Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-12
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dictate Hotel.
Earl Wilmarth went to Stewart.
| vile, Mimi, Frida, last for a visit to
his grandpar hts.
j. G. Yeager, of Bellevue, Iowa,
is in the city to look after his land IN
terests in Mathews township.
H. j. Hamilton went to Sioux
Falls Wednesday to be absent two or
three days. j. E. Booth is looking
after the store during his absence.
Misses Daisy English, Edna Allen,
Olivia Knudson, and Susie Morgan,
four of the FIVE young ladies who grad,
uated from the high school in June,
recently took the teachers examina.
ton and each was granted a teachers
certificate.
"A nice rain fell Wednesday even.
ing, amounting to four-ffths of an
inch. The rain did not extend north
more than two miles, and out in the
Robt. Lyngbye neighborhood there
was not enough to Interfere with
threshing the next morning. East
and southeast it appeared to rain
harder.
"A carload of Garland -four was
received at the Farmers Elevator
Thursday morning. This will be the
last opportunity to secure old wheat
flour and Judging blythe way in which
orders have been placed it will not
last long. Those who want the old
wheat -four and have not engaged
their supply had better do so at once.
Our city schools will open next
Monday, Sept. 5th, with the follow
ing corps of teachers, three of whom
never taught in this school before:
Supt.-A. B. Rich.
Principal-Sophie Hieby.
Asst Prin.-Beatrice E. Hale, of
Spring Valley, MINI.
Sth grade-Mabel Brown.
7th grade-May E. Murphy.
6th-Laura Bouohie.
9TH and half of 4th grade-Mrs.
Geo. Fl. Sheets.
3rd and half of 4th grade-Alice E.
Doyle, of Nebraska.
End grade-Lottie M. Whalen.
LIST grade-Lura B. Wing.
VIM. A. Altfllisch, of Preston,
Iowa, is the guest of his cousin, L. F.
Altfllisch.
The prayer chain has again struck
this vicinity. A short prayer is written
and mailed to friend or acquaintance
without the name of the writer. Ac-
companying the prayer is the state
ment that it was the belief of the
people of Jerusalem in former times
that to him who would say or write
the prayer daily for nine consecutive
days would come some great JOY or
good fortune, or some great calamity
be adverted. 1t is evidently this idea
of some great and unlocked for, and
we might say unneeded, great fortune
that now prompts the modern prayer
chain. Accompanying the statement
is also the plea that the recipient will
not break the chain. 1t is the idea of
something for nothing that prompts
this prayer chain, the same desire also
prompts one to invc~t fifty cents in a
lottery ticket hoping that chance will
throw to the holder of the ticket a
small fortune. The writer is not a
preacher, nor the son of a preacher,
but we hold that a prayer should be
the earnest supplication of a creature
to his Creator to so live as it was in.
tended by the Creator. and that the
creature might be made to see how
best to use the faculties given by the
Creator for the good of the suppliant
and his fellow creatures. All else is
useless, and the dea that the Creator
will, in consideration of nine set pray
ers made in such spirit, grant some
great fortune is sacrilegious and alb
horrent to the Divine order.
DE SMET HOSPITAL NOTES.
Lorenz Maland, who has been at the