Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-04-28

and wish them prosperity in the new
home.
"A carload of Garland -four is
now in stock at the Farmers Elevator.
Father Lahecka went to Redfeld
Monday TO assist at forty hours of
devotional service.
Mrs. John Blachford, of Spirit
Lake township, entered the De Smet
Hospital the latter part of last week.
Mrs. Matt Kane and children
came up from Sioux Falls Wednesday
of last week and remained until Mon
day.
The Congregational aid will meet
at the church parlors next Wednes
day afternoon. A picnic supper will
be served.
There will be a dance at the
opera house Tuesday evening, MAY
9th. Music by Lacrosse Harp
Orchestra.
e. j. Gulbranson and Miss
Mabel Moar, of Manch ester, were
married in this city Saturday last.
The happy couple has a host of
friends in Manchester vicinity who
wish them happiness and prosperity
on their journey through married life.
"A drive in the country Sunday
revealed the fact that many of the
early sown fields were showing d
tinge of green. There seems to be
abundance of moisture in the ground
for starting the crops of small grain.
The fields all have the appearance of
having been well titled, the spring
having been one which allowed the
grain to go into the ground in the
best possible manner Practically
all of the small grain seeding was
finished by the middle of this week.
-Mallery & White have had a
streak of hard luck with the plate
glass on the north side of their store
front. The first plate cracked a few
weeks after the building was com
pleted last fall. Monday of this
week a new plate glass was put in
place and it cracked within a few
hours after it was put in place, Every
p~recautlon was taken to have the
frame square and plumb, but it is
evident that something is wrong,
although il is not known just where
the fault lies. A large plate glass is
expensive at the best, and when two
plates break in less than a year it is
running the expense up pretty fast.
R. j. Armstrong on Tuesday of
this week delivered to 2. E. Murphy
at his farm in W hitewood township a
pair of fullblood Percheron mare
colts, ages two and three years. The
animals we're bred and raised by Mr..
Armstrong and brought a fancy price.
They were probably as well bred and
perfect specimens of that breed of
of horse flesh as could be found any
where in the Northwest, as is indicat-
ed by the fact that Mr.. Murphy had not
only looked at animals for sale in this
state, but also in Iowa and Nebraska.
With p. E. Murphy the price of any
stock he places on his farm for breed
ing purposes is only a secondary con-
sideration; he wants the record and
the perfect animal. 1t speaks well
for the stock raised by Mr.. Arm
strong, and it also speaks well for the
stock handled by Mr.. Murphy.
The sales of school land this
spring were smaller in acres, but
averaged higher in price than ever be
fore. The reason fewer acres were
sold is doubtless due to the fact
that the department did not care to
put the land on the market. there
being many counties where school
lands we're not offered for sale, Kings
bury county being among the latter.
The higher price paid for lands in
dictates that there has been an advance
instead of a decline in land values
the past year. By counties the sales
were: Dawson, 1900 acres, at an
average of S5430; Hanson, 1855 acres,
average $56.54: Hutchinsun, 2.l93
acres average Sass; C~odington,
3,l93 acres, average $5493; Day,l,498