Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-17

With good prospects for greater
car shortage than ever before it stands
one well in hand to lay in the winters
supply Of coal early this fall. Last
winter was one of the mildest we have
known in years and the fuel require
ments were light; the man who did
not lay in a good supply was put to
little or no convenience. But the
chances are against a repetition of
such a winter. There is practically 10
shrinkage to coal from Stacking when
for any cause it must be left in the
Iopen during the fall and winter SO
that the only loss to the man who
puts in a winters supply early in the
season is the interest on the invest
ment. 1t will pay to buy your winters
coal early even if you have to pile it
out of doors.
What poor prophets the best of
us are. What Pierre man during the
late capital campaign would have been
rash enough, or had little enough re-
gard for his reputation for astuteness
to have ~prophesized that within five
| years three hundred car loads of emf
grant movables would arrive in Pierre
to be distributed over the region west
of the river. Nevertheless within the
past sixty days more than that num-
Der of a loads have passed through
this city and have gone to the various
stations between here and the Black
Hills. And it does ones heart good to
see the character of the people who
are going out there. Strong, young,
hopeful Americans; going out with no
other motive than to make homes and
develope the region; just such men
as twenty-five years ago focked into
the Sioux and Jim valleys. Pierre
Dakotan.
This is a year when Kingsbury
county ought to make an extra effort at
an exhibit for the state fair. In the
way of stock, hogs, cattle, and horses,
we know that we have premium takers,
Some of the finest blood of the diff
ferent breeds is to be found in this
county. As for agricultural products,
kingsbury county ranks with the
best of them. All that is needed is to
have the matter in charge of some
competent person and pay him for his
time and expense. With practically
no outlay r. w. Levitt and assistants
have in the past put up a fine exhibi
ton, one that has been a premium
taker and attracted more than the
ordinary attention given to the better
exhibits. But Mr.. Levitt, nor anyone
else whom u county commissioners
might care TO select, can afford to
give the matter the time and care that
is really needed unless they are to
be paid for it, and none will care to
undertake the task unless they can
have an appropriation sufficient to
warrant them in undertaking to do
the thing right. Last year Brown
county appropriated Sl.000.W for
that purpose. That is too great an
amount for this county, but to APP
point a good man and place $500 90
at his command would be no mistake.
1t is time right now to start the mat
ter.
The writer took occasion to walk
down the railroad track Sunday fore
noon from the hill and was surprised
to see the cream cans at the west end
of the depot. We understand there
are twenty-eight shippers from this
point, and, Judging from what we
have seen at different times we are
ready to believe there are that many
or more. Of course a man has a right
to ship his cream to a foreign concern
if he SO desires. But there is another
side to the question. The man who
ships his cream is under something of
on obligation to the stockholders of
the local creamery. 1t is a well
established fact that shippers from a
point where a creamery exists are
paid more per pound for butter fat
than they would receive if the local
creamery went out of business. This
cannot be successfully denied as in
designations for the purpose of secur-
ing evidence before the interstate
commerce commission have proved il.
and Investigations by private parties
have only added to the evidence. To
the extent that the price received by