Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-06-24

in Milwaukee Thursday. He will re-
turn to De Smet about harvest time.
Mr.. and. Mrs. G.. p. Sherwood at
tended a district convention of the
Degree of Honor at lroquois Tues
day.
Rev. j. E. Washburn, who oficiat-
ed as pastor of the NJ. f, church in
this city last summer, occupied the
pulpit here Sunday,
John Mitchell and Ike Stecklen-
burg were hauling telephone poles
Wednesday for an extension to the
farmers line out southwest.
-LosT-A Model Dry Cleaning
Co. The unfortunate finder may
keep it as a reward, Or pass it on to
another innocent and unsuspecting
locality.
Jas. w. Earl, the Erwin land
man, was a De Smet visitor Wednes,
day. He has a few bargains in land
near Erwin. See his adv. on the
fourth page.
p. A Carroll started Thursday
morning for Benton, Wis, for "a visit
of Il week among relatives and friends.
He was accompanied by his sister,
Mrs. Ruskell.
M. Q. Ienson, cf Badger town
ship, was brought to De Smet the
first of the week to be examined by
the board of insanity. He is badly
deranged mentally.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Arnold, of
Howard, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. S. McKibben. Mr.. Arnold is
auditor of Miner county. They are
on their return from a wedding trip.
AT the school election Tuesday
f. Schaub and j. O. Purintun were
elected to succeed themselves on the
board Of education. There was
practically no interest manifested in
the election.
The Misses Halle and Bessie
McKibben, of Esterville, Iowa, visited
their brother, G. S., in this city last
week. The ladies were on their way
to Billings, Mont, for a visit to rela-
tives.
The Iroquois people have engage
ed four ball teams for their Sport
Day, July 18th. The game in the
forenoon will be between Huron and
Carthage, and the afternoon game by
Aberdeen and Watertown. This ar
rangement should give Iroquois two
red hot games for the day.
"A sister of Neil McCurdy, of
Lake Preston vicinity, is confined in
the padded cell at the court house.
The lady recently came from Iowa for
a visit and suddenly became deranged
mentally. For the protection of the
patient against her own violence it
was found necessary to use the padded
cell and other precautions.
1t is reported that d. H. Combs,
living on the Peter O'Hara farm in
Mathews township, met with a run
away accident at, or near, Carthage
Monday which resulted in seriously
injuring him. LATER He was placed
in the De Smet hospital Wednesday
evening. The base of his skull is
fractured and his condition. is such
that attending physicians are not
giving much hope for his recovery.
For several years past we have
known that in cities many men or
small means had mortgaged their
home for the purpose of buying auto
mobiles, and after a year or two lost
their homes But until recently We
had supposed such cussed foolishness
was confined to the large cities where
the race to put on style is a fast one.
However the report now comes from
Aberdeen that 300 homes have been
mortgaged in Brown county, to pur-
chase autos. Think of it! 300 homes
placed in jeopardy, and all for the
fun OF having an auto aud Il big ex.
pense bill. Another report is that
the sales of autos this year the coun-
try over will average 81, 200, 10000 a
day. 1t looks as il the whole country
had gone ''nutty" W the buzz
wagon.
The hot and dry weather of the
past few days has not been the best