Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-10
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

Twins occurred at Tyndall a few days
ago.
A young mans literary society is talked
Of in Roscoe.
Springfield is having its share of the pre-.
vailing epidemic.
A series Of revival meetings are in pro.
gress in Gayville. @
IT. Shaw, who was burned out at Gary
will rebuild at once.
The literary club at Marion is progress.
ing at every meeting.
A series of religious meetings have been
commenced at Marion.
A Methodist church will be erected in
Canton another season.
Diphtheria is raging in a malignant form
in Silver Lake, Clay county.
Material for the twenty run Touring mill
is o arriving at Sioux Falls.
s P. Mackey has been appointed super
intendent of schools of Lincoln county.
The Canton News will soon move into
larger quarters and enlarge its own
quarto.
The st. Patrick's temperance dance at
Lodi, Melted the Catholic society ninety
dollars.
The Raptists and the Methodists are hold.
ing revival union services in Bloomingdale
and vicinity.
The Scandinavian Lutherans have an
organization at Swan Lake of upwards of
fifty members.
The Seventh day Adventists, at Swan
Lake, have the largest Sabbath school in
Turner county.
The commissioners of Deuel. county have
decided to tax the railroad lands in that
county this year.
A new station has been established on the
Milwaukee road, eighteen miles west of
Marion, called Bridgewater.
The Gary fire last Wednesday night, was
caused by q defective chimney. The total
loss was $4,000; insurance $1,700.
Mail service will be extended on the
Milwaukee road from Canton to Marion,
about the 10th of the present month.
The damage done to the railroad near
Springfield by the breaking of the Emanuel
creek mill dam was repaired at once.
Rev. D. T. Hutchinson is holding a
series of protracted meetings in Vermiilion.
He is meeting with wonderful success.
There are Presbyterian, Baptist,
Catholic and Methodist churches we'll
represented and supported at or near Swan
Lake.
Numberless families throughout south
ern Dakota have lost two, three, and even
four or five children this winter with diph-
liberia.
Madison could not have a literary socie-
ty or dancing or card or dramrtic or read.
ing club, so they just organized a cemetery
association.
The first death that ever occurred in
was that Of a man named New.
ton who died last Friday, a victim of
strong drink.
Two "leading ladies" Of Jefferson, Nc.
Cook county, engaged in a fist fight, and
one of them paid for the court trial in Elk
Point afterwards.
Ties and iron are daily arriving at Sioux
Falls, for the spring campaign on the
WorthinRton and Sioux Falls branch Of the
Sioux City and St. Paul railroad.
Responsible parties have made arrange
nents whereby Marion will have a bank
% full operation in q short time. 1t will be
Known as the Marion loan and savings
,snk.
The Lincoln county c. U. 7. society will
at every available point in the
county, auxiliary societies of resident inha.
1t already has a membership Of
bout 200.
The Brook6eld debating club take the
and the Hillsdale club, mega
i've, on Resolved, "That the present condi-
Of the negro is worse than when in
at the Brookield school house,
FEB. 18th.
Roscoe had a runaway the other day, but
III it amounted to was: "a broken wnifie-
rec, 9 wagon wrong side up, q couple of
Clicking steeds on a rafting runaway, and
NO badly frightened Norwegians standing
N their heads in the middle of a snow
,ank."
Rev. Dr.. Hoyt breaches in the church of
be Good Samaritan at Swan Lake every
morning and holds divine service
70 the afternoon and evening of the same
lay In Parker and LenDox. He has been
working 10 the vineyard OF the Lord for
,ver forty. five wears.