Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20

The ssiis u Csoion ere I'll dried up.
The MAYOR house 81 Canton Il cloAsd.
Tnsre il = great DIAL 81 Sickness II Css-
TON.
Tn y u 4 ueopls :" C.o."o II ale m sbe
sisux
Gnod vim averages three surprise parties
= week
Ede.'. Grrt ball occurred last Friday
evening
A harncs. maker il ger. much desired ~
Goodwin.
Waser,own's new educational ediics is
complsted.
The new ',rpsr 81 Elk Point will be csll
Ell the riinune. /.
Ivsnhge. is the name Of a station between
Verdi sni Aurora.
Canton improvements lur lat year
smnnni To over $6O,OUO.
The dset death in Goodwin occurred last
week. II was an infant.
Anew postofice la. been established Il
Verdi, Brookings county.
The Sioux Falls land ofi:e is pretty sure
Of being moved TO Mitche!.
The ladies Of Watertown will indulge in
a leap year party January 23rd.
Eighty-three in the average attendance ct
the public scht ole in WATERFOWL.
A modern Rip Van Wrinkle visited Len
no1, Union county, New Years day.
Active temperance work is going on in
the southern part Of Lincoln county.
Mrs. Theodore Boyington died, at Brook
field, OF consumption, about y week ago.
A regular daily train now runs on the
Milwaukee road from Scotland to Spring
field.
Owing to a press of other business. the
deputy treasurer Of Moody county has re.
signed.
The Brookfeld debating society will
discuss the state of Dakota at their next
meeting.
The "Y" which will connect the Milwau.
kee and the Pembina roads at Canton il
being built.
Canton Advocate: The German writer,
invariably smUke while writing. So do the
Yankt0n writers. 4s
A revival is in progress 10 the Congrega.
tional church at Canton. All of the relie.
ious societies uniting.
There seems to be serious misunder.
standing between The treasurer aud the
people of Lincoln county.
The citizens of Goodwin signed q petition
praying the county board to prevent the
sale Of Intoxicating liquor.
The Eden Sun improves with every
number, n promises to be one of the
newsiest and brightest Of our exchanges.
The Elk Point Courier gives . sketch o.
the business men and the business done ia
that town. which makes q very good show
ing.
The county commissioners, Of MOODY
county, have ordered built two bridge
across The Sioux, one at Roscoe and th
other at Flanireau.
Canton News: The Milwaukee compau
are putting down a we'll ten feet in diane
ter at Marion and are confident of an in
exhaus.ible supply of water.
The secretary of the Congregational mil
sion society, writes to the pastor of tn
Congregational church at Wa,ertown, tbs
the mission will donate $500 for the purpoaa
of building a church there. providing tn
people False $1,000 more.
The editor of the Brooking> Press int
mates that he had three invitations TO til
leap year party which occurred there IL
10Th. His name is "Hopp," which accoun
} for the unusual demand in which b
finds himself upon euch occasions. tn
ladies all conclude that as a hopper he mu
be a success.
Brookings County Press: The Dakol
Central broke loose Sunday and showed i
eight or ten trains during the day. The
have commenced to haul material for ,1h
extension we.t to the Mi: souri,. 1t is e:
pected tina. the james river will be resche
} BY the first of June next and the Nilsson
before it freezes next fall.
: A boy named Tucker, twelve years Of ae
, vas drowned in the Missouri last Frida
: about two miles above the Ponca landing {
, the Dakota side. He with his brother b;
: been sent to a hole cut in the ice, to drs
a water for family use. As he bent over b
' feet slipped and he went down carried u
n der the ice By the powerful current. A
' alarm was Immediately given, but he v
; gone forever.