Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-12

of the foot.
Adams butcher, of Brookings,
spent Sunday with friends in this city.
Miss May Murphy, one of our city
teachers, has been in a hospital at
Minneapolis for treatment for appen.
dicitis.
The union meeting Sunday even
ing will be held in the Methodist
church. Rev. j. E. Booth will deliver
the sermon.
Frank Georgian, who visited at the
/. j.. Miller home for five weeks, &C
companied his aunt, Miss Tressa Walt
house, back to Chicago Saturday of
last week.
Mrs. S. Amble and her daughter,
Miss Bertha, departed last Thursday
evening for Spring Grove and other
points in Minnesota where they will
visit friends and relatives.
Mrs. VIM. III. Warren gave a lawn
party Saturday afternoon to a number
of little ladies of the city in honor of
her neice, Iva Seaman. In the even
ing Mr.. Warren gave the little ladies
an auto ride.
The former statement that crops
in this section are spotted" is still
further attested by the results of
t~hreshing, George Block north of
the city threshed twenty-five bushels
of wheat to the acre and twenty
eight bushels of barley per acre. w.
X. Fritzle reports eighteen bushels of
wheat to the acre on a part of his farm
northeast of De Smet and a good fair
crop of barley and oats. Down south
east where the soil is a little more
on the sandy order f. A. Morris and
f. A. Rousar report about ten bushels
of wheat and not much more barley
and oats. On the whole the yield in
the vicinity of De Smet will not be as
bad as at first estimated, and this is
especially true of wheat.
Henry Knutson has purchased
the Sageng threshing rig which was
used here a few weeks ago in demon
strating. He took the outfit out to
L. o. Limbo's yesterday and starts in
the seasons run today. Success to
Henry in his interchangeable Pres
ton Times.
We understand this is one of the
new rigs fitted with an engine of the
compact auto or marine type, which
is placed below the cylinder of the
separator and not only furnishes the
power to operate the machine, but to
but to move it as we'll. Now that such
high horse power can be obtained so
so successfully from a high speed
compact gasoline engine it would
seem there is no reason why such an
arrangement will not soon supplant
the old style steam rig.
The Arlington HetIand Tele-
phone Company has purchased 81
miles of rural telephone lines in the
Lake Ponisett territory from the
Estelline Telephone Company, taking
possession August lst. They have
connected these lines up with Badger
by building three miles of new line
acros the country, .arming the
poles to carry extra wires for this
wolk. This gives the new territory
better service than ever before. Ar
lington Sun.
The Independent and Farmers
lines now cover a large part of this
county quite thoroughly. There is
already some talk of organizing the
independent systems in this section
and establishing a central office in
this city. The plan some advocate is
to combine all independent lines in
the county into one organization and
establish offices in each town in the
county. We do not know that the
matter has as vet gone further than
mere talk, but sooner or latter it will
mature into an organization of that
kind.
The Lake Preston Times has the
following to say of the early threshing
in that vicinity: "a steam threshing
rig has been pounding out the grain
on Martin Matson's farm this week.
Up to last evening the fields of blue
stem wheat which had been threshed
averaged twenty-five and one-half
bushels to the acre. The wheat is of
fine quality, as good if not the best
that has ever been marketed of the