Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-19

Father Caaerky Lake Pres
ton, was the guest of Father Lahecka
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Alquist were
made happy by the arrival of asson at
their home Tuesday.
Earl Wilmarth returned Wednes.
day from his visit to relatives at
Stewartville, Mimi. He was accom-
panied on his return by his cousin,
Miss Hazel Carson.
Mike Morrison and others in that
part of Mathews township report that
recent rains made the ground too wet
for blowing the middle of this week.
How is that for a dry season?
20. U. Ahlers will start on his fall
trip selling wall paper next week. Mr..
Ahlers travels for a manufacturing
firm and sells to large dealers only.
He overs a large territory and will
not conclude the trip until about Dec
ember 18th.
Mrs. j. F. Egan, formerly Miss
Margaret Mier who was stenographer
in the office of the Waters Land &
Loan Co. for two years, is visiting at
the j. w. Burdick home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Egan moved from Wisconsin to
Woonsocket, this state, and located
permanently at that place.
Illinois residents of this vicinity
will hold a picnic On Saturday, Aug
ust 9th, in the grove on the A. N.
Waters farm, known as the Fred Dow
farm, one-fourth mile northeast of the
De Smet depot. All Illinois people
are urge to bring their lunch, spend
the day, and help to form a perman-
ent organization.
%. H. Carpenter, who had his foot
crushed while attempting to pass be
tween the cars Tuesday of last week,
was taken to Volga hospital Wednes-
day, the foot having not healed the
way it hoped for. DR.. Hopkins am
putated the foot just above the ankle.
He was assisted by DR.. Scanlon and
DR.. Williams Sun.
j. w. Barkalow has twenty C S
of nice corr as car be found anywhere
in this part of the state. 1t is on the
quarter just east of the Danley & Bur-
dict farm on the north side of Lake
Preston road. j. W. plowed the field
five times. The last two plowings
were not necessary for the purpose of
destroying weeds, but the work was
done for the purpose of conserving the
moisture in the soil. Thatit paid well
is proved by the appearance of the
field at this time.
e. A. Nelson, of Kent, Wash, a
former resident of Spirit Lake town
ship, writes to have his name enrolled
on the Independent mailing list. E.
A. is doing well in the west country.
He is now engaged as draftman for
the Northern Clay Co. Last year he
was engaged in the fire department at
Seattle. He also gave us some news
of old friends who formerly lived at
Volga. Among others mentioned were
the Bolke boys, who are relatives of
Mrs. X. Knudsen, of this city. Chas.
Bolke is now one of the alderman of
Seattle.
The thresher engine belonging to
Welman brothers, of Carpenter, blew
up Monday afternoon while threshing
on Jake Weakiey's farm. The engine
CT, John Welman, was at work on the
engine at the time of the accident and
received injuries from which he died
early Tuesday morning. The cause
OF the explosion is not definately
known but it is supposed to be caused
by low water. They had finished a
setting, except cleaning up, and the
separator man had signaled for half
speed, and it was while regulating the
engine that the accident occurred
Willow Lakes News.
And yet our wise Legislators insist
on laughing to death a proposed law
for licensing steam engineers.
We called at the gas plant Satur-
day and found Gay Barrows, the
superintendent, just through with the
construction of a new bench, or fur
mace, in which the crude oil is cooked
to convert it into gas. Gay is a
mechanic by nature as well as training.
He has constructed a bench that has
several Improvements over the style
erected when the plant was establish.