Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-15

pOrtlOn OF tne lSlU crop VIII De very
short.
j. l.. Crothers and wife and
Winnie arrived home from North Da-
kota last Friday night. They report
having had a good trip but say all
the crops except it be the flax west of
jamestown are dried up by the
drought and hot winds. Rain from
this on will bring a fair flax crop
Hetland New Era.
Mrs. Thos. Mears is enjoying a
visit from two sisters, Mrs. Frank
Knott, of Cleveland, and Mrs. Chas.
Kelley and daughter and niece, of
Oberlin. Ohio, who arrived Friday
evening and expect to remain for two
weeks more, at least. Another antici-
pated pleasure will be the arrival of
another sister, Mrs. G.. G.. Dele, of
Rolfe, Iowa. this Thursday evening.
Those who desire to lay in a
supply of old wheat -four for summer
and fall use will be able to do SO if
they will call at the Farmers Elevator.
1t begins to look as if consumers who
lay in a supply now would not only
have the advantage of old wheat flour,
but ecure their supply a! a much
lower figure than it can be bought for
later in the season. High priced
wheat makes high priced flour.
Abbott, the druggist, who is be-
coming quite famous for his neat and
tasty window decorations, had a very
good window display the latter part
of the week. About a dozen small
ducks were shown disporting them.
selves in a tank of water and they at
tracted considerable attention, but
unfortunately two or three rats got
access to the store in some way and
Friday night they made short work
of the misunderstanding Register.
The Sport Day at Iroquois was
quite literally attended by De Smet
people, A good crowd vas in the
town and everything seemed to be
going off nicely and everyone satisfied.
The ball game in the forenoon be-
tween Huron and Carthage was won
by Huron in a score of 3 to 0 and was
said to have been a very interesting
game. The afternoon game between
Aberdeen and WATERFOWL was taken
by the former in a score of 5 to 0.
1t was well played game, but did
not enthuse the spectators to any
great extent. Watertown seemed to
be outclassed all the way through.
Promptly at II o'clock Thursday
night of last week all the saloons in
the city of Pierre closed their doors
and turned into the streets their
throngs of patrons who were taking
advantage of their last opportunity
for at least a year. Many, who left,
carried their supplies to help them
celebrate the Fourth of July, and for
the first time since Pierre has existed
it is without saloons darlington Sun.
The statement that Pierre is now
without saloons for the first time
since its existence has appeared in
several papers but it is none the less
untrue for all of that. For several
years South Dakota had state wide
prohibition and Pierre was without
saloons. 1t is true that it was not
without booze, and the same condi-
ton will probably prevail this year.
The Chief is in receipt of a pro-
gram of the tenth annual Dakota
Picnic Association meeting held in
Pomona, California, on the last day
of June. l.. l.. Lostutter, formerly
of lroquois, is president of the associ-
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Esmond, secretary. The principal
address was made by Hon. E. T.
Langley, formerly of Huron and one
of the numbers or the program was a
song by Leila Pierce, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. l.. Pierce, residents of
Esmond in the early days. These
annual picnics are attended by all
Dakotans within a radius of one
hundred miles of Los Angeles and all
former residents of the Dakotas look
forward to these annual gatherings
with as much joyful anticipation as
the average boy contains while wait
ing for the Fourth of July to dawn
Chief.
Frequent showers in different
localities the past week and a rain
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