Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-01

ated upon Thursday morning for
appendicitis.
Mrs. T. FL. Ruth underwent a
successful operation at the De Smet
hospital Thursday.
An exchange tells of a newspaper
reporter who interviewed thirty uc-
%cessful business men and found hat
all of them when boys had been gov
erned strictly and frequently thrash
ed. He also interviewed thirty loafers
and learned that twenty-seven of
them had been "mamma's darling"
and the other three had been reared
by their grandmothers.
ID. McQuarie & Son have sur
rendered the lease on the Syndicate
Hotel to P. A. Randklev, the owner.
The firm has labored under some diff
%iculties and has not made a success
financially the past year. Their assets
have been turned over to a third party
for the benefit of creditors. Mr..
Randklev will operate the hotel until
other arrangements can be made.
Friday night and Saturday
brought us a fine rain, and it was
just in time for the crops. As it is
now some of the early sown oats and
barley may return a yield a little
short of the average of the pass few
wears Of excellent crons hut on the
whole our prospects are good for a
good fair crop of all kinds of grain.
Farmers who have land into fax are
feeling jubilent as present prospects
are as good as we ever had and could
hardly be improved upon.
Gay Barrows went over to
Clark last week to help fix up their
gas plant. He built two benches
while there and helped to arrange
other fixtures. What Gay does not
know about gas making from oil
might be interesting, but to tell i. is
a job that none in this section need
to tackle. He has madea study of it,
and has a full knowledge of the
practical workings of such a plant as
one might know from the success
made of the plant in this city.
AT the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Farmers c. -Opera
tive Association held in this city
Saturday afternoon, June 25th, the
old board of directors was reelected.
The following are the members Of
the board. r. j. Armstrong, Louis
STIR, Frank Gillispie, Luke Kelly,
Ole Johnson, j. l.. Van Hook, Thos.
O'Hara. As there was no change on
the board the organization will be the
same as last year, R. j. Armstrong,
president, Louis Sterr, treasurer, f.
w. Wright, secretary, and f. I'll. Leu,
grain buyer. The business of the
association for the past year proved
to be very satisfactory. A good sub
stantial dividend will be distributed
among the stockholders. The mem
bers of the association will receive g
printed copy of the report of the
auditor hired to check oyer the bust
ness of the year, which will be mailed
with the dividend checks within a
day or two.
Mrs. Frank McGrady and little
daughter arrived from Perry, Iowa,
last Friday for a visit at the home Of
the formers sister, Mrs. Y. McCurdy,
out towards Lake Thompson. The
visit gave every promise of being an
enjoyable one until Tuesday night,
when Mrs, McGrady's mind became
unbalanced. The members of the
family Were unable to control or even
detain her at the home. With the
little girl she got away from them
and started out on foot. They sue
ceeded In telephoning in to the
police authorities in the middle of
the night and an automobile was dis
patched in that direction and Deputy
Sheriff Larson and Chief of Police
Cary picked her and the little girl up
about n mile west of town. They
brought her 10 town and, under direc-
ton of DR.. Bailey, who is a member
OF the county insanity board, she was
taken to De Smet early yesterday
morning. The woman was quite
desperate at times. 1t is reported
that she suffered in similar manner
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