Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-11-14
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sOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Sphinx county cast 2.soo votes.
Beadle county cast 1880 votes.
aurora county cast POI votes.
Brookings is:to have tow mill.
Day county went republican save the
sheriff.
The Knighta Of Pythias will organize
at Pierre.
Old Ashton remains the county seat OF
sphinx county.
The tax payers ticket carried Ed
munds county.
The old school house at Ollvet is for
sale at o bargain.
Gettysburg, took the county seat prize
in Potter county.
The republican ticket scored victory
10 BrookinRs county.
A Scandinavian newspaper is to be
started at Flsndran.
Day county farmers were successful
this year in corn culture.
The county seat of Roberts county
has been fixed at Travore.
Grand View has daily mail service to
Fort Randall and Mitchell.
The season of 1884 has been o very
prosperous one for Memo.
Edmunds county polled GA voter.
Ipswich, retains the county seat
Miner county republicans took every
thing except the register Of deeds.
J. F. Highley was accidentally shot
and killed at Groton the other day.
Memo is to have creamery, q tow
mill, and q cheese factory IS talked of.
A daily mail service between Mitchell
and Fort Randall, was begun Nov. lst.
Cornelius O'Leary, of Brookings coun.
ty, is l12 yearsold and voted last Tuesday.
The republicans of Beadle county
elected all the county officers save two.
There were eighteen different tickets
afaoat in Beadle county on election day.
Scotland takes pride in its new brick
school house which is fast nearing COM
pletion.
The editor of the Egan Express, Mr..
Lanning. has been appointed post
master at Egan.
Moody county polled 1.013 votes
about the same as in 1882. Gifford's
majority was $50.
The sixth legislative district canvas.
sing board, composed of eleven counties.
will meet at Huron the Goth.
The ladies aid society, Of Canistots,
have voted Mr. John McKinnon. the
handsomest young man in the city.
The township ia the northeast part Of
Hand county contains but two republi-
can voters to twenty three democrats.
The Olivat public schools will open
next Monday, the 18th, with Prof. Ell,-
son, principal, and Mrs. Callahan, assist.
ant.
J.J. Wills, a painter, has undertaken
a skiff voyage from Pierre to New
Orleans where he will attend the EXPOSE
tion and peddle willow canes.
Five Of the Parker Era correspondents
enjoyed an oyster and goose supper, in
company with Mr.. Hackett, editor of
that paper, one evening last week.
The Parker Press is new paper. 1t
claims to be for Blaine, south Dakota,
division on the forty-sixth parallel and
admission the first day of March 1885.
Deacon Simon Bidwell, eighty seven
years ofage, said to be the oldest voter
in Dawson county, voted the straight
republican ticket at Mitchell, the 4th.
Redtield Journal: Allowing five per.
sons to each voter. which is the average
IN the east, Sphinx county would contain
. population OF 5000. But supposing
the population to be four aid q half to
each voter, which is doubtless safe es-
innate, the total population is 1880.
Gary Inter State: "The swallows have
homevard flown; the geeee and ducks
are southward making their way; the
musk-rats are banking up their houses" :"
The solemn frog has ker-sumped his
last ker,wump and kerhummuxed; the
prairie dog has withdrawn to the inner.
most precincts of his subterranean
cavern and pulled his hole ID; the busy
ant and the tumble bug have ceased
from their labors and gone into winter
quarters, leaving the bare brown world
to the Independent candidate aud the
machine note collector. Verily-winter
is upon us.