Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-24
LOCAL %LAco.Ics.

Mrs. NJ. L. KEE.
LOCAL lLLAcoxlcs.
Unfrozen oysters at Jenkinsont.
Turkey rsf1e q. Satorl's saloon tonight.
No paper will be Issued from this Office
tomorrow.
The banks will celebrate Christmas with
closed doors.
Fort Sully reports lhi1ty-two in the
~shsde-below zero.
The ice houses promise many profitable
returns of the season.
Where is the man who was around pre-.
dieting q mild winter?
This is the time of the year to lay in your
summers stock of ice cream.
A Christmas tree will be the attraction at
the Methodist church this evening.
The German club will celebrate Christ
mas at the club rooms tomorrow evening.
Yankton agency reports the mercury at
Is below zero at seven o'clock this morn
ing.
New years calling cards. q fine variety, at
the Press s. Dakotaian office. Cal! and Sc
lect.
The through stage from Sully will ar.
rive to might, only twen,y.fou. hours be-
hind time.
Rehearsal Friday night al $50 at the
Universa!ist Chapel for the Old Folks
Concert,
There will be religious services at the
Universalist chapel to morrow Christmas
day at II A. NJ.
A Christmas tree tonight at Christ
church and another one at the sCongreea-
tional church.
Regular trains will commence running
next Monday .on the Niobrsra branch
of the Milwaukee road.
The Sunday school children of Christ
church are requested to meet at the church
at Z o'clock this evening.
Post office hours to morrow: From
eight to eleven in the morning and fiom
five to eight in the evening.
What the people are now most anxious
about is to find out how Major Elderkin
discovered "Maggie's %secret.n
The nobbiest assortment of New Years
cards ever brought TO Dakota at the Press
and Dakotaian counting room.
Sunday school concert and Christmas tree
at the Baptist church Christmas eve. Ex.
elcises commence at seven .. m.
At the Baptist church, this evening, there
will be q Christmas tree leden with gifts
for the Sunday school boys and girls.
Sergeant Huneke's observations indicate
the clearest and cslmest kind of weather
that ever was known at this signal station.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Rising followed BY stationary barometer,
colder northwest winds and clear weather.
Tickets for the Old Folks Concert, which
takes place st the Congregational church
Monday evening, Dec. Goth. are for sale Of
the postoface and at Turner'S music store.
The postofice book store have had such a
rush that they were obliged to duplicate
their orders for many fine goods in their
line. They furnish any book Al any pub
llsher's price.
Mail service has not yet been placed or
the Dakota division of the Milwaukee road. |
west Of Canton, and the people along the
road are ready to unite in a prolonged
how. over the delay.
A new game called Memo, which has
been In progress for tive weeks past, has
eliminated and the fellow who didn1. Memo
didsometh,ng a greatdesl worse-hs swore
II 10 something shout q town site.
The upper line of the Milwaukee road,
has been ironeds eighteen miles west fof}
Nsrion Junction. and there operations have
been brought to q halt by the severe wealth.
er. The track will reachsM itchell early In |
April. s
Fritz Schnetz, the we'll known German
lecturer, Who was engeged BY the Turner
society to deliver two lectures in Yank,op,
has been disabled by an accident in St.
Louis and will therefore be. unable to fulfill
bis engagement here.
The operator at Fort Thompson was
called this morning and asked shout the
weather. He shivered 60 violently that .at
1rstit1 FOUNDED % though he ssid $50 Selow
l1sso. but be finally got control Of himself