Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-04-02

Joe Elliott, of Bancroft vicinity,
was called to Iowa last week by the
illness of his mother.
Louis Sterr has received his new
Buick auto and was out breaking it
to drive Wednesday.
Roy Chase, the harness maker,
has been putting out a nice line of
his goods among our farmers the past
few weeks.
jess Eakles, of Mathews, was
overlass Saturday to meet his brother
from illinois who arrived that day
with one of their fast horses. The
Eakles boys have some of the fastest
horses in this part of the country and
ought to capture AL the first money
put up for fast horse races around
here - Esmond Herald.
Last weeks issue of the Willow
Lakes News stated that Mr.. and Mrs.
John Forbes returned to Almena,
Wis, Wednesday morning to take
another treatment at the John Till
hospital. Mr. Forbes does not think
be s quite as well as he was when he
came home some three weeks ago,
h nee their return.
-. l.. Van Hook, of Spirit Lake,
and Chas. Q. Cummins, of this city,
spent several days last week on a wolf
hunt in the northern part of Kings
bury and ia the southern part of Clark
county. During the hunt they sight
ed sixteen wolves and their dogs cap
tured ten Of the animals Van Hook
saws they run across some of the most
accommodating neighbors over Ban
croft way that a man could expect to
meet in a lifetime. At one place they
wanted food for the dogs and the
farmer picked up an axe and dispatch
ed a hog for dog feed.
George Lancaster, for many years
a resident of the southern part of the
county, anG for the past five years a
resident of this city, died Wednesday
morning at 5 o'clock. Mr.. Lancaster
suffered from softening of the brain
and for about two years was helpless
and a subject of constant are He
was "A good citizen and an upright
man. To the faithful wife who has
cared for him all through the last
years and never complained at the
trials the care of such an invalid bring
the heartfelt sympathy of the com
muuity iaextended The funeral was
held Thursday afternoon.
"A. E. Deneyan went to Highmore
the first of the week TO see if the
steam breaking rig he had ordered
was on the ground. A. E. will have
an outfit consisting of a 80 h. p. steam
engine and a l0-plow Reeves gang.
This makes the most upto date steam
pillow on the market. The pillow is
lifted and lowered by steam A. E.
will break 400 acres and SOW to flax
for one party and will also break and
SOW 10 flax for himself. There are
several steam rigs getting ready to
operate in the immediate vicinity of
Highmore as soon as the season opens.
This season will nearly if not quite
double the number of acres under the
pillow in that section of the state.
Those who have paid subscrip-
ton since our last mention are Lars
Nelson, Andrew Bjordahl, w. C.l
Smith, Ed Harvey, Urban Feuerstein,
Mrs. F. G. Ruman, A. II. Wubbena,
LCSbCi BtuDClbS, IlSIHldll mu76lt JOuu
Morrison, Jiles Fonda, N. V. Larson,
L. G. OiConnor, A. S. Carson, O. ST.
Hoover, John limp, H. IL Ehler, A.
S. ADJUST, Jira Payn, f. A. William
son, Aug. Gehm. Geo Roberts, Swan
Swanson, Fl. A. Hamm. Andrew Pet
erson, Adolph Stankey, August Dus-
terback, w. Weerts. G. l.. White, w.
f. Warner. l. A. Howard, Oscar An
derson, John Fl. Newell, Ole Johnson,
Chas. I. Dennis, e. j. Hart, d. w.
Whitehead, +. G. Foresburg, Andrew
Christensen, Casper Geyer, Albert
And w A. Bontrager; August
Stankey, Mrs. John Jepson, Christ
Berg, John Exc, Jacob Kammerer,
Frank Schoenhoven, Louis Billiard,
T. G.. Warner, Alfred Anderson. O..
A. Nelson, S. w. Stewart, f. A. Lar
son, j. b. Nelson. G. Gustafson, T.