The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

Everywhere the sound OF the ham,
mer is heard, and plasterers are in great
demand A few more masons and car
penters would be godsend to Canton,
Mrs. Wells of the Millinery empori-
um was made the victim of a surprise par
ty last evening. The elegant surround
ings of her rooms added to the appearance
of the callers.
Caldwell, of the Sioux Falls Panta-
graph, showed his visage at the depot on
Monday while the up-train halted to ex-
change passengers, his smile as modest
and his laugh as low as usual.
W. G. Van Horne, general superin-
tendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul, has accepted the position of
general manager of the Canada Pacific and
will assume his new position January lst.
Sheriff Dixon was summoned by
telegraph to Chicago last night, on &C
count of the sickness of their daughter
Dolhe, who while there on visit has be-
come very i'll. Dollie many friends will
watch anxiously for her recovery.
Since the change of time on the Nil
waukee road Eden is reaping an advan-
tage. The two hotels, Farley and Snyder
houses, are doing good business, which
they both merit, as the houses are well
kept by genial landlards.
E. P. Morcom, representing the
Sioux Falls Publishing Co., was in town
this week gathering items for the book
soon to be issued in the interest of the
Sioux Valley. This gentleman appears
to be one of the live newspaper men, and
is known as a spicy writer
Mechanics never were in so great
demand in Canton as now, so much build
ing going on, and in fact laboring men of
all classes can get work and at high wages.
The boom is furnishing employment and
ample recompense for little army of
workers.
Hoods Drug Store now presents as
elegant an appearance as any one we have
seen in southern Dakota. Those new up-
right show cases just arrived complete the
finishing touch of tasty and attractive
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Miner County Advocate: Cyrus B.
lngham, we are informed will soon start
for Illinois, where he intends to have the
cancer on his neck treated. He has been
a great sufferer and his many friends
would be glad to see him get relief. His
wife will accompany him.
The year 1881 will long be remember
ed as a year Of horrors Assassinations,
murders, accidents and crime of all kinds
have been more abundant than ever be-
fore. Many people of a superstitious in
clination will attribute this to Mother
Shipton witchcraf.
During the past two weeks emigra-
ton has increased to great extent to the
northwest. Six car loads left Chicago Oh
the 10th for Dakota, and seven carloads
left the next day for Minnesota and Mani
toba. They were mostly Scandnavans
and Canadians, and still more are on the
road to Chicago for the great west, the
garden of the world.
Lincoln county farmers will be as well
of if not better, than in other localities
this year, although heavy rains have caus-
ed considerable damage to hay, but grain
is in good shape, and damaged hay makes
a good fire, Although prices seem enor-
nous to the buyer, no doubt we shall all
be as well off for money is generally more
plenty. Do not borrow trouble but make
the best of circumstances, and look for
ward to a cheerful winter.
Sioux City Journal: One good thing
that has followed the high price of corn is
that sugar and syrup are purer A deal
er just returned from Chicago says that
number of the glucose factories have clos
ed because it did not pay to run with corn
at the present price This dealer says
that unless sugar advanced, or corn declin-
ed in prsce, the other glucose works must
close, and then sugar would be as pure as
it used to be-
We paid a visit to the primary
school last Thursday, and found Miss No
ma Miller faithfully teaching the young
ideas. Parents and others will spend
pleasant hour listening and observing the
method of teaching the little ones, which
is such an improvement on the old style
About 45 pupils are enrolled in the pri-
mary and all dearly love their teacher
1t is study to watch the bright faces of
each and imagine their future, which we
pray may be happy one for all.
President Drake, of the Queen Bee
mill company passed up to the Falls on
Monday to inspect the damage done to
the mill by the gasoline explosion. He
thinks the injury was slight and will not
delay commencing operations but few
days. Had that splendid structure been
destroyed it would have proved almost
public calamity for the Sioux Valley, as
owing to high water carrying away dams
the Queen Bee and Cascade mills at Sioux
Falls are the only ones that will do work
this fall and winter.
A western exchange says, "The wave
of prosperity which set in from the east
seems to have fairly reached us. The