Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-09-20

| Sioux City Jornnl:-Mrs. T. NJ.
Williams is in the city on visit.
Mrs. Williams informed reporter
that her home is still at Elk Point,
and that she has not yet decided
about removing to Sioux City.
ABE STRcBEL is to be seen on our
streets again occupying his old place
on top OF q iray wag' n. Abe has
bought jim Ryan's dnying outfit
and will run it hereafter. Abe is
pleasant and accommodating gentle
man to do business with.
FRANK HILL Esq, an old Plain
field, I'll. friend of 1. w. Begys and
the kents, spent Sunday in this
city visiting with his old time
friends. Mr.. Hill is the general
agent of the Elwarl Harvester Co
and is genial and pleasant gentle
THE gentleman who advertised
to sell lot of cattle here on Mon
day, disposed of the entire lot at
good figures. John Doscrty. the
Pierre frcighter bought $50 head of
the calves at $500 per head. The
balance OF the lot, mostly heifris
and calves, were sold to citizens of
this county.
Tom. Thomson, the booming real
estate agent, OF Caution was in town
Monday. and did not fail to make
the COURIER establishment call
He made a sale of a halt section of
will Ian | in Turner county, for al
exis Weston of this city, a.,d came
down to close up the trade. MIR.
Weston got 81 300 for the half sec
ton.
THE marriage of Mrs. NJ. J. Car
man OF Lincoln. Neb., and Col
LaiNi of Dakota, took place at In
coin Thursday. Mrs. Carn,an is
well known among the telegraph
people of the west, having been
| manager of the Lincoln office for
many years. Col Laird is pos;niaS
ter at Pierre, ID r., and is Il gentle
man of wealth and inllucnce.-St.
| PuM Pioneer Press.
BANKER WALwoRTH, last spring,
went INTO the bee business and pur-
| chased swarm of bees OF Billy VIM
son, paying SIS for it. lie has just
harvested his crop and it turns out
thusly. 40 pounds Of nice honey,
worth 20 cents per pound, and two
swarlns of bees. Clear profit on the
SIS investment, two swarms of bees
worth SO each and Sl3 in money.
HAY BURNED Ed Taubert had
the misfortune to burn up about so
tons IF hay tor Abe Strubel, about
20 tons of ID. W. Myers and some OF
his own, last Saturday. He went
out in the afternoon to burn around
the stacks, and the fire got away
from hm with the result as above.
lie fought HE fire nantuiiy all az
trrnooil and was brought in in the
evening completely exhausted and
! in an almost iitseusible condition
Mr.. Taubcst feels it incumbent upon
him t. replace this hay and 1t Is
quite severe loss to him.
DUTTuN's TELEPHoNE.-Mr. o. l..
Dutton, the inventor and patcntce
of buttons Automatic Telephone,
arrived i'll our city last week to III
terview our citizens on the sui ject
of teleuholcs. We ordered one put
up between the COURIER office and
uur res riencc, a distance of over tw'
blocks, and it works splcniiily. All
who have tested it say il Is Il little
the incest thing IN the shape of {:
telephone out. Any one desiring t,
try the workingnr this telephone ca:
do So 10y calling IN ut cur office 81
residence Mr. Dui;on has, withou,
question. the best automatic trl,'
pnuue yet produced ard he will un
houhtedlv make his fortune out q
it. He is now at Nrrmillun bu
will return next week prepared t.
put in telephones Tor all who wan
them.
The Dakota University.
The trustees uf the Dakota Cni
versity, at Nermlllin,, announce t.
the people of the territory, that the.
viii open a .tee academic depart
uent OF that institution about tn
18th of October, 1892, for the edu
cation of youths OF both sexes ID
L. NJ Epstein, Of iankt"n. has bee