Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
NEMHBoRnooD NEWS.

NEGHB0Rh0OD News.
Columbus, Nebraska, baslfour daily pa
pers.
r. Rhacher will open q furniture store In
Niobrara soon.
Moody county will have the biggest har-
vest yet. this year.
Harvest is progressing finely In Holland
Knox counties, Nebraska.
Elk Point claims to lead any town in
Dakota In point of beauty.
Sod corn is making q wonderful growth
in the vicinity Of Rockport.
Barnes county turnips. measure twenty
four inches around tue waist.
A new mail route has been established
from Vermillion to Daily Branch.
Crops are good and business is on the in
crease. in and about Ponca, Nebraska.
There haye been two or three buffalo
seen in Dawson county during the past
week.
1t 10 said there are ten times more men
than women In Hanson aud Dawson coun.
ties.
The mail on the Huckling and Lost Lake
route is carried by q lady, the wife of the
contractor.
The first. printed invitations ever issued
in the James river valley, are out Tor the
Bowery ball.
A daily stage has been put on between
Sioux Falls and Vermillion, by the way of
Lincoln Center.
Mitchell is the name of the new town
which has been laid out in the Dakota river
valley, near Firesteel.
The third and last child of Mr.. w. Hall.
Of Herman, Lake county, died n day last
week of diptheria.
A farmer living near Brookfeld, Dakota,
took a grist of new grain 10 the mill on
Saturday, July 26th.
A deaf and dumb preacher is holding
services. by pantomime, IN several Of the
small towns about here.
Sioux Falls and Flandreau both think
they will be the terminus Of the southern
Minnesota road this year.
All the farmers about Ponca, Nebraska,
ind their wheat yielding much better than
expected and the grain of q first. class Quail
ity.
In one week three lumber yards, a bar.
Der shop, a grocery store, q meat market
and a clothing store have been opened in
Turner Junction.
Willie Preston, q boy about fourteen
years old. living in Sioux City was drown
ed in the Floyd river just above Hedge.
dam, Tuesday Of last.
The Courier says one of Elk Points
leading citizens, sat on the roof of a shed
all one afternoon a short time ago. waiting
to be taken up to heaven. but he WASH,
taken. Wonder If it was a former a
Peter Carllna with his wife and child
from Pennsylvania, passed through Council
Bluffs on the 18th, on their way TO the
Black Hills. They were travelling on foot
drawing the child and trunk in a hand
cart.
At a railroad meeting held at Swan Lake
last Thursday evening it was agreed "tha,
Turner county would give the right of way
through the county and grade the road
from Jwan Lake TO Finlay (ten miles,
provided the company will build q road
from Flnlsy to Yankton through Swan
Lake.
Father Knauf, of Adrian, writes to NJ.
Germ. Of Sioux Falls, that news has ar
rived from Rome, that Very Rev. Martin.
Marty, Abbott of the benediction mones-
tary. St. Meinrad. Indiana, at present living
in Standing Rock, D. T., among the In
dams, is appointed vicar apostolic of that
territory. He was born in Switzerland"
Dakota Mail: The corn fields of this re.
gion are wonderful to behold. Already q
person walking through many fields is eff
fectually concealed. and the growth is so
rapid as to be almost beyond belief. From
twenty to sixty bushels to the acre is the
expected yield, and when it is considered
that this corn has never received the slight
est attention, or cultivation such q yield
must be considered remarkable.
The Rockport Pioneer man takes a novel
way of securing watermelons for the season
by inserting the following notice: We Of
fer the Valley Pioneer for one year TO the
person that brings US the largest water
melon during the season. All melons to
he appropriated by US, measured, and re-
cord Kept until the end of the season, when
the largest will be announced and paper
furnished to successful competitor.
What is the use Of cumming it when DR.
Dix, at his Office in Sawyer's block is in.
serting the BEST QUALITY of artificial teeth
attteen dollars per set, reports to the contra