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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
A Terrible Cough.

How often we hear the above remark
during these extreme changes OF weather
Colds, Coughs and Sor. Tiiroats were
never more prevalent among Children
than now. Now We are going to urge
you to try Il remedy which has excited
comments by physicians all over the
country, who acknowledge their surprise
at the wonderful AID happy results from
its use. That remedy is the well known
preparation, HALE'S COyGH CORDI-
AL. Your own druggist, II. II. Blair.
will tell you that it Is the best cough
medicine he ever sold and will warrant
a cure or return your money to you IN
case Of II failure after using one half of
the bottle. 1t is very pleaiant to the
taste, making a very desirable remedy
for children.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
Astonishing success.

1t is the duty of every person who has
used Bochee's German Syrup to let its
wonderful qualities be known to their
friends in curing Consumption, sever
Coughs, Group, Asthma, Pnemonla, and
in fact all throat and lung diseases. No
person can use 1t without immediate re-
lief. Three doses will relieve any case,
and We consider it the duty Of all Drug.
glsts to recommend it to the poor dying
consumptive, at least to try one bottle, as
10000 dozen bottles were sold last year,
and no one case where it failed was re-
ported. Such a medicine as the German
Syrup cannot be to wildly known. Ask
your Druggist abou. it. sample Bottles
to try sold At 10 cents. Regular size 70
cents. For sale BY Il HBlair.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

LAST Saturday was the day set apart
for the ground hog to come out of his
hole and look for his shadow. The sun
was bright enough on that day to blind
his eyes SO that it is doubtful whether he
could see anything. However, according
to our grand .mother's theories, we are
to have six weeks more winter weath0
II it is not any worse than WI have had
we can stand a longer siege If necessary.
Mr.. G. H. you can 60 back into your hole
and pull the hole in after you, if you
want to,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
Lecture Association.

On Saturday evening last, n number Of
our citizens met in the Office Of Cation
and Mallahan and proceeded to organize
a lecture association, for the purpose Of
securing a number of first class lecturers
during the winter. The association was
formed and some 25 Of our leading citi.
gems signed their names to the resolutions
creating the organization and the pros
pect is good for having some first class
lectures in our city in the near future.
Hon. Alex. Hughes was elected president
Of the association, Rev. W. W. Fowler.
Vice President. w. +. Cation, Secretary
and H. H. Blair. Treasurer. A committee
Of three, consisting Of G. W. Beggs, G. F.
Mailahanaand NJ. w. Sheafe, Jr. to be
styled a. q lecture committee, was ap-
pointed by the chairman.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

ALMOST A BLAzE.-The Elk Point
House narrowly escaped being burned on
last Thursday night. The particulars are
as follows; Robt, Duncan, of Sunnysidc,
who was stopping over night, OF retiring
placed his pipe in the pocket of his
pants, and put them under his pillow.
Sometime afterwards he was rather sur.
prised to find the bed in flames and bis
hair pretty well singed off. The alarm
was given and the fire e~xtiuguished with
out any further damage than the demoral-
ization Of several beds which were used
to smother the flames, Mr.. Duncan's
pants and a number Of dollars in currency
which was in one of the pockets.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
A pRloslTY. Dawson has in his show

A CURIOSITY. Dawson has in his show
window a curious specimen Of pctriiica-
ton. 1t is petrified biscuit, and the
seriousness of the thing is that it is posi-.
lively known that the biscuit was baked
in tins town less than a year ago. Mrs. Z.
II. Bennett is the lady who baked the
biscuit and threw it into the granery
where it was picked up few days ago
in a very fine state Of pe,rifaction. This
singular fact is nut for our scientists to
crack.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
Probate Notice.
Territory of Dakota, In probn
anruev ~ 1Totro ~. caurt

'e county OF Of p9kS..' IS. e eo nre''"
In the matter Of thc estate of Jessie L. Dennis.
late Of Union county and territory aforesaid,
Deceased. Z
WHEREAs. N j. Wallace the administrator Of
eaid estate did on the 23rd day Of January. 1873,
Me a petition in said court praying for the issue
Ing OF an order by said court for the sale Of the
following described land lying in Union county,
p 10 wit: the s. E. quarter Of Section 5 In
Township 93. Of Range Al, and
WHEREAS, u appears TO the sid court from
s1ch petition tha, Il y necessary to sell the whole
Of said real estate for The purposes and reasons
mentioned In said petition and required BY law.
THEREHokE. II is ordered by thu said cour, that
all persons Interested In the above described
real estate be and appear before the said court
on the 2lst day Of February, 1878, at the hour Of
" o'clock .. M. Of said day, 10 show cause why
On order should not be granted to The said admin.
istrator to sell said real state Of the deceased, al
which time II IL ordered that . special term Of the
probate court OF said county be held al the court
hou.e In Elk Point. Union county, Dakota. FOR
the hearing Of said petition, and It 10 further or
dered that notice Of said hc6tlng be published
In the UNION COUNTY COURIER once u week for
four consecutive weeks prior 10 said hearing.
In witness whereof | hcreaBtOa act my hand and
the seal Of said court this 23rd day o. Jrny, 1873,
l.EALl ut Elk Point, Dat0ta.
a. r. MATfIsoN, Judge Of Probate.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

