Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-09-25

Asys 1unSAOAe ASI6ASsNA.
The ladies of the Evangelical Aid
will serve a dinner at their dining
room Thursday, Oct. 1st.
Eli Cole, Jr., president OF the
Germania State Bank, is up from
Bellevue, Iowa, this week.
Fred Rusch, the jolly Dutchman
from Osceola vicinity, was a pleasant
caller at the INDEPENDENT Office Wed
nesday. Fred gets to the county seat
only once a year, being too busy pill
ing up the coin to get this far from
home any oftener than that.
-Debs, the socialist candidate for
president, went through De Smet
with his Red Specsal Sunday morn
ling at about five o'clock. There was
no crowd to greet him here. The
champion of the Idaho anarchists and
murderers is not at all popular in this
section.
Judge and Mrs. Chas. S. Whiting
returned Tuesday from their visit of
two weeks in the Black Hills. The
"trip afforded Mrs. Whiting complete
relief from a severe attack OF hay
fever. The Judge went out to held
court for a few days, but found time
to do a little fishing for brook trout.
Mrs. Louis Sterr and children de-
parted Thursday of last week for Hot
Springs, this state. Their daughter
Rena is a sufferer from asthma and
the visit to that section is for the pur-
pose of benefitting her health. If the
change should prove beneficial Mrs.
Sterr will remain long enough to
make the cure of Rena permanent if
possible.
1t has been our advice all along
to consumers of coal to put in a sup
ply for winter use early. Outside OF
the town few have done so. The car
| shortage and congested traffic is be
ginning to be felt, and coal will be a
| slow mover from 10Y on. If you
failed to put in a supply early and
suffer Inconvenience thereby, it is the
fault of no one but yourself.
Mr.. Lawmau. Of De Smet, did a
neat piece of work this week IN erect
ing a belfry and flag pole on the
school house in Ind. Dist, No. 20 in
Mathews Twp, The bell is a good
sized one and can be heard quite a
distance. A flag has also been pur-
chased for the school. An addition
of this kind to any country school
house is a great improvement.
The North Western Bulletin. a.
journal devoted to the interests of the
&c. q N. w. R'y and its employees,
in it's issue for the month of Septem-
Der, 1908, contains a half tone cut of
Jake Porter and his car, together
| with a short sketch Of Jake's history
in connection with the road. Jake
has been on the De Smet section as
foreman since 1888, twenty five years
of service. The Bulletin says that
during that quarterof a century there
has never been a wreck or derailment
on the De Smet section which could
be charged to neglect of duty or poor
workmanship. That's a record to be
proud of.
The Norman elders have come
and gone. They held services on the
street afternoons and evenings Satur-
day and Sunday. but SO far as we
have heard did not create much in
serest beyond that prompted by curl
osity. They were a poor outfit of
takers, There are some good moral
doctrines advocated by the Mormans,
as is the case with nearly every spu
rious religion, but those good doc
trines perform about the same service
as the sugar coating on a nasty pill. At
ter all has been said, their real doctrine
is polygamy, an institution calculat
ed to induce good morals to about
the same extent as the doctrine of
free love or a house of prostitution.
Among the young people of Lake
Preston reported by the Times to have
gone to attend higher institutions of
learning are Miss Nellie Knutson, who
will take a post graduate course at
Augustana college at Canton; Oswald
and Charles A. Alseth, who will at
tend Yankton college; Misses Ella
| Christensen and Clara Ledahl, and
George A. Lloyd, who will attend the
state university at Vermillion. Lake
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