Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-23
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

Brookings has . walking mania.
Anew hardware store at Aurora is needed.
The Brookings county Press is one year
old.
Elk Point hotels-hotel rather, is having
q boom.
Commercial travellers are numerous 10
Canton.
A three story block will be built in Par
Judge Kidder will hold forth in Canton
Feb. 9Th
A'Methodist church will scon be built
In Canton. s
Elk Point is getting ready for another leap
year party.
A bridge across the Sioux at Eden il
much needed.
The free Methodists are holding a revival
at Sioux Falls.
The Flandreau stage line does its full
share of business.
A detachment Of claim jumpers have
reached Alexandria.
Watertown has had no fires and but little
sickness this winter.
The Virginia postof6ce in Lincoln county
will DO discontinued.
Goodwin has . bran new drug store, of
which it 10 very proud.
A Methodist church will be built at
Brookings in the spring. /
Mr.. Smead succeeds Mr.. Mead in the feed
business in Sioux Falls.
Mrs. j. J. fireman, of Goodwin, is danger
ously i'll with pneumonia.
Some Elk Point parties are talking of
building a telephone line.
The Volga Times will soon unfurl its
banner to the gentle zephyrs.
A market day is to be established at
Memo, beginning Feb, 28th.
NJ. w. Sheafe, of Elk Point is putting up
1000 IONS of ice at Vermillion.
The United States Express company have
an Office established at Memo.
Volga has three hotels that are rushed with
business. but not one drug store. {
Trappers and hunters, wolves and foxes,
and times, are lively in De Smet.
1t is estimated that the railroad is unload
ing one mile of ties q day at Volga.
A man living near Wstertown, captured
over 80 beavers inside Of two weeks.
A Presbyterian convention was held in
Parker the l7th and 18th of February.
A delegation of 100 settlers from Wiscon.
Gin, will settle in Alexandra this spring.
-Four thousand dollars in taxes has bsen
paid to. Treasurer Jacobs, Lincoln county.
The Olivet hotel is t. be moved on 10 q
claim, and used as q residence in the spring.
The farmers of Turner county have or.
ganized . Union League, with forty MEM
bers.
Great preparations are being made for a
private dancing party at Watertown, on the
18th.
De Smet is aituated in the center of
Kinysburry county, on the bank OF Silver
lake.
The Menno Chronicle, cannot forget its
first love. it wants Y correspondent from
Oiivet.
Brookings is in great need OF dwelling
houses. Fifty could be rented at fair prices
at once.
Loan agencies are placing . large amount
VI money in the hands Of Lincoln county
farmers.
james Maxwell, of the Big Sioux mills,
&ON - 6SVAGL " LAX 400 XAOA-
day night.
The Goodwin Enterprise is a healthy,
pleasing, newsey paper, one that We always
welcome. 8
A yoke Of oxen, weighing nearly 1000
pounds. were disposed of in Union county
last week.
Alexandra Herald: Judge Bennett 10
one Of the hardest working members Of
coDRress. 2
Gen. Potter is doing very successful tenn.
perance work in Sioux Falls, where it is q
much needed. a45sA
VIM. w. Jones, of Vermillion, own be-
tween five and six thousand acres Of land in
Clay county.
After March 1st q daily mail will be
carried between Richland and Weslfield,
Union county.
Never in the history Of Hutchinson
was there % much sickness ~ Ut
the present tune.
( When the Eden Episcopal church is com.
pleted, "it will be one Of the cosiest little
churches in the territory"
Over q week ego only ~ miles of main
line remained u be built 10 complete tue
Milwsukee road to Mitchell.
Goodwin is such . heslthful place that
the Two physicians who are settled there are
an, danger Of starving to death.
During the last three weeks there have
been 40 cases Of diphtheria at Jefferson, Nc
Cook county, and only one death.
There 10 talk 10 Lennox of hsviug . new
county forced from the north part of Un-
Ion county, s9d the south psrt OF Lincoln.
and making Eden the county seat.
A valuable team Of horses belonging to
M. .Sayles, Of Richlaud, were drowned u
The Sioux river last Tuesday afternoon.
The Goodwin literary society vill give IN
l-enssssainms0t aext Friday svsaing. Pro