Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-12-23

Wall, Owen Gallagher, C. w. Mutt,
J. II. Hodges.
Read the Shoe adv of the Poverty
Flat Store.
An Aberdeen woman died re-
Gently after a fast of two months,
aged 81 years.
All of the De Smet young people
who are attending higher institutions
of learning, except Robt. Moody, who
is at Denver, Col, are home for the
holiday vacation.
Joe DelVecchio. of the California
Fruit Store, must think Kingsbury
county has a mighty big "sweet TOOTH"
His stock of chocolates put in for the
Christmas trade would stock several
ordinary candy stores, and they are
all of the best manufacture, too.
The largest and most complete
stock of shoes will be found at the
Poverty Flat Store. Shoes for grandpa
and grandma, father and mother, boys
and girls, and the babies. Every pair
of shoes sold from December 23rd to
January lst, entities the purchaser to
20 pounds of graduated sugar for
S1.OO.
R. j. Armstrong last week re
ceived a letter from that same Span
ish gentleman who has been in prison
for years and has been seeking some
one with who he might divide his
fortune. This time b. offered $3.50.
10000. The postal authorities should
arrange with the Spanish govern
ment in some way to prevent the use
of mails by such frauds.
Oscar l.. Anderson. Hartland
township, was the winnerof eS25 90
cash prize offered by the INDEPENDENT
in connection with the rural school
boys corn contest. The corr is of
the Silver King variety, The corn
was planted May Goth and harvested
October 9Th and 10Th. There were
525 stalks in the plot, 1877 stalks We're
barren, leaving a crop of 389 ears.
The second apportionment of the
income from the lease of school lands
and the interest on the permanent
school fund has just been made and
amounts to 70 cents for each child of
school age in the state. The total ap
protionment for the state is 1913, 1852.
The June approtioument was 1922,
making a total of 1878 for each
school child in the state for the year,
or a total for the state for the year
1900 S6l6,7 Sl 90. Kingsbury coun
tvs share of the last apportionment
is So, 1856.
M. O. DeWall says he has finish
ed building out on his farm just
southwest of the city, at least for this
season. The last building 10 be finish
ed is a barn the main part of which is
60x60, with one iean-to 24xGG, and
one l2x34, containing in all 5,400 feet
of floor space 1t has a capacity for
sixty head of stock, from seven to
eight thousand bushels of small grain,
one thousand bushels of corn, and two
hundred fifty tons of hay. Ia the
barn is a water tank made of cement
with an overflow pipe which runs back
to a reserve tank under the floor of the
barn. This tank. or cistern will hold
several hundred barrels of water
Everything is so arranged that all
stock can be fed aud watered without
once going outs ide of the barn. He
certainly has everything about this
barn as convieutly arranged as it is
possible to have it. Last year, it will
be remembered, we mentioned the
fact that Mr.. DeWall erected a large
and modern house. His farm is one
of the best improved in the county
There may be some who have more
barns and other outbuildings where
more acres make them necessary but
none have better improvements nor