Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-06-10
Marion wants good blacksmith.
Norway pines flourish in Turner cou

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Sioux Falls.will invest sl,5oo in
Fourth Of July Celebration.
The Fourth of July will be properly
observed at Marion Junction.
The post Office at Hurley will be
money order office after July LIST.
The total valuation of Sphinx county
this year is estimated to reach $500 900.
.Jerauld county proposes to ship SO0,-
600 bushels of gram this coming fall and
winter.
A grand dramatic entertainment is be-
ing prepared by the Huron library asso.
ciatlon.
The bridges on the main highway be.
tween Elk Point and Vermillion need
repairing.
Hon. Geo. Stickney has been chosen
president of the Union county stock
growers association.
The members of Gen. Steadman post,
Springfield, celebrated Memorial day at
Niobrara, Nebraska.
There are 402,080 acres of decided land
in Sphinx county. The total area of the
county is 9676sO acres.
The citizens of Pierre number among
their prospective Improvements this sea.
son, flour mill, brewery and ma.
chine shop.
The brotherhood of locomotive engi.
neers will make an excursion from Huron
to Pierre, and thence by steamer to Fort
Sully on the 10Th.
-Four railroads have been surveyed
through SPHINX county. and the residents
expect to see at least one of them carried
forward to completion.
1t is reported that the Chicago & Mil
waukee railroad has arranged for the
survey Of all the government lands in
Campbell and Mcpherson counties.
A lady named Lanton. of Buffalo
county, lost her husband and five chill.
dren by diphtheria, within fewdays re-
Gently, leaving her ouly one little girl.
The first annual meeting OF the south
Dakota dental society will be held in
Pierre, commencing Tuesday, June 10th,
and continuing until Thursday, June
18th.
Sioux Falls Press: Bugs are preying
upon the leaves of the young cotton
woods which were transplanted this sea.
son-entirely denuding some of them of
their foliage.
| TV-o~e0ol,ok Inc roico1 l;
cense from Sl00 to $500 year. This
makes it cost $500 year to sell liquor
there, and the town has eight saloons in
a flourishing condition.
The residence of Mr.. Allen, blind.
farmer living near Elk Point, was burned
the other day. The contents of the
house, including nearly 500 in currency
and 81 200 in notes, were destroyed.
Gen. Beadle has accepted an invita-
tion to deliver an address on the evening
of July 1st, before the teachers of south
Dakota, who meet at Huron, July 1st
and ID, to organize teachers associa.
tion.
The Citizen says: If the present
promise of the fax crop is fully realized
there will be not less than 100000 bushels
OF fax seed marketed in Scotland thu
fall. All other crops are equally as
promising.
i Springfield Times: A gentleman wa.
heard to remark the other day tha
Springfield was the prettiest place il
Dakota. One of the attractive features
Of the city are the numerous grove
throughout the town aud the surround
ing country.
} The citizens OF Watertown have offer
, ed the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
! northern railway company bonus o
r depot grounds and right of way through
Z the county, provided the company vii
> moke that point the junction with th
9 proposed line coming from Redwoo
/ Falls.
Reports reach the Scotland Citize
from the country that cottonwood tree
: are being stripped of their foliage by
J, small striped bug, which attack th
9 trees in countless numbers and in
}. short time destroy every leaf upon then
!. A gentleman who returned Monda
, from trip through the surroundin
d country informed the Citizen that /
. counted forty five groves Of cottonwoo
d that had been completely stripped b
{. these pests. Their operations thus I,
+, have not become general and whsth
~ they will. or that the damage they