Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-05-28

Henry was unconscious for a few
minutes. He was out Monday morn.
ing, however.
Mrs. FL. A. Hamm, of Huron,
visited at the G. A. Champlin home
in this city from Saturday until
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Odds, of Wells,
Mimi, arrived Wednesday evening
for a visit with Mr.. Odds mother, Mrs.
D. McQuarie.
Miss Mary Wright has our thanks
for an invitation to attend the gradual
ing exercises at Brookings college,
which occur June 9th. Miss Mary
is a member of the graduating class.
&C. HI. Tiukham has commenced
his work as city assessor. Ordinarily
Mr.. Tinkham is not a nan TO pry into
the affairs of his neighbors, but just
now he is after information in detail
The Brookings college students
passed through De Smet on their way
to Huron by Special train Thursday
morning. The inter collegiate meet
for the state was pulled off at Huron
that day.
Misses Jennie and Flossie
Nichols, having finished the years
school work in this city, departed
Thursday morning for La Grange,
Ohio, to which place their parents
went early this spring to make the
family home. The young ladies will
be greatly missed by their many
school friends.
The committee in charge of the
parade for Old Settlers Day, June
10th, have decided to offer the follow
ing prizes: Best float from country,
$1,000; second best $500; best city
float, $500; most comical float, $500;
second best comical float, $500. An
effort will be made to have the parade
an interesting feature of the day.
w. NJ. Bartlett returned the first
of the week from Alexandria, Mimi,
where he was called by the serious
illness of his mother. The lady dis
played no signs of recognition while
w. NJ. was there. 1t was not thought
that she could recover, as her condi.
ton and her age, 81 years, were both
against her.
"A Chicago grain firm had a man
in this locality last week soliciting
consignments of grain from farmers.
We have no means of knowing
whether his efforts will be crowned
with success in the grain shipping
season or not. Where the grain bust
ness is conducted on a narrow margin
as it is here in De Smet, it is impos
sible for the farmer TO shipgrain with
a profit. We presume there are a few
who are always taken up with a new
suggestion put to them by plausible
talker who will disagree with US on
that point. If there are any such
who read this item, the only way in
which they can be convinced is to try
it. The usual method of getting a
slice of the shippers hide is to sell
the car to a dummy at the low price
level of the day and let him sell it for
its full value. This works nicely if
the grain happens to be a choice
article of that particular grade. The
difference in the price is clean velvet
as the shipper pays all switching
charges, inspection, weighing. etc.
Such a scheme works nicely where
the shipper has only one or two cars
a year and is not liable to discover
the method. In fact, it doesn't make
a great deal of difference if he does
discover it. What can be do about it,,
anyway? He may not ship again,
but some other man takes his place.
AS soon as one crop of victims is ex-
hausted another grows up to take its
place.
| am prepared to do sewing by
the day or at my home. Address
Erma I.unnhue DeSmet 8 ID Phnna