Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-03
LOCAL

LOCAL LAc0NlCs.
Turkey creek wheat threshes twenty-five
bushels per acre.
Quimby paid ninety-one cents for one
load of old wheat yesterday.
The block on Dewey and Powers Third
street block is nearly completed.
Farmers who have thrashed report that
wheat yielded much better than was ex.
pected.
Wheat sold to-day at sixty cents for new
and eighty cents for old. Receipts about
500 bushels.
Brick are being delivered on the ground
for Bruce's block on the corner of Capital
and Third streets.
Congregational Sunday school picnic and
steamboat excursion tomorrow. See notice
elsewhere in this paper.
We want a good rain to freshen the at
mosphere and stop the clouds of dust that
go careering through our streets.
The street commissioner is opening a
gutter on the west side of Walnut street,
between Second and Third streets.
The health OF the city and surrounding
country is very good. There are very few
cases Of the diseases usually prevalent at this
season of the year.
To-day's weather indication for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are,
warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather,
and southeast winds.
Work has been begun for the erection of
q wing on either side of the Congregational
church, which will largely increase the ca
pacity of that edifice.
The city treasurer and city marshal start.
ed on a hazardous undertaking this morn
ing. But as no alarm has been given they
have probably survived the ordeal.
On motion Of Oliver Shannon, Edwin G..
Adams, ESQ , a member of the Nebraska
bar was yesterday admitted to practice in
the several courts of Yankton county.
The women's temperance union will meet
at the Congregational chapel next Friday
afternoon. This is to be a business meet.
ing and all members are requested to be
present.
The large calendar clock which was hang
ing in the Office of the Merchants hotel fell
to the floor this morning and was taken to
Potter & Woods repair shop in a badly de-
moralized condition.
A full attendance Of the members of the
Scientific association is desired at the meet.
ing tomorrow evening, az there will be an
election of trustees preparatory to an incor-
poration of the society.
The council at its meeting last night re-
fused to grant liquor licenses to the houses
on the levee, and ordered the money which
they have paid into the treasury to be re-
funded. This will exhaust all the money
in the treasury, with a number of warrants
outstanding.
A highly estimable lady who resides at
the Jencks hotel has not been down to her
meals to-day. Early this morning she hap.
pened to discover that since the first of jan
uary she has been using an 1877 almanac.
Eight months of misplaced confidence like
this is damaging to appetite.
There will be a social party at the pavil-
ion on next Thursday evening. Tickets
one dollar and fifty cents. Proceeds to be
applied for the benefit of the reform club.
Good music has been engaged, and refresh
ments will be served within the enclosure.
Altogether a pleasing entertainment is ex-
pected.
Not that I care much about tearing a hole
inthe seat of my clothes, but I can lick the
blank, blank, fellow who threw that mush-
melon peel on the sidewalk, was heard to
issue through the clenched teeth of an irate
on Capital street, this afternoon,
he picked himself up and sadly struck
for home.
A little instruction, kindly given proves
often of great benefit. The following from
an exchange is only a hint, but-read it:
1.-THE noble red man lives on v%enison,
which he secures with the bow and arrow,
of course, and therefore his wife must be
q good shot. A Nevada newspaper tells
how q Plute squaw shoots: "She will
throw herself on her back, clap both feet
to the bow, draw the arrow with both
hands. and, letting drive. send it clean
the body of the deer"
LADIES TAKE NOTICE.