Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-04-21

IS. G.. Eggleston, of Willow Lakes,
and j. E. Holtz, formerly of this city,
have organized a bank at Timber
Lake. this state.
The Arlington Sun says the
farmers around Lake Badger are con
sidering the project of draining the
lake and last week had an engineer
there looking owe the project. He
reported the work could be accom-
plished and about one thousand acres
of land reclaimed.
R. r Kinsella and John Nc.
Kenna, of Mason City. Iowa, have
leased the Thos Mears garage build
ing on Calumet avenue and opened
an auto repair shop They will handle
all kinds of auto supplies and do all
kinds of repairing. The gentlemen
have had a liberal experience in auto
work as both spent several years in
the factories.
&C. F. Bogenrief, a former resident
of the vicinity north of De Smet,
writes from Washburn, Wis, that they
enjoyed a very nice winter, although
they had about four feet of snow.
He says last year was the driest ever
known in that section, but in spite of
that the country is settling up rapidly
and land values have increased great
". They wish TO be remembered to
all old friends in these parts.
"A fund was raised by contribu.
ton the FIRST OF the week 10 be used
in securing some needed work on the
grade south OF the creamery. The
grade was in a very bad condition
and a little work made a great i'm
provement. But what is really need
ed is an expenditure of two or three
hundred dollars which would put the
grade in such condition that it would
probably remain in good shape at all
seasons of the year.
The postal inspectors are again
calling upon some of the newspapers
to see that the rules of the depart
ment are complied with as to pay
ment of subscriptions and that the
paper is not mailed to those more
than n year in arrears. The INDIE
PENDENT has a few subscribers perilous-
ly near the deadline. We have sent
Out statements the past week and
urge all those receiving notice of ac-
count due to remit at once. 1t has
not been our policy to place accounts
for subscription in the hands of col
agencies, but in the future we
shall place all accounts that we can
not collect ourselves in the hands of
some agency that will 60 after things
When a man takes our paper
we SUI that he wants it and that
be intends to pay for it, If he doesn't
want it, we would like to have him
pay up arrearages and stop his sub
scription. To us a years subscrip
ion is a commercial commodity just
as much as sugar is to the merchant.
If you have received a statement,
remit at once and save annoy
ance to yourself and the publisher.
Saturday and Sunday the city
was without either gas or water ser
vice. Some time ago the cast iron
at the man hole of the big air
pressure water tank cracked and
sprung a leak. Gay Barrows, the
superintendent of the plant, patched
I up for temporary use, and it was
operated in that way for several
months, 1t was no small matter to
put in a new ring. A cast iron ring
ike the original was out of the gues
ion as it would be too large to go
the man hole and could only
be gotten inside the shell by taking
,f one end of the tank. The next
hing was to have a steel ring made
fit from tn outside and to be rivit
ID to the shell. To explain what was
needed and furnish the required form
md measurements was a job for no
ordinary mechanic. Mr.. Barrows
made a form of wood to fit the shell
Ind the man hole. He took it to
Minneapolis and found that none of
he boiler makers were falling over
themselves for the job. Finally he
persuaded one superintendent to
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