Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
LOCAL LAcoNlCs.

than Tuesday evening.
LOCAL LAcoNlcs.
1t is now spr 'ng.
Lent begins Wednesday.
Mercury ifty-ive above zero.
Christ church has organized a choir.
Wheat sells to-day at s0GSl cents per
bushel.
The Willing Hearts" are preparing to
give another fair.
Reserved seats for Howorth's Hibernisa
now on sale at the post Office.
They give away five dollar gold pieces at
the Broadway keno rooms.
The creditors of Mark NJ. Farmer will
meet Wednesday to elect an assignee.
A missionary concert was held at the
Congregational church last night.
There are several candidates for the posi-.
ton of assignee in the Farmer bankrupt
case.
An adjourned session of the January tern,
of the board of county commissioners began
to-day.
The Liberal church society is aeits.iue ,
scheme for the erection ola church edifce
and public hall combined.
Assessor Ellerman will complete The cen.
sus OF Yankton in about ten days. Then
we will know how many We are.
Mrs. McGibbons and Mrs. Nettleton have
moved their dress making establishment TO
the northeast corner of Second and Cedar
streets.
II think I will take about a gallon of tha,
sweet pleasure of yours" remarked q
granger to-day, as he handed his Jug owe,
the counter.
Will the council immortalize itself BY
appointing an inspector of chimneys? Dan.
ger turks in half the lily constructed smoke
stacks in the city.
An excellent letter written by Gen. Bea.
die upon the new territory subject appears
in last Fridays Chicago Tribune in reply tc
the notorious Bismarck %effusion.
Indications Of the weather for the uppel
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys, art
falling barometer. warmer southwest tc
southeast winds, and increasing cloudiness
The Reformed Mems club will meet in
the chapel of the Congregational church
this evening at half past seven O'Clock. A
full attendance is desired. Bv order of the
president.
Several hard working yeomen we're in
town to-day after their regular beer, "the
sweete,t pleasure of their lives.n One o.
them carried away inside his clothes enough
to make existence seem cheerful for a month
or two.
The Bon Homme Citizen contains an &C.
count Of an attack upon a store door in that
town, by three "Yankton roughs," with the
avowed purpose of stealing the lock off the
door and bringing it to Yankton. Can such
things be?
The Baptists Of Yankton are preparing to
build. 3 house Of worship and have about
$1,000 already pledged towards the enter
prise. They propose asking aid from east
ern churches and iftheir appeals meet with
. response a good building will be erected.
The wife Of Hon. D. c. Haele, speaker
of the lower house Of the last Dakota legis-
lature, died at her husbands residence in
Louisville, Illinois, q short time since, and
one Of his children was very sick at last
accounts. Mr.. Hagle moved to Illinois last
spring.
Isaac Piles and others are pursuing the
project of cheap ferriage with good pros
poets Of success. They are e%ndeavoring TO
raise a $1,000 among the business men and
this, with the aid to be given blythe railroad
company, will enable the ferry boat men to
largely reduce their prices.
Danforth is making preparations to pro-
cure plans and specifications for the erection
of a brick block on the lot between Mills &
Purdy's store and Dewitt'a block. Danforth
gets a good ready before he goes
ahead, but when he starts in earnest a brick
building is sure to be the result.
1t is probable that party conventions will
be held this spring for the nomination of
candidates for city Offices. At least, that's
the talk among politicians Of both shades.
The idea is to select good men from each
party and bold them up for the peoples
irrespective Of political predictions.
may bother the democrats some 10 accom-
Ilish this, but the republicans will find
.mooth Ealing.
TO TuEPUBJIc.
Until my new stock Of spring and summer
.o,da arrive, ! will sell everything and any