Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-06

Owing to the inc!emency OF the
weather Sunday morning tine con-
g~regations at the churches were not
large. The Methodist and Congrega-
tional congregations united for the
morning service at the latter church.
Evening services were abandoned.
Elijah Clark Sears, age 105 years,
s months and 8 days, died Sunday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs, Will
liam Shields, at Canton, this state.
His father served under Gen. Wash
ington and his brother fought in the
war of 1872. He was born in East
Hampton, Conn, June %, 1906, when
Thomas Jefferson was president, and
saw the first steamboat on the Con
necticut river. named the Oliver
Ellsworth. He cast his first vote in
1923 for John Quincy Adams, the
federalist candidate for president at
the time jackson was first elected
His last vote was cast for President
Taft.
Hicks predictions for January
place a storm period from the End to
7th. The storm arrived day before
schedule time. After the 7th high
barometer and cold weather is on the
program. Another storm period
covers l4th to 10Th with the period
central on 10Th. Fair weather is pro-
missed after the storms of this period
for few days. A reactionary period
covers the 22nd to oath. After the
Oath we are promised a prolonged
time of stormy weather. From 9th
to 30th we are promised billiards. in
the nor,h. This storm period, it is
said, will extend several days into
February.
Tuesday of this week brought a
change in the personnel at the court
house. The officers retiring after
four years Of service were VIM. HI.
Warren, states attorney; A.. III.
Seymour, superintendent of schools;
X. Knudsen, county treasurer, and T.
p. Goodwin, sheriff. Those who took
their places are Don A. Crawford,
states attorney; Fl. M. Best, superin
tendent of schools; j. G. Olesen, coun-
ty treasurer, and Ed Whalen, sheriff.
The retiring officers have served the
county well, aud each leaves a good
record as an accommodating officer
and for efficient service. The gentle
men who this week took upthe duties
of Office are all we'll known to our
people. They are men who have
proved to be successful in their vari
Gus lines of private eDdeavor, and
that they will render the county the
same degree of efficiency as manifest
ed in their own business is beyond
question. One more change will take
place March first when w. Nj. Look,
of Lake Preston, will assume the
duties of county auditor. What has
been said G! .ho ether new officers as
60 ability for their positions can be
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said of Mr.. Look also He is an ex-
perienced business man and possesses
excellent qualifications for the Office.
The Lumley ranch which occupies
several hundred acres of Missouri
bottom land just east of Pierre, which
has been devoted principally to cattle
raising for years, will begin this year
to seed most OF the tract to alfalfa.
A small acreage has been so seeded
for several years, and the crops have
proven so valuable that il will be ex-
tended to cover most of the ranch.
This tract, which was under the con
troll Of the late G.. w. Lumley, is now
under the management of Harry A.
Lumley, his son, who has just re
turned from a trip to Minneapolis,
where he had a conference with
Charles H. Mckee OF Pittsburg. who is
financially interested in the property.
The decision to enter largely into
culture followed the Mime
apolis conference, and the work will
be entered into extensively with the
coming of spring If the growing of
should prove to be as success
full on a large scale on the Missouri
bottoms as il seems to have been in
small tracts, ii is only reasonable to
assume that the time is not far distant
when the soil of the upland prairie
be made to produce the crop. II
takes several years to es-
a certain crop in q country
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