Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-02-27
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

The Office of the vermillion Republi-
can Is for sale.
There is great demand for tenement
housss in Alexandria.
Washington's birthday was unhonored
and unsung in Parker.
There were ia arrivals at the Harlan
house, in Canton, last week.
The Sioux Falls Apollo club are re-
hearsing "The Haymakers."
Huron's hook and ladder company
consists Of eighteen members.
Miner county people are buying large
Quantities OF oats in Alexandria.
Two hundred men were shovelinp
snow. on the Dakota Central last week
Wednesday.
Twenty Alexandria ladies took the
Odd Fellows Rebccca degree last Mon
day night.
A skilled photographer, from Minne-
sofa, will locate in Redfield, Sphinx coua-
ty, in the spring.
Dell Rapids refuses to bond for an
other railroad but will gladly give depot
grounds and right of way.
Fifteen car loads Of immigrants will
settle in and around Huron, from the vi.
cinity of Salem, Wisconsin, this spring.
| At a spelling match in Canton one
night last week, Miss Nora Miller, after a
long and severe spell, was awarded the
spoils.
Qhamberlain's new mill will be of sufli.
cient capacity to grind the -four fol
Brule, Charles Mix, Aurora and Buffalo
counties.
The Germans of Wall Lake, Mime.
haha county, have school where theil
language il taught, consisting of forty
five pupils.
A:recent issue of the Huron Times con,
tained an excellent article favoFing the
establishment of public reading room
in that town.
A carpenter by the name Of Van Done
while at work on steep roof at Mt
i Vernon last week, lost his hold in some
way and fell te the frozen ground head
first. He died in q few minutes.
A home insurance company has beer
organized in Sioux Falls, with many
l good names to back il. The capital stool
Is 100000, which can be increased t,
$500. 900 at the pleasure Of the company
| A German by the name Of Jacol
Engle was frozen nearly to death nea
Fort Thompson not long ago. The In
dians found him and like good Ssmari
tans took him to the hospital at For
Hale.
II An Indian at Brule agency committe
!. suicide, last week, by shooting himse
through the heart, and another Indian,
!. member Of the police died, and his vii
committed suicide by..hanglng herself b
i the neck.
The Huron leader says that snow
drifts twenty. three feet high are report
, ed in some Of the cuts on the Dakot
|, Central railway. The snow plows or
! recourse is manual labor.
u The Dakota Register says Chambe
3 lain will furnish free for manufacturin
: purposes, to any corporation or compan,
oil the ground whereon to erect their built
ings 80 situated that they can load frol
8 their doors into either the cars or Il
+ steamboats,.
: A supper in honor of Washington
s birthday was given by the ladies
Mitchell last Wednesday night. I'll
r young ladies waited upon the tables on
8 represented the states of their nativit
$ The Republican says brighter or pre-
,. tier beyy Of girls could no where
Q found than these daughters of the diffe
ent states, and among them all none vi
more conspicuous for grace, prettine
u or modesty that Miss Fannie Fost
., daughter of James Foster, formerly
d Yankton), whose nativity entitled h
10 alone to preside at the Dakota table.