Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-21
SOUTHERN DAKOTA,

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
There is no saloon at Beresiord.
Hughes county will poll l,70O votes.
| Corn is king in Miner county this
year.
| The Madison Leader claims !, 100 sub.
scribers.
Flax reached sl.sl in Sioux Falls last
Thursday. c
Hamlin county has but two members
OF the bar.
The Deuel. county fair at Gary, will
open the 23rd.
Irving q. Welch is the new postm aste1
at Grand View.
Deuel. county's first frost Of the season
occurred Oct. 7tb.
A peoples county convention will be
held in Clark the 2lst.
The Grierson G. A. 4. post has been
organized at Tyndall.
Hyde county is an attractive resort
for wild fowl hunters.
A number OF dwelling houses are
being built at Pierre.
Mark Walter, aged ninety. one years
died at Madison the 10th. n,
The James river is lower this fall than
it has been before IN years.
There vii. be q grand sale OF live stock
at Centreville on the 23rd.
The White Lake Dispatch bolts the
republican ticket ia Aurora county.
The Sioux Falls water works have 8
capacity Of 100000 gallons per day.
Wentworth, Lake county, will organ.
ize young peoples debating society.
The number Of students at the terri.
torial university at Vermillion is increas
ing.
An institute for the teachers of San.
born county, opened at Woonsocket the
Goth. ii
Ground has been broken for the erec.
tion of Browns memorial college al
Flandrau.
The Moreau valley coal is said to be 6
Ignite variety and superior to tht
Illinois coal.
Sixty Russian families from the oil
country are expected to reach Memo il
a few weeks.
Six hundred petitioners ask the count,
authorities of Union county to gran
liquor license.
The Bon Homme county fair I
Tyndall resulted in success. The race
were very exciting.
Five OF six weddings are in prospect
in Delaware township, Lincoln county
in the near future.
A ladies' skating contest for q pair oI
club skates, will occur at the Vermil.
lion rink the 2sth.
Il Work has commenced on the railroad
from Wolsey to Fairbank. This is Johl
D. Cameron's road.
The new Lake county court house q
Madison is to be formally delivered t,
the county Nov. lst.
Some of Montrose first young ladie
parade the streets dressed in men
clothes so it ls said.
Clay county, though one of tn
smallest in area in Dakota, contains owe
quarter million acres.
The only child of G. H. McKibbon, q
the Chamberlain Democrat, aged seve
months, died last week.
A few thousand dollars invested i
tenement houses in Vermillicn woul
be paying investment.
Pierre IS the central point of muc
transient travel. The city is also grow
ing rapidly and substantially.
Yanktonnais Indians have asked Bisl
op Marty to establish an Indian missio
' school at Rosseau, Hughes county.
r WI. Shields, of Hamlin county, hs
7 the best corn crop he has ever raised.
3 will average 100 bushels per acre.
{ A destructive prairie fire has bee
, raging in the western portion of Be
Homme county. Houses and hay stacl
( we're destroyed.
g The Sioux Falls reading room, whit
d for four years has been conducted und
the auspices of the w. G. T. o., has bet
closed for lack of funds.
An immense prairie fire ragged throus
+ the western and southwestern part
3 Dawson county last week destroying
u great amount Of property.
: Dewitt G. French, north of Colma
j. Moody county, lost all his grain, ha
J. barn, sheds, winters fuel, farm machi
/ cry, ETC., by fire. Tuesday.
/ The destructive prairie fire is abroa
. Protection to home industry will le,
. the prudent farmer to guard his posse
= sions with ample fire breaks.
: Major Coffin. of Beadle county, I
- Gently lost his barn, farming implemen
~ and all the grain he was able to SO
o from hail storms. by prairie fire.
Six young men of Dell Rapids ha
y combined IN secret society, the care
k nal vow of each being that he shall n
within period Of five years get m.
D. ried. /