Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-06-05

lately in a home provided by the
groom on First street.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sasse and her
daughters Nina and Retta will de
part soon after June 10th, for the
Black Hills where they will spend
several weeks.
During the past few years we
have heard much of ''embalmed" beef
and of various things not good for
the stomach which are sometimes
placed in canned goods to aid in pre-
serving and retaining the natural
color, and which the pure food laws
are designed to prevent. But it re,
manned for some enterprising fruit
grower to hand us the embalmed
strawberry, which it is said has been
on the market in this and other towns
in the Northwest this season. 1t is
said the fruit had been immersed in
a solution of formaldehyde for the
purposeof making it stand up under
handling several days longer than it
wood in its natural state. The same
solution, only probably in a stronger
form, is used in treating seed grain
for the purpose of destroying smut.
The pure food officials are on the trail
of the guilty parties and hope to land
them and give them a taste of the
law which no formaldehyde both can
prevent. The same chemical is some
times used to preserve milk, and one
day the first of the week the state
food Inspector caused to be arrested
and convicted a man at Huron who
had been selling milk thus treated.
A conviction and q small fine is
punishment not nearly SO severe as
the case deserves. The public do
not want to turn their stomachs into
smut machines, dandelion killers, or
sheep dipping tanks, for that is the
proper use of formaldehyde.
Ed Mathews and family arrived
with bag and baggage from White
Fish, Montana, Monday evening, and
Tuesday morning drove out to the
farm formerly belonging to his mother
the house being unoccupied this year.
Ed, it will be remembered, sold off
his personal property last fall after a
very successful season and thought to
see a little of the country and perhaps
strike something easier than farming
and a better place to live in than
South Dakota. He went out to Mon
tana and there bought a lodging
house which was paying big money
until this financial stringency last
fall, but which, since that time, was
not SO profitable owing to the reduc-
ton in the force of railroad workmen
from over 200 to 30 at that place,
But luck was with Ed and he finally
unloaded the plant to a man who
never knew the beauties Of nor the
brand of JOY they hand out here in
South Dakota. In this he was ex-
tremely lucky as he got out all that
he put into it. Ed says that the nine
months since he left here cost him a
little, but he had his vacation and
saw a little of the country and that
was worth all the cost. But a happier
man you never saw. "South Dakota
looks good to me-, said Ed, as he
stood looking out our Office window,
and you'll see me hauling wheat down
the old pike next year." and as he
thought of it a smile spread over his
face such as all Montana could never
bring. In one thing Ed was both
wise and lucky. Herefused all offers
for his farm in Mathews township
thinking he might want to come back,
and if he did be wanted a home to
come to. We are all glad to see Ed
and his family located here again.