Hon. w. E CATION, left last Thursday
morning for Chicago and Joliet, His, on
u two weeks business and pleasure visit
We mourneth because of his absence
One of the chairs in our office shows an
'orful' vacantncss, and it cannot be filled
A common man in the chair looks like
clothes pin setting up in a barn floor.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

A SUBSCRIPTION was circulated in town
yesterday to raise money to build a Skan
dcnavian church editice near IIolthe's
school house on the bench, and nearly a
hundred aud fifty dollars were suhscrib-
ed by the citizens and business men of
Elk Point.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

A rEoMT EMIT farmer of Dixon County,
Nebraska, near Ponca. brought several
loads of wheat to Elk PoiLt last week,
AID he says he received II cents per
bushel more than he could get in Ponca
the same day, A large quantity of wheat
is coming here row from Nebraska.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

WE call especial attention to the sdver.
tisement Of the Riclland Mills to he
found IN another column. The mill ia
now in good hands and is turning out
-four that cannot be beat anywhere. Mr..
l.. N. Grill is considered one of the bes,
millers in the country, and we know that
he can make good -four every day in the
year. The Richland mill is a good place
for our farmers to take their grlsts.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

DAVID STEVENS, ESQ, the merchant
prince of ~Sunnyside. wa or our streets
yesterday. He says that he met in COM
ilg down over 90 teams loaded down
with lumber. This certainly shows a
very prosperous condition Of the farmers,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

A JOURNAL mar while on a visit to
Elk Point lately, could not help noticing
their magnificent new school house.
Nothing speaks So well for the worth and
intelligence of a town as good school
buildings. Can Ponca folks take this
gentle hint p Ponca Journai.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

LosT.-A ladies Fur Boa, between Elk
Point and Portlandville. Iowa. The find.
er will confer q favor and be suitably re
wsrded by leaving the same at the CoUR.
IER office, Elk Point, or at the Plymouth
Hotel, Portlaudviile.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

DIED.-We are panied to chronicle the
death Of Mrs. b. NJ. Brink, which occur.
red on last Friday. Mrs. B. WAS a lady
of more than ordinary intelligence and in
her death Mr.. Brink losses a loving wife
and her children an a~ffcctionate mother.
She was buried on Saturday and a very
large c%opcourse Of her friends attended
the funeral.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

man says he bought a load Of post of a
man n week or two ago, and after lie had
paid for them, and the fellow had left,
he discovered that they had been stolen
OFF from his own timber. This is parallel
to the case where a chap stole a mans
chickens at night and took them around
next morning and sold then to him
Mike says they are good post anyhow.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

SOCIABLE-OYsTERs-Thc ladies OF
the Congregational church will hold a
sociable and oyster supper at the resi-.
dence of Mrs. d. W. Myeres on Friday
evening Of this week. A cordial invita-.
ton is extended to all.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

TnE Ponca JoHrn1l says: Every man
who has during the past six years devoted
himself exclusively to the business of
stock raising, in Dixon county, is to day
rich"
This is q fact worthy Of notice AID con.
s,deration by our Union County farmers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

TEMPERATE LECTURE Mr.. Charles
Mckenzie, a brilliant and able speaker,
of Sioux City, has been secured by exc
cutive committee of the temperance asso-
citation to deliver the next lecture in this
city. The lcctur will be delivered in one
of the churches on ncxt Wednesday even.
ing Feb 13, 1878.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

WE haven't had it from official sources
as yet, hut it is the general rumor that our
friend viii Hawthorn and Mrs. Hattie
Jones If this city are married. Will is
spending more for cigars among bis
friends than usual and we think. it will be
safe in Offering onr congratulations to the
happy pair, at any rate.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

IMrRovEMENT.-The NJ. f. Church
building Is being improved by the add.
ton of u room 10x16 on the north end.
This will open out into the main build
ing, aud is designed for the puplit and
choir. 1t will give considerable more
seating room which was needed very
much.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

Miss IDA BRYAN, daughter of J. II
Bryan, returned yesterday from WIscon
sin where she has been staying during
the winter. Hei many friends are glad
to welcome her back once more.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

Our thanks are extended to Uncle
Ross, of Sioux Valley, for a very large
and fine Buffalo fish which WAS spcarcd
in the Sioux river. It was splendid
eating.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

QUITE a number IF loads Of wheat have
been brought to this market from near
Lodi, in Turner county, and from Lincoln
county during the past week.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
Herd Notice..

