Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-06-03

rooms during the week of June 10th.
Memorial Day was properly OBJ
served in this city. A fine program
appropriate to the occasion was car
ried out in the forenoon at the hall.
Music. recitations, a flag drill by the
school children, and an Grafton by
Mayor w. H. Warren were the fea.
lures of the occasion.
Friday Of next week all roads
will lead to this city and we expect a
larger crowd for the Old Settlers cele,
bration than at any time for several
years past. Our people have secured
the best possible attractions and there
will be something doing from early
morning until evening.
"A dozen autos driven by Carthage
business men visited this city Tues
day for the purpose of advertising
the sport day to be pulled off at that
town Monday, June 9th. Those
Carthage people are a bunch of Give
wires all right and will pull off a
good program on that day.
Miss Alice Schoenwether arrived
last Saturday morning from Green
acres, Washington, where she went
last fall to spend the winter with her
parents. While she enjoyed that
climate she is more than glad to get
back here with the many relatives
ana friends.-Lake Preston Times.
The party that went to Montana
last week, j. n. Bunday. E. j. Carpen-
ter and H.. B. Johnson, came back the
first of this week but we're no, enough
I'd ken up with that country to make
any further investments. Mr.. Bunday
already has some land here. They
are satisfied to have good old South
Dakota property -Hetland New Era.
Ole j. Oleson, of Badger township,
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton for county treasurer was in the
city Wednesday. Mr. Oleson was fore
ed to lose a week from his campaign
work on account of having to take his
wife to the Volga hospital for an
operation for appendicitis. Mrs.
Oleson is doing nicely and he expect
ed to be able to bring her home the
latter part of last week.
in it's account Of tn graduating
exercises of the Arlington high school,
the Sun says:
The address of ia ereuing was
given by sup A. II Seymour. Mr..
SeN is 100 we'll known TO need IA
word f prise as TO bis part On the
program. he I'd lr S. was una ed
by his charact, ris'Ic prac cal era p
Of things, earnestnrss of puHpus' and
t~er-encss of oppression. His IN ssagr
was one, not only to the class that
was going out from the school, but to
the d rents, and all who are still in
the line Of progress and advancement.
1t was an a, peal Cor honest, persistent,
intelligent effort along all lines of
life's work, for that alertness TO grasp
opportunities and logged persistence
10 pursuing them that make for sue
cess.
MIR. and Mrs. G. H. Tinkham en-
tertained the hard winter 1879 gen
tleman Of this city at a six o'clock
dinner last Saturday. There are now
only eight men in De Smat who were
here at that time. They are G. L..
Dawley, G. E. Ely, A y. Waters. E..
H. Couse, Henry Hinz, d. II. Lotus,
J. H. Carroll and G. n. Tinkham. All
were present at the dinner excepting
Mr.. Hiaz, who found i impossible 10
attend. The varied experiences of
that hard winter We're all recounted.
OF one thing our readers en- be Ger.
tain, however. and that is the dinner
served on this occasion WAS not on
the half-ration plan of some of the
dinners eaten by the gentleman dur
ing that never to be forgotten winter
of lS79-S0 when supplies IAN low and
wheat bad to be ground in coffee
mills, and when sugar for coffee was
kept in a jewel case.
The selection of a candidate for
superintendent Of schools is one of
the important matters to be attended
to by the voters at the primaries next
Tuesday. Upon the selection of the
candidate largely depends the welfare
of our county schools for the next two
years, and perhaps for the next four.
E~yparipnca as q sucrec~ful taacher ~