Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-05-19

apOlls saturday, spending tnegreater
part of this week in that city.
Miss Mary Wright returned
Tuesday evening for a visit with
friends in Iowa and Missouri.
j. c.. Jackson, a former resident
of this city, now cashier of the
Morgan State Bank at Morgan, Mimi,
was visiting old acquaintance in
De Smet Saturday. Everyone was
glad to see Mr.. jackson again, and
glad to known that he is doing well
in his new location.
independent readers in the east
end will be pleased to learn that the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
will give an afternoon and IN evening
performance at Brookings, Friday,
May 26th. This orchestra is the
greatest musical organization of the
west and one of the leading organiza-
tions of the country. Those who wish
to attend can secure reserved seats by
addressing the manager of the opera
house at Brookings.
-Aylmer Cole, vice president of
the Germania State Bank of this city,
and w. E. Hughey, of Bellevue, Iowa,
have purchased the larger part of the
stock of the First National Bank at
Brookings and assumed con
troll of that institution Monday of
this week. For a time at least the
cid officers will retain their positions.
Horace Fishback will remain as presi-
dent, but will not assume active
management of the business as here
tofore.
Postmaster G. n. Breed received
word yesterday morning that the
Brookings postoffice had been desig.
mated y of the thirty-two addition
al postal savings repositories to be
established throughout the United
States, and that June lst had been
set as the date for receiving accounts
from one dollar up, to draw interest
at two per cent per mum. Mr..
Breed has been ordered TO Wahpeton,
N. D., for instruction and will possibly
make the trip next week. There is
one other depository in the state,
Deadwood, established last year,
when the law first went into effect
Brookings Press.
Teddy Aiken, of Brookings, was
in the city a short time Friday morn
ing in the interest of the Brookings
opera house management which is
putting on two performances by the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Friday. May 18th. Teddy is boom
ing Brookings at every step and
points with pride to the fact that
there are to be built in that city this
season a court house TO cost 100000,
the corner stone for which was laid
on the 10th inst, an administration
building at the state college to cos
100000, federal building to cost
$4,000, and a city hall to cost $4,000
That is a good years growth and no
mistake.
Special trains were from all
parts of the state to Dell Rapids
Wednesday of this week to accom-
modate the members of the /. O. o
f. who desired to attend the dedica
ton of the new Odd Fellows Home
erected by that order. The funds for
the erection of this building have
been accumulated partly by donation
among the members, but mostly by
the levying of an assessment against
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years past. The building has been
erected and paid for entirely out of
funds raised within that order and
will be maintained entirely within the
order. 1t is to be a home for worthy
but destitute or helpless Odd Fellows,
widows, and orphans. 1t is the first
home of the kind to be erected in this
state by any fraternal society. The
dedication Wednesday was attended
by a large number from all parts of
the state.
Mrs. Lille Burvee, of Spirit Lake
township, was called to Ellis, about
six miles from Sioux Falls, Thursday
of last week by the fatal illness of
her mother, Mrs. Lille Foster, arriv
ing a few hours before her death.
Mrs. Foster was one of the oldest