Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-13

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Three cases of small pox are re-
ported in Willow Lakes, Frank James,
Dave Roberts and Walter S%orenson
having the disease in a light form.
They are q%uarantined in a little house
north of town, and there is no fear of
the disease spreading.-Willow Lake
News.
This locality was visited by a
heavy fall of snow Friday morning
from about twelve o'clock until day
light, which has been variously esti-
mated at from eight to twelve inches.
The snow was preceded by a shower
of rain, which with the snow, amount
ed to 1.36 inches of water according
to our local weather observer, j. FL.
Hall.
AT the meeting of school patrons
Wednesday evening the matter of
greater room for our city schools was
discussed and it was the sense of the
meeting that the board should confer
with architects as to plans and cost
of a building that might be erected
in sections. Those present also favor
ed adding the twelfth grade to the
high school course.
-Adolph Anderson and family
started last Saturday morning for
some point in Oklahoma where it is
the intention to locate. We under.
stand Adolph's father and some other
relatives have been ~endeavoring to
induce them to come there for some
time. Friends hope that he may be
able to make ends meet there better
| than he did here.-Times.
w. r. Allen moved his family
and chattels to the farm near Man
chester the first of the week, which he
purchased from James Mulligan last
fall. That will make w. r. a fine
farm. especially as it is adapted to
stock, which is Aliens long suit. Sorry
to see him leave this vicinity but all
hope he will be as successful in the
new home as he was on thu farm near
this city.
F. Nj. Andrews horse Coxcomb
in now in the hands of a firm of the
best horse trainers in Iowa. They
make Davenport their headquarters
and have trained some of the fastest
horses on the western tracks in the
last few years. They write that Cox
comb shows up we'll and they admire
him as a fine horse. Of course, it is
too early for them to say what may be
expected of him in the way of high
speed, but they think him one of the
most promising horses now in train
ing in that section.
The death of Mrs. Adolf Moeller,
of appendicitis and ulcers of the
stomach occurred at the family home
in Whitewood township, the place
known as the Torkel Hanson farm
on Saturday, Feb. 29th, 1908, aged
81 years, 6 months and 13 days. Mr.,
and Mrs. Moeller and children arriv
ed from Denison, Iowa, n year ago
the first of March and settled up
on the place he purchased on a pre-.
vious trip to this locality. They were
plea sanity located and have gradual.
ly become acquainted with the neigh
bors. Times.
Among the new settlers in this
locality who arrived within the last
weeks are j. III. Brown, of Guthrie
Center, Iowa, who has rented tn e
Champlin farm northeast of the city;
T. G.. Reilly, of Pisgah, Iowa, who
purchased the Taylor farm northeast
of De Smet last fall; John Mitchell,
of Iowa, who moves onto his own farm
southwest, and, a gentleman named
Workman. who bought the Williams
half-section northeast of the city;
John Killeen, of West Side, Iowa, who
rents the Lewis Sterr farm; Joseph
Becicka, of Ely, Iowa, and Frank
Rousar, of the same place. both OF
whom purchased farms south of this
city; and a gentleman named Eaton,
from Dixon, Ill, who bought a farm
two and a half miles northwest. We
wish them all the bes. Of success,