Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-24
N%ElGHBoRHooD NEWS.

Wheat in Grand Forks county yields
from 20 to 80 bushels per acre. and grades
No l, hard.
The democrats of Union county held their
convention to-day to elect delegates to the
territorial convention.
Work ON the mill at Roscoe is progress
ing Notwithstanding the injunction, and the
building will be raised next week.
A four year old son Of Mr.. Low, living
near Flandreau, had his leg broken last
Saturday by a rail falling from a wagon.
Well bet the convention at Yankton, to-
day, say Kidder. Who takes the bet?-
Roscoe Express %. Fork over the stakes
you've lost. g
A severe wind and rain storm swept over
portions Of Moody county last week, and
considerable damage to buildings and crops
was the result.
Eleven American families from Dodge
county, Mimi, have settled recently in
Grand Forks county Forty or fifty more
families from the same section will follow
them in the fall.
The editor of the Roscoe Express in the
issue Of his paper for the 22d INDUCES in a
four column political editorial. 1t requires
extraordinary courage to write and read
illusions of such length during the dog days.
L. NJ. McCarren, formerly of Malvern,
Iowa has become connected with the edito-
rial management of the Union County Cour-
Ter. He is represented as an experienced
new paper man, and we welcome him to
the fraternity in Dakota.
Nj. Way residing near Dell Rapids pur'
chased two points of the horse thieves
Morris>and Smith who recently escaped
the U. s. Jail in this city. The ponies
were recovered by the person from whom
they were stolen, and Mr.. Way is out the
amount he paid for them.
AS threshing progresses it is found that
the yield Of the wheat crop is much better
thar was anticipated. The Swan Lake Press
says: Tom Canton's threshing machine
tells a better story than A. B. Smiths and
we are advised to increase our average, Civ.
en- last week by at least fifty per cent. In
proof the spring wheat Of Fessendon &
Powers is given as SHIELDING seventeen bush.
els per acre, the winter wheat at twenty-sev.
en- bushels per acre. Also the spring
wheat of Mr.. Patrick, twenty.seven bushels
per acre. Other farmers, after seeing thresh.
ing done, begin to feel better and estimate
their wheat al a more liberal yield. The
average it is now thought will reach at least
fifteen bushels per acre.
""The Woman in Black" is doing St
Paul, and puts in her frequent appearances
at the police court. Some weeks ago the
local editor of the Sioux City Journal wrote
a column of pathetic bosh descriptive o.
how he saved her from suicide, and interest
ed some philanthropic people in efforts fol
her reformation. The St. Paul Dispatch
gives the old womsn's version of her ex.
perience with the Journal local. Afel
rescuing her from q watery grave. and ate,
she was sent to the c%alaboose, The visited
her often in her lonely cell, Interviewing
her many times, aud according to her state
ment to the officer who arrested her lasl
evening, he interviewed her once to often
He spent many nights interviewing her
She tells how fine she played it on the Jour
nal representative as well us . number o
good people Of that place. She has a port
monte from the reporter and his carte de
visite-his name is "B. w. Blanchard, city
editor Of the Journal" She says that Mr.
B. was more than attentive TO her during he,
confinement and she 10 claims that ahe i,
e~sciesae by him and wishes the matter mad,
public that he nay Be compelled /, Q fa.hs,
tbs child vh;s Il u horn.