Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-01-25

% The ice taken from the Missouri
~ at this date is about IL inches thick.
-. About 412.5O0 of the taxes OF 1881
hsve been collected at the county
y treasurer's Office, up to this time.
!: VIC. F. Hennefin started new
!. n. blacksmith shop at McCook last
p. m. week.
- Peter Callahan has bought the
farm Of Milo Chamberlain. The
price paid we learn was 500.
$ he County Superintendent Ericsson, IL
: good sood Visiting schools in the northern part
of the county this week.
Geo. Gray Of CIVIL Bend, lost a
valuable horse one night last week
o W., by getting cast in the stable.
A train containing about 20 cars
TO- Of Sioux Falls stone, was OH the
- track here on Saturday. 1t was go
!. ing to Sioux City.
Pm. Sioux City Journal'-"Geo. r.
Freeman Of Elk Point has bought
a. a ~ ~ one of William Treadway's trotters,
tn. and has placed the same with Fred
lister. Kneehs for training"
-. Another young sauer-kraut eater
at J. B. Brubachers-weight ten
Vol. pounds. Brubacher says he will
sell nice fresh groceries just as cheap
as ever.
i way A winter more destitute of snow
than the present one has been thus
farm far, has scarcely occurred within the
for memory of the Oldest inhabitant.
The biting cold during the first
). C. part of this week has made still safer
court the crossing of the Missouri. For
N. the time being, Nebraskans can
:. come over with big loads and little
:, danger.
r.. Southern Dakota--the land of
perpetual summer. Last Monday
re- was considered as very cold day,
TINS yet the mercury stood above zero,
and to-day it is 36 above. A slight
5nO amount Of sleet il noticeable this
&C. morning.
oting Spragues Original Georgia Min
strels are advertised to give an en-
tertainment in Yerter's Hall, this
Nv. city, on next Saturday evening, Jan.
80 %. The troupe are composed OF
49, genuine colored men, and have a
"' reputation of giving first-class enter
lion, tainments.
'nsFa' The first load of hogs from the
ester r., 80. - ,.,
Oh the ice Thursday, and the pro.
!. v. prietor was given premium OF 3
Jas. cents per hundred above the mar.
rove ket price for breaking the ice" as
s''''' i were.
Flannery Bros, proprietors OF the
rso Merchants, have added to the conve
reeks niences of their house lately by pos
ia old sessing themselves of splendid
large, new bus worth several of thu
smaller kind. 1t is an elegant look
augh- ing vehicle outside, az well as roomy
or the and luxurious inside.
I'd TO -"- -
, i'm. A. Il. Eddy arrived home from
Pennsylvania last Friday looking
the best VIC have seen him for yea
DIS or two. Eddy has been off for sew
Nc eral months for the benefit of hi
nday, health, and as he seems to hav
cqult- found considerable of it we hope h
will be able to retain the prize.
l the Quite a number of families il
, was town have considered it wise, II
man view of the more than ordinnr.
is TAX prevalence of smallpox Throughout
the country and it's liability to brca
,,; out here as well as elsewhere, to pu
,ovo themselves through course Of vac
Mon c'l'asio'' ''"u o0 vi '''
=. 49,. which same they are now enduring
,URIER F. NJ. Budde looks gloomily dow
his Grecian nose these days becaus
Rpsb- u o'i '"N, oo IT,. t,;s ,.a,,
-, iscs lately. His old, family cat die
-, last week, suddenly without visib
49,. cause or provocation. And yeste
day morning he found his two hog
tat ones, nicely cuddled up, spoo
ted in fashion, in their comfortable st
Gheafa 1 4..a 90 r.aol4a Ru1lda thinks b