Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1881-11-23
Hogs brought $40 TO e5.56 IN
this market yesterday.

Hogs brought $0.4O 70 1000 ~
this market yesterday.
Harris, the deepest basso living,
is with Donavin's Original Tehnes-
seeans. and will appear at the y. B.
church on Friday evening Of this
week.
E. L. Collins will move his family
to Richland, in close proximity to
the school house, during the time OF
his teaching there this winter. He
took up the reins Of goyernmentther
last Monday. Lots Of our lads and
lasses say hat when there comes
some snow and Mr.. Collins has
some spelling schools they're going
to slide over TO Richland and spell
his scholars all down. TIE he he!
Ha ha!
A young maj now living in this
county, married against his fathers
wishes, when the old man got up
and fairly howled. He %thereupon
left his home in Wisconsin with his
bride, and settled here in Dakota.
He, this year, put in thirty acres Of
of potatoes, doing all the work him
self. The thirty acres yielded him
1900 bushels, 800 bushels Of which
he sold for $500, and the remainder
Of The crop brought him 50 cents
per busiel, or . total Of $1,000, with
a net profit of s2,70o-more than
his father has made i'll ten years off
four times the amount Of land in
Wisconsin.--JGtcaA Republican.
Concerning the reported transfer
Of John I. Blair's interest iii the
Sioux City and Pacific, the Omaha
Herald has this to offer: "Tlie report.
cd purchase of the Sioux City and
Pacific railroad by the Chicago, NIL
! waukee and St. Paul Railway com
pany, published in the Herald, was
widely commented upon by railroad
men yesterday, ard from certain cir
| cumstances, not hitherto understood
was generally an accepted fact.
The comment of m prominent
railway official vas especially to the
point. He said: 1t was a master
stroke of policy for the Chicago Mil
waukee and st. Paul to gobble up
the Sioux City and Pacific road, for
/! the Sioux City and Pacific is the on
ly road west of the Mississippi, with
the exception of the Burlington and
Missouri, that is under control of a
a Chicago road. The Chicago Mil
waukec and St. Paul not only plae-
es itself on an equal footing with
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
but gains also a position to fight the
Chicago and Northwestern and to
| protect it's own interests west OF the
Missouri" The same paper says
in an editorial paragraph: ave
have good personal authority for
saying that Mr. Blair has sold the
line to the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul aside from anything that
has been published by telegraph"
The several cold days W. had du-
ting the latter part of last week,
formed ice about four inches thick
over the surface of II pet slough,
and several parties from Civil Bend
came TO town across lots afooot, in
stead of by team away round by
Robin Hoods barn, as the Blenders
have to in mild waether. A friend
of the COURIER who frequently gives
us the substnce of an item in return
for the essence he absorbs from our
| coal stove, goes on to relate how on
last Saturday, it al a very cold
day, Mr.. Remington and a hired
hand Of his were thus plodding
their way to town over the virgin
ice, when the latter, an economical.
" inclined individual, saw q wild
duck that had been wounded by
some sportsman, f~luttering along on
the ice before them, when he rem
marked Is his employer that h'
would catch the bird auui and taxi
it along and swop it for a couple 0
drains when they reached town. Hs
accordingly gave chase and had just
laid violent hands on the. aquati,
fowl, when the treacherous ice brok,
through, lac had struck a weak spo.
and let him in plump up to hi
chin. He scrabblcd out, however
without much difficulty, and witt
the duck; but O, now wet he was
no spaniel ever came ashore in
wetter condition. After this misba
they hustled right along up tow
with all their might, and the duel
and into Kramer's saloon, wher'
sure enough they did exchange th
, web-footed source of their trouble fl
a couple stiff horns Of Pete's bel