Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-01-14

Mrs. L.. +. AltflllSch returned
Wednesday morning from q visit of
several days to friends in the Twin
Cities.
-Chas. Woods, at one time pro-
prietor of what is now the Grand
Hotel, whose home is in Nebraska,
was attending to business matters
and visiting old acquaintance in this
city the first of the week.
Regular meeting of Woodman
Camp Saturday night, Jan. Is. There
will be installation of officers and
supper. Also there are several can
didates to be admitted All mem
bers requested to be present. Trouble
will begin at s o'clock sharp.
Have you had your whirl yet
with the yellow jaundice9 If not,
you'd better get busy while you can
have lots of company. This disease
has made quite a thorough anvass
of our little burg and surrounding
country and has not been q Ycry
pleasant visitor Manchester News.
The auto license record shows
that the last license number in this
state was $3.50. The record shows
that SZ3 licenses were taken out for
the year 1908. and that 2,104 licenses
were called for in 1909. These figures
show the result of some OF the South
Dakota prosperity.
Old friends of the Nels Kop-
perud family, formerly of Mathews
township, but now of Baker, will be
interested in the announcement of
the marriage of their son Arthur, to
Miss Nellie Knutson, which occurred
on the 9Th inst at the Lutheran
church in that locality. Congratuia
tons to the happy couple.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Lloyd start
ed last week Tuesday morning over
the Milwaukee line for points in Cali
fornia to spend a couple of months
in that land of fruit and flowers and
enjoy a visit with Mr., and Mrs. E. E.
Cross, who moved to that state a year
or more ago, and with other relatives
and friends. May they have a pleas
ant trip and visit.-rIm-s.
Monday night about eleven
O'Clock someone tried to force the
front door of the California Fruit
Store, using such force in the opera
ton as to send the glass in the door
crashing to the floor several feet into
the room. Joe Delvecchio, the pro-
got outside as soon as possible,
but of course was to late TO discover
the identity of the party. Mr..
Delveccio will give $4,000 reward for
information leading to the conviction
of the guilty party.
Carrie Nation must have a poor
business manager. Here she is, labor
ing with the poor benighted South
Dakotans, while gay old New York
from its annual New Years
Jag. 1t is stated that reservations in
cafes sold as high as $50 for New
Years eve and that half a million vas
spent in properly" seeing the old
year out and the new year in. Carrie
should have been there; she would
have gathered material for at least a
months sermons.-Brookings Press.
Carrie is billed for De Smet this
Thursday evening. but we SO to
press to early to give an account of
her event. That she is here in the
interest of temperance can hardly
be possible for we have not had a sa-
loon in De Smet for nearly three
years. BUTT may be a money maker,
for all that.
From points yer the Northwest
come reports of short fuel supplies.
The steady cold weather of the last
six weeks has depleted stocks in local
dealers bins, and the process of get.
ting coal from the docks or mines is
very slow, much more slow than a
year ago. The principal trouble is
the inability of the dock coal COM
panies to secure cars in which to load
the coal, and to have them taken away
as soon as loaded. Then the trans
p~ortatjon of coal is slow. the railroads