Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-06

and Dakotaian should be handed in NOT later
Than Tuesday evening.
LOCAL AcoxIcx.
The Methodist church will be re-opened
on Sunday, the pastor having returned.
A meeting of democrats was held last
evening and a committee appointed to effect
the permanent organization of q Tripp club.
Weather indications fcr~he upper Missis.
sippi and lower Missouri valleys are partly
cloudy weather. with frequent rain and var.
liable winds, mostly southerly. C%autionary
signals continue at Duluth.
A city prisoner, who was working out a
fine on the streets with a ball and chain at.
tachment, struck last evening, not for wages,
but for liberty, and was successful. Conse-
quently the street force was one man short
this morning.
Canton News: The premium list of the
Dakota agricultural society is received. II
is published by Bowen and Kingsbury of
Yankton. It Is nicely COTTON up and is
withal a credit to the officers of the society,
as we'll as to the publishers.
The long dry spell was brought to a close
yesterday by a heavy shower Of rain which
was preceded by . few heavy peals of
thunder. The shower degenerated into q
drizzling rain which continued at intervals
during the night and to-day.
The Sisters of Mercy beg to inform the
public that their academy will not open on
Monday the 9th in consequence of 4 delay
in forwarding school furniture from Chica-
go. The Sisters will announce the opening
Of the academy when the furniture arrive,
which'is daily expected.
Elk Point Courier: We acknowledge a
receipt of the premium list of the Dakota
agricultural society, which ~convenes at Yer
million on the 10th of September and con-
tinues four days. The pamphlet is neatly
printed, and shows that Dakota has printers
worthy of the name. The job was done at
the Press & Dakotaian office.
Sioux City Journal; There was a woman
in town yesterday begging for money to take
her to Omaha. She was about 60 years of
age, was well dressed, and was altogether as
progressing an old lady as any one: would
find in a long journey. She represented
that she lived in Yankton and had friends
there but just how true her story was is hard
10 tell.
Vermillion Standard: We have received
the premium lit of the third annual fair of
the Dakota territorial agricultural society
to be held in this city on the 10th, nth,
18th and 18th days of next month. The
premiums offered are liberal and well ap.
portioned. The book was printed at the
Press & Dakotaian Office and isa credit to
the printing fraternity of the territory.
A white man and a colored mar get too
much whisky Of the unruly species aboard
last night, created a disturbance on the
levee, and were lodged in the calaboose.
This morning they called on Judge White,
and were so much impressed with his i'm.
Partially as q dispenser of justice that they
each contributed one dollar and trimmings
for the benefit Of the city and Its officers.
The Swan Lake Press remarks: MI. H.
H. Smith proprietor of the Smithsonian
hotel, Yankton, wife and son, stopped with
Aurner Saturday on their way to Sioux
Falls and the Minnesota State fair. MI.
Smith is a man of principle and a model
landlord. Ifthere is any need to recon.
mend him to Turner county we are ready to
do so. But this seems unnecessary when
they all stop there already. and if you want
to learn what Turner county people are in
Yankton, you have only to consult his
register.
The banking firm of Prentice & Newton,
of Vermillion, have just issued 4 circular to
their depositors announcing their determi-
nation to retire from the banking cuisines. |
They are prepared to pay to their depositors
cash in full on demand and to settle all 9TH
er accounts against them in the same salts.
name There can be no question
that Prentice & Newton are financially sound
and their condition is indicative of CAREFUL
business habits. If we recollect rightly they
began business in Vermillion in 1871. They
now make an honorable retirement and
wherever their future labors may be cast
their good record will follow and aid them.
THE Down TOWN
Boot and shoe store has received q large
stock of boots and shoes which will be sold
at hard times prices. Capital street, Morri-
sons block. JOHN A. WEEKS.
BITS OF NEWS FROM BON HoMME.
Bon Homme wants a blacksmith.
The international hotel at Springfield is
now kept by ]. G. Mead.
About one-half of the grain in Bon
Homme county is threaded.
r. K. Finley has gone into the grain