Jamestown alert., 1882-01-06
James Lees and family started for the

"a SaeflI Mchecknlc returned from Fort
Totten OH Sunday.
II The thermometer Monday morning
was IA degrees below zero
School district No. 4, northwest of town,
is going to build school house
Mr.. McGinnis and family are going TO
Pennsylvania to spend month.
Ngr. Mcclure went to Fargo Tuesday to
assist in dividing the territory,
g Ben has left jamestown, and it is
reported has g left I" several persons.
Klaus, Fox & Co., loaded another car
load OF flour Tuesday to send away.
Snow fell nearly all day Sunday and we
now have about four inches on the ground.
The band was out Saturday night and
rs the new year came in sencraded the
town.
Between forty and fifty permanent and
| transient guests registered at the Dakota
House on Sunday.
The sick man at Alsop that DR.. Bald
win went up to see is named Sherman,
and he has a fever.
! Charlie, the laundryman, gave dinner
to his friends on Sunday. About dozen
persons were present.
Goodrich & Johnston propose to carry
/ od an extensive farm machinery business
during the coming season.
Mr.. Egan, one Of the Splritwood mer-
chants, and Mr.. Morrow, of the Spirit
wood Farms, were in town yesterday.
On Monday next the Daily Alert will ap-
pear in the form of six column folio,
which will give S columns more space:
The Village Council have elected John
/ Moore chief engineer of the fire depart
mcnt, and Roht. Jordan to the position of
fire warden.
/ Joe Freeman has sold ten acres Of his
farm to James Herbert for $50 per acre,
and about thirty acres to MI Scidmore for
$35 per acre.
Mr. Sam Matthews will not assume his
duties at the Dakota House until about tho
18th inst. He is at present visiting at
Louisville, Ky
The village board met Tuesday and at
the close of the session elected Alderman
Flint the most popular member. lie took
the party over TO Dcckcr's.
Mr.. Flint still fingers around to Dakota
House and seems 10th to take his depart
urc, though we understand he leaves for
the east with his family on Monday.
The Dakota House gave Il grand New
Years dinner on Sunday. 1t was one OF
the finest ever set up in the house. Mr..
Kelley the cook, received many eompli-
meats upon his cooking.
, Two new mail routes are said to have
been ordcred-one from ColfaX to Lisbon
!, and the other from the former place tt
! McCaulcyville by way of Fort Abercrom-
year.
! We omitted to mention one call on New
Years day that was highly interesting tt
the parties concerned. One man will
), three kings and two aces called on another
who held four jacks and found him a
: home.
DR.. Beatty goes cast with Mr.. McGinni:
, and family He is very low with con
!, sumption and can live but few month!
longer. He has made many friends while
: here and his departure together with hi
i'll health is regretted by all.
The glucose works in Detroit are giving
: that city more perfumery than it can con
: vcniently absorb 1t is said of them tina
sit would be difficult to induce self-re
specting skunk to go down to the works
and enter into competition with them"
f Black Hills Pioneer: The editors Of this
in presents to their various friends w.
think these igucs were trflc under wha
> the bills footed up, but hundred or so t.
!, an editor is no more than yoke of oxe1
= :, to common farmer
Mr.. S. II. Flynn, of Valley City, cam.
9 up Monday for the purpose Of confer.
= ing with our court house commissioner.
. regarding the construction of that new
edfice. He attended the ball at Klaus
Hall, and did not hesitate to say thai
jamestown, socially, was far in advance
! of Valley City.
+ Black Hills Pioneer: There must have
. been a paragraphcr who suggested the
names of certain congressman for the
' Craftsmanship of committees, for he has
Cannon on military affairs, Mills nmanu-
factures, West on territories, Page on
printing, Rice on agriculture, and kctch-
am on Indian affairs.
9 The Bismarck railroad bridge is pro-
5 gresting rapidly. The eastern abutmcnt
is now finished; pier No. 1 is finished;
pier No. 2 has twenty feet of masonry yet
to build and the granite is all on the
ground; pier No. 3 is being sunk to its
foundation and has about sixty feet to go.
1t will be completed in two weeks.
During the late fire we noticed that
sparks were blown from the burning
J building to Benefits restaurant which is
banked up with straw and manure aud
had it not been for the constant efforts of
two OF three men with pals, the straw
would have ignited and the building set
on fire. VIII our village authorities please
look after this maItef and have the straw
removed at once
Mandsn Criterion: Quite stir was
created when last Saturday morning the
section men found half buried in the coal
heap east of the round house, small box
containing, carefully wrapped jl an apron,
the body of a child which would have
been much more perfectly developed if it
had net been picked until about three
4 months later. 1t bore The marks of instru-
ments and the natural conclusion il that