The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-06-29

with Canton and the surrounding country
and will probably invest in some land here
in the near future.
The Dakota Sunday School association
convened at Sioux Falls yesterday and is
to last three days. The Rev. L Kings
bury, wife and daughter Millie, n. G..
Nash and wife and Miss Cross went up
on the Tuesday evenings train. Several
prominent workers from the west were
also aboard the train.
E. e. Carpenter arrived home last
Thursday from Yankton, and he is confin-
ed to his bed by sickness. He gave the
required 49, 900 bond with the following
slgners: ). A., Dan and j. NJ. Carpen-
ter, DR.. Clark, A. G. Vroman, Fred
Keep, F. Gilman and f. VI. Rowley. The
Santa Fe scrip cases go to trial, we under
stand, July Dist.
Our old friend n J. House cannot re-
main idle. Nor can fish live out of wa
ter. Mr.. House has accepted situation
with the firm of f. W. Miles e Co., of
this place, the jewellers, and made his
first trip out west Wednesday. House
will and can sell more goods than any 9TH
cr man on the road Only give him a
chance.
Adam Hoffman celebrated his 53d
anniversary on last Saturday evening, at
his residence, to which he invited a host
of personal friends, and from what we
learn Il very pleasant time was enjoyed by
all. Good music was on hand and those
who wished danced to theirhearts content
The wish of all was that Adam may live
to enjoy many more birthdays.
Our furniture dealer, Mr.. Woerz, writes
to his wife from Indiana that he will be
home Saturday Of this week, having visit
ed the several wholesale furniture houses
in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and
has purchased an immense stock for his
new store, which he intends to occupy as
soon as the carpenters can get the same
ready, which will be some time next week
Mr. Woerz has also purchased an elegant
hcarse and expects the same to arrive this
week.
y Canton will surely take the name of city
ofchurches, sidewalks and trees, if things
progress as finely in the future as at pres
ent Workmen are now at work erect
ing new church, which is going up on
the lot in the rear of the residence of j.
@. Fitzgerald. The church is to be 3Ox50,
IS foot posts, with an addition 20 feet
square l6 feet high. The name of the
church is the Norwegian Augustana Luth-
eran.
Married, on June llth, 1882, at the
residence of n. Tut, Squire Joe Warner
officiating, Mr.. Battle of Iowa, to Miss
Martha Wood, of Linden township. The
above parties are to be congratulated, in
asmuch as the affair is one of love at first
sight, the parties to the contract having
never before met or became acquainted
with one another. Now that they are
man and wife we wish them a smooth
voyage.
The masons finished the brick work to
the Bedford store on Tuesday, the gravel
roof is being put on and the floor has
been lain. The damaged timbers, on the
Hood and Madole stores have been re-
placed, the masons will finish the brick
laying on the Thompson store this week,
while the stone masons will finish the ].
W. Taylor foundation. The shelves for
the store to be occupied by Fosdick are on
hand and will be placed in position forth
with.
The physicians of Dakota are about to
organize an association and to that effect
call has been issued to meet at this
place August 10th, 1882 Our home
doctors were in receipt, Monday, of ten
sets of calls, which seem to originate in
Sioux Falls. The rival faction has set its
date as August 3rd, and as our doctors dc
not intend to promote faction they will
ignore both until called by such gentle
man as Drs McGumphrey and Smith, OF
Yankton, the proper persons to call the
doctors together. Ia this our home ply
sicians are acting wisely.
The ball has been set in motion and the
different county offices to be filed at the
election this fall have some half dozen can,
didates. As there are not enough offices
to go round, some one will get left, and as
this office recognizes the right o.
every man to hold office if he can get
it, it will not crowd off Or cast reflection
upon either at this time. Our readers
will do we'll by being cautious as to prom
ising support, but await the proper time
and then vote for the best man suited fo
the position.