The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-08-06
LOCAL MATTERS.

Where are all the base ba!!iSts.
Diligence commands success. Be dill
igsnt
Grain stacks are looming up all oyer
the county. ---
Hotel arrivals are few snd far be.
tween nowadays.
Our sportsmen are baggine chickens
at lively rate.
Not until until after August 18th can
prairie chickens be sho. legally.
The 4-months-old child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Quigley died today.
the potato crop promises to be unus
uslly good this year, bugs or no bugs.
"A lazy mans soliloquy: II would
be quite willing to sit up at my meals il
I could only lie down at my work"
DO not delight in the misfortune oi
others, for you know moi al what moment
you may fall.
Rev. Mr.. Newell was taken violently
i'll one day this week, but is now consid.
cred out Of danger.
Prof HYDE gave concert, etc., At the
Canton School House Thursday evening
to very slim audience.
-Chas. E. Martin, formerly OF this
place, but now of the Paragraph force,
Sioux Falls, was down on Sunday, taking
= glimpse Of old friends.
1t WAS lord Bacon who said SO warm
and open winter portends hot and dry
summer" Though last winter was swarm
and open" and summer is hot it isn't a
dry one by long shot.
"A GENTLEMAN went into provision
store 10 purchase corned tongue. The
dealer handed him one, remarking that it
was very nice, and, furthermore, it never
told lie.
Shaving and hair cutting done elegant.
ly and skillfully, at Blinds tonsorial
rooms, Bridge Street. Canton.
The ADVOCATE family is under obi.
cations to Mr.. Criswold for monstrosities
in the shape of pie pant. 1t is hard to
beat.
"A good deal Of sickness is prevailing
in some parts Of the county, principally
summer complaint, mostly confined to
children. Mr.. Gage, we learn, is seri,
ously Ill.
1t will be twelve years before another
combined lunar and solar eclipse like that
which occurred on the goth ult, takes
place in this locality.
Miss Matte Goss. returned to her
home at Plano, ILL.,, last Sunday, accompa-
MED by Miss Dollie Dixon who is visit.
ing her native town.
Though the wheat crop Of this section
has been more or less injured by heat and
wet weather, it will average more to the
acre than is usually harvested on ordi-
nary farms in the eastern states.
Fred. Barrow is receiving accessions
to his agricultural implements, consisting
Of plows, rakes, and mowers. This gen.
tleman is proving successful dealer in
farming implements.
Fred. Barrow has quite an imposing
array of farm machinery and implements
west Of his lumber yard. This display
exhibits good taste and An eye to business
Beware Of green mosquito bars. 4
physician claims that man in Shelby Co.,
who placed green mosquito bar over
his face one night, to keep off flies was
poisoned BY absorbing the arsenic OF the
coloring matter was sick in the morning.
Mr.. Thonstad casually met class
mate Tuesday as he was passing through
in the stage. They were mutually sur.
prised As either did not know of the resi-
dence OF the other in America. Only those
who have experienced it can imagine the
qualification of meeting classmates so long
separated, aud iii lands foreign IL that of
their birth.
The jamestown AIert is appropriately
named. and is one of the neatest papers
that comes to our table. 1t is published
at jamestown, D. T., on the Northern Pa.
cifc railroad, by E. H. & G. H. Foster, who
promise 70 be desirable sccessions to the
fraternity.
1t Is all very we'll to talk about econ
omy, bpt the difficulty is to get anything
to economic. The little baby who puts
his toes in his mouth is almost the only
person who in these hard times manages
to make both ends meet.
The New York Circus spread its can
vas in Canton Yesterday and gave two ex-
hibitions The attendance in the after
noon was small but in the evening there
was fair audience. There are various
opinions expressed by those who attended,
concernlng the merits Of this show. Some
CLAIM il was = good entertainment and
others say i. was second-r..e affair, ba.
people will differ, you know. The clowns
tried hard to be witty, though their jokes
were ancient and their local hits out of
place.
Judge Clifford has been trying to re.
duce his jase, preparatory to the coming
campaign. II both sides had increased
alike it would not have annoyed him. but
when the of side Of his near cheek assun-
cd the proportions of bAby's head and
threatened to close the csophagus, he was