Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-04-03

cleaned is sold for at the elevators.
South Dakota people have the money
when they want to buy.
j. Fl. Bouchie returned last week
from Clinton, Iowa, where he pur
chased a fine Belgian stallion. Mr..
Bouchie has some of the finest regis
tered Belgian and Percheron horses
to be found in the state.
w. III. Henney received another
car of implements and vehicles Sat-
urday. Among the latter were some
of the notad Staver carriages. These
are some of the finest workmanship
known in the carriage line and of the
best material.
Mrs. John Lark has rented her
restaurant to VIM Tugaw and has
moved her family into the Carroll bull
ding east of the bank of De Smet.
Mrs. Lark will remain here until after
school closes and then go east for a
visit of a couple of months.
Co. Aud. p. A. Carroll was at
Pierre last week in attendance at the
meeting of the county auditors for
the purpose of discussing and adjust
ing valuations as between the differ
ent counties. There were those who
wanted to have Kingsbury county
lands averaged at $40 per acre, but it
was finally decided that a reasonable
figure would be So per acre. Brook
ings county was place at $40.
De Smet is now free from diph,
liberia. All patients have recovered
and the quarantine has been removed.
So long a time has elapsed since the
general exposure that there is no fear
of another breaking out of the disease,
This fortunate condition is due to the
strict measures taken as soon as it
was learned the disease had made an
appearance in this city, and to the
use of anti-toxin. BY the use of
anti toxin the disease is stopped in
its first stages and the patient almost
is saved as well as reduc
ing the contagion and the chances of
spreading the disease. Since small
pox has been reduced from an almost
fatal disease to one of so mild a form
as to have no terrors and very little
discomfort, diphtheria and scarlet
fever are the worst diseases to rage
in epidemic form in this climate. But
by the prompt use of anti-toxin the
diphtheria can be cured and the spread
of the disease largely controlled.
Science is making great strides these
days.
At the meeting of the board Of
education Friday evening, March n,
it was decided to submit the question
of issuing bonds to the amount of
about $1,000 for the purpose of erect
ing another school building of four
rooms and the installation of a steam
heating plant. 1t is thought that the
improvements can be made for the
sum named, and in that case it would
be necessary to issue only about
$4,000 of the bonds as there will be
about $1,000 in cash in the treasury
at the end of the tax year. OF course
the issue must be authorized for all
that may possibly be needed as it
would not be wise to have the work
left incomplete for the lack of a few
hundred dollars. The INDEPENDENT
approves of the plan of erecting a
building sufficient to meet the needs
of the school for a few years, instead
of attempting to issue bonds to the
limit and building half such a school
house as the city may neeG in future
years. Our bond limit is about 49,
900 which would be only about half
the amount required toerect a modern
brick school house suitable to meet
the probable demands of ten or twelve
years hence, and anything short of
building at least half hat would be
a waste of money. The interest on
the bond limit of $4,000 would be
about $1,000 per year in round figures.
At the end of ten years we can afford
to give away the e building now
contemplated and be within the in
terest on the bond limit. The steam
heating plant now contemplated will
be such that it can be used when a
new and modern building is erected
so that the money invested in this
will not be thrown away. The board
also sliced the dilema by the horns
and elected teachers for the ensuing
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