Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-09-02
MRS R. ]. Andrews accompanied

the i. L. hoDlnSOn family as Tar as
Minneapolis last week where she stop
ed for a few DAYS visit.
Miss Anna Squires desires to rent
three rooms of her house south of the
court house. Write her at Madison,
S. D., in care of the hospital.
Mrs. e. J.. Searls and daughter
Mile, are visiting her daughter Mrs.
C. S. McKibben. They arrived Thurs
day of last week from Akron, Iowa.
Seth Hewitt arrived at Arlington
Sunday evening from his home near
Glendive, Mont. Seth will visit in
this county several weeks before re-
turning to his home.
Geo. Weidenman threshed fifty
acres of barley that averaged 32 bush.
els to the nice showing for a
dry year and a profitable crop at pre-
sent prices.-Iroquois Chief.
z. Graves has moved onto the
Danley & Burdick farm southeast of
the city. Mr.. Graves is a good farmer
and with the place now in good con-
dition it should prove a profitable
move for him.
Mrs. Anna Squires and daughters
Mary, Nellie and Veronica departed
Wednesday for Madison. Mrs. Squires
will resume her work as cook for the
hospital, a position which she held
the past year.
The wrestling match at Floto Hall
Saturday evening between Zene Cum
Minis, of this city, and Blair, of St.
Paul, resulted in a victory for Cum.
Minis who secured two straight falls.
The first vas won in five and a half
minutes and the second in eight min
utes, and this Notwithstanding Cum.
Minis was the lighter of the two by
eighteen pounds.
We failed to mention last week
George Burd's visit to his farm north
of Phillip, this state. George says
crops are spotted" in the western
part of the state. He was pleased to
find a good crop in his section. Wheat
is turning out we'll and corn is look
ing fine. There is also a good crop of
grass in that locality. George says
Ed Morrison, a former resident of
De Smet, has one of the best crops he
ever harvested.
The former Illinois people of this
community to the number of 125
gathered for a picnic at the grove on
the A. n. Waters farm on the east
side of the city Saturday. One hun
dred twenty five were served at din.
ner and the crowd was increased by
late arrivals in the afternoon. A per-
manent organization was perfected by
the election of E. HI. Couse president
and Miss Bertha Eggleston secretary.
The day was thoroughly enjoyed by
all present.
Rev. E. 0. Hofstad, who is hold
ing a Lutheran passionate at Hayfield,
Mimi, has been spending a vacation
of a month at various points, but
most of the time in De Smet with his
parents. He intended to leave for
Hayfield about the first of this month.
Mr.. Hofstad has a large congregation
at Hayfeld which is composed of
several nationalities. His services
are therefore all in the English Ian
guage, except or special occasions at
a different hour when services are
conducted in the Norwegian language
for the benefit of some of the older
people who find it difficult to follow
an address in English.
Oldham is beginning early this
season to talk of a car shortage. but
last weeks issue of the Register as
serted such a scarcity to exist. The
car shortage is something of myth.
There are plenty of cars, but the real
trouble lies in the fact that most rail
road companies refuse to haul empty
cars toprimary points. The shipping
of grain from primary points naturally
causes a scarcity of cars at country
towns where the incoming shipments
are small. 1t is ridiculous to expect
country communities to ship in as
many carloads of stuff as they can ship
out as the season when the year's pro
duct is marketed. But that is the