Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08

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Pierson.
r. w. Levitt was up from Airing
hon Wednesday
: Miss Mary Haley has been quite
i'll the past week.
Fl. Ell. Leu went to Watertown
Wednesday to visit friends in that
city and vicinity.
VIM Kruger has nearly complet-
ed the erection of a large barn on his
farm northeast of the city.
The new line of railroad between
Iroquois and Doland is not being
built very rapidly. 1t vas generally
expected that this extension would be
built this summer but there is moth
ing doing yet. Perhaps DIRT will fly
later in the season but this is only IA
guess.-Chief.
Miss Louisa Warner has some
doubts about Christmas coming only
once a year since the school board
having charge of the Rose Hill school,
a mile east and four miles north of
this city, voluntarily raised her wages
$500 per month and added another
month to the school year. Miss
Louisa is making good as a teacher.
Henry Reidel recently returned
from a two weeks visit in Illinois.
Two weeks ago Saturday Henry saw
a number of farmers planting their
corn fields for the third time this sea
son. The spring there was cold and
wet ami the corn aad no SHOW at ali.
Henry says the best crops he saw,
either going or coming, were from
De Smet to Tracy, MINI.
Friday of last week was a day of
showers, but it never touched us here
at De Smet. In the David Pratt vi
cinity in Mathews township it rained
for a half hour. In the northeast
part of the county rain fell, and in
the vicinity of Oldham some hail was
reported. Hail was also reported
south of Arlington, but these reports
may have reference to the same storm.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Baldridge and
Miss Grace will leave next Saturday
for a TWO months trip throughout the
west. From the Twin Cities they
will go to Yellowstone Park and after
doing that thoroughly will make all
the principal points to the coast and
then travel south to Southern Cali
~fornia, returning to Iroquois by a diff
ferent route. They will make it a
point to see all former Iroquoisites
who live on their line of travel. 1t
will make a nice outing.-Chief.
The postal department has desig-
mated July 9th as the date upon
which an examination will be held
for those desiring an appointment
from this state to the railway postal
service. Applicants must be between
Is and 80 years of age. As the in
formation in regard to this examina
ton is of great length, and the gov
eminent has already spent a little
over a billion of dollars this year in
expense, the department requests this
publication to be free, we therefore
refer such readers as are interested in
this matter 10 the postmaster Of aly
town in the state for further informa-
ton.
Last year we made the same sug
g~estion, but few gave it serious con
sideration. This season we repeat
that it will be wise for consumers to
lay in their supply of winter coal
early. 1t is qcite probable that after
the experience of last winter consum-
ers will heed this advice to some ex-
tent. Should the winter be a hard
one there will very likely be some,
thing OF a shortage in the coal supply
for it is to be remembered that the
Illinois miners have been out on a
strike for three months and how much
longer they will be out cannot be
stated at this time The supply for
merly taken from these mines must be
made up from the prodnct of other
mines and will reduce the total sup
ply just that much.
the price of wool on the local mar
ket is Tic for the best, a figure con-
siderably less than last year, and that
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