The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-09-21
Trade is improving.
Canton seems to be the center of at

traction. ~
The business done at our depots is sim
ply immense.
Prairie chickens are becoming very
scarce in this vicinity
A correspondent is wanted in every
township in the county.
County politics will be next in order.
A lively time is probable.
A brother of our 0. N. Russell, from
Wisconsin is here on visit. .....
The weather has beeR all that our farm
ers could wish for hay y-making.
We regret to learn that Myron Odcll,
of Eden, is sick with mountain fever.
A brand new coach has been placed on
the run from Sioux City to Sioux Falls.
Ed. Rowley's sew sss was moved into
tis new office in the Hoods building yes
terday ..
This is good week for our hotels and
eating houses. Mrs. H. L. Soule fed so
strangers Tuesday.
Mr.. T. A. Gale returned home Wednes-
day morning from hi4 Chicago trip. He
| reports that city full Of business.
The passenger trains on both divisions
were heavily loaded yesterday. Travel
seems to be increasing as the weather gets
cooler.
The local paper is indispensable to every
regulated family. There is no friend
more welcome to cheer the long winter
evening.
We are glad to bo able to chronicle that
Mrs. James Patteeis convelescing from an
attack of fever. DR.. Clark is the attend
ing physician.
There is gentle reminder in these
nights that winter is rapidly approaching.
The prudent ones will be prepared whilst
the Indifferent will sufor.
We take pleasure in calling the stten-
| ton of our readers to the new advertise
mont Of Geo. w. Shelter, the Eden
druggist found elsewhere in this paper
We understand some one broke into
the residence of Dick Edward. on Tues
day morning and stole several articles of
wearing apparel.
C. A. Bedford is erecting an Office for
Aimeelf on his grounds corner of Fifth
and Cedar streets, and is to be l6x24,
! 10 foot high.
New Shannon, (Tll.,) Express Septsm-
Der 10th: "Mr Kramer, the painter,
started for Canton. Oak, last Tuesday
evening to look for farm.
The plurality of Rebie, Republican can
didate for governor Of Maine, according
to the official returns, was S,798. His
majority over all was nearly 1000. The
Republican candidates for congress
had alightly' larger pluralities.
Send the Advocate to your friends east.
1t will help them by eneouragi ing them to
come 70 Dakota and securing them farms.
It viii help you by having the country set
tod up and increasing the value Of your
property. Besides it is the best paper in
| the county.
Kinball Index: "Prof Stoddard, Of
Canton, who has been engaged to give
the Kimball brass band course Of in
attractions, is expected here October lst.
Now that. the delegate question is sat
isfactorily settled, county politics are be-
ginning to lven up, and the man with
cut official aspirations is genuine curl
osity.
As fall and winter approaches the need
of reading room in town is more and
more being felt One ran on the princi-
pie suggested by Mrs. 0. N. Russell
would be the thing.
Probate Judge z. R. Bennett is in
town. He and DR.. Clark and another
gentleman are the insanity commissioners
OF the county and they will soon have a
patient to take to Yankton. The patient
is Norwegian lady.
This Office, yesterday, made the ac-
quaintance of Mr.. Geo. w. Shelter.
Eden's new druggist. He is a pleasant
and social gentleman, a man of business
and We congratulate Eden on her new ac-
quaintance.
Hutchinson County Record says: "The
Tyndall Tribune has hoisted the name of
Col. Hughes, Of Yankton, for congress.
Does the Tribune mean to give out that
the gallant ex-soldicr proposes to run as
an independent candidate?
Now il tho time to prepare for prairie
fires, and he who does not soon make
ready may have occasion to regret it scr
iously. Fires are now raging on tn:
uplands in the northwest. ''An ounce Of
preventation is worth a pound Of cure. y
Miss Clara Pende1ter of Bath, Maine,
sister of Mrs. ?. A. Gale, arrived here
last Tuesday and will take the position in
Mr.. Gales bank vacated by her sister
Miss Kittie. Miss Pendexter is a grrdu-
ate of the young ladies female seminary Of
Bath, Me. is accomplished, and will, we
are glad to learn, spend the winter with
u.