The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-10-26
The price of land ought to bc lifted tc

The price of land ought to be lifted Il
$40 an acre at once.
Bro. N. c. Nash has returned home
accompanied by his wife.
All lands farmed this year will return 8
clear profit of $40 to 500 per acre.
} Mr.. Smith, who lives over w. II. Mil
ler's general store, talks some of embark
ing in the mercantile trade in town.
There will be preaching at the NJ. i
church on next Sabbath evening at
O'Clock, the Rev. L. w. Miller occupying
the pulpit.
Several of our ambitious and careful
husbands and providers have already pu
up the storm door. This is right; take
time by the forelock.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Pioneer creamery will be held at the
Stevenson school house in Delaware town.
ship on Monday, November 9Th, 1882, at
l O'Clock P. NJ
H. R. Locke, the Sioux City photog
rapher, will be here about November lst
and hopes to see all wanting good pic
ture to call. All kinds of work in his line
promptly attended to as regards the re-
touching Of old negatives.
The Mesyrs. Thomas Thorson & Co.,
our real estate dealers, sold on Monday to
Mr.. Samuel Good. of Carroll county, ILL.,
the Gillespie farm, l60 acres, half mile
south of town, and understand the new
owner will be out next spring and become a
permanent citizen.
A prairie fire visited Dayton township
a week or so ago and destroyed consid-
cradle hay in stack, as also setting of
fax for Mr.. Putraugh. A great deal of
territory was burned over and understand
the fire came up from the direction of the
railroad. Mr.. Joseph Warner and others
had hard work to save their property.
The building erected on the old ADvo-
CATH lot is almost completed Mr.. Wal
lace, the contractor and builder, has done
his job well and prompt This is another
instance where Mr.. Gale has shown his
ability to rush thing TO completion and
that Canton has public spirited citizen
in the person above referred to.
The Messrs. D. W. Reed and Ed. s.
Rowley, two Of our wide-awake and promi-
nent citizens, have purchased John Law
ler's halt interest in the town site of
Worthiag, nine miles west Of this place.
The gentlemen have . bonanza.-will be
liberal in the price of lots, and found sew
ersl public institutions. Nh. Rowley sold
five lots in that town Tuesday, without
any effort. Hurrah for Worthing.
The Messrs. A. F. and NJ. E. Rudolph
are having their store building venecred
with brick. Mr.. J. W. Foley, Of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, has the contract. This will
make two elegant structures and give Can
ton two more fre-proof buildings. Mr..
Foley has also the contract to erect the
w. 8. Corson building, which will go up
adjoining that of Messrs. T. P. Thompson
& Co. In size it viii be 24xsO, and if
the weather holds good will be two story
high.
Mn. E. j. Dean, mother Of Mr.. NJ. B.
Dean and his brother, our dry goods and
general merchants, arrived here on Tues
day evening, accompanied by her two
daughters, the Misses Lille NJ. and Ethel.
The family has taken quarters temporarily
with mine host, Mr.. Naylor, until their
apartments, located over the store of Mr..
NJ. B. Dean, is ready for occupancy. We
congratulate Canton on the acquisition of
the Deans to the social circles, and hope
the friendship made will be pleasant and
profitable.
Bedford hall has been engaged for the
night of November lst, 1882, (Wednes
day. on which occasion Gen. Oliver P.
Gooding, the patriot, will deliver his
celebrated lecture, Future Politics. The
Springfield mo } Express speaks of the
gentleman in this manner: Future Pol
itics, the lecture delivered by Gen. O.
P. Gooding at the Opera House last
night, is able and logical, and calculated
to do great good wherever heard. In
some portions Of his lecture the General
proved himself to be splendid actor as
we'll as orator, being both eloquent and
magnetic. TO hear him is a great treat.
Mr.. Filing Opsal, county clerk, has
been presented with fine steel engrav-
ing Of an award of premium, and has the
Same handsomely framed and is hung up
in his office. 1t was presented to him by
Mr. Moses for tavors shown him some
time ago in furnishing the said Moses
with statistics Of Lincoln county. The
diploma has the following: Diploma.
Awarded by the Tri-Stats Fair Associa-
ton at Toledo, Ohio. Col. j. L. Daven-
port and D. H. Moses on behalf of the
citizens Of Dakota Territory tor display of
agricultural products residing along the
line Of the Chicago / Milwaukee railroad
in southeastern Dakota, exhibited Sept.
l2th 70 10th, 1882. L. s. Baumgardner,
president; John Farley, secretary.
Bcst quality Gen,anuown wool only
kept at N b Dean G Cos.
Wanted