The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-10-03
LOCAL nATTCRS.

Extra copies Of the ADVOCATE can be
had st this once.
-Mrs W. Pat,ee will do plain sewing
At reasonable rates; one door south OF
Court House.
Judge Shannon, Geo. e. Merchant, A.
II. Nash and II. A. Perkins were register.
ed st the Harlan House Monday night.
Joseph Handshingler caught catfish
Monday evening, just below the river
bridge, tbs. weighed ninet ecu pounds.
Meyer send away for what you can
buy In your own town unless you wish to
kill the town and die in the wreck.
The lower Canton school will com
mencc Oct. 21st, 1s7s,-swo two weeks
from next Monday. Sec notice in another
column.
Our farmers seem In no haste 10
market or even thresh their grain. Prob
ably present prices are not au incentive
for rush Of work.
Mr.. Rssp.r being told he looked
ssedy aud being asked what business he
WAS in, said, The hardweAr business /;
see my wardrobe"
The Canton hotels are doing a good
business nowadays. and the landlords
have to canter around lively for soup
bones, vegetables and othor necsssares Of
life
Tho ladies Of the Episcopal Church
will hold the FRS, OF their series Of winter
sociAbler at the residence OF Mrs. Clifford
on Tuesday evening, the 9Th inst. An ia
vita ton 10 extended to sll.
-Mrs. Wells. tho popular ,nilliner. has
added to her wcll-selected stock large
invoice of leading articles, and her rea
sonable prices and superior quality OF
goods eu.,le her to general patronage.
C. Beck has purchased the Restaurant
outfit OF Mr.. Truckmeiler. who is
a bou. returning to Shannon, Illinois.
Beck is adding new goods and otherwise
fitting up very cred,sable establishment
No vacant houses In either Bel"it or
Canton aud the demand for more houses
rapidly in creasins daily. When the rail
road 10 completed lumber can be procured
without hauling twenty or forty miles, the
construction Of new buildings will be nu-
mcrous and lively.
-po.ters have been printed announcing
that Peoples Mass Convention will be
held 4, Lincoln Center, on the 10Th day Of
October, At one O'Clock p. m, to place in
nomination . County Ticket. and also a
Legislative Ticket for the 5th District
It is signed, by request Of Many Cisi.
zcrs."
ALL styles OF visiting cards neatly
printed ut the ADVOCATE Office.
We had the pleasure Of meeting II.
A. Perkins. OF the Journal stad, Monday
evening. His quiet, unsssuruing depors
msnt hardly indicated the bold, telling
style that his sharp rAbsr inaites for that
valuable journal that 70 not only welcome
but snxiously looked ro:. We await his
rite up" OF the Sioux Valley with some
impaticnce.
-Newspapes facts: It il . fact that
newspapers are sustained by home adver'
tising. 1t is . tact that without such sdvcr-
tising there would be no local paper, not
even q weekly in city Of ten thousand in
habitants. tits = fact that the business
manwho fails 70 appreciate this gets all
the advantages OF local paper At the ex
pense of men moro libers. than himself
II is fact that those who do the least for
a paper, arc apt to find more fault than
others il 1t fails to reach their standard
while, while they are quite as likely to be
IS free in asking fAvors for themselves, or
their church, or their pct society, as il Its
suppor. rested on their shoulders,
Tho Distric. Court convened Tues
day, lst inst Attorneys present first day
Of term Swan, Of Sioux City: r. F. Pet
t,g1ew and g. II. Winsor. Of Sioux Falls; !;
Messrs. Clifford, Taylor. Keeler and Jer.
suld, Of Canton. The charge Of Judge
Shannon 70 the Grand Jury was listened
to with attention, and iss many admirable
suggestions nd illusions TO such portions
Of the law ~ he is required TO direct their
attention W cannot fail Of leaving mark
ed impression ucon the minds Of ali who
heard il. Could Ill communities be often
favored with like uttesAoces the dignity Of
the law would be more generally main
tanned.