Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-22
NEleHBoRRooD NEWS.

Sioux Falls Independent, The Rey. J.
A. Palmer, Of Valley Springs, has been
having rumpus with his wife, and is ac.
cused of introducing variations into the
marriage tune. Wonder where his call TO
preach the gospel came from?
The Congregational Sunday school at
Sioux Falls has had a gift of nearly two
hundred volumes to add to its Sunday
school library, from Congregational Sun
day school in Genesoe, Ill.
A list of numerous contested claims in
the Sioux Falls land district is to be pub
lished next week.
Skating is freely INDUCED in on the is
land park, Sioux Falls.
There is to be first class dramatic enter
tainment in Sioux Falls some time this
month.
The death of Mrs. Mcdonald at Sioux
Falls was grief to the whole community
where she had resided for nearly six years.
Mrs. Maggie Bailey, the widow Of Mark
Bailey, has been appointed post mistress at
Canton.
Canton Advocates John NJ. Carpenter
the contractor for carrying the mail
from Beloit to Sheldon, has received orders
from the department 10 deliver the mail at
Pattersonville instead of Sheldon.
Canton Advocate: The depot builders
commence the erection Of the depot to-day,
also the round house and water tank.
Canton Advocate: Messrs. Falde and
Hanson returned from Sioux City Saturday.
Mr.. Falde has deposited with the postmas.
ter at Sioux City, the amount deficient, and
the government is made good in all its de-
mands.
Telegraphic communication has boen es-
tablished between Beloit and Sioux City.
Rates, twenty y-ive cents for ten words.
A new bridge is being built across the
Sioux river at Sioux Point
Sioux Falls Pantagraph Two new
postoffices have recently been established on
the Skunk Lake-Tiopi and Brant Lake.
This makes over sixty offices which send
their out going mail in bulk to Sioux Falls
for distribution, and whose incoming mali
also comes here in bulk for distribution to
them. Four large mails have to be handled
here every day inside Of two hours, making
this one Of the most important offices in the
territory and yet the pay is not equal to that
given osome postmaslers with no. one-quar-
ter the business to do.
The ministers OF Ponca aye preaching
about "hard tines"
James Staleys' residence two mil,s east
Of PaUca was burned on Tuesday.
A literary uud debating society has heen
organ'zed bA Vie y.,uug u.en OF Poncn, Ne
braska.
a well frczs over 1T the depth OF. As feet,
near Poncs, during the late cold spell.
The house of A. A. Poster, of Pouca,
Nebraska, caught fire Saturday night but
was discovered before much damage was
doue.
4 ronca Advocate: Two of Mr.. Bandits
children, boy about four years old and a
little girl, died of diptheria, the one on Fri
day and the other on Sunday.
| ]. w. Poster. esq, Of Ponca, delivered q
lecture in the Methodist church on the &c
centric subject Of ''Scape Goats and Moral
Currency"
i There have been several cases Of dipthe-
ria in the neighborhood Of Scotland.
i T. G. Maxwell has been appointed deputy
sheriff Of Hutchinson county.
The Hutchinson county Jail to be built at
Olivet will be completed by the first oi
March.
y Malignant diP,heria i. raging in the