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The Independent notes a subscription price of $1.00 per year under the publisher Pred W Wright. It appears in a postal notice indicating the post office in Met, South Dakota.
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Newspaper
Kingsbury County Independent
Location
De Smet, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
4
The Independent notes a subscription price of $1.00 per year under the publisher Pred W Wright. It appears in a postal notice indicating the post office in Met, South Dakota.
Train timetable lists Nos. 501 508 121 15 504 502 14 with daily service except some days. Times show morning and evening departures and note all trains carry passengers except Time Freight Nos. 121 and 4.0. Agents Johnson and Stimson are listed.
Correspondence from Manchester reports corn cultivation as the main topic. Miss Ethel Keating closed a successful term of school, and Nobles hosted a picnic with ice cream and cake.
Weather favors corn and crops promise good yields as straw grows heavy for small grains. The writer and wife joined Drakola at the Spirit Lake old soldiers picnic hosted by Comrade J. L. Van Hook. Rev. W. Coxe preached and was welcomed to return regularly.
Official returns from all county auditors show Eben W. Martin defeating Hall 30,293 to 29,982 for the congressional nomination. The statewide primary on June 9 drew 68,189 voters with majorities in multiple races, all winning ticket members are progressives except Martin and Burke for Congress and Johnson for State treasurer.
Germano Presbyterian church was dedicated last Sunday with Rev. Ar ends of Willow Lakes and Rev. Proett of Sibley Iowa present. Ladies served a dinner at the schoolhouse. R H Uphoff was a caller at H A Poppen’s Saturday and Sunday.
Four men worked on a scaffold shingling a machine shed when the staging collapsed. John Forbes landed on lumber and hurt his spine and side. Dr. Benner attended promptly and Dr. Bates came later from Erwin. Nearby residents and visitors are noted in the column.
The list of uncalled mail on June 25 at the De Smet post office includes D. C. Evinger Wm Durot H E Colburn Harry L Beck Miss Ruth Craven Miss Nellie McGrath Paul Hirsh R A Williams Frank Manning Mrs Frank A Murphy Mr and Mrs J Cook Mr and Mrs Frank Myers Miss Hattie Davis.
W N Tompkins intends to depart about Wednesday of next week for Lisle New York where he has purchased a farm and will make his home. Tompkins spent his boyhood in the locality and expects to reside there for the rest of his days.
The Congregational Aid will meet with Mrs. D. L. Mowbry next Wednesday afternoon.
One red yearling heifer taken up at a farm five miles west and one mile south of De Smet in section 3 110 57. Notice dated June 20 1908 by I M Wade De Smet.
Strayed red Durham bull dehorned and lame in one hind leg and a yearling Hereford bull with hog rings in ear noted. W L Howard Manchester South Carolina. Kingsbury Valley stock farm offers Herefords and Durocs sired by grand champion stock. Bulls Lordanus 138304 Jaspar 189305 herd boars Knight 53919 Royalty 13581. Catalogue of breeding stock in preparation to be sent on request G A Smith De Smet South Dakota 7 miles northeast 55.
In the matter of the estate of Charles E. Miller deceased a verified petition by Jorace H. Welch seeks conveyance of southeast quarter section 20 township 109 range 58 in Kingbury County South Dakota based on an April 16 1907 contract. The court set July 21 1908 at 10 am in De Smet for hearing. Authority: County Court. Attorneys: Warren & Warren De Smet.
The Kingsbury County School District No. Four invites sealed bids for building and furnishing a heating plant in De Smet South Dakota. Bids include materials and labor with plans on file. require a $800 certified check or bond, to be approved by the board, for faithful performance and lien protection. Bids due July 20 1908 at noon. The board may reject any or all bids. Dated June 20 1908.
In Circuit Court Ninth Judicial Circuit Balthasar Voegels sues on behalf of John Reilly Fidelity Loan and Trust and others to quiet title and determine all adverse claims to a parcel in Kingsbury County South Dakota. The complaint filed May 26 1908 seeks removal of interests liens and claims on NE Quarter Section 4 Township 111 Range 56 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian. Defendants urged to answer within thirty days.
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