Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-03
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Sioux Falls supports seven BARRIERS.
Adraymsn is wanted At Dell Rapids.
jamestown il longing for . brick maker.
Watertown has an amateur dramatic club
Considerable building ia going on in Swan
Lake.
Madison is experiencing almost y butter
famine.
The Waterfowl Independent is six
months old.
There is a No. l opening for q dry goods
store in Roscoe.
The Cameron Pioneer has been in exls-
tence six months.
The Episcopal parsonage at Swan Lake
is being repaired.
Surprise parties and candy pullings have
commenced in Olivet,
Brookings 10 claimed to be the largest
town IN Brookings county.
A number Of antelope have been seen in
aud around Mud lake near Swan Lake.
Wolves are beginning their serenades
these moonlight nights 10 Hutchinson coun-
".
The season for getting married has ar.
rived and notices are pouring in thick and
fast.
There is only one democrat in Hutchin-
son county and he 10 going "solid" for
Sphinx.
An Emanuel creek farmer finished husk-
tng his corn last week and has over 1906
bushels.
The Independent claims that from 2,00t
to 5000 bushels of whest are sold daily a,
Sioux Falls.
Lake county sends more No l wheat into
the Sioux Fails market thar any other ad'
joining district.
The Olivet Chronicle says parties are
prospecting for coal near that place with
favorable results.
Sioux Falls thinks in enc year from now
it will have not less than five railroads
if none get away.
Canton gave the first pound party Of the
season, for the benefit Of the Episcopal
church at that place.
The Fountain Press has been changed to
the Brookings County Press. and the office
removed to the latter place.
There . talk of renewing the county seat
Of Bookings county from Medary to the
new railsol I'd town Of Brookings.
The dead body of an unknown man was
found on the prairie the other day about
fifty miles northwest of Valley City.
1t is claimed that work upon the bridge to
cross the Dakota river on the line OF the
ST. Paul road will be commenced soon.
Debating societies are prevailing all over
the southern territory. Even in Spotted
Tails camp they occasionally have . brisk
one.
Rockport Pioneer, Both: The water IN
the river has been steadily rising for the last
week and is now sufficient to run one pair
Of stones Ut the Rockport mill.
The track layers. and the outfit for the
new Brookings printing office. arrived at
o and the same time, and were received
With Q national salute from the cannon.
The Roscoe Express Gays: A white peli.
can has been captured on the East Vermil-
lion river that measured six feet across its
wings. and its bill was eighteen inches long
Oiivet Chronicle: Jacob Max, Of Yank-
ton, will build two new stores At Cassell, In
this county, one to be used as a hardware
and the other as dry goods and grocery
store.
Watertown claims to raise the boa, tur.
nips Of the world. The dimensions of the
largest one 80 far reported are three feet and
SIX inches aronnd the waist and weight 10
pounds.
MI. O'Shea, living near Springfield, lost
$500 worth of stock and buildings last week
eoy . prairie 1re. The party who set the
DIRE was arrested, tried and fined ten dollars
and costs.
The railroad track is now laid to within
three miles of Scotland. Trains will be run.
Ming to the latter place In q few DAYS. and
no doubt will reach Springfield by the Goth
Of November.
Grigsby's & Peck's new block At Sioux
Falls has French plate-slass windows in
front with panes 68 BY 1888 inches. The
enumeration Of the structure includes an
iron balustrade to 90 all around on ton Of
the cornice.
Rockport Pioneer: G. L. Ackley. who
recently came from Ysnkton into our conn.
y, has succeeded In getting some verv
choice claims on the east side Of the river
and Is preparing to build q residences there
on for himself and daughter.
Roscoe RECALLED it, self with q ball not
long ago, and some Of the participants failed
TO have a good time, there being only two
ladies present. Then Flandreau thought it
would show 'um" and issued invitations for
. grand affair Of its own, with immense At
fractions in the way of musicians from
abroad from Dell Rapids), = sumptuous r..
R..t &C.; YET. for all that, it proved 70 be .
little dull, to those who cared to indulge 10
round dancing, there being not q lady pre-.