The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-25
Mrs. j. Horn has left for a summers

hear, with regret, that she has had
slight hemorragc of the lungs, which has
left her feeling quite Frustrated,
The timbcrs and workmen have ar
rived for the rebuilding of the Beloit
bridge Also new school house is to be
erected, the old one being sold for the
Norwegian college.
Now is your time to visit Minneapolis.
The railroad fare is reduced to the cx-
tremely low rates of $500 for the round
trip during the fair, which commences
September 5th,
Eden Sun: Mr. Carpenters pur-
chase OF the water power at this place is
failure. There was a mortgage on the
property which neither party to the bar
gain oi:l! wanted to nav. -. 49,. ,.,,.-,~ ~.
Among the attorneys from abroad in
attendance upon court are Messrs, Joy and
Taylor of Sioux City, Bartlett Trip of
Yankton, Capt. Hughes of Elk Point, A.
NJ. Flagg, J. Wilkes, and l.. Swezey of
Sioux Falls
A case of diphtheria occurred at lower
Canton last week that proved fatal
Another member Of the family is sick with
the same disease, and it is feared the
school at Beloit will have to be closed if
the sickness increases
Mrs. Carpenter, mother of Mrs.
Kingsbury, and Miss Mile Kingsbury
arrived from Mass. last Friday night.
Miss Mile has spent the past year in
studying music, and is fully competent to
teach advanced scholars
George Humphry, the colored man
who was struck on the head by VIM.
Mansfield, came near crossing the river Of
DEATH Mansfield was arrested and tried
before Justice Wilson, who decided that
no offense had been committed
While many portions of Southern
Dakota are suffering for the want of rain,
Canton has been favored with showers
that has laid the dust and kept vegeta-
ton green Friday night gentle rain
fell cooling the air and doing much good.
Yankton Press: VIM. Giggy has left at
the Press and Dakotan Office single :
spear of native grass thirty-fve feet long.
He cut it on the Missouri bottom east of
Yankton. To attain this remarkable
length the average growth of this spear
has been two inches each day during the
growing season.
George Luther, late of Iowa, has
opened the Blacksmith shop formerly oc-
cupied by D. S. Guinter. He is pro-
nounced skilled workmen, and will
doubtless get his share of patronage. A.
NJ. Ross, who has a wagon-shop in con-
nection, is also doing good work and de-
serves his share of the trade
M E. Rudolph, attorney at law, has
opened his office in Rudolphs block, cor
ner of Fifth and Broadway. The gentle
man is welcome to Canton and the frater-
nifty, and with the record he brings will
soon work himself into prominent stand
ing as a citizen and lawyer
Quite change is apparent in the
Milwaukee depot arrangement. The low
er part is devoted for railroad biography,
and selling of tickets. Up stairs there
are three operators besides the train dis
patcher. Road Master Pennington also
will have his Office in the upper story.
Travel, instead of abating seems to be
on the increase. Our hotels are crowded,
and in many instances guests have to be
turned away. J. Coloney, of the we'll
known Merchants hotel, is going to en-
large his building .a double its ifsses2sssst.
capacity, owing to the increasing demand
for more rooms
-Street-c House is doing
some excellent and much-neeked work up
on Main and Fifth streets in the line of
grading. A new and enlarged culvert has
been put in north of the Merchants hotel,
and the street raised to correspond
What sidewalks are constructed are of
the best material, and wide.
w. w. Griggs, of the Sioux City
music store, canvassed Canton last week
in the line of his business Mr.. Griggs
appears to be gentleman who is we'll
versed in his calling, and left o good i'm
preston with those with whom he met
His firm is an extensive and reliable one,
Worry of patronage. ...
Sioux Falls Paragraph: We learn
that Mr.. J. Pelham, roadmaster on the
Sioux City & Dakota division, and +.
Pennington, roadmaster on the Iowa and
Dakota vivision of the G. NJ. q St. P.
railroad, are to be promoted to be assist
ant superitendents on their respective d.
visions.
Parker New Era: George Conklin,
owner of the material with which the
Lennox Independent is printed, writes us
that he will soon come to Lennox, and
take charge of the paper himself George
is free and tireless writer. of sound 6nan
cial views, honorable, and the New Era is
pleased to know that he is soon to be its
nearest neighbor.
Canton has got reputation for bad
ness owing to the little difficulties that
arise among people, not regular citizens.
A more peacable city cannot be found, but
owing to the visits Of strangers among us,