Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-18
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vermillion owes sssos5. .Is
Elk Point is prosperous.
The Marion lyceum has dissolved.
Castalia ID getting ready 70 grow.
The hotels at Springfield are crowded.
Dawson county employs thirty.eisht
teachers. g .ss sss
y The oheese factory at Marion is nearly
completed. s5f y
The Hanson county records are to be
investigated.
| The farmers about Centreville want
more seed corn. &
Aurora county has been organised into
civil townships. ae
Flandrau cast lOS votes ct recent
village election.
Centreville looks forward to q busy
building season.
Douglas county farmers will plant .
good deal Of fax.
Lincoln county farmers are getting
ready for seeding.
I Frank Jakubie, q farmer living near
Kimball, is insane.
The failure Of Hance Murphy at Elk
Point is announced.
|. Waterbury, Buffalo county has -four
ishins g. A. r. post.
There is semi.weekly mail from Yer
million to Centreville.
The Marion grammer school gave an
exhibition Friday last. -
Eight civil townships in Hanson coun-
ty have been organized.
Union county farmers have an abup-
dance of No. seed corn. -.
Hanson county expeots to add a.0O0 to
its population this season. :.
The Odd Fellows at Lake Preston are
getting ready to organize.
The Marion Sentinel says business is
improving at the Junction.
Freeman, Hutchinson county, is be.
coming good cattle market. .
Mail service between Parker aud Yer-
million has been discontinued.
The grand army post at Elk Point
numbers sixty-three members.
The B. A. Masons at Mitchell will have
Q chapter running in q few weeks.
The farmers bank is to be established
at Alexandria by Mitchell capitalist.
The question of township government
is being agitated in Charles Mix county.
Chotsau creek has been having high
old time, to the great destruction Of its
bridges. s'
A ferry boat will be maintained this
season between Elk Point and the Ne
braska shore.
The population of Union county is
5000. It is one Of The best agricultural
counties in Dakota.
I The Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul
company has taken a large tract of land
five miles above LIE Beau.
A mandatory for terra Gotta and
fancy colored brick has been established
at Fairview, Lincoln county.
Special attention will be given aax
culture, by farmers in the northern part
of Union county, this season.
Preparations are being made by Charles
Mix county farmers to do a great deal o.
breaking the coming season.
immigration has set in in earnest. Fol
the comfort and health OF the new
comers the season is not propitious
Wait thirty days longer.
The mail carrier from Fort Hale t.
Chamberlain, broke through the ice in
the Missouri while crossing. tho othe
day. and narrowly escaped drowning.
The farmers of McCook county held
mass convention March lst, to agitat,
the question Of antimonopoly, free trade
and the taxation Of railroad corporations
The Dakota Fire and Marine insuranc,
company, Of Chamberlain, received $35,
5o017 in premiums last year. The ne
earnings of the company were over SIS,
900.
| At the recent township election il
Lincoln county. the question of "poo
farm" was voted upon and the vote wa
10 close that it will require the of1cia
count to determine.
A meeting Of the citizens of Buffal
county will be held at Waterbury, Marc
22nd, to consider the expedienoy OF OF
ganization within the present count,
limits or to seek the re.establshment o
the old boundary line or to seek annex
alton to some other county.
I A man supposed to be Lawrenc
Rooney, of Gettysburg, was found dea.
in Potter county last Wednesday, b,
two young men from Blunt who, wer
putting up shacks in that vicinity. Hi
face was badly dis6gured by wolves. 81,
is supposed to have frozen to death SOM
time in February.
Mitchell Republican: A large blacl
Poland China boar attacked one of W
8. Snyder's dray horses Tuesday, Will
standing by q hay stack in the rear Of O
J. Raymond's store. The horse wa
thrown and badly ont. and would un
doubtedIy have been killed had it no
been for the prompt interference of sev
eral men.
Elk Point Courier: Union county haI
bonded indebtedness of $24,8O0. Jan
nary 1st there was cash balance in th,
county treasury, of $4,000. Warrant
arc par. The valuation Of the county
according to the last assessment, wa