Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-19

and Mrs. l.. F. Straight Wednesday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. George
Austin q daughter, Friday, August
18th. All doing nicely.
Mrs. Frank Albright and son OF
Columbia, S. D., visited with Mr.. and
Mrs Albright last week.
Rev. Sidney Aten and wife and
Miss Belle Leach, of Manchester,
were guests at the VIM. Leach home
last Sunday.
The union meeting Sunday even
ing will be at the Congregational
church. Rev. T. E. Sanderson will
deliver the sermon.
1T may be that the comet was the
cause of the drouth and consequent
short grain crop, but there is n o short
age in the baby crop in these parts to
be charged up to Mr. Comet.
Talk about Taft's smile that
won't rub off, and the ~countenance of
Sunny Jim, the V. P. who is working
for Uncle Sam, but G.. G. Johns has
them both beaten a city block. It's
all on account of a girl who arrived at
the Johns home two weeks ago, whose
arrival we failed to mention last week.
II. I. Robinson expects to ship
his household goods to Portland, Ore
gon, next week. The family will
follow O after. T. |. wants to get
the family established in a home in
time for the children to commence
school at the beginning of the year.
He will then return to this city to
close up the years business.
AT the home of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
A. Boast Wednesday a six o'clock
dinner was served to twenty-four
friends, the guests of honor being Mr..
and Mrs. T. /. Robinson, who are soon
to move to Portland, Oregon. Before
dinner was served Photographer Nc
Kibben arrived and made a picture of
the company, which will be used as a
souvenir of the occasion. After par
taking of a we'll prepared and bounti-
full dinner the company spent a couple
of hours in conversation and then dis
persed.
Once more we want to warn our
readers that a scarity of soft coal dur
ing the coming winter in a probability.
Practically nothing is being mined in
the state of Illinois and the big steam
plants that depended upon that out
put for their supply have been COM
PEELED to use Hooking and other high.
er priced Goals. Those of our readers
who use soft coal will do we'll to put
in their supply early this season. At
this time the wholesalers are talking
of advancing the price the first of
September on the strength of the short
supplies.
-Supt. A. H.. Seymour was at
Huron Wednesday to attend a meet
ing of the Educational Assn. The
committee will recommend certain
changes in our schools laws. Beyond
doubt there are some changes needed.
For one thing there schould be fewer
kinds of school organization. We now
have city, township, independent dis.
~tricts, and in one instance in THE
county, the town of Arlington, which
operates under a special charter.
Such a variety of school units cannot
be other than confusing, and confu-
sion or lack of system always works
against best results. There have
been many changes in our school
laws in years past but not all have
been for good, The Legislature has
! always acted hnrriehiy and upon re-
commentator with the result hat
the new law is never satisfactory
Our school system is an important
matter, one of the most important
with which the Legislature has to deal
The coming session should enact a
new law, and it should be less com.
plicated.
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