Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-11

LOCAL LAcoH,cs.

LOCAL LAcoMlcs.s
The county commissioners have been i
session this week.
The mercury indicated $50 ct the weathe
station st three p. m. and 81 At Kadish's
VIM. Box brought in the first fruits Q
his sweet corn field this morning. dozes
we'll developed ears. He has plenty more
Of the same sort. Na 81
The surveyors who have been running
the preliminary line Of the Milwaukee road
branch southwest from the Jim river, were
at Springfield yesterday.
According to the Chicago Times. the
Hon. Ausley GRAY (of the late legislature)
lsnguishes behind prison bars In Chicago.
A bogus check placed him there.
Daniel Wilcox this morning rendered
his resignation Of the Office Of member Of
the board Of county commissioners. The
resignation has not yet been accepted.
The hook and ladder company are behind
some forty dollars on their 18th of July eel
ebration. The boys will have to 60 down
into their pockets 10 make up the de6cien-
cy. So
Under the statutes, Yankton county will
have to pay the expenses Of the trial Of
Hanson for the murder of Sorenson in the
unorganized county Of Miner. 1t will cost
us about $4,000.
Beebe. the murderer Of Landphere, has =
record on the prison annals Of Iowa. He
served q term Of two years and . half for
forgery, and has been out Of the peniten.
tiary only q few months.
The weather: Indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Rising barometer, north and west winds.
stationary or lower temperature, and clear
weather with occasioned light local rains.
Miss Gertrude Layery, daughter Of DR..
Luke Lavery, a former citizen Of Yankton,
was awarded the first prize in the ninth
grade Of St. GATHERINGS Academy at the
commencement exercises which took Place
the other day.
Excursion rates to and from the Sioux
City circus next Monday, $50 for the
round trip from Yankton. The excursion
train will be held at Sioux City long enough
to give everybody = chance to see the sights.
w. F. Kiter, Of this city, has . contract
with the government for binding and
mounting laud-ofice maps in places remote
from beokbinding facilities and spends the
most Of his time travelling about the coun.
try doing work Of that sort.
After Monday, the l4th inst, the passenger
train on the Dakota Southern road will
leave Yankton twenty minutes later, at TAG
a. m, and will arrive at 5:34 p. m. The
difference will be taken from the running
time between here and Sioux City.
A groceryman who matched himself
against a hotel man and q livery man for a
game of billiards, this morning, is around
telling his friends that his faith in human
nature is shaken. He says they counted
him out cleaner than a Louisiana returning
board could have done it.
The school vacation and our railroad pros
poets have developed two or more lemonade
stands on every corner and the days are
made hideous by the yells Of the Juvenile
tradesmen. The city fathers are perfecting
a license schedule to meet the emergency.
The boy who sells lemonade without boiler.
ing can continue his business and not nav
any license, but the charges against the
others will be proportional to conform to
the loudness of their voices.
Oae of our citizens relates his experience
with a stomach and liver pad. He had be-
come convinced BY careful study that the
absorption theory was 4 good one-that the
patent arrangements by which the super
auous, disease breeding liquids and solids
of the body are drawn off through the pores
are constructed on scientific principles. So
he bought a pad and put it ON, right over
his stomach. He says he knocked around
town all day, As usual, and when he went
home at night the pad was pretty heavy.
He took it off and wrung it and got four
quarts Of Milwaukee beer out Of it. His
wife came into the room about that time and
the scene which ensued beggars description.
1t was . dead give away.
Eiseman's old store in Burleigh's block
on Broadway, will be the scene of q pleas
ant entertainment on Friday night, July II
The upper room will be devoted to dancing
and the lower used for refreshments.