The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-02-09
Caught on the Fly.

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Trade is fairly active,
{ Lent will commence February 22d.
{ There was one death from small pox a
Yankton last week
! A large amount Of Ice has been harvest
ed and the average citizen is happy
Ye reporter is considering plans for hi
new house to be builtin the spring.
Jack Phelan has quit railroading ane
gone into the hotel business at Mitchell
Success toyou, Jack.
1 A horse -shoer in Wisconsin put on fifty
set in one day Can any Of our Canton
horse-shoers do as well?
| Wake up, boys. This will never do.
The printer wants an item, the minister a
fee and the lady husband
! President Arthur. has made Hugh j.
| Campbell happy by re-appointing him
United States Attorney for Dakota.
February ID was ground hog day and
the weather prophets and tradition has it
that the next six weeks viii be cloudy and
stormy.
The Dakota delegation are determined
that the division question shall stand on
its own merits as distinct from the adnlis-
sion question.
Our delegates are doing good work in
Washington, and although they may not
admit the territory, it looks as if they may
be instrumental in having it admitted
The land business appears to be reviv-
ing and the faces of our land agents are
expanding in consequence. The Messrs
Taylor & Russell are kept busy attending
to this department
Adyices have been received by promi-
nent railroad officials to the effect that
during the coming two months about 600
families will take passage from Great Brit
ain and purchase lands in Dakota.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the masquerade ball to be given on the
eve Of Washington's birthday, February
22d. No pains or expense are being spar
ed to make the occasion an enjoyable af-
fair
1t is to be hoped that the people of each
township in this county will see that their
respective assessors do their duty, and their
whole duty, this spring in their assess
ments. Give us a fair and honest estimate
of values and there will be no trouble.
| The Lennox Star of February Sd says
"Dr. Brown and his little pill pox got off
the train at Worthing Wednesday night.
He was summoned to attend to member
of Mr.. Snyder's family, the station agent,
who is seriously sick.
The probabilities are that our farmers
will SOW less wheat this spring than usual,
but more flax and sorn and engage largely
in stock. 1t would be a good idea for our
farmers to change their seed wheat for
some raised in another section Of country.
lfyou cannot raise cattle for yourself the
next best thing is to let somebody raise
them for you on shares. Many of our
townspeople could put in cow and in a
few years have quite little herd at no ex-
| pense to themselves. save the price Of the
cow
The privilege the dear people have of
subscribing for this paper, the rate at which
they are doing SO, and the existence of our
roomy subscription book that seems to
draw with a sort of magnetic power, is a
state Of affairs whereat we seldom refuse to
smile.
An excursion or party of 400 land
seekers are to be at Mitchell February
23d. They come via Lemars and Shell
don and will pass through Canton, where
some of them might be interviewed by
some of our enterprising land agents.
Mitchell is making preparations to enter
tain them royalty.
A young gentleman, lately married, and
residing in the southwest part of the
county, says there is nothing that so takes
the starch out of him, Che. has only been
married one year) as to have to go to a
store where there is girl clerk that he
used to keep company with and inquire
for those large safety pins.
The Huron Times says, sarcastically /:
''The boarders at leading hotelin Mitch
ell are going to petition the proprietor to
furnish each plate with a microscope SO
that they can find out whether there is
anything to eat or not. Boarders at
any of the Canton hotels fare differently
They complain of getting too much Fact
Herman, the
Okalona Statesman,
Has been given the grand bounce;
But D. A. W. Perkins,
The owner Of the
Cycle,
Will run and make the paper worthy Of
patronage,
A credit to himself,
Sanborn, and
O'Brien county in particular.
We wish the two consolidated papers
success.
The Vermillion Republican has the fol-
lowing sensible article which we copy for
the benefit of our Lincoln county farmers,
hoping they will consider the matter and
think it of Importance to establish an en-
terprise of that sort in this county
"The creamery plan is everywhere gaining
in favor with dairyman, and those of Clay
county are waking up to its importance.
When farmers find out they can get as
much for their cream as they can for their
butter they viii not be slow to avail them
selves of the chance, for it will relieve them
OF large amount of labor, that under the
old system has to be done, and done well
if they get anywhere.near the market price
for their products. Under the creamery
plan we predict that Clay will become the