Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-24
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yANkToN DAKOTA
Monday Evening, Feb. q, 1879
xennsoRnooo NEWS

N~ElGnBORh00D NENS.
Vermillion has its town pump No. 2.
Business in Vermillion is improving.
Minnehaha county has four newspapers.
Vermillionites use black walnut wood 70
fuel.
Business and building is decidedly on tn
increase in Lodi.
There are serious cases of ..diptheria re
ported in Elk Point.
An infant son Of David Powell of Yer
million, died on Saturday.
A. Scandinavian dance will occur in Yer
million some night next week.
The Royal Arch Masons Of Sioux Fall.
have failed to organize = chapter.
in. NAPLES, Of Sioux Falls is about to
start a branch lumber ward At Flandreau.
Sioux Fallites are considerably excited
over the discovery of the Lake county gold
fields.
The United Brethren church of Elk
Point have commenced a serious Of revival
meetings. z
Union county people rejoice over the pas
sage Of the bill funding the Indebtedness of
that county.
Vermillion has rather more than ito full
quota of saloons, much to the regret of all
local optionists.
"Some people" in the vicinity of Elk
Point have a fashion Of borrowing wood
between two days.
The Sioux Falls Independent has been
striking around promiscuously from the
Shoulders it were.
Otto Anderson, of Sioux Falls, is getting
ready TO 60 to the Black Hills, with a prai.
rie schooner load of eggs.
Congratulations are in order for the peo-
pie of Beloit and Canton, upon the efforts
their young people are making toward self
improvement.
A Canton saloonist .'put a head on" one
of his customers, in order to forcibly con-
vince him that his account was Just, and
must be paid.
N. w. Sheafe, of Elk Point, has 1000
cords of wood piled near his mill. He
uses five cords every twenty four hours in
running the mill.
The young men of Elk Point who carry
deadly weapons and recklessly use them are
warned to watch out" by the Courier.
The members Of the Portlandville Metho-
dist church, propose giving a first class en-.
%,ertainment for the benefit of their pastor.
There is a probability of retaining the
Rev. Mr.. Walker permanently in the Con-
gregational church. of Vermillion. He
gives general satisfaction.
Four hundred and ;eighty-two piles have
been driven, and $500 feet of cross timber
put on to hold the piling together, at the
washout below Vermilfion.
The Elk Point Courier is making inqui-
ries in regard to the musical and literary
union of that place. The institution seems
to have disappeared since Wallace quit sing.
ing.
The excursioniste to Canton left enough
of the entertainment, furnished by the good
people Of that place, to supply each of the
editors Of the town with a piece Of cake
apiece.
The Dell Rapids Exponent, is a tidy
eeven column sheet, which starts out we'll.
Editorially considerable ability is shown.
geographically it is a success. Its first
issue gives a business statement which places
Dell Rapids as the second city, in Mime
haha count and produces an excellent
showing Of improvements for so young a
place.
Canton Advocate: Green grass and clo-
yer! A bunch gathered by our boy but a
few days since on the banks of the Colum.
bia, in Washington territory, is upon our
table. There Che writes, flowers are in
warm breezes are blowing, ana the
valleys are clothed in their spring garments,
and this little souveneur he sends US as evil
dence of the advanced stage of vegetation
in mid-winter. Whew think of the long
weeks, spring billiards and binding snow
falls, that we must witness here before the
green of our Dakota prairies can
rank with this little cluster gathered in that
off country.