The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-03-05
1880 ......- O. T.
. Local Items,

Two carload Of horses pas sed through
town on Friday. ~
MIR. STILLtNaER has sold his town
residence tolls. Benedict.
The Portlandville Stage due Satur.
day at 8 p. m, did not arrive until Sunday
morning.
--APK1L Shower the 2d Of March. Who
can ask for milder climate or winter thar
the past ...s -,..a
WILD GEESE are returning, and occa-
sionally Ducks are seen in the streams
where the ice has disappeared.
JAMES A. CARPENTER of Beloit, visit
ed Sioux City last Thursday TO con
suit with the Railroad officials about the
extension -r-t.E 50
THE Dance Thursday night was well
attended The drawing for the Piano re
suited in favor Of Warren Dick. Bring il
up Warren and give US tune.
EVERY one approached express their
anxiety for the Rlilroad, and nearly all
seem inclined to aid the project as much
as their means will permit.
Nj. SEARS OF the Carpenter stock farm
is model stock man, and his experience
III Colorado and the east in that line
makes him q valuable accession to Lincoln
County, ~1 u, ,@ u- ts-. ~.
/. THOMAS Jared Hurd has been adjudg
ed insane and Will be taken to the Asylum
at st, Peters, Minnesota. 1t is a sad case
o. Alex: :.der was appointed Guardian OF
his property. .e ..- ~,-H VIZ
. -MEssRs Palmer, White and Conn
officers of School District AZ in Brook n
Township have succeeded in obtaining
means for the erection of building 20
feet So are which will be used both for
school and church purposes.
4. The freeze of Saturday and Sunday
nights, barred the commencement OF seed
ing on Monday morning which promised
to be general Several farmers have at in
tervals been seeding for two weeks back.
THE CINCINNATI Breakfast Table is
one of the most attractive humorous pap
ers, both in appearance and contents, that
comes to this Office. Ask your newsdtal-
re .for COPY and judge for yourself:
JOE Horn is at work at the cell, or
cage, which Otto Rudolph contracted
with the Commissioners to construct for
the Jail. It will bother the unfortunate
inmate to work out, if iron bars and rivets
are any llinlrance. .t.- .,e.l5
sf-REv, Mr.. Snyder, a methodist cler-
gyman of Turner County has been hold
ing series of meetings for two weeks
pas. at the house of Mr.. Minot. His la.
bors haye proved effective in gathering
in" many to the christian circle.
The District School will close IN two
weeks. and as many of the older scholars
will have to be engaged IN spring work,
it is not thought advisable to extend the
term beyon four months. The pupils are
rogressing finely and the teacher is high
ly esteemed by his scholars.
MANY are prophecying dry season
and suggest that grain be planted deep
Such winter as we have just exyerien ced
is apt to remove all conceit as to- prophe-
CIV of weather, but it is natural to gu So
ard speculate, aad some one will hit 1t of
course.
THE Pembina Company have made a
proposition to the people Of Lincoln
County that if they will grade and tie the
road or give $35.0O0, the Company will
bridge, iron and complete the road to
Canton by the 1st Of October next. This
is sense and will secure US the road.
SOME Of our exchanges are reporting
the finding of Coal in Lincoln County 1t
may be that our own citizens are conceal
ing the fact from us, but diligent inquiry
of them who were reported as being in
such luck, only gets the statement that
they have not found coal but have abund-
ant evidence thBt coal is there if they
could only prospect thoroughly.
THE first number Of the Dakota AI0o-
cate comes to our table. 1t is replete with
good things for Dakota, and should be
generally circulated. The Editor J. s.
Foster, is eminently the man for the place
and if we had more Of such public spirit
ed men with equal ability devoted to the
advancement of our Territorial interests,
good results would cusue.
SoME disease is prevalent among the
horses in this vicinity, that has proved IA
al in many instances. Judge Fitzgerald.
has lost one and has others sick. Mr..
Gray has lost two, and we hear OF many
others whose horses have been attacked,
It is something similar the epizootic, com
mencing with a cough, and terminating
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with a running at the nose and breaking
out at the lower jaws. '5s
The distinguished Meterologist and
Weather Prophet. Professor Tice, Of ST.
Louis, has issued his Annual Weather Al
manac for 1878, in which he foretells the
weather for every day in the year, explains
the theory clearly Oh which his predict
ions are based, gives directions by which
the unscientific can foretell the weather
and other valuable matter. The whole
constitutes a work Of great practical value
to everyone. and is almost indispensable to
farmers. For sample copy and terms Of
sale to the trade and to agents send 20 cts
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