Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-29

Mrs. G. B. Inghsm, who has been on a
visit to Carroll county, Iowa, is in town
waiting till the roads are broken, so that
she can 60 on home to Firestcel, on the
Jim river.
BENEDICT
10 selling goods cheaper than ever, for
CASH OR WHEAT
Judge Lesper slaughtered, ten dogs en-
Friday. An eplcurean mathematician es-
Inmates 500 pounds Of sausages out of this
lot Of canines.--P. d D.
Messrs. Forest and Ed Rowley are the
gentlemanly managers Of r. NJ. Row
leys branch store at Lincoln Center.
THE best HAND PICKED GREEN AP.
PIES, a, Fred Barrow's, Lower Canton.
Linn did not support the straight ticket :;
he had not time for he has a run of bust
ness that the out side world knows nothing
of. Don't enquire.
Haraldson & Behlmer, had lively day
on Saturday last. Business good and .
good place for business; as they want it
understood that they soil at bedrock prl-
ceS.
!: Isn't that Goddess of Liberty Lamp
Z perfect beauty. Call and see them
at Coulter's Drug Store.
We call attention to the Prairie fire laws
in the News. We missed them for few
numbers last fall but they look real natur-
'sl again. ..
Dedicated to the News Editor:
Twenty times or more have tried to reform,
And - often pledges have given.
I would be the most disappointed mortal yet alive
III should ever get to heaven.
NoT1cE.-Parties knowing themselves
indebted to R. Johnston on account will
please call and settle. Ny accounts must
be settled within ten days as l am going
away. X. JOHNSTON.
The Neps says, SHERIFF South will re-
tire to his summer residence near Eden."-
80? Would not the News editor be happy
to have summer residence to retire to !?
Wonder how he found so much.
JAS SIMPSON and family started the first
of the week tor Indiana where he has gone
to live. He will stop short time at Chi
cago, in the philosophical rooms Of s. S.
Jones, to investigate spiritualism little.
FRED. BARROW'S is the place
where yoi, can get
COAL, LUMBER, and BUILDING PAPER,
for the LOWEST CASH PRICES.
JOE A. INaHAA, who has been stopping
over at LuVerne for some time past. has
returned to Lower Canton. His smiling
"phiz" looks a. natural as ever as knocks
around the Dixon House, whistling the
same old tune. Wonder if he will have
occasion to 90 up to Niobrara this win
ter?
J. s. BENEDICT announces to the peo-
pie that for the next 80 days he will
bNll XooAS ~ SyNLA II NHHOcLD
PRICES.
Frank Johnson, who has been away sew,
eral weeks visiting friends i'll Minnesota
and Iowa, returned home on Friday even.
ing last just in time to join the party al
the johnson House the same evening
Frank looks as though he had been we'll
kept.
Jake Williams house caught fire on
Tuesday, while they eating dinner snd
their notice were called to the fact by pas
sers by, the slarm soon spread throug'
town but to no purpose. All done theii
best but nothing was saved Of value This
leaves Jake in bad shape for winter
at is said that the Canton Ne,es has
died of starvation Another sad example
for newspaper men, Is we'll ~ the creditors
of the said H. IN. The Canton ADVOCATE
is also very weak, but there il hopes of ita
becoming conyalescent, with tender care
The above we clip from the Sioux Falls
Pantagraph. As to the News, but little
loss is felt, and none mourn its departure
from this mundane sphere, and its purpose
here will ever remain an enigma.
As 70 the ADVOCATE, it still moves on il
the even tenor of its way; and when the
Paragraph has been subjected to one hall
Of the annoyances brought about by party
men, who were bound to have it sup.
pressed, first, by breaking into the oftics
at night, then trying to foreclose on a liz
Undated mortgage and other devices, II
will be buried beyond the possibility Of
resurrection.
Last Sunday afternoon, Mr.. Tillman Muas
bach and wife went away on short visi
to their neighbors and of course left fire
in the stove; but it was a sorry visit fol
them, for when they came hsme about II
O'Clock in the evening, they found thei1
home and everything that was in it, all in
ashes. Not thing was saved, and they
are left almost destitute, without home
and nothing to wear except what they had
on. It is . sad fate for Mr.. MsuSbach; h
came here about Ave years ago with com
paratively nothing, located himself on