Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-20
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Blunt has 4 Chatauqus circle.
The Huron board OF trade 10 fully or.
ganixed. Ii
Slinnehaha county has over $4,000 in !,
it's treasury. l.
Diment Bros, merchants Of Columbia,
have assigned.
The telephone has invaded Bridge
water. in McCook county.
Sioux Falls has not had drunk or
ditorderly for two months.
The Brookings ladies gave q valentine
sucisl the night of the l4th.
Land buyers are reported numerous in
the rural districts generally.
Elk Point has n genuine, live dude. o
new ARRIVAL and o good one.
There is a prospect of Q tow mill be-
ing established in Alexandria. h
Two more drug stores will open up at
Pierre when the spring time comes.
The Republican suggests the building
of chalk stone fire walls at Mitchell.
The Howard Odd Fellows will give 9
grand ball on Washington's anniversary.
E. T. Cressy will start the daily issue
of the Huron Leader, the first Of March.
Woonsocket cxpects to have an Odd
Fellows lodge of its own at an early day.
]. w. Fuller, residing near Wentworth,
has captured 1900 musk rats during the
winter.
A grist mill man can hear Of some
thing to his advantage by an early visit
to Bridgewater.
| A genuine Arctic white owl has been
killed in McOook county, and sent to q
Chicago taxidermist.
i The Salem Register claims to be tue
original and only discoverer of the
lauthor of Beautiful Snow"
Il ]. 8. Bishop, county superintendent ol
Beadle county schools, is On energetic
and intelligent school worker.
4 Lake county will vote March 4th on 6
proposition to issue $4,000 Of county
bonds to build court house.
Mitchell looks hopefully forward te
the building season and anticipates s
g,owth of 500 buildipgs during 1884.
There is large proportion OF last
years Dakota wheat crop still in tht
hands of farmers-waiting for bettel
prices I'd.
The Woonsocket business mems assocl
alton, to advance the interests Of Woon'
socket aud tributary territory, has been
organized.
The Press estimates that at least S25,.
600 has been expended in Sioux Falls
this winter for admission tickets to en-
ltertainments.
The craft belonging to the james river
navigation company is being SO remodel.
ed rs to reduce the draught from twenty
to ten inches.
Congress is to be memorialized for an
appropriation OF $4,000 to improve the
navigation of the James bewteen Col.
umbia and La Moure.
An intoxicated indian named Red
Eagle, was arrested in Pierre the Other
day. It could not be ascertained who
furnished him the fire water.
The Brown county farmers protection
union want railroads to be under gov
ernmental control to such an extent a
to'prevent them from being extortioners
4 A number of farmers living in tn
;Ineighborhood ! of Lake Herman, LAX
county, have cleared 500 each, this WIN
ter. catching and selling Lake Herman
fish.
A lodge of the Ancient Order Of Unite
Workingmen is to. be organized at Huron
and steps toward securing commander.
of Knighte Templar there have alread
been taken.
John Knebersky, Bohemian, livin
twelve miles north of Aberdeen, lost hi
I house by fire last Sunday, and was him
self burned nearly to death trying t
save his household effects.
, The population of Lake county
) 5000. its total valuation for 1888 is 1852
428 The county is particularly We
! supplied with schools. there being g
least forty in session this winter.
II A Mr.. Pierce died in Lincoln count,
the other day at the age of seventy
seven, who had raised family Of eigh
teen children. fifteen of whom surviv
him. the youngest being over twenty
one years of age.
> At the annual meeting Of the count
board of Beadle county six licenses t
sell Intoxicating liquors we're granted fo
Huron, one for Oavour. two for Wolsey
and ono for IroQuois. : One for Altoon
and one for Washington were refused. o
account of strong local petitions agains
] them.
Elk Point correspondence: Yesterda
We learned of the sudden death of
Miss Bushmsn, who resided near Jeffel
g son. The young lady attended q dant
), ing party, returning home about mic
| night. An hour or two later she wa
? heard to utter scream. and her relative
: Immediately going to her room fonn
life extinct. Heart disease is named 9
the cause of her sudden death.
Wide Awake Druggists.
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