Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-05
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Mitchell is to have first class restau-
rant.
Flandrau has juvenile Temple of
Honor.
Webster is over run with patent right
swlndlers.
Iroquois has q public library of several
hundred volumes. |
Canton is to have new roller rink
with hard wood floor.
The Pukwana Press has been enlarged |
and is proving success.
Over 800 pupils are enrolled in the
Sioux Falls public schools.
Mitchell imports aud consumes five
car loads OF beer per month.
In 1882 Day county had 1893 voters, and
last year it had 1900 voters.
Flandrau wants cash buyer of eggs,
poultry and unsalted butter.
A literary society and debating club
has been organized at Mitchell.
The Lipcoln county teachers associa-
tion met at Milbrook last Saturday.
Sioux Falls has seventeen residences
costing from 5000 to $s5,OOO each.
The financial transactions OF the Sioux
Falls post Office for 1888 was $4,000.
Country dances in the school houses
of Aurora county are quite popular.
Mr.. and Mrs. McMasters of Alexandria
lceebrated their tin wedding Jan. 25th.
A Chatauqua literary and scientific
circle has just been organized in Brook
ings.
It has been decided to hold summer
turf meeting at the Sioux Falls driving
park.
A late census of Mitchell, taken by
private parties places the population at
4,24O.
A late issue of the Ipswich Tribune
contained two hundred and eleven land
notices.
The Pierre Recorder believes that the
Milwaukee road will be built into Pierre
very soon.
Hutchinson county commissioners
have decided to build court house to
cost $4,000.
The Kingsbury County News claims
the largest circulation of any paper in
the county.
Sioux Falls has three weekly newspa-
pers. ard one daily, and two monthly
publications.
Many of the Turner county school
houses are being furnished with larger
seating capacity.
The Aurora County Standard is one of
the best weekly rapers published in
southern Dakota.
Canton has cast unanimous vote to
bond in the sum of $4,000 to build a
school building.
The vote for bonding Mitchell for
$4,000 for water works was carried by o
majority of fifty.
-Four thousand dollars has been raised
in Brookings for the purpose of build
ing a Touring mill.
The school houses in George town
ship, Aurora county, are the most sub
stantial in the county.
It is claimed that taxes are lower in
Hughes county than in any other coun-
ty in Dakota of its age.
Martin Soil, of Brookings, will soon
commence the publication of Scandi-
navian monthly magazine.
Brookings has new paper, the Com
monwealth, published by Leroy b.
White and N. K. Van Husen.
Seventy-ive couples participated in
grand masquerade ball given last Friday
evening by the Queen Bee club.
There are eight newspapers in Hughes
county-four in Pierre, two in Blunt.
and one each in Harold and Canning.
A brick-maker will start yard at Alex
aridria, providing he can get orders for
the first kiln at ten dollars thousand.
Miner county is having its second
b,gamy scandal. Chas. E. Cook, for.
merly of Brookings county, is the mis-
creant.
Sioux Falls board of trade has 150
members, the G.. A. X. post ninety mem
bers and the medical association ten
members.
The citizens of Egan are talking up the
matter of steam roller mill and have
about decided that one must be arranged
for at once.
Flandrau Herald: On account of the
action of the county board in raising the
price of the license, the saloons in this
place closed up Saturday.
The Standard says: Parties who buy
decided land or relinquishments in Au-
rora county this year will double the
capital invested the first year.
The Sioux Falls Leader contains more
news to the square inch, about the town it
represents than any other weekly paper
that comes to our exchange table.
A house belonging to o Norwegian
living near Elk Point was burned the
other day. The family being very poor
apurse of fifty dollars was raised for
them.
J. R. King. of Sioux Falls, who won't
to Chicago on business, was taken sud.
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