The undersigned will herd cattle next
season upon the following terms:
Cattle, delivered, S1.25 per month.
in corral Is cents pr month.
The best of care will be taken of stock.
l have had expericnc aud understand the
bushes. Give me a call.
CORNELIUS CALLAHAN.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

CAPT. J. NJ. TALcoTT, has me we'd his
building. formerly occupied as a school
room on Douglass street, to the lot al
joining Brulmchers 81 main street.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

A. w. HowARD has been re appointed
by the President, postmaster of Yankton,
Yankton people appear to be well salts
fled with the appointment.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

Mrs. A. r. MATTIsON went to Vermil
lion, on Tuesday of this week, to visit hel
daughter, Mrs. d. w. Hass"n.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

WE had a pleasant cali from Capt
Duncan, yesterday. The Capt. is feeling
buoyant and happy over the fine pros
poets of Dakota farmers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

ANYONE wishing to purchase boots and
shoes cheap will fluid it to their advantage
to look over my stock at the present
time. G. W. BEGGs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

l AM selling a good Morocco shoe for
5 1875, Marked down from $l.75
G. W. BEGGs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

THERE will be Il general temperance
meeting at the M. +. Church on next
Sabbath evening. Able speakers will
address the meeting.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

MARRIED.--At the residence Of the
officiating Justice. Mark Brown, Esq.
on the Sd inst, Mr.. VIM. II. S~enbenbaugh
to Miss Mary Ann Wiilsey.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

Mrs. ALEX. HUGHES left last week, for
a visit to relative living at Gilman, a
place near MhrshaIltown, Iowa. She
will be gone two or three weeks.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

FRANK PUTNAM has left \ large mum
Der of creditors in the lurch again, ard
skipped out.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

ATTORNEY CAN'T, of Ponca, Neb,,
passed through our city the other day on
his way to Vcrmiliion, to attend court.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

DR. Bedford, of Sioux City. Is once
more in town. We are glad to sec the
doctor, and everyone else is too.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

HAVE a few pair of those $500 Kip
Boots left, marked down TO $500
c. w. BEGGs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
A. F.. Il A. M.
|. o. of O. F
Local Matters.

o. II. KING was in this city Oh Monday
and Tuesday of this week.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

ATroRNIEs Hughes, Wallace and Miller
Of our city, are attending court at Yer.
million.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

DEPUTY SHERIFF, A, B0vEE is proud
Of q bran new 8 pound girl at his house
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

U. r. CHuRcHH.-Se-yiccs At the church on
Sabhaths at II A. u. and ! P. y. Sabbath school
at $50 A. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings.
8. r. MOORE, Pastor,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

EPIscoPAL.-Divine Service on Sundays at II
A. Il. and s p. NJ. and on Holy Days st9A.n
Sunday School immediately after morning
service.
Prayer Meeting every Friday evening at 9 P. N.
Mission School every week day but Saturday.
Rev. W W. Fowler, Rector.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06

Baptist CHURCH Divine services a, 1890 Az
and -. N. Church prayer meeting Thsr.day
evenings at Z p. 4. Sunday School al l2 NJ, f
W. Miller. Supt. The public are cordially invit-
ed to antte with ne in oil there services. Sittings
free. REV. GEO. ". FREEMAN, Pastor.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
County Courier.
Wednesday, Feb. &. 1875.
Church frectOry

METHODIST ErIscorAL.-Services at the Church
on Pleasant Street, between Jackson and Frank
lin Streets. every Sabbath al 1880 4 N and I I'm.
Sabbath School at 3 O'Clock P. u. Prayer
meeting every Thursday evening.
". +. GLEASON.
v Pastor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-10
Time Lost.

