Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-10
western country as well as South

the sick list this week.
-Gustaf Gustafson and Oscar
johnson, of Spring Lake township,
were transacting business in this city
Monday.
Mr.. Edison made all sound re-
producing instruments possible, but
he made the Edison Photograph best.
The De Smet Music Store sells all
Edison goods.
The weather for the past week
has been exceedingly mild for the
first part of March. If it should hold
through next week there will be con
siderable work done in the fields.
Valentine Rettig returned to his
home at Austin, Mimi, Thursday of
last week after spending a week with
his brother, c. Rettig, in Spirit Lake
township, He noted many changes
in the appearance of this section since
his first visit to De Smet twelve years
ago.
August Gehm and family wish
through these columns to express
their thanks and appreciation for the
kind assistance of friends in the
bereavement caused by the death of
their father Johan Gehm, and also to
the friends who made such handsome
floral offerings.
j. p. Hardy, G. p. Christensen,
Nels Demsgaard, Chas. G~ustafson, C.
l.. Mattson and Christ Holm, of
Spring Lake township. were in this
city Monday to appear before the
commissioners in connection with a
proposed ditch starting in that town,
ship and ending at Lake Sinai.
This is an especially good time
of the year to secure results through
advertising in our Snaps" column.
If you want to buy or sell, make the
fact known through an advertisement.
You cannot always create a demand
for what you have to sell by means of
an advertisement, but the man who
wants to buy naturally goes to the
man who says he has the article.
to sell. Try a Snap if you have an
article to sell.
One Of the acts Of the late lament
ented legislature was to change the
dates of the terms of the circuit court
in this district. The spring term now
convenes on the third Tuesday 10
April, instead of March This change
was probably made to help the farm
ers who will be drawn to serve on the
jury. 1t is so much more pleasant and
profitable to spend a week doing jury
duty right iii the middle OF seeding
time that it would be to leave home a
month earlier when there was nothing
urgent on the farm. The second term
was changed from October to the first
Tuesday in December.
Steve Rodney was up from the
southwest part of the county Satur-
day to deliver six head of young
horses TO Thos. Mears. Four head,
weighing 1000 pounds each, brought
$500 90, and a pair of three year old
colts, Weighing i,iGGG pounds each,
brought $4,000. Steve says their
sales of this spring are not bringing
quite the amount of money that the
sales last year realized. But at the
present prices horse raising is pa, ing
them good money and they are salts
fled, Before the six head were sold
there were forty head of horses on
Rodney farm. The Rodney Bros.
formerly raised cattle, but they found
horses the more profitable the past
few years, and consequently gave
that branch of ~stockraising the great
est attention.
Don't forget the illustrated
lecture on the Passion Play as given
by the villagers of Oberammergau.
The lecture will be given by Rev. 6.
l.. w. Kilbon, who went to ODER.
ammergau in 1910 to witness tn.
play. The Passion Play is a drama
depicting the principal events which
took place in the last week of Christ's
life, al played by the people of the
little Bavarian village of Oberammer-
gau. In 1888 a terrible pestilence
swept down upon this village. In
their extremity the people turned to
God to deliver them and in their