Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-05-06

! visit with his mother.
w. M. Cheever, in writing from
Corpus Christi, Texas, says: "Ws
leave for Mexico to night and expect
to be home about the Attn. or 9Th of
May. Just completed three weeks
fishing trip in Arkansas Pass. where
the Gulf of Mexica opens into Cor
pus Bay. Three tarpons, eighteen
amber jacks, eleven sharks comprises
the big fish caught and innumerable
small ones. A fine winter and all
feeling immense. - Brookings Press.
That is a wonderful country for
big fish-and big fish stories.
AT the request of the game
warden, we call the attention Of our
readers to that part of the game law
which makes it unlawful for wner
to allow what are known as "bird
dogs" to run at large during the
months of April, May, and June. This
feature of the law seems to be utterly
d~isregarded by sportmen and others
in this locality. The law provides a
penalty and the state warden has in
structed the county warden to en-
force the law to the letter. To con-
tinue to violate the law will cost the
dogs life, and will also cause the dis
grace and the financial loss resulting
from arrest and penalty.
There was considerable rivalry
last week between the junior and
senior classes of the high school.
Each insisted on having its class col
ors at a point higher than the other.
The colors of one were torn down by
the other class and replaced by their
~colors, and then the operation was re
peated by the other class. The mat
ter occupied the attention of the pu-
pills for several days, and most OF
two nights The whole affair looks
silly, but we are assured that it is a
necessary part of a "higher educa-
ton. Matters at one time ran so
high that n young man thought it
necessary to use his fist on a young
lady and an arrest was promised as a
result but the latter did not mater
ialize.
At the meeting of the city
Gil Monday evening Mayor w. H
Warren took over the duties of that
office from t. 2. Go dwin, who held
the place for four years in succession.
0. III. Halle from the first ward and
Peter O'Hara from the Third ward
were the new aldermen to take the
oath of office. In the Second ward
Louis Sterr was elected his W sue
cessor. The appointments made by
the mayor were o. p. Williams,
auditor; Don. A. Crawford. city at.
torney; DR.. B. A. Dyar, health officer;
and Gay Barrows, superintendent of
the gas plant. The police officers
were not appointed at this meeting.
If possible to do so, it is the intention
to combine the duties of chief of
police with the duties of street com
missioner or assistant at the gas
plant. This latter is not yet definite
ly arranged. The usual committees
were also appointed.
In behalf of her opponent some
one is attempting to circulate the
idea that Mrs. McCarty, if elected to
the Office of county superintendent,
could not do the outside work in the
winter time, such as visiting schools,
as well as a man. The idea is ridiculous,
and if there is an individual so foolish
as to attempt to convey that idea, it
is doubtful if there are many foolish
enough to believe it. The fact is we
never had a superintendent that pre-
tended to visit country schools in the
stormy weather of midwinter, and we
probably never will have one. If
Mrs. McCarty is elected to that Office,
she will attend to such work at the
proper time, and if, for any reason,
it requires a visit to a rural school at
any time, whatever the weather may
be, she will attend to it if anybody
can. She is just as capable of driv-
ing into the country 10 the winter
time as are the hundreds of women
living in the country who are able to,
and do, drive to the towns in the
winter time. Mrs. McCarty would