
the speaker in regard todancing, card
playing, and theatre going pleased
some and displeased others, depend
ing largely upon the prejudice exist
ing in the minds of his hearers.
&C. F. Bogenrief and family, living
five miles northeast OF this city, lost
their entire household effects by fire
Sunday. The fire started in one of
the back rooms and was not discover
ed until it had gained such Roadway
as to be beyond the possibility of con
troll, and to make it impossible to save
anything but the clothes the family
were wearing at the time. The family
were living on a rented farm so that
the loss of the building does not fall
upon them. The loss to Mr.. Bogenrief
will be no small item, fowllowing, as
it does, an illness of several weeks
and the expense of a trained nurse
and other hired help. We are not
informed as to whether tn, los will
be partly made good by insurance,
nor as to the origin of the fire.
-LATER-The Farmers Nut. Ins.
Co. carried a policy in the household
goods to the amount of $4,000.
The democrats filed notice of a
call for a county convention with the
county auditor on the 7th inst. This
fact was used by the machine press
to discredit the action of the republic
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