The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-08-06
VOL. Ill.
eELo,T ITEMS.

1T Is hot enough to make an Hot.ento
totter.
Tom Tattershill returned from hi,
eastern visit this week.
-Hara!dson 4 ReA!me: hh.esshk. .As :.ss
| first wheat OF the season to the Beloit mill
| this week.
Two heavy storms passed around
to the northeast Of this locality during the
past week.
Geo. L. Mckay, the genial attorney o.
this place, has just returned from : trip to
Sheldon and Sioux City.
The election in Centennial town ship
last Saturday, on the question Of voting
aid to the Sioux City & Pembina railroad
resulted in tie vote.
Mrs. Wilkes, of Colorado, preached
an eloquent discourse st the school house
Sunday evening. She is here on visit 10
her mohser, MIR. 4. s. rupper.
--J. H. Coulter is now competent to At
test As to the efficiency of his own medi
clues, being Under the care OF DR., CLARK
but the virtue Of Johns stock in trade, and
the doctors skill, has made the patient con
yalescens.
1T IS violation Of law for sportsmen
to kill anything but woodcock now
Ducks cannot be killed until August Is,
and snipe and chicken until September 1.
The Democrats Of the Ninth District
will hold convention at Fort Dodge,
aug. 10Th, to nominate candidate for
Congress. Lyon county is entitled TO one
delegate.
Jerry Dingwell, = farmer in the east
ern part of tho county, aged 60 years, re.
ceived fall one day recently and since
then he has been unable to move hand or
foot. his whole body having been para
lyzed by the accident.
AT the Republican county convention
at Rock Rapids, on the Goth uit., J. F. Ec.
cleston and Harmon Cook were elected
delegates to the Congressional convention
to come off at Cherokee August 7th. The
convention was manifestly dletonian.
-Track-layiug WAS to have commenc.
ed on the Beloit extension yesterday, but
i. was discovered IN getting ready that the
bolts used in holding .Le end Of the rails
in place were too large, and new supply
was Immediately telcgraphed for. They
will arrive his week, when trsck.laying
will proceed Belolt wards. .
The steamboat Lille made trip up
the Big Sioux River il miles from Sioux
CITY, last Saturday. We're it not for the
mill dams she might have come up to Be-
lott. Wouldn't i, look odd to see steam
boat tied up at our "leveer' Pshaw, now !;
you needn't smile
Last night some one while passing
Mr.. Jacobson's place about eight miles
east OF here, took away one of his valuable
horses and left An inferior pony in its
stead. MIR J. Las no clue to the parties,
and would greatly prefer to be presen.
when people trade horses with him.
It was a one-sided trade and the thief
that made it may some day pull At one
end Of rope in manner that will COM
pletely use him up.
Sioux City Journal: "F.om G. G.
Wicker, who has lately made = trip oyer
the Pembina road, our reporter learned
that the work is progressing finely. The
road is being pushed forward to compile
ton IS rapidly @ possible. Timbers,
spikes, bolts, spices, ties, etc., are all on
hand in abundance. One cargo Of iron az.
rived in Chicago on the 23d, and is ex.
pected here daily. Another cargo was
shipped from Cleveland yesterday, and
Will be here in few days-nskiug 1900
tons in all. This will lay ,hel track TO
Eden, and after they will haye plenty O,
iron to pursue the work Of laying the
track to Beloit without intermission.
This is good news 10 the people siong the
line of the road"
An excursion to Calliope over the
Pembins road when completed to that
point, is talked or
-James A. Carpenter has returned after
an absence Of three weeks at Bsloit, Wis
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