The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-11-28
BELOiT ITEMS,

is being plastcred.
II. NJ. Rowley is building warehouse
south of his store, on Bridge street.
The cold hluster of Monday bring.
Fosdick's Buffalo oycTcaa:s into rcGu;si
| ton.
-llalvor Nelson, one Of Bcloit's early
and well known former residents came
INTO town Friday.
Con Sidcrablc grain is now being
marketed here, Mr. Illingsworth purchas
ing and storing in the Hclgerson Ware
house.
Charley Martin and several other
! Sioux Falls gentleman, were down Thanks
giving evening in attendance upon the
party.
--Wcrk on the Railroad is progressn 9
finely, not day since the 1st of October
bnt what the entire force could labor to
advantage
Mr. Gallup is building stage barn
north Of Rergstrom's blacksmith shcp.-
He thinks ii advisable to attempt TO keep
the balance of his horses.
- he ladies are making general prep
arations for the Thar ksgiving festival ct
the School House, and their efforts Will
unquestionably render an agreeable time.
The masons are putting on the finish
irg touches to the Hclgerson building, and
Charley Vanalstinc will soon be ready to
open the hotel for the reception of travel
erS.
Arrangements have been made by
which Rev. DR. Hoyt will hold Episc ,pal
service at the School House the evening
Of the I'd and 4tA Sundays Of each month,
commencing the I'd Sunday in Dcuri.toe1
The horse stolen from the St,g com
pGny has been recovered. The thief rode
him to the Rock where he abandoned
Inn an6 stole another from another party
which has not yet been heard from.
An attempt WIS made by the weather
clerk. Saturday afternoon and Sunday to
gct,up snow storm, bul after some bow
ing and s!eet Splurging, ,Ihewind subsidet.
and Monday was comfortable day.
Freight is now being brought via the
Pembina, and when 1t reaches Faiirvicw
even, almost the entire line of goods now
shipped via Lemars and Sioux Falls will
be ordered by the former route.
Monday night was the coolest of the
season, all the ,nds and the river trccz-
ing over A huge flock Of Ducks bearing
down from the north appeared Tuesday
morning evidently seeking open wafer.
-Tom Tattersllal was the though full
one tins time, and it was a prime feather
ed animal Of the Turkey persuasin n, and
tie day before THANKSGIVING. Time. place
and OBJECT highly appreciated and partlc
ulariy agreeable to the receiver. Thanks
We now ct the JodrnM at 3 p IN of
The same day it is printed This is ahcad
of IaNkton and Sioux Falls. The cars
within y miles, and the telegraph coming
rapidly after, makes US begin to feel that
this region will be om1thing more than
an soiated one soon,
Sioux City Journ ]: A. X. Nash chief
engineer of the s. c. & p. railroad com
pany. has just completed survey Of the
Big Sioux River, which former the boun-
d.ry line bctwce9 Iowa "nd Dakota,
from Bc,Ni4 Iowa, to where it EN- pties in
to the Missouri, seven miles above. The
airline distance is about sixty miles, but
the river in its course down the valley
measures about one hundred miles. The
average fall is eight feet to the mile, and
affords water power Of sixteen feet fall
every two miles The banks on either
side rise to a highth Of fifteen totwenty five
feet.
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