Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-31
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Wednesday Eyenins, October 81. 1877
Local LACovIC..

"0ay evetusoS, Octooef 81. 1871
LOCAL LAcoNIcs.
That hat of straw! Tho rigid law
OF style forbids me wearit;
With linen close and cotton hose
I'll hang It In the garnet.
For when I take my walks abroad
Tho boys ~ 30 . GRIMM. so,
Aud some smart brat cries .sshoott that hat "
o.. Call In that old linen!"
Tho street Commissioner Is improving
Fourth street.
Mum sochble Friday evening Il the Bap.
list church.
The cattle herdtns business 20 far e. green
grass 10 concerned, d played In this latitude.
The wofkmenT commenced work ON the
German Evangelical church this morning.
Another new frame building Is going up
e the Russian quarter, on north Bruad-
way.
-Four wagon loads of Ssntee Indians from
~Fiandreau. Moody county. reached Yankton
this morning.
I. Mshhng, of the Atlantic house, Is
erecting q large and commodious barn in
the rear of the hotel.
Workmen are busily engaged repairing
the steamboat ways. The first boat to be
hauled up will be che Benton.
The nights are getting too cold to encour
age hanging on the gate. 1t is to be hoped
hereafter she will invite him in.
Mr. Fv~~. a. a. T...l..r--- ~ ~.
Charles) has the New Orleans cigar, the f.
nest favored cigar in Yankton.
Marshal Bowman, yesterday found q
silver watch on the street, worth about
eight dollars, which he will return 10 the
owner when properly identified.
Henry Myer, q steamboatman, was
brought before Justice Eldridge this morn
ing and fined $3.50 and costs, for breaking
Il window glass in the saloon IF John ia
cobs.
The Union Temperance Association will
bold public meeting at the N. E. Church,
on Friday evening, at $50 O'Clock, on
which occasion DR.. McGregor will deliver
a lecture. A general invitation is extended.
c. b. Elliott, of Stirling, Ills, a flour
maker, who has been in Yankton several
days making arrangements for the purchase
Of wheat, pays the highest tribute to the
quality of Dakota wheat, representing it as
the very best he ever used.
The stockholders of the Dakota Southern
railroad held . meeting at the Jencks hotel
last evening, when the following directors
were chosen: G. g. Wicker, A. n. Morri-
son ]. 4. Wicker. n. A. Bahsssh, J. H.
Stone. W.. W. Bookings and NJ P. OH
man.
The TmAa county republican convention
nominated the following ticket: Commits
sioners-A. B. Smith, james A. .Childs.
Probate Judge-Samuel G. Fairchilds. su.
perintendent-Arthur Salmon. Ju.tices Of
the Peace-Joseph Allen, o. Still. Consta-
Mes-Martin Dunning, Dewitt Nichols,
Daniel Divine, Jr. Coroner-Dr. J. s. Par
sons.
At the democratic convention Monday
last Hon. s. L. Sphinx secured the nominate.
on Of Bartlett Trip Esq for probate Judge.
We understand Mr.. Trip will not accept
the nomination. Sphinx says Trip has been
here eight OF nine years without . handle to
his name, and that whether he il elected or
not he will hereafter be known as Judge
Tripp."
The Sioux City Journal says: "some Of
the sportsmen who have been hunting in the
vicinity Of vermillion say that there is a
man living on the big slough near there,
who i totally blind, but who, nevertheless,
has . boat in which he takes hunters around
the slough Is readily Is if he had q headful
of eyes, plotting them to any part Of it they
desire to visit. He doesn't do any shooting
himself, but he knows where the ducks and
geese most do consregate, and can steer his
craft to the localities without making any
mistakes." as Q d =
The Yankton Literary Association have
engaged Susan Il. Anthony to lecture at the
Congregational church on Friday evening,
November 9th. The Sioux City journal
of the 18th says: There are but few wo.
men In the country, If any, who are so well
known as Susan B. Anthony. She has
been before the public as an agitator of the
claims of women Y 9 since most people
can remember, and her talent 10 recognized
everywhere. whatever may be anybody's
opinion Of the cause she espouses. She
has been engaged for a lecture in this city
Thursday evening. November 8, at which
time she will assert and prove that "Womsn
Wants Bread, Not the Ballot" OF course
there will be . crowded house, for every
body likes to see somebody in dead earnest,
and that Is what Miss Anthony always it,"
New England Cider, warranted pure, just
received at ~Jenkinson's.
Go to Jenkinson's 70 get your Oysters,
and you will BE- sure to Oct them good.
Something new! Old plug, chewing and