Most of US fritter away great deal of
time. We are wasteful of the minutes
when we are wasteful OF nothing else.
Nothing is easier than to fritter away
time in matters Of no use to ourselves or
anyone else. The habit is readily form
ed. 1t grows upon us unawares. Keep
a strict account of every hour of your
time for single week, setting down
correctly the exact manner in which
every hour is spent, and see whether,
when you come to review the record.
you do not find it full of admonition and
instruction. In this simple way one
can readily understand the secret of his
want of time. He will discover that he
has given hours to idle talk, to Incidence
and to inconsiderable trifies, which have
yielded him neither profit nor pleasure.
What is the remedy? Arrange your
work in the order of its comparative i'm
portance. Attend first to the things
which are essential to be done, and let
the unessentials take their chance after.
ward. The difference in the amount OF
work accomplished will be astonishing.
Duty before pleasure. Those who prac.
tice this precept have plenty of time TO,
pleasure, and enjoy far greater satisfac
tion than those who reverse this rule
For there is great satisfaction to be OBJ
tanned in the simple performance o.
ones duty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-10
BELLING THE RAT.
How Famous st. Louis Rat-Uatchei
Captures the Rodents.

u
Captures the Rodents.
Tom Costello, of st. Louis, No., is
famed as human rat-catcher. He
captures and removes these animals alive
from hotels and houses where they are
an annoyance and pest. They are then
taken to the rat-pit to become martyrs
to the superior ability of the well bred
black-and-tans. Costello catches rodents
by means of "belled rat" A reporter
accompanied him on an expedition to a
wretched and worm eaten hotel, fairly
alive with the vermin, and gives the
following account of his experience
The arrival was made after midnight.
Silently and cautiously the rookery was
examined until the circuit run by the
rats was determined.
Rats in building are as the inhabi-
tants of city or the inmates OF large
building. Certain holes in floors and
wainscoting, drain-pipes, dark-halls,
passages in the walls, etc., are to rats
what streets in the city are to pedes-
trians, and Railways in buildings to the
inmates. just as one avenue, by reason
of superior width or light, is raised by
people to the dignity of promenade, or
as some alley-wa by reason of being a
hort cut between two points, is made a
thoroughfare, is drain-pipe, noisome
hallway, or a hole in the floor put in
constant and general use by the rats.
Well, on the occasion referred to, Cos
tello looked around and found that a
dumb waiter, or hand elevator, leading
rom the basement of the building up
ward, was the boulevard, the main
street. as it we're, of this rat colony.
He laid for rat and caught him. A
small bell was tied about the captive's
neck by means of ribbon, and then
the rodent was released. 1t was off like
flash. Minutes passed by without
results. At last the skurrying of. rats
through the walls and upper passages
of the house was heard. 1t gradually
increased. The principle the rat-catcher
worked on was that the bell would
scarce the rat. His terror would COM
municate to his fellows, and they in turn
would flee before him as from pesti-
ence. He had calculated correctly.
The noise became like that of the rat
tling of a heavy rain. The bright-eyed
vermin shrieked and squealed as they
fed in their terror.
The reporter and Costello stood in O
small room-the elevator ended in it.
There was a rattling noise in the eleva-
tor. The room was darker than an
Egyptian night. The noise increased
and pervaded the room. Then the re-
porter realized that the rats were in the
room in myriad. He could hear their
squealing, and at last observed the phos.
phorescent CLEAN of their eyes. They
crawled over his feet. The perspiratior
stood on him in drops and his hair raised
He lost years growth right then
&c No danger keep still F; don't move
and they won't bite you," said Costello
The reporter groaned in terror. Costel
10 then Lit lamp. The floor was covered
with the rodents. With pair of tongs
he picked up and bagged them all
There were 1913 of them. When they
were in the bag the reporter was very,
very happy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-10
An Editor Who Wouldn't be Cowhided.

We find this story in some reminis-
cencies of Justice Miller, of the United
States supreme court, written up for
the Cincinnati Enquirer, by George
Alfred Townsend: Judge Miller related
another incident of the fighting days in
Kentucky, when an editor by the name,
1 think, OF Matthewson, was applied to
by citizen of Richmond to furnish
him with the name of the author of
personal paragraph in his paper. The
editor replied that he required until the
next day to see the author and get his
permission. every well," said the
caller, "you give it me tomorrow, or 1
will cowhide you for concealing the
name of the miscreant?" Next day,
at the appointed time in came the
gentleman in pursuit of revenge, with a
cowhide in his hand, ashe had promised.
Matthewson said "I decline to give
the name of the author. i have seen
him, and he withholds his permission. +"
"Very well" said the man drawing his
cowhide-but at this instant the editor
shot him dead. No Judicial proceedings
! followed thesa littls Kentucky privileges