Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-27
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Elk Point supports nigh. police.
The Alexandria boom il booming.

Brookings will soon have another paper.
The town ofScotland is assess ed At SIG.
857.
The Vermillion Republican is publishing
spring poetry.
Farmers throughout Hanson COUNTY are
sowing wheat.
A number of engineers are locating a road
beyond Mitchell.
The Marion loan and savings bank is
in working order.
Mitchell is iu positive need Of more hotel
Accommodations.
There is no furniture store within seventy
miles Of Alexandra.
Carload after carload Of settlers are IN.
loading at Alexandria.
Union county pays cne hundred dollars
for keeping her paupers.
No county in Dakota can rival Beadle in
the inducements It offers.
Thomas Kelly Of Milltown, lost a span of
valuable horses last week.
A number of people and houses are NOV.
lug from Cameron to Huron.
Freeman, a new town in Armstrong coun.
ty ia assuming metropolitan airs.
A dozen more dwelling houses could be
rented at good figures in Scotland.
Since July l, 1879 the treasurer of Clay
county has collected SIS, 900 in taxes.
An unusual amount of building will be
done In Marion this spring and summer
Fred Ackley is the carrier of the U. S.
mail between Alexandria and Rockport.
John H. Carroll has been appointed
clerk Of the court for Kingsbury county.
The original Tenneeseeans will give An
entertainment in Sioux Falls April 10th.
There are SO many new arrivals at Bridge
water it is impossible to keep track of them.
A business institution for manufacturing
mattresses will soon be opened up In Sioux
Falls.
A revival at HaRgln's Bend, In Clay o U
tv is being conducted by q Mrs. Tyler from
Iowa.
A Lake county girl ranks first in scholar.
ship and department in the Sioux Falls
school.
The ice went out of the Missouri at Yer.
million last Sunday for the second time this
season.
Mrs. Southmayed, the new Alexandria
pos,mistress, will soon assume her official
position.
There is a movement on foot 10 Sioux
Falls to secure two lectures from Robert G..
Ingersoll.
The fair held in Marion last week was q
decided success. The next one will occur
April oath.
A good mill is needed in Lake county, as
there are none in either Lake, Miner or
klngsbury counties.
Thursday, March 1S.h,' the locomotive
first came in sight of Alexandria. 1t could
be seen five miles away.
The track on the extension of the Mil.
waukee road bas now reached . point nine
miles west Of Bridgewater.
McCook county is preparing to accomme.
date over one hundred and fifty families
from Illinois this spring.
Peter Moore Of Dell Rapids, has donated
two lots IN a desirable location, on which to
build an Episcopal church.
Twenty five thousand dollars worth of
Armstrong county warrants are anxiouslv
called for by the Memo Chronicle.
A farmer in Deuel. county, has a hen who
eggs that weigh one-fourth of a pound
measure six inches around the waist.
Two more Clothing stores are among the
many things to be aided to Sioux Falls. |
j. B.. Cloudas of Niobrara will open one
Of them.
A large bank building ia to be erected At
this spring::of Sioux Falls stone.
Business of all kinds is improving in
Lennox
The Naylor house at Canton. has inst
Undergone q thorough overhauline, refi,tine.
etc. It stands second m M
,otel in the territory.
The question of organizing q county Az
icultural Association for Lincoln county,
3 being seriously discussed by the farmers
nd stockmen of Lincoln county.
1t is predicted that during the summer
'ore buildings will be put up in Canton
nd Lincoln county than have been erected
uring any previous two years in their his
Dry.
Memo Chronicle: A young man entered
depot at this place, q few days since.
nd called for a ticket to hi. Whereupon
gent Hill at once. handed out a pasteboard
II Marion Junction.
The democratic party of Lincoln county
cid an Informal meeting at the court house {
afternoon for the purpose of
akine arrangements for holding q conven
on for nominating . straight democratic
cket.
The Alexandria Herald says that the
[ennonite society in Hanson county. are
.ppy over the rise in the price Of sheep
ID wool. The profit from their flock tia
will be $4,000 for wool, and 81. 500
r lambs.
A conundrum founded on fact from III.
ermillion Standard: If your mothers
other was my mothers sisters sunt,
hat relation would your great grandfa,h,
g uncle's nephew be to your elde,.
first Cousins %sou.in.lsw.
Velmillion Standard: We were perm,.
d Wednesday evening to make our first
sit to Dakota's capitol, Yanktop. Amone
e numerous acquaintance which we were
to form were Messrs. Kinpsburv
ID Bowen of the Press and Mr., Taylor OIL
e Herald. Our stay was NECESSARILY short
II we can say that we do like the CITY. i,s
Appearance and sociable character
its business men. We of course STONED
the Jencks hotel where Q host of other J
od-looking men were stopping. +.