Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-07-30

Mrs. Chas. Rehfeld has been suf-
fering from an attack of pneumonia
the past week.
Miss Leslie Donovan, of Mime
apolis, is visiting her sister, Mrs. B..
A. Dyar. of this city.
"A business meeting of the Y. p.
A. will be held with Miss Alvina
Rehfeld Monday evening.
Mrs. Hubbard, one of the we'll
known earlier residents of De Smet
came from Castlewood recently for
a visit with old friends.
-LosT-A physical geography,
with name of Miss Arey Nimms in
side of cover, on Third street between
school house and Calumet avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Yeager, of
Bellevue, Iowa, are spending a few
days in this city. Mr.. Yeager is the
owner of a farm in Mathews township.
"A. w. Rowland from east of
town hauled the first load of new
grain to this market Wednesday. 1t
was barley testing As pounds to the
bushel and of good color.
The foundation for both the
Flindt and Mears buildings on Calu-
ment avenue have been constructed
and the work of laying the cement
blocks will commence soon.
Rev. Mr.. Washburn of the NJ. f..
church preached at Arlington Sun
day, and the Arlington pastor went
to Waterfowl to preach for Rev.
Jenkins who preached in this city.
Mrs. E. F. Green departed for
Sibley, Iowa, Thursday to visit rela
tives. Her sister, who has been in
China as a missionary for some time,
is now at home on a vacation so Mrs.
Green's visit will be = very pleasant
one.
Albert Rowcliffe, who had been
living on the Z. A. Carroll farm near
Lake Preston, committed suicide Sat
urday, July oath, at the j. H. Bouchie
home in this city by drinking four
ounces of carbolic acid The remains
were taken to Lake Preston for burial
Sunday. Rowcliffe leaves two brothers,
a sister, a wife who is an inmate of an
insane asylum, and four children.
Walter Anderson, the manager,
says the Lake Preston creamery is
doing "a very satisfactory business
and meeting all reasonable competi-
ton in prices for cream. 1t is to be
regretted that there are a few who
do not believe it pays to patronize
home institutions. When the com
peting local creameries are killed off
if that time comes, as it has in many
places, such as have cream or milk
for sale will experience a change of
mind.-Times.
Understand there is some talk of
the Farmers Telephone companies
consolidating or forming a corpora
ton TO buy out the Dakota Contra
Telephone company in Willow Lakes.
We believe this is a step in the RICH,
direction, and hope to see them com.
plete the deal.-W Willow Lakes News
1t may not be a long time before
some such action will be in order in
De Smet. Farmers along the north
rural line from this city are contem-
plating either buying from the Dako-
ia Central or building a new line.
With the addition of only a few miles
of line the farm and independent lines
of this county could consolidate and
cover the entire county. Experience
has proved hal rural lines a be
conducted much cheaper than the
rental usually charged by the line
company. In towns where the ex-
change is owned by the municipal
corporation, or by a mutual company,
the plants have been very successful.
Andrew Townsend Hisey, OF
lama, lama county, Iowa, the secu-
lar wheelbarrow candidate for the
presidency, made De Smet a visit
Wednesday. Hisey has a bad case
of harmless ''bugs." Through a joke
perpetrated by the students of the
agricultural college at Ames Hisey's
name as a candidate for the governor
of Iowa was placed on the official
ballot five years ago. That gave him
a political ambition and today he is
both a candidate for the governorship
of Iowa and the presidency of the