Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-19
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NoRrHERN NEBRASKA,

NORTHERN NEBRASKA.
Travel is brisk at Harrington.
Immigration has already begun.
Tho Creighton Methodists have organ.
lied.
Town election will occur at Ponca on
April Let.
J.J. hammers has opened q harness
shop at Harrington.
Creighton is favorite market for the
man with hogs to sell.
Two car loads Of Iowa mules were sold
at Creighton the other day.
Diphtheria has been prevalent near
Knoxville with fatal results.
Cedar county will have two delegates
10 the state republican convention.
Farmers in the neighborhood Of Cole.
ridge, Cedar couty. are all prosperous.
The Cedar county wolf crop has yield.
ed better than the average this winter.
A number Of small tenement houses
will be erected in Harrington this spring.
Hart,nRton's new skating rink will be
opened with ball next Friday evening.
The grand and petit jurors for Cedar
county will not be drawn until the Doth.
Ponca needs, % much as anything
some means OF protection in case Of fire.
VIM. B. Seely and Isabel Swinson
we're married at st. Helena the ether
day.
The farmers Of northern Nebraska are
becoming interested in the culture of
fruit.
A Presby yterian society has been Or
gaulzed at Creighton with the purpose
Of building.
It is not yet decided whether Cedar
county will have term of court this
spring or not.
The Bow is to be brldged just north Of
Harrington. The contract will be let on
the 9Th prox.
The driver of the Niobrara and Creigh.
ton stage, suspended, during last Tues.
days blizzard.
A number OF families of Swiss colon.
lists, fresh from the old country, have
lately settled in Knox county.
The Bazile Mills Evening Star literary
society, gave their last entertainment fol
this season, last Thursday night.
The O'Neil Frontier & Banner haye
been consolidated. The material of the
Frontier was destroyed by fire recently
Farming real estate in Cedar county
has advanced thirty-three and ons.third
per cent. in one year, in some instances
Oscar Barber, of Ponca. recently had 9
cancer removed from his face and tht
journal states he is in fair way to re-
cover.
The unfinished steeple on the Baptist
church at Creighton was blown from itt
moorings the other day during severe
wind storm.
The Cedar county agricultural society
met on the 8th at Harrington, but nc
quorum being present the meeting ad
ljourned to meet at the same place on thu
22nd.
A very interesting and successful en-
tertainment was given on Friday by tn
scholars of the st. Helena high school
under the direction of Mr.. Grimes, th
teacher.
st. Helena Nonpareil: The residenc,
of Eugene Mines. on the island belov
town. was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day morning last, Mr.. Mines barely ea
Gaping with the clothes he had on.
Harrington has five hotels, two restau
rants, one bakery, three drug stores. fv
J. carpenter shops. four insurance agents
three lawyers, three doctors, three liver
stables and various other places Of bus
ness.
Harrington is to have new CathoIi
church, that the Herald claims in si2
aud elegance will exceed any thing of th
kind in Yankton. Work upon the maj
b nifcent structure will be commence
about April 10th.
Poncs Journal: Doc. Middleton
;. formerly of outlaw notoriety in the Nj,
brara country, and who has been servin
a term Of five years in the penitentiar.
hes returned to Holt county and pr
poses to become q good citizen.
An association known as the Law ON
Order league has been organized .
Ponca. 1t is partly composed Of churc
. members and its aim will be to uphol
the town authorities in maintaining Il
laws of the state and of the town.
The Harrington Herald says: Ceda
Wayne and Dixon have, perhaps, great,
natural resources than any other coul
ties, and when the stream OF comm
immigration shall occupy the land an
. their labor develop its natural wealtl
they will take their place in farming an
: stock raising among the foremost coul
ties of the state.