Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-05-23
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Elk Point has . butter tub factory.
A leap year ball occurred at Frederick
the 22d.
. Memorial day will be observed at
Montrose.
Small grain in Union county never
looked better.
The Columbia Dispatch has passed its
first mile post.
There is great demand for tenement
houses in Watertown.
Wife beaters in Sioux Falls and yicip.
ity are quite numerous.
Mrs. farley and her wax figures ex.
hibit in Iroquois the 23rd.
The issue of May 18th closed volume
one of the Harold Star.
If the right kind of clay is found, De
Smet will have brick yard.
Canton is arranging for musical fes.
tival to occur the 3Oth.
Chas. E. Judd is the champion bicycle
manipulation of Canton.
Over 5000 bushels of wheat were mar
keted in Gary last week.
Three dollars per acre is the price paid
for breaking in Day county.
Croquet is the popular amusement at
Waterbury, Jerauld county.
Dell Rapids has a kindergarten school
and will have brick yard.
Hay is worth eight dollars ton in
Sioux Falls and scarce at that.
Horseback riding. for both ladies and
gentlemen, is all the rage at Canton.
Scarlet fever is raging in tue vicinity
of Manchester, in Kingsbury county.
About 5000 brick q day are being
moulded at the st. Lawrence brick yard.
The circulation of the First National
bank Of Dell Rapids has arrived. $l2, 500.
Alarge number of school houses have
been erected in Kingsbury county this
year.
The members Of the Canton Grand
Army post will hold fair the frat week
in June.
There will be seventy.three schools in
operation in Brookings county, this
summer.
Miss Maude G. Major, a girl in he,
"teens," has-started paper at Norfolk
Sully county.
Active preparations are being made in
Elk Point for the proper Observance oI
decoration day.
SiA hundred pounds of pickerel were
taken out of a lake near Olivet, in one
day last week.
b. A. Rising, of the Aurora Times
talks of starting the sixth newspaper il
Potter county.
Watertown is to have demoorati,
newspaper to be conducted by Q lif,
long republican.
A boy about fourteen years. of age va
abandoned at the depot in Huron, re
Gently, by his father.
The De Smet band boys have ne,
hall which will be opened BY a gran,
ball the night of the 23rd.
The diphtheria, which has been ragin
at Valley Springs for q few weeks,
abating. There are no new cases.
The Salem Pioneer Register give
space to cut of James G. Blaine, owe
which is printed sour next president"
1
The servant girl problem Is seriou
one in Madison. The Leader says it
impossible to secure help at any price.
K,ngsbury County News: The pro,
poets could not be more favorable for
fine crop OF all kinds of grain this fall.
Watertown is e1pending considerabl
money in tree planting-seventeen mile
Of trees having been set out this spring
| The brotherhood of locomotiv
engineers of Huron, contemplate givin
an excursion to Cheyenne agency, sool
! The people of Diana are jubilant owe
their artesian we'll and claim it to be 6
good water as can be found in the terr
tory.
The Elk Point Courier holds to til
opinion that north Dakota would
insignificant without its big Alex. NJ
Kenzie.
i The Plankinton postofice is said to |
ono of the best equipped, most system
attic and neatly arranged Offices in tt
territory.
I, 1t is said that the numerous lakes
, Klngsbury county, are from two to e,
feet higher than at any time for nur
: Der of years.
A sensation was created at Volga Ia
week by the report that r. G. Watt
school treasurer, was missing with qui
on amount of school funds in his posse
sion.
Highmore Vox Populi: The dly fal
and winters Of Dakota make this sectie
especially adapted to sheep raisin
This is profitable industry, and chou
be encouraged.
A combined railway snd steambo
excursion, under the auspices of Il
Mitchell cornet band, will leave Mitch,
/ for Grow Creek Indian agency, May 81
4 returning the same day.
b T. B. Thomas was arrested on {
J. Omaha train at Kansas City on Wedn,
. day night, charged with being respon
r bic Tor the mysterious disappearance