The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-20

tei WIN gas, ana every room Will have It's
burner. What those gentlemen do not
know about keeping hotel is not necessary
to know. The Cataracts' reputation is
an enviable one among hotelists.
That the Northwestern railroad is
coming to Calliope seems to be fixed fact,
and that this road il also to be extended
at once into Dakota in northwesterly
course is also apparent. This company
seem bound to occupy the rich country of
this territory along with the Milwaukee.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
that convened at Yankton last week was
well attended, and the delegates from
abroad were teted and banqueted by the
Yankton people, who are noted for their
hospitality. Capt Harlan, of the Harlan
House, was the representative from Can
ton.
Sioux Falls Argus: We saw telo-
gram from Council Bluffs the other day,
sent to one Of our citizens, requesting him
to buy FIVE car loads of potatoes and ship
them down. Potatoes in Council Bluffs
are worth $3.50 per bushel. We hope
our merchants will see to it that none go
out of this market, for the crop is short,
and all raised here will be needed forhome
consumption.
f. G. Palmer & Co., wholesale groc-
ers of Sioux City, have published an at
tractive periodical Or grocers price list for
October This firm sold So, 900 worth of
of goods during September last. The
trade Of all the Sioux City merchants is
on the increase, and it should so continue,
for that city has some of the best business
men in the North west, and the town is
bound to be the wholesale point for our
retail traders in the Sioux valley.
A. V. H. Carpenter, of the Milwau-
kee road has issued the following notice.
To Agents and Conductors My circular
of April II, 1881, restricting the use Of
tickets between Chicago and st. Paul and
Minneapolis, to Chicago, Lacrosse and
river divisions is hereby withdrawn, and
in the future tickets between Chicago and
Milwaukee and points in Iowa, Minnesota
and Dakota may be honored via any route
by which direct connection is made. I'm
der this rule, passengers between Chicago
and points west of the Mississippi River
may go via Savannah, Prairie du Chen,
or Lacrosse, as they may elect.
The exhibition, or play, 'The Last
Loaf advertised by the Lennox people
to be given in Canton on Friday evening
next, is one worth seeing. We witnessed
the Performance while at the Fair week be-
fore last and can heartily recommend it to
our people as one well worth patronizing.
The ladies who arranged the play for Len
nox will have it repeated here for the pur-
pose of raising funds towards repairing
the injury done the only church Lennox
has, on Monday by lightning LATER
They appeared here last and were greeted
by full house
j. W. Taylor finds time aside from
professional business to set the example
that all our farmers ought to tollow-stock
raising. He has purchased the Peterson
farm northwest of town and is going to
stock it at once with one-hundred head of
blooded cattle. On Monday last he re-
ccivcd by express three jersey heifers and
one bull calf, the four costing $1,000, be-
sides $50 express charges. Investments
of this character, not only will prove profit
able to the purchaser, but tend more to
encourage stock growing and stimulate
our farmers to do what experience has
proved the most profitable of any branch
of Dakota farming, abandon wheat grow
ing as business and utilize the millions
of tons of the splendid grass that rots on
the ground yearly.
Those that did not venture out last
Thursday night to hear W. B. Afileck
missed rare treat. To say that he is a
genius only half expresses his character.
A self-made man, born under the poorest
of circumstances, who grew up to man
hood before he learned the alphabet,
coal miner by occupation in his youth and
native of England. w. B. Affleck is
one of those remarkable cases, which
prove that talent is gift, and that wiH, is
motive power in the development of a
persons intellect. Those who have not
heard the lecture Lost for want of
word" can scarcely realize the broad sense
of the term, but as he proposes to favor
us with another visit in few days, we
hope all our intelligent citizens will be able
to enjoy so delightful an evening as only
Mr. Atleck can give.
These high-priced times when stocks
and produce are booming beyond what
the most sanguine could have hoped for,
prove disastrous to many heavy dealers
and operators. One firm in Philadelphia
failed last week with liabilities of 81 000,-
600. There never was known such rapid
advancement in prices, the produce mar.
ket instances Of unreasonable movements
upwards. Wheat was sold in Sioux Falls
even on Saturday last for ST. 81 bushel,
and the market for potatoes everywhere
il higher than ever reached before. Corn
dropped seven cents in one day. The
wheat, corn and such products are evil
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