Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-10-05
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Huron has a night watchman.

Huron has night watchman.
Weddings are numerous in Scotland.
B. F. Cass died at Huron on last Mon
day.
Servants are impossible to get at
Huron.
A clothing store will soon be establish
ed at Huron.
EmI,grants are flocking into Huron at
lively rate.
Station Agent Smith, of Flandreau, is
seriously ill.
Club dances are the order of the day
at Scotland.
There are several new cases of diph.
liberia at Canton.
Mrs. John Raube died at Marion last
Sunday morning.
Numerous prairie fires are raging in
Kingsbury county.
The new bank building for Huron will
be erected at once.
Gen. Campbell's new hotel at Scotland
is nearly completed.
There are about twenty-five new
buildings at East Pierre.
The funeral of b. G. Runkle of Huron
took place Sunday last.
The railroad track Is now laid fifteen
miles west of Flandreau.
A kindergarten school will be estab.
lished in Sioux Falls soon.
A number of handsome dwelling houses
are going up in Scotland.
Weddings are becoming an every day
occurrence in Swan Lake.
Another child of Mr.. Thickett of Len.
nox, has died with diphtheria.
A Common Sense society will soon be
established at Running Water.
The government surveyors are putting
in good work in Hughes county.
Ben Milan, of Flandreau, threshed out
sixty-five bushels of oats per acre.
Wheat averages something over TWEEN
ty bushels per acre in Moody county.
A new post Office at Matto, Hughes
county will be opened in week or tel
days.
The Catholics of Flandreau are plan
ming about building church there thi
fall.
| Wheat receipts at Flandreau are aver
aging about fifteen hundred bushels pe
day.
An out and out Cinnamon is in Huro,
for the purpose of starting laundr.
there.
Thousands of dollars are being handed
out daily, at Scotland, to the farmers TO
grain.
Buildings are springing up all owe
Huron and the prairies surrounding
town.
Huron expects within year to hav
rail communication with the Norther,
Pacific.
The location Of the Minnehaha count
Jail being built at Sioux Falls has bee
changed.
Over 100 bushels of fax were bough
by the Scotland grain buyers in one da
last week.
Running Water offers splendid oppo
tunities for profitable trade in any lin
Of business.
There is spring at"Reed's Ranch" 70
the Dakota Central, which flows 700 ba
rels per day.
: Threshing is in full blast in Turn
! county and the crop is reported abo,
, the average.
E. G. Whalen has closed his relatio,
with the Sioux Falls Times office as g
: sociate editor.
Grading is going rapidly forward {
the Sioux Valley and Jim Valley branch
of the Dakota Central.
Mr.. Noble, new settler at Lost Clai
has large family of daughters. II
boys thereabouts are happy.
Chas. Kuth, of Volga, is said to be OF
: OF the most enterprising, wide awal
business men in that section.
Ordway is the name the Northweste
company have given to the present te
!. minus of their Jim river branch.
Scotland wants lyceum, publ
library, town hall, numerous dramat
entertainments, and a brass band.
: The pound party at the Congregatio
very enjoyable and successful affair.
The ferry boats now cross to the sal
bar in front of TT. Pierre and then a
Q other boat does duty on the other side
8 the bar.
Two car loads of shoyels, picks, &C.,
grading purposes on the Niobrara exte
sion of the Milwaukee road arrived
g Running Water last week.
Q An old gentleman by the name of H,
ris died last Monday morning in a salo
:. in East Pierre. His death was caus
by cold and too much bad whiskey.
!. The second story of fine store that
! now being built at Flandreau will
finished up as public hall, which
something that town has long stood
:, need of.
J: Bishop Marty has assigned Fatt
i; Brogan, lately Of Sioux Falls, to the t.
:; ritory comprised in Moody, Brookin
b and Lake counties, with headquarters
"A Flandreau.
le The Running Water Post says ii
d r. j. Gamble, the district attorney Ii
l. plenty Of work during the last session
le the Bon Homme county court, which
N performed to the satisfaction of evel
one, except the poor criminals.