Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-11-18
Territorial Talk.
Plankinton has had it's first death.

Egan and Flandreau are fighting
over the county seat.
A large amount of building is be.
ing done at Marion.
Deer and antelope are numerous
in the Wcssingtor hills.
Potatoes are worth eighty cents
Il bushel at Canton.
A large number of fine residences
are going up in Gauton.
Canton got it's first SNOW storm of
the season last Wednesday.
The Grand Forks Herald has been
changed to an evening daily.
Alexandria has a bachelors club
which gives weekly Club dances.
The Headquarters hotel at Fargo
is u be supplied with electric bells.
Material is being gotten together
for a new Methodist church at Par.
kcr.
There are fifteen dwelling houses
in course of construction in Aber'
dccn..',
\ large colony is now being orga.
nizr,l in Ohio to locate near kibbe-
Vile.
nli!bunk was wheat field last
fall, now it has seven hundred inhab-
ita'tS
The amber cane factory ut Alexan-
dria has made 1000 gallons Of syrup
this season.
Two Aauring mills aud three ele.
vators will! be built in Aberdeen III
the spr!ng.
Prairie fires have been ranging
about plankinton this fall doing
much damage.
CasseIlon IL, eds a lumber yard, a
hardware store, and Il good, general
furnishing store.
The Big -Four luirsLrrls are cx.
pcc,cd to give an entertainment in
Sioux Falls soon.
Jack son 'Thurp of Fircstecl has
turnip raised on his claim weighing
sixteen pounds.
The Lutheran church being built
at Parker is to have spire over sew.
cnty feet high.
The new Alexander Mitchell hotel
at Mitchell, will be open to tie pub.
l:c about the 18th.
The Codington County Courier has
postponed the October blizzard until
December 5th.
John kobcs, Olivet's Jail bird has
secured his Que hundred dollar bail
and is now at large.
A candy factory Of metropolitan
proportions" has commenced opera.
tions in Sioux Falls.
The fancy painting and finishing
Of the new hotel at Mandan, it is
said, will cost about 1000.
Thirty-six mile siding in Aurora
county has been named Windsor,
and post office established there.
The Queen Bee mill at Sioux Falls
is running night and day and the
packing Of flour has commenced:
The l;ockport mill has started mp
again after six months rest from the
damage of last springs flood.
Nine German families FROM one
naighborhood in Wisconsin will locate
in Anrora county in the spring.
Nc's johnson, with an OK team,
wa- drowned in a creek few miles
frosn Madison q week OF two ago.
The annual convention of the Lin
colin county Sunday school Associa.
ton will he held in Canton the 18Th.
Mr.. A. Holt, station agent at Can
ton. was married to Miss Rena Han.
son of the same place short time
ago.
DongIaSs mill at Centreville is run.
inc ON full time and high pressure
but is unable to keep up with its
ors,ers.
Forty acres haye been plated for
the new town of Kibbcville, four
miles south of Tower City in Barnes
county,
The Casseltpn Reporter tells Of a
irld Of seventy acres that yielded
forty aud one half bushels Of wheat
to the acre.
Nine head of ycarIings raised on
prarie grass, were sold in Tower
City recently for about a hundred
dollars head.
The large school house now in
course Of erection at Salem when
completed viii be the pride of Mc-
Cook county.
Mrs Belle Pelton, of Pleasant
township, was awarded silver cup
at the Lincoln county fair for excell'
eslcc in cqucstrianism.
The dramatic ability of Lennox
rendered the drama "The Last
Loaf ;,lost satisfactorily to a Gan.
| ton audience short time ago.
Salem Register: A. J. Hodge,
while scutiiiug few days ago, &C.
citiontaiiy swallowed five dollar
piece, which he had in his mouth at
| the time.
The ten commandments a,e peing
| inscribed on bridges, fences and walls
in and around Sioux Falls, along
with advertisements for liver pills
and things.
| All the grading on the James riy.
or extension Of the c. NJ. 4 st. p.
railroad is sub let in mile contracts
aud it must he completed by the 10th
| Of December.
a nccktie party will be given by
the Episcopal ladies of Swan Lake
next Thursday night. The proceeds
will go toward buying new carpets
|! for the church.
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