Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-05-12

route travelled, that the condition APP.
peared to be HOPELESS.
The Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra, one of the greatest musical
organizations of the country, is now on
its western tour and will give two
concerts at Huron Thursday, May
25th. Tickets for either afternoon or
evening performances can be had of
Miss Nina Sasse.
There is nothing like booming
your own town thinks the Oldham
Register, which gets off the following:
Someone remarked that Oldham had
more automobiles and more dogs than
any town of its state. Yes, and this
town has more pretty girls, more
cement sidewalks. the best electric
lights and more improvements now
being made or in prospect than any
town in this locality and while we
are feeling rather proud over the
above, omeone comes along and says
a man has a better chance of get
ting "full" here than any other
town in the county"
The Garretson News tell Of a
smooth swindIe that a fellow has been
working in that section, as follows:
"The man hires out to a farmer and
working about three weeks says he
must write to a farmer at some other
place who owes him some money. In
a day or two he shows a check for $50
or $40, which he has received in a
letter and says he needs the money to
make some improvements on a claim
out west, and asks the farmer he is
working for to identify him. The
farmer does SO, the man gets the
money and disappears, and soon the
farmer is called on to pay the check
which is a forgery"
The Clear Lake Courier was re-
Gently visited by a postal inspector
who gave the publisher until May 18th
to get his subscribers in arrears to
pay up or take them off the list. The
publisher that all unpaid
accounts will be turned over to an
attorney for collection. 1t seems
queer that a subscriber in arrears will
not remit promptly upon receipt of a
statement of account. Sometimes the
publisher is tempted to believe there
are a few on his list who think that
the postal rules forbidding the send
ing of paper to a subscriber more
than one year in arrears frees the
subscriber from all obligation. This
is not true. The subscriber owes for
the paper as long as he takes it from
the post office; the matter of postal
rules Is between the postal depart
ment and the publisher.
The county seat contest case in
Hamlin county before Referee j. T..
Law was closed May 2Sth. The fol
lowing facts were developed: The
total vote cast in Hamlin county on
the county seat question was 1886
The total cast in the county forgover
nor was: Vessey, 1858; Wood, 2S5:
total 1912. The county seat question
led the vote on governor by 243 votes.
During the contest just closed it de-
veloped that there were about 50 de
fective affidavits of sworn in votes.
There were also about los irregular
or illegal ballots cast or a total of
about 200 votes that are in question.
The referee will have thirty days in
which to prepare and file his report
with the circuit court. Ia connection
with its report of the contest the
Bryant News says: On the "face of
the returns Hayti looks good for the
county seat to us. If there are 200
defective votes thrown out these must
be taken off the 1886 votes cast. This
would leave 1856 legal votes cast.
Hayti would need to have then 1924
valid votes. She had 1859 votes ac-