Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-04-23

preach the funeral sermon for Mrs.
Cooper, the mother of Miss Alice
Cooper, who was one of the teachers
in our city schools three years ago.
"A letter from F. V. Kundert at
Helmet, CAL, orders his INDEPENDENT
sent to New Glarus, Wis. The family
| will leave Helmet within a few days
and make short stops at different
points on the way back to De Smet.
They expect to arrive here in about
six weeks, and then go on to the old
home in Wisconsin. F. V. says he
met "A w. Stone, of Erwin recently
and a number of other South Dakota
people at other times and at other
places.
A representative of the Board of
Underwriters visited this city a few
weeks ago while on an inspection tour
of the state. AS a result the town
was re-rated for fire insurance premi-
ums. In some instances there was a
slight raise made. In several cases a
new rate giving a substantial reduc-
ton was made, and in still another
instances a certain class of risks were
given a fiat reduction of % per cent.
The old rating under which insurance
has been written for several years was
unjust; it was outrageously high on
some classes of property. The lev
rate comes nearer to being a fair one.
A few weeks ago we printed an
article commenting on the conditions
existing in De Smet, and stating that
there was much dissatisfaction in re-
gard to the a the booze question
had worked out, and further, that, in
the judgement of the writer, a ma
iority vote for license at the spring
election was more of a possibility and
nearer a probability than it had been
for years. A few who are very pre-
iudiced in their views attempted to
make themselves believe that our
plain statement of conditions and our
judgement as to what might be the
result at the election was an attempt
on our part to argue in favor of license,
The reducing of The majority against
license from Ga in 1908 to 5 in 1909 is
the best evidence we can produce that
were correct in our statement and
that our judgement HIS to the senti-
ment of the voters was good. A plain
statement of the facts ought not to in
jure any cause; the cause that receivers
Injury from such a source is just as
we'll lost.
-Gipsy Smith is now holding
monster revival meetings In Mime
apolis, having just concluded a cam
paign in st. Paul. Smith is attract
ing considerable attention, although
whether he will accomplish much
good is a d~batable question. The
famous Chapman and his corps of
workers conducted similar campaigns
in those cities three year agp. Wheth
er the lat er accomplished good we
cannot say, but one thing we do know
there are no permanent results APP
parent to the occasional visitor tC
those cities Chapman was somewhat
on the sensational ord . The writer
happened to visit ST. Paul at he time
the latter had his campaign on. We
noticed that the visits of Chapman
and his co-workers TO saloons and
some of the questionable joints caus
ed a great deal of talk. but even in
the high pitch of excitement there
were only a very few who thought
that feature would accomplish good
Gipsy Smith seems to be a little less
on the sensational order. and he is
credited with being an earnest man,
1t is certain that be is attracting great
crowds and some of his m as
printed in the dailies read like gooC
doctrine.
The store of Maxwell ~ Maxwell
at Manchester, was burglarized either
Saturday or Sunday night and abou'
twenty-four pair of shoes taken. Ih'
thieves entered the store by o
a skeleton key, took the shoes and re
placed the boxes on the shelves and /
was not until along during business
hours Monday that the loss was dis
covered. The matter was reported t.
Sheriff Goodwin who notified th'
officers in adjoining counties. Mon
day evening the authorities at Vienn;
reported the apprehension of partie'
answering the description of thos'
~suspicioned of the crime. james