Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-12
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NORTHERN NEBRASKA.

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NORTHERN NEBRASKA.
Niobrara gAye $500 to its brass band.
The cattle buyer 10 abroad, and prices
are good. @
The snow was six inches deep ID Knox
county last Friday.
Hay is getting scarce in many sections
in the border counties.
Joe Grain has been appointed deputy
sheriff Of Dixon county.
Hartington's long felt want-a roller
rink-is about to be supplied.
The majority of the people Of BaEile
Mills are down with severe colds.
The Masons Of Nlobrara have cent
financial aid to the food sufferers.
Tue John Brown post, G. A. r.. was
organized at Harrington last week.
Cedar county is regarded as one Of the
most healthful locations in the state.
A viRilante society has been organized
IN Wayne county with fifteen members
The advance guard of the prairie
schooner has reached northern Nebraska
A. II. Lydick, of Wakefield, is under
arrest for selling liquor without license
A creamery is ali ready tor operation
at Ponca as soon as tho weather will per.
NIT.
A two story business block will be
erected in Harrington in the esrly
spring.
Ponca has experienced 14s different
kinds Of weather during the past two
weeks.
There were five weddings in Ponca
last week and as many more brewing TO,
this week.
The Catholic church to be built in
Harrington will be large and imposing
structure.
The Plainview literary society IN Dix.
on country. numbers thirty.eight and is
a boomer.
The Creighton fire organization, newly
organized. has just held grand ball with
good success.
The ice in the Missouri at Niobrara
was considered unsafe for the crossing Of
teams last Thursday.
The annual meeting Of the Dixon
county agricultural society has been
postponed to the 18th.
The ice near the temporary bridge,
between Covington and sioux City, ID
said to be eight feet thick.
Knox county will have six delegates to
the state republican convention at Lin.
coin, May 1st.
The Ponca Journal contains long
list Of the sick and the convalescent in
that town at the present time.
Harrington claims sufficient water
power to run WOODEN mill. q paper mill
and the biggest kind of Touring mill.
A Congregational church has been Or
ganized at Martinsburg, in Dixon coun.
ty. The building of house of worship
is contemplated.
The bazile creek has been impossible
lately and the regular daily stage trips
between Niobrara and Yankton have
been interrupted.
John Kindall, most exemplary young
man of Bazile Mills, was stricken with
paralysis short time ago, from the
effects of which he died last Sunday.
The O'Neill postofice was burned one
week ago Sunday. The News says: One
or two fires are needed in Knox county
postofiices to make the records correct.
Last week the postoffice in Dakota
City was broken open and about fifty
dollars ID cash and one hundred ana
sixty dollars worth of stamps were
stolen.
The assessors Of Knox county will
meet at Niobrars on the 18th of March
to receive instructions in regard to tho
next assessment, from the county COM
missionere.
The Jouffa1 says that man by the
name of Flageolle, formerly of Ponca.
now OF Jefferson. was robbed of 800
not long ago in very mysterious man.
aer. He had the money in his pocket
when team ran away with him. throw.
ing him ont and knocking him senseless
for several hours. When he recovered,
the money was gone.
Ponca Journal: Rev. Mr.. Bross, su.
perintendent of home missions for
northern Nebraska Of the Congregational
church, last week held series of meet.
lngs at the Bolton school house and at
Plainvlew. and five new members were
added to Bethel church, as the organiza.
tion in that locality is known. Mr.. Bross
is holding meetings at Martinsburg this
week, and has made seven additions to
the church thus far.
Knox County Times: The O'Neill
Frontier was destroyed by fire early last
Sunday, and its destruction, together
with tho postoffice, entails q loss of S..
600, on its owner, D. W. Matthews. which
was covered by an insurance of only S..
600. The Frontier was one of the best
equipped Offices in northern Nebraska,
as Mathews is one of, if not the beat.
newspaper man. We trust that the loss
will not embarrass him so but what the
paper will resume. aud that the energetic
editor will rapidly come to the front